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Lee in the Shadow of Washington
ISBN: 9780807129593 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Most scholars agree that Robert E. Lee's loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause. Richard B. McCaslin demonstrates that beyond such loyalty, Lee's true call to action was the legacy of the American Revolution viewed through his reverence for George Washington. In this thematic biography of the commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. McCaslin locates the sources of Lee's devotion to Washington and shows how this bond affected his performance as a general in battle.
Most scholars agree that Robert E. Lee's loyalty to Virginia was the key factor in his decision to join the Confederate cause. Richard B. McCaslin dem...
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113,84 |
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Andrew Johnson: A Bibliography
ISBN: 9780313281754 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Andrew Johnson remains a paradox to those who study the controversial era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The effort to understand Johnson has produced a tremendous outpouring of works that provide fascinating perspectives on one of our most contradictory chief executives. Many scholars condemn him for his actions; others compare him favorably to other presidents. The resulting body of scholarly writing has been enriched by the debate. This volume provides the first systematic, thorough bibliography on the contradictory mass of material, both primary and secondary, on Johnson.... Andrew Johnson remains a paradox to those who study the controversial era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. The effort to understand Johnson has... |
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306,81 |
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Fighting Stock: John S. "rip" Ford of Texas
ISBN: 9780875654218 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In Fighting Stock, Richard B. McCaslin illuminates numerous facets of Ford s life typically overshadowed by emphasis on his identity as Ranger and soldier in nineteenth-century Texas. In this third volume of the Texas Biography Series, published by TCU Press and The Center for Texas Studies, McCaslin reveals Ford as a man spurred on by the legacy of his nation-building grandfathers and his own strong convictions and energy to become a force in shaping Texas as a Southern state before and after the Civil War. Ford s battles as a Ranger, and as a leader of Texas military forces allied...
In Fighting Stock, Richard B. McCaslin illuminates numerous facets of Ford s life typically overshadowed by emphasis on his identity as Ranger ...
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113,84 |
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Portraits of Conflict Tennessee: A Photographic History of Tennessee in the Civil War
ISBN: 9781557288318 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 430 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Awards for the Portraits of Conflict Series Volumes Include:
- Chicago Book Clinic Design Award - American Association of University Presses Design Award - Arkansiana Award, Arkansas Library Association - Award of Merit, American Association for State and Local History - Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History Awards for the Portraits of Conflict Series Volumes Include:
- Chicago Book Clinic Design Award - American Association of University Presses De... |
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306,04 |
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Black Gold in Texas: Oil and Gas History in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly
ISBN: 9781625110947 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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116,54 |
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Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862
ISBN: 9780807122198 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged Unionists from five northern Texas counties and brought them to Gainesville. In the ensuing days, at least forty-four prisoners were hanged and several others were lynched in neighboring communities. In the first systematic treatment of this grisly climax to a heritage of violence and vigilantism in North Texas, Richard B. McCaslin provides a unique opportunity to study the tensions produced in southern society by the Civil War, the nature of...
Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize In the early morning hours of October 1, 1862, state militia arrested more than two hundred alleged U...
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97,10 |
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Portraits of Conflict South Carolina: A Photographic History of S Carolina in the Civil War
ISBN: 9781557283634 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Over 240 photographs, maps, and related documents
Over 240 photographs, maps, and related documents
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This Corner of Canaan: Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell
ISBN: 9781574415032 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Randolph B. Mike Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell s collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state s southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell s pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for...
Randolph B. Mike Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive...
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Sutherland Springs, Texas, Volume 2: Saratoga on the Cibolo
ISBN: 9781574416732 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Beyond the story of resort spa aspirations lies a history of the community and its people itself.
Explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because...
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Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright
ISBN: 9781574418453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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140,83 |
![At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997 [With CD] McCaslin, Richard B. 9780876112168](/9780876112168_at_the_heart_of_texas_one_hundred_years_of_the_texas_state_historical_association_1897_1997_with_cd.jpg "At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997 [With CD]") |
At the Heart of Texas: One Hundred Years of the Texas State Historical Association, 1897-1997 [With CD]
ISBN: 9780876112168 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "History like that of Texas is rare. . . . Is it not discreditable to the people of Texas, that they should leave the collection of material for the history of the State to the great endowed Northern libraries? . . . Let Texas arouse herself for very shame, and begin at once the discharge of her filial duty."
