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Marcel Proust

A Life, with a New Preface by the Author

By: William C. Carter

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Marcel Proust

A Life, with a New Preface by the Author

By: William C. Carter

Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, " Marcel Proust" portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. "An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the changing world he knew."-Roger Pearson, "New York Times Book Review" "William C. Carter is Proust's definitive biographer."-Harold Bloom Named a Notable Book of 2000 by the "New York Times Book Review

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Yale University Press

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0300195095

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9780300195095

Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence

Carter and Korea in Crisis

By: William H. Gleysteen

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Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence

Carter and Korea in Crisis

By: William H. Gleysteen

Using extensive documentation, this book examines how President Jimmy Carter's troop withdrawal and human rights policies—conceived in abstraction from East Asian realities—contributed to the demise of Korean President Park Chung Hee. The author suggests that some lessons are relevant beyond Korea, for example, in our treatment of human rights problems in China today.

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284

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0815791097

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9780815791096

Confederate Privateer

The Life of John Yates Beall

By: William C. Harris

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Confederate Privateer

The Life of John Yates Beall

By: William C. Harris

Confederate Privateer is a comprehensive account of the brief life and exploits of John Yates Beall, a Confederate soldier, naval officer, and guerrilla in the Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes region. A resident of Charles Town, Virginia (now West Virginia), near Harpers Ferry, Beall was a member of the militia guarding the site of John Brown’s execution in 1859. Beall later signed on as a private in the Confederate army and suffered a wound in defense of Harpers Ferry early in the war. He quickly became a fanatical Confederate, ignoring the issue of slavery by focusing on a belief that he was fighting to preserve liberty against a tyrannical Republican party that had usurped the republic and its constitution. Limited by poor health but still seeking an active role in the Confederate cause, Beall traveled to the Midwest and then to Canada, where he developed an elaborate plan for Confederate operations on the Great Lakes. In Richmond, Beall laid his plan before Confederate President Jefferson Davis and Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory. Instead of the Great Lakes operation, Mallory authorized a small privateering action on the Chesapeake Bay. Led by “Captain” Beall, the operation damaged or destroyed several ships under the protection of the U.S. Navy. For his part in organizing the raids, Beall became known as the “Terror of the Chesapeake.” After Union forces captured Beall and his men, the War Department prepared to try them as pirates. But Secretary of War Edwin Stanton backed down, and Beall was later freed in a prisoner exchange. Organizing another privateering operation on the Great Lakes, Beall had some early successes on the water. He then hatched a plan to derail a passenger train transporting Confederate prisoners of war near Niagara, New York, but was captured before he could carry out the mission. The Union army charged Beall with conspiracy, found him guilty, and executed him. Harris’s history of Beall offers a new view of paramilitary efforts by civilians to support the Confederacy. Though little remembered today, Beall was a legendary figure in the Civil War South, so much so that his execution was on John Wilkes Booth’s list of reasons to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Based on exhaustive research in primary and secondary sources and placed in the context of more extensive Confederate guerrilla operations, Confederate Privateer is sure to be of interest to Civil War scholars and general readers interested in the conflict.

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LSU Press

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0807180858

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9780807180853

Welcome the Hour of Conflict

William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama

By: William Cowan McClellan

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Welcome the Hour of Conflict

William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama

By: William Cowan McClellan

Preparing for war : Alabama to Richmond, January 14-June 20, 1861 -- Waiting for the great battle : Richmond to Manassas, June 21-July 21, 1861, Manassas to Centreville, Virginia : July 22-September 21, 1861 -- Camp at Centreville, Virginia : September 27-December 31, 1861 -- The road to the Peninsula : January 8-March 24, 1862 -- The Peninsula campaign and the Seven Days Battles : March 25-July 27, 1862 -- The Second Battle of Manassas to Fredericksburg, Virginia : August 9-November 18, 1862 -- The Fredericksburg campaign : December 3, 1862-February 9, 1863 -- Chancellorsville, Virginia, to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania : February 20-July 9, 1863 -- Orange, Virginia, to Petersburg, Virginia : August 22, 1863-October, 1864 -- Prison and home again : January 2-June 2, 1865 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A : List of the letters -- Appendix B : 9th Alabama Regiment casualties/enlistment totals -- Appendix C : 9th Alabama Regiment officers and infantry assignments -- Appendix D : Pvt. William Cowan McClellan's military record -- Appendix E : 9th Alabama regimental roster for Companies F and H

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University of Alabama Press

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0817315217

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9780817315214

Lewis County

By: Dr. William M. Talley,Paula Franke

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Lewis County

By: Dr. William M. Talley,Paula Franke

Lewis County, located in far northeastern Kentucky, was formed in 1806 and named for explorer Meriwether Lewis. The county was once teeming with industry as a supplier of finished goods and agricultural products. Historically, the countys proximity to the Ohio River allowed the export of timber and salt, and in the 1800s, railroad transportation made Lewis County an influential source of railroad ties, boat-building materials, and barrels. In later years, the area was most popular for its health resorts, spas, and sulfur waters, which attracted visitors from as far as New York and Chicago. The images in this volume depict the countys military influence, as Lewis Countians had strong allegiance to the Union during the Civil War. The photographs featured in Images of America: Lewis County have been drawn from the archive of the Vanceburg Depot Museum and from various private collections.

