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The American Army in Transition, 1865-1898 by Michael L. Tate 9780313332128
€82.41The last thirty-five years of the nineteenth century were a time of dramatic change for the U.S. military, including the Reconstruction of the South after the Civil War; fighting the Indian Wars of 1865 through 1890; and shifting military personnel... -
Nature and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century American Life by Brian C. Black 9780313332012
€62.68The nineteenth-century saw a significant transformation in the United States. In one short century, the nation had seen the populating of the Great Plains and West, the decimation of native Indian tribes, the growth of national transportation and... -
Presidents from Adams through Polk, 1825-1849: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents by David A. Smith 9780313331756
€79.30It was the Era of Good Feelings, but all was not well with the young Republic. From 1825 to 1849, presidents John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, John Tyler, and James K. Polk grappled with the legacy of the Monroe... -
Science and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America by Todd Timmons 9780313331619
€65.28The 19th Century was a period of tremendous change in the daily lives of the average Americans. Never before had such change occurred so rapidly or and had affected such a broad range of people. And these changes were primarily a result of tremendous... -
Bulwark of the Republic: The American Militia in Antebellum West by Mary Ellen Rowe 9780313324109
€99.06Although a poor replacement for a professional military in wartime, the militia embodied a set of ideas that defined attitudes toward social order, civic responsibility, and the nature and relative powers of the government. It was the supreme expression... -
Manifest Destiny by David S. Heidler 9780313323089
€65.76From Colonial times through the 19th century, European Americans advanced toward the west. This book explains the origins of territorial expansion and traces the course of Manifest Destiny to its culminating moment, the conquest of Mexico and the... -
The Atlantic Slave Trade by Johannes M. Postma 9780313318627
€65.28Essays on the capture of slaves and the Middle Passage, the identities of the enslaved and their lives after capture, the economics of the slave trade, the struggle to end slavery, and the slave trade's legacy, as well as biographies of important... -
The Second Great Awakening and the Transcendentalists by Barry Hankins 9780313318481
€62.68Beginning with overviews of the Second Great Awakening and Transcendentalism, Hankins details the wider impact these spiritual revolutions had on antebellum America's social, political, racial, and gender matters. Twenty-four concise and informative... -
Forgotten Elegance: The Art, Artifacts, and Peculiar History of Victorian and Edwardian Entertaining in America by Wendell Schollander 9780313316852
€79.30History students and Victorian enthusiasts looking for comprehensive information on dining practices of Victorian America will find this book a vital resource. Revealing the history of 19th-century dining, clothing, and etiquette, the volume includes... -
The Lewis and Clark Expedition by Harry William Fritz 9780313316616
€45.68Fritz demonstrates how a series of unrelated events converged to make the Lewis and Clark expedition-and America's dream of westward expansion-a reality. Maps guide the reader along the routes taken by Lewis and Clark, and a detailed timeline gives... -
The Conservative Press in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century America by Ronald Lora 9780313310430
€86.36Selecting journals that speak for a very large number of topics addressed by the conservative press, this volume profiles selected conservative journals published since 1787. The conservative press has scarcely spoken with a single voice, whether the... -
Grand Master Workman: Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor by Craig Phelan 9780313309489
€99.06The Noble Order of the Knights of Labor was the most ambitious and significant labor organization of the Gilded Age. As the charismatic leader of this group, Terence Powderly was America's first nationally known labor leader, the first to achieve a high... -
Encyclopedia of the Antebellum South by James M. Volo 9780313308864
€115.33This comprehensive ready-reference encyclopedia of the history, people, events, places, movements, and issues of the Antebellum South is ideal for student use. Nearly 300 entries, selected for curriculum relevance with the assistance of historians and... -
Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War by Donald H. Dyal 9780313288524
€86.36Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first modern foreign war. Catapulting the United States into an international world power, the war had lasting international implications. Besides America's... -
James Kirke Paulding: The Last Republican by Lorman Ratner 9780313285509
€77.98For many decades after the American Revolution, the image of the Republic shaped people's thinking and influenced events. Yet the simple republic and a growing, increasingly complex, capitalist America represented a clear paradox in American thinking... -
New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789-1849: An Annotated Bibliography by Suzanne M. Clark 9780313281280
€87.07The period from 1789 to 1849 is one of the most eventful in U.S. history. It includes the growth of the United States from the first Congress, through the War of 1812, the Mexican War, and the territorial expansion of the United States. Through nearly... -
Women of the Grange: Mutuality and Sisterhood in Rural America, 1866-1920 by Donald B. Marti 9780313257230
€77.98Recent scholarship suggests that farm women have characteristically tried to improve their societal positions by pursuing strategies of mutuality with men, rather than by forming relationships of sisterhood with each other. Nowhere is this premise more... -
Learning to Behave: A Guide to American Conduct Books Before 1900 by Sarah E. Newton 9780313267529
€71.82A popular genre from colonial times to 1900, the conduct book provides the youthful reader with authoritative guidance about right moral, religious, and gender role behavior. With the aim of teaching the young what they need to know--and believe--about... -
Eleanor Roosevelt: A Comprehensive Bibliography by John A. Edens 9780313260506
€86.36This annotated bibliography of the vast collection of works by and about Eleanor Roosevelt, America's incomparable First Lady and global human rights leader, is the most comprehensive yet made available. The first part of the book is arranged... -
Crockett: A Bio-Bibliography by Richard Boyd Hauck 9780313222726
