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|  | Comstock Women by C. Elizabeth Raymond, Ronald M. James
The conventional view of Virginia City as a ramshackle mining camp populated largely by miners and the businesses - saloons, hotels, brothels- that served their needs obscures a significant and fascinating aspect of its history: it was home to large numbers of women and children. In this provocative and path-breaking collection of essays, noted scholars from several disciplines examine the lives of the women, from all social classes and many ethnicities, who settled on the Comstock Lode and struggled to create a stable community in that transient boomtown setting. The contributors to Comstock Women consider the complexity of women's experiences on the Comstock Lode, combining traditional historical research with demography, ethnic studies, architectural history, material culture, and literary studies, using as many tools as possible to arrive at insights not addressed by earlier histories and the limited primary records. Their conclusions change the way we view the position of Chinese women, the history of prostitution in the district, the economic roles played by women in the mining West, the wide-ranging social impact of such anodynes as opium, and the idea of community in a boomtown environment. A final essay on gender archaeology suggests yet another way to examine the lives of women who left few written records of their lives. AUTHOR: C. Elizabeth Raymond, Ronald M. James
PUBLISHER: University of Nevada Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | Five Points by Tyler G. Anbinder
This study of one of New York City's lost neighborhoods, the notorious Five Points section, recalls its history in the 1800s as a seedy slum, where newly arrived immigrants started at the bottom and where crime, prostitution, violence, alcoholism, and corruption ran rampant. A New York Times Notable Book for 2001. AUTHOR: Tyler G. Anbinder
PUBLISHER: Free Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | A Few Bloody Noses by Robert Harvey
This critical rexamination of the realities of the American Revolution looks at its meanings for both sides, and dispels the myths that have grown up around it. AUTHOR: Robert Harvey
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Nancy Mace Autobiography by Mary Jane Ross, Nancy Mace
An autobiography by Nancy Mace, the woman who was the first female graduate of the Citadel. Illustrated with b&w photographs. AUTHOR: Mary Jane Ross, Nancy Mace
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Chicago Fire, 1871 by Elizabeth Massie
Description not available.After losing her family in the Civil War, Katrina flees north from Georgia, disguises herself as a man to become an actor, meets a handsome law student, and then endures the Chicago fire of 1871. Original. AUTHOR: Elizabeth Massie
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Daily Life in Russia under the Last Tsar by Henri Troyat, Malcolm Barnes
This book is a vivid account of the life in Moscow, 'the most Russian of Russian cities, ' in the year 1903, a year before Russia's disastrous war with Japan and two years before the momentous Revolution of 1905. AUTHOR: Henri Troyat, Malcolm Barnes
PUBLISHER: Stanford University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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