A fascinating look at the history of Time, the world's most influential newsweekly.

A fresh perspective on United States history, emphasizing a global context

A biography of Henrich Himmler, interweaving both his personal life and his political career as a Nazi dictator.

Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.

Articles Include: The 1570s; Armor Through the Ages; Mothers of Invention; Everyday Life in the Confederacy; Confederates in Brazil; Missions in the Southwest; The Women Who Won the West; Enduring Diamonds; Zoo Mania; Pope Joan; The 1810s; Gardening; Percivall Pott; Medieval Bookmaking; The Company of Adventurers; Russian America; The First Flight; A Day at the Beach; Hooked on Cod; The Doctor Who Started the Boer War; Veterinarians; Hindsight; Chewing Gum; The 1490s; Stagecoaches; The Victorian Internet; The Origins of Baseball; Belles of the Ballgame; The King James Version; The Life of a Maid; Windmills; Yellow Fever; Secret Intelligence; Board Games; Liquor and Language; The 1720s; The Hunt for Pancho Villa; The Age of the Viking Raids; The Grand Tour; Daughters of the King; The Piano; The Illustrious History of the Hearse; Guardian of the Crown's Pleas; The Long Hair'd Star; The History of Foxhunting; Microbe Wars; On a Carousel; The 1680s; Nose Jobs; River Steamboats; Life on the Canals; On Her Majesty's Service; The Conquest of Hawaii; Beekeeping; When the World Came to St. Louis; The Red River Rebellion; The Great Race; The Ferris Wheel Revolution; The 1200s; The History of Syphillis; The Silk Route; The Original Tom and Jerry; Everyday Life During the War of 1812; The Heirs of Copernicus; The History of Basketball; The Development and Decline of the American Poorhouse; The Introduction of Firearms; The Icyball. A4980HB - $25.00

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