Samuel Taylor's Books

General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.

By: Samuel J. Martin

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

General Braxton Bragg is often described as a despicable, friendless man, the most hated general of the Confederacy. Historians have denigrated Bragg by accepting without challenge the self-serving accusations of prominent, disgruntled subordinates, each of whom sought to explain their own failures by assigning them to Bragg. This biography, without dodging Bragg's deficiencies, refutes much of this false testimony. The result is a balanced view of this controversial general, from his early rise to power in the Western theater to his subsequent fall from grace in the latter years of the Civil War.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

537

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

0786461942

ISBN 13

9780786461943

Spalding Memorial

By: Samuel Spalding

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Spalding Memorial

By: Samuel Spalding

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

665

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3382182270

ISBN 13

9783382182274

The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals

The Definitive Guide to the 426 Leaders of the South's War Effort

By: Samuel W. Mitcham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals

The Definitive Guide to the 426 Leaders of the South's War Effort

By: Samuel W. Mitcham

A renown military historian and frequent television commenter brings to life the generalship of the South during the Civil War in sparkling, information-filled vignettes. For both the Civil War completist and the general reader! Anyone acquainted with the American Civil War will readily recognize the names of the Confederacy’s most prominent generals. Robert E. Lee. Stonewall Jackson. James Longstreet. These men have long been lionized as fearless commanders and genius tacticians. Yet few have heard of the hundreds of generals who led under and alongside them. Men whose battlefield resolve spurred the Confederacy through four years of the bloodiest combat Americans have ever faced. In The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals, veteran Civil War historian, Samuel W. Mitcham, documents the lives of every Confederate general from birth to death, highlighting their unique contributions to the battlefield and bringing their personal triumphs and tragedies to life. Packed with photos and historical briefings, The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals belongs on the shelf of every Civil War historian, and preserves in words the legacies once carved in stone.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

967

Publisher

Simon and Schuster

Published Date

ISBN 10

1684512794

ISBN 13

9781684512799

Shakespeare's Lives

By: Samuel Schoenbaum

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Shakespeare's Lives

By: Samuel Schoenbaum

This volume presents a study of the changing images and differing ways that the life of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been interpreted throughout history. The author takes readers on a tour of the countless myths and legends which have arisen to explain the great dramatist's life and work, bringing the story right up to 1989. He reconstructs as much of the elusive author's life as possible, considering his family history, his economic standing, and his reputation with his peers; the Shakespeare who emerges may not always be the familiar one.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

658

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198186185

ISBN 13

9780198186182

Story as History - History as Story

The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History

By: Samuel Byrskog

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Story as History - History as Story

The Gospel Tradition in the Context of Ancient Oral History

By: Samuel Byrskog

Please note that this title is only available to customers in the USA, Canada, and Mexico. NO salesrights for Rest of World. Samuel Byrskog employs models from the interdisciplinary field of oral history as presented by Paul Thompson, coupled with insights from cultural anthropology, in order to examine the interaction between the present and the past as the gospel tradition evolved. The ancient Greek and Roman historians, with their use of eyewitness testimony as sources to the past and as central elements in interpretive and narrativizing processes of the present, serve as the basis for unraveling culture-specific patterns of oral history, and thus for conceptualizing similar aspects during the development of the gospel tradition. Eyewitness testimonies played a central but varying role in early Christianity. They were transmitted in the matrix of discipleship, where verbal and behavioral traditions were passed on through acts of mimesis. The folkloristic notion of re-oralization explains how oral accounts regularly interacted with written texts, indicating a vivid and engaged relationship to the past as well as the semantic significance of oral communication and performance. Factual truth was essential but inseparable from interpreted truth during the course of investigation, transmission, and composition. The gospel tradition developed through a subtle interaction between the unique historic events of the past and the various circumstances of the present. The narrative and historical dimensions of a text cannot be separated, because the semantic codes of a text are often located in the culture and not in the text itself. The gospels are therefore the synthesis of history and story, intertwining the horizons of the past and of the present in their own right.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

411

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

900450205X

ISBN 13

9789004502055

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II

1773-1776

By: Samuel Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II

1773-1776

By: Samuel Johnson

The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, its ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of postwar Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had previously resisted explanation. The result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

410

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400862124

ISBN 13

9781400862122

Theatres of Memory

Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

By: Raphael Samuel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Theatres of Memory

Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

By: Raphael Samuel

When Theatres of Memory was first published in 1994, it transformed the debate about what is to be considered history and questioned the role of "heritage" that lies at the heart of every Western nation's obsession with the past. Today, in the age of Downton Abbey and Mad Men, we are once again conjuring historical fictions to make sense of our everyday lives. In this remarkable book, Samuel looks at the many different ways we use the 'unofficial knowledge' of the past. Considering such varied areas as the fashion for "retrofitting," the rise of family history, the joys of collecting old photographs, the allure of reenactment societies and televised adaptations of Dickens, Samuel transforms our understanding of the uses of history. He shows us that history is a living practice, something constantly being reassessed in the world around us.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

334

Publisher

Verso Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1781684146

ISBN 13

9781781684146

Guy's Hospital Reports Third Series

Vol. 10

By: Samuel Wilks

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Guy's Hospital Reports Third Series

Vol. 10

By: Samuel Wilks

Reprint of the original, first published in 1864.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

454

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3368728121

ISBN 13

9783368728120

The Power of Black Music

Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

By: Samuel A. Floyd Jr.

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Power of Black Music

Interpreting Its History from Africa to the United States

By: Samuel A. Floyd Jr.

When Jimi Hendrix transfixed the crowds of Woodstock with his gripping version of "The Star Spangled Banner," he was building on a foundation reaching back, in part, to the revolutionary guitar playing of Howlin' Wolf and the other great Chicago bluesmen, and to the Delta blues tradition before him. But in its unforgettable introduction, followed by his unaccompanied "talking" guitar passage and inserted calls and responses at key points in the musical narrative, Hendrix's performance of the national anthem also hearkened back to a tradition even older than the blues, a tradition rooted in the rings of dance, drum, and song shared by peoples across Africa. Bold and original, The Power of Black Music offers a new way of listening to the music of black America, and appreciating its profound contribution to all American music. Striving to break down the barriers that remain between high art and low art, it brilliantly illuminates the centuries-old linkage between the music, myths and rituals of Africa and the continuing evolution and enduring vitality of African-American music. Inspired by the pioneering work of Sterling Stuckey and Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author Samuel A. Floyd, Jr, advocates a new critical approach grounded in the forms and traditions of the music itself. He accompanies readers on a fascinating journey from the African ring, through the ring shout's powerful merging of music and dance in the slave culture, to the funeral parade practices of the early new Orleans jazzmen, the bluesmen in the twenties, the beboppers in the forties, and the free jazz, rock, Motown, and concert hall composers of the sixties and beyond. Floyd dismisses the assumption that Africans brought to the United States as slaves took the music of whites in the New World and transformed it through their own performance practices. Instead, he recognizes European influences, while demonstrating how much black music has continued to share with its African counterparts. Floyd maintains that while African Americans may not have direct knowledge of African traditions and myths, they can intuitively recognize links to an authentic African cultural memory. For example, in speaking of his grandfather Omar, who died a slave as a young man, the jazz clarinetist Sidney Bechet said, "Inside him he'd got the memory of all the wrong that's been done to my people. That's what the memory is....When a blues is good, that kind of memory just grows up inside it." Grounding his scholarship and meticulous research in his childhood memories of black folk culture and his own experiences as a musician and listener, Floyd maintains that the memory of Omar and all those who came before and after him remains a driving force in the black music of America, a force with the power to enrich cultures the world over.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

334

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0199839298

ISBN 13

9780199839292

Untimely Politics

By: Samuel A. Chambers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Untimely Politics

By: Samuel A. Chambers

The standard, linear view of history is founded on the belief that political outcomes are predetermined by what has gone before. This book challenges this view, arguing for what Samuel A. Chambers calls an untimely politics which renders the past problematic and the future unpredictable. This pathbreaking argument is advanced through a close reading of key texts in political theory and by entering into debates involving metaphysics, philosophy of language, and psychoanalysis versus discursive analysis. Chambers focuses on the theme of the relevance of language analysis to political debate, answering those critics who insist discourse approaches to politics are irrelevant. Heidegger, Nietzsche, Foucault and Derrida are used to challenge the political burden which is placed on language analysis to prove its value in the real world. Drawing from political theory and cultural studies Chambers takes on the same-sex marriage debate, showing how the use and misuse of language has contributed to an impasse that is not likely to be broken. Wide ranging and insightful, Untimely Politics makes a timely plea for a more politically relevant and culturally engaged form of intellectual engagement.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

