19th Century

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878425570Author Joanne S LiuFormat PaperbackPage Count 141Imprint Mountain Press Publishing CompanyPublisher Mountain Press Publishing...

From the author of the popular "Letters from an American" newsletter: a sweeping story of how Northerners, Southerners, and Westerners together created modern America in the years from Abraham Lincoln to Theodore RooseveltA Wall Street Journal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620876534Author Bruce WexlerFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Skyhorse PublishingPublisher Skyhorse PublishingWeight(grams) 885gDimensions(mm) 262mm *...

Pieces of paper that claimed to be good for two dollars upon redemption at a distant bank. Foreign coins that fluctuated in value from town to town. Stock certificates issued by turnpike or canal companies-worth something...or perhaps nothing. IOUs from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805089226Author Charles LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Holt PaperbackPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 454g

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This is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809044399Author Langbourne M Williams Michael F HoltFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S...

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"Notice is hereby given to all persons, that Christopher Carson, a boy about 16 years old, small of his age, but thick-set; light hair, ran away from the subscriber, living in Franklin, Howard County, Missouri, to whom he had been bound to learn the...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be labeled as "unproductive citizens." Before that, disabled people had contributed as they were able in homes, on farms, and in the wage labor...

This book examines emancipation after the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans in the North and...

America's Road to Empire surveys and analyses United States' foreign relations from the country's independence in 1776 until its entry into World War One in 1917, using primary source materials and case studies. The book covers key themes including: -...

Before skyscrapers and streetlights glowed at all hours, American cities fell into inky blackness with each setting of the sun. But over the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, new technologies began to light up streets, sidewalks,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616407377Author Pat F GarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 186gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Listen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781798401088Author Charles RiverFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...

"The American people sees itself advance across the wilderness, draining swamps, straightening rivers, peopling the solitude, and subduing nature," wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in 1835. That's largely how we still think of nineteenth-century America...

"An excellent book based on exhaustive research and written with fresh insight. It is a spellbinding accomplishment and brings both the man and his era to life. . . . It is an extraordinary achievement." -Arizona Daily Star "Carter presents this...

Of all the Old West figures whose images eventually found their way into our popular culture, none was better known than Wild Bill Hickok. This book, a companion volume to Joseph Rosa's exhaustive biography, They Called Him Wild Bill, reproduces in one...

From an acclaimed historian, the full and authoritative story of one of the most iconic disasters in American history, told through the vivid memories of those who experienced it Between October 8-10, 1871, much of the city of Chicago was destroyed by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578515168Author David S TurkFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cold West PublishingPublisher Cold West PublishingWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Americans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any...

Concord, Massachusetts, has long been heralded as the birthplace of American liberty and American letters. It was here that the first military engagement of the Revolutionary War was fought and here that Thoreau came to "live deliberately" on the shores...

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A reinterpretation of a key moment in the political history of the United States-and of the Americans who sought to decouple American ideals from US territory.Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern...

Western Writers of America Spur Awards Finalist, Best Western Historical Nonfiction"A GROUNDBREAKING WORK. ... The first comprehensive history of the legendary transcontinental experiment in mail delivery in sixty years." -True West"This rollicking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647487669Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm)...

In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374537012Author Erik ReeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

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In 1867 conservative estimates put the number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s, that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of The Buffalo Hunters. Mari...

Although she is often remembered only as the sister of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher, there was a time in Catharine Beecher's life when she was more widely known than any member of her eminent family. A pioneering teacher, a writer on...

Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans...

In the spring of 1837, people panicked as financial and economic uncertainty spread within and between New York, New Orleans and London. Although the period of panic would dramatically influence political, cultural and social history, those who panicked...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250247155Author Bob DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Perhaps no other symbol has more resonance in African American history than that of "40 acres and a mule"-the lost promise of Black reparations for slavery after the Civil War. In I've Been Here All the While, we meet the Black people who actually...

Between 1850 and 1950, at least 115 women were lynched by mobs in the United States. The majority of these women were black. This book examines the phenomenon of the lynching of women, a much more rare occurence than the lynching of men. Over the same...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476784946Author Michelle MalkinFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Mercury InkPublisher Mercury InkWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 157mm * 30mm

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