Departmental Acquisitions: 0-1 http://www.yoursite.com/http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507082Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507082http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504629Description: The author recounts the first 500 days after 9/11, laying bare the harrowing decisions, deceptions, and delusions of the eighteen months that changed the world forever. "500 Days" also includes reported details about warrantless wiretapping, the anthrax attacks and investigations, and conflicts between Washington and London.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504629http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507083Description: "Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. The presence of these early New World people was established by distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative. They counter traditional -- and often subjective -- approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness by applying rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Presenting archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago."-- Book jacket.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507083http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507203Description: While the modern nation can trace its origins back to 1747, the history of Afghanistan is far more ancient. It has long been an ancient focal point of the Silk Road and human migration connecting the Central Asian steppe and China with Iran and the Indian subcontinent. While many native people such as the Kushans, Samanids, Saffarids and Mughals have founded their empires here, the country has also been the target of numerous invasions. Its combination of geography and mix of peoples explains why Afghanistan is one of the most culturally rich and diverse places on Earth. Rich in local precious metals and minerals, it has a long history of producing high-quality arts and crafts. This book features views of the country's landscape, important monuments, and a range of ancient and modern objects. It places this rich and ancient seam of creativity in its broad historical context and offers a full appreciation of this remarkable country.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507203http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507084Description: This almanac is devoted to illustrating and demystifying the moving, difficult, and often lost history of black life in America. A legacy of pride, struggle, and triumph spanning more than 400 years is presented through a mix of biographies (including 500 influential figures), little-known or misunderstood historical facts, enlightening essays on significant legislation and movements, and 150 rare photographs and illustrations. Covering events surrounding the civil rights movement; African American literature, art, and music; religion within the black community; and advances in science and medicine, this reference connects history to the issues currently facing the African American community and provides a range of information on society and culture.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507084http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503875Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503875http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504630Description: A brutally honest expos, After Mandela provides a sobering portrait of a country caught between a democratic future and a political meltdown. Recent works have focused primarily on Nelson Mandela's transcendent story. But Douglas Foster, a leading South Africa authority with early, unprecedented access to President Zuma and to the next generation in the Mandela family, traces the nation's entire post-apartheid arc, from its celebrated beginnings under "Madiba" to Thabo Mbeki's tumultuous rule to the ferocious battle between Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Foster tells this story not only from the point of view of the emerging black elite but also, drawing on hundreds of rare interviews over a six-year period, from the perspectives of ordinary citizens, including an HIV-infected teenager living outside Johannesburg and a homeless orphan in Cape Town. This is the long-awaited, revisionist account of a country whose recent history has been not just neglected but largely ignored by the West.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504630http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504631Description: Contains a collection of historical documents that have shaped the United States into the nation it is today.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504631http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504632Description: On June 28, 1839, the Spanish slave schooner Amistad set sail from Havana on a routine delivery of human cargo. On a moonless night, the captive Africans rose up, killed the captain, and seized control of the ship. They attempted to sail to a safe port, but were captured by the U.S. Navy. Their legal battle for freedom made its way to the Supreme Court, where they were freed and eventually returned to Africa. The rebellion became one of the best-known events in the history of American slavery, celebrated in films and books--all reflecting the elite perspective of the judges, politicians, and abolitionists involved. In this highly original account, using newly discovered evidence, Marcus Rediker reclaims the rebellion for its true proponents: the African rebels who risked death to stake a claim for freedom. The successful Amistad rebellion changed the very nature of the struggle against slavery. As a handful of self-emancipated Africans steered their own course to freedom, they opened a way for millions to follow. This book honors their achievement.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504632http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507204Description: Studies the intersection of class and African national forces in the history of Africa's oldest national liberation movement through the words and actions of its members.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507204http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503876Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503876http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504633Description: Based on hundreds of interviews and documents, this book chronicles the life of Barack Obama and the forces that shaped him, from early childhood through his adult years, as he became the first black president of the United States. In it the author reveals the real story of Obama's beginnings: child of a black man from Luoland in Africa and a white woman born in Texas. He charts the fortunes of the two disparate families, polar opposites in every way, which produced these two extraordinary individuals, who met briefly in Hawaii, never cohabited, and married only to legitimize the child born of that union. At the heart of Obama's psyche and his political beliefs, and therefore his presidency, is his lifelong struggle to understand the extreme duality of his identity.