The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World
7 best books like The Barbary Wars: American Independence in the Atlantic World (Franklin T. Lambert): Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Boneshaker, War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence, Aftermath, The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America, The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis, The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
| Author | Michel Foucault |
| ISBN | 0679752552 |
This book begins with a bang – in fact, a series of bangs. That is the point, you see. We need to be shocked about what is, after all, our relatively recent past. We too easily forget that there was a time when ‘people like us’ actually span back in history for nearly as far as the mind could imagine. Now,...
| Author | Cherie Priest |
| ISBN | 0765318415 |
In the early days of the Civil War, rumors of gold in the frozen Klondike brought hordes of newcomers to the Pacific Northwest. Anxious to compete, Russian prospectors commissioned inventor Leviticus Blue to create a great machine that could mine through Alaska’s ice. Thus was Dr. Blue’s Incredible...
War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence
| Author | Ronan Farrow |
| ISBN | 0393652106 |
American diplomacy is under siege. Offices across the State Department sit empty, while abroad the military-industrial complex has assumed the work once undertaken by peacemakers. We’re becoming a nation that shoots first and asks questions later.
In an astonishing account ranging...
| Author | LeVar Burton |
| ISBN | 0446519936 |
The United States of 2019 is a very different place. Economic depression, an enormous earthquake, and the assassination of a black President-elect have turned the country into a war zone. Four people, each as different and troubled as the next, are the nation's last hope. But can they overcome the devastation...
The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America
| Author | Paul E. Johnson |
| ISBN | 0195098358 |
During The Second Great Awakening’s religious revival of evangelicalism, Robert Matthews- the self-appointed prophet Matthias- was one of many to create and spread his own ultimately doomed religion, a patriarchal Kingdom of Truth in which Matthias sat at the head as the Father and redeemer....
The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyage That Defied the Nazis
| Author | William Geroux |
| ISBN | 0525557466 |
An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort.
On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy...
The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books
| Author | Edward Wilson-Lee |
| ISBN | 0008146225 |
Created in 1539, the Biblioteca Colombina in Sevilla contains over 3000 books. This is but a fraction of one man’s life spent collecting every book on every subject – including antique and modern worlds, science and law, as well as playing cards, pornography, and popular music.
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