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Robert E. Lee: A Biography

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The best and most balanced of the Lee biographies."—New York Review of Books The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph—triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee confessed that he "was always wanting something." In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and hero in the American story. But in life, Thomas writes, Lee was both more and less than his legend. Here is the man behind the legend.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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039334732X

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9780393347326

Journey to the Arctic

The True Story of the Disastrous 1871 Mission to the North Pole

By: George Emory Tyson

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Journey to the Arctic

The True Story of the Disastrous 1871 Mission to the North Pole

By: George Emory Tyson

“While floating down on the ice-floe, in the midst of dirt and darkness, hungry and cold… I wondered at myself that I could have learned, in a few short months, to have eaten such things, and submitted to such practices, as but few civilized persons have ever been called to endure.” In June of 1871, navigator George E. Tyson and the Polaris sailed forth from New York to pursue an American dream—to be the first expedition to explore the icy waters of the North Pole. Led by Captain Hall, veteran Arctic explorer, and funded with a $50,000 grant from the U.S. Congress, it seemed the Polaris would not fail. But the voyage was doomed from the start: impassable ice-floes, a crew that couldn’t get along, and eventually the poisoning and untimely death of Captain Hall. Finally, as winter approached, Tyson and half the crew found themselves stranded on the Arctic ice, incapable of reconnecting with their ship. They would not be rescued for six months. Through Tyson’s detailed notes and a journal written upon the ice, Journey to the Arctic tells the harrowing tale of survival, slow starvation, and of men turned wild in frigid climes. This definitive edition includes original engravings of the explorers and their findings, charts and maps of their journey, and a new introduction by famed adventure essayist and Arctic exploration expert Peter Stark.

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1620875799

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9781620875797

A "topping People"

The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790

By: Emory G. Evans

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A "topping People"

The Rise and Decline of Virginia's Old Political Elite, 1680-1790

By: Emory G. Evans

A "Topping People" is the first comprehensive study of the political, economic, and social elite of colonial Virginia. Evans studies twenty-one leading families from their rise to power in the late 1600s to their downfall over one hundred years later. These families represented the upper echelons of power, serving in the upper and lower houses of the General Assembly, often as speaker of the House of Burgesses. Their names--Randolph, Robinson, Byrd, Carter, Corbin, Custis, Nelson, and Page, to note but a few--are still familiar in the Old Dominion some three hundred years later. Their decline was due to a variety of factors--economic, social, and demographic. The third generations showed an inability to adapt their business philosophies to the changing economic climate. Their inclination was to mirror the English landed gentry, living off the income of their landed estates. Economic diversification was the norm early on, but it became less effective after 1730. Scots traders, for example, introduced chain stores, making it more difficult to continue family-run stores. And land speculation was no substitute for diversification. An increase in population resulted in the creation of new counties, which weakened the influence of the Tidewater region. These leading families began to spend more than they earned and became heavily indebted to British mercantile firms. The Revolution only served to make matters worse, and by 1790 these families had lost their political and economic status, although their social status remained. A "Topping People" is a thorough and engrossing study of the way families came to gain and, eventually, lose great power in this turbulent and progressive period in American history.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813927900

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9780813927909

The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature

By: Emory Elliott

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The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature

By: Emory Elliott

The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature offers students a literary history of American writing in English between 1492 and 1820, as well as providing a concise social and cultural history of these three centuries. Emory Elliott traces the impact of race, gender, and ethnic conflict on early American culture, and explores the centrality of American Puritanism in the formation of a distinctively American literature. This highly engaging and comprehensive study will be essential reading for students of the literature, history and culture of early America.

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Cambridge University Press

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052152041X

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9780521520416

The Confederate State of Richmond

A Biography of the Capital

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Confederate State of Richmond

A Biography of the Capital

By: Emory M. Thomas

In this, his first book, originally published in 1971, noted historian Emory M. Thomas offers an astute analysis of Civil War Richmond that remains unchallenged to this day. Blending official documents and city council minutes with personal diaries and newspaper accounts, Thomas vividly recounts the military, political, social, and economic experiences of the Confederate capital, providing a compelling drama of home-front war that, in Richmond's case, rivaled the spectacular events on the battlefield. One of the first studies in southern urban history, The Confederate State of Richmonddeftly demonstrates how Richmond responded to the intense demands of war and became a great capital city.

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LSU Press

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0807123196

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9780807123195

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

By: Emory Washburn

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Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

By: Emory Washburn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.

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3375103794

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9783375103798

The Dogs of War

1861

By: Emory M. Thomas

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The Dogs of War

1861

By: Emory M. Thomas

In 1861, Americans thought that the war looming on their horizon would be brief. None foresaw that they were embarking on our nation's worst calamity, a four-year bloodbath that cost the lives of more than half a million people. But as eminent Civil War historian Emory Thomas points out in this stimulating and provocative book, once the dogs of war are unleashed, it is almost impossible to rein them in. In The Dogs of War, Thomas highlights the delusions that dominated each side's thinking. Lincoln believed that most Southerners loved the Union, and would be dragged unwillingly into secession by the planter class. Jefferson Davis could not quite believe that Northern resolve would survive the first battle. Once the Yankees witnessed Southern determination, he hoped, they would acknowledge Confederate independence. These two leaders, in turn, reflected widely held myths. Thomas weaves his exploration of these misconceptions into a tense narrative of the months leading up to the war, from the "Great Secession Winter" to a fast-paced account of the Fort Sumter crisis in 1861. Emory M. Thomas's books demonstrate a breathtaking range of major Civil War scholarship, from The Confederacy as a Revolutionary Experience and the landmark The Confederate Nation, to definitive biographies of Robert E. Lee and J.E.B. Stuart. In The Dogs of War, he draws upon his lifetime of study to offer a new perspective on the outbreak of our national Iliad.

