Historical Dictionary of the Civil War (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest, No. 18)

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This two-volume set is a well-written read about the military aspects of the civil war, covering the issues that started the war; the military personnel who strategized, commanded, and fought the war; and the many battles, engagements, and skirmishes that comprised the war.

Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution and Civil Unrest)

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Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution and Civil Unrest)
P. R. Kumaraswamy
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810853434

Historical Dictionary of the Old South (Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Historical Eras)

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Historical Dictionary of the Old South (Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Historical Eras)
William L. Richter
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
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ASIN: 0810850745

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Numerous cross-referenced entries on prominent individuals, including Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Robert E. Lee, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as others on policies of the time that have since slipped into oblivion are all covered in this book. Economic, social and religious backgrounds trace the seemingly inevitable path to secession, war and defeat. This reference also includes an introductory essay, a chronology and a bibliography of the epoch.

A Tour Guide to the Civil War, Fourth Edition: The Complete State-by-State Guide to Battlegrounds, Landmarks, Museums, Relics, and Sites

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A Good Guide to Civil War Sites
Excellent Companion for Touring Civil War Sites
Excellent guide for all civil war enthusiasts.

A Tour Guide to the Civil War, Fourth Edition: The Complete State-by-State Guide to Battlegrounds, Landmarks, Museums, Relics, and Sites
Alice Cromie
Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1558532005

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A comprehensive guide to the landmarks, relics, museums, and other points of interest related to the Civil War. Designed for the tourist, student, and history buff, it is an ideal sightseeing companion. Illustrated.

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A Good Guide to Civil War Sites.......2007-02-14

This is a good book to find Civil War sites through the US. Alice Cromie shows us where to find major sites as well as some of the little known sites. We not only read of the war itself, but the location of events leading up to the war, and locations of museums dedicated to the Civil War. If you use this book
as a tour guide, be sure to call places ahead of time, as some of these no longer exist. Over all it is a good book to have.

Excellent Companion for Touring Civil War Sites.......2004-12-04

Cromie has written an excellent guide for locating Civil War-related sites in the United States.

The book is organized by state and usually contains the following information:

1. City/town of the event or relation to the Civil War.
2. Location and address of the site.
3. Significance of the site or event.
4. Date of the event.

This book is a gem because it mentions several locations that may not be known to both the Civil War novice and long-time student.

Highly recommended as an invaluable guide for your next Civil War trip, particularly to those less well-known places!

Read and enjoy!

Excellent guide for all civil war enthusiasts........1999-05-28

This book is an easy to follow guide to many civil war sites. Some of the places are the well known sites and some are not so well known. But, you will enjoy tracking these sites state by state. I've used the book sysytematically and when I've visited a site, I highlight in the book the place I've been on the state maps provided. Buy it! Try it! Take lots of pictures, too! Start a scrapbook of civil war sites you've visited. It makes for a great conversation piece.

Historical Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest)

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Historical Dictionary of Afghan Wars, Revolutions and Insurgencies (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest)
Ludwig W. Adamec
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0810849488

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All the information currently available on the endless chain of wars stretching over two and a half centuries is traced in this book. It consists of the American involvement in Afghanistan since October 2001 as well as individual campaigns, including tactics and logistics of skirmishes, the weapons used, and biographical entries on the significant leaders involved in the battles. Extensive analysis of regional and ideological divisions within the country and the external forces that have brought around conflict in this remote, mountainous region, in addition to a chronology of the encounters, an extensive bibliography, and numerous maps and illustrations make this crucial volume indispensable.

Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction

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Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction
Eric Foner
Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Black Reconstruction in America, 1860-1880

ASIN: 0807120820

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Between 1865 and 1876, about two thousand blacks held elective and appointive offices in the South. A few, such as the senator from Mississippi Blanche K. Bruce, are well known, but most have languished in obscurity, omitted from official state histories. Prize-winning historian Eric Foner profiles more than 1,500 black legislators, state officials, sheriffs, justices of the peace, and constables. Essential reading for anyone interested in the scope of black achievement during Reconstruction, Freedom's Lawmakers includes biographical sketches of each officeholder (some necessarily brief because so little is known) and many photographs.

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Freedom's Lawmakers is the first comprehensive directory of America's first generation of black public officials--those who held office during the Reconstruction era that followed the Civil War. With positions including congressman, justice of the peace, constable, and member of the legislature, the nearly 1500 officials listed here offer a panorama of the black community in all its diversity--freeborn and slave, Northern and Southern, rich and poor. The book draws on extensive research in the era's primary sources, and the voluminous literature on Reconstruction that has appeared in the past generation, providing information about the antebellum status, occupation, property ownership, military service, and other attributes of black officeholders. The concise biographies are augmented by 125 halftones, including seven composite photographs at the front of the book. In some cases, only a few pieces of information are available, but in a remarkable number of instances, the book traces the life histories of previously unknown individuals, most of them born as slaves, who played a role in America's first experiment in interracial democracy. The biographies follow many individuals into the twentieth century, illustrating the impact of these black Americans on post-Reconstruction society and the consequences for black Americans of the overthrow of Reconstruction.

