It is the story of the French colony of San Domingo, a place where the brutality of master toward slave was commonplace and ingeniously refined. And it is the story of a barely literate slave named Toussaint L'Ouverture, who led the black people of San Domingo in a successful struggle against successive invasions by overwhelming French, Spanish, and English forces and in the process helped form the first independent nation in the Caribbean.

    After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with similar abandon and relentless persistence, destroying European powers from Spain to Sweden as they marched on the contested soil of Germany. Fanatics, speculators, and ordinary people found themselves trapped in a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction. The Thirty Years War was a turning point in the making of modern Europe and the modern world: out of it came the system of nation-states that remains fundamental to international law. C.V. Wedgwood's magisterial book is the only comprehensive account of the war in English, as well as a triumph of scholarship and literature. Includes maps and charts.

    He predicts the re-emergence of Islam; explains how the Modern Attack is the worst threat to the Catholic Church ever.

    This famous account describes the war and Orwell’s own experiences. Introduction by Lionel Trilling.

    It contains the most extensive collection of Benjamin Franklin's autobiographical writings, much of which was long out-of-print. Also included are some fifty letters written by Franklin that were never published before.

    Protected in this manner, the manuscript survived countless rainstorms and unexpected dunkings in the ocean and rivers between Cayenne and California where Belbenoit finally managed to reach the United States and freedom in 1937.While a prisoner at Cayenne, Belbenoit was introduced to the American author Blair Niles who bought several works from Belbenoit for use in her book titled Condemned to Devil's Island. Mrs. Niles paid Belbenoit handsomely for his work and it was this money which financed the next two escape attempts Belbenoit made.Dry Guillotine, Fifteen years among the Living Dead was first published in 1938, copyright E.F. Dutton & Co and was so popularly received that 14 further printings were made in the first year of publication. Additional printings were made by Blue Ribbon Books in 1940 and the book remained incredibly popular for many years

    After six months at the Depot, they joined the 2nd Battalion at Dover. They later moved to Tidworth where the battalion was on 4 August 1914, in the 7th Brigade, 3rd Division; ten days later they were in France. There follow brilliant accounts of Mons, Le Cateau, and the retreat to the Marne, the turn of the tide and the Battle of the Aisne where his brother was killed.The battalion was involved in desperate fighting in front of Neuve Chapelle in October 1914, losing 181 killed in four days and virtually ceasing to exist, reduced to two officers and 46 men. Brought up to strength, it suffered the same fate at First Ypres.This is a superb book, one of the best written by a “ranker,” all the better for being one of the very few to describe the early battles of 1914. As a critic wrote in 1938, “it is easily the best war book written by an Irishman” – arguably still true.

    De Long, to reach the North Pole via the Bering Sea, narrated by chief engineer of the expedition, G.W. Melville.

    Invaders threatened on all fronties, but they grew to respect and fear the name of Belisarius, the Emperor Justinian's greatest general. With this book Robert Graves again demonstrates his command of a vast historical subject, creating a startling and vivid picture of a decadent era.

    Like civilization, play requires structure and participants willing to create within limits. Starting with Plato, Huizinga traces the contribution of Homo Ludens, or "Man the player" through Medieval Times, the Renaissance, and into our modern civilization. Huizinga defines play against a rich theoretical background, using cross-cultural examples from the humanities, business, and politics. Homo Ludens defines play for generations to come."A happier age than ours once made bold to call our species by the name of Homo Sapiens. In the course of time we have come to realize that we are not so reasonable after all as the Eighteenth Century with its worship of reason and naive optimism, though us; "hence moder fashion inclines to designate our species asHomo Faber Man the Maker. But though faber may not be quite so dubious as sapiens it is, as a name specific of the human being, even less appropriate, seeing that many animals too are makers. There is a third function, howver, applicable to both human and animal life, and just as important as reasoning and making--namely, playing. it seems to me that next to Homo Faber, and perhaps on the same level as Homo Sapiens, Homo Ludens, Man the Player, deserves a place in our nomenclature. "--from the Foreward, by Johan Huizinga

    A Folk History of Slavery in the United StatesFrom Interviews with Former SlavesTYPEWRITTEN RECORDS PREPARED BYTHE FEDERAL WRITERS' PROJECT,1936-1938ASSEMBLED BYTHE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PROJECTWORK PROJECTS ADMINISTRATIONFOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIASPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

    A moving, truthful historical record, it deserves to be added to the select list of outstanding accounts of the First World War.

    133 color illustrations.

