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A comprehensive guide to this destination for hikers and those interested in the history of this former Yugoslavian territory.

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Macedonia.......2007-03-30

I was dissappointed in this travel guide,as I first saw the book.In most of travelling guide books there are allot of colored pictures,to entice people to travel to that destination.unfortunately this book has 16 colored pictures out of 233 pages.

Macedonia: The Bradt Travel Guide.......2006-08-28

There isn't a lot available on travel to Macedonia, to say the least! This books offers a fantastic start to a country worth discovering. The author gives helpful and important background information as well as valuable history.
If you are considering a trip to the balkans, make time for Macedonia! (and pick up a copy of this book first!)

big al.......2006-07-29

i have been to macedonia many times and until i read this i thought i had seen everything next time i go i would have with this guide

Very useful and very informative .......2006-07-15

I absolutely loved this guide; even though I have traveled through Macedonia many times there were a lot of little useful details and insights Thammy offers in her book. I would recommend the book to anyone traveling to Macedonia even travelers returnees.

Useful guide, with a pinch of salt.......2005-12-07

This is a useful guide to Macedonia, clearly written by someone with an enthusiasm and love for the country, which is to be applauded. However, while the writer is extremely helpful about places to visit and mountains to climb, and so on, she does little to conceal her own prejudices. In places there are unfortunate assertions (about certain groups) that do little to dispel myth and stereotype, and do not help to promote reconciliation and understanding. This is probably unintentional and written in all innocence, but as the guide purports to support responsible tourism, it could perhaps be written with a greater degree of sensitivity, given the well known tensions and history of conflict in the country. Read carefully, with a large pinch of salt!

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Macedonia, 2nd: The Bradt Travel Guide
Thammy Evans
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ASIN: 1841621862

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Recently explored by Michael Palin and by Richard Bangs, Macedonia is a treasure trove of outdoor adventures, folk festivals, and picturesque scenery. Still the only English travel guide to the country, this second edition has been completely updated to keep up with the advances in this former Yugoslavian territory that has enjoyed independence for over a decade.

Features include:

*A new chapter on outdoor pursuits, skiing, hiking, and mountaineering

*Updated accommodation options, including monasteries and lodging in private homes

*Improved information on public transport and increase in the number of maps

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Great resource.......2007-07-31

I used this book on a recent trip to Macedonia and found it to be a great resource. Even the Macedonians I was visiting were reading it and thought it was excellent. If you are going to Macedonia, this is one of the few resources available and, thankfully, it is a great one!

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Chalmette shows how the United States nearly lost the Louisiana Territory at the end of the War of 1812 and WHY the British were even at New Orleans. See how General Andrew Jackson manuevered thge British Army into a position where a rag tag militia could beat them. (longer description follows) Chalmette is not just another book about the Battle of New Orleans, but maybe for the first time you will understand WHY the British were there. This book shows how the United States nearly lost the Louisiana territory at the end of the War of 1812. In the summer of 1814 England had finaly conquered Napolean and France. After twenty-one years of tremendous struggle against the European continent, England had become a highly efficient war machine, They were left standing, a superpower. They had been carrying out a war in Europe with only an occasional jab at the United States. Now they were turning their full attention on that irritating loose association of states across the Atlantic. The United States had almost no standing army; they had only the militia that each community maintained for protection against indians. Most militia were a social club where men fired their weapons once a month. Therefore during the early part of the War of 1812 their performance was pretty dismal. The exception was in the western states (between the Applachians and the Mississippi River) where the militia was a working military force in frequent combat with Indians. These community militia from Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and a few from southern Ohio answered the call to join General Andrew Jackson to meet the British at New Orleans. Follow Jackson's militia as they manuever a far superior British Army into a position where Jackson's men had a better than even chance of winning. They had to subdue the British allies (the Creek indian Nation). And they had to stop any Spanish help at Pennsacola and Mobile (the best invasion point) and lastly had to get them to land in a spot almost impossible to support. It was the bleakest point in the history of the United States. The whole East Coast had been blockaded, raided and burned at will. British Canada uled the north and noe the English ere going to take New Orleans, control of the Mississippi River and the Louisiana Territory. With the United States almost completely boxed in, see how, with determination and luck, they pulled off a victory that electrified the united Staes and stunned Europe.