Civil War A to Z: A Young Person's Guide to Over 100 People, Places, and Points of Importance

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Excellent and absorbing introduction to the Civil War

Civil War A to Z: A Young Person's Guide to Over 100 People, Places, and Points of Importance
Norman Bolotin
Manufacturer: Dutton Juvenile
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0525462686

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Containing more than 130 entries of the most important people, places, and events of the Civil War, this handy reference book is great for browsing and is also a compact introduction to the Civil War and to mid-nineteenth-century America. Designed especially for children in upper-elementary and early junior-high grades, each cogent entry is self-contained and full of vivid lore. Organized alphabetically, the entries cover many facets of the war-including slavery, Abraham Lincoln's role as president, nursing, generals, battles, and the home front. Chock-full of historical photographs, drawings, and maps, this entertaining guide is an invaluable companion to any study of the Civil War.

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Excellent and absorbing introduction to the Civil War.......2003-01-28

_____This is an excellent and absorbing introduction to the Civil War. Arranged alphabetically this book will be good starting point for anyone researching the Civil War. The glossary and timeline are helpful additions.

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Covers the period leading up to the war (1803-1812) and the events of the war itself (1812-1815), the chronology lays out the war. The dictionary includes more than 1,400 dictionary entries covering descriptions of engagements, explanations of weaponry, the compositions of regiments, major figures and a full list of key places, issues and terms. Also included are 21 photographs and 6 maps.

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An ideal resource for writers of historical fiction

The Language of the Civil War:
John D. Wright
Manufacturer: Oryx Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 1573561355

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America's language changed, along with its history, because of the Civil War. Nowhere is the point more riveting than in The Language of the Civil War. This is a unique compilation of slang, nicknames, military jargon and terminology, idioms, colloquialisms, and other words are expressions used (and often originating) during the American Civil War. Organized like a standard dictionary, this volume contains approximately 4,000 entries that focus primarily on everyday camp life, military hardware, and military organization. This one-of-a-kind reference work will make it easy for readers to learn the origin and meaning of such Civil War terms as Buttermilk Rangers, jackstraws, Nassau bacon, pumpkin slinger, and stand the gaff. Language of the Civil War contains words originating during the American Civil War. Besides explaining terms and phrases no longer in use, the entries also provide the origins of many common expressions or the original meanings of many familiar sayings that have since changed meaning or connotation. Although many of the terms arose from the nature and needs of life in the military camps, others were in common use in civilian society across both the North and the South. Illustrated with 50 photos and drawings, the volume is a unique resource for students, scholars, reference librarians, and Civil War enthusiasts and reenactors.

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An ideal resource for writers of historical fiction.......2002-05-07

The Language Of The Civil War compiled by journalist John D. Wright is an impressive reference (accessibly organized in the style of a dictionary) of slang, nicknames, military jargon, idioms, colloquialisms, and other words that originated in or were commonly used during era the American Civil War. Meticulous in its comprehensive attention to detail, The Language Of The Civil War is an essential addition to Civil War reference collections, and sheds considerable linguistic comprehension and background on the language and terminology endemic to virtually all primary sources and first-person accounts of America's bloodiest war. In addition to being invaluable for academia in general and Civil War buffs in particular, The Language Of The Civil War is also an ideal resource for writers of historical fiction set in the Civil War era and seeking authenticity and realism in their work.

Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest :, No. 22)

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Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War (Historical Dictionaries of War, Revolution, and Civil Unrest :, No. 22)
Edwin Pak-wah Leung
Manufacturer: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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The Chinese Civil War, has been regarded by many as an important subject in the study of modern Chinese history, as this protracted struggle ultimately led to the Communist victory on the Mainland and the Nationalist government's retreat to the island of Taiwan in 1949. Considered an extremely important turning point in modern Chinese history, the Civil War is also of great international significance. This resource, the first of its kind written in English, details the microscopic and macroscopic views of the Chinese Civil War; people, events, places, and institutions.

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Like a curate's egg.......2005-12-24

This is a book accompanying a television series, so one would not expect anything very profound. The first three of the six chapters are a perfectly readable and lavishly illustrated introduction to the First Industrial Revolution, though there is only one sentence (in the sixth chapter) about Isambard Kingdom Brunel. The other three chapters, on London, medicine and weaponry seem to fit ill with the title of the book. We have something on the growth of London, but one wonders what the extensive description of pleasure gardens has to do with the Industrial Revolution. The only thing that development in medicine "did for us" is Jenner's work on vaccination. Whether that has anything to do with the Industrial Revolution is questionable, and certainly the pages on useless patent medicines and on body snatching can't be said to have done much for us. The description of weaponry (ineffectual rockets and early torpedoes, fortifications like the Martello Towers) likewise have done little for us. Unfortunately, as the note on Further Readings tells us, there seem to be very few general surveys in print of the First Industrial Revolution, but one that is recommended is Phyllis Deane's The First Industrial Revolution, and anyone seriously interested in the subject would do better to consult that work than this one, and Eric Hobsbawm's excellent Industry to Empire is not mentioned in the bibliography at all.

Examining the Industrial Revolution's lasting impact.......2004-09-13

Between 1750 and 1840 the Industrial Revolution changed the lives of British people forever, advancing science and technological discoveries and their application to daily lives. Gavin Weightman is a noted historian and Dan Cruikshank presents the TV series on the topic: together they use the TV show as a starting point and foundation for examining the Industrial Revolution's lasting impact on modern times.

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Hal Borland's Book of Days
Hal Glen Borland
Manufacturer: W W Norton & Co Inc
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Beyond Your Doorstep: A Handbook to the Country

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Book of Days
Hal Borland
Manufacturer: Alfred A. Knopf
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Hal Borland's Book of Days

Manufacturer: Norton
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