CONRAD, GLENN R. (EDITOR)

The Cajuns Essays on Their History and Culture

Lafayette, Louisiana: The Center for Louisiana Studies, University of Southwest Louisiana, 1978. Second Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Desmond. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket, top corners bumped. Previous owner's name inside front cover. ; DJ in Mylar. A tight solid book. ; US History Series # 11; B&W Illustrations; 262 pages; This is a series of essays by a variety of authors from various backgrounds - linguists and historians, many of natives of Louisiana.. Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket .

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Book number: 16161

Catalogue: History::American

Keywords: louisiana cajun Acadian History::USA

STRUPP, CHRISTOPH, AND KAI DREISBACH

German Americana 1956

Washington, DC: German Historical Institute, 2007. Hardcover. As new; Reference Guide No. 22; 9.30 X 5.90 X 3 inches; 1633 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .

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Book number: 16658

Catalogue: History::American

Keywords: USA Germany HISTORY

WINIK, JAY

The Great Upheaval America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788

New York: HarperCollins, 2007. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0060083131. Remainder mark bottom page edges; A bright, solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped; 9.10 X 6.10 X 2.10 inches; 659 pages; "It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Now, for the first time, in The Great Upheaval, acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization.In this sweeping, magisterial drama, Winik brings his vast, meticulous research and narrative genius to the cold, dark battlefields and deadly clashes of ideologies that defined this age. Here is a savage world war, the top-pling of a great dynasty, and an America struggling to survive at home and abroad. Here, too, is the first modern holy war between Islam and a resurgent Christian empire. And here is the richest cast of characters to walk upon the world stage: Washington and Jefferson, Louis XVI and Robespierre, Catherine the Great, Adams, Napoleon, and Selim III. With powerful echoes for understanding the international chaos that confronts the globe today, we see them all fighting desperately for the ideals they believed in, whether man-made democracy or divinely inspired autocracy, whether republicanism or Allah's law.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .

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Book number: 16781

Catalogue: History::American

Keywords: 0060083131 USA France Arabia RUSSIA America History::USA HISTORY