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  | | In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History by Michael Fellman Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-16802-0, ISBN: 0-300-16802-0 "A provocative examination of the historical origins and impact of terrorism in America. With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he believes contain a core of moral absolutism and self-righteousness that perpetrators of terrorism use to ju ..." |
 | | In the Name of God and Country(1st Edition) Reconsidering Terrorism in American History by Professor Michael Fellman Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-11510-9, ISBN: 0-300-11510-5 "With insight and originality, Michael Fellman argues that terrorism, in various forms, has been a constant and driving force in American history. In part, this is due to the nature of American republicanism and Protestant Christianity, which he believes contain a core of moral absolutism and self-righteousness that perpetrators of terrorism use to justify their actions. Fellman also argues that there is an intrinsic relationship between ..." |
 | | This Terrible War(2nd Edition) The Civil War and Its Aftermath by Professor Michael Fellman, Lesley J. Gordon, Daniel E. Sutherland Paperback, 544 Pages, Published 2007 by Pearson ISBN-13: 978-0-321-38960-2, ISBN: 0-321-38960-3 "This absorbing text examines the American Civil War and its aftermath, exploring the crucial themes, and challenging many traditional views about the war that nearly tore this nation in two. Attention is paid to the social aspects of the war and includes a presentation of what was happening on the home front while the war was going on. While This Terrible War maintains a clear chronological foundation, it is also concerned with develop ..." |
 | | This Terrible War(3rd Edition) The Civil War and Its Aftermath by Michael Fellman, Lesley J. Gordon, Daniel E. Sutherland Paperback, 432 Pages, Published 2014 by Pearson ISBN-13: 978-0-205-00791-2, ISBN: 0-205-00791-0 " Integrates the political, social, military, and economic forces of the Civil War Absorbing and accessible, This Terrible War : The Civil War and Its Aftermath deals with the American Civil War in a realistic and unromantic light, discussing the hard experiences of ordinary people and the uncertain decisions of military and political leaders. The title explores both the years leading up to the Civil War, and the war's afterma ..." |
 | | The Making of Robert E. Lee(1st Edition) by Michael Fellman Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2000 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-679-45650-6, ISBN: 0-679-45650-3 "Perhaps no other American historical figure is as shrouded in legend as General Robert E. Lee. Long extolled as the perfect gentleman as well as the consummate military commander, Lee--known as the Marble Man--has been venerated more than understood. During his lifetime, he contributed to this picture through the austerity and rigid control he tried to impose on himself. The Making of Robert E. Lee reveals the flesh-and-blood Lee ..." |
 | | Citizen Sherman A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (Modern War Studies) by Michael Fellman Hardcover, 486 Pages, Published 1995 by Random House ISBN-13: 978-0-679-42966-1, ISBN: 0-679-42966-2 "Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 486 pages; Description: xiv, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Sherman, William T. (William Tecumseh) , 1820-1891. Army --Generals --United States --Biography" |
 | | Inside War(Reprint) The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War by Michael Fellman Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1990 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-506471-1, ISBN: 0-19-506471-2 "During the Civil War, the state of Missouri witnessed the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. With its horrific combination of robbery, arson, torture, murder, and swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements, the conflict approached total war, engulfing the whole populace and challenging any notion of civility. Michael Fellman's Inside War captures the conflict from "inside," drawing ..." |
 | | Making Sense of Self(Reprint) Medical Advice Literature in Late Nineteenth-Century America by Anita Clair Fellman, Michael Fellman Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 1981 by Univ Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-7810-1, ISBN: 0-8122-7810-0 "Seeking the key to good living through physical well-being, the American public since at least the 1830s has devoured literature proffering medical advice. Making Sense of Self is an historical analysis of the ideological content of a broad sample of late nineteenth-century popular advice literature concerning the body and the mind. At a time when the middle class was threatened with tumultuous social and economic change, such publicati ..." |
 | | Antislavery Reconsidered(1st Edition) New Perspectives on the Abolitionists by Lewis Perry, Michael Fellman Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 1981 by Lsu Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8071-0889-5, ISBN: 0-8071-0889-8 "Historical observations of abolition have ranged from perspectives of contempt to acclamation, and now show signs of a major change in interpretation. The literature often has been dominated by hostile appraisals of William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionist leaders until the 1960s, when historians equated abolitionism may have fluctuated from one period to the next, most of this scholarship shared certain assumptions--that abolition ..." |
 | | The Story of My Campaign(1st Edition) The Civil War Memoir of Captain Francis T. Moore, Second Illinois Cavalry by Thomas Bahde, Michael Fellman, Francis T. Moore Hardcover, 326 Pages, Published 2011 by Northern Illinois University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87580-441-5, ISBN: 0-87580-441-1 "In 1861, Francis Moore appeared to be a perfectly ordinary, twenty-three year old man: a carriagemaker in the bustling Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois. And there he might well have lived out his life in unadventurous comfort. But then the Civil War burst out, and Moore, along with most of his friends, like young men North and South, rushed to enlist in the army. His cavalry regiment soon set off for what proved to be four yea ..." |
