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Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency
Author: Michael BlakeISBN: 0-87358-907-6Publisher: Northland PublishingThere’s nothing wrong with a controversial book, but reviewing one can be difficult. Finding the line between preference and a book’s value can be a personal challenge, if you’re not objective. Michael Blake’s Indian Yell: The Heart of an American Insurgency is controversial. You’re going to love it or hate it. I can’t see too many readers being indifferent. Blake provides a gutsy look at the struggle between the native...
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4-29-2007
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Love and Sand
Click Here To Purchase Love and Sand Author: Howard M. LaytonPublisher: Three Spires Publishing ISBN: 978-0-9676008-5-7 After reading the glossary of technical, foreign and unusual terms which I found really interesting and helpful, I read the foreword and then began the first chapter which put me immediately in the picture. It was exhilarating, frightening, amazing and I marvell
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11-4-2008
Views: 1909
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Miracle on the Monastery Mountain
Author: Douglas Demetrios LyttleISBN: 0974744603 Genre: Photography/Historical/Documentary The following review was contributed by: E.Dian Moore
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5-11-2005
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90 Day Wonder: Darkness Remembered
Author: Leon Cooper and Don TaitLine/Publisher: 1st Books Library ISBN: 1-4107-2875-7The following review was contributed by: Molly Martin & CLICK TO VIEW Molly Martin's Reviews
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4-17-2005
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90-Day Wonder—Darkness Remembered
Author: Leon CooperPublisher: 1st Books LibraryISBN: 1-4107-2875-7 The following review was contributed by: SHELDON (SHELLY) WAXMAN & click to view Shelly's reviews.This is a gem of a book, especially if you are interested in what war is all about. This is the memoir of a WWII naval officer out of the 90-day wonder school. He would never make it to the gentleman status of the Annapolis and West Point officers.War is brutal and the book leaves nothing to the imagination. Sometimes those...
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6-28-2005
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A History of Murphy's Law
Author: Nick T.Spark ISBN: 978-1-4116-8469-0 This book is of valuable help to those who always wondered about the origin ofMurphy's Law, which became quite famous along with Parkinson's Law and Peter'sPrinciple. When I read the press note, I was really interested and when anopportunity to review the book came, I was delighted. And I can confidentlywrite that I was not disappointed after finishing the slim tome which is quiteattractively printed and has a number of photographs to put the text...
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11-2-2006
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A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons
Author: Carroll Van West, Editor-in-Chief; Margaret Duncan Binnicker, Associate EditorPublisher: University of Tennessee Press, KnoxvilleISBN: 1-57233-239-5At first glance, A History of Tennessee Arts: Creating Traditions, Expanding Horizons gives the impression of a textbook. The magnitude of the undertaking which the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Tennessee Historical Society planned to document this wide range of topics for a state with such a rich history of the arts resulted in a...
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2-21-2007
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A Writer at War: a Soviet Journalist with the Red Army, 1941-1945
Author: Vasily GrossmanTranslated by: Antony Beevor and Luba VinogradovaVintage Books/Random HouseISBN: 978-0-307-27533-2. The Other Side of The Nightmare It is now fashionable to detect substantial improvement in Politburo attitudes during the Nikita Khrushchev years. Unquestionably, his widely-trumpeted “deStalinization program” included a new tolerance for carefully selected literature that might be considered critical of earlier Soviet behavior. Works including Solzhenitsyn’s mildly...
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4-5-2007
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Abraham Lincoln’s Execution
Author: John Chandler GriffinISBN (from Pelican promotion): 1589803957ISBN (from the book): ISBN-13: 978-1-58980-395-4 Unless historians or other scholars can refute what Professor John Chandler Griffin has revealed in Abraham Lincoln’s Execution, the history not only of the administration of the 16th President of the U.S. and his death at the hands of John Wilkes Booth will have to be rewritten, but also that of the American Civil War. Griffin, professor emeritus at the...
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1-24-2007
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Beautiful Jim Key The Lost History of the World’s Smartest Horse
Author: Mim Eichler RivasISBN-10: 0-06-056704X (pbk) The following review was contributed by: Shelley Bueché: Click Here to Read More of Shelley's ReviewsThis fantastic book is sprinkled with magic, a galloping romp of a tale about Beautiful Jim Key, a horse, and Dr. William Key, a horse whisperer in the truest sense. Riv
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6-17-2006
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Cinco de Mayo: What is Everybody Celebrating?
