The Pre-Civil War Innovations of C. F. Martin and His Contemporaries
Describes the early history of American guitar design in detail. This title tells the story of how a European instrument was transformed into one with all of the design and construction features that define the iconic American flat-top guitar.
100 Inventions That Shaped the Victorian Age, from Aspirin to the Zeppel
The Victorian age (1837-1901) was a period of enormous technological progress in communications, transport, and many other areas of life. This book chronicles the history of the one hundred most important, innovative, and memorable inventions of the 19th century, such as aspirin, dynamite, and the telephone, blue jeans, tiddlywinks, and more.
100 Inventions That Shaped the Victorian Age, from Aspirin to the Zeppel
The Victorian age was a period of enormous technological progress in communications, transport and many other areas of life. This book chronicles the history of the 100 most important, innovative and memorable inventions of the 19th century.
Into the Far Country argues that the theology of Karl Barth offers a form of theological resistance to the Enlightenment's construal of human subjectivity as absolute, and offers a way of talking about the formation of human persons as the process of being laid bare before the cross and resurrection of Christ.
William Elliot Griffis (1843-1928) was unequaled in the length of his career and the breadth of his literary work as an authority on Meiji Japan. This anthology brings together the best of his writing.
An overview of the history of social welfare and juvenile justice in Boston. This book traces the origins, development and ultimate failure of Protestant and Catholic reformers' efforts to ameliorate working-class poverty and juvenile delinquency.
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign that represented the end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theatre of the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15-16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood and Federal forces under Maj. Gen.
Sufi Responses to the Russian Advance in the North Caucasus
After the first war in Chechnya in 1994 the world discovered the warlike Muslim peoples intent on liberating themselves from domination by a distant Russian government. This work focuses on the impact of the Sufi brotherhoods to analyze the formation of resistance in Chechnya and Daghestan.