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1911

Lepanto: With Explanatory Notes and Commentary


G.K. Chesterton - 1911
    But not only have English classes neglected this masterpiece of rhyme and meter, History classes have neglected the story of the pivotal battle upon which the poem is based. This book brings together the poem, the historical background of the famous battle, a riveting account of the battle itself, and a discussion of its historical consequences. The poem is fully annotated, and is supplemented with two interesting essays by Chesterton himself. Well-known Chesterton expert, Dale Ahlquist, has gathered together all the insightful commentaries and explanatory notes. Here is the story behind the modern conflict between Christianity and Islam, between Protestant and Catholic Europe, and the origin of the Feast of the Holy Rosary. A fascinating blend of literature, history, religion and romance!This book can not be sold in the following countries: AUSTRALIACANADAGREAT BRITAINNEW ZEALANDSOUTH AFRICA

Where We Got The Bible: Our Debt to the Catholic Church


Henry Grey Graham - 1911
    This short treatise outlines the history of the Bible in complete, yet simple terms. Shows how the Catholic Church has determined and proclaimed through her infallible rulings just which books are actually part of Sacred Scripture, and how she has preserved and maintained the Bible throughout the centuries. A real eye-opener, especially for anyone who thinks the Bible is a Protestant book.

The Soul of the Indian


Charles Alexander Eastman - 1911
    This is a rare firsthand expression of native religion, without the filters imposed by translators or anthropologists. Rather than a scientific treatise, Eastman has written a book, "as true as I can make it to my childhood teaching and ancestral ideals, but from the human, not the ethnological standpoint." His discussions of the forms of ceremonial and symbolic worship, the unwritten scriptures, and the spirit world emphasize the universal quality and personal appeal of Native American religion.Excerpt:Thus spoke the great Seneca ora tor, Red Jacket, in his superb reply to Missionary Cram more than a century ago, and I have often heard the same thought expressed by my countrymen.

The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries


W.Y. Evans-Wentz - 1911
    This magnificent book is a collection of stories, anecdotes, and legends from all six of the regions where celtic ways have persisted in the modern world.

The Indian War of 1864


Eugene Fitch Ware - 1911
     Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado and Wyoming all suffered great depredations and saw much bloodshed through the years of the civil wars as army regiments clashed with Native American tribes. Eugene F. Ware, captain of “F” company, Seventh Iowa Cavalry, fought within this area of conflict and provides vivid insight into battles and campaigns that tore through the Midwest. "The dust, the heat, the frigid cold, can all be felt in his pages. . . . This is a vivid book." New York Herald Tribune “[He] was a superb reporter. The big country of plains and mountains spreads out in his pages, and he sketches the army and Indian camps in strong colors. There is an abundance of spirited detail ... this rich book should appeal to all western history fans." Chicago Sunday Tribune "Filled with colorful and exciting incident, as much comic and touching as it is startling and dramatic, [this] is an unforgettable chronicle of the West that has become a legend, written by a man with a vivid imagination and a gifted pen who is at the same time remarkably accurate." Salt Lake City Tribune "Ware's reminiscence convey a spacious sense of two American epics: offstage, the war between the North and the South, and, under his eyes, the broad stream of migration to the Far West, with wagon trains fifteen miles long passing by-eight or nine hundred teams of oxen a day. His book suggests the grandeur of history, and yet it is an intimate, personal communication — fresh, spirited, and delightful reading." New Yorker This book is essential reading for anyone interested in finding out more about some of the less well-known areas of conflict during the Civil War period as well as the westward expansion of the United States. Eugene F. Ware was born in 1841. His family moved to Burlington, Iowa when he was a young boy. He enlisted in an Iowa regiment at the beginning of the Civil War. He entered the regiment a private and at the end of his service in 1867 was a captain. He worked for many years as a lawyer. His book The Indian War of 1864 was first published in 1911, which was also the year in which he passed away.

Self Investment


Orison Swett Marden - 1911
    This is success, and there is no other. Orison Swett Marden Such gems of knowledge are aplenty in the author's books and these books were written long before the modern Gurus descended! 'Every Man builds his own world,makes his own atmosphere.He can fill it with difficulties,fears,doubts and despair and gloom,so that the whole life will be influenced to gloom and disaster:or he can keep the atmosphere clear,transparent and sweet by dispelling every gloomy,envious malicious thought.Hold the enduring,the immortal thought in the mind,and discord will disappear.'This is the train of thought running through out this Book,seeking in every word and every page of the Book,Investment in one's own Self.As valid today as it was seventy years back when the Book was written.

The Defence of Plevna, 1877; Written by One Who Took Part in It


Frederick William von Herbert - 1911
    Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... APPENDIX C TURKISH AND OTHER WORDS USED IN GEOGRAPHICAL NOMENCLATURE, IN THE COMPOSITION OF PROPER NAMES AND NICKNAMES, OR OTHERWISE EMPLOYED IN THIS VOLUME A. --Arabic; B. = Bulgarian; P. = Persian; Rou. = Roumanian; Ru. = Russian; = Servian. Where no indication is given, the word belongs to the Turkish language. Al1d (A.); servant Abdul (A.); tho Arabic proper names commencing with Abdul signify ' the servant of God, ' the Deity being named by some attribute; for instance, Abdul Rahman, the servant of the Merciful Abdullah (A.); the servant of God Ada; island Aga; official, master; also a title given to officials and officers of low rank, which in Arabic precedes the name, in Turkish follows it Agach; tree Agrisi; pain Ak; white Akbar (A.); great Alai; regiment Alaili; trooper; also an officer who has risen from the ranks Araba; cart Arabji; train soldier Ashaga; lower Aziz; beloved Baba; father Bagh; vineyard Baghche; garden Baghlctrbashi; summit of the vineyards Bair; hill Bakal; grocer Bakshish; alms, beer-money Bash; head Bash agrisi; headache Bash chawush; head sergeant Bashi; ace. sing, of bash, head, expressing possession: for instance, bitibashi, a man who possesses 1,000 heads, i.e. a major. (The numerals are followed by the noun in the singular) Bashi Bazouk; madman. (See Note 28, p. 445) Bazar; market, mart Beirak; standard, banner Beirakdar; standard-bearer Bey; lord; also a title given to

