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Author : Melanie Randolph Miller
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Release Date : 2005
ISBN 10 : 9781574887860
Pages : 284 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (887 downloads)
Download Envoy to the Terror in PDF Full Online by Melanie Randolph Miller and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American Founding Father s important contributions to the French Revolution
Author : John Gregory Bourke
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-09-01
ISBN 10 : 9781574412635
Pages : 545 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (412 downloads)
Download The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 4 in PDF Full Online by John Gregory Bourke and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";} The fourth book on the journals of a significant western military history officer, aide-de-camp to General George Crook and witness to battles of the Great Sioux War. Volume 4 chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook’s Department of the Platte. A large portion centers on the continuing controversy concerning the forced relocation of the Ponca Indians from their ancient homeland along the Dakota-Nebraska line to a new reservation in the Indian Territory. An equally large portion concerns Bourke’s ethnological work under official sanction from the army and the Bureau of Ethnology.
Author : Leeds Public Libraries
Publisher :
Release Date : 1879
ISBN 10 : NYPL:33433089907004
Pages : pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Catalogue of the Contents of Section A-p in PDF Full Online by Leeds Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Mazaroff
Publisher : JHU Press
Release Date : 2018-04-16
ISBN 10 : 9781421424446
Pages : 342 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (424 downloads)
Download A Paris Life, A Baltimore Treasure in PDF Full Online by Stanley Mazaroff and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-16 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- CHAPTER ONE: The Cultivation of Lucas -- CHAPTER TWO: The Wandering Road to Paris -- CHAPTER THREE: Lucas and Paris in a Time of Transition -- CHAPTER FOUR: Lucas and Whistler -- CHAPTER FIVE: The Links to Lucas -- CHAPTER SIX: From Ecouen to Barbizon -- CHAPTER SEVEN: M, Eugène, and Maud -- CHAPTER EIGHT: When Money Is No Object -- CHAPTER NINE: The Lucas Collection -- CHAPTER TEN: The Final Years -- CHAPTER ELEVEN: The Terms of Lucas's Will -- CHAPTER TWELVE: A Collection in Search of a Home -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Shot across the Bow -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN: The Glorification of Lucas -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN: In Judge Kaplan's Court -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Lucas Saved -- Postscript -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z
Author : Peter Wykeham
Publisher :
Release Date : 1963
ISBN 10 : STANFORD:36105038412859
Pages : 278 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Santos-Dumont in PDF Full Online by Peter Wykeham and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release Date : 1950-09-16
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 124 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Billboard in PDF Full Online by and published by . This book was released on 1950-09-16 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Author : Kathryn Porter Aichele
Publisher : Camden House
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 1571133437
Pages : 244 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (571 downloads)
Download Paul KLee in PDF Full Online by Kathryn Porter Aichele and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2006 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First scholarly monograph devoted to Klee's poetry illuminates the reciprocity of poetry and painting in Klee's creative world and in early modernism.
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Release Date : 1948-12-04
ISBN 10 :
Pages : 112 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)
Download Billboard in PDF Full Online by and published by . This book was released on 1948-12-04 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Author : Sandra L. Myres
Publisher : UNM Press
Release Date : 1982
ISBN 10 : 0826306268
Pages : 396 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (826 downloads)
Download Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 in PDF Full Online by Sandra L. Myres and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains letters, journals, and reminiscences showing the impact of the frontier on women's lives and the role of women in the West.
Author : Jennifer Reid
Publisher : UNM Press
Release Date : 2008
ISBN 10 : 9780826344151
Pages : 314 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (344 downloads)
Download Louis Riel and the Creation of Modern Canada in PDF Full Online by Jennifer Reid and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jennifer Reid looks at the man known today as the founder of Manitoba. Not just a traditional biography, Reid examines Riel's education and religious beliefs."--[book jacket].
