In the early nineteenth century, the U.S. government shifted itspolicy from trying to assimilate American Indians to relocatingthem, and proceeded to forcibly drive seventeen thousand Cherokeesfrom their homelands. This journey of exile became known as theTrail of Tears. Historians Perdue and Green reveal the government’s betrayals andthe divisions within the Cherokee Nation, follow the exiles alongthe Trail of Tears, and chronicle the hardships found in the West.In its trauma and tragedy, the Cherokee diaspora has come torepresent the irreparable injustice done to Native Americans in thename of nation building—and in their determined survival, itrepresents the resilience of the Native American spirit.

History means many things to many people. But finding an answer to the question 'What is history?' is a task few feel equipped to answer nowadays. And yet, at the same time, history has never been more popular - whether in the press, on the television or at the movies. In understanding our present it seems we cannot escape the past. So if you want to explore this tantalising subject, where do you start? What are the critical skills you need to begin to make sense of the past? Keith Jenkins' book is the perfect introduction. In clear, concise prose it guides the reader through the controversies and debates that surround historical thinking at the present time, and offers readers the means to make their own discoveries.

The Civil War was not only a war of armies but also a war ofideas, in which Union and Confederacy alike identified itself as amoral nation with God on its side. In this watershed book, Harry S.Stout measures the gap between those claims and the war’s actualconduct. Ranging from the home front to the trenches and drawing ona wealth of contemporary documents, Stout explores the lethal mixof propaganda and ideology that came to justify slaughter on andoff the battlefield. At a time when our country is once again atwar, Upon the Altar of the Nation is a deeply necessary book.

This acclaimed portrait of heroism and ingenuity captures awatershed moment in human history. The astronauts themselves havecalled it the definitive account of their missions. On the night ofJuly 20, 1969, our world changed forever when Neil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin walked on the moon. Based on in-depth interviews withtwenty-three of the twenty-four moon voyagers, as well as those whostruggled to get the program moving, A Man on the Moon conveys every aspect of the Apollo missions with breathtakingimmediacy and stunning detail.

Bring[s] a new perspective to World War IIliterature...Exciting" -- Library Journal. A powerful chronicle of loyalty, love, and heroism under fire,this is the unforgettable memoir of a member of the GreatestGeneration who fought in America's greatest battles-and of the warone man waged both in and out of the skies. High-spirited young Robert Morgan was transformed from afast-living, privileged playboy who grew up hobnobbing with theVanderbilts into a steel-nerved pilot forged in the cauldron ofWorld War II's most dangerous and desperate aerial encounters. Thisis the triumphant tale of that transformation-and of the plane andcrew that never failed to bring him back home.

京师历史评论是北京师范大学历史学院主编的英文类历史学专业研究辑刊，是北京师范大学历史学院“双品质建设”的重要成果。主要发表中国史学界的很好原创成果，中国史与世界史并重，注重比较研究，涵盖历史学的各个分

An entertaining, anecdotal look at the origins of language and ideas in the USA. Bryson explains why two bicycle repairmen from Ohio succeeded in mastering manned flight, why the assassination of President Garfield led to the invention of air conditioning, and many other improbable but true facts.

An acclaimed historian offers an optimistic view of the futureof the United States in the light of Roman history Maybe the end of the American ascendancy is not upon us. Maybethe U.S. will continue to dominate the world for centuries. Nowaward-winning historian Thomas Madden delivers an optimistic viewof our nation's future. Madden shows that the power of the ancient Roman republic and theU.S. was built on trust between allies, not the conquest ofenemies. The far-reaching implications of this fact are essentialreading for anyone who cares about the challenges we face now andin the years ahead. Packed with stories from Roman history that offer amazinglyobvious and explicitly stated parallels to our recent history,Empires of Trust is a narrative pleasure and a hopefulinspiration.

This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded paperback edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey , Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jonathan Dimbleby, and many more: and a new preface by HRH Prince Charles.

In his previous landmark book on youth culture and teenangst, the award-winning England's Dreaming , Jon Savagepresented the "definitive history of the English punk movement"( The New York Times ). Now, in Teenage , he exploresthe secret prehistory of a phenomenon we thought we knew, in amonumental work of cultural investigative reporting. Beginning in1875 and ending in 1945, when the term "teenage" became an integralpart of popular culture, Savage draws widely on film, music,literature high and low, fashion, politics, and art and fusespopular culture and social history into a stunning chronicle ofmodern life.

