Ambedkar’s Annihilation of Caste is one of the most important, yet neglected, works of political writing from India. Written in 1936, it is an audacious denunciation of Hinduism and its caste system. Ambedkar – a figure like W.E.B. Du Bois – offers a scholarly critique of Hindu scriptures, scriptures that sanction a rigidly hierarchical and iniquitous social system. The world’s best-known Hindu, Mahatma Gandhi, responded publicly to the provocation. The hatchet was never buried.

    It charts the path from feudalism to capitalism, and then looks beyond capitalism to a perceived socialist future. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Contents Include: - From Feudalism To Capitalism - Prayers, Fighters and Workers - Enter The Trader - Going To Town - New Ideas For Old - The Peasant Bursts His Bonds - "And No Stranger Shall Work In The Said Trade." - Here Comes The King! - "Rich Man." - ".Poor Man, Beggar Man, Thief" - Help Wanted, Two Year Olds May Apply - "Gold, Greatness, And Glory" - Let Us Alone! - "The Old Order Changeth." - From Capitalism To? - Where Did The Money Come From? - Revolution In Industry, Agriculture, Transport - "The Seed Ye Sow, Another Reaps." - Whose "Natural Laws"? - "Working Men of All Countries, Unite!" - "I Would Annex The Planets If I Could." - The Weakest Link - Russia Has A Plan - Will They Give Up The Sugar?

    Beautifully illustrated in full color. Recommended in Laura Berquist Syllabus Grades 2, 3 and 4 Author: Edgar D Aulaire Grade: 1-6 Pages: 60, Paperback Publisher: Beautiful Feet Books ISBN: 0-9643803-1-5

    Amazingly, he completed the task in an intense six weeks, and Eine kurze Weltgeschichte für junge Leser was published in Vienna to immediate success, and is now available in seventeen languages across the world. Toward the end of his long life, Gombrich embarked upon a revision and, at last, an English translation. A Little History of the World presents his lively and involving history to English-language readers for the first time. Superbly designed and freshly illustrated, this is a book to be savored and collected. In forty concise chapters, Gombrich tells the story of man from the stone age to the atomic bomb. In between emerges a colorful picture of wars and conquests, grand works of art, and the spread and limitations of science. This is a text dominated not by dates and facts, but by the sweep of mankind's experience across the centuries, a guide to humanity's achievements and an acute witness to its frailties. The product of a generous and humane sensibility, this timeless account makes intelligible the full span of human history.

    Sent to France with the Royal Flying Corps at just 17, and later a member of the famous 56 Squadron, Cecil Lewis was an illustrious and passionate fighter pilot of World War I, described by Bernard Shaw in 1935 as "a thinker, a master of words, and a bit of a poet." In this vivid and spirited account the author evocatively sets his love of the skies and flying against his bitter experience of the horrors of war, as we follow his progress from France and the battlefields of the Somme, to his pioneering defense of London against deadly nighttime raids.

    Like many of the Irish, O'Malley was largely indifferent to the attempts to establish an independent Ireland until the Easter Rising of 1916. As the fight progressed his feelings changed and he joined the Irish Republican Army."

    This is an autobiographical book in which Corneliu Zelea Codreanu expressed his political and spiritual ideaology as well as explained the struggles and persecution of his Legionary movement in Romania.

    Stewart's history of the Donner Party is “compulsive reading ??—?? a wonderful account, both scholarly and gripping, of horrifying episode in the history of the west" (Pulitzer Prize-winner Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.)The tragedy of the Donner party constitutes one of the most amazing stories of the American West. In 1846 eighty-seven people ??—?? men, women, and children ??—?? set out for California, persuaded to attempt a new overland route. After struggling across the desert, losing many oxen, and nearly dying of thirst, they reached the very summit of the Sierras, only to be trapped by blinding snow and bitter storms. Many perished; some survived by resorting to cannibalism; all were subjected to unbearable suffering. Incorporating the diaries of the survivors and other contemporary documents, George R. Stewart wrote the definitive history of that ill-fated band of pioneers. Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party is an astonishing account of what human beings may endure and achieve in the final press of circumstance.

    Fiction crafted with documentary accuracy, they vividly render the gradual spiritual collapse of the simple, homely sufficiency of American life in the face of sudden unemployment, desperate poverty and hopelessness. They catch the mood of a generation �sucked into indifference’ and of young men who no longer �believe in man or God, let alone private industry’. Martha was the youngest of a squad of sixteen, handpicked reporters who were paid to file accurate, confidential reports on the human stories behind the statistics of the Depression directly to Roosevelt’s White House. In these pages, we understand the real cost of sudden destitution on a vast scale. We taste the dust in the mouth, smell the disease and feel the hopelessness and the despair. And here, too, we can hear the earliest cadences of the voice of a writer who went on to become, arguably, the greatest female war reporter of the 20th century.

    Love has not always taken such precedence, however, and it was in fact not until the eleventh century that French poets first began to express the romantic species of passion which English poets were still writing about in the nineteenth century. This book is intended for students of medieval literature from A-level upwards. Anyone interested in the "Courtly Love" tradition. Fans of C.S. Lewis's writings.

