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1953

A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City: A Diary


Marta Hillers - 1953
    The anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.

The Captive Mind


Czesław Miłosz - 1953
    The second chapter considers the way in which the West was seen at the time by residents of Central and Eastern Europe, while the third outlines the practice of Ketman, the act of paying lip service to authority while concealing personal opposition, describing seven forms applied in the people's democracies of mid-20th century Europe.The four chapters at the heart of the book then follow, each a portrayal of a gifted Polish man who capitulated, in some fashion, to the demands of the Communist state. They are identified only as Alpha, the Moralist; Beta, The Disappointed Lover; Gamma, the Slave of History; and Delta, the Troubadour. However, each of the four portraits were easily identifiable: Alpha is Jerzy Andrzejewski, Beta is Tadeusz Borowski, Gamma is Jerzy Putrament and Delta is Konstanty Ildefons Gałczyński.The book moves toward its climax with an elaboration of "enslavement through consciousness" in the penultimate chapter and closes with a pained and personal assessment of the fate of the Baltic nations in particular.

The Worldly Philosophers


Robert L. Heilbroner - 1953
    In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas—namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines.In a bold new concluding chapter entitled “The End of the Worldly Philosophy?” Heilbroner reminds us that the word “end” refers to both the purpose and limits of economics. This chapter conveys a concern that today’s increasingly “scientific” economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future. (amazon.com)

The Sacred Pipe: Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux


Black Elk - 1953
    Shortly before his death in August, 1950, when he was the "keeper of the sacred pipe," he said, "It is my prayer that, through our sacred pipe, and through this book in which I shall explain what our pipe really is, peace may come to those peoples who can understand, and understanding which must be of the heart and not of the head alone. Then they will realize that we Indians know the One true God, and that we pray to Him continually."Black Elk was the only qualified priest of the older Oglala Sioux still living when The Sacred Pipe was written. This is his book: he gave it orally to Joseph Epes Brown during the latter's eight month's residence on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where Black Elk lived. Beginning with the story of White Buffalo Cow Woman's first visit to the Sioux to give them the sacred pip~, Black Elk describes and discusses the details and meanings of the seven rites, which were disclosed, one by one, to the Sioux through visions. He takes the reader through the sun dance, the purification rite, the "keeping of the soul," and other rites, showing how the Sioux have come to terms with God and nature and their fellow men through a rare spirit of sacrifice and determination.The wakan Mysteries of the Siouan peoples have been a subject of interest and study by explorers and scholars from the period of earliest contact between whites and Indians in North America, but Black Elk's account is without doubt the most highly developed on this religion and cosmography. The Sacred Pipe, published as volume thirty-six in the Civilization of the American Indian Series, will be greeted enthusiastically by students of comparative religion, ethnologists, historians, philosophers, and everyone interested in American Indian life.

The First 2,000 Years: From Adam To Abraham


W. Cleon Skousen - 1953
    329 pages with index, charts.

The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot


Russell Kirk - 1953
    Buckley, Jr.Russell Kirk's The Conservative Mind is one of the greatest contributions to twentieth-century American conservatism. Brilliant in every respect, from its conception to its choice of significant figures representing the history of intellectual conservatism, The Conservative Mind launched the modern American Conservative Movement when it was first published in 1953 and has become an enduring classic of political thought.The seventh revised edition features the complete text and an introduction by publisher Henry Regency.A must-read.

The First and the Last


Adolf Galland - 1953
    Now he offers an insider's look at the division's triumphs in Poland and France and the last desperate battle to save the Reich. "The clearest picture yet of how the Germans lost their war in the air".--Time. Illustrations. (War History)

Seven Years in Tibet


Heinrich Harrer - 1953
    Recounts how the author, an Austrian, escaped from an English internment camp in India in 1943 and spent the next seven years in Tibet, observing its social practices, religion, politics, and people.

The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy's View of History


Isaiah Berlin - 1953
    The masterly essay on Tolstoy's view of history, in which Sir Isaiah underlines a fundamental distinction between those people (foxes) who are fascinated by the infinite variety of things and those (hedgehogs) who relate everything to a central, all-embracing system.

