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The Lion At Dawn Volume 75 - Forging British Strategy In The Age Of The French Revolution, 1783-1797

by Nathaniel Jarrett

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 Examining William Pitt the Youngerâ€™s foreign policy from 1783 to 1797, Nathaniel Jarrett considers a question that has long vexed historians: Did Pitt adhere to the â€˜blue waterâ€™ school, imagining a globe-trotting navy, or did he favour engagement nearer to shore and on the European Continent?
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Shooting Arrows And Slinging Mud - Custer, The Press, And The Little Bighorn

by James E. Mueller

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 The defeat of George Armstrong Custer and the Seventh Cavalry at the Battle of the Little Bighorn was big news in 1876. James Mueller draws on exhaustive research of period newspapers to explore press coverage of the famous battle to offer a unique take on the dramatic events that so shook the American public.
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Outpost Of Empire: The Napoleonic Occupation Of Andalucia, 1810 - 1812

by Charles J. Esdaile

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 Makes a significant contribution to the new field sometimes known as occupation studies, which focuses on the ways a victorious army attempts to reconcile a conquered populace to the new political order. Combining military history with political and social history, the book delineates what we now call the cultural terrain of war.
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Atlantic Studies - Prospects And Challenges

by William Boelhower

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 In a work of critical reflection and innovation, William Boelhower examines the cultural shift represented by the new paradigm of Atlantic studies, a discipline forged from older models of Atlantic history and newer critical fronts that draw on insights from postcolonial and cultural studies occurring throughout the humanities.
Uncommon Anthropologist - Gladys Reichard And Western Native American Culture

by Nancy Mattina

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 A trailblazer in Native American linguistics and anthropology, Gladys Reichard is one of America's least appreciated anthropologists. Her accomplishments were obscured by differences in intellectual approach, as well as academic politics and gender realities. This biography offers a full account of Reichard's life and, most importantly, her work.
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In The Year Of The Tiger - The War For Cochinchina, 1945-1951

by William M. Waddell

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 A challenge to historical orthodoxy, In the Year of the Tiger presents a more balanced interpretation of the French war for Indochina. At the same time, the book alters and expands our understanding of the precedents and the dynamics of America's Vietnam War.
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Man-Hunters Of The Old West, Volume 2

by Robert K. Dearment

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 DeArment discusses constant threats to the man-hunters' survival, the federal government's undependable presence, and extralegal violence as major themes in western law enforcement. In recounting these eight men's adventures, this volume reveals the forces that made brutality seem commonplace.
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Ned Christie - The Creation Of An Outlaw And Cherokee Hero

by Devon A. Mihesuah

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 Placing Christie's story within the rich context of Cherokee governance and nineteenth-century American political and social conditions, Mihesuah draws on hundreds of newspaper accounts, oral histories, court documents, and family testimonies to assemble the most accurate portrayal of Christie's life possible.
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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Two-Volume Set

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 Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to this day. Based on the highest curatorial standards, this invaluable collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces that lay behind this dark moment in western U.S. history.
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Mountain Meadows Massacre - Collected Legal Papers, Selected Trial Records And Aftermath

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 Historians have long debated the circumstances surrounding the massacre, one of the most disturbing and controversial events in American history, and painful questions linger to this day. Based on the highest curatorial standards, this invaluable collection allows readers the opportunity to form their own conclusions about the forces that lay behind this dark moment in western U.S. history.
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Paul Pletka - Imagined Wests

by Amy Scott

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 In Paul Pletka: Imagined Wests, the first book on this major American artist in over thirty years, readers will encounter the full range of Pletka's work through more than eighty color reproductions of his best-known and most influential works.
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Emory Upton - Misunderstood Reformer

by David J. Fitzpatrick

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 Emory Upton (1839-1881) is widely recognized as one of America's most influential military thinkers. Yet as David Fitzpatrick contends, Upton is also misunderstood as an antidemocratic militaristic zealot. In biography, Fitzpatrick, the leading authority on Upton, radically revises our view of this important figure in American military thought.
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Jersey Gold - The Newark Overland Company'S Trek To California, 1849

by Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles e Margaret Casterline Bowen

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 When gold fever struck in 1849, John S. Darcy - prominent physician, general, and president of the New Jersey Railroad - assembled a company to travel overland to California. In Jersey Gold, Margaret Casterline Bowen and Gwendolyn Joslin Hiles tell the story of that colourful company of some thirty stalwarts and adventurers.
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Soldiers In The Southwest Borderlands, 1848-1886

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 Spotlighting ordinary men who usually appear on the margins of history, the biographical essays collected in this volume tell the stories of soldiers in the complex world of the Southwest after the US-Mexican War.
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Sound The Trumpet, Beat The Drums - Horse-Mounted Bands Of The U.S. Army, 1820-1940

by Bruce P. Gleason

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 Touching on anthropology, musicology, and the history of the United States and its military, Sound the Trumpet, Beat the Drums gives a thorough and satisfying account of mounted military bands and their cultural significance.
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Flying Across America

by Daniel L. Rust

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The Story Of Oklahoma

by Danney Goble e W. David Baird

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 "(The authors) have created a history rich in synthesis and made all the more pleasing by a style that is crisp, occasionally ironic, always persuasive, and frequently eloquent...quite simply, the best history of the state available."--L.G. Moses, Oklahoma State University
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Quest For Tribal Acknowledgment - California'S Honey Lake Maidus

by Sara-Larus Tolley

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William Harding Carter And The American Army - A Soldier'S Story

by Ronald G. Machoian

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 In this first full-length biography of William Harding Carter, Ronald G. Machoian explores Carter's pivotal role in bringing the American military into a new era and transforming a legion of citizen-soldiers into the modern professional force we know today.
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Banking In Oklahoma Before Statehood

by Michael J. Hightower

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 This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of commerce and banking in Oklahoma.
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Defender Of Canada - Sir George Prevost And The War Of 1812

by John R. Grodzinski

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 When war broke out between Great Britain and the US in 1812, Sir George Prevost, governor in chief of British North America, was responsible for defending a group of North American colonies that stretched as far as the distance from Paris to Moscow. This is the first book-length examination of his military leadership in the War of 1812.
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Quest For Flight - John J. Montgomery And The Dawn Of Aviation In The West

by Gary B. Fogel

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 The Wright brothers have long received the lion's share of credit for inventing the airplane. But a California scientist succeeded in flying gliders twenty years before the Wright's powered flights at Kitty Hawk in 1903. This book reveals the accomplishments of John J. Montgomery, a prolific inventor who piloted the glider he designed in 1883.
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Into The Breach At Pusan - The 1st Provisional Marine Brigade In The Korean War

by Kenneth W. Estes

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 Historian and retired marine Kenneth Estes undertakes a fresh investigation of the marines' and Eighth Army's fight for Pusan. Into the Breach at Pusan corrects discrepancies in earlier works (including the official histories) to offer a detailed account of the campaign and place it in historical context.
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Wellington'S Two-Front War - The Peninsular Campaigns, At Home And Abroad, 1808â€“1814

by Joshua Moon

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