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132

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439612994

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9781439612996

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

By: William Barksdale Maynard

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Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

By: William Barksdale Maynard

This study traces the development of American architecture from the age of Jefferson to the antebellum era, providing a survey of this important period. W. Barksdale Maynard overturns the long-accepted notions that the chief theme of early 19th-century American architecture was a patriotic desire to escape from European influence and that competing styles chiefly reflected the American struggle for cultural uniqueness. Instead, deep and consistent aesthetic ties, especially with England, shaped American architecture and house designs. Maynard shows that the Greek Revival in particular was an international phenomenon, with American achievements inspired by British example and with taste taking precedence over patriotism.

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Yale University Press

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0300093837

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9780300093834

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937

By: William M. Wiecek

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The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

Law and Ideology in America, 1886-1937

By: William M. Wiecek

This volume examines legal ideology in the US from the height of the Gilded Age through the time of the New Deal, when the Supreme Court began to discard orthodox thought in favour of more modernist approaches to law. Wiecek places this era of legal thought in its historical context, integrating social, economic, and intellectual analyses.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195147138

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9780195147131

Water Transport in Brick, Stone and Concrete

By: Christopher Hall,William D. Hoff

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Water Transport in Brick, Stone and Concrete

By: Christopher Hall,William D. Hoff

This book provides a unified description of transport processes involving saturated and unsaturated flow in inorganic building materials and structures. It emphasizes fundamental physics and materials science, mathematical description, and experimental measurement as a basis for engineering design and construction practice. Water Transport in Brick, Stone and Concrete brings together in a unified manner current information and guidance on a complex subject. Durability of much of the built infrastructure depends on how water reacts with the construction material concerned, yet the underlying science of deterioration processes is not yet well understood. This book, by the two leading researchers in the field, will provide a central point of reference for the future. The second edition includes many references to new publications and gives new analyses of important topics in water transport, notably on the evaporation-driven moisture dynamics of built structures.

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389

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CRC Press

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0415564670

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9780415564670

Solar System Astrophysics

Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System

By: Eugene F. Milone,William J.F. Wilson

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Solar System Astrophysics

Planetary Atmospheres and the Outer Solar System

By: Eugene F. Milone,William J.F. Wilson

The book covers the field of solar system astrophysics beginning with basic tools of spherical astronomy and coordinate frames and celestial mechanics. It therefore presents equations and derivations starting from a level that permits one to see the underlying physical ideas. An up-to-date overview on all essential topics is presented, but is concise where possible. The text is based on extensive experience in the classroom and its contents have been field-tested by students for years. The material has been updated in the last few months to take advantage of the newer discoveries of the Mars Rover and the Saturn Cassini missions.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387731571

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9780387731575

Proust in Love

By: William C. Carter

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Proust in Love

By: William C. Carter

The acclaimed Proust biographer William C. Carter portrays Proust’s amorous adventures and misadventures from adolescence through his adult years, supplying where appropriate Proust’s own sensitive, intelligent, and often disillusioned observations about love and sexuality. Proust is revealed as a man agonizingly caught between the constant fear of public exposure as a homosexual and the need to find and express love. In telling the story of Proust in love, Carter also shows how the author’s experiences became major themes in his novel In Search of Lost Time. Carter discusses Proust’s adolescent sexual experiences, his disastrous brothel visit to cure homosexual inclinations, and his first great loves. He also addresses the duel Proust fought after the journalist Jean Lorrain alluded to his homosexuality in print, his flirtations with respectable women and high-class prostitutes, and his affairs with young men of the servant class. With new revelations about Proust’s love life and a gallery of photographs, the book provides an unprecedented glimpse of Proust’s gay Paris.

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Yale University Press

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0300134886

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9780300134889

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 8

By: William D Brewer,Hester Davenport,Julia A Shaffer

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The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 8

By: William D Brewer,Hester Davenport,Julia A Shaffer

Regularly the subject of cartoonists and satirical novelists, Mary Robinson achieved public notoriety as the mistress of the young Prince of Wales (George IV). Her association with figures such as William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft, and comparisons with Charlotte Smith, make her a serious figure for scholarly research.

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Routledge

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1000749592

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9781000749595

Book's by William C. Carter

Marcel Proust

Marcel Proust

Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence

Massive Entanglement, Marginal Influence

Confederate Privateer

Confederate Privateer

Welcome the Hour of Conflict

Welcome the Hour of Conflict

Lewis County

Lewis County

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

The Lost World of Classical Legal Thought

Water Transport in Brick, Stone and Concrete

Water Transport in Brick, Stone and Concrete

Solar System Astrophysics

Solar System Astrophysics

Proust in Love

Proust in Love

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 8

The Works of Mary Robinson, Part II vol 8

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