ERA Reviews

This wonderful book contains alphabetical and bibliographical entries for topics associated with Victorian England. WHile it truly does cover the broadest of ranges for various topics like Charles Dickens, Disraeli,and Peterloo, it omits various "secondary" figures like Forster and other less literary but nonetheless notable characters of the time. Over all, it is a great browsing book full of interesting data for the general reader. If it does not cover all it could have done then it does at least offer a wide number of bibliographical entries for additional reading.

This book is important to understand postmodernism. However, i don't image american readers accepting Vattimo's tesis about weak subjet right to have a place in world. Why modern civilization has impossed to us the obligation of being strong and the first in every action as the only way to be allowed as a member of this society?

Fantastic guide to early American photography. Includes Carleton Watkins, Timothy O'Sullivan, Eadweard Muybridge, Andrew Joseph Russell, William Henry Jackson. Beautiful prints and impressive historical data. My back aches just thinking of the amount of physical labor that went into making each spectacular scene.

Well deserving his Pulitzer, Dangerfield opens this fascinating study with the negotiations at Ghent and closes with the advent of the Jackson presidency. His erudite treatment of the complex political realities of the period reaveal that the prevailing feelings were anything but good. All this aside, _The Era of Good Feelings_ is probably not a choice fire-side text for the casual reader.

This is one of the best, if not the best, study of uniforms worn during the period of the American Revolution. Prepared by The Company of Military Historians and featuring such reliable and accurate artists as H. Charles McBarron, Frederick Todd, Clyde Risley, Herbert Knotel, and Eugene Leliepvre, it is a sampling of the excellent prints published by the Company, which now number in excess of 600.

Edited by colonel John Elting, with a Foreward by Ann S.K. Brown, it is an accomplished work of scholarship that not only shows the various uniforms of the major combatants of both the French and Indian War and the American Revolution, but the accompanying text for each print is expertly done, and draws mostly on primary sources for its information.

The units covered are a good sampling of the combatants, Gorham's Rangers being an interesting example, as well as British field uniforms for the French and Indian War where they modified them for field service in the heavily wooded North American continent.

The Revolution section features such units as the Queen's Rangers, The Delaware Regiment, both regular British and Loyalist outfits, the 3d Continental Light Dragoons, as well as an excellent sampling of Germans and French, by the masters Knotel and Leliepvre, respectively.

Even though this excellent volume is out of print, it is still a must for the serious student and historian. It is an indispensable research tool and reference, put together by a team of authorities on the period, most of whom, unfortunately, are no longer with us. It is a classic study of uniformology.

A detailed and evocative catalogue of passenger ships over 10,000 tons from Titanic to the QE2. Archive Photos of each of these classic ships are included with the page-long descriptions of the ship, as well as measurements and historical info, including the dramatic life (and often tragic death) of many of these wondrous vessels of the past 100 years. Readers may find themselves longing for a time machine so that they could actually walk the wonderous decks of the beautiful, but ill-fated Normandy, or sample the atmosphere of the heroic Aquitania, or the exquisite cuisine and ambience of the Ile De France (The Andrea Doria's rescue ship). Even the more obscure ships become objects of fascination and wonder. Hauntingly, even the Dana Regina is included (a year or two after this book's publishing, the DR, renamed the Estonia, sank in the mid-1990's with a loss of over 800 lives when it's bow door came loose in a horrific winter storm). This is the kind of book you leave on your coffee table and keep reaching for again and again. While the text could use some occasional editing for a few grammatical rough spots, the effect of the book as a whole is undiminished. If you weren't already interested in the classic liners, this book just might get you started. And it is simply a must for any Titanic afficionado.

A wonderful book to have for life. I already have the full version with detailed Essays of Montaigne, but this small paperback version is one which goes with me everywhere. It is my handbook to life and thoughts. I've had this book for long, handed to me by my father. I find all daily life substance and teachings with me when I read these wonderful notes, which are not only the thoughts reflecting a person but almost everyone of us. The chapters 'On the power of the imagination' and 'On the uncertainty of our judgement' relates so much to our own daily thoughts and actions- when I feel I have the power to do everything and then bringing it down to reality ... but the words written here in these chapters again fills me with power and optimism but also with a touch of pragmatism. I find this book thoroughly engrossing and often get back to it. These Essays are what all-time classics are made of.

Are you a Lewis and Clark buff, just starting out? You've read "Undaunted Courage" by Stephen Ambrose, and perhaps a couple other Lewis and Clark books. It's time to read the journals, but you are daunted by the thought of all that early 19th century wordiness, spelling and such?

Me too.

This book is great. It's just what it says it is. All the good stuff from Lewis and Clark's copious journals, all the highlights, well edited. The value of this book is as a starting place, perhaps. It's short enought to be read easily over a few days. Like all good introductions, then, if you want more you know where to look, and you'll now know what to expect. Landon Jones provides all the accessibility; Lewis and Clark still provide the wonder.

I purchased this book when it was first published and released in 1972. I never get tired of the excellent writing. The author takes you back in time. You feel like you are there with all those icons of hockey. Photos are fabulous. Stats are clear and concise. Great book!!!!!!! Now THAT was hockey!!!!!

This book is unique in its subject matter. It helps today's reader understand the importance of the entire cotton production, trade, and manufacture.

Ms. Willoughby writes that the cotton trade's impact rippled over many other segments of the national economy and she quotes from another writer that this fiber has been called the most significant ingredient in the economic life of the whole nation [United States] before 1860.

The book describes the connection of cotton to currency and to banking and shows in detail how the banking system was vastly different from our present financial institutions.

The author stresses that much of the cotton business depended on the reputaions of individual men from the planter to the final purchaser and she gives short biographical descriptions of many key individuals.

Transportation facilities were vital to the moving of the cotton from the farm or plantation to the mill. The book describes the importance of vessels and shipping in every phase of the process and also the part that the early railroads played in making important changes in the entire ecomomy.

I would give this book a 10.