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An intimate portrait of the postwar lives of Korean children and women Korean children and women are the forgotten population of a forgotten war. Yet during and after the Korean War, they were central to the projection of US military, cultural, and political dominance. Framed by War examines how the Korean orphan, GI baby, adoptee, birth mother, prostitute, and bride emerged at the heart of empire. Strained embodiments of war, they brought Americans into Korea and Koreans into America in ways...
| Автор | Susie Woo |
The long agony of the American Civil War inspired a wealth of contemporary verse — from sentimental doggerel to sublime lyrics that rank among the finest American poetry. This inexpensive anthology brings together a superb selection of poems from both North and South, comprising the best and most representative poetry of those turbulent times.Over 75 poems include works by many of America's greatest 19th century writers: Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry...
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Hiking Washington�s History reveals the stories embedded in Washington�s landscape. This trail guide narrates forty historic trails, ranging from short day hikes to three- or four-day backpacking trips over mountain passes. Every region in the state is included, from the northwesternmost tip of the continental United States at Cape Flattery to the remote Blue Mountains in the southeast. Each chapter begins with a brief overview of the region�s history followed by...
| Автор | Judy Bentley |
The Monterey coast, home to an acclaimed aquarium and the setting for John Steinbeck's classic novel Cannery Row, was also the stage for a historical junction of industry and tourism. Shaping the Shoreline looks at the ways in which Monterey has formed, and been formed by, the tension between labor and leisure.Connie Y. Chiang examines Monterey's development from a seaside resort into a working-class fishing town and, finally, into a tourist attraction again. Through the subjects of...
| Автор | Connie Y. Chiang |
"An excellent anthology, worthy of the imitations it will engender . . . it will go a long way toward illuminating Confederate history." — The New York TimesFor any student of the War Between the States, this treasury of contemporary documents—all but a few written by Southerners — offers a wealth of insight and perspectives on life in the South during the conflict, how newspapers and periodicals covered events, and how Southerners reacted to the disastrous...
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Winner of the Western History Association's 2009 Hal K. Rothman AwardFinalist in the Western Writers of America Spur Award for the Western Nonfiction Contemporary category (2008).The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the world's most beautiful cities. Despite a population of 7 million people, it is more greensward than asphalt jungle, more open space than hardscape. A vast quilt of countryside is tucked into the folds of the metropolis, stitched from fields, farms and woodlands, mines,...
| Автор | Richard A. Walker |
The Society for the Promotion of Enlightenment among the Jews of Russia (OPE) was a philanthropic organization, the oldest Jewish organization in Russia. Founded by a few wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg who wanted to improve opportunities for Jewish people in Russia by increasing their access to education and modern values, OPE was secular and nonprofit. The group emphasized the importance of the unity of Jewish culture to help Jews integrate themselves into Russian society by opening,...
| Автор | Brian J. Horowitz |
In 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education institutions in the world. Its halls have been home to Nobel Prize- and World Food Prize-winning faculty, record-setting astronauts, laureled humanists, researchers, and leaders of industry. Its thirteen colleges and schools span the sciences, liberal arts, management, and veterinary medicine, boasting...
| Автор | John Norberg |
Innocent brides, conquering grooms – six fabulous stories of seduction, passion and desire!The Novice BrideInnocent in her convent, Lady Cecily of Fulford knows nothing of the ways of men. Yet when tragic news bids her home, her only escape is to offer herself to the enemy – as a bride! Now her fate, and her wedding night, lies in the hands of her husband, Sir Adam Wymark…The Dumont BrideA marriage to landed, beautiful Emalie Montgomerie will restore all that Christian Dumont lost. But the...
| Автор | Carol Townend |
Berlin, lato 1939 roku. Młody esesman Egon von Rausch zostaje przyjęty do realizacji tajnego projektu T4. To plan zamordowania tysięcy chorych psychicznie i wykluczonych ze społeczeństwa ludzi. Rausch ma zorganizować transport śmierci z Prus Wschodnich do komór gazowych w Saksonii. Pewnego dnia dowiaduje się, że jego ojciec, którego przed laty uznano za zmarłego, żyje i ukrywa się w jednym ze szpitali. Rausch wyrusza w mroczną podróż, podczas której będzie dokonywał okrutnej selekcji ludzi do...
