Jonathan Tracy: 5 books

Book cover of Lucan's Egyptian Civil War
by Jonathan Tracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014

This book explores Lucan's highly original deployment of contradictory Greco-Roman stereotypes about Egypt (utopian vs. xenophobic) as a means of reflecting on the violent tensions within his own society (conservatism vs. Caesarism). Lucan shows the two distinct facets of first-century BC Egypt, namely...
Book cover of Far Orbit

Far Orbit

Speculative Space Adventures

by Bascomb James, Gregory Benford, Eric Choi
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014

Modern space adventures crafted by a new generation of Grand Tradition science fiction writers. Smart, readable, and engaging stories that take us back to a time when science fiction was fun and informative, pithy and piquant—when speculative fiction transported us from the everyday grind and left...
Book cover of A Year of the Monkeys

A Year of the Monkeys

Genre Fiction from the Infinite Monkeys

by Michael Darling, Julie Frost, Jonathan Humphries
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018

There is a theory that says if you give typewriters to one hundred monkeys, and let them type for one hundred years, they will eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare. We decided to put that theory to the test - with a few minor modifications. We didn’t have one hundred monkeys - but...
Book cover of Sister States, Enemy States

Sister States, Enemy States

The Civil War in Kentucky and Tennessee

by Gary R. Matthews, Thomas Mackey, Jonathan M. Atkins
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2011

The fifteenth and sixteenth states to join the United States of America, Kentucky and Tennessee were cut from a common cloth -- the rich region of the Ohio River Valley. Abounding with mountainous regions and fertile farmlands, these two slaveholding states were as closely tied to one another, both...
Book cover of A Forgotten Front

A Forgotten Front

Florida during the Civil War Era

by Seth A. Weitz, Lauren K. Thompson, Jonathan C. Sheppard
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2018

An examination of the understudied, yet significant role of Florida and its populace during the Civil War.   In many respects Florida remains the forgotten state of the Confederacy. Journalist Horace Greeley once referred to Florida in the Civil War as the “smallest tadpole in the dirty pool of...
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