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The First World War
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Author : John Keegan
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2012-11-21
The First World War written by John Keegan and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-21 with History categories.
The First World War created the modern world. A conflict of unprecedented ferocity, it abruptly ended the relative peace and prosperity of the Victorian era, unleashing such demons of the twentieth century as mechanized warfare and mass death. It also helped to usher in the ideas that have shaped our times--modernism in the arts, new approaches to psychology and medicine, radical thoughts about economics and society--and in so doing shattered the faith in rationalism and liberalism that had prevailed in Europe since the Enlightenment. With The First World War, John Keegan, one of our most eminent military historians, fulfills a lifelong ambition to write the definitive account of the Great War for our generation. Probing the mystery of how a civilization at the height of its achievement could have propelled itself into such a ruinous conflict, Keegan takes us behind the scenes of the negotiations among Europe's crowned heads (all of them related to one another by blood) and ministers, and their doomed efforts to defuse the crisis. He reveals how, by an astonishing failure of diplomacy and communication, a bilateral dispute grew to engulf an entire continent. But the heart of Keegan's superb narrative is, of course, his analysis of the military conflict. With unequalled authority and insight, he recreates the nightmarish engagements whose names have become legend--Verdun, the Somme and Gallipoli among them--and sheds new light on the strategies and tactics employed, particularly the contributions of geography and technology. No less central to Keegan's account is the human aspect. He acquaints us with the thoughts of the intriguing personalities who oversaw the tragically unnecessary catastrophe--from heads of state like Russia's hapless tsar, Nicholas II, to renowned warmakers such as Haig, Hindenburg and Joffre. But Keegan reserves his most affecting personal sympathy for those whose individual efforts history has not recorded--"the anonymous millions, indistinguishably drab, undifferentially deprived of any scrap of the glories that by tradition made the life of the man-at-arms tolerable." By the end of the war, three great empires--the Austro-Hungarian, the Russian and the Ottoman--had collapsed. But as Keegan shows, the devastation ex-tended over the entirety of Europe, and still profoundly informs the politics and culture of the continent today. His brilliant, panoramic account of this vast and terrible conflict is destined to take its place among the classics of world history. With 24 pages of photographs, 2 endpaper maps, and 15 maps in text
Freedom Summer
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Author : Bruce Watson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-06-10
Freedom Summer written by Bruce Watson and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-10 with History categories.
A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer, award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students descended upon segregated, reactionary Mississippi to register black voters and educate black children. On the night of their arrival, the worst fears of a race-torn nation were realized when three young men disappeared, thought to have been murdered by the Ku Klux Klan. Taking readers into the heart of these remarkable months, Freedom Summer shines new light on a critical moment of nascent change in America. "Recreates the texture of that terrible yet rewarding summer with impressive verisimilitude." -Washington Post
How To Write History That People Want To Read
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Author : A. Curthoys
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
How To Write History That People Want To Read written by A. Curthoys and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with History categories.
Drawn from decades of experience, this is a concise and highly practical guide to writing history. Aimed at all kinds of people who write history academic historians, public historians, professional historians, family historians and students of all levels the book includes a wide range of examples from many genres and styles.
Loving Literature
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Author : Deidre Lynch
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2015
Loving Literature written by Deidre Lynch and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with History categories.
Of the many charges laid against contemporary literary scholars, one of the most commonand perhaps the most woundingis that they simply don't love books. And while the most obvious response is that, no, actually the profession of literary studies does acknowledge and address personal attachments to literature, that answer risks obscuring a more fundamental question: Why should they? That question led Deidre Shauna Lynch into the historical and cultural investigation ofLoving Literature. How did it come to be that professional literary scholars are expected not just to study, but tolove literature, and to inculcate that love in generations of students? What Lynch discovers is that books, and the attachments we form to them, have long played a role in the formation of private lifethat the love of literature, in other words, is neither incidental to, nor inextricable from, the history of literature. Yet at the same time, there is nothing self-evident or ahistorical about our love of literature: our views of books as objects of affection have clear roots in late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century publishing, reading habits, and domestic history. While never denying the very real feelings that warm our relationship to books, Loving Literature nonetheless serves as a riposte to those who use the phrase the love of literature” as if its meaning were transparent, its essence happy and healthy. Lynch writes, It is as if those on the side of love of literature had forgotten what literary texts themselves say about love's edginess and complexities.” With this masterly volume, Lynch restores those edges, and allows us to revel in those complexities.
A History Of Reading
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Author : Alberto Manguel
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2014-08-26
A History Of Reading written by Alberto Manguel and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-26 with History categories.
At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of a book—that string of confused, alien ciphers—shivered into meaning, and at that moment, whole universes opened. You became, irrevocably, a reader. Noted essayist and editor Alberto Manguel moves from this essential moment to explore the six-thousand-year-old conversation between words and that hero without whom the book would be a lifeless object: the reader. Manguel brilliantly covers reading as seduction, as rebellion, and as obsession and goes on to trace the quirky and fascinating history of the reader’s progress from clay tablet to scroll, codex to CD-ROM.
How To Write History That People Want To Read
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Author : A. Curthoys
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
How To Write History That People Want To Read written by A. Curthoys and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with categories.
China A History
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Author : John Keay
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-04-15
China A History written by John Keay and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with History categories.
Three thousand years of Chinese history in an accessible and authoritative single volume.
The First Total War
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Author : David Avrom Bell
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2007
The First Total War written by David Avrom Bell and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Europe categories.
The author maintains that modern attitudes toward total war were conceived during the Napoleonic era; and argues that all the elements of total war were evident including conscription, unconditional surrender, disregard for basic rules of war, mobilization of civilians, and guerrilla warfare.
The Arabs
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Author : Eugene Rogan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-11-05
The Arabs written by Eugene Rogan and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-05 with History categories.
Eugene Rogan has written an authoritative new history of the Arabs in the modern world. Starting with the Ottoman conquests in the sixteenth century, this landmark book follows the story of the Arabs through the era of European imperialism and the Superpower rivalries of the Cold War, to the present age of unipolar American power. Drawing on the writings and eyewitness accounts of those who lived through the tumultuous years of Arab history, The Arabs balances different voices - politicians, intellectuals, students, men and women, poets and novelists, famous, infamous and the completely unknown - to give a rich, complex sense of life over nearly five centuries. Rogan's book is remarkable for its geographical sweep, covering the Arab world from North Africa through the Arabian Peninsula, and for the depth in which it explores every facet of modern Arab history. Charting the evolution of Arab identity from Ottomanism to Arabism to Islamism, it covers themes including the conflict between national independence and foreign domination, the Arab-Israeli struggle and the peace process, Abdel Nasser and the rise of Arab Nationalism, the political and economic power of oil and the conflict between secular and Islamic values. This multilayered, fascinating and definitive work is the essential guide to understanding the history of the modern Arab world - and its future.
Read On History
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Author : Tina Frolund
language : en
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Release Date : 2013-10-21
Read On History written by Tina Frolund and has been published by Libraries Unlimited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-21 with Education categories.
History doesn't need to be a dry and boring recitation of facts. History is filled with stories that inspire and amaze -- and those stories can be found in the books described in this guide containing reading lists of more than 400 great reads, both fiction and nonfiction, that span the world through all time periods. Whether you're looking to read unsolved mysteries of the past, thrilling war stories, or profiles -- real or imagined -- of fascinating historical figures, this book fills the bill. Every title has been hand-selected as an entertaining and enlightening read, and the lists are organized according to popular appeals and reading interests. Use it to find your next great read, or to help others on their quest.