A man of distinction among them : Alexander McKee and the Ohio country frontier, 1754-1799 by Nelson, Larry L. (Larry Lee), 1950-

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Personal perspectives. World War I

Table of Contents: “…The African-American experience in World War I -- "Over the dirty waters" : the experience of British Indians in World War I -- The war on the periphery : the experience of soldiers fighting in European colonies, 1914-1918 -- "In a stupid cap and grey jacket" : soldiers' experiences of World War I in the neutral Netherlands -- "A miserable and impoverished existence in lousy scratch holes" : the experience of trench warfare during World War I -- Victims of a greenish cloud : the experience of a gas attack during World War I -- "Like climbing into the witch's oven" : the experience of tank combat in World War I -- Life in a tin can : the experience of submarine personnel during World War I -- "It's only the ones that might live who count" : Allied medical personnel during World War I -- "Service for soldiers" : the experience of American social welfare agencies in World War I -- Prisoners of war in the World War I : British and allied civilian internees at Ruhleben Camp, Germany -- Mothers, wives, workers, and more : the experience of American women on the home front during World War I -- Struggling not to fight : the experience of radicals and pacifists during World War I.…”


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The richest East India merchant : the life and business of John Palmer of Calcutta 1767-1836 by Webster, Anthony

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Wiring the nation : telecommunication, newspaper-reportage, and nation building in British India, 1850-1930 by Mann, Michael, 1959-

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The forgotten army : India's armed struggle for independence, 1942-1945 by Fay, Peter Ward, 1924-2004

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Vernacular medicine in colonial India : family, market, and homeopathy by Das, Shinjini, 1982-

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Space, utopia and Indian decolonization : literary pre-figurations of the postcolony by Banerjee, Sandeep

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The Great Game, 1856-1907 : Russo-British relations in Central and East Asia by Sergeev, E. I︠U︡. (Evgeniĭ I︠U︡rʹevich), 1959-

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Ahmad Riza Khan Barelwi : in the path of the prophet by Sanyal, Usha

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The Old Northwest in the American Revolution : an anthology

Table of Contents: “…. -- Rickey, D., Jr. The British-Indian attack on St. Louis, May 26, 1780. -- Kinnaird, L. …”


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Mother tongue : flavours of a second generation by Loyal, Gurdeep

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The Kashmir conflict : from empire to the Cold War, 1945-66 by Ankit, Rakesh

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A little princess

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Rainy Lake House : exile and revenge in Indian country by Catton, Theodore

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The spider and the piglet : proceedings of the First International Seminar on Bhutan Studies

Table of Contents: “…Thinley -- Glimpses of the history of the rGya clan with reference to Nyangtod, lHo Mon and Neary lands (7th-13th century) / Roberto Vitali -- A brief account of Hungrel Drung Drung / Sangye Dorji -- The underground 'fortress' of Bangtsho ruler / Ugyen Pelgen, Tshering Gyeltshen -- The gDung lineages of central and eastern Bhutan: a reappraisal of their origin, based on literary sources / John Ardussi -- The fascinating life of Lama Changchub Tsongru (1817-1856) according to his biography / Francoise Pommaret -- Bhutan and Tibet in European cartography (1597-1800) / Romola Gandolfo -- British-Indian medical service officers in Bhutan, 1905-1947: a historical outline / Alex Mckay -- State, economy and space in Bhutan in the early part of 19th century / Adam Pain -- Development of cursive Bhutanese writing / Phuntsok Tashi --…”


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The First World War : a Brief History with Documents by Grayzel, Susan R.