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504633http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508292Description: Recounts the author's adventures discovering the tomb of Egypt's famous female pharaoh, Hatshepsut, in the Valley of the Kings and discusses his experiences becoming an archaeologist and dealing with eccentric colleagues.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508292http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507086Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507086http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507205Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507205http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503122Description: "A study of United States-Bolivian in the post-World War II era. Explores attempts by Bolivian revolutionary leaders to both secure United States assistance and to obtain time and space to develop their policies and plans"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503122http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478212Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=478212http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507088Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507088http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507212Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507212http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503877Description: "Immediately after the Cuban Revolution, Havana fostered an important transnational intellectual and cultural scene. Later, Castro would strictly impose his vision of Cuban culture on the populace and the United States would bar its citizens from traveling to the island, but for these few fleeting years the Cuban capital was steeped in many liberal and revolutionary ideologies and influences.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503877http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503125Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503125http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508298Description: Looks at the history of the United States during the period before, during, and after the Revolutionary War, especially focusing on the circumstances in colonial life that led Americans to fight for their independence from Britain.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508298http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507089Description: Long a taboo subject among critics, rhythm finally takes center stage in this book's dazzling, wide ranging examination of diverse black cultures across the New World. This work traces the central, and contested, role of music in shaping identities, politics, social history, and artistic expression. Starting with enslaved African musicians, the author takes us to Haiti, Trinidad, the French Caribbean, and to the civil rights era in the United States. Along the way, he highlights such figures as Toussaint Louverture, Jacques Roumain, Jean Price Mars, The Mighty Sparrow, Aime Cesaire, Edouard Glissant, Joseph Zobel, Daniel Maximin, James Brown, and Amiri Baraka. Bringing to light new connections among black cultures, he shows how rhythm has been both a persistent marker of race as well as a dynamic force for change at virtually every major turning point in black New World history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507089http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503878Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503878http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503884Description: Assistant professor of political science Paolo Spadoni examines the United States economic embargo on Cuba, contending it has not been effective and discussing transnational practices that have undermined it.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503884http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507226Description: Presents the Hopi Kachina ceremonies from a Hopi's point of view, including an overview of the Hopi ceremonial year, discussions of the individual ceremonies, and the role of the kachina spirits and dolls within the tradition.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507226http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504634Description: One of Britain's most popular and esteemed historians tells the epic story of the birth of England. The first in an extraordinary six-volume history, "Foundation" takes the reader from the primeval forests of England's prehistory to the death, in 1509, of the first Tudor king, Henry VII.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504634http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503885Description: "From Africa to Brazil traces the flows of enslaved Africans from identifiable points in the broad region of Africa called Upper Guinea to Amazonia, Brazil. These two regions, though separated by an ocean, were made one by a slave route. Walter Hawthorne considers why planters in Amazonia wanted African slaves, why and how those sent to Amazonia were enslaved, and what their Middle Passage experience was like. The book is also concerned with how Africans in diaspora shaped labor regimes, determined the nature of their family lives, and crafted religious beliefs that were similar to those they had known before enslavement. This study makes several broad contributions. It presents the only book-length examination of African slavery in Amazonia and identifies with precision the locations in Africa from where members of a large diaspora in the Americas hailed. From Africa to Brazil also proposes new directions for scholarship focused on how immigrant groups created new or recreated old cultures"--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503885http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507217Description: A remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to doubt his strategy and always doubted himself.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507217http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507222Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507222http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503886Description: Cuba, an island 750 miles long, with a population of about 11 million, lies less than 100 miles off the U.S. coast. Yet the island's influences on America's cultural imagination are extensive and deeply ingrained. In this book the author probes the importance of Havana, and of greater Cuba, in the cultural history of the United States. Through books, advertisements, travel guides, films, and music, he demonstrates the influence of the island on almost two centuries of American life. From John Quincy Adams's comparison of Cuba to an apple ready to drop into America's lap, to the latest episodes in the lives of the "comic comandantes and exotic exiles," and to such notable Cuban exports as the rumba and the mambo, cigars and mojitos, the Cuba that emerges from these pages is a locale that Cubans and Americans have jointly imagined and inhabited. The book deftly illustrates what makes Cuba, as the author writes, "so near and yet so