    But in this classic work of Marxist scholarship, historian Harold Isaacs uncovers how workers and peasants struggled for a different kind of revolution, one built from the bottom up, in the 1920s. The defeat of their heroic efforts profoundly shaped the further course of modern Chinese history. Harold Isaacs was an acclaimed Marxist historian who identified with Leon Trotsky’s critique of the Soviet Union’s degeneration under Stalinism during the 1920s. The Tragedy, his major work, is dedicated to the “martyrs” of the 1925-1927 revolution, who fought for a truly democratic society.

    

    But in some of these maps a significant tilt brings their South-western coast close to the North of Spain, reminding us that earlier still, centuries before the making of any maps that have survived, Britain lay not outside the world but on a regular and frequented trade route which linked Mediterranean civilisation with the amber-bearing North. It was by this long sea route and not across the Dover Straits or the Channel that civilisation first reached these shores.In Cornwall, in Ireland and along the coast of Wales and Scotland cluster the monuments left by Iberian or Megalithic men who reached and peopled Britain between 3000 and 2000 A final group of such monuments in Sutherland, the last point at which their ships touched land before pushing across the North Sea to Scandinavia, makes the route and its Objective abundantly clear. At this time the land subsidence which had begun a thousand or so years earlier was still going on, and the apparently shorter and safer route up Channel and along the European coast was closed, if not by a land bridge joining Britain to the continent, then by straits that were narrow, shifting, shoaling and swept by rapid tides. This is perhaps the first reason for the settlement of Iberian man in Britain.

    He tells of the many rejoicings in Europe over the successes of the Crusaders in A.D. 1221. But little did Europe know that two decades later, the Mongol hordes organized by Genghis Khan would turn the Middle East into a heap of ruins and spread terror throughout the West.A work of enduring scholarship and literary excellence, The Mongol Empire is a classic on the rise and fall of the world's largest empire. It describes the incredible ascent of the Mongol people, which, through the political and military genius of Genghis Khan, overwhelmed and subdued the nations of most of the world. It demonstrates the transformation of barbarous nomads into the most efficient rulers of their time and describes the crumbling of their vast empire and the assumption of its legacy by the formerly subjugated China and Russia.Maurice Collis in Time and Tide said of The Mongol Empire: "It has the rare merit of being both scholarly and exciting.... The entire world comes on to his canvas, romantic and fantastical persons pass in our view, and at the conclusion we realize that we have seen the whole of what Marco Polo saw only in part." while The Observer commented, "it is a fine book, full of dramatic occasion well used, clear in proportions."

    Takes us through the highs and lows of British History.

    Morton decided to make a Christian pilgrimage from the Euphrates to the Nile, and into Sinai, and to tell the story of the Christian life of the Near East. His account describes the journey from Babylon to Baghdad, from Coptic monasteries to the churches of Rome.

    

    M. Richards. Shops include the family butcher, the cheesemonger, the knife grinder, and the oyster bar. Only 2,000 copies of the original book were printed before the lithographic plates were destroyed in the London Blitz during World War II. As a result, it has become one of the most collectible of all artist’s books from this period. This beautiful facsimile edition features Ravilious’s illustrations in exquisite color and includes an essay by V&A curator Gill Saunders, putting the book and its history into context.

    The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geography and ethnography of the known world; 7: anthropology and the physiology of man; 8-11: zoology; 12-19: botany, agriculture, and horticulture; 20-27: plant products as used in medicine; 28-32: medical zoology; 33-37: minerals (and medicine), the fine arts, and gemstones.The Loeb Classical Library edition of Natural History is in ten volumes.

    This offers the first broad treatment of the city in both its historic and its contemporary aspects.

    Regarded by historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the best selection ever made of Puritan literature, point of view and culture."

    

    The Nazi program prepared for its future by alienating children from their parents, promoting notions of racial superiority instead of science, and developing a cult of personality centered on Hitler.

    Folio, too large for scanner; photo-illustrated jacket, navy boards with gilt spine imprinting, navy endpapers, 320 pp. Fine book in a Near Fine jacket showing small-scale edge curl at top edge and a rear flap which needs re-creasing. L-flthc

    

    A fictional tale of a young explorer who accompanies Vasco da Gama on his famed first expedition to India around the Cape of Storms.Shana and Dennis sail with the Portuguese fleet on the first voyage to India.

    Watson championed the rising Populist movement at the turn of the 19th century--an interracial alliance of agricultural interests fighting the forces of industrial capitalism--his eventual frustration with politics transformed him from liberalism to racial bigotry, from popular spokesman to mob leader. Pulitzer Prize winning scholar C. Vann Woodward clearly & objectively traces the history of this enigmatic Populist leader.