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Battle for our nation's history.......2006-02-25

I very much enjoyed this brief history of an often neglected period of American history. In his short piece, Patton not only covers the battle itself, but places the battle in the larger context of the politics and international affairs of the day. That's a lot of material to cover and to accomplish it in a book of this length is commendable. What is sacrificed are discussions and details that would require hundreds of additional pages; what is gained is an appreciation of the topic and a desire (if one is so inclined) to learn more.

While serious students of the period may take offense at some details, I believe this book accomplishes exactly what it set out to do: That is to debunk the common misperception that the battle was meaningless due to a previously signed "treaty" and to stimulate thought and further research into a fascinating topic.

A VERY shallow over view.........2006-01-18

The only redeeming feature of this book is Patton's contention that the British worded the Treaty of Ghent in such away that it allowed them time to try to capture New Orleans before it was actually ratified. Patton contends that they felt that Napoleon's sale of the Louisiana Territory to the United States was illegal. This being the case, New Orleans was not protected by the Treaty of Ghent, and therefore was ripe for the taking.

While most books on the War of 1812 pretty much call the Battle of New Orleans a meaningless slaughter fought after the treaty, Patton contends that the victory saved the U.S. form British domination of the Mississippi.. While I would agree that the battle was far from meaningless, if nothing else, it helped to unite the country, I think Patton is being a bit dramatic. Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion, and Patton does back his up.

The main problem that I have with the book, is that for the most part it is just a rehashing of other books, some of which weren't written more then a year or two earlier then this one. One need only look at the end notes to see what I mean. Not only does Patton use recent books, he almost quotes them verbatim. Patton's description of the victory celebration is almost identical to that of Remini's in his book the Battle Of New Orleans.

As for the Creek War and the Battle at Horseshoe Bend, Patton writes, "at Horseshoe Bend the tremendous struggle for control of North America ended, and ownership changed hands..." Hello? This battle directly lead to the Treaty at Fort Jackson in which the U.S. obtained 20,000,000 acres, and it precluded the Creek from having any major impact on the War of 1812, but to call it a struggle for the control of North Anerica is a little far fetched.

Then in describing the Privateer Jean Lafitte, Patton fails to mention the fact that 1)the British tried to buy his services for $30,000, 2) after he rejected them and reported their offer to Gov Claiborne, he was thanked by having his base camp attacked. Even still, he didn't go over to the British but instead became an instrumental part of Jackson's defense.

This series of events was far more important for the eventual victory at New Orleans then the US victory at Horseshoe Bend. Had Lafitte accepted their offer, he could have supplied the British with manpower, weapons, and ships as well as supplies and his knowledge of the area. Patton never quite grasped this.

I was however quite amazed that Patton actually alluded to the New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812 (for more info see: When the Mississippi Ran Backwards). These earthquakes get very little attention in history books.

So while beginners to the War of 1812 and the BAttle of New Orleans may find this book interesting, to anyone with any knowledge of either it will read like a graduate paper or a set of Cliff's Notes.

PS as for the 3 reviewers before me, I didn't quite understand the glowing reviews so I took a second look. "Chalmette" was the only book all three of these reviewers had written about.. Kind of makes me wonder....

Chalmette.......2001-05-29

"Chalmette" takes its name from the Louisiana plantation where General Andrew Jackson led a collection of American militia, frontiersmen, Indians, Creoles, pirates, and Blacks in a stunning defeat of a larger, better trained and equipped British army in the Battle of New Orleans, January 1815. The details of the units and their commanders, the tactics, the phases of the conflict are clearly told, the various movements and maneuvers leading up to the battle, as well as the aftermath--jubilation in New Orleans and the United States, homeward sail for the stunned British, astonishment in Europe. The real significance of this victory, however, lies in the blocking of the British intent to wrest the Louisiana Purchase territory from the US and to control the Mississippi River, linking New Orleans and Canada in British hands. This dimension of the War of 1812 is told more clearly in Charles Patton's "Chalmette" than in most accounts of the Battle of New Orleans. Well researched and clearly presented in brief compass.

