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Faced with failing health and financial ruin, the Civil War's greatest general and former president wrote his personal memoirs to secure his family's future - and won himself a unique place in American letters. Devoted almost entirely to his life as a soldier, Grant's Memoirs traces the trajectory of his extraordinary career - from West Point cadet to general-in-chief of all Union armies. For their directness and clarity, his writings on war are without...
Series
Middle ages reference library volume Primary sources
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
Includes a timeline of events in the Middle Ages and a "Words to Know" section, this book presents nineteen full or excerpted documents written during the Middle Ages and covering such topics as cultures in conflict, personal life, and the relationship between the church and government.
Pub. Date
2003
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Publisher's description: Gnosticism was a wide-ranging religious movement of the first millennium CE--with earlier antecedents and later flourishings--whose adherents sought salvation through knowledge and personal religious experience. Gnostic writings offer striking perspectives on both early Christian and non-Christian thought. For example, some gnostic texts suggest that god should be celebrated as both mother and father, and the self-knowledge...
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Pub. Date
©2005
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Presents volume two of a three-volume series on the origins, history, and effects of the Crusades between 1095 and 1291 A.D. and includes twenty-four primary documents, speeches, and political statements on the accounts of battles and sieges and the slaughter of Jews in Europe by Crusaders, and excerpts from literature.
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Pub. Date
[1996]
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"This book contains new insights into one of the unanswered questions of recent world history. Why, with their head start in not only research in nuclear fission but in other technological feats, didn't the Germans succeed in building a nuclear bomb during World War II? Now ..., this book brings to the public ... annotated transcripts of ... declassified intelligence reports from that time. These reports contain verbatim conversations among ten German...
Pub. Date
2006
Description
"William Shakespeare's Macbeth (c. 1606) is a timeless tale of love, greed and power, which has given rise to heated debates around such issues as the representation of gender roles, political violence and the dramatisation of evil." "Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Shakespeare's spectacular play offers: extensive introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and many interpretations of the text, from first performance to...
12) Understanding Pride and prejudice: a student casebook to issues, sources, and historical documents
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Pub. Date
1997
Description
"This is the only book about Pride and Prejudice to combine both analysis of the novel and excerpts from significant primary documents of Austen's own time. Teachman provides commentary and primary materials on inheritance, marriage, and women's roles in English society at the beginning of the 19th century. Excerpts from 18th- and 19th-century etiquette guides, moral treatises, histories of women, legal documents and commentary, newspapers, magazines,...
Pub. Date
1997.
Description
Contains primary source material.
"October 1962: the United States and the Soviet Union stood eyeball to eyeball, each brandishing enough nuclear weapons to obliterate each other's civilization. It was one of the most dangerous moments in world history. Day by day, for two weeks, an executive committee formed around elements of President Kennedy's National Security Council debated what to do, twice coming to the brink of attacking Soviet military...
