Ash
Title | Ash PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Gentle |
Publisher | Hachette UK |
Total Pages | 1112 |
Release | 2013-09-24 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0575128763 |
For the beautiful young woman Ash, life has always been arquebuses and artillery, swords and armour and the true horrors of hand-to-hand combat. War is her job. She has fought her way to the command of a mercenary company, and on her unlikely shoulders lies the destiny of a Europe threatened by the depredations of an Infidel army more terrible than any nightmare. Winner of the BSFA Award for best novel, 2000
Children of Ash and Elm
Title | Children of Ash and Elm PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Price |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Total Pages | 629 |
Release | 2020-08-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0465096999 |
The definitive history of the Vikings -- from arts and culture to politics and cosmology -- by a distinguished archaeologist with decades of expertise The Viking Age -- from 750 to 1050 -- saw an unprecedented expansion of the Scandinavian peoples into the wider world. As traders and raiders, explorers and colonists, they ranged from eastern North America to the Asian steppe. But for centuries, the Vikings have been seen through the eyes of others, distorted to suit the tastes of medieval clerics and Elizabethan playwrights, Victorian imperialists, Nazis, and more. None of these appropriations capture the real Vikings, or the richness and sophistication of their culture. Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence, Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the Vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From EirÃk Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom, to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most traveled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.
Forests of Ash
Title | Forests of Ash PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Griffiths |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 2001-12-18 |
Genre | Gardening |
ISBN | 9780521812863 |
This book tells the story of the giant eucalypt, the Mountain Ash, which grows in the north and east of Melbourne. A single tree can reach a height of 120 feet in 20 years, making it the worlds tallest hardwood.
When the Yankees Came
Title | When the Yankees Came PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen V. Ash |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2000-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0807860131 |
Southerners whose communities were invaded by the Union army during the Civil War endured a profoundly painful ordeal. For most, the coming of the Yankees was a nightmare become real; for some, it was the answer to a prayer. But as Stephen Ash argues, for all, invasion and occupation were essential parts of the experience of defeat that helped shape the southern postwar mentality. When the Yankees Came is the first comprehensive study of the occupied South, bringing to light a wealth of new information about the southern home front. Among the intriguing topics Ash explores are guerrilla warfare and other forms of civilian resistance; the evolution of Union occupation policy from leniency to repression; the impact of occupation on families, churches, and local government; and conflicts between southern aristocrats and poor whites. In analyzing these topics, Ash examines events from the perspective not only of southerners but also of the northern invaders, and he shows how the experiences of southerners differed according to their distance from a garrisoned town.
Sphere and Ash
Title | Sphere and Ash PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Morse |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 94 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
A Year in the South
Title | A Year in the South PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen V. Ash |
Publisher | Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | 399 |
Release | 2016-02-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1250112354 |
A Year in the South is about four ordinary people in an extraordinary time. They lived in the South during 1865 -- a year that saw war, disunion, and slavery give way to peace, reconstruction, and emancipation. One was a slave determined to gain freedom, one a widow battling poverty and despair, one a man of God and planter's son grappling with spiritual and worldly troubles, and one a former Confederate soldier seeking a new life. Between January and December 1865 they witnessed, from very different vantage points, the death of the Old South and the birth of the New South. Civil War historian Stephen V. Ash reconstructs their daily lives, their fears and hopes, and their frustrations and triumphs in vivid detail, telling a dramatic story of real people in a time of great upheaval and offering a fresh perspective on a pivotal moment in history.
Tennesseans and Their History
Title | Tennesseans and Their History PDF eBook |
Author | Paul H. Bergeron |
Publisher | Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781572330566 |
"The authors introduce readers to famous personalities such as Andrew Jackson and Austin Peay, but they also tell stories of ordinary people and their lives to show how they are an integral part of the state's history. Sidebars throughout the book highlight events and people of particular interest, and reading lists at the end of chapters provide readers with avenues for further exploration."--BOOK JACKET.