books about: 1700-1990     books:       A Short History of Reconstruction Eric Foner Harper Perennial, 1990 An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize.             A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Vintage Books, 1991 Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.             Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, Myth, Reality (Canto Classics) E. J. Hobsbawm Cambridge University Press, 2012 An update to the classic text, perfect for those interested in global politics and nationalism! Nations and Nationalism since 1780 is Eric Hobsbawm's widely acclaimed and highly readable inquiry into the question of nationalism. Events in the late twentieth century in Eastern Europe and the Soviet republics have since reinforced the central importance of nationalism in the history of the political evolution and upheaval. This second edition ...             Grant Takes Command: 1863 - 1865 Bruce Catton Back Bay Books, 1990 A classic work of military history, follows the enigmatic commander in chief of the Union forces through the last year and a half of the Civil War. It is both a revelatory portrait of Ulysses S. Grant and the dramatic story of how the war was won.             American Colonies: The Settling of North America, Vol. 1(The Penguin History of the United States) Alan Taylor Penguin Books, 2002 With this volume, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America. Transcending the usual Anglocentric version of our colonial past, he recovers the importance of Native American tribes, African slaves, and the rival empires of France, Spain, the Netherlands, and even Russia in the colonization of North America. Moving beyond the Atlantic seaboard to examine the entire ...             The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion Stephen B. Oates Harper Perennial, 1990 The bloody slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in Virginia in 1831, and the savage reprisals that followed, shattered beyond repair the myth of the contented slave and the benign master and intensified the forces of change that would plunge America into the bloodbath of the Civil War.             Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World (The Global Century ... J. R. McNeill W. W. Norton & Company, 2001 "Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."— Washington Post Book World The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his startling new book, J. R. McNeill gives us our first general account of what may prove to be the most significant dimension of the twentieth ...             Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman (Library of America) William Tecumseh Sherman Library of America, 1990 Hailed as a prophet of modern war and condemned as a harbinger of modern barbarism, Sherman is the most controversial general of the Civil War. "War is cruelty, you cannot refine it," he wrote in fury to the Confederate mayor of Atlanta, and his memoir is filled with dozens of such wartime exchanges and a fascinating, eerie account of the famous march through the Carolinas.             Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages (The Penguin History of the Church) (v. 2) R. W. Southern Penguin Books, 1990 The concept of an ordered human society, both religious and secular, as an expression of a divinely ordered universe was central to medieval thought. In the West the political and religious community were inextricably bound together, and because the Church was so intimately involved with the world, any history of it must take into account the development of medieval society. Professor Southern's book covers the period from the eighth to the ...             The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things Barry Glassner Basic Books, 2000 There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear describes the high costs of living in a fear-ridden environment where realism has become rarer than doors without deadbolts.Why do we have so many fears these days? Are we living in exceptionally ...             A History of Germany 1918-2008: The Divided Nation Mary Fulbrook Wiley-Blackwell, 2008 The third edition of A History of Germany traces the dramatic social, cultural, and political tensions in Germany since 1918. Offers a persuasive interpretation of the dynamics of twentieth-century German history Treats German history from 1918-2008 from the perspective of division and reunification, covering East and West German history in equal depth Covers the self-destructive Weimar Republic, the extremes of genocide and military ...             Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought A. C. Crombie Hambledon & London, 1990 A.C. Crombie is one of the best known writers on the history of Science. Science, Optics and Music in Medieval and Early Modern Thought brings together a coherent body of essays that complement his books and are of independent value. A.C. Crombie traces general themes in the development of Science: the Aristotelian inheritance and the importance of the search for logical explanation in the middle ages; the ambitions and limitations of experiment ...             The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government: Volume 2 (Da Capo Paperback) Jefferson Davis Da Capo Press, 1990 A decade after his release from Federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis—ex-President of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln," popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause—began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the ...             Southern Culture: An Introduction, SECOND EDITION John Beck, Wendy Jean Frandsen, ... Carolina Academic Press, 2009 This is the most current edition of this book, superseding the first edition. From the very beginning the South was different. The source and significance of this difference has been debated and discussed for over 200 years. In recent decades, the demise of the South as a regional culture has frequently been predicted, although now some scholars and journalists are maintaining that it is proving to be remarkably resilient and is actually having ...             The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I (Rise & Fall of the Confederate Government) Jefferson Davis Da Capo Press, 1990 A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis—ex-president of the Confederacy, the ”Southern Lincoln,” popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause—began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government . Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the ...             The Road to Disunion, Vol. 1: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854 William W. Freehling Oxford University Press, USA, 1991 Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the South in the eight decades before the Civil War was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, where the egalitarian spirit sweeping the North seeped down through border states already uncertain about slavery, where even sections of the same state (for ...             The Old Religion in a New World: The History of North American Christianity Mark A. Noll Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001 One of our foremost historians of religion here chronicles the arrival of Christianity in the New World, tracing the turning points in the development of the immigrant church that have led to today's distinctly American faith. Taking a unique approach to this fascinating subject, Noll focuses on what was new about organized Christian religion on the American continent by comparison with European Christianity. In doing so, Noll provides a ...             The Cash Nexus: Money and Power in the Modern World, 1700-2000 Niall Ferguson Basic Books, 2002 Conventional wisdom has long claimed that economic change is the prime mover of political change, whether in the age of industry or Internet. But is it? Ferguson thinks it is high time we re-examined the link-the nexus, in Thomas Carlyle's phrase-between economics and politics. His central argument is that the conflicting impulses of sex, violence, and power are together more powerful than money. Among Ferguson's startling claims are: · Nothing ...             Heaven and Earth: Global Warming, the Missing Science Ian Plimer Taylor Trade Publishing, 2009 Climate, sea level, and ice sheets have always changed, and the changes observed today are less than those of the past. Climate changes are cyclical and are driven by the Earth’s position in the galaxy, the sun, wobbles in the Earth’s orbit, ocean currents, and plate tectonics. In previous times, atmospheric carbon dioxide was far higher than at present but did not drive climate change. No runaway greenhouse effect or acid oceans occurred ...             Soldiers of the English Civil War (2): Cavalry (Elite) (v. 2) John Tincey Osprey Publishing, 1990 Osprey's examination of the British cavalry during the English Civil War (1642-1651). In March 1642, King Charles I, believing that Parliament had gone too far when it issued the Grand Remonstrace, moved to arrest John Pym and four other leaders. That summer Parliament, fearing military action, tried to seize control of the army by issuing orders for soldiers to report to Parliamentary, rather than royal, representatives. The King countered by ...              search for books 1700-2000, 1776-1854, 1785-1812, 1918-2008, american, americans, christianity, classics, colonies, confederate, disunion, divided, environmental, government, history, introduction, medieval, nationalism, paperback, programme, rebellion, reconstruction, religion, secessionists, settling, soldiers, something, southern, twentieth, twentieth-century books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen sporting goods: Easton Walk-Off II Bat Pack home  impressum - about us