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| Monmouth College
historians pride themselves first and foremost on
teaching well. But research—the
nuts and bolts of History—is
a passion we all share. We all agree that historical
research has a positive effect on what and how we teach.
When we can publish the results of our work, that’s even
better!
Below you’ll find a list of our books. For articles
and other sorts of publications, check our individual
vitas on the Faculty page. |
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Stacy A. Cordery |
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Stacy A. Cordery |
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William L. Urban
This summarizes the author’s five previous books on the
Deutsche Orden. This order, still in existence and based
in Vienna, was one of the premier military orders of the
Middle Ages. Started in the Holy Land, it took up a
second challenge in Prussia at the invitation of the
Duke of Masovia, then a third in Livonia when the
crusader position there seemed about to collapse.
Also published in
Swedish, Polish
and Italian. |
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William L. Urban
This study grew out of research on the crusades. When
crusaders went home, who was available to serve as
garrisons for castles and cities? Also, in a turbulent
era, how could churchmen, cities and nobles defend
themselves against ambitious neighbors? And how could
ambitious neighbors maximize their chances of success.
The greatest problem was not in hiring mercenaries, but
in letting them go. Unemployed mercenaries often went on
rampages. How could they be stopped? By hiring more
mercenaries. |
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Stacy A. Cordery
This brief biography was written for use in
college classrooms, because it highlights primary and
secondary documents of the era, and is woven together
with the author's own analysis of TR. It grew out of the
a larger project on TR's eldest daughter, Alice
Roosevelt Longworth. |
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Simon Cordery
Before insurance, before welfare, Britons in
need relied on friendly societies. These voluntary
associations supplied basic insurance along with
relaxing nights out. Members paid small subscriptions
for financial help when they were sick or needed to pay
for a funeral. They met, usually in a public house, to
conduct business, to have a drink, and perhaps to enact
the rituals of their order. This book is based on a
decade of research in archives and libraries all over
Great Britain. It shows how and why the societies became
commonplace, why they ran into financial difficulties,
and why the national government had to replace their
popular but fiscally unsound offerings. I also talk
about how the "friendlies" became politically important
and lobbied for assistance. |
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Amy
Caldwell de Farias
This book is a revised version of my PhD
dissertation. It recounts a fascinating and, heretofore,
neglected chapter of Brazil’s history: the Confederation
of Equator, a republican revolt that erupted just two
years after the declaration of Brazil’s independence
from Portugal. The book concentrates on two main leaders
of the revolt, one a poet and the other a priest, and
examines their plan to separate the northeastern portion
of the Brazilian empire and connect it to Gran Colombia,
which at the time consisted of Colombia, Venezuela and
Ecuador and was ruled by Símon Bolívar. |
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William L. Urban
This book is directed at Middle School Children. It sets
the career of Wyatt Earp and his family’s migration from
Kentucky to Monmouth, thence to Kansas, Arizona and
California, firmly in the context of the settlement of
the West. |
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William L. Urban
This is the history of the fourteenth crusade aimed at
Lithuanian pagans, who had extended their state south
and east, replacing the Tatars who had formerly
dominated medieval Russia. It is a complicated story
involving Poland both as ally and enemy of the Teutonic
Order, distractions inside Germany, schism in the Roman
Catholic Church, and the conversion of Lithuania to the
Roman Catholic Church at a moment when the adoption of
Orthodoxy seemed equally likely. Also
published in
Lithuanian. |
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William L. Urban
This is the story of the crusade in what is today
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania from 1300 to 1565. It is a
tale of war, political intrigue, personal ambitions,
complicated by religious competition and change. |
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William L. Urban
Tannenberg and After takes the military
order from its greatest success, the conquest of
Samogitia in 1399, to its dissolution in Prussia in
1525. The great battle at Tannenberg/Grunwald (1410) is
the watershed moment in the order’s history.
Also published in
Lithuanian. |
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