    . . This is an unusual record, well worth reading."--New York Times Book Review"Mrs. Kohl has told this story of South Dakota with a simplicity, a directness, and an understanding of its quietly heroic element which make her book an appealing as well as a significant contribution to the latter-day history of the pioneers."-Saturday Review

    Out of their efforts came the American Guide series, the first comprehensive guidebooks to the people, resources, and traditions of each state in the union.The WPA Guide to Minnesota is a lively and detailed introduction to the state and its people. Much has changed since the book's first publication in 1938 when, as the authors noted, some Minnesotans could "clearly recall . . . the sight of browsing buffalo herds, and the creaking of thong-tied Red River carts." But the book vividly recaptures the era when annual fishing licenses cost fifty cents, farmers ran barn dances for motoring townfolk, Duluth was the headquarters of the Hay Fever Club of America, and the nearly new Foshay Tower loomed on the Minneapolis skyline.The guide has much more than nostalgia to offer today's readers. Twenty auto tours and six special city tours tell the stories of the state's people and places and offer a fascinating alternative to freeway travel. Essays on major themes such as native peoples, history, arts, transportation, and sports provide an authentic self-portrait of 1930s Minnesota in humorous, loving, and literary prose.This time-travelers' guide to Minnesota is an evocative reminder of the state's past and a challenge to contemporary readers who seek to find how that past lives on today.Special features include 20 road trips, 6 city tours, 15 boundary waters canoe trips, 12 maps, 22 drawings, an introduction by the renowned Midwestern writer Frederick Manfred, a chronology, and a revised bibliography.

    

    A leading figure of the Progressive movement, Altgeld improved workplace safety & child labor laws, pardoned three of the men convicted of the Haymarket Affair & rejected calls in 1894 to break up the Pullman strike with force. In 1896 he was a leader of the left wing of the Democratic Party, opposing President Grover Cleveland & the conservative Bourbon Democrats. He was defeated for reelection in 1896 in an intensely fought, bitter campaign. Originally published in 1938, this is still the best biography of John Peter Altgeld--German immigrant and enemy of orthodoxy--who became governor of Illinois and at the sacrifice of his career pardoned the Haymarket Martyrs.

    It centres on the famous Putney Debates (1647) on political liberty; and the Whitehall Debates (1648) on religious tolerance.Here are the actual words of Cromwell and Ireton, and of the Levellers Sexby, Rainborough, Wildman and Lilburne, as they were uttered in often heated argument. Selections from over fifty pamphlets and other contemporary documents outline the historical context of the discussions; and supplementary material contains the relevant principles of Calvin and Luther, of Milton and Roger Williams, of john Goodwin, William Del and other Puritan ministers, of Overton and the Levellers, and of Winstanley and the Diggers.

    Includes Leif Ericson, Columbus, John Cabot, Henry Hudson, and the Pilgrim

    A historical romance of the sixth century AD, this tells the story of Belisarius, the last of the great generals of the Roman Empire, who reconquered Africa and Italy for the emperor in Constantinople, only to be rewarded with suspicion and humiliation. Lawrence and the Arabs also tells of a military hero, but one whom Graves knew personally and who was still living when this first authorized biography was published in 1927. Both as an attempt to tell the story of the Arab Revolt and Lawrence's place in it, and as an installment in the growth of the legend of Lawrence of Arabia, it is an important historical and literary document. Read together, these books show Graves exploring the nature of heroism in a world grown profoundly suspicious of heroes.

    

    A history of the United States Navy since the Revolutionary War.Includes black & white pictures sections.After-matter includes Ships of the Navy (a listing); Bibliography and Notes; and Index.

    During the first, Hawaii was a monarchy ruled by native kings and queens. Then came the perilous transition period when new leaders, after failing to secure annexation to the United States, set up a miniature republic. The third period began in 1898 when Hawaii by annexation became American territory.The Hawaiian Kingdom, by Ralph S. Kuykendall, is the detailed story of the island monarchy. In the first volume, "Foundation and Transformation," the author gives a brief sketch of old Hawaii before the coming of the Europeans, based on the known and accepted accounts of this early period. He then shows how the arrival of sea rovers, traders, soldiers of forture, whalers, scoundrels, missionaries, and statesmen transformed the native kingdom, and how the foundations of modern Hawaii were laid.In the second volume, "Twenty Critical Years," the author deals with the middle period of the kingdom's history, when Hawaii was trying to insure her independence while world powers maneuvered for dominance in the Pacific. It was an important period with distinct and well-marked characteristics, but the noteworthy changes and advances which occurred have received less attention from students of history than they deserve. Much of the material is taken from manuscript sources and appears in print for the first time in the second volume.The third and final volume of this distinguished trilogy, "The Kalakaua Dynasty," covers the colorful reign of King Kalakaua, the Merry Monarch, and the brief and tragic rule of his successor, Queen Liliuokalani. This volume is enlivened by such controversial personages as Claus Spreckels, Walter Murray Gibson, and Celso Caesar Moreno. Through it runs the thread of the reciprocity treaty with the United States, its stimulating effect upon the island economy, and the far-reaching consequences of immigration from the Orient to supply plantation labor. The trilogy closes with the events leading to the downfall of the Hawaiian monarchy and the establishment of the Provisional Government in 1893.

