Category: History

The Cambridge History of Russia: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917 by Dominic Lieven (second volume)
Requirements: MOBI Reader, 3.6 MB
Overview: The second volume of The Cambridge History of Russia covers the imperial period (1689 1917). It encompasses political, economic, social, cultural, diplomatic, and military history. All the major Russian social groups have separate chapters and the volume also includes surveys on the non-Russian peoples and the government’s policies towards them. It addresses themes such as women, law, the Orthodox Church, the police and the revolutionary movement. The volume’s seven chapters on diplomatic and military history, and on Russia’s evolution as a great power, make it the most detailed study of these issues available in English. The contributors come from the USA, UK, Russia and Germany: most are internationally recognised as leading scholars in their fields, and some emerging younger academics engaged in cutting-edge research have also been included. No other single volume in any language offers so comprehensive, expert and up-to-date an analysis of Russian history in this period.
Genre: Non Fiction, Russia History

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Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 by Larrie D. Ferreiro
Requirements: MOBI Reader, 4.7 MB
Overview: Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of aFrench astronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." Sowrites Larrie Ferreiro at the beginning of this pioneering work on the science ofnaval architecture. Bouguer’s monumental book Trait? du navire (Treatise of theShip) founded a discipline that defined not the rules for building a ship but thetheories and tools to predict a ship’s characteristics and performance before it wasbuilt. In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architectureformed an integral part of the Scientific Revolution. Using Bouguer’s work as acornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of thisnew discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in theseventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing on previously untapped primary-sourceand archival information, he places the development of naval architecture in thecontexts of science, navy, and society, across the major shipbuilding nations ofBritain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy.Ferreirodescribes the formulation of the three major elements of ship theory (the science ofexplaining the physical behavior of a ship): maneuvering and sail theory, shipresistance and hydrodynamics, and stability theory. He considers the era’sinfluential books on naval architecture and describes the professionalization ofship constructors that is the true legacy of this period. Finally, looking from theviewpoints of both the constructor and the naval administrator, he explains why thedevelopment of ship theory was encouraged, financed, and used in naval shipbuilding.A generous selection of rarely seen archival images accompanies the text.
Genre: Non Fiction, Engineering History

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Unknown Wars of Asia, Africa and The America’s That Changed History by Steven M. Johnson
Requirements: MOBI Reader, 10 MB
Overview: The stories of the "Unknown Wars of Asia, Africa and The Americas" were cataclysmic and bloody events that took the lives of millions and impact our world to this day. Yet, most of these wars are hardly mentioned in articles or even textbooks. Among some of the wars covered are: – The wars that involved the Great Wall of China over its’ 1,865 year history as a defensive barrier. – The longest war in history which was the 1,049 year long Vietnamese War of Independence from China and the lessons that should have kept France and the US out of Indo-China. – The wars of the Khmer Empire (802 – 1431) and Jayavarman VII who emerged as an unlikely hero in a time of crises in 1177 to become the greatest king of the Angkor era. – The Jewish Bar Kokhba Revolt (132 – 136) that caused the Emperor Hadrian to cover up the massacre of two veteran Roman Legions and the truth about how close the revolt came to succeeding. The Jewish War from 66 – 73 AD is also covered in a preceding chapter. – The wars of the Spanish Conquistadors to conquer the American Southeast and Southwest in the sixteenth century and the Native American apocalypse in North America that followed. – The Cherokee Wars that came very close to wiping out the colony of South Carolina. – The wars of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade that took the lives of more than 12 million Africans and the slave revolts of the Caribbean and South America. – The Taiping Rebellion (1851 – 1871) that was caused by a Confucian scholar who misunderstood a poorly translated gospel tract and started a rebellion that led to over 30 million deaths. – The 74 year Mongol conquest of China and disasters in Syria, Japan, Vietnam, and Java that led to the breakup of the Mongol Empire. – Before the Holocaust of World War II, there was a Christian holocaust in Germany and Bohemia during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) that caused more than 8 million deaths mostly from genocide being committed by both Catholics and Protestants. – England’s Pirate Wars – The French Conquest of Indo-China 1857 – 1884 – The future wars that half of the world’s population of Jews, Christians, and Muslims are expecting in the near future. About the author: Steven Johnson has been a regular contributing author to Military Heritage and Strategy & Tactics Magazines and has taught History at Limestone College and Riverside High School in South Carolina for more than 20 years. Steven Johnson’s style of narrative writing and teaching of History is as a master storyteller of true events that are stranger than fiction. The author’s style of writing has been compared to that of the late author Shelby Foote’s Civil War writing.
Genre: Non Fiction, History

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Samurai Invasion: Japan’s Korean War 1592 -1598 by Stephen Turnbull
Requirements: EPUB, MOBI Reader, 55 MB
Overview: It’s an extraordinary tale, largely untold–until now. Researched in both Japanese and Korean archives, and authored by the world’s most acclaimed historian of the Samurai period, here is the most complete account yet written of Japan’s two invasions of Korea. It includes, among other treasures, never-before seen Japanese illustrations and battle reports. By the end of the 16th century, the Samurai had taken total control of their own domestic territory and looked abroad for new lands to conquer. The ultimate target was China, but Korea was to provide the jumping-off point to that victory. The incursion marked the first time the Samurai had attacked another country, and at first the Koreans drove them away. Retribution was inevitable, and the Japanese returned in 1597 to wreak havoc in a war of unbelievable savagery. With extracts from contemporary Japanese field diaries not seen for over 400 years, this is a volume no follower of Samurai lore can resist. The invasions of Korea launched by the dictator Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1592-1593 and 1597-1598) are unique in Japanese history for being the only time that the samurai assaulted a foreign country. Hideyoshi planned to invade and conquer China, ruled at the time by the Ming dynasty, and when the Korean court refused to allow his troops to cross their country, Korea became the first step in this ambitious plan of conquest.
Genre: Non Fiction, History

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Paradise for Sale: Florida’s Booms and Busts by Nick Wynne,‎ Richard Moorhead
Requirements: ePUB Reader, 7 MB
Overview: Internationally publicized as the happiest place on earth decades before Disney arrived, the Sunshine State experienced a brief and wondrous economic boom in the mid-1920s. Entrepreneurs and real estate developers became overnight millionaires as they created luxury seaside resorts, golfing communities and country clubs. Greats, near greats, the famous, the infamous, movie stars, politicians, athletes, ne’er-do-wells, preachers, foreign royalty, con artists, educators, labor leaders, union members, every element of American and world society flocked to the Pleasure Paradise of the World."? Florida was a perpetual motion machine, destined to go on forever. But in 1926, small bank failures led to panic, the new federal income tax law led to bankruptcy and a series of hurricanes decimated the tourist trade. Florida’s great boom had gone bust, not to recover until World War II. However, Floridians remained optimistic that the sun of prosperity would rise again."
Genre: Non Fiction, History

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