The Reason Why: The Story of the Fatal Charge of the Light Brigade


Cecil Woodham-Smith - 1953
    In this fascinating study, Cecil Woodham-Smith shows that responsibility for the fatal mismanagement of the affair rested with the Earls of Cardigan and Lucan, brothers-in-law and sworn enemies for more than thirty years. In revealing the combination of pride and obstinacy that was to prove so fatal, the author gives us a picture of a vanished world, in which heroism and military glory guaranteed an immortality impossible in a more cynical age.

Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage


Ruth Painter Randall - 1953
    As its title implies, not only is it a full-length portrait of Mary Todd Lincoln but, in reality, a double biography of Abraham and his hitherto misunderstood and much maligned wife.” Harry J. Carman, The American Historical Review Many people in history have claimed that Abraham Lincoln never loved Mary Todd Lincoln, and that in fact his love was focused upon Anne Rutledge. They have claimed that his wife hurt him politically though she drove him to the Presidency, that she embarrassed him financially as well as socially and inflicted on him the agony of adjustment to her psychopathic personality. Yet, is there any truth to any of these claims? Ruth Painter Randall’s brilliant biography of Mary and Abraham Lincoln sheds new light upon their marriage and dispels the myths that have surrounded it. By using a huge quantity of material, including long-lost telegrams and letters, Randall has reconstructed what the marriage was truly like and provided a picture of Mary Lincoln without any prejudice or unsupported evidence. This book rehabilitates the reputation of Mary Lincoln and deserves to be read by all those who wish to find the truth about the remarkable relationship between Mary and her husband and the impact that she made on him throughout his years in office. “Never has such a story seemed better worth telling or better told.” Saturday Review "Out of the most searching scrutiny ever leveled on the Lincolns' family affairs comes the picture of a tempestuous yet essentially happy marriage." New York Herald Tribune "This is a very moving book. It is also a nice example of what a first-rate historian can do with a difficult subject." The New Yorker "It is a book that can be recommended without reservation: A combination of profound research and fine prose style, it meets both the requirements of the Lincoln scholar and the casual reader who is looking for a truly fascinating story." San Francisco Chronicle "A miracle of sound scholarship, graceful writing, and feminine understanding." Chicago Sunday Tribune ". . . documented fact far more absorbing than any fiction that has lately come my way." Christian Science Monitor “A passionate defense of Mary Lincoln and a revelation conclusively documented of a marriage rooted in unremitting devotion and mutual love.” Kirkus Review “a vivid portrayal of mid-nineteenth-century life in Illinois and at Washington, as it confronted a sensitive, warm-hearted, cultivated, ill-balanced personality eventually thrust into an environment beyond her powers of understanding or of self-control.” Jeannette P. Nichols, The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography Ruth Painter Randall was an American biographer who focused upon the lives of the Lincoln family. Her other books include Lincoln's Sons and Colonel Elmer Ellsworth: a biography of Lincoln's friend and first hero of the Civil War. Mary Lincoln: Biography of a Marriage was first published in 1953 and Randall passed away in 1971.

Pokok-pokok Gerilya: dan Pertahanan Republik Indonesia di Masa Lalu dan Yang Akan Datang


Abdul Haris Nasution - 1953
    This book was based on Nasution's own experiences fighting and organizing guerrilla warfare during the Indonesian War of Independence. Originally released in 1953, it would become one of the most studied books on guerrilla warfare along with Mao Zedong's works on the same subject matter.

Exploration Fawcett


Percy Harrison Fawcett - 1953
    For 10 years, he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of a "lost" cities; convinced he knew the location of one, he headed off for the last time--never to be heard from again. The thrilling story of what occurred during that time has now been compiled by his son from manuscripts, letters, and logbooks. What happened to him after remains a mystery. "...should be read by everyone."--Daily Telegraph.

The Latter Days At Colditz


P.R. Reid - 1953
    The thrilling sequel to the international bestseller THE COLDITZ STORY.

Writings of Abraham Lincoln


Abraham Lincoln - 1953
    As an outspoken opponent of the expansion of slavery in the United States, Lincoln won the Republican Party nomination in 1860 and was elected president later that year. During his term, he helped preserve the United States by leading the defeat of the secessionist Confederate States of America in the American Civil War. He introduced measures that resulted in the abolition of slavery, issuing his Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and promoting the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865."

