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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781435756236Author Seymour DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604449594Author Gilbert K ChestertonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g

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There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation's past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism, that is, of the...

For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of 'American citizenship'. Welke draws on that wealth of historical,...

The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616192075Author Charles a BeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Between 1963 and 1972 America experienced over 750 urban revolts. Considered collectively, they comprise what Peter Levy terms a 'Great Uprising'. Levy examines these uprisings over the arc of the entire decade, in various cities across America. He...

One of the central controversies in our understanding of early America involves the place of republican and liberal thinking in polity and society. The Heart of the Commonwealth presents a synthetic view of the social grounding of republicanism and...

An original and exciting work of comparative history, this book analyses the origins of segregation as a specific stage in the evolution of white supremacy in South Africa and the American South. Unlike scholars who have attributed twentieth-century...

Beginning with Latin America in the fifteenth century, this book, first published in 2005, is a social history of the experiences of African Muslims and their descendants throughout the Americas, including the Caribbean. The record under slavery is...

In four decades since its first broadcasts, television news has revolutionized public life and political policy making, transformed political careers, advanced civil rights, and radically changed newspapers and magazines. In Unsilent Revolution, veteran...

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants'...

Tracing the reciprocal relationship between Africa and North America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards, two leading authorities in the field provide a major revision to traditional colonial African history as well as to US history...

This book traces the role of human rights concerns in US foreign policy during the 1980s, focusing on the struggle among the Reagan administration and members of Congress. It demonstrates how congressional pressure led the administration to reconsider...

Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays by scholars in philosophy, political theory, psychology, history, literary studies, sociology, religious...

Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately...

Three Cheers for the Unemployed describes the beginnings and development of unemployment reform up to the New Deal. As a consequence of the large-scale industrialization after the Civil War, joblessness could no longer be considered to be caused by...

Neither an autobiography nor a scholarly analysis, Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participant's View is a skilful blend of both genres. Informative and original in its insights and analyses, this book provides the reader with information available from...

When Charles Martin Hall patented the process for refining the metal in 1886, it was far from self-evident that the new technology would be a business success. Problems involving the technology had to be solved. Capital and a labour force were needed...

This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston in 1892, and the dominant force in the...

The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to...

Figured Tapestry is a study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II. Unlike the bulk fabric enterprises of New England and the South, Quaker City textile...

Path-breaking research into the Atomic Energy Commission's internal memorandum files supports this text's explanation of how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority and political clout declined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593490204Author James ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 578g

A powerful dissection of a core American myth. The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career, Ian Tyrrell has been one of the most influential...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798863940465Author Lula LafayetteFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 86g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989197705Author O Michael MaysamFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Boundary Peak PublishingPublisher Boundary Peak PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

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Read here the storied history of these United States.The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the "mystic chords of memory." They are the symbols that define the essence of the United States, that mark its historic course, and...

A new generation of scholars addresses the current themes and questions in interpreting American historyBook InformationISBN 9781439902431Author Eric FonerFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783744794244Author William WhitingFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint HansebooksPublisher HansebooksWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495340192Author Jovan Hutton PulitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983717116Author Rich TrzupekFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day-Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, Van Buren was a transforming political figure...

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Debating the American Conservative Movement chronicles one of the most dramatic stories of modern American political history. The authors describe how a small band of conservatives in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War launched a revolution...

Can modern science tell us what happened to Amelia Earhart? The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) has spent fifteen years searching for the famous lost pilot using everything from archival research and archaeological survey to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781448673162Author Clark T ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

The 2000 U.S. presidential election was not the first in American history that was exceptionally close or that produced highly disputed results. In 1801 Thomas Jefferson became president after an electoral gridlock, but only after Congress voted three...