Focusing on representations of beards in English Renaissance culture, this study elucidates how fetish objects validate ideological systems of power by materializing complex value in multiple registers. Providing detailed discussions of not only bearded men but also beardless boys, bearded women, and half-bearded hermaphrodites, author Mark Albert Johnston argues that attending closely to early modern English culture's treatment of the beard as a fetish object ultimately exposes the contin...

A biography of the man whom Jefferson Davis could have considered one of his greatest generals during the American Civil War.A revised edition of the only full-scale biography of the Confederacy's top-ranking field general during the opening campaigns of the Civil War. Albert Sidney Johnston was selected as one of the best one hundred books ever written on the Civil War by Civil War Times Illustrated in 1981 and by Civil War: The Magazine of th...

A Warhammer 40,000 AnthologyThese short stories include some of your favourite heroes and villains, and some new ones you might not yet be familiar with.READ IT BECAUSE21 authors explore the 41st Millennium in 24 short stories, with perspectives from within and without the Imperium of Mankind. There's something in here for every fan of Warhammer 40,000.THE STORYIn the grim darkness of the far future,...

I Want to Be Her! is part memoir and part illustrated fashion guide, written by one of fashion’s most accessible, trusted, and inspiring writers. Andrea Linett, the cofounder of Lucky magazine, shares her personal story of growing up and finding her way to fashion, and the figures who guided her along the way. Through short descriptions and memories, we meet 50 women across five eras of her life—some passing strangers, some casual friends, some close confidantes—who each ...

The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston is a biography of the famous Confederate general.

This volume was written by eight transnational geographers. These narratives comprise a collection of essays as a way to map personal trajectories and experiences which examine the concept of place at the micro-level. Eight transnational geographers convey their professional and personal identities in a global age. By using an approach called, autobiogeography, these narratives will be of interest to geographers and other social science and humanities scholars as well as of interest to the...

*Includes pictures of Johnston and important people and places in his life.*Analyzes his generalship at the beginning of the Civil War and at Shiloh.*Includes some of Johnston's quotes during the Battle of Shiloh and accounts of the battle from Grant, Sherman, and others. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of Contents. “The turning point of our fate." Jefferson Davis on the death of Albert Sidney JohnstonToday Albert Sidney Johnston (1803- 1862) is one of the most...

Weaves the lives of the 2 commanding generals into one entertaining and educational narrative.Includes maps and accounts of the fighting at Shiloh by several important generals.Includes an original introduction for each general.Includes Bibliographies of each general.Includes a Table of Contents. "The turning point of our fate." - Jefferson Davis on the death of Albert Sidney Johnston at Shiloh"Probably no single battle of the war gave rise to such wild and damaging reports." - William Tecums...

Killed in action at the bloody Battle of Shiloh, Confederate general Albert Sidney Johnston stands as the highest-ranking American military officer to die in combat. His unexpected demise had cascading negative consequences for the South’s war effort, as his absence created a void in adequate leadership in the years that followed. In The Iron Dice of Battle, noted Civil War historian Timothy B. Smith reexamines Johnston’s life and death, offering remarkable insights into this ofte...

Albert Sidney Johnston (1803- 1862) , a native of Kentucky, was a general who commanded soldiers for the Texas Army, the American Army, and the Confederate States Army. One of the finest commanders of the 19th century, he was killed during the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh. The Life of General Albert Sidney Johnston is an incredible chronology of Johnstons life and events in American history. Chapters include the Black Hawk War, the Texan Revolution, the Mexican War, the Mormon Rebellio...

*Weaves the lives of the 4 generals into one entertaining and educational narrative.*Includes maps and accounts of the fighting at Shiloh by several important generals.*Includes an original introduction for each general.*Includes Bibliographies of each general.*Includes a Table of Contents. After Union General Ulysses S. Grant captured Fort Henry and Fort Donelson in early 1862, Confederate General Albert Sidney Johnston, widely considered the Confederacys best general, concentrated his force...

General Albert Sidney Johnston has long been one of the most debated figures of the American Civil War. Serving as the Confederate commander of the Western Department from September 1861 to April 1862, he oversaw a series of stunning defeats that allowed Union forces to penetrate deep into the Southern heartland. Some prominent historians have laid the blame squarely at Johnston's feet, painting him as an indecisive leader whose missteps doomed the Confederacy's western war effort. But is ...