214

Publisher

NYU Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0814716415

ISBN 13

9780814716410

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

1731-1772

By: Samuel Johnson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

1731-1772

By: Samuel Johnson

It is now become so much the fashion to publish letters, that in order to avoid it, I put as little into mine as I can," Samuel Johnson declared, according to Boswell. And Boswell answered, "Do what you will, Sir, you cannot avoid it. Should you even write as ill as you can, your letters would be published as curiosities." But Johnson's letters are far more than that. Even at their most cursory and casual, they are never less than precious biographical documents, and many of them mirror, define, and re-create a vivid likeness of the most versatile writer of eighteenth-century England. With these three volumes Princeton University Press inaugurates the first scholarly edition of this remarkable material to appear in forty years--the planned five-volume series The Letters of Samuel Johnson. Known as the Hyde Edition, the project will be completed with the fourth volume, covering the years 1782 through 1784, and the fifth, containing the comprehensive index and appendices. The series as a whole will present fifty-two previously unknown letters or parts of letters that have come to light since the publication of R. W. Chapman's three-volume set (Oxford, 1952). Such "new" letters, however, are scarcely more important than those for which only inferior printed texts or copies of varying reliability had previously been recovered. The Hyde Edition offers scores of texts transcribed for the first time from the original documents--a feature of special importance in the case of Johnson's revealing letters to Hester Thrale, many of which have been available only in expurgated form. The Hyde Edition is also the first systematically to record substantive deletions, which can yield intimate knowledge of Johnson's stylistic procedures, mental habits, and chains of association. Furthermore, its ownership credits document the current disposition of the manuscripts, hundreds of which have changed hands during the last four decades. Finally, the annotation of the letters incorporates the many significant discoveries of postwar Johnsonian scholarship, as well as decoding references that had previously resisted explanation. The result is a far richer understanding of Samuel Johnson's life, work, and milieu. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

468

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1400862116

ISBN 13

9781400862115

Cowan and Steel's Manual for the Identification of Medical Bacteria

By: Samuel Tertius Cowan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cowan and Steel's Manual for the Identification of Medical Bacteria

By: Samuel Tertius Cowan

A practical manual of the key characteristics of the bacteria likely to be encountered in microbiology laboratories and in medical and veterinary practice.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

356

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521543282

ISBN 13

9780521543286

A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II

1500-1900

By: Samuel Hugh Moffett

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II

1500-1900

By: Samuel Hugh Moffett

The story of Christianity in the West has often been told, but the history of Christianity in the East is not as well known. The seed was the same: the good news of Jesus Christ for the whole world, which Christians call "the gospel." But it was sown by different sowers; it was planted in different soil; it grew with a different flavor; and it was gathered by different reapers. It is too often forgotten that the faith moved east across Asia as early as it moved west into Europe. Western church history tends to follow Paul to Philippi and to Rome and on across Europe to the conversion of Constantine and the barbarians. With some outstanding exceptions, only intermittently has the West looked beyond Constantinople as its center. It was a Christianity that has for centuries remained unashamedly Asian. A History of Christianity in Asia makes available immense amounts of research on religious pluralism of Asia and how Christianity spread long before the modern missionary movement went forth in the shelter of Western military might. Invaluable for historians of Asia and scholars of mission, it is stimulating for all readers interested in Christian history. --

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

702

Publisher

Orbis Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1608331636

ISBN 13

9781608331635

The Transformation of Black Music

The Rhythms, the Songs, and the Ships that Make the African Diaspora

By: Samuel A. Floyd (Jr.),Melanie Zeck,Guthrie P. Ramsey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Transformation of Black Music

The Rhythms, the Songs, and the Ships that Make the African Diaspora

By: Samuel A. Floyd (Jr.),Melanie Zeck,Guthrie P. Ramsey

The Transformation of Black Music includes a full spectrum of black musics from four continents as it argues for a re-codification of black musics and performers. Framed by a call and response argument, the authors present not only a more holistic and historically accurate understanding of musics in the African Diaspora, but also an intellectually robust future for the field of black music research.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

281

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195307240

ISBN 13

9780195307245

Book's by Samuel Taylor

General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.

General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.

Spalding Memorial

Spalding Memorial

The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals

The Encyclopedia of Confederate Generals

Shakespeare's Lives

Shakespeare's Lives

Story as History - History as Story

Story as History - History as Story

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume II

Theatres of Memory

Theatres of Memory

Guy's Hospital Reports Third Series

Guy's Hospital Reports Third Series

The Power of Black Music

The Power of Black Music

Untimely Politics

Untimely Politics

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I

Cowan and Steel's Manual for the Identification of Medical Bacteria

Cowan and Steel's Manual for the Identification of Medical Bacteria

A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II

A History of Christianity in Asia, Vol. II

The Transformation of Black Music

The Transformation of Black Music

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email