A Great History Lesson.......2001-05-25

Chalmette is a compelling look into America's "almost" forgotten past. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Mr Patton takes the reader on a journey into the Deep South during the war of 1812. He explains how America could easily have lost its freedom and gone back to England's rule. Although the book is a narrow 143 pages (I read it in a night), the book covers the events leading up to the battle and the personalities of its combatants in detail. The description of the battle is edge of the seat reading. However, the most compelling part of this book for me was the way the author writes of the life and struggles of Andrew Jackson, a real American hero. If you love American History, you must read this book!

American victory at the most crucial time........2001-05-24

What a reading delight this book is as the intriguing story virtually leaps from the pages. Some may remember the gravity for our young nation of the events leading up to the battle at New Orleans in early 1815. But for many it has been lost.

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Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the Louisiana Purchase had a major impact on land use and the growth of slavery. He examines the great financial interests (such as the powerful land companies that speculated in new territories and the British textile interests) that beat down slavery's many opponents in the South itself (Native Americans, African Americans, Appalachian farmers, and conscientious opponents of slavery). He describes how slaveholders' cash crops (first tobacco, then cotton) sickened the soil and how the planters moved from one desolated tract to the next. Soon the dominant culture of the entire region--from Maryland to Florida, from Carolina to Texas--was that of owners and slaves producing staple crops for international markets. The earth itself was impoverished, in many places beyond redemption. None of this, Kennedy argues, was inevitable. He focuses on the character, ideas, and ambitions of Thomas Jefferson to show how he and other Southerners struggled with the moral dilemmas presented by the presence of Indian farmers on land they coveted, by the enslavement of their workforce, by the betrayal of their stated hopes, and by the manifest damage being done to the earth itself. Jefferson emerges as a tragic figure in a tragic period.

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History Covered from a Different Angle.......2007-03-02

Roger G. Kennedy examines the steps that were taken by Thomas Jefferson to secure the Louisiana Territory from Spanish acquisition. MR. JEFFERSON'S LOST CAUSE: LAND, FARMERS, SLAVERY, AND THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE covers the pivotal years of 1802 and 1820 and other years connected to Kennedy's study. His main premise is to prove that if constrictions did not exist for Yeomen and slaves, if Jefferson's personal character, arrogance and pessimism, did not interfere with the decisions he made, concessions could have been made before and after the execution of the Louisiana Purchase that may have prevented the US Civil War and the issue of slavery.

MR. JEFFERSON'S LOST CAUSE is a unique examination that Kennedy narrates with extreme detail. But one of the unfortunate aspects of his narration is that some of the passages are so intense with historical data that one loses his point, or forget what the book is about. As Director Emeritus of the National Museum of American History and the National Park Service, Kennedy attempts to creatively intertwine his knowledge and fondness for biological, geological, ecological history, Early American and Roman history as it relates to the activities that occurred with the land. However, they appear out of place and somewhat disconnected to the main subject at hand - Jefferson, the land, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase. For example, readers may become lost if they do not know about geology, and the different periods that existed, the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, which he uses as analogies to explain John Marshall's Dartmouth College decision of 1819 and how it ties in with the phases of capitalism and corporate growth as well as the introduction to chapter 13 where he begins his discussion with a short biology lesson about organisms. In addition, this is yet another book where the main character disappears amongst the immense amount of information. Kennedy dedicates a chapter or two on several key contributors to the Louisiana Purchase, Alexander McGillvray and Fulwar Skipwith.

