books about: 1848

books about: 1848

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1848

What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 (Oxford History of the United States)

Daniel Walker Howe

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

Well-deserved praise
This book is truly deserving of the Pulitzer Prize and inclusion in the Oxford History Of the United States series.I was a bit apprehensive when picking up this massive book and deciding whether to purchase. As I randomly thumbed through the pages, every page I read ...

The Age of Capital: 1848-1875

Eric Hobsbawm

Vintage, 1996

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name a single European event that happened between 1848 and 1875...quick! My guess is that a lot of non-Europeans would have a hard time with that one. Yet it was an astonishingly influential period, the time when both capitalism and imperialism became truly, ...

Gunman's Rhapsody

Robert B. Parker

Berkley, 2002

An example of the best historical fiction, it could have happened this way
In this story, the creator of the tough private detective Spenser and his sidekick Hawk develops a tale of the old west that is an example of historical fiction. Parker uses the backdrop of Tombstone, Arizona involving the Earp brothers, Doc Holliday and the members of ...

The Age of Revolution: 1789-1848

Eric Hobsbawm

Vintage, 1996

A MASTERPIECE
It is quite dificult to find a History book who is well written and also makes you think about the subject. This is the main diference about Hobswamn. He makes you think, and I believe this is the main aim for a Historian. It is curious for me that one of the ...

Wild West (DK Eyewitness Books)

Stuart Murray

DK CHILDREN, 2005

THE 1800'S
THIS WAS JUST GREAT IT'S LIKE YOU ARE STEPPING BACK IN TIME IN HISTORY MY PAGE WAS WITH THE TRAIN.I JUST LOVE DK BOOKS KYLE VENTURA (...)

Wuthering Heights (Norton Critical Editions)

Emily Bronte

W. W. Norton, 2002

"Why did you betray your heart, Cathy?"
There is a thin line between love and hate, and once Heathcliff crosses it, we see a grand, passionate and absorbingly interesting man turn into a fearsome thug. Thwarted in his love for his childhood soulmate, Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff turns his devastation ...

Zachary Taylor: The 12th President, 1849-1850 (The American Presidents)

John S. D. Eisenhower, Arthur M. Schlesinger

Times Books, 2008

Super American
Another home run in the superb American President's series. John Eisenhower paints a picture of Zachary Taylor that leaves us wishing he was among today's candidates for President. Had he lived, he may have been able to head off the Civil War, we will never know. In ...

The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848

Niall Ferguson

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1999

Much more than a family saga
Those who already know Niall Ferguson do not need any praise for the books he writes: a few years ago I chanced to read his excellent "The Cash Nexus" and this led me to "The Pity of War" and finally to "The House of Rothschild". Ferguson is a scholar who loves ...

Gone for Soldiers: A Novel of the Mexican War

Jeff Shaara

Ballantine Books, 2001

I like the book and It should be made into a Movie
I enjoyed the book, Gone for Soldiers, because it helps to describe how the American and Mexican soldiers lived and faced during the Mexican War 1846-1848. In addition, it describes some of the battles of the Mexican War, under Winfield Scott, from Vera Cruz to the ...

The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Lewis & Clark Expedition)

Meriwether Lewis, William Clark

Mariner Books, 1997

Fascinating Story, Can't Stop Talking, Use Google Earth!
I read books in a wide variety of topics. I decided to read about Lewis and Clark because I felt I just did not know enough about it and I felt that I should. When I received the book, I opened it and was fearful that I made a mistake because it was made up of journal ...

War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican War (The Lamar Series in Western History)
Brian DeLay

Yale University Press, 2008

In the early 1830s, after decades of relative peace, northern Mexicans and the Indians whom they called ?the barbarians? descended into a terrifying cycle of violence. For the next fifteen years, owing in part to changes unleashed by American expansion, Indian warriors launched devastating attacks across ten Mexican states. Raids and counter-raids ...

ArtSpoke: A Guide to Modern Ideas, Movements, and Buzzwords, 1848-1944

Robert Atkins

Abbeville Press, 1993

Art Explained
Modernism, Modern--now I undnerstand the difference! And so much more about twentieth centnury art. Students and experts both will finnd this invaluable. Atkins is a genius in the way he gets these complicated ideas across that I never understood in art history class. ...

I Married Wyatt Earp: The Recollections of Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp

Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp

University of Arizona Press, 1976

Fresh perspective on Wyatt Earps Life
The so-called controversy around this book has been discussed to exhaustion in my opinion. For those who cant seem to understand the how and why of this book, I offer this suggestion: Move on and let it go. There's no need for me to defend a book that needs no ...

Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)

Emily Brontë, Pauline Nestor

Penguin Classics, 2002

This Heathcliff Is No Pussy!
(Like the curmudgeonly CAT in the COMIC...get it?) Great old-style classic novel. One of Henry Miller's favorites; that's what attracted me to it. I liked the style of the narrative, largely told through the reminiscences of the housekeeper Nelly. This is one ...

The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861

David M. Potter

Harper Perennial, 1977

A refreshing approach to the pre-Civil War era
Written in the 1970's, and finished by a colleague, David Potter's depiction of the 1848-1861 timeframe is a finely researched book on the subject. Most importantly though, unlike other writers and historians (in particular James McPherson) who look back on this time ...