    A survey of important thinkers, with an overview of one important theory from each, from Copernicus to Einstein.

    

    At publication, The Detroit News wrote: "Certainly with this book Mr. Derleth may be added to the American writers of distinction."[6]Derleth's first novel, Still is the Summer Night, was published two years later by the famous Charles Scribners' editor Maxwell Perkins, and was the second in his Sac Prairie Saga.Village Year, the first in a series of journals–meditations on nature, Midwestern village American life, and more–was published in 1941 to praise from The New York Times Book Review: "A book of instant sensitive responsiveness...recreates its scene with acuteness and beauty, and makes an unusual contribution to the Americana of the present day

    Development, influence on society, great photographers, types (portraits, war, frontier, etc.), whatever else needed. Inexhaustible. Illustrated with 322 early photos, daguerreotypes, tintypes, stereo slides, etc.

    

    

    A factual, pictorial record of the hurricane that hit New England in September 1938. The narration along with the pictures told of the devastation this hurricane wrought. The narration also told of the heroics and teamwork between volunteers, private enterprises and government. People came together to help one another.

    Both of them were by nature retiring, scholarly citizens, & withdrawn from the activities of the Hitler regime which seemed to them a temporary farce. Shortly after the Nazis took control of Cologne, they demanded that he sacrifice science to the interests of the party & he refused. He withdrew, temporarily, from the Museum, & there followed the record of indignities & petty revenge, trying to humiliate & discredit him, because, he would neither compromise with Hitler, nor leave the country. An illuminating picture of everyday atrocities, of the legal, cultural & political degeneration of a city, & of the Lips, deserted by everyone. Illuminating in the revelation of Hitler's throttle-hold over all activities. The book is a vivid protest against fascist tyranny--an interesting book to read as footnotes to the husband's The Savage Hits Back.--KirkusIntroductionPrelude in FortissimoVivace-Struggle with the LemuraeFinale-A Beginning

    

    Taking as its topic the promise and shortcomings of the democratic form of government, Tocqueville's great work is at or near the root of such political truths as the litigiousness of American society, the danger of the "tyranny of the majority," the American belief in a small government that intrudes only minimally into the daily lives of the citizenry, and Americans' love of political debate. Democracy in America is the work of a 29-year-old nobleman who, with his friend Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of Jacksonian America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. In his magisterial Tocqueville in America, George Wilson Pierson reconstructs from diaries, letters, and newspaper accounts the two Frenchmen's nine-month tour and their evolving analysis of American society. We see Tocqueville near Detroit, noting the scattered settlement patterns of the frontier and the affinity of Americans for solitude; in Boston, witnessing the jury system at work; in Philadelphia, observing the suffocating moral regimen at the new Eastern State Prison (which still stands); and in New Orleans, disturbed by the racial caste system and the lassitude of the French-speaking population.

    

    Professor Nevins has expanded & revised the original text of 1937 & offers stimulating insight into historians' methods of interpreting and presenting the past from the brilliance of Thucydides to the most recent (1962) scholarship on Europe & America.He sets apart the different approaches to history - biographical, cultural, intellectual, geographical, and political - illuminating the peculiar goals, problems, and development of each discipline. He discusses the question of pre-history and its companion science, archaeology; and he spans the history of the collection and use of records - including the mischief of "garbled" and "cheating" documents, some of which have been sources of popular myths. The Gateway to History is at once an antidote against superficiality and an intriguing example of the author's contention that "realities are seldom dull" when they are approached with an active mind and imagination.

    Baldwin recounts true sea stories of mutiny, mystery, wreck, and battle from 1816-1945.

    

    

    It contains details on the findings of her study into the lives of Germans living in Czechoslovakia during the early twentieth century. This is a fascinating work and thoroughly recommended for anyone interested in European history. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.