Author: Donald W. MilesISBN: 0-595-39241-5 Responsible parenting or teaching would send an inquisitive child to "look it up," whatever "it" may be—a word, a fact, or an historical event. But what happens when there are no credible, adult focused resources to research from? Donald W. Miles found this to be the case when he went searching for a book to recount the historical events of the popular holiday, Cinco de Mayo. Children's books about the holiday were plentiful,...
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5-1-2007
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Comrades in Courage
Author: B. Cory Kilvert, Jr.ISBN: 1-4196-5780-1Click Here To Purchase This Book From Amazon In his latest book, “Comrades in Courage,” B. Cory Kilvert again proves himself to be the Shelby Foote of World War One, or, as it was known at the time, The Great War. Kilvert has an enormous personal library of books devoted to this conflict and a great passion to convey its details, experience and meaning to his readers.
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7-27-2007
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Cranking up a Fine War by Van R. Mayhall
The Following review was contributed by: John WalshJune 6th this year marked the 60th anniversary of D-Day, one of the defining moments of World War II. Since an 18 year old soldier participating in the invasion would be approaching his 80th birthday now, it is likely that not many more of these large scale remembrances will include significant numbers of the combatants. It is an appropriate moment, then, to reassess and recognize the contributions made by those who were part of the ultimate...
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10-11-2004
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Dragon of the Mangroves
Author: Yasuyuki KasaiISBN: 0595390269The Burmese campaign of World War II has not received the attention that it really deserves in most of the western world. It was far from Europe and from North America, it was fought in difficult terrain which made it had to work out quite often how was doing what and where and, frankly, much of it was fought by Indian troops of the British Empire and their exploits have not been deemed either interesting or important enough for much consideration....
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4-23-2007
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Echoes of Armageddon, 1914-1918
Author: B. Cory Kilvert, JrPublisher:Author HouseISBN: 1-4184-5658-6The following review was contributed by: Tami Brady & CLICK TO VIEW Tami Brady's ReviewsThe book Echoes of Armageddon, 1914-1918 is the end result of the author's extensive research on the lives and deaths of eight British soldiers. Each chapter of this book describes the life and death of one of these soldiers. Each chapter also expands on the bigger picture surrounding each battle or campaign that this individual...
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4-13-2005
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Echoes of Armageddon, 1914-1918
Author: B. Cory Kilvert, Jr.ISBN# 1-4184-5658-6 Published by Author HouseThe following review was submitted by: Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's ReviewsIt would not be an exaggeration to call B. Cory Kilvert, Jr. the Shelby Foote of "The Great War." The attention to detail in Kilvert's book, Echoes of Armageddon, 1914-1918, is so striking, there is sometimes the sense (as was the case with Foote in relation to the Civil War) that Kilvert was not only circling...
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10-6-2005
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Fighting for Women’s Rights
Author: Moushumi ChakrabartyISBN: 1554390052The following review was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsAnna Leonowens is famous still in Thailand as something of a traitor who happily took money and a high position from King Mongkut and then defamed him and the people of the Kingdom in her sensationalist books. However, her life took in many more adventures and experiences than the six years as governess to the King’s children and wives in Bangkok. Born into...
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5-22-2006
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Genghis Khan: Life, Death and Resurrection
Author: John ManGenre: History/AsianISBN: 0-5538-1498-2The following review was contributed by: John Walsh & CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsGenghis Khan is a name that instills mingled emotions of awe, horror and fascination even eight hundred years after his death. Born into obscurity in a vast grassland people by nomadic hill tribes people, he rose to prominence first in his large family, then his tribe and then among his whole people, welding t
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6-1-2005
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Inside the Space Race: A Space Surgeon’s Diary
Author: Lawrence E. Lamb, M.D.ISBN: 1933538392Dr Lawrence E Lamb has enjoyed a long career of public service, most notably in assisting the astronauts of the USA in preparing themselves physically and in designing the medical systems that would determine levels of safety in space. In this memoir, copiously illustrated by photographs of the great and the good and copies of letters from the same, Lamb recounts his experiences with the program. He takes great efforts to outline the part played...
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2-9-2007
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Is History Fiction?
Click Here To Purchase Is History Fiction Author(s): Ann Curthoys and John DockerPublisher: University of Michigan PressISBN: 0-472-03154-6With a title such as Is History Fiction?, one might assume that Ann Curthoys and John Docker lay out a simple question to be answered throughout their 200-plus page work on the nature of historical writing. One might also expect to find a lengthy collection of anecdotal evidence between the book’s covers — a sort of step-by-step answer designed to sway a...