So in essence, what can be learned from reading MR. JEFFERSON'S LOST CAUSE? Kennedy emphasizes that Jefferson was the "father of the land," but did use his experience of Plantation management to the best of his ability to provide balanced relations with the Yeomen. The story and analysis of this historical event was told from a different angle, but may have been enriching if the narrative moved laterally. While reading the book, memories of the past come to mind when I used to have to write and revise papers for my history classes, and had to constantly remind myself what my thesis was. Otherwise, the bibliography is a helpful source to understand the foundation of Kennedy's research.

Socialistic drivel.......2005-06-07

If you want a good book regarding the Founders and slavery, look to Paul Finkelman's Slavery and the Founders, not this disappointing mess. The organization is poor, there's not a logical flow to the information provided, and the author has a tendency to ramble. We know the Founders failed to implement the Declaration and Jefferson was a hypocrite on many subjects. Don't waste your time hearing it over and over again in this book.

Jeckyl/Hyde Jeffersonians.......2004-09-26

The truth comes out sooner or later, we hope. Here the record speaks for itself, deflating the strains of Yankee Doodle with some 'historical materialist' analysis of the facts of the case re the schizophrenia of our revered founder, Tom Jefferson, a man of fine words and a spastic record on the issue of slavery. 'What might have been' competes with the indictment of the lost opportunity to prevent the spread of the plantation system into the new territories of the emerging American system, especially in the wake of the Louisiana Purchase.
Between the Declaration and the Gettysberg Address we find too much American history sawdust.
Excellent piece of research behind the myth machines operating on a July Fourth schedule, 'whole cloth', like the commodity of empire in the British cotton kingdom that rapidly survived the blunder of losing its fiefdom in the soon reconquered South.
Yeoman farmers? Come on. My leg is pulled out of joint.

fascinating.......2004-07-19

I found this book fascinating on many counts.

First, the description of how the plantations east of the Allegheny Mountains were viewed as disposable by the men who ran them, since it was cheaper to buy new land on the frontier than properly maintain the land they currently possessed. Also, how these same men for various reasons and led by Jefferson resisted the industrialization that would diversified the economy of the south.

Second, how Jefferson and his allies catered to the land gluttony displayed by those early planters as new land was acquired for the United States. This was largely accomplished by dispossessing the people inconveniently already settling the land, and handing large swathes of land over to slave-holding planters emigrating from the lands they had exhausted.

Kennedy in fact dwells for much of the book on the territory of Florida (expanding beyond the current borders of that state across much of the South) possessed by Spain and settled prior to US acquisition by a mixture of Indians, whites and blacks who out of neccessity practiced sustainable agriculture on a small scale. I found the picture of Florida in that period to be one of the particularly interesting parts of the book. The relationship between the US and the people already settled on lands it wished to acquire (especially Indians), using Florida as a case study, was enlightening.

Kennedy provides some critical information for evaluating Jefferson's political leadership on the most compelling moral issue facing the young republic-the endurance and expansion of slavery within its boundaries. First, although the debate in Congress during his presidency over the expansion of slavery into new territories was very close, Jefferson refrained from using his influence to lead in this controversy. Thus, his anti-slavery rhetoric was saved for moments in his life (early and late in his career) when it was unlikely to influence policy, and perhaps as no coincidence his self-interest and the interest of his landed friends. Indeed, once Jefferson's agriculturally impoverished land would no longer yield a profit, rather than join other planters heading west, he decided he could support himself most easily by breeding slaves to be sold to those emigrants. In this way, the man who despised the merchant and industrial classes for their supposed lack of moral character, supported his own extravagent lifestyle. In this, as on many other issues, Jefferson was an impressively self-indulgent hypocrite. Sadly, this supposedly great president was striking for his lack of will and vision on how best to establish a republic in which the AVERAGE citizen would have a reasonable opportunity to pursue happiness.

I would have liked to have given this book 4 1/2 stars, because there was a certain lack of organization, and some parts were confusing, so I can't say it was perfectly written. But I found the subject matter truly eye-opening and heartily recommend it to anyone interested in the subject matter.

