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James Garfield and the Civil War - For Ohio and the Union (Paperback): Daniel J Vermilya James Garfield and the Civil War - For Ohio and the Union (Paperback)
Daniel J Vermilya
R669 R612 Discovery Miles 6 120 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback): Richard P Kollen The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback)
Richard P Kollen
R627 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Pennsylvania Scrapple - A Delectable History (Paperback): Amy Strauss Pennsylvania Scrapple - A Delectable History (Paperback)
Amy Strauss
R583 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Theatres of War - Performance, Politics, and Society 1793-1815 (Hardcover): Gillian Russell The Theatres of War - Performance, Politics, and Society 1793-1815 (Hardcover)
Gillian Russell
R4,165 Discovery Miles 41 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Based on new research, and informed by recent developments in literary and historical studies, The Theatres of War reveals the importance of the theatre in the shaping of response to the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars (1793-1815). Gillian Russell explores the roles of the military and navy as both actors and audiences, and shows their performances to be crucial to their self-perception as actors fighting on behalf of an often distant domestic audience. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of 1793-1815 had profound consequences for British society, politics, and culture. In this, the first in-depth study of the cultural dimension of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Gillian Russell examines an important dimension of the experience of these wars - theatricality. Through this study, the theatre emerges as a place where battles were celebrated in the form of spectacular reenactments, and where the tensions of mobilization on an hitherto unprecedented scale were played out in the form of riots and disturbances. This book is intended for scholars, postgraduates, and undergraduates studying theatre and theatre history, cultural studies, Romanticism, social and political (British)

Global Africa - Profiles In Courage, Creativity And Cruelty (Paperback): Adekeye Adebajo Global Africa - Profiles In Courage, Creativity And Cruelty (Paperback)
Adekeye Adebajo
R420 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R32 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

This book of essays written over the last three post-apartheid decades uniquely provides profiles of 104 pan-African figures, mostly from the 1.4 billion-strong African population and its estimated 250 million-strong diaspora in the Americas, Europe and the Caribbean. It thus provides a concise profile of the most important figures of Africa and its diaspora.

The profiles also include global Western figures engaging with African issues, assessed from an African perspective. The essays cover, in a multi-disciplinary manner, diverse historical and political figures, technocrats, activists, writers, public intellectuals, musical and film artists, and sporting figures. They acknowledge the continuing legacies and impacts of the twin scourges of slavery and colonialism, but also seek to capture the zeitgeist of the post-apartheid era.

The book argues that the culmination of Africa’s liberation struggles was mirrored by similar battles in the Caribbean as well as the American civil rights movement, with all three involving citizens of global Africa.

The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History (Hardcover, 8th edition): Martin Gilbert The Routledge Atlas of Jewish History (Hardcover, 8th edition)
Martin Gilbert
R3,273 Discovery Miles 32 730 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'An unusual and compelling insight into Jewish history... sheer detail and breadth of scale' BBC History Magazine

This newly revised and updated edition of Martin Gilbert's Atlas of Jewish History spans over four thousand years of history in 154 maps, presenting a vivid picture of a fascinating people and the trials and tribulations which have haunted their story.

The themes covered include:

  • Prejudice and Violence- from the destruction of Jewish independence between 722 and 586 BC to the flight from German persecution in the 1930s. Also covers the incidence of anti-semitic attacks in the Americas and Europe.
  • Migrations and Movements- from the entry into the promised land to Jewish migration in the twenty- first century, including new maps on recent emigration to Israel from Europe and worldwide.
  • Society, Trade and Culture- from Jewish trade routes between 800 and 900 to the situation of world Jewry in the opening years of the twenty- first century.
  • Politics, Government and War- from the Court Jews of the fifteenth century to the founding and growth of the modern State of Israel.

This new edition is also updated to include maps showing Jewish museums in the United States and Canada, and Europe, as well as American conservation efforts abroad. Other topics covered in this revised edition include Jewish educational outreach projects in various parts of the world, and Jews living under Muslim rule. Forty years on from its first publication, this book is still an indispensible guide to Jewish history.

