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An insight into the daily life of "Johnny Reb" throughout the American Civil War, and the tactics, training and weaponry of the infantrymen who fought for Southern independence, from the early days of the war to the collapse of the Confederacy and final surrender.

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An exploration of the Confederate ironclad fleet of the American Civil War. It includes a cutaway of one of the most famous ships of the period, the CSS Virginia, and eight pages of artwork depicting the variety of different ironclads.

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The Ironclad was a revolutionary weapon of war, the first modern, armoured, self-propelled warships. Illustrated with digital artwork, photographs and first-person perspective gunsight views, this book allows the reader to discover the revolutionary and radically different designs of the two rival Ironclads - the Merrimac and USS Monitor.

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The Confederate states adopted radical solutions to counter the naval superiority of their opponents. One solution was the adoption of commerce raiders. This work describes the reasons which forced the confederates to resort to commerce raiding.

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The primary Union strategy during the American Civil War was a massive naval blockade of the entire Southern coastline of the Confederacy, and it was in the effort to counter this blockade that the Confederates developed their first submarines and torpedo boats.

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Wakelyn (history, Kent State U.), the author of several books on the US Civil War, argues that leaders in the slave states disloyal to the cause of the Confederacy were not a monolithic group. The author analyzes the motivations and policies of three groups of dissenting prominent Southern politicia

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Colonel Rogers made often surprising use of eyewitness accounts by European observers of Civil War organization, unit capabilities and actions, in what is still a fresh and perceptive analysis.

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In this eloquent and shrewdly observed travelogue, a Pulitzer Prize winner ushers readers through a South where the Civil War is still being fought--where this "Lost Cause" still resonates in the memory and rituals of its denizens. Maps.

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Challenging the subjects current interpretation, this microhistorical study traces the social and civic dynamics of the French Revolutions religious politics within five small towns.

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This text aims to present a balanced treatment of the hostilities in Yugoslavia. Covering the people, places, events, and agreements concerning the recent conflict and its historical roots, it should be of interest to the general reader, student, and initial researcher.

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This volume represents a comprehensive analysis, by experts on both sides of the Atlantic, of how and why Germany and the United States found themeselves at war against each other in 1917, and how the end of their confrontation paved the way for an era of renewed co-operation.

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This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus Epitaph for Arsenius is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by an author is also an actor in his own work.

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This is the translation of an extraordinary and enigmatic narrative of Carolingian history, which should interest historians of politics, religion and literature in equal measure. Radbertus Epitaph for Arsenius is both a personal and a political text, written with twenty years of hindsight, by an author is also an actor in his own work.

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Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.

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Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.

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Beginning with the Norman Conquest of England, these tumultuous centuries and their invasions shaped the languages and political geography of present-day Britain and Ireland. Tracing the political, religious and material cultures of the period, the author seeks to define the ways in which lives changed during these turbulent times.

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Fears of conspiracy and political terrorism are not confined to our own time - they were central to the French Revolution. This is the first major study of political conspiracies at this momentous epoch in history. -- .

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Opening at the end of 1960, the Chicago Eight trial bought Yippies, anti-war activists and Black Panthers to face conspiracy charges, arising from the protests at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. This book contains a transcript of the trial, and drawings help recreate the atmosphere of the courtroom.

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In Conspiracy Writ Large: Persons of Interest in the Plot to Kill President Lincoln, Gerry Christmas takes a global perspective on the assassination. The author's thesis is that multiple forces, both foreign and domestic, combined to eliminate America's most beloved leader. Such a contention demands much from the reader, not the least being independent thinking, rationality, and creativity.