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Author: Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen Publisher: ISBN: 9781594163319 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The First General History in English of the Germanic People Who Sacked Rome in the Fifth Century AD and Established a Kingdom in North Africa One of the most fascinating of late antiquity were the Vandals, who over a period of six hundred years had migrated from the woodland regions of Scandinavia across Europe and ended in the deserts of North Africa. In A History of the Vandals, the first general account in English covering the entire story of the Vandals from their emergence to the end of their kingdom, historian Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen pieces together what we know about the Vandals, sifting fact from fiction.
Author: Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen Publisher: ISBN: 9781594163319 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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The First General History in English of the Germanic People Who Sacked Rome in the Fifth Century AD and Established a Kingdom in North Africa One of the most fascinating of late antiquity were the Vandals, who over a period of six hundred years had migrated from the woodland regions of Scandinavia across Europe and ended in the deserts of North Africa. In A History of the Vandals, the first general account in English covering the entire story of the Vandals from their emergence to the end of their kingdom, historian Torsten Cumberland Jacobsen pieces together what we know about the Vandals, sifting fact from fiction.
Author: Francis Jennings Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393306408 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 552
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"A riveting, massively documented epic [that] overturns textbook clichés.... This impassioned study throws valuable light on our history." --Publishers Weekly
Author: Martin Daunton Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812216998 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 422
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Empire and Others explores the many complex ways in which identities were forged with Britain and among indigenous peoples through a processs of collision and compromise.
Author: Justin Harnick Publisher: Amazon Pro Hub ISBN: 1960757229 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 711
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Nick Shamus has lived his entire life in the slums of Horner and has chosen to spend it as a lying, cheating, conniving thief. Unbeknownst to Nick, his life is about to be turned upside down when he discovers that he’s blessed with enchanting abilities. Unfortunately for Nick, this also makes him a wanted man. Ester Rayther, a mercenary, hasn't had the best run of luck lately. Her dad is dead, and she's out of a job. Looking to start anew, Ester ventures to the independent state of Seaport, where she meets the mysterious Berend Finch—a man looking to uncover a twenty-year-old conspiracy that could be the death of her. Notorious for all the wrong reasons, Weston Fairchild has spent the last two decades drinking away his sorrows. So, when asked to muster up an army to rebel against King Antony, the man who killed his wife and child, the chance to see the king's head on a spike is an opportunity he cannot pass up. Samuel Guidry revels in the fact that he is the smartest pupil at the University of Horner. But his arrogance is about to meet its match when he encounters Princess Catalina Woller, a woman with deadly powers not known for her compassion. With the paths these characters find themselves on, secrets will be revealed, old powers brushed aside for new, and the world as it’s known will be changed forever.
Author: Eamon McGuire Publisher: The O'Brien Press ISBN: 1847175155 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 270
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Written in prison in South Africa, Ireland and the United States, Enemy of the Empire was originally a device for keeping sane in a situation of extreme boredom and oppression. A trained aviation engineer, up-to-date with the latest technology, Eamon McGuire worked in countries that were extricating themselves from the bonds of empire such as Kenya and Malaysia. His mission was to keep ahead of the British army in terms of weapons and detection by procuring and designing systems. His activities forced him to go on the run, hiding in remote parts of Africa and eventually ending up in war-torn Mozambique. He was captured by the CIA in South Africa and subsequently spent several years in various prisons where he started to write what became the basis of this book.
Author: Mary Ricketson Bullard Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 9780820317380 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 378
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Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island offers a rare glimpse into the life and times of a nineteenth-century planter on one of Georgia's Sea Islands. Born poor, Robert Stafford (1790-1877) became the leading planter on his native Cumberland Island. Specializing in the highly valued long staple variety of cotton, he claimed among his assets more than 8,000 acres and 350 slaves. Mary R. Bullard recounts Stafford's life in the context of how events from the Federalist period to the Civil War to Reconstruction affected Sea Island planters. As she discusses Stafford's associations with other planters, his business dealings (which included banking and railroad investments), and the day-to-day operation of his plantation, Bullard also imparts a wealth of information about cotton farming methods, plantation life and material culture, and the geography and natural history of Cumberland Island. Stafford's career was fairly typical for his time and place; his personal life was not. He never married, but fathered six children by Elizabeth Bernardey, a mulatto slave nurse. Bullard's discussion of Stafford's decision to move his family to Groton, Connecticut--and freedom--before the Civil War illuminates the complex interplay between southern notions of personal honor, the staunch independent-mindedness of Sea Island planters, and the practice and theory of racial separation. In her afterword to the Brown Thrasher edition, Bullard presents recently uncovered information about a second extralegal family of Robert Stafford as well as additional information about Elizabeth Bernardey's children and the trust funds Stafford provided for them.
Author: Susan Gaunt Stearns Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 0813951259 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 269
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A groundbreaking study situating the Mississippi River valley at the heart of the early American republic’s political economy Shortly after the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789, twenty-two-year-old Andrew Jackson pledged his allegiance to the king of Spain. Prior to the Louisiana Purchase, imperial control of the North American continent remained an open question. Spain controlled the Mississippi River, closing it to American trade in 1784, and western men on the make like Jackson had to navigate the overlapping economic and political forces at work with ruthless pragmatism. In Empire of Commerce, Susan Gaunt Stearns takes readers back to a time when there was nothing inevitable about the United States’ untrammeled westward expansion. Her work demonstrates the centrality of trade on and along the Mississippi River to the complex development of the political and economic structures that shaped the nascent American republic. Stearns’s perspective-shifting book reconfigures our understanding of key postrevolutionary moments—the writing of the Constitution, the outbreak of the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Louisiana Purchase—and demonstrates how the transatlantic cotton trade finally set the stage for transforming an imagined west into something real.
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