Saints of the American Wilderness: The Brave Lives and Holy Deaths of the Eight North American Martyrs


John Anthony O'Brien - 1953
    French priests enter a war zone where captured Westerners are paraded before their captors, tortured, and then beheaded. Their desecrated bodies get dumped by the roadside. Iraq in 2007? The Gaza Strip? Western Afghanistan? No. A place more dangerous: Canada in the 1600s. On rivers and in forests, Iroquois slaughter Huron and Europeans kill for land and power. It s a landscape of blood and horror whose viciousness eclipses the terrorism that shocks us today. Into this iniquitous land go dozens of stouthearted Jesuits, the purest examples of Roman Catholic virtue our Western continent has ever seen. Their purpose? To baptize souls and preach the gospel to savages whose degraded, vicious lives cry out for the light of Christ. Many of these Jesuits were murdered, and today eight of them are saints. Six were priests: Isaac Jogues, Jean de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant, Antoine Daniel, Charles Garnier, and Noel Chabanel; two were lay assistants: Rene Goupil and Jean Lalande. They are the Jesuit Martyrs of North America, and this is their story. From letters these brave men wrote to their superiors by the light of Indian campfires or while skimming lovely waters in swift canoes, John A. O Brien has crafted the terrifying, inspiring, and true tale of the dangerous struggle they engaged in for enormous stakes: the salvation of countless souls mired in darkness. O Brien shows that in the best of times, these good men were surrounded by lasciviousness, pandemonium and demonic rituals. Bad times brought bloody war, upraised tomahawks, the shrieks of victims, and knowledge that their superstitious hosts might turn against them without warning, and bury a tomahawk in their skull. Patient, charitable, and heedless of their own lives, these eight Jesuits spoke constantly of Jesus, baptized thousands, and even in the shadow of death brought them the consoling graces of the Sacraments. Between times they cared for souls dying of smallpox, cleaned festering wounds, and day in and day out returned love for hatred, blessings for curses, and prayers for abuse. Ultimately, all were murdered. Some died from a sudden blow; the rest were mutilated and tortured until, with forgiveness in their hearts and Jesus name on their lips, they died in flames their persecutors had set around them. Saints of the American Wilderness tells of these good men who sought nothing less than the conversion of a continent. Their zeal won for them the imperishable crown of martyrdom and sanctified with their holy blood the soil of North America. Truly, they are models for those who would be saints in bloody times like ours.

The Wild Place


Kathryn Hulme - 1953
    They were the human reckage of World War II - the displaced persons.Waiting to receive them was a handful of workers dedicated to one of humanity's most gigantic tasks - the resettlement of more than two million people without a country

Early Christian Fathers (Library of Christian Classics)


Cyril Charles Richardson - 1953
    Through these works--each written prior to the end of the sixteenth century--contemporary readers are able to engage the ideas that have shaped Christian theology and the church through the centuries.

It All Started with Columbus: Being an Unexpurgated, Unabridged, and Unlikely History of the United States from Christopher Columbus to Richard M. Nixon...


Richard Armour - 1953
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Boldness Be My Friend


Richard Pape - 1953
    Stirling bomber goes on a special mission to destroy Goering's residence which is used as operational headquarters for the air defence of Berlin. His aircraft, after the operation has been successfully accomplished, is shot down. Wounded, he is hunted across Holland, joins the Dutch underground and is captured in Leyden waiting to be taken off by a British submarine.The description of the Berlin raid, the last moments of the aircraft and the pursuit across Holland are among the best dramatic passages to come out of the war. But this is only the beginning of the most fantastic tale, which, interspersed with intrigue and violence, with setbacks and recapture, takes Pape across the breadth of German-occupied Europe; to Poland and Czechoslovakia; to Austria and Hungary and almost to the Yugoslav partisans.

Rockets, Missiles & Space Travel


Willy Ley - 1953
    A history of rockets from prehistoric times to the (then) present day, and of ideas about the possibilities of space travel past and present.

A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen


Daniel C. Blum - 1953
    334 Page,Year by Year pictoriaj History of the Silent Screen.

