Home » History   Age Of Fighting Sail, The. Details  The Story of the Naval War of 1812 By C. S. Forester No one has been so well equipped as C. S. Forester to dramatize the sea battles of the War of 1812, to characterize the heroes more skillfully, or to comprehend more shrewdly the world unrest that made it possible for an infant republic to embarrass a great nation rich in one hundred years of sea triumphs. 1956; Chapman Billies; 5.50"x 8.50"; 284 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-939218-06-2 Price: $17.95 Anacostia. Details  Located in Washington, D. C., the Anacostia River is a poster child for America's tragically neglected, abused urban waterways. There are compelling ethical grounds for remedying this river's environmental problems, for the Anacostia in our time demonstrates that environmental burdens like pollution and resource depletion are not shared equally. Wennersten's book offers a corrective to the uncritical assumptions of growth for its own sake, and development at the cost of our waters, our natural resources, and the health of our citizenry. 2008; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x9"; 304 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-963515-96-9 Price: $20.00 Cannibalism, Headhunting and Human Sacrifice in North America. Details  This riveting volume dispels the sanitized history surrounding Native American practices toward their enemies that preceded the European exploration and colonization of North America. We abandon truth when we gloss over the clashes between Native Americans and Europeans, encounters of parties equally matched in barbarity, says George Franklin Feldman, We neglect true history when we hide the uniqueness of the varied cultures that evolved during the thousands of years before Europeans invaded North America. The research is impeccable, the writing sparkling, and the evidence incontrovertible: headhunting and cannibalism were practiced by many of the native peoples of North America. 2008; Hood, Alan C. & Company, Inc.; 6"x 9"; 272 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-911469-33-8 Price: $20.00 Cross-Class Alliances And The Birth Of Modern Liberalism. Details  Maryland's Workers, 1865-1916 By George B. Jr. DuBois Spanning the years 1865 to 1916 when the industrial revolution took hold, this book, one of the rare state level studies of labor and politics, explains how workers discarded outworn ideas and tactics and gradually moved toward social liberalism, a set of ideas simultaneously adopted by many in the middle class. The result was a long series of shifting cross-class alliances that won many labor reforms. The book delves into the world of the Central Labor Union and, contrary to the view that workers eschewed politics in favor of collective bargaining, convincingly demonstrates that workers were key players in the birth of modern liberal politics in the Progressive Era. 2008; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 336 pages Hardback; ISBN: 0-963515-98-5 Price: $35.00 Old Man Rasin - Coming in October. Details  Boss Politics in Gilded Age Baltimore, 1867-1907 By Tracy Matthew Melton From his humble office at the Baltimore Court of Common Pleas, Isaac Freeman Rasin ran the city and built an envialbe fortune. This is narrative history at its best, packed with action, colorful detail and ruthless men. Melton traces how a political boss and his associates gained power-and held it-in a city noted for political violence. Rasin now takes his place beside New York's Boss Tweed and George Washington Plunkett as one of the truly memorable big-city bosses. Melton is the author of Hanging Henry Gambrill: The Violent Career of Baltimore's Plug Uglies, 1854-1860. He lives in Oakton, VA. 2008; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 494 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-963515-99-3 Price: $25.00 Some Gave All. Details  A History of Baltimore Police Officers Killed in the Line of Duty, 1808-2007 By Steven P. Olson and Robert P. Brown From Baltimore's earliest days as mobtown to current drug and gang violence, this memorial volume, written by two veteran officers presents brief biographies of the 124 men and women of the Baltimore Police Department who lost their lives serving their city, with emphasis on the circumstances surrounding the death of each. 2007; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 248 pages Hardback; ISBN: 0-963515-95-0 Price: $25.00 Sotterley: Her People and Their Worlds. Details  Three Hundred Years of a Maryland Plantation By David G. Brown The story of Sotterley plantation in St. Mary's County began shortly after the founding of Maryland and continued over three centuries that saw it rise from humble beginnings, prosper in the age of tobacco and slavery, endure depression, and survive three wars, only to stumble toward ruin until a generous fate brought restoration and renewed relevance for our time. Some who resided there were socially prominent, though most were not. Some were free, others enslaved. Some were white, more were black. Yet they were men and women whose stories have much to tell us about the history of southern Maryland and a maturing Chesapeake society. 2010; Chesapeake Book Company; 6"x 9"; 116 pages Paperback; ISBN: 9-780982-30-4914 Price: $17.00 Southern Star For Maryland, A. Details  Maryland and the Secession Crisis By Lawrence M. Denton Maryland did not freely choose to remain in the Union at the outbreak of the Civil War, this book argues: the state was held by brute force. A colorful account of the dilemmas faced by Marylanders in the crisis as seen from the Southern point of view. 1995; Publishing Concepts; 6"x 9"; 256 pages Paperback; ISBN: 0-963515-94-2 Price: $21.00 « Previous | 1 | 2 | Next »

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