Chicago Bears History (Paperback): Roy Taylor Chicago Bears History (Paperback)
Roy Taylor
R583 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When George S. Halas was asked to rebuild the Staley Company's football club in Decatur, Illinois in 1920, nobody could have imagined that his efforts would forever change Sunday afternoons in America. Halas helped found the National Football League, and with it the Chicago Bears, the most storied franchise in the league's history. From the Galloping Ghost, to the Monsters of the Midway, to that indomitable "46" defense -- the "Grabowskis" as their coach named them -- Bears teams and players have made such an impact on the city of big shoulders that Chicago will be forever known as a "Bears town."

The Airship Roma Disaster in Hampton Roads (Paperback): Nancy E Sheppard The Airship Roma Disaster in Hampton Roads (Paperback)
Nancy E Sheppard
R561 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Newport Baseball History - America's Pastime in the City by the Sea (Paperback): Rick Harris Newport Baseball History - America's Pastime in the City by the Sea (Paperback)
Rick Harris
R539 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The City by the Sea boasts an ambitious baseball history dating back to the early days of America's favorite pastime. In 1897, the Newport Colts became the first professional baseball team to ever tie in a playoff series. By the 1900s, baseball was being played daily on open fields and diamonds throughout Newport. The city has sported six major ball fields, including Cardines Field, host to the oldest continuously running amateur baseball team in the country. Discover the humble beginnings of players like Newport native Frank Corridon, who allegedly invented the now outlawed spitball, and the legacy of the great Trojans baseball club. Team up with baseball historian Rick Harris and walk through the history of Newport baseball from amateur games to the major leagues and all the strikes, homers and grand slams in between.

Confederates in Montana Territory - In the Shadow of Price's Army (Paperback): Ken Robison Confederates in Montana Territory - In the Shadow of Price's Army (Paperback)
Ken Robison
R527 R497 Discovery Miles 4 970 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Address Book - What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Paperback): Deirdre Mask The Address Book - What Street Addresses Reveal about Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power (Paperback)
Deirdre Mask
R497 R466 Discovery Miles 4 660 Save R31 (6%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Niagara Falls in World War II (Paperback): Michelle Ann Kratts Niagara Falls in World War II (Paperback)
Michelle Ann Kratts
R561 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450 (Hardcover): I.M.W. Harvey Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450 (Hardcover)
I.M.W. Harvey
R4,166 Discovery Miles 41 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Jack Cade's rebellion of 1450 was one of the most important popular uprisings to take place in England during the Middle Ages. It began as an orchestrated demonstration of political protest by the inhabitants of south-eastern England against the corruption, mismanagement, and oppression of Henry VI's government. When no assurance of any remedy came from the king the rising soon collapsed into violence. This is the first full-length study of Cade's revolt to be published this century. I. M. W. Harvey charts the course of the rebellion and its associated troubles during the early 1450s, and explores the nature of the society which gave rise to these upheavals. She makes full use of the available contemporary evidence, as well as the work of subsequent historians, in order to uncover the identities of the rebels, explain their actions, assess their relations with the magnates, and to examine their achievements. Dr Harvey's lucid and scholarly analysis of Jack Cade's rebellion helps make intelligible the eventual collapse of Henry VI's reign into the Wars of the Roses.

Colorado's Daring Ivy Baldwin - Aviator, Aerialist and Aeronaut (Paperback): Ballard Colorado's Daring Ivy Baldwin - Aviator, Aerialist and Aeronaut (Paperback)
Ballard
R530 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Hiroshima Men - The Quest To Build The Atomic Bomb, And The Fateful Decision To Use It (Paperback): Iain MacGregor The Hiroshima Men - The Quest To Build The Atomic Bomb, And The Fateful Decision To Use It (Paperback)
Iain MacGregor
R470 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R105 (22%) Pre-order

At 8:15 a.m. on August 6th, 1945, the Japanese port city of Hiroshima was struck by the world's first atomic bomb. Built in the US by the top-secret Manhattan Project and delivered by a B-29 Superfortress, a revolutionary long-range bomber, the weapon destroyed large swaths of the city, instantly killing tens of thousands. The world would never be the same again.