Fascinating, disturbing. Science needs critics like Finkbeinernow more than ever. ( The New York Times Book Review ) A true story that reads like a Tom Clancy novel. ( Wired )

Did Eisenhower avoid a showdown with Stalin by not takingBerlin before the Soviets? What might have happened if JFK hadn'tbeen assassinated? This new volume in the widely praised seriespresents fascinating "what if..." scenarios by such prominenthistorians as: Robert Dallek, Caleb Carr, Antony Beevor, JohnLukacs, Jay Winick, Thomas Fleming, Tom Wicker, Theodore Rabb,Victor David Hansen, Cecelia Holland, Andrew Roberts, Ted Morgan,George Feifer, Robert L. O'Connell, Lawrence Malkin, and John F.Stacks. Included are two essential bonus essays reprinted from theoriginal New York Times bestseller What If? (tm)-DavidMcCullough imagines Washington's disastrous defeat at the Battle ofLong Island, and James McPherson envisions Lee's successfulinvasion of the North in 1862.

Frank Norris's McTeague is a significant example of American literary naturalism as well as a com-mentary on turn-of-the-century American cultural values. This revised Norton Critical Edition is again based on the 1899 first edition text and is fully anno-tated. "Contexts" focuses on the novel's sources and composition. In- cluded are newspaper accounts of a San Francisco murder; a de-*ion of Norris's Polk Street neighborhood (which figures promi-nently in McTeague); an examination of the relationship between the novel and naturalism; and a discussion of the book's genesis,from its origin as a Harvard assignment to Norris's revision of it upon his return to San Francisco.

In this "informative and inspiring volume" (Chicago Tribune),Robert Harvey reconstructs in vivid detail the gripping story ofLatin America's independence and those who made it possible.Treated with contempt by their Spanish overlords, given todissipation and grandiose proclamations, these fearless mennonetheless achieved military feats unsurpassed elsewhere inhistory. The aristocratic Simón Bolívar led his guerilla armiesthrough swamp, jungle, and Andean ice to surprise his enemies andliberate most of northern South America. The inarticulate SanMartín joined Bernardo O'Higgins, illegitimate son of a Spanishviceroy, to do the same in the south. These and five others wagedthe war for freedom against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars,the American Revolution, the collapse of the Spanish Empire, andthe revolutionary ferment of the nineteenth century. Despite thesuccess of their revolutions, all seven liberators died in poverty,disgrace, or oblivion. This fascinating and dramatic story takes in a

In this revealing and often shocking book, Professor Mitamurahides nothing, presenting the sordid and macasbre details of apolitical system built upon and glorifying human emasculation anddegradation. The book traces the history eunuchism from its bveryearly days until november 5, 1924. when the system was finallybanned and hundreds of eunuchs, "crying pitifully in high-pitchedfeminine voices," were expelled from Tzu Chin (Guzheng) Palace,thus ending a system that had endured over 2,000 years and through25 dynasties.

A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines theevents that led to the outbreak of the Civil War What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engagingexamination of the causes of the Civil War from other books on thesubject is its willingness to consider the alternativepossibilities to history. Cry Havoc! recounts in riveting detailthe small quirks of timing, character, and place that influencedthe huge trajectory of events during eight critical weeks fromLincoln's inauguration through the explosion at Fort Sumter and theembattled president's response to it. It addresses the what-ifs,the might-have-beens, and the individual personalities that playedinto circumstances-a chain of indecisions and miscalculations,influenced by swollen vanity and wishful thinking-that gave shapeto the dreadful conflict to come.