foreign."http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503886http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507223Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507223http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507225Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507225http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507224Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507224http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503887Description: One cannot understand Latin America without understanding the history of the Catholic Church in the region. Catholicism has been predominant in Latin Americ and it has played a definitive role in its development. It helped to spur the conquest of the New World with its emphasis on missions to the indigenous peoples, controlled many aspects of the colonial economy, and played key roles in the struggles for Independence. The History of the Catholic Church in Latin America offers a concise yet far-reaching synthesis of this institution's role from the earliest contact between the Spanish and native tribes until the modern day, the first such historical overview available in English. --http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503887http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503888Description: "Vast and varied, India is a country of contrasts. On the one hand, one out of three of the world's malnourished children lives in India. On the other hand, a McKinsey Global Inc. report suggests that if India continues its recent growth, it will be the fifth largest consumer economy in the world by 2025. With more than a billion citizens - almost 18 percent ofthe world's population - India is a reflection of over 5,000 years of interaction and exchange across a wide spectrum of cultures and civilizations. India Today: an encyclopedia of life in the republic describes the growth and development of the nation since it achieved independence from the British Raj in 1947. The two-volume work presents an analytical review of India's transition from fledgling state to the world's largest democracy and potential economic superpower. Providing current data and perspective backed by historical context as appropriate, the encyclopedia brings together the latest scholarship on India's diverse cultures, societies, religions, political cultures, and social and economic challenges. It covers such issues as foreign relations, security, and economic and political developments, helping readers understand India's people and appreciate the nation's importance as a political power and economic force, both regionally and globally."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503888http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507090Description: A high octane narrative of physical and mental toughness, giving unprecedented insight to the inner workings of the training and secret missions of the world's most respected and feared combat unit--Seal Team Six, the elite warriors who took down Osama bin Laden.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507090http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503889Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503889http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503890Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503890http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507091Description: Traces the life of Britain's former Prime Minister, from her upbringing in Grantham to her unexpected challenge to Edward Heath for leadership of the Conservative party and her eventual removal from power.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507091http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507092Description: In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, this biography is a salute to its maverick founder. Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette Gordon Low grew up in Georgia, where she struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with her desire to run barefoot through the fields. Deafened by an accident, "Daisy" married a dashing British aristocrat and moved to England. But she was ultimately betrayed by her husband and dissatisfied by the aimlessness of privileged life. Her search for a greater purpose ended when she met Robert Baden-Powell, war hero, adventurer, and founder of the Boy Scouts. Captivated with his program, Daisy aimed to instill the same useful skills and moral values in young girls, with an emphasis on fun. She imported the Boy Scouts' sister organization, the Girl Guides, to Savannah in 1912. Rechristened the Girl Scouts, it grew rapidly because of her unquenchable determination and energetic, charismatic leadership. In this biography, the author paints a dynamic portrait of an intriguing woman and a true pioneer whose work touched the lives of millions of girls and women around the world.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507092http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=129444Description: Details the first fifty-eight years of a man whose ambitions and serious flaws made him one of the world's most powerful leaders, placing Churchill's prewar career against the backdrop of the collapse of the British Empire.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=129444http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503892Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503892http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507093Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507093http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507094Description: This is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress and made his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world. Handpicked by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like a perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape according to its own designs. Suddenly the boy who had stood in the shadows was a public figure, and his popularity soared. Russia and an infatuated West were determined to see the progressive leader of their dreams, even as he seized control of media, sent political rivals and critics into exile or to the grave, and smashed the country's fragile electoral system, concentrating power in the hands of his cronies. As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and she has drawn on sources no other writer has tapped.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507094http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496668Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=496668http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503893Description: "After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would endure throughout the crucial nineteenth century. A weakened Mexico faced American territorial ambitions and economic pressure, and the U.S.-Mexican War threatened the fledgling nation's survival. In 1876 Porfirio Dâiaz became president of Mexico, bringing political stability to the troubled nation. Although Dâiaz initiated long-delayed economic development and laid the foundation of modern Mexico, his government was an oligarchy created at the expense of most Mexicans.