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Book InformationISBN 9781476692166Author Tobin T. BuhkFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250287700Author Tore C OlssonFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

This compelling collection of original documents and current scholarship sheds considerable light on the underside of the poor white experience in the antebellum South. In 1859, the Georgian Edward Isham, convicted in North Carolina of murdering a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798857354049Author Will AndrewsFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 100g

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Although he is best known for his paintings of Native Americans, George Catlin (1796-1872) also wrote books about his experiences among the indigenous peoples of the United States. During the 1830s he travelled widely in the western frontier regions with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798847238069Author David AndersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 506Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 1161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783337731953Author Robert Michael BallantyneFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 498g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781943737406Author Lochlainn SeabrookFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Sea Raven PressPublisher Sea Raven PressWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Prominent author and abolitionist Lydia Maria Child began writing her ""letters"" from New York in August 1841 as a response to the troubling realities marking her private and public life. In particular, she was preoccupied by her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947660779Author Walter Donald KennedyFormat PaperbackPage Count 434Imprint Shotwell Publishing LLCPublisher Shotwell Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781491759288Author Charles H ColemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781735270661Author Troy TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Whitechapel ProductionsPublisher Whitechapel ProductionsWeight(grams) 481gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425753009Author Gerald L McKernsFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 209g

With this definitive study of Federalism in the Jeffersonian South, James H. Broussard makes a significant contribution to the body of knowledge of the early political development of the United States and closes the gap in our knowledge of the Federalist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088194201Author Steve F CottrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781483703060Author Charles DickensFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Bottom of the Hill PublishingPublisher Bottom of the Hill PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375726361Author Sally DentonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 323gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399590870Author Rachel L. SwarnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

In this expansive history, Robert J. Steinfeld offers a thorough re-interpretation of the origins of American judicial review and the central role it quickly came to play in the American constitutional system. Beginning with Privy Council review of...

In Thomas Jefferson: A Modern Prometheus, Wilson Jeremiah Moses provides a critical assessment of Thomas Jefferson and the Jeffersonian influence. Scholars of American history have long debated the legacy of Thomas Jefferson. However, Moses deviates from...

In The Turn to Process, Kunal M. Parker explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970. Over this period, American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets went from being oriented around...

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In the decades before the Civil War, Americans appealed to the nation's sacred religious and legal texts - the Bible and the Constitution - to address the slavery crisis. The ensuing political debates over slavery deepened interpreters' emphasis on...

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...

This book argues that schools were a driving force in the formation of social, political, and financial capital during the market revolution and capitalist transition of the early republican era. Grounded in an intensive study of schooling in the Genesee...

In an incisive analysis of over two dozen clauses as well as several 'unwritten' rules and practices, The Constitutional Origins of the American Civil War shows how the Constitution aggravated the sectional conflict over slavery to the point of civil war...

This book examines the political economy of the master-slave relationship viewed through the lens of consumption and market exchange. What did it mean when human chattel bought commodities, 'stole' property, or gave and received gifts? Forgotten...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781316510698Author Lyndsay CampbellFormat HardbackImprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

In The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation, Wilma Dunaway calls into question the dominant paradigm of the US slave family. She contends that US slavery studies have been flawed by neglect of small plantations and export zones and...

By the early 1850s, St Louis was one of the fastest-growing cities in America. In this book, Jeffrey Adler analyzes the forces that determined the role of western cities in the national economy. He devotes particular attention to the ways in which Yankee...

Were slaves property or human beings under the law? In crafting answers to this question, Southern judges designed efficient laws that protected property rights and helped slavery remain economically viable. But, by preserving property rights, they...

The Civil War should be seen as America's 'bourgeois revolution'. So argues Dr John Ashworth in this novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development in the forty years before the Civil War. This book,...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737780359Author Rose O'KeefeFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint R O'KeefePublisher R O'KeefeWeight(grams) 191g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798985738315Author Amie Kunkle CoxFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Amie L. Boone-CoxPublisher Amie L. Boone-CoxWeight(grams) 640g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988162001Author Tom BoppFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Thomas A. BoppPublisher Thomas A. BoppWeight(grams) 440g

The story of one Ohio senator's impact on the early abolition movement More than 175 years after his death, Senator Thomas Morris has remained one of the few early national champions of political and constitutional antislavery without a biography devoted...

Examining language debates and literary texts from Noah Webster to H.L. Mencken and from Washington Irving to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, this book demonstrates how gender arose in passionate discussions about language to address concerns about national...