Historical Atlas


William Robert Shepherd - 1911
    

The Sisters of Lady Jane Grey and Their Wicked Grandfather: Being the True Stories of the Strange Lives of Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk, and of the Ladies Katherine and Mary Grey, Sisters of Lady Jane Grey, the "Nine Days' Queen"


Richard Patrick Boyle Davey - 1911
    The sad fate of these unfortunate princesses has paled before that of their more famous sister, Lady Jane Grey, who, although the heroine of an appalling tragedy, was rather the victim of others than of her own actions. In a sense, she was merely a lay-figure, whereas her sisters, especially Lady Katherine, who played an active part on the stage of history at a later period of life, and possessed an unusually strong personality, were entirely swayed by the most interesting of human passions—love. Lady Katherine was literally " done to death "by her infatuation for the young Earl of Hertford, the eldest son of that Protector Somerset who suffered death under Edward VI. The feline cruelty with which Queen Elizabeth tormented Lady Katherine, after the clandestine marriage with her lover was revealed, called forth the freely expressed condemnation of Chief Secretary Cecil, who denounced his royal mistress's harshness in no measured terms.(from the preface)

A History of the Jews


Paul Goodman - 1911
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The Jews And Modern Capitalism


Werner Sombart - 1911
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On the Trail of Grant and Lee


Frederick Trevor Hill - 1911
    Grant and Robert E. Lee. A table of contents is included.

The Lewis Chessmen and the Enigma of the Hoard


Neil Stratford - 1911
    Carved from walrus tusks, the Lewis chessmen have been described as the greatest chessmen of the European Middle Ages.

H. D. and the Victorian Fin de Si�cle: Gender, Modernism, Decadence


Cassandra Laity - 1911
    and the Victorian Fin de Si�cle argues that the twentieth-century American woman poet H.D. shaped an alternative poetic modernism of female desire from the feminine personae, images and forms of Decadent Romanticism that male modernists such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and W.B. Yeats denounced as effeminate. The book is the first examination of female modernism to demonstrate extensively the impact of the Decadents and their fluid poetics of androgyny, homoeroticism and role reversal on a modernist woman writer.

The Omaha Tribe, Volume 1


Alice C. Fletcher - 1911
    First published in 1911 as a report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, this classic treatise is based on twenty-nine years of study and observation in the field. "Nothing has been borrowed from other observers," Alice C. Fletcher asserts. "Only original material gathered directly from the native people has been used, and the writer has striven to make so far as possible the Omaha his own interpreter."Volume I is devoted to tribal origins and early history, beliefs about the environment, rites pertaining to the individual, tribal organization and government, the sacred pole, and the quest for food. Volume II, also available as a Bison Book, considers language, social life, music, religion, warfare, treatment of disease, and death and burial customs.

An Army Nurse in the Civil War (Abridged, Annotated)


Adelaide W. Smith - 1911
    Excerpt from Reminiscences of an Army Nurse: During the Civil WarAt the risk of some slight repetition, it has been thought best to include Recollections of Lincoln and Love in Camp practically as they were when published separately.

Two Noble Lives: Samuel Gridley Howe And Julia Ward Howe (1911)


Laura Elizabeth Richards - 1911
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The Omaha Tribe, Volume 2


Alice C. Fletcher - 1911
    The first volume covered tribal origins and early history, organization and government, various beliefs and rites, and food gathering.

From Constantinople to the Home of Omar Khayyam: Travels in Transcaucasia and Northern Persia for Historic and Literary Research


A.V. Williams Jackson - 1911
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The Spartan


Caroline Dale Snedeker - 1911
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The Amazing Emperor Heliogabalus


John Stuart Hay - 1911
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The People's Princess: A Memorial


Katrina Fried - 1911
    

The Cambridge Medieval History Collection


John Bagnell Bury - 1911
    The Cambridge Medieval History Collection is a fantastic and comprehensive history of medieval Europe. Featuring: Volume 1 - THE CHRISTIAN ROMAN EMPIRE AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE TEUTONIC KINGDOMSVolume 2 - THE RISE OF THE SARACENS AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE WESTERN EMPIREVolume 3 - GERMANY AND THE WESTERN EMPIREVolume 4 - THE EASTERN ROMAN EMPIREandVolume 5 - THE CONTEST OF EMPIRE AND PAPACY

George Augustus Selwyn; Pioneer Bishop of New Zealand


F.W. Boreham - 1911
    W. Partridge Subjects: Selwyn, George Augustus, 1809-1878 Clergy -- New Zealand Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

A History Of Wales From The Earliest Times To The Edwardian Conquest: V1


John Edward Lloyd - 1911
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