Автор: Field, Ron Название: Forts of the American Frontier 1820–91 ISBN: 1846030404 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846030406 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 14840.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание:
During the early decades of the 19th century, the Southern Plains of the North American continent were only occasionally visited by explorers, trappers, traders, and missionaries. The first trading posts and forts were built then, such as Adobe Walls in the panhandle of North Texas, and Tubac Presidio in New Mexico. During the 1840s, when the 'Great American Desert' became the scene of an inexorable westward expansion, European pioneers and settlers flooded overland from the eastern seaboard. As they headed west, these settlers invaded and absorbed the traditional lands of the Native American. Via a series of Acts passed by Congress, many members of the Five Civilized Tribes (the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Seminole) were moved to reservations. It was hoped that a Permanent Indian Frontier guarded by a line of military forts would separate the Indian from the 'white man' forever. Numerous posts were built to police the southern end of this frontier between 1820 and 1840.
Following the establishment of the Republic of Texas in 1836, and the Mexican War of 1846-48, the lands and wealth then acquired lured many more migrants to the Southwest. The resulting trails first breached and then destroyed the Permanent Indian Frontier. The US Government constructed a line of forts on the Texan frontier in 1848-49 to protect traders and settlers. This chain, which included forts Graham, Worth, Gates, Crogham, Inge and Duncan, extended for more than 800 miles. In 1850-52 it became necessary to erect another line of posts 200 miles further west, in order to keep pace with the rapidly advancing frontier and protect against the marauding Kiowas and Comanches. To combat constant Apache and Navajo raids, a network of posts was built in New Mexico throughout the remainder of 1850s. During the Civil War, the Texan forts seized and occupied by Confederate forces came under regular attack from marauding Indians. Also, in 1864, Kiowa and Comanche attacks on Santa Fe wagontrains on the borders of New Mexico Territory prompted a punitive expedition led by Colonel Christopher Kit Carson which led to the First Battle of Adobe Walls. This book is a detailed exploration of the design and development and operational histories of all of these forts and defensive systems.
Автор: Snow Название: A Two Years` Cruise Off Tierra del Fuego, the Falkland Islands, Patagonia, and in the River Plate ISBN: 1108062040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108062046 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 39070.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: William Parker Snow (1817-95), mariner and author, volunteered in 1854 to command the schooner Allen Gardiner on a Christian mission for the South American Missionary Society. Originally published in 1857, this two-volume work is a first-hand account of an eventful and wide-ranging service.
Автор: Berry Stephen Название: Princes of Cotton: Four Diaries of Young Men in the South, 1848-1860 ISBN: 0820344265 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820344263 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: <p>A rogue, a megalomaniac, a plodder, and a depressive: the men whose previously unpublished diaries are collected in this volume were four very different characters. But they had much in common too. All were from the Deep South. All were young, between seventeen and twenty-five. All had a connection to cotton and slaves. Most obviously, all were diarists, enduring night upon night of cramped hands and candle bugs to write out their lives. </p> <p>Down the furrows of their fathers' farms, through the thickets of their local woods, past the familiar haunts of their youth, Harry Dixon, Henry Hughes, John Coleman, and Henry Craft arrive at manhood via journeys they narrate themselves. All would be swept into the Confederate Army, and one would die in its service. But if their manhood was tested in the war, it was formed in the years before, when they emerged from their swimming holes, sopping with boyhood, determined to become princes among men. </p> <p>Few books exist about the inner lives of southern males, especially those in adolescence and early adulthood. <em>Princes of Cotton</em> begins to remedy this shortage. These diaries, along with Stephen Berry's introduction, address some of the central questions in the study of southern manhood: how masculine ideals in the Old South were constructed and maintained; how males of different ages and regions resisted, modified, or flouted those ideals; how those ideals could be expressed differently in public and private; and how the Civil War provoked a seismic shift in southern masculinity. </p>
Автор: Paxman Andrew Название: Jenkins of Mexico: How a Southern Farm Boy Became a Mexican Magnate ISBN: 0190455748 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190455743 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 27970.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This is a biography of the American who became the richest man in Mexico.
Автор: Chourchoulis Dionysios K. Название: The Southern Flank of NATO, 1951 1959: Military Strategy or Political Stabilization ISBN: 0739193058 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739193051 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 219170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book is the first comprehensive discussion of the aims, capabilities, politics, and internal problems of NATO`s Southern Flank in its formative stage of the 1950s.
Автор: Banham, Martin; Gibbs, James Название: African Theatre: Southern Africa ISBN: 0852555970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780852555972 Издательство: Boydell & Brewer Цена: 21110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Includes the playscript of Workshop Negative by Cont Mhlanga.
French naturalist and medical doctor Aim? Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.
Автор: Madalena Fonseca; Ugo Fratesi Название: Regional Upgrading in Southern Europe ISBN: 3319498177 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319498171 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 130430.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The book is aimed at a wide audience, including academics, economic geography, spatial planning and regional policy researchers, institutional leaders and managers, national and institutional policy makers, practitioners, administrators, master`s and senior bachelor`s students on related courses, general readers.
Автор: Thatcher, Mark R. (assistant Professor Of The Practice, Department Of Classical Studies, Assistant Professor Of The Practice, Department Of Classical Название: Politics of identity in greek sicily and southern italy ISBN: 0197586449 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780197586440 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 67590.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This analysis of the relationship between collective identities and politics in ancient Greece focuses on four key types of identity - polis identity, ethnicity (e.g., Dorian or Achaean), regional, and Greek - and places these multiple and flexible self-perceptions at the center of a new account of politics in the Greek West.
Автор: Mckelvey Cleaver, Thomas Название: Under the southern cross ISBN: 1472838238 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472838230 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 14840.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: From August 7, 1942 until February 24, 1944, the US Navy fought the most difficult campaign in its history. Between the landing of the 1st Marine Division on Guadalcanal and the final withdrawal of the Imperial Japanese Navy from its main South Pacific base at Rabaul, the US Navy suffered such high personnel losses that for years it refused to publicly release total casualty figures. The Solomons campaign saw the US Navy at its lowest point, forced to make use of those ships that had survived the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and other units of the pre-war navy that had been hastily transferred to the Pacific.
140 days after the American victory at Midway, USS Enterprise was the only pre-war carrier left in the South Pacific and the US Navy would have been overwhelmed in the face of Japanese naval power had there been a third major fleet action. At the same time, another under-resourced campaign had broken out on the island of New Guinea. The Japanese attempt to reinforce their position there had led to the Battle of the Coral Sea in May and through to the end of the year, American and Australian armed forces were only just able to prevent a Japanese conquest of New Guinea.
The end of 1942 saw the Japanese stopped in both the Solomons and New Guinea, but it would take another 18 hard-fought months before Japan was forced to retreat from the South Pacific. Under the Southern Cross draws on extensive first-hand accounts and new analysis to examine the Solomons and New Guinea campaigns which laid the groundwork for Allied victory in the Pacific War.
Автор: Cleaver Thomas McKelvey Название: Under the Southern Cross: The South Pacific Air Campaign Against Rabaul ISBN: 147283822X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472838223 Издательство: Osprey Рейтинг: Цена: 24750.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A vivid narrative history of the Solomons campaign of World War II, one of the key turning points in the U.S. Navy`s campaign against the Japanese in the Pacific.
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