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Revealing the entangled lives of texts and textiles in the early modern Atlantic world."Textiles are the books that the colony was not able to burn."-Asociacion Femenina para el Desarrollo de Sacatepequez (AFEDES)A history of the book in the Americas,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524745738Author Jared Yates SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint E P Dutton & Co IncPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

When Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on the eve of the Civil War, his goal was to promote economic opportunity for all Americans, not just the slaveholding Southern planters who steered national politics. Yet, despite the egalitarian...

Through an analysis of slavery as an economic institution, Gavin Wright presents an innovative look at the economic divergence between North and South in the antebellum era. He draws a distinction between slavery as a form of work organisation, the...

World War II left virtually no nation or corner of the world untouched, dramatically transforming human life and society. It prompted the unprecedented mobilization of whole societies and witnessed a scale of state-sanctioned violence that staggers the...

Twentieth Anniversary Edition with a new preface and afterword From the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans in the spring of 2017 to the violent aftermath of the white nationalist march on the Robert E. Lee monument in Charlottesville later...

Founded by members of America's first postwar domestic Nazi movement, the National States Rights Party evolved on dual fronts as a political protest movement and a vehicle of violent resistance to the black civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s...

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...

This book examines the regulation of the earliest securities markets in England and the United States, from their origins in the 1690s until the 1850s. Professor Banner argues that during the reign of Queen Anne a complex and moderately effective body of...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807036297Author Roxanne Dunbar-OrtizFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

This is an elegant and concise history of American foreign relations during the Cold War era, based on the most recent American, Chinese, and Soviet literature, written from a post-Cold War perspective. All of the major foreign policy issues, including...

In the late nineteenth century, corporate managers began to rely on photography for everything from motion studies to employee selection to advertising. This practice gave rise to many features of modern industry familiar to us today: consulting,...

Inspirational leadership quotes from every President of the United States of America. The Little Book of United States Presidents is a fascinating collection of over 170 quotes from each person who has held the office, from George Washington to Donald...

Attack at daylight and whip them-that was the Confederate plan on the morning of April 6, 1862. The unsuspecting Union Army of the Tennessee, commanded by Major General Ulysses S. Grant, had gathered on the banks of its namesake river at a spot called...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399580000Author Jonathan HennesseyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ten Speed PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 550gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535982269Author Thomas S KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint B&H Publishing GroupPublisher B&H Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 1701gDimensions(mm)...

There's the office: President of the United States. And then there's the man in the office-prone to temptation and looking to unwind after a long day running the country. Celebrating the decidedly less distinguished side of the nation's leaders, humor...

When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King's portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to "corrupt" Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French...

Few Supreme Court decisions have stirred up as much controversy, vitriolic debate, and even violence as Roe v. Wade in 1973. Four decades later, it remains a touchstone for the culture wars in the United States and a pivot upon which much of our politics...

This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a...

From the Thirteenth century through the Nineteenth, the waterways of the world provided the major means of transportation for exploration, trade, the military, and even criminals. Find out what life was like for those who chose to sail the high seas, as...

Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development. Neighbor Power chronicles his involvement with Seattle's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307279194Author Michael KazinFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

In A Cross of Iron, one of the country's most distinguished diplomatic historians provides a comprehensive account of the national security state that emerged in the first decade of the Cold War. Michael J. Hogan traces the process of state-making as it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143121640Author Eric AltermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 493gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Faced with divided advisers, limited options, contradictory evidence, and the profound global consequences of their choices, how do presidents reach a decision in a time of crisis? As a speechwriter and close adviser to John F. Kennedy, Ted Sorensen,...

Crimes against Nature reveals the hidden history behind three of the nation's first parklands: the Adirondacks, Yellowstone, and the Grand Canyon. Focusing on conservation's impact on local inhabitants, Karl Jacoby traces the effect of criminalizing such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538707050Author Kristi NoemFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint TwelvePublisher TwelveWeight(grams) 485gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 160mm * 27mm

The growing gap between the most affluent Americans and the rest of society is changing the country into one defined-more than almost any other developed nation-by exceptional inequality of income, wealth, and opportunity. This book reveals that an...

They sought to transform the globe and ended up transforming modern AmericaBetween the 1890s and the Vietnam era, many thousands of American Protestant missionaries were sent to live throughout the non-European world. Their experience abroad made many of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061965593Author Howard ZinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

In the United States the Cold War shaped our political culture, our institutions, and our national priorities. Abroad, it influenced the destinies of people everywhere. It divided Europe, split Germany, and engulfed the Third World. It led to a feverish...

Line in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this...

During World War II, America's shipbuilding industry, mobilized under the U.S. Maritime Commission, set records of production that have never been equaled. Given the daunting task of building ships faster than they were being sunk, shipbuilding firms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812968101Author Philip DrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House Trade PaperbacksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399563812Author Bhu SrinivasanFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 505gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm...

This authoritative and readable survey is a comprehensive historical overview of federal taxation and fiscal policy in the United States, extending from the era of the American Revolution to the present day. Brownlee relates the principal stages of...

The story of the RCA VideoDisc is a rare inside look at a company and the way it conducts the complex process of science-based innovation. For nearly fifty years the RCA name was synonymous with innovation in the industries it helped to build - radio and...

In 1955, Levitt and Sons purchased most of Willingboro Township, New Jersey and built 11,000 homes. This, their third Levittown, became the site of one of urban sociology's most famous community studies, Herbert J. Gans's The Levittowners. The product of...