A History of France


André Maurois - 1953
    

The Retrial of Joan of Arc: The Evidence for Her Vindication


Régine Pernoud - 1953
    Written by the renowned French historian, Regine Pernoud, it uses extensive excerpts from the people who actually knew Joan, bringing to life this great woman and her powerful story.The whole tremendous and fascinating historical story is told here by her childhood playmates and relatives, her royal and noble friends, her confessor, her valet, her squires and heralds, and her fellow soldiers.Included also are excerpts from some of her enemies: their presence here lends even a more powerful authenticity to her story than if we had only heard from her friends and supporters.As we follow Pernoud through her remarkably clear, detailed tracing of this history told by living tongues, weaving the testimonies together, we begin to share with her the experience of those men who were making the investigation of Joan. Pernoud's method is direct and knowledgeable, and dedicated to the discovery and presentation of the mystical truth.

Garet Garrett's The People's Pottage: The Revolution Was, Ex America, The Rise of Empire


Garet Garrett - 1953
    

The Making of the Middle Ages


Richard William Southern - 1953
    Southern describes the chief forms of social, political & religious organization.

The Mainspring of Human Progress


Henry Grady Weaver - 1953
    It throws light on many problems plaguing the postwar world, and traces them back to the age-old conflict between Pagan Fatalism and Christian Freedom. Weaver's classic work remains one of the finest discussions of the impact of business on society and shows how the real story of American business can and should be told. For anyone who believes that human liberty is the mainspring of progress, this book discusses highly controversial subjects and leads to certain conclusions that are contrary to much of present-day thinking.

Indian Removal: The Emigration of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians


Grant Foreman - 1953
    Originally published in 1932, on the date of the hundredth anniversary of the arrival in Oklahoma of the first Indians as a result of the United States government’s relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes, Indian Removal remains today the definitive book in its field.The forcible uprooting and expulsion of the 60,000 Indians comprising the Five Civilized Tribes, including the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Cherokee, and Seminole, unfolded a story without parallel in the history of the United States. For more than a decade thousands of tragedies and experiences of absorbing interest marked the removal over the "Trail of Tears," but there were no chroniclers at hand to record them. Only occasionally did the tragedy and pathos of some phase of this history-making undertaking beguile a sympathetic officer to turn from routine and write a line or a paragraph of comment.From fragments in thousands of manuscripts and in official and unofficial reports Grant Foreman gleaned the materials for this book to provide readers with an unbiased day-by-day recital of events.

Art and Architecture in France, 1500–1700


Anthony Blunt - 1953
    This new edition, of one of the classics of the Pelican History of Art series, has been revised and updated with color illustrations and a new bibliography.

The Man Who Stole Portugal


Murray Teigh Bloom - 1953
    With no resources except boldness he set about acquiring the power to print his country's currency. Amazingly, he succeeded and except for a fluke of fortune he would have gotten away with it.

The Red Chief


Ion L. Idriess - 1953
    The story of Red Kangaroo, young and mighty aboriginal warrior who saved his tribe from destruction.

Prince of Players: Edwin Booth


Eleanor Ruggles - 1953
    

Boy Captive of Old Deerfield


Mary P. Wells Smith - 1953
    Tells the story of 10-year-old Stephen Williams, one of the 112 residents taken captive in an Indian raid.

A History of Christianity


Kenneth Scott Latourette - 1953
    The geographical scope of the work is global, and it gives attention to the history of Christian theology as well as other aspects. Latourette was Titus Street Prof. of Ecclesiastical History at Yale.

Natural Right and History


Leo Strauss - 1953
    On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever."Strauss . . . makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves . . . [and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant, incisive mind."—John H. Hallowell, American Political Science ReviewLeo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago.

Cheyenne Autumn


Mari Sandoz - 1953
    government, to return to their homeland in the Yellowstone country. This saga of their heart-breaking fifteen-hundred-mile flight is by the author of Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas and Old Jules, also available as Bison Books.

Spreading Flame: The Rise and Progress of Christianity from Its First Beginnings to the Conversion of the English


F.F. Bruce - 1953
    Bruce guides the reader through the early history of the Church using Acts as his backdrop. If you want to get a real feel for the evangelistic fervor of the Apostles and the early Christians then this is the book for you.

