Part of the critically acclaimed Letters of Benjamin Disraeli series. This volume contains or describes letters written by Disraeli between 1842 and 1847.
Contemporary readers, who wonder at the British and American knack for misguided adventure, find useful these three essays on Custer, the Titanic, and the onset of World War I. This book consists of rapier-like literary thrusts into the lives of General George Armstrong Custer, Thomas Andrews (the builder of the Titanic), and Edward Grey.
Contains eleven contributions by scholars working on periodicals and newspapers in the British Isles, outside London. This title demonstrates the cultural and political significance of newspapers and periodicals and their producers.
In Captain James Cook's relatively short and adventurous life (1728-79) he voyaged to the eastern and western sea boards of North America, the North and South Pacific and the Arctic and Antarctic bringing about a new comprehension of the world's geography and its people's. This biography includes insights on one of the world's greatest mariners.
Offers a glimpse of daily life among the Mandan Indians, including the Arikaras, Yanktons, and Gros Ventres. This work presents a graphic record of the smallpox scourge that nearly destroyed the Mandans in 1837.
Contends that with the fall of the critical city of New Orleans in spring 1862, the South lost the Civil War, although fighting would continue for three more years. This book portrays terrified citizens and leaders occasionally rising to heroism. It explains the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and describes its results.
A study tracing the emergence of the Zionist movement through which the Jews were reformed as a political people. It concentrates on 1897, when Herzl launched the Zionist movement, and the following decade, which saw the establishment of the movement's main ideas and central institutions.