    Lovejoy points out the three principles - plenitude, continuity, and graduation - which were combined in this conception; analyzes their origins in the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and the Neoplatonists; traces the most important of their diverse ramifications in subsequent religious thought, in metaphysics, in ethics and aesthetics, and in astronomical and biological theories; and copiously illustrates the influence of the conception as a whole, and of the ideas out of which it was compounded, upon the imagination and feelings as expressed in literature.

    It includes Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, St. Thomas More, Cranmer, Calvin, Mary Tudor ("Bloody Mary"), Mary Stuart ("Queen of Scots"), Cardinal Richelieu and many others--23 in all--analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, motives and mistakes and showing how this or that seemingly insignificant factor actually changed the course of history. An amazing book!

    The noted author and scholar Edith Hamilton, presents a guide to the prophets of the Old Testament for the modern reader.

    The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria.' - The Evening Standard

    Examines the development of fascism in Germany and Italy and its relationship with the ruling capitalist families there.

    But according to Ramon Adams, cowboys, once among themselves, enjoyed a vivid, often boisterous repartee. You might say that around a campfire they could make more noise than “a jackass in a tin barn.” Here in one volume is a complete guide to cowboy-speak. Like many of today’s foreign language guides, this handy book is organized not alphabetically but situationally, lest you find yourself in Texas at a loss for words. There are sections on the ranch, the cowboy’s duties, riding equipment, the roundup, roping, branding, even square dancing. There are words and phrases you’ll recognize because they’ve filtered into everyday language — “blue lightnin’,” “star gazin’,” “the whole shebang” — plus countless others that, sadly, are seldom heard in current speech: “lonely as a preacher on pay night,” “restless as a hen on a hot griddle,” “crooked as a snake in a cactus patch.” As entertaining as it is authoritative, COWBOY LINGO captures the living speech of the Great Plains and serves as a window into the soul of the American West.

    She realized that the mass politics of socialism necessarily suppressed individual freedom. America was founded on a different principle: individuals should take responsibility for their own lives. On this principle, America became the wealthiest of all nations and the hope of the world. The New Deal of 1933 struck against American individualism, substituting for it the tired collectivist programs of Europe. In Give Me Liberty, originally published in 1936, Lane called for a return to American individualism and a repudiation of the New Deal. (Free download at Mises.org.)

    

    It was published in the United States from 1936 to 1966, during the Jim Crow era when discrimination against non-whites was widespread. African-American travelers faced a variety of dangers and inconveniences, ranging from white-owned businesses refusing to serve them (or repair their vehicles), to being refused accommodation or food, or even threats of physical violence and forcible expulsion from whites-only "sundown towns". New York mailman and travel agent Victor H. Green published The Negro Motorist Green Book to tackle such problems and "to give the Negro traveler information that will keep him from running into difficulties, embarrassments and to make his trip more enjoyable. From a New York-focused first edition published in 1936, it expanded to cover much of North America including most of the United States and part of Canada, Mexico and Bermuda. The Green Book became "the bible of black travel during Jim Crow", enabling black travelers to find lodgings, businesses and gas stations that would serve them along the road. Outside the African-American community, however, it was little known. It fell into obscurity after it ceased publication shortly after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed the types of racial discrimination that had made the book necessary. Interest in it has revived in recent years in connection with studies of black travel during the Jim Crow era.

    Starting more than 340,000 years ago, when man's ability to make a fire and fashion stone tools helped him to survive among the wild beasts, it traces his development as a food producer, the emergence of cities and states, the rise of foreign trade, and the urban revolution. Contents include: Chronological Table for Egypt and Mesopotamia, Human and Natural History, Organic Evolution and Cultural Progress, Time Scales, Food Gatherers, the Neolithic Revolution, Prelude to the Second Revolution, the Urban Revolution, the Revolution in Human Knowledge, the Acceleration and Retardation of Progress.

    Told by the Jesuit priest, Fr. Wilfrid Parson, these stories are based upon cases he had seen himself or that had been described to him personally by the people who had undergone the atrocities of those times. Though most contemporary readers don t know it, a full-fledged persecution of the Church, with thousands of martyrdoms, took place in modern times, just south of our own border including the famous Jesuit priest, Fr. Miguel Pro, was martyred before a firing squad during this persecution. Between the conquest of Mexico by Cortes in 1521, and the Mexican Independence from Spain in 1821, Spain created in Mexico a great Catholic civilization to rival that of any nation in Europe. But when the Great Mexican Revolution began in 1810, this flourishing country began to wither and die. That Revolution was not to end until 1928, with the end of the brutal rule of President Plutarco Elias Calles, though in many ways it continues still. The heroic resistance of Mexican Catholics during this persecution is a great inspiration to Catholics today. Mexican Martyrdom proves that hatred for the Catholic Church exists even in our times and can still flare into open and bloody persecution in this so-called enlightened age.