Table of Contents: “…(1917) -- 11: Russian war bond poster: Freedom loan (1917) -- 12: French war bond poster: Subscribe to the National War Loan (1917) -- Voices from the battlefronts: -- 13: Letter from a British officer in the trenches (November 18, 1914) / Julian Grenfell -- 14: Letter from a German soldier on the Western Front (October 17, 1915) / Hugo Muller -- 15: Letter from a British officer describing the Battle of the Somme (late July 1916) / Christian Cresswell Carver -- 16: Letter from a German soldier on the Battle of the Somme (October 1, 1916) / Karl Gorzel -- 17: Letter from a soldier in the British Indian Army (July 10, 1915) / Sowar Sohan Singh -- 18: Letter from a soldier in the British Indian Army (November 28, 1917) / Behari Lal -- 19: Memoir of a Turkish prisoner of war (1917-1918) / Mehmen Arif Olcen -- 20: Diary entry from a Russian nurse at the battlefront (1915) / Lidiia Zakharova -- 21: Under Fire (1916) / Henri Barbusse -- 22: Diary entry from an American on the Italian front (1917) / Gino Charles Speranza -- Noncombatant voices from the war's other fronts: -- 23: Correspondence between a French civilian and her husband in the battle zone (May 27, 1915, and May 23, 1916) / Marie and Paul Piraud --24: Report on Armenian genocide (June 30, 1915) / Leslie Davis -- 25: Viscount Bryce Report on atrocities against Armenians: Narrative of an Armenian lady (November 2, 1915) -- 26: Keep the home fires burning (1915) / Lena Guilbert Ford -- 27: Berlin Police reports (February 17 and October 17, 1915) -- 28: Resolutions adopted by the International Congress of Women at the Hague (May 1, 1915) -- 29: Vise (after a letter from the field) (1915) / Maria Dobler Benemann -- 30: Recollections of four months working in a German munitions factory (1917) / Editha von Krell -- 31: Le Depart (1917) / Philippe Verneuil -- 32: Letter to Joachim von Winterfeldt-Menkin on the death of his soldier friend (September 16, 1918) / Ranier Maria Rilke -- 33: Diary entry describing a zeppelin raid in England (October 13, 1915) / Ethel Bilbrough -- 34: Diary entries from a civilian in occupied France (March 1915-April 1916) / Maria Degrutere -- 35: April Theses (April 7, 1917) / V I Lenin -- Reflections on the meaning and effects of the war: -- 36: Thoughts for the times on war and death (1915) / Sigmund Freud -- 37: Psychology of the Great War (1916) / Gustave Le Bon -- 38: Shell shock and its lessons (1917) / G Elliot Smith and T H Pear -- Poetic responses after years of war: -- 39: Dancers (1918) / Edith Sitwell -- 40: Dulce et Decorum Est (October 1917-March 1918) / Wilfred Owen -- 3: Aftermath of the First World War: -- 41: Casualties in the World War (1914-1918) / The Times of London -- 42: America first, now and hereafter (January 13, 1918) / Chicago Daily Tribune -- 43: Treaty of Versailles (June 28, 1919) -- 44: Horror on the Rhine (1920) / E D Morel -- 45: Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916) -- 46: Balfour Declaration (November 2, 1917) -- 47: Women and wages: "Equal pay for equal work" (January 28, 1919) / Westminster Gazette -- 48: Senagalese veteran's oral testimony (1919) / Nar Diouf -- 49: Flander's field (1934-1936) / Otto Dix -- 50: Storm of steel (1920) / Ernst Junger -- 51: All quiet on the Western Front (1928) / Erich Maria Remarque -- 52: Not so quiet (1930) / Helen Zenna Smith -- Appendixes: -- Chronology of the First World War: from prelude to peace (1879-1923) -- Questions for consideration -- Selected bibliography -- Index.…”


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Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans the battle that shaped America's destiny by Kilmeade, Brian, Yaeger, Don

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Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny by Kilmeade, Brian, Yaeger, Don

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Andrew Jackson and the miracle of New Orleans : the battle that shaped America's destiny by Kilmeade, Brian, Yaeger, Don

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The Arabian frontier of the British Raj : merchants, rulers, and the British in the nineteenth-century Gulf by Onley, James, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Political residents in the Gulf (Ras al-Jufair, Bahrain) -- Governors of Bombay -- Viceroys of India -- Appendix C British India's native agents in Bahrain -- Native agents -- Native agency staff -- British-Indian steam navigation Co. agents (Gray Paul & Co.) -- Merchant grades -- Appendix D British control : Bahrain v. the Indian states -- Appendix E Anglo-Bahraini legal obligations and rights.…”


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