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6-22-2007
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John Brown: The Cost of Freedom
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon John Brown: The Cost of FreedomAuthor: Louis A. DeCaro Jr.Publisher: International PublishersISBN: 10: 1717807428: 13: 978-0717807420Much of my tenth grade American history class has long been lost, in the quagmire of chemically diminished neural tissue known as my brain. One thing I do remember, though, was
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1-8-2008
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Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point
Author: James S. RobbinsPublisher: Encounter BooksISBN 1-59403-141-X “Boys Will Be Boys:” Confusing Dash with Leadership James S. Robbins’ Last in Their Class: Custer, Pickett and the Goats of West Point will thrill readers who have already embraced the notion of Civil War officers as “gods.” Robbins mined the Special Collections Library of the United States Military Academy and now presents a vivid description of how these “gods” got their various starts. The book’s premise is engaging....
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1-26-2007
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My Father’s War
Author: Paul West ISBN: 0-929701-75-5 The following review was contributed by: Kathryn Atwood Click Here To View More Of Kathryn's Reviews For writer Paul West, the connections between the two world wars of the last century transcend the likes of a train car at Compiegne and a Bavarian private named Adolph Hitler. West’s connections are personal, powerful memories of a one-eyed father, maimed in the “Great War,” playing war games with his son while Nazi planes regularly bombed a...
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8-11-2005
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Paradise Lost
Author: Patrick Lennon ISBN: 1-880941-45-7
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11-6-2006
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Russian Experiences: Life in the Former USSR and Post-Soviet Russia by The Raven and Marie Claire
Struggle for freedom
Review by Denise M.Clark GUEST REVIEWER
What is the difference between Communism and National Socialism?
Can anyone outside the Soviet Union truly understand what it was like to live in Post World War II Russia?
Can an outsider relate to the daily hardships of the Cold War period, or the early 1960's, with its aftermath of the erection of the Berlin Wall?
What event or events precipitated the escalation of difficulties between 'Motherland Russia' and its...
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1-1-1970
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Saving Babylon: The Heart of an Army Interrogator in Iraq
Author: Paul Holton. Perihelion PressISBN: 978-1-933434-00-1. Chief Wiggles has Been There…He Knows Here we have the personal memoir of Chief Warrant Officer Paul Holton, (a/k/a “Chief Wiggles”) the “morale officer” in a Utah National Guard Unit. When not in uniform, Holton works as an account manager for Federal Express Corporation and travels as a missionary with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Holton’s National Guard unit reported for mobilization in February 2003....
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2-8-2007
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Slayers and their Vampires: A Cultural History of Killing the Dead
Author: Bruce A. McClelland ISBN: 978-0-472-06923-1University of Michigan Press, 2006 Much more than a lesson on the history of vampire slayers themselves, McClelland weaves together themes of religious intolerance and social persecution as it applies to nearly all spans of human history. Along the way, we are given insight into the development of vampire lore -- and, to a greater extent, the co-development of the seer/hunter/slayer. Through his unique viewpoints, McClelland also manages to...
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1-18-2007
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Spain’s Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century
Author: Pablo E. Pérez-MallaínaISBN: 0801881838In the wake of Christopher Columbus, Spanish fleets traveled regularly to the New World of the Americas for trade, for conquest, for saving souls and, above all, for seeking fortunes. Most people will be familiar with the mighty (but often fragile) ships that plied the waves and some of the names of the great captains and explorers of the times – but what of the men and, less commonly, women, who crewed these ships, who lived and died on the...
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3-1-2007
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Suite Francaise
You Can Purchase This Book From Amazon Author: Irene NemirovskyISBN: 1400096278
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7-4-2007
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Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History Of Ancient Egypt
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon Temples, Tombs, & Hieroglyphs: A Popular History Of Ancient Egypt Author: Barbara Mertz (also known variously as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) ISBN: 9780061252761In her revised and updated second edition of Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs (HarperCollins, New York, 2007), Egyptologist Barbara Mertz (also known variously as Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels) takes us back to antiquity on a new journey through the ancient Egyptian civilization....
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1-19-2008
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Thanks for the Memories: Love, Sex and World War II
Author: Jane Mersky LederPublisher: Praeger PublishersISBN: 0-275-98879-1 The USA’s official involvement as a combatant nation in World War II lasted just over 3.5 years. During that period, approximately 16 million young adults, males and females, enlisted in the various branches of the US armed forces. They trained in military bases scattered across the USA. They served in Europe, Africa and the Pacific. They left loved ones behind and met loved ones abroad. Their lives we
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12-5-2006
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Conflicts
Author: Steven D StraussISBN: 1-59257-511-0A cartoon near the front of Steven D Strauss’ fascinating The Complete Idiot’s Guide to World Conflicts shows two children at bedtime.