FOR MORE THAN NINE HUNDRED years the Bayeux Tapestry-one of the world s greatest historical docu-ments and artistic achievements-has preserved the story of one of history s greatest dramas:the Norman Conqueath of england culminating in the death of King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066.Historians have held for centuries that the ajestic tapestry-almost300feet in length-trumpets the glory of William the Conqueror and the victoirisous Normans But is this true?In 1066 Andrew Bridgeford reveals very different story that rein terprets and recasts the most decisive year in English history. Reading the tapestry as if it werea written text examining each scene with fresh eyes Bridegeford discovers a wealth of new information subversively and ingeniously encoded in the threads which appears to under mine the Norman point of view while presenting a secret tale undetected for centuries-an account of the final years of Anglo-Saxon england quite differenft from the Norman version of events In the midst of it

The Iranians explores Iran in the context of its old andcomplex culture, for throughout its history Iran has struggled withtwo warring identities-one evolving from the values, socialorganization, and arts of ancient Persia, the other from Islam. Byexamining the relationship between these two identities, TheIranians explains how the revolution of 1979 came about, why theIslamic Republic has failed, and how Iran today is on the brink ofchaos. In this defining portrait of a troubled nation and theforces that shape it, Iranian history and religion becomeaccessible to the nonspecialist. Combining impeccable scholarshipwith the human insight of firsthand observations, The Iraniansprovides vital understanding of this unique and pivotalnation. ? Plume edition will contain a new epilogue by Sandra Mackey,reflecting on the results of the spring 1997 Iranianelections. ? Hardcover edition received enormous press coverage andincreased Mackey's already prominent visibility. ? Highly readable and ai

This "New York Times" bestseller tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down over the Pacific. One of them, George H.W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. This edition features the same Afterword by the author that appeared in the trade paperback edition. 作者简介： James Bradley is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Flags of Our Fathers and the son of one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima. The story of the events on Chichi Jima was first brought to his attention after the publication of that book and involved several years of research, travel, and writing-including a return trip to Chichi Jima with President George H. W. Bush. This is Bradley's second book. He lives in New York.

Written over three hundred years ago, The Princess of Cleves transports the reader to seventeenth-century French court society, where "love was always allied to politics and politics to love. No one was untroubled or unmoved: each considered how to advance, to flatter, to serve or to harm; boredom and idleness were unknown, since everyone was engaged in intrigue or the pursuit of pleasure." The story concerns a strikingly beautiful young woman, raised in seclusion and brought to the court at marriageable age. She is married to the Prince de Cleves, a powerful, sensitive man who adores her and hopes she will eventually reciprocate his feelings. Unfortunately, Madame de Cleves falls passionately in love with the Duc de Nemors, a man "born with every predisposition for courtship and every quality tending toward its success." Lost letters, whispered messages, extensive introspection - all are described in minute detail as Madame de Cleves attempts to overcome her feelings and remain a virtuous woman. The obsessio

There is no story in twentieth-century history more important tounderstand than Hitler’s rise to power and the collapse ofcivilization in Nazi Germany. With The Coming of the Third Reich,Richard Evans, one of the world’s most distinguished historians,has written the definitive account for our time. A masterfulsynthesis of a vast body of scholarly work integrated withimportant new research and interpretations, Evans’s historyrestores drama and contingency to the rise to power of Hitler andthe Nazis, even as it shows how ready Germany was by the early1930s for such a takeover to occur. The Coming of the ThirdReich is a masterwork of the historian’s art and the book bywhich all others on the subject will be judged.

The Red Army's invasion of Berlin in January 1945 was one of themost terrifying examples of fire and sword in history. Frenzied byterrible memories of Wehrmacht and SS brutality, the Russianswreaked havoc, leaving hundreds of thousands of civilians dead andmillions more fleeing westward. Drawing upon newly availablematerial from former Soviet files, as well as from German,American, British, French, and Swedish archives, bestselling authorAntony Beevor vividly recounts the experiences of the millions ofcivilians and soldiers caught up in the nightmare of the ThirdReich's final collapse. The Fall of Berlin 1945 is aheartrending story of pride, stupidity, fanaticism, revenge, andsavagery, yet it is also one of astonishing human endurance,self-sacrifice, and survival against all odds.

From the evacuation of Saigon in 1975 to the end of thetwentieth century, the United States committed its forces to morethan a dozen military operations. Offering a fresh analysis of theIranian hostage rescue attempt, the invasions of Granada andPanama, the first Gulf War, the missions in Somalia and Bosnia, andmore, author and distinguished U.S. naval captain Peter Huchthausenpresents a detailed history of each military engagement througheyewitness accounts, exhaustive research, and his unique insiderperspective as an intelligence expert. This timely and rivetingmilitary history is “a must-read for anyone seeking to understandthe nature of war today” (Stephen Trent Smith).