Conquerors of the West
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Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Mormons |
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Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Author | : Hugh Pope |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : Turkic peoples |
ISBN | : 9780715636053 |
Hugh Pope provides a vivid picture of the Turkish people, descendants of the nomadic armies that conquered the Byzantine Empire and dominated the region for centuries.
Author | : Michael R. Beschloss |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2003-10-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780743244541 |
As Allied soldiers fought the Nazis, Franklin Roosevelt and, later, Harry Truman fought in private with Churchill and Stalin over how to ensure that Germany could never threaten the world again.
Author | : Roger Crowley |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0571290914 |
As remarkable as Columbus and the conquistador expeditions, the history of Portuguese exploration is now almost forgotten. But Portugal's navigators cracked the code of the Atlantic winds, launched the expedition of Vasco da Gama to India and beat the Spanish to the spice kingdoms of the East - then set about creating the first long-range maritime empire. In an astonishing blitz of thirty years, a handful of visionary and utterly ruthless empire builders, with few resources but breathtaking ambition, attempted to seize the Indian Ocean, destroy Islam and take control of world trade. Told with Roger Crowley's customary skill and verve, this is narrative history at its most vivid - a epic tale of navigation, trade and technology, money and religious zealotry, political diplomacy and espionage, sea battles and shipwrecks, endurance, courage and terrifying brutality. Drawing on extensive first-hand accounts, it brings to life the exploits of an extraordinary band of conquerors - men such as Afonso de Albuquerque, the first European since Alexander the Great to found an Asian empire - who set in motion five hundred years of European colonisation and unleashed the forces of globalisation.
Author | : Tom Anderson |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 564 |
Release | : 2016-11-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781533404305 |
History can turn on the smallest of things. In the history we know, King George II's son Prince Frederick was an obscure footnote of history. Hated by his father (who threatened to exile him to the American colonies), his political career cut short when he was fatally struck by a cricket ball, of all things. The Prince never became King Fred and instead the throne passed to his inexperienced son, George III, who proceeded to lose America. But what if one tiny slight - a trip on a coronation carpet, a misplaced laugh - had tipped George II over the edge and he had made good on his threat? What if, in the year George Washington was born, the American colonies had found themselves home to an exiled Prince stripped of his inheritance? And what if that Prince had ambitions to reclaim his birthright by any means necessary, including with the help of his colonial subjects...? The Look to the West series begins with the story of Frederick and the very different America that results from his exile, but it is a tale that encompasses the whole world. Every action we take has unforeseen impacts: a revolutionary South America, a defeated Prussia, a divided India, a European Enlightenment transformed by phlogiston theory, Cugnot steam engines and Linnaeus' Theory of Evolution. Diverge and Conquer covers the history of this world from the time of Frederick to the era when Europe is torn apart by a French Revolution very different to the one we know - and hints at a mysterious future to come...
Author | : Patricia Nelson Limerick |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2011-02-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393078809 |
"Limerick is one of the most engaging historians writing today." --Richard White The "settling" of the American West has been perceived throughout the world as a series of quaint, violent, and romantic adventures. But in fact, Patricia Nelson Limerick argues, the West has a history grounded primarily in economic reality; in hardheaded questions of profit, loss, competition, and consolidation. Here she interprets the stories and the characters in a new way: the trappers, traders, Indians, farmers, oilmen, cowboys, and sheriffs of the Old West "meant business" in more ways than one, and their descendents mean business today.
Author | : Robin Waterfield |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 542 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Civilization, Ancient |
ISBN | : 0198727887 |
A fascinating, accessible, and up-to-date history of the Ancient Greeks. Covering the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods, and centred around the disunity of the Greeks, their underlying cultural unity, and their eventual political unification.
Author | : Hampton Sides |
Publisher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2007-10-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307387674 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of Ghost Soldiers comes an eye-opening history of the American conquest of the West—"a story full of authority and color, truth and prophecy" (The New York Times Book Review). In the summer of 1846, the Army of the West marched through Santa Fe, en route to invade and occupy the Western territories claimed by Mexico. Fueled by the new ideology of “Manifest Destiny,” this land grab would lead to a decades-long battle between the United States and the Navajos, the fiercely resistant rulers of a huge swath of mountainous desert wilderness. At the center of this sweeping tale is Kit Carson, the trapper, scout, and soldier whose adventures made him a legend. Sides shows us how this illiterate mountain man understood and respected the Western tribes better than any other American, yet willingly followed orders that would ultimately devastate the Navajo nation. Rich in detail and spanning more than three decades, this is an essential addition to our understanding of how the West was really won.
Author | : Osmar White |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2003-03-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521537513 |
An account of World War II from the articles of one of the war's finest correspondents.
Author | : Deb Bennett |
Publisher | : Amigo Publications, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780965853309 |