 | | Faces of the Confederacy(1st Edition) An Album of Southern Soldiers and Their Stories by Ronald S. Coddington, Michael Fellman, Rs Coddington Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2008 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-9019-2, ISBN: 0-8018-9019-5 ""The history of the Civil War is the stories of its soldiers," writes Ronald S. Coddington in the preface to Faces of the Confederacy. This book tells the stories of seventy-seven Southern soldiers―young farm boys, wealthy plantation owners, intellectual elites, uneducated poor―who posed for photographic portraits, cartes de visite, to leave with family, friends, and sweethearts before going off to war. Coddington, a passionate collec ..." |
 | | This Terrible War(1st Edition) The Civil War and its Aftermath by Professor Michael Fellman, Lesley Jill Gordon, Daniel E. Sutherland Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2002 by Longman ISBN-13: 978-0-321-05285-8, ISBN: 0-321-05285-4 " Whether a novice or an expert on the Civil War, readers will find This Terrible War to be a well-designed and fully developed book, and a powerful tool in learning about the Civil War and its foreground and aftermath. The book provides an analysis of the United States in the time leading up to the war—the slavery debate, the differences between North and South, the economic and social climate of the country—and moves into the war itse ..." |
 | | Citizen Sherman(Reprint) A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman (Modern War Studies (Paperback)) by Professor Michael Fellman Paperback, 504 Pages, Published 1997 by University Press Of Kansas ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-0840-9, ISBN: 0-7006-0840-0 "Some men panic in the face of war, others embrace its horrific challenges. But none embraced war as ferociously or with as much cold calculation as William Tecumseh Sherman. It was Sherman who both articulated and practiced the relentless scorched-earth policy that broke the heart of the Confederacy. Sherman succeeded in large measure because, better than any other Union general, he fully grasped the essence of psychological warfare and ..." |
 | | Inside War(1st Edition) The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil War by Michael Fellman Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 1989 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-505198-8, ISBN: 0-19-505198-X "During the Civil War years, the state of Missouri was plunged into the most widespread, prolonged, and destructive guerrilla fighting in American history. Robbery, arson, torture, murder, swift and bloody raids on farms and settlements--these were the ingredients of the conflict. Approaching total war, the fighting engulfed the populace and challenged any notion of civility. A slave state that rejected secession, Missouri was beset ..." |
 | | Faces of the Civil War(1st Edition) An Album of Union Soldiers and Their Stories by Ronald S. Coddington, Michael Fellman Hardcover, 280 Pages, Published 2004 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-7876-3, ISBN: 0-8018-7876-4 "Before going off to fight in the Civil War, many soldiers on both sides of the conflict posed for a carte de visite, or visiting card, to give to their families, friends, or sweethearts. Invented in 1854 by a French photographer, the carte de visite was a small photographic print roughly the size of a modern trading card. The format arrived in America on the eve of the Civil War, which fueled intense demand for the convenient and affo ..." |
 | | Memoirs of General William Tecumseh Sherman(1st Edition) (Penguin Classics) by William Tecumseh Sherman, Michael Fellman, Tecumseh Shermanwilliam, Contributor-Michael Fellman Paperback, 880 Pages, Published 2000 by Penguin Classics Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-043798-0, ISBN: 0-14-043798-3 "Before his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depression. Drifting between the Old South and new West, Sherman witnessed firsthand many of the critical events of early nineteenth-century America: the Mexican War, the gold rush, the banking panics, and the battles with the Plains Indians. It wasn't until his victory at Shiloh, in 1862, that Sherman assumed his le ..." |
 | | In the Name of God and Country Reconsidering Terrorism in American History by Michael Fellman 272 Pages, Published 2010 by Yale University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-300-15501-3, ISBN: 0-300-15501-8 "Richard B. McCaslin, Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging in Gainesville, Texas, 1862 (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1994), 60–83, 143–46. 13. Edward E. Leslie, The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of William Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders (New York: Random House, 1994), esp. 237, 276–79, 327–29. For a larger discussion of this theater of war, see Fellman, Inside War. 14. Gregory J. W. Urwin, ed. ..." |
 | | The Making of Robert E. Lee by Michael Fellman Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2003 by Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-7411-6, ISBN: 0-8018-7411-4 "Civil War scholar Michael Fellman investigates the psychology and beliefs of that conflict's most admired general in an intriguing intellectual biography. From his days as a cadet at West Point, Robert E. Lee (1807-70) struck his companions and teachers as "a full-blown aristocratic beau ideal ... tall, stunningly handsome, bright, manly, commanding." His brilliant leadership of the Confederate army against daunting odds only incre ..." |
 | | The Unbounded Frame(1st Edition) Freedom and Community in Nineteenth Century American Utopianism (Contributions in American Studies,) by Michael Fellman Hardcover, 203 Pages, Published 1973 by Praeger ISBN-13: 978-0-8371-6369-7, ISBN: 0-8371-6369-2 "Mylar protected dustjacket has closed tear on bottom front and is faded on title." |
 | | Around the World with General Grant(Abridged) by Professor John Russell Young, Professor Michael Fellman, J. R., M. Edited. . Hardcover, 472 Pages, Published 2002 by Johns Hopkins University Press Abridged ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-6950-1, ISBN: 0-8018-6950-1 "After leaving the office of the presidency in 1877, Ulysses S. Grant embarked on a journey worthy of his legendary namesake, an around-the-world tour that took him from Europe to the Middle East and Asia over two and one-half years. Accompanying Grant was journalist John Russell Young, a wartime associate who was working in Europe as a correspondent for the New York Herald when Grant first arrived in England. On assignment for the Heral ..." |
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