R James: 1068 books
Hood's Tennessee Campaign
The Desperate Venture of a Desperate Man
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The Tennessee Campaign of November and December 1864 was the Southern Confederacy's last significant offensive operation of the Civil War. General John Bell Hood of the Confederate Army of Tennessee attempted to capture Nashville, the final realistic chance for a battlefield victory against the Northern...
A Tale of Two Murders
Passion and Power in Seventeenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2005
As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the “Giroux affair” was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle of seventeenth-century French society. In 1638 Philippe Giroux, a judge...
Grave Landscapes
The Nineteenth-Century Rural Cemetary Movement
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
During the Industrial Revolution people flocked to American cities. Overcrowding in these areas led to packed urban graveyards that were not only unsightly, but were also a source of public health fears. The solution was a revolutionary new type of American burial ground located in the countryside...
History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out
Ethnicity, Race, and Identity in Working-Class History
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
In History from the Bottom Up and the Inside Out James R. Barrett rethinks the boundaries of American social and labor history by investigating the ways in which working-class, radical, and immigrant people's personal lives intersected with their activism and religious, racial, ethnic, and class...
The Melodramatic Thread
Spectacle and Political Culture in Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2007
In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country’s political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies and theatrical performance, James R. Lehning...
Grant Wins the War
Decision at Vicksburg
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2007
Vicksburg is the key. . . . Let us get Vicksburg, and all that country is ours.--President Abraham Lincoln, 1862
In a brilliantly constructed and powerfully rendered new account, James R. Arnold offers a penetrating analysis of Grant's strategies and actions leading to the Union victory at...
by James R. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In February 1862, after defeats at Bull Run and at Wilson's Creek in Missouri, the Union army was desperate for victory on the eve of its first offensive of the Civil War. The strategy was to penetrate the Southern heartland with support from a new "Brown Water"? navy. In a two-week campaign plagued...
by James R Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Most people believe that the first English colony established in North America was at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1609. In point of fact, however, that was the second English colony. The first one was 21 years before Jamestown and was on a small island just behind the Outer Banks of North Carolina. It...
Spheres of Intervention
US Foreign Policy and the Collapse of Lebanon, 1967–1976
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
In Spheres of Intervention, James R. Stocker examines the history of diplomatic relations between the United States and Lebanon during a transformational period for Lebanon and a time of dynamic changes in US policy toward the Middle East. Drawing on tens of thousands of pages of declassified materials...
Crack of the Bat
A History of Baseball on the Radio
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The...
by James R. Maxeiner
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
In this book, James R. Maxeiner takes on the challenge of demonstrating that historically American law makers did consider a statutory methodology as part of formulating laws. In the nineteenth century, when the people wanted laws they could understand, lawyers inflicted judge-made, statute-destroying,...
by James R Ashley
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Amelia Earhart was one of the most well known and admired woman of her age. And although she was more homely than pretty, there was an earthiness, a friendliness, and a passion for flying in her that captivated everyone who came in contact with her, from U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt and his wife,...
by Ernest Nagel, James R. Newman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001
In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Gödel received public recognition of...
by James R Meyer
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
If Richard Dawkins had decided to write a book about irrational beliefs in mathematics this is the book that he would have written. This is a book that is both controversial and illuminating and which forces us to take a fresh look at what we believe and why we believe it.
The book asks why...