Author : James Tobin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2012-06-12
ISBN 10 : 9781439135495
Pages : 448 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (135 downloads)
Download To Conquer the Air in PDF Full Online by James Tobin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-12 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Tobin, award-winning author of Ernie Pyle's War and The Man He Became, has penned the definitive account of the inspiring and impassioned race between the Wright brothers and their primary rival Samuel Langley across ten years and two continents to conquer the air. For years, Wilbur Wright and his younger brother, Orville, experimented in obscurity, supported only by their exceptional family. Meanwhile, the world watched as Samuel Langley, armed with a contract from the US War Department and all the resources of the Smithsonian Institution, sought to create the first manned flying machine. But while Langley saw flight as a problem of power, the Wrights saw a problem of balance. Thus their machines took two very different paths—Langley’s toward oblivion, the Wrights’ toward the heavens—though not before facing countless other obstacles. With a historian’s accuracy and a novelist’s eye, Tobin has captured an extraordinary moment in history. To Conquer the Air is itself a heroic achievement.
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Release Date : 1989-06
ISBN 10 : UVA:X030685709
Pages : pages
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Author : Patricia Smart
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2017-11-10
ISBN 10 : 9780773552661
Pages : 321 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (552 downloads)
Download Writing Herself into Being in PDF Full Online by Patricia Smart and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER - Prix du livre d’Ottawa 2016 WINNER - Prix Jean-Éthier-Blais 2015 WINNER - Prix Gabrielle-Roy 2014 FINALIST - Prix littéraire Trillium 2015 From the founding of New France to the present day, Quebec women have had to negotiate societal expectations placed on their gender. Tracing the evolution of life writing by Quebec women, Patricia Smart presents a feminist analysis of women’s struggles for autonomy and agency in a society that has continually emphasized the traditional roles of wife and mother. Writing Herself into Being examines published autobiographies and autobiographical fiction, as well as the annals of religious communities, letters, and a number of published and unpublished diaries by girls and women, to reveal a greater range of women’s experiences than proscribed, generalized roles. Through close readings of these texts Smart uncovers the authors’ perspectives on events such as the 1837 Rebellion, the Montreal cholera epidemic of 1848, convent school education, the struggle for women’s rights in the early twentieth century, and the Quiet Revolution. Drawing attention to the individuality of each writer while situating her within the social and ideological context of her era, this book further explores the ways women and girls reacted to, and often rebelled against, the constraints imposed on them by both Church and state. Written in a clear and compelling narrative style that brings women’s voices to life, Writing Herself into Being – the author’s own translation of her award-winning French-language book De Marie de l’Incarnation à Nelly Arcan: Se dire, se faire par l’écriture intime (Boréal, 2014) – offers a new and gendered view of various periods in Quebec history.
Author : C. Michael Hiam
Publisher : ForeEdge from University Press of New England
Release Date : 2014-10-07
ISBN 10 : 9781611685602
Pages : 273 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (685 downloads)
Download Dirigible Dreams in PDF Full Online by C. Michael Hiam and published by ForeEdge from University Press of New England. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is the story of airshipsÑmanmade flying machines without wingsÑfrom their earliest beginnings to the modern era of blimps. In postcards and advertisements, the sleek, silver, cigar-shaped airships, or dirigibles, were the embodiment of futuristic visions of air travel. They immediately captivated the imaginations of people worldwide, but in less than fifty years dirigibleÊbecame a byword for doomed futurism, an Icarian figure of industrial hubris. Dirigible Dreams looks back on this bygone era, when the future of exploration, commercial travel, and warfare largely involved the prospect of wingless flight. In Dirigible Dreams, C. Michael Hiam celebrates the legendary figures of this promising technology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuriesÑthe pioneering aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, the doomed polar explorers S. A. AndrŽe and Walter Wellman, and the great Prussian inventor and promoter Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin, among otherÊpivotal figuresÑand recounts fascinating stories of exploration, transatlantic journeys, and floating armadas that rained death during World War I. While there were triumphs, such as the polar flight of the Norge, most of these tales are of disaster and woe, culminating in perhaps the most famous disaster of all time, the crash of the Hindenburg. This story of daring men and their flying machines, dreamers and adventurers who pushed modern technology toÑand often beyondÑits limitations, is an informative and exciting mix of history, technology, awe-inspiring exploits, and warfare that will captivate readers with its depiction of a lost golden age of air travel. Readable and authoritative, enlivened by colorful characters and nail-biting drama,ÊDirigible DreamsÊwill appeal to a new generation of general readers and scholars interested in the origins of modern aviation.
