1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990009477480403321

Autore

Mookerji, Radhakumud

Titolo

Men and Thought in ancient India / by Radhakumud Mookerji

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : Macmillan and co., 1924

Descrizione fisica

X, 201 p. : ill. ; 18 cm

Locazione

GM1

Collocazione

GM1 DeLo 0130

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461652403321

Autore

Hess Earl J

Titolo

Lincoln Memorial University and the shaping of Appalachia [[electronic resource] /] / Earl J. Hess

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Knoxville, : University of Tennessee Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23934-5

9786613239341

1-57233-803-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

378.768/944

Soggetti

Education, Higher - Appalachian Region - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Chapter 1. A Larger Enterprise; Chapter 2. A Monument to Abraham Lincoln; Chapter 3. Young Lincolns; Chapter 4. Stooksbury's School; Chapter 5. Howard's Monument; Chapter 6. Modernization; Chapter 7. Strike; Chapter 8. Crisis and Survival;



Chapter 9. A New Day for Lincoln Memorial; Chapter 10. The Lincoln Stamp; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Located near Cumberland Gap in the rugged hills of East Tennessee,  Lincoln Memorial University (LMU) was founded in 1897 to help  disadvantaged Appalachian youth and reward the descendents of Union  loyalists in the region. Its founder was former Union General Oliver  Otis Howard, a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, who made it his  mission to sustain an institution of higher learning in the mountain  South that would honor the memory of the Civil War president.In Lincoln Memorial University and the Shaping of Appalachia,  LMU Professor Earl J. Hess presents a highly

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779237503321

Autore

Wanklyn Malcolm

Titolo

Warrior generals [[electronic resource] ] : winning the British civil wars 1642-1652 / / Malcolm Wanklyn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010

ISBN

0-300-16841-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource (xviii, 312 p.) ) : maps, ports

Disciplina

942.06/2

Soggetti

Generals - Great Britain - History - 17th century

Command of troops - History - 17th century

Great Britain History, Military 1603-1714

Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649 Campaigns

Great Britain History Puritan Revolution, 1642-1660

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The generals -- The first campaign of the English Civil War : the opening moves -- Over by winter? Edgehill and Turnham Green -- Taking stock, November 1642-April 1643 -- Parliament's lost opportunities, April-July 1643 -- The King on the offensive : Bristol, Gloucester, and the first Battle of Newbury -- Odds even : fighting in the provinces, August 1643-April 1644 -- Great expectations : Selby



and Oxford -- The Marston Moor Campaign -- The generals in jeopardy : Cropredy Bridge and Lostwithiel -- The march to Newbury : saving the South -- The second and third Battles of Newbury -- The reckoning : a new general and a new Army -- Fairfax and Rupert -- Fairfax and Goring -- Warfare in Scotland and Ireland, 1642-1648 -- The Second English Civil War -- The British wars, 1649-1652 : Ireland -- The British wars, 1650-1651 : Scotland and England -- Generals : the audit.

Sommario/riassunto

In this bold history of the men who directed and determined the outcome of the mid-seventeenth-century British wars-from Cromwell, Fairfax, and Essex to many more lesser-known figures-military historian Malcolm Wanklyn offers the first assessment of leadership and the importance of command in the civil wars.