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503893http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507095Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507095http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508286Description: Bernard Wasserstein presents a disturbing interpretation of the collapse of European Jewish civilization even before the Nazi onslaught. Wasserstein shows how the harsh realities of the age devastated the lives of communities and individuals. By 1939, the Jews faced an existential crisis that was as much the result of internal decay as of external attack.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508286http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503135Description: In Islamic law the world was made up of the House of Islam and the House of War with the Ottoman Sultan--the perceived successor to the Caliphs--supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no iron curtain between the Ottoman and other worlds but rather a long-established network of diplomatic, financial, cultural and religious connections. These extended to the empires of Asia and the modern states of Europe... Based on a huge study of original and early modern sources, including diplomatic records, travel and geographical writing, as well as personal accounts.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=503135http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507096Description: "In the twentieth century, illiteracy and its elimination were political issues important enough to figure in the fall of governments (as in Brazil in 1964), the building of nations (in newly independent African countries in the 1970s), and the construction of a revolutionary order (Nicaragua in 1980). This political biography of Paulo Freire (1921-97), who played a crucial role in shaping international literacy education, also presents a thoughtful examination of the volatile politics of literacy during the Cold War.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507096http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507227Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507227http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507228Description: "Six decades before Rosa Parks boarded her fateful bus, another traveler in the Deep South tried to strike a blow against racial discrimination--but ultimately fell short of that goal, leading to the Supreme Court's landmark 1896 decision in Plessy v. Ferguson. Now Williamjames Hull Hoffer vividly details the origins, litigation, opinions, and aftermath of this notorious case"--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507228http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507097Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507097http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=16784Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=16784http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508288Description: Overview: Throughout the twentieth century, Michigan became home to nearly every political movement in America that emerged from the grassroots. Citizens organized on behalf of concerns on the "left," on the "right," and in the "middle of the road." Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia is about the people who supported movements that others, then and later, would denounce as disgraceful-members of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, the followers of Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, anti-Communists and the John Birch Society in the post-World War II era, and the members of the Michigan Militia who first appeared in the 1990s. The book explores the complex historical circumstances in Michigan that prompted the emergence of these organizations and led everyday men and women to head off, despite ridicule or condemnation, with plans unsanctioned and tactics unorthodox, variously brandishing weapons of intimidation, discrimination, fear mongering, and terror. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including the organizations' files and interviews with some of their leaders and surviving members, JoEllen Vinyard provides a far more complete portrait of these well-known extremist groups than has ever been available.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508288http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508313Description: This work is a biographical history of the Romans who conquered and dominated Britain, based on the latest archaeological evidence and original source material. Here are the stories of the people who built and ruled Roman Britain, from the eagle bearer who leaped off Caesar's ship into the waves at Walmer in 55 B.C. to the last cavalry units to withdraw from the island under their dragon standards in the early fifth century A.D. Through the lives of its generals, governors, and emperors and those they sought to rule, this book explores the narrative of Britannia as an integral and often troublesome part of Rome's empire, a hard won province whose mineral wealth and agricultural prosperity made it crucial to the stability of the West. But Britannia did not exist in a vacuum, and the authors set it in an international context to give an account of the pressures and events that had a profound impact on its people and its history. The authors discuss the lives and actions of the Roman occupiers against the backdrop of an evolving landscape, where Iron Age shrines were replaced by marble temples and industrial scale factories and granaries sprang up across the countryside. The cast of characters features men and women both noble and venal, courageous and craven, from Caesar, Agricola, and Boudica to Carausius, Magnentius, and Valentinus.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508313http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504638Description: "In this first full history of around-the-world travel, Joyce E. Chaplin brilliantly tells the story of circumnavigation."--http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504638http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507229Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507229http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499671Description: http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=499671http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504325Description: "The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred over the last 100 years or more, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force in their midst, and what these terms were, is the story at the heart of this text. Masses of Europeans have been enthralled by the real or imaginary prospects coming out of the USA. Important minorities were at times deeply upset by them. Sometime the roles were reversed or shaken up. But no-one could be indifferent for long. Inspiration, provocation, myth, menace, model: all these categories and many more have been deployed to try to cope with the Americans. Attitudes and stereotypes have emerged, intellectual resources have been mobilised, positions and policies developed: all trying to explain and deal with the kind of radiant supremacy the Americans built in the course of the twentieth century. David Ellwood combines political, economic, and cultural themes, suggesting that American mass culture is a distinctively incisive form of American power over time. The book is structured in three parts; a separation based on the proposition that America's influence as a decisive force for or against innovation was present most conspicuously after Europe's three greatest military-political conflicts of the contemporary era: the Great War, World War II, and the Cold War. It concludes with the emotional upsurge in Europe which greeted the arrival of Obama on the world scene, suggesting that in spite of all the disappointments and frictions of the years, the US still retained its privileged place as a source of inspiration for the future across the Western world."