| Автор | Tomasz Białkowski |
The legacy and memory of wartime South Vietnam through the eyes of Vietnamese refugees In 1975, South Vietnam fell to communism, marking a stunning conclusion to the Vietnam War. Although this former ally of the United States has vanished from the world map, Long T. Bui maintains that its memory endures for refugees with a strong attachment to this ghost country. Blending ethnography with oral history, archival research, and cultural analysis, Returns of War considersstateless exiles. ...
| Автор | Long T. Bui |
The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the footsteps of earlier Chinese and Japanese immigrants, the first and second “Asiatic invasions.” Perceived as alien because of their Asian ethnicity yet legally defined as American nationals granted more rights than other immigrants, Filipino American national identity was built upon the shifting sands of contradiction, ambiguity, and hostility.Rick Baldoz...
| Автор | Rick Baldoz |
Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association [/b] Highlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people [b] Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted—miscategorized or erased—the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century...
| Автор | Dixa Ramírez |
Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet—a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital. As her two daughters—lumpy Charlotte, who runs a hugely successful chain of stationery stores called Waste of Paper, and beautiful...
| Автор | Уилл Селф |
This collection of the lectures of Lord Acton on the French Revolution comprises a disciplined, thorough, and elegant history of the actual events of the bloody episode. It is as thorough a record as could be constructed in Acton’s time of the actions of the government of France during the Revolution.Delivered at Cambridge University between 1895 and 1899, Lectures on the French Revolution is a distinguished account of the entire epochal chapter in French experience by one of the most remarkable...
| Автор | John Emerich Edward Dalberg- Acton |
This famed Payne edition of Select Works of Edmund Burke is universally revered by students of English history and political thought. Volume 1, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents and The Two Speeches on America, contains Burke’s brilliant defense of the American colonists’ complaints of British policy, including “Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents” (1770), “Speech on American Taxation” (1774), and “Speech on Conciliation” (1775). Volume 2 consists of Burke’s renowned...
| Автор | Edmund Burke |
"It was the best of times, it was the worst times," so begins the famous first lines of one of Charles Dickens most popular novels. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a story set in the late 18th century during the French Revolution and the title cities in question are that of London and Paris. At the heart of the novel is the story of a young Englishman who sacrifices his life to save the husband of a woman he loves. «A Tale of Two Cities» is a classic love story set against the backdrop of...
| Автор | Charles Dickens |
Eine Erzählung, die Kleist zum Anlass der Taufe seiner Patentochter Cäcilie Müller verfasste: Vier holländische Brüder planen zur Zeit des reformatorischen Bildersturms im 16. Jahrhundert, den Aachener Dom zu plündern. Die Nonnen feiern trotzdem das Fronleichnamsfest im Dom, und als die vier Brüder ihren wundervollen Gesang hören, geschieht ein regelrechtes Wunder…-
| Автор | Heinrich von Kleist |
Eine Erzählung, die Kleist zum Anlass der Taufe seiner Patentochter Cäcilie Müller verfasste: Vier holländische Brüder planen zur Zeit des reformatorischen Bildersturms im 16. Jahrhundert, den Aachener Dom zu plündern. Die Nonnen feiern trotzdem das Fronleichnamsfest im Dom, und als die vier Brüder ihren wundervollen Gesang hören, geschieht ein regelrechtes Wunder…-
| Автор | Heinrich von Kleist |
В книге П. Панкратова «Добрые люди» правдиво описана жизнь донского казачества во время гражданской войны, расказачивания и коллективизации.
| Автор | Петр Панкратов |
Это роман о дворянине из Париже, который, приехав из столицы в провинциальный городок, становится на путь флибустьеров. Он находит себе друзей, а приключений на его жизнь выпадает множество.
| Автор | Александр Подмосковных |
Это роман о дворянине из Париже, который, приехав из столицы в провинциальный городок, становится на путь флибустьеров. Он находит себе друзей, а приключений на его жизнь выпадает множество.
| Автор | Александр Подмосковных |
Это роман о дворянине из Париже, который, приехав из столицы в провинциальный городок, становится на путь флибустьеров. Он находит себе друзей, а приключений на его жизнь выпадает множество.
| Автор | Александр Подмосковных |
Это роман о дворянине из Париже, который, приехав из столицы в провинциальный городок, становится на путь флибустьеров. Он находит себе друзей, а приключений на его жизнь выпадает множество.
| Автор | Александр Подмосковных |