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|  | Free to Die for Their Country
Description not available.The author recalls the shameful story of Japanese Americans who resisted the draft and were subsequently imprisoned for their disobedience.
PUBLISHER: University of Chicago Press
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim A. Sorokin
Examines the crisis of modern society as it effects art and science, philosophy and religion, ethics and law. AUTHOR: Pitirim A. Sorokin
PUBLISHER: Oneworld Publications
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Virginia Adventure by Ivor Noel-Hume
The Virginia Bookshelf ia a series of paperback reprints of classic works focusing on Virginia life, landscapes, and people. In an elegantly written tour de force of history and archaeology, Noel Hume tells a dark tale of two cities.... Enlivened by period engravings, paintings, maps, photographs of sites and artifacts, this saga of Anglo-Native American relations shattered by English arrogance and disdain is peopled with astonishing figures . -- Publishers Weekly The ... book is written in a breezy and often humorous style, yet the research has been thorough and the thinking rigorous . -- Social History Ivor Noel Hume is one of the world`s most elegant and engaging writers on archaeology. His gift for making the subject accessible to the general reader has made his previous books -- among them Martin`s Hundred and Here Lies Virginia -- perennial favorites. In The Virginia Adventure, Noel Hume turns his attention to the two earliest English settlements in Virginia, Roanoke and James Towne, with fascinating results. Combining information gathered through excavations of the sites with contemporary accounts from journals, letters, and official records of the period, the author illuminates the exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He describes in detail a recent excavation at the Roanoke worksite of a metallurgist whose mineral findings first convinced English merchants that America was a worthy risk. With characteristic clarity and wit, Ivor Noel Hume offers us an indispensible history of England`s first perilous ventures into the New World. The Virginia Adventure confirmshis place as one of the great interpreters of our colonial past. AUTHOR: Ivor Noel-Hume
PUBLISHER: University Press of Virginia
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Crisis of Reason by J. W. Burrow
Part of Yale's Intellectual History of the West Series, this book examines the historical development of ideas from 1848 until the advent of World War I. Burrow accessibly recounts how thinkers such as Nietzsche, Mill, Wilde, and Bergson were influenced by the intellectual mores of their time and in turn influenced the development of the modern world. AUTHOR: J. W. Burrow
PUBLISHER: Yale University Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | No End In Sight by William Shawcross
In this journalistic history, Shawcross critiques the responses of the United Nations and the developed powers to major world crises of the 1990s--and finds that their actions are often misguided and insufficient, and sometimes exacerbate the problem... AUTHOR: William Shawcross
PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | The Secret Agent
Description not available.The story of Britain's secret war of sabotage against the Nazi war machine at the start of World War II is told in vivid detail, recalling secret disguises, elaborate deceptions, bribery, and bomb attacks orchestrated by the Special Operations Executive. 12,500 first printing.
PUBLISHER: Overlook Press, The
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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