If I could give it a zero, I would........2004-06-11

Roger G.Kennedy is a man on a mission: to embellish, lie and slander Thomas Jefferson. Kennedy is the typical modern biographer,always ready to destroy another one of America's heroes. In the sad and cynical fashion of today, Kennedy does his best to paint Thomas Jefferson as a lousy President, slaveholder and racist. The book is deplorable, just as most modern American history has become. I am sure the modern left, postmodernist, deconstructionist crowd loves this piece. It has all of the nihlism, lies, and propaganda one would expect from a "profession" laden with Marxists and Leninsts who would like nothing better than to see another American icon destroyed. A real piece of garbage.

Brief history of the Louisiana territory,

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Brief history of the Louisiana territory,
Walter Robinson Smith
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The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812 (University of California Publications in History, V. 10.)

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The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase, 1803-1812 (University of California Publications in History, V. 10.)
Everett Somerville Brown
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Brown, Everett S. The Constitutional History of the Louisiana Purchase 1803-1812. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1920. xi, 248 pp. Reprinted 2001 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN 1-58477-151-8. Cloth. $75. Originally published as Volume X of the University of California Publications in History series, Herbert E. Bolton, editor. With access to manuscripts never before utilized, Brown provides a coherent and interesting narrative that describes how the legislators of that time interpreted the constitution while dealing with the issues that arose as a consequence of the purchase of Louisiana. For example, an issue of far-reaching significance is the issue of slavery that was raised and debated decades before it became the issue that divided the country during the Senate debate on the Louisiana Government Bill. This work offers the first published account of that important debate.

The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike to headwaters of the Mississippi River through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7

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The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike to headwaters of the Mississippi River through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
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The Expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, To Headwaters of the Mississippi River, Through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, During the Years 1805-6-7 Limited Edition
Elliott Coues
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The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. A new edition, now first reprinted in full from the original of 1810, with copious critical commentary, memoir of Pike, new map and other illustrations, and complete index, by Elliott Coues.
Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). PIKE
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The expeditions of Zebulon Montgomery Pike, to headwaters of the Mississippi River, through Louisiana Territory, and in New Spain, during the years 1805-6-7. A new edition, now first reprinted in full from the original of 1810, with copious critical commentary, memoir of Pike, new map and other illustrations, and complete index, by Elliott Coues.
Zebulon Montgomery (1779-1813). PIKE
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Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America Comprising a Voyage From St. Louis on teh Misissippi, to the Source of That River and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-Eastern Provinces of New Spain.

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Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America Comprising a Voyage From St. Louis on teh Misissippi, to the Source of That River and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-Eastern Provinces of New Spain.
Zebulon Montgomery Pike
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An exposition of the criminal laws of the territory of Orleans: The practice of the courts of criminal jurisdiction, the duties of their officers, with ... forms for the use of magistrates and others

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An exposition of the criminal laws of the territory of Orleans: The practice of the courts of criminal jurisdiction, the duties of their officers, with ... forms for the use of magistrates and others
Lewis Kerr
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Nofrontiere is a world where there are no necessary distinctions, a delirious world held together by hidden and shifting relationships between the multiple disciplines, cultures and perceptions that intersect in a special corner of Vienna. This multimaniac studio is an experimental zone where the flow of interaction reveals unexpected synchronicities. Through the illumination of these collisions in everyday life, Nofrontiere is able to respond to conditions conventional methods of design might misappropriate with derivative solutions.

In the Place of Coincidence, [co]Operating System 3.0, is a fusion of hybrid design methodologies and diverse visions and interpretations of our cultural morphoses. Within a vibrant labyrinth of idea spaces, random passages unravel the secrets of projects such as the award-winning Sigmund Freud CD-ROM: Archaeology of the Unconscious, the installations for the Jewish Museum in Vienna and the Europrix Mediatecture Event.

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More Catalog than 2.0.......2000-06-08

I really enjoyed Operating System 2.0, and expected an equal level of quality in 3.0-- and received it. This book is good, but not what I was expecting. It shows off a lot of work and is much more explicit about being a catalog. It does get very playful at times, which I liked, and even includes some drawings submitted to their website.

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