    Armstrong wrote most of the biographical material, which is of a different nature and scope than that of his other, later autobiography, Satchmo: My Life in New Orleans (also published by Da Capo). Satchmo covers in intimate detail Armstrong's life until his 1922 move to Chicago; but Swing That Music also covers his days on Chicago's South Side with "King" Oliver, his courtship and marriage to Lil Hardin, his 1929 move to New York, the formation of his own band, his European tours, and his international success. One of the most earnest justifications ever written for the new style of music then called "swing" but more broadly referred to as "Jazz," Swing That Music is a biography, a history, and an entertainment that really "swings."

    Describes town & country life, art, language, religion, more.

    

    "Wrangler" 2. Two Bakeries 3. "An Incident in the Life of Makar" 4. The Village Shop * The Railway Night Watchman * "The Song of the Old Oak" * Wanderings * The First Story * Yegudil Khlamida * Fame * Metekh Castle and the Nizhni-Novgorod Gaol * Nightingales and Spies * On the Stage of the Art Theatre * Three Revolutions * Writer and Fighter

    The outcome was that Leonard Woolley and T.E. Lawrence were employed to record archaeological remains alongside military surveyors in the Gaza region, through the Negev Desert to southern Jordan. In a mere six weeks, during January and February 1914, the two archaeologists covered large tracts of the desert wilderness studying monuments of numerous periods from the prehistoric to the Islamic. By the end of 1914, the work was written up and ready for publication by the Palastine Exploration Fund in 1915.

    A history of the Western World 1837-1936.

    

    Chapters include: The affair at Little Bohemia, Personal history, The Kansas City Massacre, The history of the F.B.I., The terrible Touhys, Mrs. Clara Czech, Basil Banghart and Icewagon Connors, and other celebrities, The business of crime, Kidnaping, Kidnapers and murderers, The capture of Volney Davis, The causes of crime, The career of John Dillinger, The Robinson case, Pretty-boy Floyd, The special agent, Three years in Chicago, The capture of Dillinger, and The trail of Dillinger.

    

    This volume is the classic sequel to I'll Take My Stand, the famous defense of the South's agrarian traditions.

    It shows the relationship of liberalism to the emerging economic system of capitalism, and the impact of this relationship upon science, philosophy, and literature. Laski explains how the same causes which produced the socially active aspect of liberalism also inspired the growth of socialism. The contributions of men like Machiavelli, Locke, and Voltaire, the influence of the voyages of discovery, and the effect of the Puritan Rebellion are among the special topics discussed.The Rise of European Liberalism is a historical survey of the development of liberal thought, from its earliest whispers in early Protestantism to its significance in the "Red Decade" of the 1930s. Laski argues that liberalism as a philosophy came into existence with the rise of capitalism and thus functions primarily as an ideological defense of private property in a business civilization. Hence, liberalism's progressive side is doomed to defeat because, throughout its history, the bourgeois nature of the ideology has always prevailed.In the new introduction, John Stanley traces the history and influences of Laski's thought and provides a detailed analysis of Laski's work. The essay provides a coherent study in itself of why Laski is better remembered than widely read. The Rise of European Liberalism is a classic text that deserves rediscovery for historians, philosophers, sociologists, and political scientists of the present day.

    A true story of a brutal death that reads like a novel.

    Preface to the 4th EditionAmerica the stakes of European diplomacy 1491-1775The French Alliance 1775-78Spain, the Netherlands & the Armed Neutrality 1779-81The peace of independence 1782-83The diplomatic efforts of the Confederation 1783-89George Washington and foreign policy 1789-97The first breakdown of neutrality: the French imbroglio 1797-1800The procurement of Louisiana 1800-03The 2nd breakdown of neutrality: neutral rights & impressment 1803-12Diplomacy of the War of 1812 & its aftermath 1812-16The Florida question & the transcontinental treaty with Spain 1803-23The independence of Latin America & the Monroe Doctrine 1821-23Mexico & Texas 1823-45The Mexican War; the Isthmian question 1845-59The northeast boundary & the Webster-Ashburton Treaty 1783-1842Oregon 1776-1871Claims & commerce 1815-61The Whig interlude 1849-53Slavery & diplomacy 1853-61The Near East, the Pacific & the Far East 1783-1868The Civil War 1861-67The Monroe Doctrine; expansion after the Civil War 1823-72The great Anglo-American arbitrations 1870-1914The Cuban question & the war with Spain 1868-98The islands of the mid-Pacific 1875-99The great aberration of 1898The Open Door & the Far East 1899-1914Cuba & Panama 1899-1939Development of the Panama Policy in the Caribbean & Central America 1902-36Mexico 1867-1955Africa & Europe 1884-1914Neutrality Again 1914-17The 1st World War & the peace settlement 1917-21The great debate & the separate peace 1919-36Oriental immigration 1850-1914 & the problem of the Pacific 1914-21The Washington & London naval treaties 1921-36The United States & Europe 1921-37Economics & diplomacy 1860-1950EpilogueIndexMaps