The Hiroshima Men's unique narrative recounts the decade-long journey towards this first atomic attack. It charts the race for nuclear technology before, and during the Second World War, as the allies fought the axis powers in Europe, North Africa, China, and across the vastness of the Pacific, and is seen through the experiences of several key characters: General Leslie Groves, leader of the Manhattan Project alongside Robert Oppenheimer; pioneering Army Air Force bomber pilot Colonel Paul Tibbets II; the mayor of Hiroshima, Senkichi Awaya, who would die alongside over eighty-thousand of his fellow citizens; and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Hersey, who travelled to post-war Japan to expose the devastation the bomb had inflicted upon the city, and in a historic New Yorker article, described in unflinching detail the dangers posed by its deadly after-effect, radiation poisoning.

This thrilling account takes the reader from the corridors of the White House to the laboratories and test sites of New Mexico; from the air war above Nazi Germany and the savage reconquest of the Pacific to the deadly firebombing air raids across the Japanese Home Islands. The Hiroshima Men also includes Japanese perspectives - a vital aspect often missing from Western narratives - to complete MacGregor's nuanced, deeply human account of the bombing's meaning and aftermath.

Ambivalent - Photography And Visibility In African History (Paperback): Patricia Hayes, Gary Minkley Ambivalent - Photography And Visibility In African History (Paperback)
Patricia Hayes, Gary Minkley
R420 R388 Discovery Miles 3 880 Save R32 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

One of the few books about photography to come out of the continent and where the majority of contributors are African and work on the continent.

Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography – and with visibility more generally – in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterised the field to date.

Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa.

Tredegar Iron Works: - Richmond's Foundry on the James (Paperback): Nathan Vernon Madison Tredegar Iron Works: - Richmond's Foundry on the James (Paperback)
Nathan Vernon Madison
R561 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Dict Amer Military Biog V2 (Hardcover): Roger J. Spiller Dict Amer Military Biog V2 (Hardcover)
Roger J. Spiller
R2,610 Discovery Miles 26 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

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Allies At War - The Politics Of Defeating Hitler (Paperback): Tim Bouverie Allies At War - The Politics Of Defeating Hitler (Paperback)
Tim Bouverie
R430 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R65 (15%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The first political history of the Second World War, of building the Grand Alliance to defeat Hitler, by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of Appeasing Hitler.

After the fall of France in June 1940, only Britain stood between Hitler and total victory. Desperate for allies, Winston Churchill did everything he could to bring the United States into the conflict, drive the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany apart and persuade neutral countries to resist German domination.

By 1942, after the German invasion of Russia and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the British-Soviet-American alliance was in place. Yet it was an improbable and incongruous coalition, divided by ideology and politics and riven with mistrust and deceit. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin were partners in the fight to defeat Hitler, yet they were also rivals who disagreed on strategy, imperialism and the future of liberated Europe. Only by looking at their points of conflict, as well as of co-operation, are we able to understand the course of the war and world that developed in its aftermath.

Allies at War is a fast-paced, narrative history, based on material drawn from over a hundred archives. Using vivid, first-hand accounts and unpublished diaries, we enter the rooms where the critical decisions were made while going beyond the confines of the Grand Alliance to examine, among other themes, the doomed Anglo-French alliance, fractious relations with General de Gaulle and the Free French, and interactions with Poland, Greece and Nationalist China.

Ambitious and compelling, revealing the political drama behind the military events, Allies at War offers a fresh perspective on the Second World War and the origins of the Cold War.

Confederate General Leonidas Polk - Louisiana's Fighting Bishop (Paperback): Cheryl H. White Confederate General Leonidas Polk - Louisiana's Fighting Bishop (Paperback)
Cheryl H. White
R526 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Leonidas Polk is one of the most fascinating figures of the Civil War. Consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church and commissioned as a general into the Confederate army, Polk's life in both spheres blended into a unique historical composite. Polk was a man with deep religious convictions but equally committed to the Confederate cause. He baptized soldiers on the eve of bloody battles, administered last rites and even presided over officers' weddings, all while leading his soldiers into battle. Historian Cheryl White examines the life of this soldier-saint and the legacy of a man who unquestionably brought the first viable and lively Protestant presence to Louisiana and yet represents the politics of one of the darkest periods in American history.