Pistol Pete: Veteran of the Old West


Frank Eaton - 1953
    The Amazing True Experiences Of A Famous Cowboy And Indian Fighter.

Sex In History


Gordon Rattray Taylor - 1953
    

Above Us the Waves: The Story of Midget Submarines and Human Torpedoes


C.E.T. Warren - 1953
    The result was the development of British chariots which were regarded as stop-gaps until the X-craft or midget submarines could be deployed.The book is divided into five parts. The first covers the development, training, growing pains and the attempt on the Tirpitz, the second and third to Mediterranean and Norwegian operations, while the fourth deals with the coast of Fortress Europe and the Normandy Beaches. Part Five considers the special preparations for the Far East and the exploits achieved in the fight against the Japanese. There are several appendices and an index to complete an absorbing record of a novel and important innovation in warfare."

Tillamook Light


James A. Gibbs - 1953
    Gibbs, a former Coastguardsman stationed at the infamous rock off Oregon's northwest shores, knows that wild crag from the inside out, and he has supplemented his account with what happened before he arrived on the scene, and since closure of the light in 1957. Many fine photos keep pace with the action. 145 pages.

"The Intellectual History of Europe, Volume I: From the Beginnings of Western Thought to Luther""


Friedrich Heer - 1953
    

Beowulf and Judith


Elliot V. K. Dobbie - 1953
    

Commando: Memoirs of a Fighting Commando in World War Two


John Durnford-Slater - 1953
    This is the engaging memoir of the man selected by the British War Office to raise the first commando unit.

A Life for Hungary: Memoirs


Miklós Horthy - 1953
    Horthy was styled "His Serene Highness the Regent of the Kingdom of Hungary." Horthy is remembered for, among other things, trying to surrender to the Russians when he realized that the war was lost. Hitler found out that Horthy through his son was negotiating a surrender to the Russians and had Horthy and his son arrested. On 15 October 1944, Horthy told his government ministers that Hungary had signed an armistice with the Soviet Union. "It is clear today that Germany has lost the war... Hungary has accordingly concluded a preliminary armistice with Russia, and will cease all hostilities against her." On that same day, 15 October 1944, after Horthy had announced the armistice in a nationwide radio address, but which most of his troops did not hear, Hitler sent commando Otto Skorzeny to Budapest with instructions to remove Horthy from power. Horthy's son was meeting with Soviet representatives to finalize the surrender when Skorzeny and his troops forced their way into the meeting and kidnapped the younger Horthy at gunpoint. However, he did not kill them. Both Horthys got out after the war was over and the father lived long enough to write these memoirs.

Greek Science: Its Meaning for Us


Benjamin Farrington - 1953
    The story begins about 600 B.C. and the first couple of centuries are conspicuous for the boldness of their thought and the rapidity with which the foundations of many of the chief branches of science were laid. In the next two or three centuries the Greeks continued to accumulate information and also showed their logical powers by systematizing their knowledge into a regular encyclopedia of the sciences. In this second period, however, their creativity was less and, after it, there was a period of stagnation. This was interrupted in the second century A.D. by the appearance of the great astronomer and geographer, Ptolemy, and the great physician, Galen, with whom Professor Farrington ends his story.

Encyclopedia of American History


Richard B. Morris - 1953
    Unequaled in the amount of information contained within a single volume & designed as a narrative, it chronicles all the essential facts, from government & politics to science, thought & culture. The Encyclopedia is divided onto four parts: Part 1: "THE BASIC CHRONOLOGY" presents political & military events, beginning with the era of discovery. Part 2: "THE TOPICAL CHRONOLOGY" records the nonpolitical aspects of American life. A few of the topics covered in this section are the fine arts, religion, medicine, education, tv, radio, immigration, population, expansion & Supreme Court decisions. Part 3: "NOTABLE AMERICAN BIOGRAPHIES" contains profiles of influential Americans. Part 4: "THE STRUCTURE OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" includes tables of Presidents & their cabinets, party strength in Congress from 1789, & Supreme Court justices, as well as complete texts of the Declaration of Independence & the Constitution.