--Publisher's websitehttp://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504325http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508315Description: The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves' theories about the causes of the Civil War to their frank assessments of major figures; from their searing memories of the carnage of battle to their often startling attitudes toward masters and liberators alike; and from their initial jubilation at the Yankee invasion of the slave South to the crushing disappointment of freedom's promise unfulfilled, this is a transformative vision of America's second revolution.--From publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508315http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504637Description: In this biography the author draws upon archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished transcripts of Jefferson presidential papers to give readers a view of Jefferson the politician and the President, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson recognized that the genius of humanity, and the genius of the new nation, lay in the possibility of progress. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504637http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507098Description: Presents a portrait of King Tutankhamen, a fascinating and misunderstood ruler, shedding new light on his importance, his enduring power, and the archaeological discovery that earned him a place in the popular imagination.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507098http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504639Description: "The Marine Corps has always considered itself a breed apart. Since 1775, America's smallest armed service has been suspicious of outsiders and deeply loyal to its traditions. Marines believe in nothing more strongly than the Corps' uniqueness and superiority, and this undying faith in its own exceptionalism is what has made the Marines one of the sharpest, swiftest tools of American military power. Along with unapologetic self-promotion, a strong sense of identity has enabled the Corps to exert a powerful influence on American politics and culture. Aaron O'Connell focuses on the period from World War II to Vietnam, when the Marine Corps transformed itself from America's least respected to its most elite armed force."--Provided by publisher.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=504639http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507231Description: All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This study integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507231http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508319Description: "Describes in moving detail the military campaign of 1776-1777 and the British, German and American soldiers who fought it."-back cover.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508319http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507099Description: For too many of us, Latin America exists "below the fold," an echo barely heard beyond the roar of U.S. economics, politics, and culture; the source of little more than dance steps, mesmerizing soccer, spicy food, and questionable politics. But Latin America has been a vital part of the global community since the seventeenth century, when the Spanish silver peso became the world's first global currency instrument. Today it is home to six hundred million people and some of the fastest-growing economies on the planet. Latin America may not outshine or outspend the United States on the world stage anytime soon, but its voices will be heard. Its consumers, resources, and emigrants are already affecting us; they will be even bigger factors in our future. What if Latin America Ruled the World? deftly braids together the histories of North and South America from the exploits of Hernâan Cortâes to the political showmanship of Hugo Châavez and Evo Morales. Scholar Oscar Guardiola-Rivera is an ideal guide for a searching portrait of the Latin America that we rarely hear about.--Publisher description.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=507099http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508320Description: A major biography of abolitionist William Wilberforce, the man who fought for twenty years to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508320http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508321Description: In this book the author presents a history of the role of British citizens in the American Civil War that offers insight into the interdependencies of both nations and how the Union worked to block diplomatic relations between England and the Confederacy. Even before the first rumblings of secession shook the halls of Congress, British involvement in the coming schism was inevitable. Britain was dependent on the South for cotton, and in turn the Confederacy relied almost exclusively on Britain for guns, bullets, and ships. The Union sought to block any diplomacy between the two and consistently teetered on the brink of war with Britain. For four years the complex web of relationships between the countries led to defeats and victories both minute and history making. In this book the author examines the fraught relations from multiple angles while she introduces characters both humble and grand, bringing them to life over the course of this narrative. Between 1861 and 1865, thousands of British citizens volunteered for service on both sides of the Civil War. From the first cannon blasts on Fort Sumter to Lee's surrender at Appomattox, they served as officers and infantrymen, sailors and nurses, blockade runners and spies. Through personal letters, diaries, and journals, the author has woven together their experiences to form a view of the war on the front lines, in the prison camps, and in the great cities of both the Union and the Confederacy. Through the eyes of these brave volunteers we see the details of the struggle for life and the great and powerful forces that threatened to demolish a nation. In the drawing rooms of London and the offices of Washington, on muddy fields and aboard packed ships, the author reveals the decisions made, the beliefs held and contested, and the personal triumphs and sacrifices that ultimately led to the reunification of America.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=508321http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=321641Description: Traces Johnson's life from his Texas childhood through his rise to political power and his successful 1948 senatorial campaign and eventual presidency.http://pilot.passhe.edu:8031/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?bbid=321641