The Lake Erie Campaign of 1813 - I Shall Fight Them This Day (Paperback): Walter P Rybka The Lake Erie Campaign of 1813 - I Shall Fight Them This Day (Paperback)
Walter P Rybka
R526 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On September 10, 1813, the hot, still air that hung over Lake Erie was broken by the sounds of sharp conflict. Led by Oliver Hazard Perry, the American fleet met the British, and though they sustained heavy losses, Perry and his men achieved one of the most stunning victories in the War of 1812. Author Walter Rybka traces the Lake Erie Campaign from the struggle to build the fleet in Erie, Pennsylvania, during the dead of winter and the conflict between rival egos of Perry and his second in command, Jesse Duncan Elliott, through the exceptionally bloody battle that was the first U.S. victory in a fleet action. With the singular perspective of having sailed the reconstructed U.S. brig Niagara for over twenty years, Rybka brings the knowledge of a shipmaster to the story of the Lake Erie Campaign and the culminating Battle of Lake Erie.

Silver Spring and the Civil War (Paperback): Robert E. Oshel Silver Spring and the Civil War (Paperback)
Robert E. Oshel
R530 R490 Discovery Miles 4 900 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On July 11, 1864, some residents cheered and others watched in horror as Confederate troops spread across the fields and orchards of Silver Spring, Maryland. Many fled to the capital while General Jubal Early's troops ransacked their property. The estate of Lincoln's postmaster general, Montgomery Blair, was burned, and his father's home was used by Early as headquarters from which to launch an attack on Washington's defenses. Yet the first Civil War casualty in Silver Spring came well before Early's raid, when Union soldiers killed a prominent local farmer in 1862. This was life in the shadow of the Federal City. Drawing on contemporary accounts and memoirs, Dr. Robert E. Oshel tells the story of Silver Spring over the tumultuous course of the Civil War.

Dancer's Image - The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby (Paperback): Milton C. Toby Dancer's Image - The Forgotten Story of the 1968 Kentucky Derby (Paperback)
Milton C. Toby
R526 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

On May 4, 1968, Dancer's Image crossed the finish line at Churchill Downs to win the 94th Kentucky Derby. Yet the jubilation ended three days later for the owner, the jockey and the trainers who propelled the celebrated thoroughbred to victory. Amid a firestorm of controversy, Dancer's Image was disqualified after blood tests revealed the presence of a widely used anti-inflammatory drug with a dubious legal status. Over forty years later, questions still linger over the origins of the substance and the turmoil it created. Veteran turfwriter and noted equine law expert Milt Toby gives the first in-depth look at the only disqualification in Derby history and how the Run for the Roses was changed forever.

Mercenaries of the Ancient World (Paperback, Reissue): Serge Yalichev Mercenaries of the Ancient World (Paperback, Reissue)
Serge Yalichev
R815 R506 Discovery Miles 5 060 Save R309 (38%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With a blend of narrative and analysis, this book explores the extent to which mercenaries have been used, from Sumer to Rome, and the reasons governments hired them when they could conscript native citizens.

Morgan's Great Raid - The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio (Paperback): David L Mowery Morgan's Great Raid - The Remarkable Expedition from Kentucky to Ohio (Paperback)
David L Mowery
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A military operation unlike any other on American soil, Morgan's Raid was characterized by incredible speed, superhuman endurance and innovative tactics. One of the nation's most colorful leaders, Confederate general John Hunt Morgan, took his cavalry through enemy-occupied territory in three states in one of the longest offensives of the Civil War. The effort produced the only battles fought north of the Ohio River and reached farther north than any other regular Confederate force. With twenty-five maps and more than forty illustrations, Morgan's Raid historian David L. Mowery takes a new look at this unprecedented event in American history, one historians rank among the world's greatest land-based raids since Elizabethan times.

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