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Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M...

A Nation Can Rise No Higher Than Its Women: African American Muslim Women in the Movement for Black Self Determination, 1950-1975 challenges traditional notions and interpretations of African American, particularly women who joined the Original Nation of...

The New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue.In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307346001Author Bevin AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289g

This is the first systematic exploration of the nature and extent of sympathy for Nazi Germany at American universities during the 1930s. Universities were highly influential in shaping public opinion and many of the nation's most prominent university...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250113894Author Frances DinkelspielFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 292g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788410048Author Hayes Baker-Crothers Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330785Author A. A. HoehlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 282Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 151mm *...

Sex, Drugs, and Rock 'n Roll: The American Counterculture of the 1960s offers a unique examination of the cultural flowering that enveloped the United States during that early postwar decade. Robert C. Cottrell provides an enthralling view of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262048071Author Steven BeaucherFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This series of essays reveal McPherson's profound knowedge of the Civil War and of the controversies among historians that have existed about aspects of it. He is eminently fair in stating the opposing arguments in each of these controversies, but his...

Discover the history of one of the most exciting eras in the history of the United States and some of its most fascinating characters . . . the mountain men! They were the first white men to penetrate the continent, and they soon lost their identity,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571681522Author TodishFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

On November 10, 1975, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution declaring Zionism a form of racism. The move shocked millions, especially in the United States- the country largely responsible for founding the UN. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the American...

This book is the first systematic study of the relations between German high society and the Nazis. It uses unpublished archival material, private diaries and diplomatic documents to take us into the hidden areas of power where privileges, tax breaks,...

In Building an Antislavery Wall, R. J. M. Blackett examines the efforts of black Americans in England to advance the cause of their own freedom. Speaking to enthusiastic working-class crowds in the cities and lobbying in the salons of the wealthy and...

The unprecedented importance of finance in our societies, as well as its central role in provoking economic crises, has generated an enormous interest in understanding the historical origins and evolution of modern financial systems. Today the U.S...

Winner of the History of Science Society's Watson Davis and Helen Miles Davis Prize in the History of Science.From the early exploits of Teddy Roosevelt in Africa to blockbuster films such as March of the Penguins, Gregg Mitman's Reel Nature reveals how...

For nearly a quarter of a century, Pulitzer Prize nominee William C. Davis has been one of our best writers on the Civil War. His books-including Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol; Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour; and "A Government of Our...

The Ben Lilly Legend brings back to life a great American hunter-the greatest bear hunter in history after Davy Crockett, by his own account and also by the record. J. Frank Dobie met Lilly and was so struck by this extraordinary man that he collected...

On September 21, 1976, a car bomb killed Orlando Letelier, the former Chilean ambassador to the United States, along with his colleague Ronni Moffitt. The murder shocked the world, especially because of its setting--Sheridan Circle, in the heart of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781572492233Author Morris M PennyFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Burd Street PressPublisher Burd Street PressWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743421959Author Karen TintoriFormat PaperbackPage Count 273Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 381gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 19mm

Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history-the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P...

It's unimaginable today, even for a generation that saw the Twin Towers fall and the Pentagon attacked. It's unimaginable because in 1814 enemies didn't fly overhead, they marched through the streets; and for 26 hours in August, the British enemy marched...

Lust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the "Heroic Age" of Texas history. Employing short, episodic chapters, it explores the twenty-five years between 1821 and 1846...

"The Last Gasp" takes us to the dark side of human history in the first full chronicle of the gas chamber in the United States. In page-turning detail, award-winning writer Scott Christianson tells a dreadful story that is full of surprising and...

Winner of the James P. Hanlan Book AwardWinner of the J. David Greenstone Book PrizeWinner of the S. M. Lipset Best Book AwardThis pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the...

The United States and Imperialism uses concepts of civilization, identity, the civilizing mission, and cooperation to explain the role of imperialism throughout American history. Ninkovich's original analysis of America as an empire shows how...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451642728Author Gregory OrfaleaFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & Schuster Children's PublishingPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Disability is rarely considered a social issue. Scholars tend to discuss it in the abstract; medical personnel view it as a health issue; and legal concerns for the disabled focus on how to advocate or protect organizations against demands for...

A Short History of Charleston-a lively chronicle of the South's most renowned and charming city-has been hailed by critics, historians, and especially Charlestonians as authoritative, witty, and entertaining. Beginning with the founding of colonial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956413038Author Melissa L CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Hoodoo Books LLCPublisher Hoodoo Books LLCWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath.The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely...

A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in 100 years of American historical writing. Offering both a critique of the conventional historiography and an alternate...

The captivating story of four young people-English and Powhatan-who lived their lives between cultures In Pocahontas and the English Boys, the esteemed historian Karen Ordahl Kupperman shifts the lens on the well-known narrative of Virginia's founding...

"This wonderfully rich volume challenges those who claim that political history is arid, narrow, or worse, irrelevant to our own concerns. Jensen's study explores popular political mobilization on the eve of American independence. It reconstructs the...

"Fascinating and alarmingly true."-Time Magazine. The true story of a plot to overthrow Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the nearly forgotten Marine who saved American Democracy.Many simply don't know that in 1933, a group of wealthy industrialists-working...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781637167762Author Captivating HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 110Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm)...