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Thomas Wentworth Higginson was an American Unitarian minister, author, abolitionist, and soldier. He was active in the American Abolitionism movement during the 1840s and 1850s, identifying himself with disunion and militant abolitionism. During the Civil War, he served as colonel of the 1st South Carolina Volunteers, the first federally authorized African-American regiment, from 1862-1864. Following the war, Higginson devoted much of the rest of...
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The overtly obvious and seemingly malicious maligning of our Founders by many Americans within our systems of education, government, and media is being, performed with a greater intensity at the passing of each year. This constant, incessant, and relentless barrage of misinformation and falsehoods about their beliefs, character, and intentions is not only blatantly, unjust on its face it is, being, done to achieve a larger goal. What might that goal...
23) Midnight strikes
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"Seventeen-year-old Anaïs just wants tonight to end. As an outsider at the kingdom's glittering anniversary ball, she has no desire to rub shoulders with the nation's most eligible (and pompous) bachelors--especially not the notoriously roguish Prince Leo. But at the stroke of midnight, an explosion rips through the palace, killing everyone in its path. Including her. The last thing Anaïs sees is fire, smoke, chaos . . . and then she wakes up in...
24) The final day
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"The highly-anticipated follow--up to William R. Forstchen's New York Times bestsellers, One Second After and One Year After, The Final Day immerses readers once more in the story of our nation's struggle to rebuild itself after an electromagnetic pulse wipes out all electricity and plunges the country into darkness, starvation, and terror. After defeating the designs of the alleged federal government, John Matherson and his community have returned...
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Magistral historia de la guerra moderna, esta obra viene a cubrir el vacío que existe en la bibliografía en español sobre la Guerra de Secesión americana. Una perspectiva internacional, desde la visión imparcial de un historiador extranjero.
Para un historiador militar, incluso si se trata de uno de los más prestigiosos del mundo, como sir John Keegan, no resulta fácil decir algo nuevo sobre la Guerra de Secesión, la guerra civil estadounidense....
27) A La Medianoche
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- A la Medianoche - Es el testimonio personal de Javier Arzuaga, capellán en aquel tiempo de Casablanca, eran los primeros días de la revolución cubana, una desgarradora crónica de aquellos primeros meses del año 59 en la prisión de La Cabaña. Lo que yo escribí nació con espíritu e intención de testimonio. Un grupo de amigos cubanos venía insistiendo una y otra vez: Javier, esos recuerdos no te pertenecen, no tienes derecho a llevártelos...
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There's never been a more comprehensive, more entertaining chronicle of the hippy, revolutionary, incendiary era of the late 60s and early 70s. It's all here – the birth of all the new passions of the period – the counterculture, Black Power, the environmental movement, Women's Liberation, Gay Pride, the animal-rights movement, the Sexual Revolution, the Anti-War movement, and all the new revolutionary organizations – the Black Panthers and...
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Musaicum Books presents to you this unique collection of Hilaire Bellocs most influential historical works:
The Book of the Bayeux Tapestry
The Path to Rome
The Old Road
Servile State, The Jews, Servile State, The French Revolution
Blenheim
Tourcoing
Crécy
Waterloo
Malplaquet
Poitiers
First and Last
Europe and the Faith
Survivals and New Arrivals: The Old and New Enemies of the Catholic Church
The Jews
The Historic Thames
A Change in the Cabinet
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Una síntesis magistral de la pasión revolucionaria y sus fracasos en América Latina
Un recorrido por las diez revoluciones latinoamericanas del siglo xx: la mexicana (1910-1940), la nicaragüense de los años veinte, la cubana de los treinta y la de 1959, el varguismo brasileño, el peronismo argentino, la guatemalteca (1944-1954), la boliviana de 1952, la chilena (1970-1973) y la sandinista en 1979.
Traza un perfil desapasionado de sus principales...
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Does it really matter what the Founding Fathers believed? Would the discovery of their true beliefs alter the way we think of America? The men and women whom we refer to as the Founders began an unprecedented journey to form and build a new way of life, a new government, and a new country. Determined to establish a free republic founded on principles of liberty, democracy, and reverence for the God who gave them life and liberty, they forged one nation...
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The object of this book is not to recount once more the history of the Revolution: that can be followed in any one of a hundred text-books. Its object is rather to lay, if that be possible, an explanation of it before the non-French readers, so that they may understand both what it was and how it proceeded, and also why certain problems hitherto unfamiliar to people outside of France have risen out of it.
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The Political Theory of the Revolution
Rousseau
The...
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An overview of world history from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial Revolutions.
Kovacs chooses pertinent stories which create a tapestry showing the development of humankind from medieval times, when every person had their place in the hierarchy of society, to the awakening of individuality in modern times.
In the Steiner-Waldorf Education curriculum this period of history is taught in Class 8...
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La presente obra ofrece un amplio panorama sobre las consecuencias del golpe militar del 18 de julio. Con los trabajos que contiene se pretende mostrar qué fue en la práctica la destrucción de la República a través de algunos hechos ocurridos en el suroeste a partir de las elecciones de febrero de 1936, prestando especial atención al destino de los alcaldes republicanos, romper mitos asentados sobre la implantación de los golpistas, especialmente...
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This first full-length treatment of the Revolutionary War battle of Paoli recounts the British surprise attack on a Continental Army division near Philadelphia in September 1777. A crushing defeat for the Americans, the battle became known as the "Paoli Massacre". Philadelphia fell to the British a week later.
• Reconstructs the battle from the maneuvering that preceded it to the bloody aftermath
• Explains how this relatively small clash affected...
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La revuelta de los proeuropeos y nacionalistas en Kiev llamada Euromaidán desató la respuesta rusa, que occidente define como Guerra Hibrida. Sin embargo, el análisis de la secuencia de acciones y las herramientas puestas en juego hace posible comprender la Estrategia de Moscú de manera holística sin extrapolar conocimientos.
Los acontecimientos descriptos, además de concluir en la adhesión de Crimea y la creación de un foco de inestabilidad...
37) Compañeras
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Compañeras is the untold story of women's involvement in the Zapatista movement, the indigenous rebellion that has inspired grassroots activists around the world for over two decades. Gathered here are the stories of grandmothers, mothers, and daughters who became guerilla insurgents and political leaders, educators and healers-who worked collectively to construct a new society of dignity and justice. Compañeras shows us how, after centuries of...
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This book concerns the astonishing events enhancing the natural leadership of General Benjamin Wait. General Wait participated as a Ranger in the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.
He was instrumental in delaying the British General John Burgoyne as he marched from Canada to his defeat at Saratoga, the turning point of the Revolutionary War. Between the wars, Benjamin and his brother, Joseph, became outlaws in New York, were...
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"Revolución" es un concepto fundamental en la experiencia política moderna y contemporánea. Si bien hoy en día parece haber perdido la potencia política que tuvo durante los últimos dos siglos, lo cierto es que sin este concepto tendríamos dificultades para poder expresar y entender experiencias, expectativas, estados de cosas y procesos sociales significativos tanto del pasado como del presente. Sin embargo, esto no siempre fue así. Como...
40) Battle of Paoli
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This first full-length treatment of the Revolutionary War battle recounts British general Charles Grey's brutal attack on Anthony Wayne's division of 1,500 Continentals in September 1777. The detailed account follows the action from the arrival of Wayne's division south of the Schuylkill River, near Paoli Tavern, to defend Philadelphia against Howe's encroaching troops to Grey's discovery of Wayne's position, the bloody battle that ensued, and the...
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