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In Face of the Facts: Moral Inquiry in American Scholarship by Richard Wightman Fox 9780521621335
RRP: £90.00£81.43Recently 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... -
Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric by Stephen B. Adams 9780521651189
RRP: £48.00£43.23This is a full-length history of the Western Electric Company, which was the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. As manufacturer in the communications revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western Electric made products that... -
Recasting American Liberty: Gender, Race, Law, and the Railroad Revolution, 1865-1920 by Barbara Young Welke 9780521649667
RRP: £34.99£32.19Through courtroom dramas from 1865 to 1920 - of men forced to jump from moving cars when trainmen refused to stop, of women emotionally wrecked from the trauma of nearly missing a platform or street, and women barred from first class ladies' cars because... -
Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy by Martha Derthick 9780521640398
RRP: £105.00£88.31Nationalist and local traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to... -
What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy by H. W. Brands 9780521630313
RRP: £90.00£72.57For two hundred years, Americans have believed that they have an obligation to improve the lot of humanity. This belief has consistently shaped US foreign policy. Yet within this consensus, two schools of thought have contended: the 'exemplarist' school... -
Bloodless Victories: The Rise and Fall of the Open Shop in the Philadelphia Metal Trades, 1890-1940 by Howell John Harris 9780521584357
RRP: £54.00£48.90This book, first published in 2000, examines how a group of manufacturers of metal products - 'everything from buttonhooks to battleships' - in America's third biggest city helped each other to meet the challenges of organized labour (and sometimes an... -
Congress and the Cold War by Robert David Johnson 9780521528856
RRP: £30.99£26.77The first historical interpretation of the congressional response to the entire Cold War. Using a wide variety of sources, including several manuscript collections opened specifically for this study, the book challenges the popular and scholarly image of... -
Unfinished Business: America and Cuba after the Cold War, 1989-2001 by Morris H. Morley 9780521520409
RRP: £29.99£23.80This is a comprehensive study of US policy towards Cuba in the post-Cold War era. Drawing on interviews with Bush and Clinton policy-makers, congressional participants in the policy debate, and leaders of the anti-sanctions business community, it makes... -
The Emergence of the Middle Class: Social Experience in the American City, 1760-1900 by Stuart Mack Blumin 9780521376129
RRP: £34.99£30.49Of all the terms that Americans define themselves as members of society, few are as elusive as 'middle class'. This book traces the emergence of a recognizable and self-aware 'middle class' between the era of the American Revolution and the end of the... -
The Last of the Fathers: James Madison and the Republican Legacy by Drew R. McCoy 9780521364072
RRP: £57.00£51.24Born in the middle of the eighteenth century as a subject of King George II, James Madison, father of the United States Constitution, lived until 1836, dying as a citizen of Andrew Jackson's republic. For over forty years he played a pivotal role in the... -
A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885-1915 by David Rosner 9780521242172
RRP: £95.99£82.01This 1982 book examines the changes in hospital care in New York that occurred around the turn of the twentieth century. It represents a fundamental departure from traditional medical history, which has usually emphasised 'progress' through science and... -
The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson's Virginia by Jan Lewis 9780521315081
RRP: £29.99£27.40This is an unusual and challenging study of the 'inner world' of the Virginia gentry during Jefferson's lifetime. It argues that, in the years after the Revolution, the gentry turned away from public life into the privacy of their homes and families. A... -
Beyond Sixty-Five: The Dilemma of Old Age in America's Past by Carole Haber 9780521315074
RRP: £22.99£20.66This book investigates the changing roles and perceptions of old age in nineteenth-century America. It shows how the economic and social transformation of the nation affected the condition of the aged, as it altered beliefs about their abilities and... -
NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War by Curt Cardwell 9780521197304
RRP: £84.99£72.17NSC 68 and the Political Economy of the Early Cold War re-examines the origins and implementation of NSC 68, the massive rearmament program that the United States embarked upon beginning in the summer of 1950. Curt Cardwell reinterprets the origins of... -
Savagism and Civility: Indians and Englishmen in Colonial Virginia by Bernard Sheehan 9780521297233
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Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy by Martha Derthick 9780521033091
RRP: £34.99£32.19Nationalist and local traditions vie within the American federal system and the American experiment with self-government. Bringing together contributions from history, political science and sociology, this book focuses primarily on the local, seeking to... -
Manufacturing the Future: A History of Western Electric by Stephen B. Adams 9780521084031
RRP: £29.99£27.40This is a full-length history of the Western Electric Company, which was the manufacturing arm of the Bell System. As manufacturer in the communications revolutions in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Western Electric made products that... -
Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent by Randall Bennett Woods 9780521010009
