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The Tudor Rose
The History Press 2013; US$ 27.69The beautiful sister of Henry VIII, the spoiled darling of the court, Princess Mary Rose Tudor was married off to the ailing King of France against her will, and, after his death, had to fight for the right to marry Henry's favourite companion, Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk. After bearing him four children, Mary Rose died in the full flower of... more...
The American State from the Civil War to the New Deal
Cambridge University Press 2013; Not AvailableThe story of the breakdown of limited government in America and the rise of the federal state. more...
The Arabs of the Ottoman Empire, 15161918
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 24.00This book discusses the role of Arabs in the Ottoman Empire for the four centuries that they were its subjects. more...
Silas Deane, Revolutionary War Diplomat and Politician
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 40.00Silas Deane was the victim of one of the most vicious character assassination conspiracies ever carried out in the Revolutionary War era. Even after almost two and a half centuries, he remains in the eyes of many modern historians, "worse than Arnold," his boyhood friend. This is very wrong. Because Deane was such a capable individual in... more...
North Carolina Civil War Monuments
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2013; US$ 39.95Throughout recorded history, monuments of stone and metal have honored victorious armies and successful leaders. Following the American Civil War this tradition expanded to include soldiers of the defeated Confederacy. By the early twentieth century, memorials to the dead and surviving veterans were regional icons, and men of the Confederate army ranked... more...
The Drug Wars in America, 19401973
Cambridge University Press 2013; US$ 28.00Examines how and why the US government went from regulating illicit drug traffic and consumption to declaring war on both. more...
Midnight in Mexico
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 14.99In the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the... more...
Rethinking Shiloh
University of Tennessee Press 2013; US$ 38.95Ulysses S. Grant once remarked that the Battle of Shiloh “has been perhaps less understood, or, to state the case more accurately, more persistently misunderstood, than any other engagement . . . during the entire rebellion.” In Rethinking Shiloh , Timothy B. Smith seeks to rectify these persistent myths and misunderstandings,... more...
Blood and Daring
Knopf Canada 2013; US$ 35.00Blood and Daring will change our views not just of Canada's relationship with the United States, but of the Civil War, Confederation and Canada itself. In Blood and Daring , lauded historian John Boyko makes a compelling argument that Confederation occurred when and as it did largely because of the pressures of the Civil War. Many readers will... more...
A Necessary Evil
Simon & Schuster 2013; US$ 22.99In A Necessary Evil, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Garry Wills shows that distrust of government is embedded deep in the American psyche. From the revolt of the colonies against king and parliament to present-day tax revolts, militia movements, and debates about term limits, Wills shows that American antigovernment sentiment is based on a fundamental... more...









