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Brokering Servitude: Migration and the Politics of Domestic Labor during the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrew Urban
RRP: €39.27€35.05The history of domestic labor markets in 19th century America From the era of Irish Famine migration to the passage of quota restrictions in the 1920s, household domestic service was the single largest employer of women in the United States, and, in... -
Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California Bandit by John R. Ridge
€31.08In 1854, a Cherokee Indian called Yellow Bird (better known as John Rollin Ridge) launched in this book the myth of Joaquin Murieta, based on the California criminal career of a 19th century Mexican bandit. Today this folk hero has been written into... -
Visions of Belonging: New England Art and the Making of American Identity by Julia B. Rosenbaum
RRP: €46.41€41.08In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries depictions of New England flooded the American art scene. Childe Hassam, Willard Metcalf, Theodore Robinson, and Julian Weir, and other well-known artists produced images of quaint villages,... -
What I Saw in California by Edwin Bryant
RRP: €28.55€22.48First published in 1848, What I Saw in California has long been recognized as the foremost trail guide for the Forty-niners. Almost overnight, Edwin Bryant became their authority on how to survive the grueling passage from Independence, Missouri, to San... -
In the New England Fashion: Reshaping Women's Lives in the Nineteenth Century by Catherine E. Kelly
RRP: €39.27€34.57In the first half of the nineteenth century, rural New England society underwent a radical transformation as the traditional household economy gave way to an encroaching market culture. Drawing on a wide array of diaries, letters, and published writings... -
Feminism and Suffrage: The Emergence of an Independent Women's Movement in America, 1848-1869 by Ellen Carol DuBois
RRP: €29.74€25.79In the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue generally perceived as nineteenth-century. For this new... -
Christian Imperialism: Converting the World in the Early American Republic by Emily Conroy-Krutz
RRP: €128.52€111.15In 1812, eight American missionaries, under the direction of the recently formed American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, sailed from the United States to South Asia. The plans that motivated their voyage were ano less grand than taking part... -
Three Frontiers: Family, Land, and Society in the American West, 1850-1900 by Dean L. May
RRP: €107.10€92.21This book explores the values and aspirations of early settlers in the American Far West. It compares those who settled in the Willamette Valley in the 1840s, the Utah Valley in the 1850s, and the Boise Valley in the 1860s. The Oregon and Utah settlers... -
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Civil War Soldier, Supreme Court Justice by Susan-Mary Grant
RRP: €160.65€139.56Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., was one of the most influential jurists of his time. From the antebellum era and the Civil War through the First World War and into the New Deal years, Holmes' long life and career as a Supreme Court Justice spanned an... -
Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics Corey M. Brooks 9780226717166
RRP: €29.75€28.49Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how... -
The Postal Age: The Emergence of Modern Communications in Nineteenth-Century America David M. Henkin 9780226327211
RRP: €30.94€29.57Many of us may not realize that what we now call snail mail was once just as revolutionary as e-mail and text messages are today. As David M. Henkin argues in "The Postal Age", a burgeoning postal network initiated major cultural shifts during the... -
The Making of Tocqueville's America: Law and Association in the Early United States by Kevin Butterfield
RRP: €41.65€40.83Alexis de Tocqueville was among the first to draw attention to Americans' propensity to form voluntary associations-and to join them with a fervor and frequency unmatched anywhere in the world. For nearly two centuries, we have sought to understand how... -
Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926 Steven Conn 9780226114934
RRP: €30.94€29.57During the last half of the 19th century, Americans built many of the country's most celebrated museums, such as the American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Chicago's Field Museum. This text argues that... -
The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War by Brian D. Schoen
€35.43In this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War... -
They Will Have Their Game: Sporting Culture and the Making of the Early American Republic by Kenneth Cohen
RRP: €26.17€22.84In They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records... -
Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861 by Earl M. Maltz
RRP: €70.21€67.44During America's turbulent antebellum era, the Supreme Court decided important cases - most famously Dred Scott - that spoke to sectional concerns and shaped the nation's response to the slavery question. Much scholarship has been devoted to individual... -
Freedom on Trial: The Defeat and Demise of the Post-Civil War Ku Klux Klan by Scott Farris
RRP: €23.79€20.67For President Ulysses S. Grant and blacks in the South following the Civil War, the conflict did not end with the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox in April 1865, but continued with the Ku Klux Klan's terror campaign against blacks... -
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison: Competing Interests, January 1888-December 1889: Volume 9 by Thomas A. Edison
RRP: €113.65€102.02This richly illustrated volume explores Edison's inventive and personal pursuits from 1888 to 1889, documenting his responses to technological, organizational, and economic challenges.Thomas A. Edison was received at the 1889 Paris Exposition... -
The Treason Trial of Aaron Burr: Law, Politics, and the Character Wars of the New Nation by R. Kent Newmyer
RRP: €89.24€80.03The Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, was significant for several reasons. The legal proceedings lasted seven months and featured some of the nation's best lawyers. It also pitted President Thomas Jefferson (who... -
Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence by Kellie Carter Jackson
RRP: €98.77€83.42From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had... -