The Story of England: Makers of the Realm


Arthur Bryant - 1953
    Love of country and pride of ancestry communicate themselves with every sentence."The Times"Wonderfully told ... A Ranger of sympathy such as few possess. A fellow historian cannot but pay tribute to the way medieval institution have been made to live." A.L.Rowse

Milton Cross' Encyclopedia of the Great Composers and Their Music, Vol 2


Milton Cross - 1953
    

The Mustangs


J. Frank Dobie - 1953
    Frank Dobie’s history of the “mustang”—from the Spanish mesteña, an animal belonging to (but strayed from) the Mesta, a medieval association of Spanish farmers—tells of its impact on the Spanish, English, and Native cultures of the West.

Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the American Railroad Man


B.A. Botkin - 1953
    

The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution


Edmund S. Morgan - 1953
    The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution.

The Story of Everest


W.H. Murray - 1953
    We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Political Thought of the American Revolution (Part Three of Seedtime of the Republic Series)


Clinton Rossiter - 1953
    

This Was Andersonville


John McElroy - 1953
    

The Legacy of Persia


A.J. Arberry - 1953
    This volume, in the Legacy series, is written by leading authorities in their subjects who illustrate some of the many ways in which Persia's rich culture has influenced its neighbours and become a legacy to the whole world.

Language and History in Early Britain


Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson - 1953
    An attempt is made here to trace, from all available evidence, their development from the first to the twelfth century, and especially to analyse the chronology of their sound changes. Part I deals with the sources, such as Romano-British and post-Roman inscriptions; names in Classical authors; early Welsh, Cornish and Breton documents; the Latin loanwords in British and Irish; and many British place-names in English, which can only be adequately understood when fitted into such a chronological scheme. Part II sets out in detail the probable dates of the linguistic developments concerned.

Pictorial History of the Jewish People: From Bible Times to Our Own Day Throughout the World


Nathan Ausubel - 1953
    Pictorial History of the Jewish People

Sayonara / The Bridges at Toko-Ri


James A. Michener - 1953
    

A History of Socialist Thought, Volume I: The Forerunners 1789-1850


G.D.H. Cole - 1953
    

The Selected Letters of Lord Byron


Lord Byron - 1953
    They are arranged chronologically and divided into major periods of his life. Among these letters are many to his mother and to his half-sister Augusta. This volume also includes an extensive introduction by the Editor, Jacques Barzun. There is also an index, footnotes, and an appendix entitled "Byron's Friends and Connections."Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 53-7803

Socialism in One Country, 1924-1926, Volume 3


Edward Hallett Carr - 1953
    

India and the Awakening East


Eleanor Roosevelt - 1953
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English Historical Documents 1042-1189


David C. Douglas - 1953
    B/w illustrations. Contents: PART I: Select Chronicles and Narratives; PART II: Government and Administration; PART III: The Church; PART IV: Land and People; Tables; Index to Texts; Maps. The purpose of the series is to present to the general reader the fundamental sources of English history, which are today more often quoted than read and more often sought than found. Volume II contains a wide selection of material translated mostly from Latin or Old English records covering the period from Edward the Confessor to the end of the reign of the first Angevin monarch, Henry II. . four maps are inserted and the genealogies are augmented by tables showing the descent of the Norman kings of Sicily and southern Italy, and of the Salian and Hohenstaufen emperors and kings of Germany.

The Hawaiian Kingdom--Volume 2: Twenty Critical Years, 1854-1874


Ralph S. Kuykendall - 1953
    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 History of French Louisiana: The Reign of Louis XIV, 1698-1715


Marcel Giraud - 1953
    Now the long-awaited English translation of Volume One of his Histoire de la Louisiana Fran�aise makes the results of his meticulous research readily available. Professor Giraud explores all phases of the beginnings of colonization in the vast Louisiana territory from the first voyage of d'Iberville to the end of the reign of Louis XIV. He examines the attitude of he French regency, the interest of the Church, and the effects of wars and private monopoly on the struggling settlements along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico and on the Mississippi. The almost unbelievable poverty with which the emigrants contended, brought on the their lack of agricultural knowledge and by France's niggardly financial support, is portrayed vividly.Professor Giraud has assembled an immense store of information bolstered by documentation from all available sources. The book includes an excellent bibliography and a list of archival resources.

