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Washington's Crossing
David Hackett FischerYet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die.
Champlain's Dream
David Hackett FischerWinner of the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing In this sweeping, enthralling biography, acclaimed historian David Hackett Fischer brings to life the remarkable Samuel de Champlain—soldier, spy, master ...
Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett FischerIn Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak of revolution and the emergence of the American republic.
Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding ...
David Hackett FischerFischer examines liberty and freedom not as philosophical or political abstractions, but as folkways and popular beliefs deeply embedded in American culture. 400+ illustrations, 250 in full color.
The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History
David Hackett FischerWho is seriously concerned about the state of the world today.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett FischerThis fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time.
Champlain's Dream
David Hackett FischerTraces the story of Quebec's founder while explaining his influential perspectives about peaceful colonialism, in a profile that also evaluates his contributions as a soldier, mariner, and cultural diplomat.
Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America
David Hackett FischerThe first volume in a cultural history of America examines the different lives and customs of the first groups of immigrants to America and assesses the importance of those traditions for contemporary American life.
Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding ...
David Hackett FischerAlso very helpful were Susan Drinan at the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia , Adjutant Tom Farley Jr. of the First Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, Lee Arnold and Kerry McLaughlin at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Herbert K.
Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement
David Hackett Fischer" "The wealth of anecdotes and illustrations in this volume offers a new way of looking at John Smith and William Byrd, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, Daniel Boone, Dred Scott, and scores of lesser-known gentry, yeomen, servants, ...
The Lost Majority: Why the Future of Government Is Up for ...
Sean Trende... H. C. Nixon, “Politics of the Hills,” Journal ofPolitics 8 (1946): 123–33. David Hackett Fischer, Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989), 787. Larry Hoefling, Chasing the Frontier: Scots- Irish in ...
Old cemetery burials of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
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Glyph-Breaker
Steven R. FischerSteven R. Fischer. Hachette. Fischer, Steven Roger. 1988a. Evidence for Hellenic Dialect in the Phaistos Disk. Berne: Peter Lang. Fischer, Steven Roger. 1988b. Meersburg im Mittelalter. Aus der Geschichte einer Bodenseestadt undihrer ...
Stained Glass
Stephen A. FischerThis is a fictional story about Georg Roman Fischer that takes place between 1910 and 1927. The narrative opens at a time of chaos in Germany's history and concludes when Fischer migrates to America.
The Pawns Court (Spy Thriller Classic)
E. Phillips OppenheimMr. Fischer sat quite still for several moments. He was struggling very hard to ... “ Then there is room there for a discussion,” Mr. Fischer pointed out eagerly. “I should like to put my ... a young soldier that morning at Henry's?” Fischer nodded.
Endgame: Bobby Fischer's Remarkable Rise and Fall - from ...
Frank BradyThis is the definitive account of a fascinating man and an extraordinary life, one that at last reconciles Fischer's deeply contradictory legacy and answers the question: 'Who was Bobby Fischer?'
Ragamuffin Man: The World of Syd Fischer
David SalterThis is the story of Fischer’s remarkable life, and of his unrelenting quest to win the Sydney–Hobart Yacht Race one more time. ‘It’s as if Syd has suddenly decided that it’s time to shrug off his lifelong reluctance to talk about ...
The Balkans Since the Second World War
R. J. CramptonWoodhouse, C. M. Almond, Mark Behr, Edward Brucan, Silviu Carothers, Thomas Castellan, Georges Deletant, Dennis Deletant, Dennis Fischer, Mary Ellen Fischer-Galati, Stephen Fischer—Galati, Stephen Fischer-Galati, Stephen Floyd, ...
Political Democracy and Ethnic Diversity in Modern European ...
André Gerrits3, July 1995). Fischer-Galati 1969: Stephen Fischer-Galati, The Socialist Republic of Rumania (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969). Fischer- Galati 2000: Stephen Fischer-Galati, "Romania: Crisis W1thout Compromise," in Dirk ...
Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in ...
PreviewFischer suggests that the Somnia Danielis was "but a collection of self- perpetuating topics stemming from the ancient tradition"; Fischer, The Dream, 31. See Steven R. Fischer, The Complete Medieval Dreambook: A Multilingual, Alphabetical ...
The Games of Robert J. Fischer
Bobby FischerWas Bobby Fischer the Greatest Player Ever? The question often asked is: Was Bobby Fischer the Greatest Player Ever?
Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths
Helen HackettHelen Hackett deftly covers this story from Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth to Shakespeare in Love, from fantasies that Queen Elizabeth was Shakespeare's lover to those that she was really the poet's mother.
Eastern Europe and the Cold War: perceptions and perspectives
Stephen A. Fischer-Galați13. Stephen Fischer-Galati, The New Rumania: From People's Democracy to Socialist Republic (Cambridge: The M.I.T. Press, 1967), pp. 44-77. 14. Ibid. 15. Stephen Fischer-Galati, Twentieth Century Rumania (New York: Columbia University ...
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