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Languages : en
Pages : 1276
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Senate documents
Author: River of History
Author: John O. AnfinsonPublisher:
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Category : Formations (Geology)
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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History of the Twenty-first Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteers, in the War for the Preservation of the Union, 1861-1865
Author: Charles Folsom WalcottPublisher:
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Category : Massachusetts
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Charting the Inland Seas
Author: Arthur M. WoodfordPublisher:
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Category : Great Lakes (North America)
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Engineers Far from Ordinary
Author: Damon MandersPublisher:
ISBN: 9781782663447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Includes full color maps and photographs.
The Mysteries of New Orleans
Author: Baron Ludwig von ReizensteinPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801877695
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 596
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One of the most scandalous books published in America at the time. "Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side . . . This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in the middle of the nineteenth century."—from the Introduction by Steven Rowan A lost classic of America's neglected German-language literary tradition, The Mysteries of New Orleans by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855. Inspired by the gothic "urban mysteries" serialized in France and Germany during this period, Reizenstein crafted a daring occult novel that stages a frontal assault on the ethos of the antebellum South. His plot imagines the coming of a bloody, retributive justice at the hands of Hiram the Freemason—a nightmarish, 200-year-old, proto-Nietzschean superman—for the sin of slavery. Heralded by the birth of a black messiah, the son of a mulatto prostitute and a decadent German aristocrat, this coming revolution is depicted in frankly apocalyptic terms. Yet, Reizenstein was equally concerned with setting and characters, from the mundane to the fantastic. The book is saturated with the atmosphere of nineteenth-century New Orleans, the amorous exploits of its main characters uncannily resembling those of New Orleans' leading citizens. Also of note is the author's progressively matter-of-fact portrait of the lesbian romance between his novel's only sympathetic characters, Claudine and Orleana. This edition marks the first time that The Mysteries of New Orleans has been translated into English and proves that 150 years later, this vast, strange, and important novel remains as compelling as ever.
The War Against Trucks
Author: Bernard C. NaltyPublisher: Department of the Air Force
ISBN: 9780160724947
Category : Air interdiction
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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Tells the story of the efforts of the United States military to stop the flow of trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail ferrying supplies from North Vietnam to its forces in South Vietnam.
History of McHenry County, Illinois
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Category : McHenry County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 640
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A Narrative of the Negro
Author: Leila PendletonPublisher:
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Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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An early history of African Americans by an African American woman.
Past and Present of Greene County, Illinois
Author: Edward MinerPublisher:
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Category : Greene County (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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