€99.06Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313222726Author Richard Boyd HauckFormat HardbackPage Count 169Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO -
A Decade of Sectional Controversy, 1851-1861 by Henry Harrison Simms 9780313200618
€99.06Simms develops the theme of sectionalism underlying the unrest of a controversial decade in American history.Book InformationISBN 9780313200618Author Henry Harrison SimmsFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO -
A Changing Wind: Commerce and Conflict in Civil War Atlanta by Wendy Hamand Venet 9780300192162
€65.28A compelling exploration of what real life was like for residents of Civil War-era Atlanta In 1845, Atlanta was the last stop at the end of a railroad line, the home of just twelve families and three general stores. By the 1860s, it was a thriving... -
On Hallowed Ground by John Patrick Diggins 9780300177015
€33.93In this provocative book, John Patrick Diggins, hailed by Alan Ryan in the New York Times as "one of the liveliest and most interesting of contemporary intellectual historians," offers a sweeping reassessment of American history, emphasizing... -
Dear Brother: Letters of William Clark to Jonathan Clark by William Clark 9780300101065
€31.32Over the course of his career, American explorer William Clark (1770-1838) wrote at least forty-five letters to his older brother Jonathan, including six that were written during the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition. This book publishes many of these... -
From Snake Oil to Medicine: Pioneering Public Health by R. Alton Lee 9780275994679
€66.59Without Samuel J. Crumbine and his Kansas Department of Health, diseases festering in water sources, food and the common towel would have caused thousands of deaths in the United States. Crumbine and his associates paved the way to better treatment of... -
The Bowery Boys: Street Corner Radicals and the Politics of Rebellion by Peter Adams 9780275985387
€77.98In the decades before the Civil War, the miserable living conditions of New York City's lower east side nurtured the gangs of New York. This book tells the story of the Bowery Boys, one gang that emerged as part urban legend and part street fighters for... -
Civil-Military Relations during the War of 1812 by Reginald C. Stuart 9780275982003
€66.59Civil-military relations in the era of the War of 1812 must be seen as a broad theme, not just the particular relationships between officers, military organizations, and civil government and civilians. Civil-military attitudes were interwoven in the... -
Indian Fighters Turned American Politicians: From Military Service to Public Office by Thomas G. Mitchell 9780275981303
€99.06The words Indian fighter recall Custer. Indian fighter politician brings to mind Andrew Jackson or William Henry Harrison. Yet politicians who rose to prominence by exploiting their participation in bloody campaigns against Native America were much more... -
Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense by W.Stuart Towns 9780275969691
€46.99The only modern collection of speeches by southerners on the themes that have shaped the history and culture of the region, this anthology, which spans eighty tumultuous years of southern history, reflects the strategies of southern orators as they... -
Whose America?: The War of 1898 and the Battles to Define the Nation by Virginia M. Bouvier 9780275967949
€99.06In the midst of the culture wars raging in the United States, this book recovers a part of U.S. history that some wish to forget--the war of 1898. With the war, U.S. policymakers terminated more than four centuries of Spanish colonial rule in the region... -
Oratory and Rhetoric in the Nineteenth-Century South: A Rhetoric of Defense by W.Stuart Towns 9780275962234
€99.06The only modern collection of speeches by southerners on the themes that have shaped the history and culture of the region, this anthology, which spans eighty tumultuous years of southern history, reflects the strategies of southern orators as they... -
A Season of Renewal: The Columbian Exposition and Victorian America by Dennis B. Downey 9780275971861
€99.53This study offers an engaging reassessment of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair (the Columbian Exposition), generally regarded as the preeminent civic pageant in Victorian America. Based on exhaustive research, Downey uses the Exposition as a representative... -
Manifesting America: The Imperial Construction of U.S. National Space by Mark Rifkin 9780199958498
RRP: €41.04€32.61The book explores the creation and extension of U.S. jurisdiction in the antebellum period, particularly over Native Americans and former Mexicans. It examines how U.S. law recodes the identities and territoriality of these populations and the... -
The Second Disestablishment: Church and State in Nineteenth-Century America by Steven Green 9780195399677
RRP: €58.30€49.42Debates over the proper relationship between church and state in America tend to focus either on the founding period or the twentieth century. Left undiscussed is the long period between the ratification of the Constitution and the 1947 Supreme Court... -
Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States by Thomas J. Brown 9780195383065
RRP: €37.47€24.92The pivotal era of Reconstruction has inspired an outstanding historical literature over the decades from W.E.B. DuBois' Black Reconstruction in America in 1935 through Eric Foner's Reconstruction in 1988. The resolution of long-running interpretive... -
The Populist Vision by Charles Postel 9780195176506
RRP: €61.88€42.96The Populist Vision offers an innovative re-evaluation. It argues that the Populists were modern people, rejecting the notion that Populism opposed modernity and progress. Looking at Populism as a national movement, it focuses on farmers but also... -
God and Mammon: Protestants, Money, and the Market, 1790-1860 by Mark A. Noll 9780195148015
RRP: €80.92€60.50This collection of all new essays offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new American nation, money was everywhere on the minds of the church leaders and... -
Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South by Michael Wayne 9780195140040
RRP: €65.45€62.01In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation... -
Death of an Overseer: Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation South by Michael Wayne 9780195140033
RRP: €113.05€95.10In May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner's jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation... -
The Geronimo Campaign by Odie B. Faulk 9780195083514
RRP: €17.84€13.59On August 25 1886, the Apache chief, Geronimo, surrendered to the US army, ending a long and bloody struggle. This fascinating book draws on fresh evidence to examine the ironies, dangers, and vicissitudes of that campaign. Based on the papers collected...