One of Queen Victoria's 'little wars' to build the British Empire
The Second Maori War, or First Taranaki War, was one more bloody instalment of the conflicts between European settlers and the indigenous Maori people in the wars of dominance that marred the creation of New Zealand as a unified country. As usual the Europeans had little to their credit on their side of the dispute which centred around the dubious sale of tracts of land. As the Maoris objected by protest and eventually by force, the British Army was called in to subdue them. Predictably, the Maoris proved no easy opponent to dominate. They possessed a strong martial tradition and were masters of the deep forest and builders of strong and difficult to assault fortifications known as 'pahs'. Several bloody battles ensued around New Plymouth, in the Taranaki district, in which the Crown forces learned by serious defeat the folly of underestimating a 'primitive enemy'. The war ended in a stalemate, but the conflicts which would be fought before New Zealand would be at peace were not yet over. This is a rare account of the Second Maori War written by a contemporary witness.

A GREAT COMING OF AGE STORY "Jesus In Cowboy Boots" is an eccentric story about an imaginative teenager growing up in a dirty, dusty backwater community along the Texas/Oklahoma border. Vallie Sue lives in a peculiar trailer park built on a deserted drive-in movie lot nicknamed Tardust, after the rusty sign still standing near the entrance, but missing the first letter of STARDUST Drive-in. Vallie Sue's mind is a bubbling stew of fictions and fantasies, including her imaginary alter ego and favorite cinematic star, The Cowboy. She converses with him in her sanctuary, the run-down playground in front of the weathered movie screen. From a distance, it appears she's talking to herself. But she's imagining The Cowboy on the screen or riding across the Great Plains with her shootin' the breeze. She's got a heap to ruminate on, being surrounded by a curious collection of characters, like her ravenous self-absorbed 31-year-old mother, Tammy; her feisty, slow-witted brother, Pleasant; her wild and wicked friends, Loretta and Francine; a mysterious Indian caretaker named Tenkill; and two lowlife neighbors up to their eyeballs in evil ways, Mickey and Old Ray. Vallie Sue struggles for purpose in this shoal of contrary currents, pulled between the spiritual ministrations of church revivals and the temptations of young bucks at the Two-Kiss Drive-up. She's puzzled by the opposing forces of her mother's distaste for Tenkill and her brother's fascination with him. And she's oppressed by a barren environment that subverts her dream of becoming a writer. Worse than that, she makes powerful enemies of Mickey and Old Ray, who stalk her and, one night, change her life forever. "Jesus In Cowboy Boots" is a curious combination of fantasy and reality. At times, it's intense and serious, but it's also charming and humorous. Ultimately, though, it's the story of a teenage girl's self-realization and her struggle for deliverance from the world she was born into.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT147779Edited by John Earl of Corke and Orrery.London: printed by J. Hughs; for R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. 4],236, 4]p.: ill.; 8