Author: Lafayette Wallace CasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Goodrich Family in America
Author: Lafayette Wallace CasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
The Sterling Area
Author: British Information ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sterling area
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
The Universal Code of Signals for the Mercantile Marine of All Nations
Author: Frederick MarryatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Regulations of the Office of the Secretary
Author: United States. Department of TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Wrigley's British Columbia Directory
Author: Methods and Results of Testing School Children
Author: Evelyn DeweyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Educational tests and measurements
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The Civil War
Author: Geoffrey C. WardPublisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0679742778
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series, with a new preface to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary With more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs—many never before published—as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color It was the greatest war in American history. It was waged in 10,000 places—from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in it and more than 600,000 men died in it. Not only the immensity of the cataclysm but the new weapons, the new standards of generalship, and the new strategies of destruction—together with the birth of photography—were to make the Civil War an event present ever since in the American consciousness. Thousands of books have been written about it. Yet there has never been a history of the Civil War quite like this one. A wealth of documentary illustrations and a narrative alive with original and energetic scholarship combine to present both the grand sweep of events and the minutest of human details. Here are the crucial events of the war: the firing of the first shots at Fort Sumter; the battles of Shiloh, Chancellorsville, and Gettysburg; the siege of Vicksburg; Sherman’s dramatic march to the sea; the surrender at Appomattox. Here are the superb portraits of the key figures: Abraham Lincoln, claiming for the presidency almost autocratic power in order to preserve the Union; the austere Jefferson Davis, whose government disappeared almost before it could be formed; Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant, seasoned generals of fierce brilliance and reckless determination. Here is the America in which the war was fought: The Civil War is not simply the story of great battles and great generals; it is also an elaborate portrait of the American people—individuals and families, northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, slaves and slaveowners, rich and poor, urban and rural—caught up in the turbulence of the times. An additional resonance is provided by four essays, the work of prominent Civil War historians. Don E. Fehrenbacher discusses the causes of the war; Barbara J. Fields writes about emancipation; James M. McPherson looks at the politics of the 1864 election; C. Vann Woodward speculates on how the war has affected the American identity. And Shelby Foote talks to filmmaker Ken Burns about wartime life on the battlefield and at home. A magnificent book. In its visual power, its meticulous research, its textual brilliance, and the humanity of its narrative, The Civil War will stand among the most illuminating and memorable portrayals of the American past.
Electrical Apparatus and Supplies
Author: Gaertner and CoPublisher:
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Category : Electric apparatus and appliances
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
A brief survey of British history
Author: George Townsend WarnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Richard Hamilton
Author: Richard HamiltonPublisher: Walther Konig Verlag
ISBN: 9783865607515
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Richard Hamilton has always been ahead of his time through use of material from popular culture and new technologies, often posing questions about how the media captures political events. This book brings together the famous 'protest' paintings as well as new political works that reveal the artist's incisive thinking.