Vermont Tradition: The Biography of an Outlook on Life


Dorothy Canfield Fisher - 1953
    

This Monstrous War


Wilfred G. Burchett - 1953
    

Caucasian Battlefields: A History of the Wars on the Turco-Caucasian Border 1828-1921


W.E.D. Allen - 1953
    Russia's expansion into the region in the late eighteenth century brought conflict with the Ottoman Empire, creating a new area of contention between these two states, and the borderlands remained in a state of intermittent conflict until the end of the First World War. This volume, first published in 1953, discusses the four major conflicts which took place in the region during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Focusing on military strategy, the book describes in great detail battles, skirmishes and logistical problems of warfare in a mountainous and remote region. Illustrated with thirty-nine maps, it provides a wealth of information for military historians and remains an authoritative account.

Children of the Bible (Easy Reading Books)


Hilda Isabel Rostron - 1953
    

The New England Mind: From Colony to Province


Perry Miller - 1953
    In this book, as well as its predecessor The New England Mind: The Seventeenth Century, Miller asserts a single intellectual history for America that could be traced to the Puritan belief system.

United States Army in World War II, War in the Pacific, Fall of the Philippines


Louis Morton - 1953
    Defeat brings into sharp focus the causes that led to failure and provides a fruitful field of study for those soldiers and laymen who seek in the past lessons for the future.The statesman and the unformed citizen reading these pages will realize that our military means as well as our estimates and plans must always be in balance with our long-range national policy. This lesson-signposted by the Battle of Manila Bay; the Treaty of Paris, signed in December 1898 when we decided to keep the Philippines; the Washington Conference of 1921-22; and the Manchurian Crisis of 1931-we ignored before Pearl Harbor. The result was defeat on the field of battle and the loss of the Philippine Islands.

The Age of the Moguls: The Story of the Robber Barons & the Great Tycoons


Stewart Hall Holbrook - 1953
    They gave living reality to that great golden legend: The American Dream. Most were self-made in the Horatio Alger tradition. Those whose beginnings were blessed with wealth parlayed their inheritances many times thru the same methods as their rags-to-riches compatriots: shrewdness, ruthlessness, determination or by combining all three. The Age of the Moguls is not overly concerned with the comparative business ethics of these men of money. The best of them made deals, purchased immunity & did other things which in 1860, 1880 or even 1900, were considered no more than smart by their fellow Americans, but which today would give pause to the most conscientiously dishonest promoter. Holbrook doesn't pass judgments on matters that have baffled moralists, economists & historians. He's less concerned with how these men achieved their fortune as much as how they disbursed the funds. Holbrook has written a captivating study of the days when America's great fortunes were built; when futures were unlimited; when tycoons trampled across the land. Few writers today could range backwards & forwards in American history thru the last century & a half, & could take their readers to a dozen different sections of the country or combine the lives of over 50 famous men in such a way as to produce a continuous & exciting narrative of sponsored growth.

U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America


George R. Stewart - 1953
    

Seedtime of the Republic. The Origin of the American Tradition of Political Liberty


Clinton Rossiter - 1953
    PrefaceIntroductionThe CircumstancesThe MenThe HeritageConclusionNotesIndex

Pale Ink: Two Ancient Records of Chinese Exploration in America


Henriette Mertz - 1953
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Medieval Religious Houses, England and Wales


David Knowles - 1953
    The book lists them according to their order with dates of foundation and dissolution, together with figures of population and wealth wherever possible, and many other details of interest.

The Legends of the Jews: From the Creation to Exodus: Notes for Volumes 1 and 2


Louis Ginzberg - 1953
    When legends have been the subject of learned interpretation or debate, Ginzberg provides guidance to the commentaries and disputants; when the legends are part of a larger controversy, he provides context.

A History of the Church in England


John R.H. Moorman - 1953
    Includes chapters on the Roman, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, and Medieval periods before a description of the Reformation and its effects, the Stuart period, and the Industrial Age, with a final chapter on the modern church through 1972.