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|  | World War II by Donald McCombs, Fred L. Worth
Description not available.Even the most knowledgeable World War II buff will appreciate this treasury of unusual and intriguing information about the battles, backgrounds, and players in the Allied and Axis powers. AUTHOR: Donald McCombs, Fred L. Worth
PUBLISHER: Crown Publishing Group
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Egypt by Jaromir Malek
This stunningly beautiful volume provides a complete understanding of the importance of Egypt in the development of western civilization and the modern world. Written by a team of international experts, this book considers Egypt`s natural environment, culture, leadership, economy, religious beliefs, and everyday life during the last five thousand years, from ancient times to the present. AUTHOR: Jaromir Malek
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Local People by John Dittmer
A well researched work that tells the story of the civil rights movement in Mississippi, beginning after World War II. AUTHOR: John Dittmer
PUBLISHER: University of Illinois Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Timelines of World History by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Description not available.A lavishly illustrated, chronological record of the past twenty thousand years of human history traces the progress of humankind from the dawn of history to the present day, chronicling major historical events, cultural milestones, technological inventions, geographical changes, and key historical figures in each era and region of the world. 30,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
PUBLISHER: Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Incorporated
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Other Destinies by Louis Owens
This first book-length critical analysis of the full range of novels written between 1854 and today by American Indian authors takes as its theme the search for self-discovery and cultural recovery. In his introduction, Louis Owens places the novels in context by considering their relationships to traditional American Indian oral literature as well as their differences from mainstream Euroamerican literature. In the following chapters he looks at the novels of John Rollin Ridge, Mourning Dove, John Joseph Mathews, D'Arcy McNickle, N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Louise Erdrich, Michael Dorris, and Gerald Vizenor. These authors are mixedbloods who, in their writing, try to come to terms with the marginalization both of mixed-bloods and fullbloods and of their cultures in American society. Their novels are complex and sophisticated narratives of cultural survival - and survival guides for fullbloods and mixedbloods in modern America. Rejecting the stereotypes and cliches long attached to the word Indian, they appropriate and adapt the colonizers language, English, to describe the Indian experience. These novels embody the American Indian point of view; the non-Indian is required to assume the role of other . In his analysis Owens draws on a broad range of literary theory: myth and folklore, structuralism, modernism, poststructuralism, and, particularly, postmodernism. At the same time he argues that although recent American Indian fiction incorporates a number of significant elements often identified with postmodern writing, it contradicts the primary impulse of postmodernism. That is, instead of celebrating fragmentation, ephemerality, and chaos, these authors insistupon a cultural center that is intact and recoverable, upon immutable values and ecological truths. Other Destinies provides a new critical approach to novels by American Indians. It also offers a comprehensive introduction to the novels, helping teachers bring this important fiction AUTHOR: Louis Owens
PUBLISHER: University of Oklahoma Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Promised Land, Crusader State by Walter A. McDougall
A history of the United States, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Heavens and the Earth . McDougall attempts to reinterpret the traditions that have shaped American foreign policy and American attitudes toward foreign powers generally from 1776 to the present. AUTHOR: Walter A. McDougall
PUBLISHER: Houghton Mifflin Company
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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