RRP: £25.99£19.99This volume is intended to demonstrate how opposition to the war in Vietnam, the military-industrial complex, and the national security state crystallized in a variety of different and often divergent political traditions. Indeed, for many of the figures... -
A March of Liberty: Volume 2: A Constitutional History of the United States by Melvin I. Urofsky 9780195126372
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The Passport in America: The History of a Document by Craig Robertson 9780199733422
RRP: £42.99£35.49In today's world of constant identification checks, it's difficult to recall that there was ever a time when "proof of identity" was not a part of everyday life. And as anyone knows who has ever lost a passport, or let one expire on the eve of... -
Humor in the White House: The Wit of Five American Presidents by Arthur A. Sloane 9780786409495
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Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History by Willard Sterne Randall 9780738201504
£19.16In 1779 a Philadelphia belle, Margaret Shippen, married a hero of the ongoing Revolution, General Benedict Arnold. Within months Peggy was sending coded messages to an old suitor from England, conveying Arnold's promise to defect. When their plot was... -
The Second Century of Settlement in Spanish St. Augustine 1670-1763 by Susan Parker 9780530004471
RRP: £80.00£70.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530004471Author Susan ParkerFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 966g -
The Second Century of Settlement in Spanish St. Augustine 1670-1763 by Susan Parker 9780530004464
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"The Most Interesting Man in America": Folk Logic and First Principles in the Early Career of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis by John Henderson 9780530003795
RRP: £80.00£70.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003795Author John HendersonFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
"The Most Interesting Man in America": Folk Logic and First Principles in the Early Career of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis by John Henderson 9780530003788
RRP: £53.00£46.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530003788Author John HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
Revolutionary Charleston 1765-1800 by Stanley Deaton 9780530002798
RRP: £80.00£71.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002798Author Stanley DeatonFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Firm of Greeley Weed and Seward: New York Partisanship and the Press 1840-1860 by Gregory Borchard 9780530001814
RRP: £80.00£70.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001814Author Gregory BorchardFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)... -
The Firm of Greeley Weed and Seward: New York Partisanship and the Press 1840-1860 by Gregory Borchard 9780530001807
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The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in American Popular Culture by Ronald M. Smelser 9780521833653
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The Crisis of Imprisonment: Protest, Politics, and the Making of the American Penal State, 1776-1941 by Rebecca M. McLennan 9780521830966
RRP: £64.00£57.09America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular... -
Black Crescent: The Experience and Legacy of African Muslims in the Americas by Michael A. Gomez 9780521840958
RRP: £85.00£67.65Beginning 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... -
Charity, Philanthropy, and Civility in American History by Lawrence J. Friedman 9780521819893
RRP: £64.00£57.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
America after Tocqueville: Democracy against Difference by Harvey Mitchell 9780521812467
RRP: £89.99£77.49America after Tocqueville complements Harvey Mitchell's previous book, Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised (1996). This study draws on Democracy in America to study the condition of democracy in... -
One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation by Roger L. Ransom 9780521795500
RRP: £34.99£26.83This edition of the economic history classic One Kind of Freedom reprints the entire text of the first edition together with an introduction by the authors and an extensive bibliography of works in Southern history published since the appearance of the... -
Beyond Combat: Women and Gender in the Vietnam War Era by Heather Marie Stur 9780521762755
RRP: £75.00£61.57Beyond Combat investigates how the Vietnam War both reinforced and challenged the gender roles that were key components of American Cold War ideology. Refocusing attention onto women and gender paints a more complex and accurate picture of the war's... -
Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940-1990 by Jennifer Delton 9780521730808
RRP: £24.99£19.99In the space of about thirty years - from 1964 to 1994 - American corporations abandoned racially exclusionary employment policies and embraced some form of affirmative action to diversify their workforces. It was an extraordinary transformation, which... -
The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism by Adam Rome 9780521800594
RRP: £90.00£72.57The concern today about suburban sprawl is not new. In the decades after World War II, the spread of tract-house construction changed the nature of millions of acres of land, and a variety of Americans began to protest against the environmental costs of... -
Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties by W. J. Rorabaugh 9780521543835
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Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 by Julian E. Zelizer 9780521621663
RRP: £105.00£82.41Taxing America, first published in 1999, offers an interpretation of the American state between 1945 and 1975 by tracing the career of Wilbur D. Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee from 1958 to 1974. Blending methodological insights...