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  • Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911by Shih-Wen Chen

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 99.95

    In her exploration of China in British children’s 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 Menby Rodney Earl Walton

    Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 36.95

    Although 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 Southwestby Michael Johnson; Jonathan Smith

    Osprey Publishing 2013; US$ 13.95

    This 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...

  • NEW YORK INTELLECTby Thomas Bender

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 25.00

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  • Ten Lost Years, 1929-1939by Barry Broadfoot

    McClelland & Stewart 2013; US$ 17.95

    Hundreds 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 Firesideby Jane Nylander

    Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00

    This 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 Historyby Edward Eggleston

    Start Publishing LLC 2013; US$ 1.99

    Continuing 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 Leagueby Bill Mills

    Skyhorse Publishing 2013; US$ 24.95

    Two weeks before the U.S. entered World War I, a Chicago advertising executive visited the Department of Justice with a proposal - organize the country’s 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. Williamsby Robert W Lull

    University of North Texas Press 2013; US$ 19.96

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  • On Plymouth Rockby Samuel Adams Drake

    Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95

    On 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...