Author: Kevin L. Williams
Publisher: KLW Publishing
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Vampires in 1862 Baltimore! The Guardians, Vol. 1: Baltimore, 1862 is a Gothic Horror story, told in the epistolary style. Baltimore, Maryland. 1862. A city torn by the strife of the Civil War and Martial Law. But, beneath this war between men and states there is a deeper evil lurking in Baltimore. An evil that, unless checked, threatens to destroy ALL mankind. And, the only hope to combat this threat are three broken people. Dr. Artemis Strapp, grief-stricken physician who discovers his part to play in an eons-old battle between this world and creatures of the “other-natural”. Mare Adams, business woman and compassionate brothel owner, thrust into the position of unwilling soldier on the front lines of this battle. Lucius Williamson, free Negro lawyer but oppressed by the very society he now needs to defend, cursed with a supernatural ability called The Gift to see events others cannot. Together, they will unite, dedicated to eradicating an ancient evil threatening to destroy the city they all call home. This book is the perfect marriage of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Author: Brian Douglas Tennyson
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802085450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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A vivid and long overdue account of one of the great untold Canadian military stories: Sydney's importance as a major convoy port, a base in the hunt for German submarines, and an industrial centre producing critically important coal and steel.
Author: Peter E. Palmquist
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804740579
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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This biographical dictionary of some 3,000 photographers (and workers in related trades), active in a vast area of North America before 1866, is based on extensive research and enhanced by some 240 illustrations, most of which are published here for the first time. The territory covered extends from central Canada through Mexico and includes the United States from the Mississippi River west to, but not including, the Rocky Mountain states. Together, this volume and its predecessor, Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865, comprise an exhaustive survey of early photographers in North America and Central America, excluding the eastern United States and eastern Canada. This work is distinguished by the large number of entries, by the appealing narratives that cover both professional and private lives of the subjects, and by the painstaking documentation. It will be an essential reference work for historians, libraries, and museums, as well as for collectors of and dealers in early American photography. In addition to photographers, the book includes photographic printers, retouchers, and colorists, and manufacturers and sellers of photographic apparatus and stock. Because creators of moving panoramas and optical amusements such as dioramas and magic lantern performances often fashioned their works after photographs, the people behind those exhibitions are also discussed.
Author: New York State Library (ALBANY, N.Y.)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Author: Jamie L. Bronstein
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804700085
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Caught In the Machinery examines the social, legal, cultural and political history of workplace accidents and injured workers in 19th-century Britain and in the broader Anglo-American context.
Author: Orville Augustus Roorbach
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Author: Walter E. Wilson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786488883
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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American naval hero and Confederate secret agent James Dunwoody Bulloch was widely considered the Confederacy's most dangerous man in Europe. As head of the South's covert shipbuilding and logistics program overseas during the American Civil War, Bulloch acquired a staggering 49 warships, blockade runners, and tenders; built "invulnerable" ocean-going ironclads; sustained Confederate logistics; financed covert operations; and acted as the mastermind behind the destruction of 130 Union ships. Ironically, this man who conspired to destroy the Union and kidnap its president later stood as the favorite uncle and mentor to Theodore Roosevelt. Bulloch's astonishing life unfolds in this first-ever biography.
Author: Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171565
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr.’s Marketing the Blue and Gray analyzes newspaper advertising during the American Civil War. Newspapers circulated widely between 1861 and 1865, and merchants took full advantage of this readership. They marketed everything from war bonds to biographies of military and political leaders; from patent medicines that promised to cure almost any battlefield wound to “secession cloaks” and “Fort Sumter” cockades. Union and Confederate advertisers pitched shopping as its own form of patriotism, one of the more enduring legacies of the nation’s largest and bloodiest war. However, unlike important-sounding headlines and editorials, advertisements have received only passing notice from historians. As the first full-length analysis of Union and Confederate newspaper advertising, Kreiser’s study sheds light on this often overlooked aspect of Civil War media. Kreiser argues that the marketing strategies of the time show how commercialization and patriotism became increasingly intertwined as Union and Confederate war aims evolved. Yankees and Rebels believed that buying decisions were an important expression of their civic pride, from “Union forever” groceries to “States Rights” sewing machines. He suggests that the notices helped to expand American democracy by allowing their diverse readership to participate in almost every aspect of the Civil War. As potential customers, free blacks and white women perused announcements for war-themed biographies, images, and other material wares that helped to define the meaning of the fighting. Advertisements also helped readers to become more savvy consumers and, ultimately, citizens, by offering them choices. White men and, in the Union after 1863, black men might volunteer for military service after reading a recruitment notice; or they might instead respond to the kind of notice for “draft insurance” that flooded newspapers after the Union and Confederate governments resorted to conscription to help fill the ranks. Marketing the Blue and Gray demonstrates how, through their sometimes-messy choices, advertising pages offered readers the opportunity to participate—or not—in the war effort.
Author: John Foster Kirk
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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