James D. Hornfischer 
Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors [EPUB ebook] 

Published in 1994: The period surveyed in this anthology extends from the eve of Christianity»s triumph, in the third century, to the new age of expansion in the fifteenth century, an age marked by …

First published in 1994, Kidnappers in Philadelphia: Isaac Hopper»s Tales of Oppression 1780-1843 collates Isaac Hoppers original tales. Complementing the original seventy-nine compiled narratives, …

The stories we read as children are the ones that stay with us the longest, and from the nineteenth century until the 1950s stories about schools held a particular fascination. Many will remember the …

‘Pakistan: 1992 is the inaugural volume of a prospective series of biennial assessments of contemporary events and issues in Pakistan affairs. In general, the series will cover issues relevant to Pak …

Filling an important gap in a neglected area of Russian history, namely the 1880s and early 1890s, this volume, originally published in 1987, examines the labour movement from the perspective of the …

The Sociology of Greed examines crises in financial institutions such as banks from the vantage point of the greed of the people at their helm. It offers an intensive analysis of the banking crises u …

Turkey»s Circassians were exiled to the Ottoman Empire in the wake of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus in 1864, resettling most notably in the Danubian provinces, Thessaly, Syria, Central Anatol …

Published in 1997, this is a translation of the Intnerarium Peregrinorum et Gesta Regis Ricardi, »The Itenerary of the Pilgrims and the deeds of King Richard, ’ based on the edition produced in 1864 …

This volume explores the process of social changes which unfolded in rural society of early medieval Bengal, especially the formation of stratified land relations and occupational groups which later …

A Short History of the French Revolution is an up-to-date survey of the French Revolution and Napoleonic era that introduces readers to the origins and events of this turbulent period in French histo …