Anne: 9570 books
Projections of Power
The United States and Europe in Colonial Southeast Asia, 1919–1941
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
Throughout its history, the United States has been both imperialistic and anticolonial: imperialistic in its expansion across the continent and across oceans to colonies such as the Philippines, and anticolonial in its rhetoric and ideology. How did this contradiction shape its interactions with European...
Red Orchestra
The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitle r
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
In this unforgettable book, distinguished author Anne Nelson shares one of the most shocking and inspiring–and least chronicled–stories of domestic resistance to the Nazi regime. The Rote Kapelle, or Red Orchestra, was the Gestapo’s name for an intrepid band of German artists, intellectuals,...
Creating a Confederate Kentucky
The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925, belying the fact that Kentucky never left the Union. After the Civil War, the people of Kentucky appeared to forget their Union loyalties and embraced the Democratic...
by Anne Spackman
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2014
The final tale in the Tales of Julius Caesar series of stories. Caesar has journeyed to Egypt where he meets Cleopatra after his defeat of Pompey the Great in the civil war. Caesar marries Cleopatra and has a son, Caesarion, with her. The story continues until the end of Caesar's life, where he is stabbed by members of the Senate in Rome on March 15th, 47 B.C.
Sober for Good
New Solutions for Drinking Problems -- Advice from Those Who Have Succeeded
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2002
Finally someone has gone straight to the real experts: hundreds of men and women who have resolved a drinking problem. The best-selling author Anne M. Fletcher asked them a simple question: how did you do it? The result is the first completely unbiased guide for problem drinkers, one that shatters...
The German Aces Speak II
World War II Through the Eyes of Four More of the Luftwaffe's Most Important Commanders
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWII’s most noteworthy German pilots.
When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magazine welcomed Colin Heaton’s and Anne-Marie Lewis’s masterful command of interview-based...
by Anne Davison
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
The history of the Ottoman Empire, as with most Empires, is complex. It is also a history that is little understood by the general public. At the same time there are many events that occurred within the context of Ottoman history that the general reader may be quite familiar with: for example, the...
The Weeping Time
Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself...
From Sapper to Spitfire Spy
The WWII Biography of David Greville-Heygate DFC
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
David Greville-Heygate was one of the few men who served in both the army and the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, but it was in the sky that he really earned his stripes. Stalking the skies flying photo-reconnaissance missions with No. 16 Squadron over Northern France, he was to win the...
No Idle Hands
The Social History of American Knitting
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2010
“Fascinating . . . What is remarkable about this book is that a history of knitting can function so well as a survey of the changes in women’s rolse over time.”—The New York Times Book Review
An historian and lifelong knitter, Anne Macdonald expertly guides readers on a revealing tour...
Broken Vows, Mended Hearts
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
THREE COUPLES. THREE VOWS. THREE WEDDINGS COME TRUE.
A Bouquet of Thistles by Lyn Stone
Since they were betrothed as children, John, Lord Greycourt, and Alys of Camoy have not set eyes on one another. Alys is overjoyed when John returns home-until she realizes that he has no intention...
The Baptism of Early Virginia
How Christianity Created Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
In The Baptism of Early Virginia, Rebecca Anne Goetz examines the construction of race through the religious beliefs and practices of English Virginians. She finds the seventeenth century a critical time in the development and articulation of racial ideologies—ultimately in the idea of "hereditary...
A Shattered Nation
The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861-1868
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2009
Historians often assert that Confederate nationalism had its origins in pre-Civil War sectional conflict with the North, reached its apex at the start of the war, and then dropped off quickly after the end of hostilities. Anne Sarah Rubin argues instead that white Southerners did not actually begin...
The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong
The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2015
In December 2010 residents of Kalimpong, a town on the Indian border with Tibet, turned out en masse to welcome the Dalai Lama. It was only then they realized for the first time that the neighbor they knew as the noodle maker of Kalimpong was also the Dalai Lama's older brother. The Tibetan spiritual...