The Alchemy of Slavery: Human Bondage and Emancipation in the Illinois Country, 1730-1865 by M. Scott Heerman
RRP: €46.41€40.60In this sweeping saga that spans empires, peoples, and nations, M. Scott Heerman chronicles the long history of slavery in the heart of the continent and traces its many iterations through law and social practice. Arguing that slavery had no fixed... -
Citizens More than Soldiers: The Kentucky Militia and Society in the Early Republic by Harry S. Laver
RRP: €47.60€36.58Historians typically depict nineteenth-century militiamen as drunken buffoons who stumbled into crooked lines, poked each other with cornstalk weapons, and inevitably shot their commander in the backside with a rusty, antiquated musket. Citizens More... -
The Haymarket Tragedy by Paul Avrich
RRP: €65.45€58.89This is the first paperback edition of a moving appraisal of the infamous Haymarket bombing (May 1886) and the trial that followed it--a trial that was a cause celebre in the 1880s and that has since been recognized as one of the most unjust in the... -
The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film, and Memory by Frank J. Wetta
RRP: €160.65€139.56A century and a half after the Civil War, Americans are still dealing with the legacies of the conflict and Reconstruction, including the many myths and legends spawned by these events. The Long Reconstruction: The Post-Civil War South in History, Film,... -
Lincoln, Douglas and Slavery by David Zarefsky
RRP: €35.70€34.81Winner of the Speech Communication's Winans-Wichelns Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Rhetoric and Public Address. Zarefsky examines the dynamics of the seven 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates, placing them in historical context and explaining the... -
Urban Appetites: Food and Culture in Nineteenth-Century New York Cindy R. Lobel 9780226322674
RRP: €23.80€23.09Glossy magazines write about them, celebrities give their names to them, and you'd better believe there's an app (or ten) committed to finding you the right one. They are New York City restaurants and food shops. And their journey to international... -
Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South After the Civil War by Carole Emberton
RRP: €95.20€91.17In the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked... -
Diary of a Christian Soldier: Rufus Kinsley and the Civil War by David C. Rankin
RRP: €36.88€31.86This book offers a meticulous reconstruction of the life of Rufus Kinsley - an ordinary New England soldier who during the Civil War became an officer in one of the nations's first and most famous black regiments - and an expertly edited transcription of... -
The Greek Fire: American-Ottoman Relations and Democratic Fervor in the Age of Revolutions by Maureen Connors Santelli
RRP: €45.22€39.59The Greek Fire examines the United States' early global influence as the fledgling nation that inserted itself in conflicts that were oceans away. Maureen Connors Santelli focuses on the American fascination with and involvement in the Greek Revolution... -
The Deviant Prison: Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary and the Origins of America's Modern Penal System, 1829–1913 by Ashley T. Rubin
RRP: €49.97€45.62Early nineteenth-century American prisons followed one of two dominant models: the Auburn system, in which prisoners performed factory-style labor by day and were placed in solitary confinement at night, and the Pennsylvania system, where prisoners faced... -
Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American Politics by Corey M. Brooks
RRP: €46.41€44.78Abraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how... -
A History of Crime and the American Criminal Justice System Mitchel P. Roth 9781138552883
RRP: €65.44€57.98This book offers a history of crime and the criminal justice system in America, written particularly for students of criminal justice and those interested in the history of crime and punishment. It follows the evolution of the criminal justice system... -
The Genesis of America: US Foreign Policy and the Formation of National Identity, 1793-1815 by Jasper M. Trautsch
RRP: €29.74€26.62The Genesis of America investigates the ways in which US foreign policy contributed to the formation of an American national consciousness. Interpreting American nationalism as a process of external demarcation, Jasper M. Trautsch argues that, for a... -
Murder in the Shenandoah: Making Law Sovereign in Revolutionary Virginia by Jessica K. Lowe
RRP: €36.88€27.19On July 4, 1791, the fifteenth anniversary of American Independence, John Crane, a descendant of prominent Virginian families, killed his neighbor's harvest worker. Murder in the Shenandoah traces the story of this early murder case as it entangled... -
At the Altar of Lynching: Burning Sam Hose in the American South by Donald G. Mathews
RRP: €110.66€100.04The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored... -
The United States Marshals: Of New Mexico and Arizona Territories 1846-1912 by Larry D. Ball
€50.74This classic history of frontier violence and law enforcement presents a thoroughly researched, well-documented, and entertaining account of the United States marshals in tumultuous territorial New Mexico and Arizona. Included in the story are notable... -
Medical Malpractice in Nineteenth-Century America: Origins and Legacy by Kenneth de Ville
RRP: €29.74€25.79Highly readable . . . . interdisciplinary history of a high order. -- The Historian Well-written and superbly documented . . . . Both physicians and lawyers will find this book useful and fascinating. -- Journal of the American Medical Association ... -
The Long Gilded Age: American Capitalism and the Lessons of a New World Order by Leon Fink
RRP: €28.55€24.80From the end of the nineteenth century through the first decades of the twentieth, the United States experienced unprecedented structural change. Advances in communication and manufacturing technology brought about a revolution for major industries such... -
Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century by Glenn C. Altschuler
RRP: €41.65€33.01What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule? Taking their cue from vibrant political campaigns and very high voter turnouts, historians have depicted the nineteenth century as an... -
Class and Community: The Industrial Revolution in Lynn, Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by Alan Dawley
RRP: €41.59€33.55In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the...