Author : Donald B. Smith
Publisher : Coteau Books
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 1550503677
Pages : 316 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (55 downloads)
Download Honoré Jaxon in PDF Full Online by Donald B. Smith and published by Coteau Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "William Henry Jackson was born an Anglo-Saxon Methodist in Southern Ontario. Leaving behind that identity, he served as Louis Riel's secretary during the 1885 Resistance, narrowly avoiding lengthly imprisonment. Escaping an asylum for the insane, he went on to become a prominent labour leader in Chicago, finally trying his hand as a real estate developer in New York City. Along the way, he adopted the name Honore Jaxon, and assumed a prairie Metis identity." -- from publisher.
Author : Frances Dallam Peter
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Release Date : 2014-07-11
ISBN 10 : 9780813148113
Pages : 257 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (148 downloads)
Download A Union Woman in Civil War Kentucky in PDF Full Online by Frances Dallam Peter and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Peter was one of the eleven children of Dr. Robert Peter, a surgeon for the Union army. The Peter family lived on Gratz Park near downtown Lexington, where nineteen-year-old Frances began recording her impressions of the Civil War. Because of illness, she did not often venture outside her home but was able to gather a remarkable amount of information from friends, neighbors, and newspapers. Peter's candid diary chronicles Kentucky's invasion by Confederates under Gen. Braxton Bragg in 1862, Lexington's month-long occupation by Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith, and changes in attitude among the slave population following the Emancipation Proclamation. As troops from both North and South took turns holding the city, she repeatedly emphasized the rightness of the Union cause and minced no words in expressing her disdain for the hated "secesh." Her writings articulate many concerns common to Kentucky Unionists. Though she was an ardent supporter of the war against the Confederacy, Peter also worried that Lincoln's use of authority exceeded his constitutional rights. Her own attitudes towards blacks were ambiguous, as was the case with many people in that time. Peter's descriptions of daily events in an occupied city provide valuable insights and a unique feminine perspective on an underappreciated aspect of the war. Until her death by epileptic seizure in August 1864, Peter conscientiously recorded the position and deportment of both Union and Confederate soldiers, incidents at the military hospitals, and stories from the countryside. Her account of a torn and divided region is a window to the war through the gaze of a young woman of intelligence and substance.
Author : Dana Gooley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-05-15
ISBN 10 : 9780190633608
Pages : 256 pages
Rating : 4.6/5 (633 downloads)
Download Fantasies of Improvisation in PDF Full Online by Dana Gooley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of keyboard improvisation in European music in the postclassical and romantic periods, Fantasies of Improvisation: Free Playing in Nineteenth-Century Music documents practices of improvisation on the piano and the organ, with a particular emphasis on free fantasies and other forms of free playing. Case studies of performers such as Abbé Vogler, J. N. Hummel, Ignaz Moscheles, Robert Schumann, Carl Loewe, and Franz Liszt describe in detail the motives, intentions, and musical styles of the nineteenth century's leading improvisers. Grounded in primary sources, the book further discusses the reception and valuation of improvisational performances by colleagues, audiences, and critics, which prompted many keyboardists to stop improvising. Author Dana Gooley argues that amidst the decline of improvisational practices in the first half of the nineteenth century there emerged a strong and influential "idea" of improvisation as an ideal or perfect performance. This idea, spawned and nourished by romanticism, preserved the aesthetic, social, and ethical values associated with improvisation, calling into question the supposed triumph of the "work."
