A Traitor And A Scoundrel

Author : Michael Thomas Smith
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138412
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Traitor and a Scoundrel written by Michael Thomas Smith and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1856, Benjamin Hedrick broke with his white North Carolinian peers by taking an antislavery position on the question of the incorporation of the territories. This biography tells the story of how developed that position, the loss of his position as a professor of chemistry and his subsequent exil

Author : David Moss
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197760813
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Democracy Breaks written by David Moss and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-02 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what separates democratic resilience from democratic fragility by focusing on the latter. The volume's collaborators--experts in the history and politics of the societies covered in their chapters--explore eleven episodes of democratic breakdown, from ancient Athens to Weimar Germany to present-day Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela. Strikingly, in every case, various forms of democratic erosion long preceded the final democratic breakdown. Although no single causal factor emerges as decisive, linking together all of the episodes, some important commonalities--including extreme political polarization, explicitly anti-democratic political actors, and significant political violence--stand out across the cases. Moreover, the notion of democratic culture, while admittedly difficult to define and even more difficult to measure, may play a role in all of them. Throughout the volume, the contributors show again and again that the written rules of democracy are insufficient to protect against tyranny. While each case of democratic decay is unique, the patterns that emerge shed much light on the continuing struggle to sustain modern democracies and to assess and respond to the threats they face.

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Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Guard written by and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Bernard Cornwell
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061826707
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scoundrel written by Bernard Cornwell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gifted storyteller and orchestrator of suspense.” —Philadelphia Inquirer “Bernard Cornwell is to the yachting adventure novel what ex-jockey Dick Francis is to the racetrack thriller.” —Orlando Sentinel The New York Times bestselling author of The Fort, the Saxon Tales, and the immensely popular Richard Sharpe novels, Bernard Cornwell has been called, “perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today” (Washington Post). He demonstrates another side of his extraordinary storytelling talents with Scoundrel, a contemporary tale of excitement and danger on high and treacherous seas. A gripping tale of an outlaw yacht captain who decides to cross the Irish Republican Army for a $5 million payday only to find himself pursued by intelligence agents, terrorists, and killers across perilous open waters, Scoundrel is a masterful thriller in the Tom Clancy vein—a masterwork of suspense from one of today’s most versatile and accomplished popular novelists.

Author : Richard M. Ketchum
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1466879521
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saratoga written by Richard M. Ketchum and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Indepence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring narrative history, skillfully told through the perspective of those who fought in the campaign, Saratoga brings to life as never before the inspiring story of Americans who did their utmost in what seemed a lost cause, achieving what proved to be the crucial victory of the Revolution. A New York Times Notable Book, 1997 Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Award, 1997

Author : Tian MingShenZhu
Publisher : Funstory
ISBN 13 : 1647572924
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Genius Doctor and Beautiful Hostess written by Tian MingShenZhu and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village doctor arrived at a meeting from a long way away and accidentally entered the room where the female Red Beauty host was. The director was about to enter, so what should he do?

Author : David Brown
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807148962
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Outcast written by David Brown and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinton Rowan Helper (1829--1909) gained notoriety in nineteenth-century America as the author of The Impending Crisis of the South (1857), an antislavery polemic that provoked national public controversy and increased sectional tensions. In his intellectual and cultural biography of Helper -- the first to appear in more than forty years -- David Brown provides a fresh and nuanced portrait of this self-styled reformer, exploring anew Helper's motivation for writing his inflammatory book. Brown places Helper in a perspective that shows how the society in which he lived influenced his thinking, beginning with Helper's upbringing in North Carolina, his move to California at the height of the Californian gold rush, his developing hostility toward nonwhites within the United States, and his publication of The Impending Crisis of the South. Helper's book paints a picture of a region dragged down by the institution of slavery and displays surprising concern for the fate of American slaves. It sold 140,000 copies, perhaps rivaled only by Uncle Tom's Cabin in its impact. The author argues that Helper never wavered in his commitment to the South, though his book's devastating critique made him an outcast there, playing a crucial role in the election of Lincoln and influencing the outbreak of war. As his career progressed after the war, Helper's racial attitudes grew increasingly intolerant. He became involved in various grand pursuits, including a plan to link North and South America by rail, continually seeking a success that would match his earlier fame. But after a series of disappointments, he finally committed suicide. Brown reconsiders the life and career of one of the antebellum South's most controversial and misunderstood figures. Helper was also one of the rare lower-class whites who recorded in detail his economic, political, and social views, thus affording a valuable window into the world of nonslaveholding white southerners on the eve of the Civil War. His critique of slavery provides an important challenge to dominant paradigms stressing consensus among southern whites, and his development into a racist illustrates the power and destructiveness of the prejudice that took hold of the South in the late nineteenth century, as well as the wider developments in American society at the time.

Author : Robert James Warner
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1425931251
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Damn Slavers! written by Robert James Warner and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of the Sea, Lake, and River Battles of the Civil War, is an expose, a denunciation, a condemnation of the lies, the distortions, the deceits, the misrepresentations, and the slanders of the biased civil war historians, the biased movie makers, and the biased makers of TV Specials, who write distorted books, distorted movies, and make distorted TV Specials about the civil war. For example, President Grant is slandered as the butcher of the civil war, when the real butcher is the traitor Robert E. Lee by an actual count of the men he killed in the battles he fought! Another example is the big lie that the Monitor and Merrimac battle was a draw when it was a clear cut victory for the Monitor! There are two classes of people in The Damn Slavers: The people in the 22 Loyal states and in the 11 traitor states: the Loyalists: the victims; and the people in the 11 traitor states and in the 22 Loyal states: the traitors: the villains! One of the biggest vile lies of the civil war is the depraved lie the traitors won most of the battles! The author counted hundreds of the bigger land battles and the sea, lake, and river battles! This battle count is what Damn Slavers is all about! Surprise, Surprise! The Loyalists won most of the bigger land battles of the civil war by a ratio of about 2 to 1 from the start of the civil war and won most of the sea, lake, and river battles too, by an overwhelming margin!! If you want to learn some real truths about the civil war, read Damn Slavers! A History of the Sea, Lake, and River Battles of the Civil War!

Author : Nikolay Andreyev
Publisher : Hodgson Press
ISBN 13 : 1906164029
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Moth on the Fence written by Nikolay Andreyev and published by Hodgson Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in Russian and featuring an Introduction and Notes by the author's daughter, this memoir describes Andreyev's childhood, the Russian Revolution of 1917, his life as a refugee, his detention in Soviet transit jails during World War II, and beyond.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book THE ILLUSTRATED LONDON MAGAZINE written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: