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Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95In her exploration of China in British childrens literature, Shih-Wen Chen considers travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories and periodicals to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Her book provides a new context for understanding how China was constructed and sheds light... more...
Big Guns and Brave Men
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 36.95Although it was the largest and final battle of the Pacific War, the Battle for Okinawa has long been overshadowed by other dramatic events in 1945. The books that have been written about it emphasize the role of infantrymen, armor, and U.S. Marines. This work takes a fresh perspective and focuses on the vital role played by the U.S. Army?s forward... more...
American Indian Tribes of the Southwest
Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95This book continues Osprey's series of Men-at-Arms titles on the history, costume, and material culture of the native peoples of North America, which is organized into geographical regions, language groups, and tribes. It was in the Southwest - modern Arizona, New Mexico, and parts of California and other neighboring states - that the first major clashes... more...
Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939
McClelland & Stewart 2013; US$ 17.95Hundreds of ordinary Canadians tell their own stories in this book. They tell them in their own words, and the impact is astonishing. As page after page of unforgettable stories rolls by, it is easy to see why this book sold 300,000 copies and why a successful stage play that ran for years was based on them. The stories, and the 52 accompanying photographs,... more...
Our Own Snug Fireside
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00This charming book portrays domestic life in New England during the century between the American Revolution and the Civil War. Drawing on diaries, letters, wills, newspapers, and other sources, Jane C. Nylander provides intimate details about preparing dinner, spinning and weaving textiles, washing and ironing laundry, planning a social outing, and... more...
A First Book of American History
Start Publishing LLC 2013; US$ 1.99Continuing the biographical approach to teaching history found in his Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans, Eggleston draws a more in-depth picture of the development of the United States using the stories of the living and breathing Americans who made it all happen. more...
The League
Skyhorse Publishing 2013; US$ 24.95Two weeks before the U.S. entered World War I, a Chicago advertising executive visited the Department of Justice with a proposal - organize the countrys businessmen into a secret force of volunteer agents to ferret out and investigate enemy activities within the United States. The country, overcome by a wave of patriotic fervor, had also become... more...
Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams
University of North Texas Press 2013; US$ 19.96On Plymouth Rock
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95On Plymouth Rock is an historically rich and educational story of the history surrounding Plymouth Rock. It tells of the settlers' historic landing in Plymouth Harbor, and reveals the steps by which they founded Plymouth Colony in New England in 1620. more...









