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  • Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War

    by David Donald ...
    *The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!*In this brilliant biography—a Pulitzer Prize—winning national bestseller—David Herbert Donald, Harvard professor emeritus, traces Sumner's life as the nation careens toward civil war. In a period when senators often exercised more influence than presidents, Senator Charles Sumner was one of the most powerful forces in the American ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Herndon

    by David Donald ...
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

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  • Charles Sumner and the Rights of Man

    A Pulitzer Prize winner's "magisterial" biography of the Civil War–era Massachusetts senator, a Radical Republican who fought for slavery's abolition ( The New York Times).In his follow-up to Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War, acclaimed historian David Herbert Donald examines the life of the Massachusetts legislator from 1860 to his death in 1874.As a leader of the Radical Republicans ... Read more

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  • Why The North Won The Civil War

    WHY THE SOUTH LOSTWhat led to the downfall of the Confederacy? The distinguished professors of history represented in this volume examine the following crucial factors in the South's defeat:ECONOMIC—RICHARD N. CURRENT of the University of Wisconsin attributes the victory of the North to fundamental economic superiority so great that the civilian resources of the South were dissipated under the ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Templar Assassin

    by Angus Donald ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...
    Series Audiobook 2 - Mongol Knight

    Unabridged

    13 hours 48 min

    On trial for his life in Vienna Castle, former Templar knight Robert of Hadlow must answer his accusers in the Catholic Church and explain why, twenty years ago, he turned his back on his Christian brethren and made common cause with the greatest – and bloodiest – warlord the world has ever known...Genghis Khan. Deeply in love with a Mongol beauty, and ensnared in the deadly politics of the Asian ... Read more

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  • Compendium

    A Collection of Thoughts on Prosody

    Justice’s insights serve as a sort of de facto taxonomy, an organically designed system that he uses to present his lecture on each respective aspect of the evolution of poetic form. There is no formal thesis here, but rather a kind of scrapbook that has a broader motive. The material possesses no hidden secrets; the treasures lie in plain sight and simply need be discerned to open the artist’s ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Templar Traitor

    by Angus Donald ...
    Narrated by David Thorpe ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 47 min

    July 1241. Christendom cowers in terror before the threat of a Mongol invasion. The swift-moving, invincible cavalry of Genghis Khan has smashed the proud, steel-clad knights of Russia, Poland and Hungary - and now Austria lies directly in their path. At a skirmish outside the walls of Vienna, German knights capture a squad of Mongol scouts, and are astonished to discover one of their number is an ... Read more

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  • Lincoln

    From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of We Are Lincoln Men comes a stunning portrait of Abraham Lincoln’s life and presidency.“A book of investigative tenacity, interpretive boldness and almost acrobatic balance” (The Chicago Tribune), Lincoln brilliantly depicts Abraham Lincoln’s gradual ascent from humble beginnings in rural Kentucky to the ever-expanding political circles in Illinois, and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Financial Centre for Two Empires

    Hong Kong's Corporate, Securities and Tax Laws in its Transition from Britain to China

    Series series International Corporate Law and Financial Market Regulation
    This is a case study of legal transplant, economic development, cultural adaptation and political integration. Hong Kong's journey from British entrepôt to China's international financial centre is one of the most interesting legal stories of our time. But Hong Kong's future is even more interesting: will this region with British-origin institutions survive full integration into China and become ... Read more

    $130.39 USD

  • Big Dams of the New Deal Era

    A Confluence of Engineering and Politics

    The massive dams of the American West were designed to serve multiple purposes: improving navigation, irrigating crops, storing water, controlling floods, and generating hydroelectricity. Their construction also put thousands of people to work during the Great Depression. Only later did the dams’ baneful effects on river ecologies spark public debate.Big Dams of the New Deal Era tells how major ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Lincoln at Home

    Two Glimpses of Abraham Lincoln's Family Life

    As Lincoln led the nation into the Civil War, managing the Union was effort, issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, winning reelection in 1864, and planning the Reconstruction of the South, he also led a private life, defined by his close relationship with his wife and by his devotion to his children. Lincoln at Home offers a view into the life of family through their written correspondence.With a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Mark as Story

    An Introduction to the Narrative of a Gospel

    For thirty years, Mark as Story has introduced readers to the rhetorical and narrative skill that makes Mark so arresting and compelling a story. Rhoads, Dewey, and Michie have helped to pioneer our appreciation of the Gospels, and Mark in particular, as narratives originally created in an oral culture for oral performance. New in this edition are a revised introduction and an afterword describing ... Read more

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