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1-3-2007
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The Double Exodus Theory
Author: Steve BrockGenre: history/Biblical studiesPublisher: Turn Key Press, 2004ISBN: 0-9754803-0-8The following review was contributed by: John Walsh
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5-20-2005
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The Essential Hitler
Author: Max DomarusISBN: 9780865166271Max Domarus was a “first-hand witness” to what he has collected in “The Essential Hitler.” What Domarus has collected are the speeches, proclamations, documents of a man who marked history with deceit, corruption, secrecy, control, and death. He has also offered his thoughts as a scholar to compliment this time in history.Hitler played on the fears and deep-rooted prejudices of the German people – and it came at a time when there was political and...
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6-27-2007
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The Fatal Bullet The Assassination of President James A. Garfield
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Fatal Bullet The Assassination of President James A. Garfield Author: Rick Geary ISBN: 1-56163-228-7 Rick Geary’s new book The Fatal Bullet The Assassination of President James A. Garfield explores an important event in American history in an unusual yet effective manner.To summarize: the nation, which in recent times had dealt with the horrors of President Lincoln’s assassination was once again shaken to its core the summer of 1881. On Saturday, July 2...
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11-30-2007
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The Final Curtain: Burning Mississippi By The FBI
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Final Curtain: Burning Mississippi By The FBIAuthor: Judge W.O. “Chet” DillardPublisher: Outskirts Press, Inc.ISBN: 978-1-4327-0443-8 Dillard writes from the unique vantage point of one who ser
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1-22-2008
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The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Author: Robert B. MarksPublishers: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group ISBN: 10: 0-7425-5419-8 An Innovative Pedagogical Device! Each semester, history instructors must select the required reading materials for the next semester’s classes. A conscientious teacher might drown in the many options. There are always new titles to fill the captive demand for required purchases. Increasingly, these options come with new bells, whistles, digitized archival collections, and promises of the...
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2-21-2007
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The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventures, and the Dawn of Empire
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventures, and the Dawn of Empire Author: Susan RonaldISBN: 978-0060820664When Elizabeth Tudor became Queen she was beset with struggles. The Queen was constantly under threat from relatives, all trying to lay claim to her throne, religious fracturing was pulling her country to pieces, and her treasury empty. The Pirate Queen takes a fresh look at the reign of Elizabeth I, and shows how she used piracy as the...
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8-27-2007
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The Rescue of Joshua Glover: A Fugitive Slave, the Constitution, and the Coming of the Civil War
Author: H. Robert Baker. ISBN 0-8214-1690-1. Dramatic Scholarship, Timely Gist, and Courageous Subtext During the early half of the nineteenth century, more than three million Americans were still being held in chattel slavery by neighbors who backed up constant intimidation with often brutal episodes of violence. These, so called, control measures were intended to demoralize an already desperate people and to block their collective demand for the individual liberties and ethnic dignities...
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1-9-2007
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The Rise and Fall of the Empires
Author:Caroline CovellISBN: 1589821785The following book was contributed by: John Walsh: CLICK TO VIEW John Walsh's ReviewsIndonesia is a country of some 17,000 islands, most of which are uninhabited. Extending over a vast swathe of land, numerous states have emerged in the past, basing their wealth and power on the international trading networks that took the spices of the Moluccas and Sumatra to Japan and China in the east, India, Persia and the Mediterranean in the west. The largest and...
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4-10-2006
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Use History Like a Tool
Author: Steven Levy ISBN: 1563437740The following review was contributed by: Paul Lappen: CLICK TO VIEW Paul Lappen's Reviews History, that bane of many a high school and college education, is presented ina different and much more interesting way than in school. History is more thanjust names and dates; it is about the motion of people and events. This bookalso looks at a series of "laws" that anyone can use in their daily lives.An important aspect of history is that it is best...
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4-25-2006
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War Crimes Against Southern Civilians
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon War Crimes Against Southern Civilians Author: Walter Brian CiscoISBN: 9781589804661 More and more southern scholars are presenting a radically different picture of the American Civil War than the familiar one that is taught in most schools and that has appeared in the print and broadcast media. In his book Abraham Lincoln’s Execution,
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10-10-2007
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When the Mississippi Ran Backwards
Click Here To Purchase From Amazon When the Mississippi Ran Backwards Author: Jay FeldmanISBN: 0-7432-4278-5Publisher: Free Press Jay Feldman skillfully builds the opening of the west around the New Madrid earthquakes into an historical perspective of national building.Perhaps the most powerful character in the books is Tecumseh. Trying to build a coalition of tribes to stand against the white man, he met with resistance. He warned the tribes that he would stamp his feet and bring down their...
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10-23-2007
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