The Unfinished Revolution
Author: Peter FitzSimons
Eureka Stockade - the Unfinished Revolution ...The Eureka Stockade was Australia's answer to the Boston Tea Party, to the French people's storming of the Bastille. It was the moment when the diggers sense of outraged jus ... |
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Author: Watkin Tench & Tim Flannery
"I do not hesitate to declare that the natives of New South Wales possess a considerable portion of that acumen, or sharpness of intellect, which bespeaks genius." In 1788 Watkin Tench stepped ashore at Sydney Cove with ... |
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Scottish Convicts Exiled Beyond the Seas
Author: Lucy Frost
In the early 19th century crofters and villagers streamed into the burgeoning cities of Scotland, settling in the crowded and damp tenements of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Orphan girls, single mothers, women with feckless hus ... |
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The American Revolutionary War
Author: Hugh Bicheno
Controversial and revisionist history of America's first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series - written and presented by star military historian, Richard Holmes. Most people vi ... |
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Author: Jane Eastoe & Ruth Goodman
* Ties in to a fantastic new four-part BBC series from the makers of the hit Victorian Farm * Shows how many products on sale in our high street chemists today can trace their origins back to nineteenth century formulati ... |
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Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
Author: Peter Englund
'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian tr ... |
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Wellington's Lightning Strike into Spain
Author: Rene Chartrand
The battle of Talavera in 1809 was one of the major battles of the Peninsular War and Arthur Wellesley's first victory in Spain itself, following which he was created Viscount Wellington of Talavera and Wellington. Altho ... |
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A History of London's Most Celebrated Salon
Author: Linda Kelly
Situated in the heart of London's Holland Park are the remains of Holland House-the site of what was once England's most celebrated political salon.In the first thirty years of the nineteenth century -when the Whig party ... |
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The Memoir of the Cowboy Who Became a World War I Ace
Author: Frederick J. Libby
"Godsent" is a wild religious thriller, a page-turner that keeps you guessing until the very last page. Burton, in his fiction debut, crafts a tightly-wound narrative with a heart-pounding plot and emotional resonance th ... |
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the Classic Account of a U. S. Army Officer's Wife on the Great Plains During the Indian Wars
Author: Margaret Irvin Carrington
A classic of the early history of Wyoming This well known account of army life on the western frontier, by the wife of Colonel Henry B. Carrington the post-commander of Fort Phil Kearney during 'Red Cloud's War' of 1866- ... |
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His Life and Times
Author: William Sterne Randall
Both a rousing adventure story and a testament to the spirit of democracy, Ethan Allen is the landmark biography of a man whose temper and philosophy helped define a nation. William Sterne Randall gives us the first comp ... |
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The Life, Death, and Mythic Afterlife of George Armstrong Custer
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Author: Louise Barnett
For more than a century, Americans have been captivated by the legend of General George Armstrong Custer. But the various truths of Custer's life and last stand prove elusive. Why are we so taken with the myth and the so ... |
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Author: Robyn Annear
Gold was discovered in Australia in 1851, and within a year the infant colony was transformed from a sump for convicts to a Land of Opportunity. Robyn Annear's lively history describes in detail life on the diggings: the ... |
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the Ordeal of the Wagon Train of Pioneers in the Sierra Nevada Winter of 1846-7
Author: F. C. McGlashan
A tragic legend of the way West The story of the Donner Party is a tragic and infamous episode in the history of the 19th century pioneer migrations that crossed continental America. In May 1846 eighty-seven pioneers set ... |
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Author: Keith Michael Baker
The problem of the Terror lies at the heart of any reflection upon the French Revolution and its implications for modern political culture. Contemporaries sought to grasp its meaning immediately after the fact as they st ... |
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the Ordeal of the Wagon Train of Pioneers in the Sierra Nevada Winter of 1846-7
Author: F. C. McGlashan
A tragic legend of the way West The story of the Donner Party is a tragic and infamous episode in the history of the 19th century pioneer migrations that crossed continental America. In May 1846 eighty-seven pioneers set ... |
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A Reference Guide 1866-1928
Author: Elizabeth Crawford
This text provides a reference guide to the intricacies of the women's suffrage movement, through a wealth of information on the individuals and the organizations involved. It guides the reader through the labyrinth of p ... |
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Author: Eric Chaline
"The most significant machines of the 19th and 20th centuries." "Fifty Machines that Changed the Course of History" is a fascinating survey of the mechanical devices that propelled 18th-century society into the 1 ... |
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June 1815
Author: Albert A. Nofi
Albert Nofi has used his many years of research to produce an account of the battle of Waterloo that has all the grandeur and military detail one could want, but which never loses its interest in individual human experie ... |
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the Life of the Famous Apache Warrior in His Own Words
Author: Geronimo
A giant figure in the history of frontier America Geronimo is the Mexican name for Goyathlay, the Chiricahua Apache military leader, one of the distinguished leaders from the indigenous Indian tribes of North America ... |
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