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The Nation was established on July 6, 1865, at 130 Nassau Street ("Newspaper Row") in Manhattan.Its founding coincided with the closure of the abolitionist newspaper The Liberator, [6] also in 1865, after slavery was abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution; a group of abolitionists, led by the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, desired to found a new ...
OCLC. 231884187. Nation is a novel by Terry Pratchett, published in the UK on 11 September 2008 [1] and in the US on 6 October 2009. [2] It was the first non- Discworld Pratchett novel since Johnny and the Bomb (1996). Nation is a low fantasy set in an alternative history of our world in the 1860s. The book received recognition as a Michael L ...
A similar, albeit broader, argument was made by Anthony D. Smith in his books, Chosen Peoples: Sacred Sources of National Identity and Myths and Memories of the Nation. [33] [34] In her book Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, Liah Greenfeld argued that nationalism was invented in England by 1600. According to Greenfeld, England was “the ...
History. The Wealth of Nations was published in two volumes on 9 March 1776 (with books I–III included in the first volume and books IV and V included in the second), [3] during the Scottish Enlightenment and the Scottish Agricultural Revolution. [4] It influenced several authors and economists, such as Karl Marx, as well as governments and ...
296. Awards. 2021 ICAS Book Prize. ISBN. 9781503610705 Hardcover. In the Name of the Nation: India and its Northeast is a non-fiction political science book about Assam. It is written by professor and commentator Sanjib Baruah and published by Stanford University Press in 2020.
The Civil War book series chronicles in great detail the American Civil War.Published by Time Life Books, the series was simultaneously released in the US and Canada between 1983 and 1987, with subsequent identical reprints in the late 1980s - early 1990s following suit for foreign, though untranslated, dissemination as well.
The book describes the nation as having been a desolate barren-like wasteland for much of its history, similar to Russia since the 12th century, torn by civil war and ethnic unrest. Eventually Molvanîa's various warring factions were united as a single kingdom, ruled by a series of cruel despotic kings.
ISBN. 978-1-573-22512-0 first edition. Prozac Nation is a memoir by American writer Elizabeth Wurtzel published in 1994. The book describes the author's experiences with atypical depression, [1] her own character failings and how she managed to live through particularly difficult periods while completing college and working as a writer.