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on t.-p. of the English edition, London, 1874: Reprinted chiefly from the 'Edinburgh review'. ; The military life of General Grant.- A memoir of General Lee.- Admirals Farragut and Porter and the navy of the Union.- A northern raider in the civil war.- De Fezenszc's recollections of the grand army.- Henry von Brandt, a German soldier of the first empire.- Cornwallis and the Indian services.- a Carolina loyalist in the revolutionary war- Sir William Gordon of Gordon's battery.- Chinese Gordon and the Taipig rebellion. ; Mode of access: Internet.

'Even the biographical individual is a social category', wrote Adorno. 'It can only be defined in a living context together with others.' In this major new biography, Stefan Muller-Doohm turns this maxim back on Adorno himself and provides a rich and comprehensive account of the life and work of one of the most brilliant minds of the twentieth century. This authoritative biography ranges across the whole of Adorno's life and career, from his childhood and student years to his years in emigration in the United States and his return to postwar Germany. At the same time, Muller-Doohm examines the

This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn's development paralleled and mirrored the development of Soviet society: ambitious and idealistic in the twenties and thirties, preoccupied with the struggle for survival in the forties, hopeful in the fifties and sixties and disillusioned in the seventies. Solzhenitsyn's life thus serves as a paradigm for the history of twentieth-century Communism and for the intelligentsia's attitudes to Communism. At the same time, this book relates Solzhenitsyn's life to his works, all of which contain a large element of autobiography.

At its heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, Detroit's status as epicenter of the American auto industry made it a vibrant, populous, commercial hub-and then the bottom fell out. Detroit: A Biography takes a long, unflinching look at the evolution of one of America's great cities and one of the nation's greatest urban failures. This authoritative yet accessible narrative seeks to explain how the city grew to become the heart of American industry and how its utter collapse-from nearly two million residents in 1950 to less than 715,000 some six decades later-resulted from a confluence of public policie

Intro -- Contents -- Mobility and Biography: Methodological Challenges and Perspectives -- Jewish Mobility in the Eighteenth Century: Familial Networks of Ashkenazic Merchants across Europe -- Agents for the Rothschilds: A Nineteenth-Century Information Network -- Hidden Helpers: Biographical Insights into Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Legal and Financial Advisors -- Triggers of Mobility: International Congresses (1840-1914) and their Visitors -- Mobility and Representation: Legislators of Non-European Origin in the British House of Commons, 2001-2015 -- Mobile Musicians: Paths of Migration in Early Modern Europe -- Mobility and Social Control: French Immigration in Geneva during the Belle Époque -- Forum -- Beyond the Quest for a "Breakthrough": Reflections on the Recent Historiography on Human Rights -- List of Contributors.

Acclaimed by leading historians and critics when it appeared shortly after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., this foundational biography wends through the corridors in which King held court, posing the right questions and providing a keen measure of the man whose career and mission enthrall scholars and general readers to this day. Updated with a new preface and more than a dozen photographs of King and his contemporaries, this edition presents the unforgettable story of King's life and death for a new generation