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Oxford University Press

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0199831580

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9780199831586

The Columbia Literary History of the United States

By: Emory Elliott

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The Columbia Literary History of the United States

By: Emory Elliott

For the first time in four decades, there exists an authoritative and up-to-date survey of the literature of the United States, from prehistoric cave narratives to the radical movements of the sixties and the experimentation of the eighties. This comprehensive volume—one of the century's most important books in American studies—extensively treats Hawthorne, Melville, Dickinson, Hemingway, and other long-cherished writers, while also giving considerable attention to recently discovered writers such as Kate Chopin and to literary movements and forms of writing not studied amply in the past. Informed by the most current critical and theoretical ideas, it sets forth a generation's interpretation of the rise of American civilization and culture. The Columbia Literary History of the United States contains essays by today's foremost scholars and critics, overseen by a board of distinguished editors headed by Emory Elliott of Princeton University. These contributors reexamine in contemporary terms traditional subjects such as the importance of Puritanism, Romanticism, and frontier humor in American life and writing, but they also fully explore themes and materials that have only begun to receive deserved attention in the last two decades. Among these are the role of women as writers, readers, and literary subjects and the impact of writers from minority groups, both inside and outside the literary establishment.

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Columbia University Press

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0585041520

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9780585041520

Hospital Ships of World War II

An Illustrated Reference to 39 United States Military Vessels

By: Emory A. Massman

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Hospital Ships of World War II

An Illustrated Reference to 39 United States Military Vessels

By: Emory A. Massman

The first U.S. hospital ship of World War II saw service in mid-1943. By war's end, the fleet had carried nearly 17,000 sick and wounded home. This richly illustrated work covers all 39 ships that served as U.S. Navy and Army hospital ships during World War II. Each ship's history is fully covered, concentrating on the ship's hospital service. Information is presented on each ship's personnel, the handling of patients, types of wounds and diseases encountered, and life aboard the ships. General layouts of the ships and technical data are also included. Biographies are provided on persons for whom ships were named.

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McFarland

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1476609632

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9781476609638

A Festival of Violence

An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930

By: Stewart Emory Tolnay,E. M. Beck

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A Festival of Violence

An Analysis of Southern Lynchings, 1882-1930

By: Stewart Emory Tolnay,E. M. Beck

This finely detailed statistical study of lynching in ten southern states shows that economic and status concerns were at the heart of that violent practice. Stewart Tolnay and E. M. Beck empirically test competing explanations of the causes of lynching, using U.S. Census and historical voting data and a newly constructed inventory of southern lynch victims. Among their surprising findings: lynching responded to fluctuations in the price of cotton, decreasing in frequency when prices rose and increasing when they fell.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252064135

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9780252064135

Bold Dragoon

The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

By: Emory M. Thomas

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Bold Dragoon

The Life of J.E.B. Stuart

By: Emory M. Thomas

Jeb Stuart, leader of the cavalry of the Army of Northern Virginia, earned the admiration of his enemies during the first three years of the Civil War. Famed for his daring ride around McClellan during the Peninsula Campaign, and his raid behind Union lines in Virginia and into Maryland and Pennsylvania, he was a legend long before he was killed at Yellow Tavern in 1864.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806131934

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The Economic Policies of Alexander Hamilton

Works & Speeches of the Founder of American Financial System

By: Alexander Hamilton,Emory Speer

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The Economic Policies of Alexander Hamilton

Works & Speeches of the Founder of American Financial System

By: Alexander Hamilton,Emory Speer

This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. It presents Alexander Hamilton's views on American economy. As the first Secretary of the Treasury, Hamilton was the main author of the economic policies of the George Washington administration. He took the lead in the funding of the states' debts by the Federal government, as well as the establishment of a national bank, a system of tariffs, and friendly trade relations with Britain. His vision included a strong central government led by a vigorous executive branch, a strong commercial economy, with a national bank and support for manufacturing, plus a strong military. Contents: Writings and Speeches on Taxation and Finance Papers on National Bank Papers on Coinage and the Mint Papers on Industry and Commerce Writings and Speeches on Commercial Relations Biography of Alexander Hamilton by Emory Speer

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e-artnow

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8027244153

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9788027244157

Revolutionary Writers

Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810

By: Emory Elliott

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Revolutionary Writers

Literature and Authority in the New Republic, 1725-1810

By: Emory Elliott

Elliott demonstrates how America's first men of letters--Timothy Dwight, Joel Barlow, Philip Freneau, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, and Charles Brockden Brown--sought to make individual genius in literature express the collective genius of the American people. Without literary precedent to aid them, Elliott argues, these writers attempted to convey a vision of what America ought to be; and when the moral imperatives implicit in their writings were rejected by the vast number of their countrymen they became pioneers of another sort--the first to experience the alienation from mainstream American culture that would become the fate of nearly all serious writers who would follow.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195039955

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Book's by Emory William

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Journey to the Arctic

Journey to the Arctic

A "topping People"

A "topping People"

The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature

The Cambridge Introduction to Early American Literature

The Confederate State of Richmond

The Confederate State of Richmond

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

Historical Sketches of the Town of Leicester

The Dogs of War

The Dogs of War

The Columbia Literary History of the United States

The Columbia Literary History of the United States

Hospital Ships of World War II

Hospital Ships of World War II

A Festival of Violence

A Festival of Violence

Bold Dragoon

Bold Dragoon

The Economic Policies of Alexander Hamilton

The Economic Policies of Alexander Hamilton

Revolutionary Writers

Revolutionary Writers

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