So wrote George Pierce Garrison in the first issue of the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, published in July 1897, just months after the establishment of the organization on March 2. The state of Texas was just half a century old; the city of Austin, going... "History like that of Texas is rare. . . . Is it not discreditable to the people of Texas, that they should leave the collection of material for the h...
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165,17 |
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The Last Stronghold: The Campaign for Fort Fisher
ISBN: 9781893114319 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The busy port of Wilmington, North Carolina, was a key city linking the Confederacy to the goods and the weapons merchants of Europe and the world. By late 1864, the port city had become an important target for Federal military leaders. To keep the city from falling, the Confederacy relied on a strong system of fortifications, the most formidable of which was Fort Fisher. The Federal Army in late 1864 and early 1865 made the fort the target of the largest amphibious operation prior to World War II. The successful reduction of the post sounded the knell for the brief life of the...
The busy port of Wilmington, North Carolina, was a key city linking the Confederacy to the goods and the weapons merchants of Europe and the world. By...
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Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic
ISBN: 9781625110367 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 179 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B. McCaslin recovers the history of an iconic Texas town. The story of the Texas Republic begins and ends at Washington, but the town s history extends much further. Texas leaders gathered in the new town on the west bank of the Brazos in March 1836 to establish a new republic. After approving a declaration of independence and constitution, they fled as Santa Anna's army approached. The government of the Republic of Texas returned there in 1842, but after the United States annexed Texas in 1846, Austin...
With Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic, noted historian Richard B. McCaslin recovers the history of an iconic Texas town. ...
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Texan in Blue: Captain Francis Asbury Vaughan of the First Texas Cavalry, USA
ISBN: 9781625110909 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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116,54 |
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A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie: By J.B. Polley of Hood's Texas Brigade
ISBN: 9781572336131 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) One of the most cited collections of letters by a Civil War soldier, A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie was originally published in 1908. A unit history of the 4th Texas Infantry in epistolary form, Joseph B. Polley's letters make available the correspondence of a soldier who participated in virtually all military action in the Eastern Theater. Polley was an unusually gifted writer, with a talent for satire and humor unmatched by most Civil War diarists.
While the collection met with an enthusiastic audience upon its appearance, it has not been without controversy. Scholars have... One of the most cited collections of letters by a Civil War soldier, A Soldier's Letters to Charming Nellie was originally published in 1908. A unit h...
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Galveston's Maceo Family Empire: Bootlegging & the Balinese Room
ISBN: 9781626197534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) At the dawn of the twentieth century, Galveston was a beacon of opportunity on the Texas Gulf Coast. Dubbed the "Wall Street of the Southwest," its laissez-faire reputation called those hungry for success to its shores. Led by brothers Salvatore and Rosario at the height of Prohibition, the Maceo family answered that call and changed the Oleander City forever. They built an island empire of gambling, smuggling and prostitution that lasted three decades. Housed in their nightclubs frequented by stars like Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra and Duke Ellington, they endeared themselves to their Galveston...
At the dawn of the twentieth century, Galveston was a beacon of opportunity on the Texas Gulf Coast. Dubbed the "Wall Street of the Southwest," its la...
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Galveston's Maceo Family Empire: Bootlegging and the Balinese Room
ISBN: 9781540212108 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Palmito Ranch: From Civil War Battlefield to National Historic Landmark
ISBN: 9781623496364 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Despite the strategic importance of the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the Civil War, the two battles fought there have largely faded from public memory. In Palmito Ranch, Jody Edward Ginn and William Alexander McWhorter offer new information about these battles while chronicling the efforts to save and preserve the battlefield site.
Despite the strategic importance of the Lower Rio Grande Valley during the Civil War, the two battles fought there have largely faded from public memo...
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