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  • The Civil War and Pop Culture

    Favorite Stories and Fresh Perspectives from the Historians of Emerging Civil War

    Edited by Chris Mackowski, Jon Tracey ...
    Series series Emerging Civil War Series
    Explore the enduring fascination of the Civil War through thought-provoking essays from the esteemed "Emerging Civil War" series to gain better understanding of the complex relationship between history and art in shaping our understanding of the war. The American Civil War left indelible marks on America's imagination, collectively and as individuals. In the century and a half since the war, ... Read more

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  • The Great "What Ifs" of the American Civil War

    Historians Tackle the Conflict's Most Intriguing Possibilities

    Edited by Chris Mackowski, Brian Matthew Jordan ...
    " T hought-provoking and entertaining . . . What if Lincoln had dodged the assassin's bullet? What if Lee had waged guerrilla warfare in April 1865?" — Gordon C. Rhea, author of the Overland Campaign series"What if. . . ?" Every Civil War armchair general asks the question. Possibilities unfold. Disappointments vanish. Imaginations soar. More questions arise. "What if . . ." can be more than an ... Read more

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  • Marching Home

    Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil War

    by Brian Matthew Jordan ...
    Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in HistoryWinner of the Gov. John Andrew Award (Union Club of Boston)An acclaimed, groundbreaking, and “powerful exploration” (Washington Post) of the fate of Union veterans, who won the war but couldn’t bear the peace.For well over a century, traditional Civil War histories have concluded in 1865, with a bitterly won peace and Union soldiers returning triumphantly ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862

    The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862

    by Brian Matthew Jordan ...
    Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a decisive Federal victory and important turning point in the campaign, as historian Brian Matthew ... Read more

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  • Le Jazz

    Jazz and French Cultural Identity

    by Matthew F. Jordan ...
    In Le Jazz, Matthew F. Jordan deftly blends textual analysis, critical theory, and cultural history in a wide-ranging and highly readable account of how jazz progressed from a foreign cultural innovation met with resistance by French traditionalists to a naturalized component of the country's identity. Jordan draws on sources including ephemeral critical writing in the press and twentieth-century ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Haint Country

    Dark Folktales from the Hills and Hollers

    Edited by Matthew R. Sparks, Olivia Sizemore ...
    The hills of the Appalachian region hold secrets—dark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, hair-raising, and creepy folktales that reveal strange sightings and oddities, and they commonly serve as cautionary tales for eager and curious ears. These spine-tingling stories have been shared among family members and neighbors in eastern Kentucky for ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • A Thousand May Fall

    An Immigrant Regiment's Civil War

    by Brian Matthew Jordan ...
    From a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a pathbreaking history of the Civil War centered on a regiment of immigrants and their brutal experience of the conflict.The Civil War ended more than 150 years ago, yet our nation remains fiercely divided over its enduring legacies. In A Thousand May Fall, Pulitzer Prize finalist Brian Matthew Jordan returns us to the war itself, bringing us closer than perhaps any ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Danger Sound Klaxon!

    The Horn That Changed History

    by Matthew F. Jordan ...
    Danger Sound Klaxon! reveals the untold story of the Klaxon automobile horn, one of the first great electrical consumer technologies of the twentieth century. Although its metallic shriek at first shocked pedestrians, savvy advertising strategies convinced consumers across the United States and western Europe to adopt the shrill Klaxon horn as the safest signaling technology available in the 1910s ... Read more

    $26.19 USD

  • Three Centuries of Russian Influence in the Balkans

    Edited by Bogdan Teodor, Jordan Baev, Mihaela Teodor, Matthew Crosston ...
    Series Book 17 - South-East European History
    The result of a research project by the Balkan Historical Association, this landmark edited collection explores various aspects of Russian influence in the Balkan region over the past three centuries. The concepts of Pan-Slavism and the Slavic brotherhood are well established due to long-established historical, religious and cultural ties. But relations between the Balkan countries and Russia have ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Palms in Concrete

    Black Urbanism and Placesteading in Los Angeles

    by Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta ...
    Series series The City in the Twenty-First Century
    Matthew Jordan-Miller Kenyatta is Director of Exhibitions and Public Programs at the Tyler School of Art and Architecture and Adjunct Assistant Professor in Department of Environmental Design at Temple University. He previously contributed to The Black Geographic. ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

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  • Old and New Insights on the History of Intelligence and Diplomacy in the Balkans

    Edited by Bogdan Teodor, Jordan Baev, Matthew Crosston, Mihaela Teodor ...
    Series Book 1 - South-East European History
    Bringing together twelve experts from nine countries, this volume explores intelligence and diplomatic activities, both historical and contemporary, in the Balkan region. Covering a wide range of periods and radically different historical conditions, the various contributions are united by a common theme: the intimate relationship between diplomacy and intelligence.Subjects include: the Venetian ... Read more

    $98.99 USD

  • Australia and the World

    A Festschrift for Neville Meaney

    Edited by Matthew Jordan, Emeritus Professor Joan Beaumont ...
    Australia and the World celebrates the pioneering role of Neville Meaney in the formation and development of foreign relations history in Australia and his profound influence on its study, teaching and application. The contributors to the volume, historians, practitioners of foreign relations and political commentators, many of whom were taught by Meaney at the University of Sydney over the years, ... Read more

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