This voluminous historical reference begins with a 239 pages of chronological events that touch on military, political and diplomatic events that lead up to the war and followed the war. The Revolutionary War and Civil War have always been of great interest to me and I will pick up and read just about anything I can get my hands on to learn more about these wars.
It all began with the television outside broadcast featuring Punchbowl Farm and in particular Dion, the boy farmer. Within a matter of days the Thornton family found themselves acting as temporary guardians of a prize Jersey cow. It is soon obvious that there is a mystery attached to the cow. Where has she come from? Who is the strange "Mr. Dryden" who brought her to the farm? Events build up to an exciting climax in which the children are involved in a cross-country chase and a strictly illegal cross-Channel trip, to restore the mulberry cow to her rightful owner.
Theodore Rex (2001) is a biography of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt written by author Edmund Morris. It is the second volume of a trilogy, preceded by the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) and succeeded by Colonel Roosevelt which was published on November 23, 2010. Theodore Rex covers the years of Theodore Roosevelt's presidency, from 1901 to 1909, covering events such as the construction of the Panama Canal, as well as the Roosevelt Administration's political, diplomatic and military exploits during the aforementioned period.[
Popular Controversies in World History: The Twentieth Century to the Present
This volume offers pro and con arguments for some of the most passionately debated issues in world history since the turn of the 20th century. Who was behind the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the event that launched World War I? Did Lee Harvey Oswald act alone in the death of President John F. Kennedy? Were the fears of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq justified? These are just some of the questions and events since the year 1990 that have sparked vigorous historical debates, both in the academic world and the general public.
The study of literature and culture has a need for theories to explain cultural objects and events. Literature is about life, and in human life, forces similar to gravity are at work, making some bodies fall and others rise, making some beams of human light straight and true while bending and warping others. Those events would be inexplicable without a theory to account for them.
