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The Refiner's Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844 by John L. Brooke 9780521565646
RRP: $73.48$56.34This 1995 book presents an alternative and comprehensive understanding of the roots of Mormon religion, which proposes that the faithful will become gods. The book's central thesis is that the origins of Mormonism lie in the fusion of radical religion... -
Gas Pipelines and the Emergence of America's Regulatory State: A History of Panhandle Eastern Corporation, 1928-1993 by Christopher J. Castaneda 9780521561662
RRP: $201.58$173.06The study of Panhandle Eastern's history shows the relationship between regulatory policy and the modern corporation in the twentieth century from a unique perspective, for it extends over three eras in the growth of its industry and the US political... -
American Samurai: Myth and Imagination in the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division 1941-1951 by Craig M. Cameron 9780521525923
RRP: $62.98$49.98American Samurai offers an innovative approach to military history by linking battlefield dynamics of the Pacific War to cultural, social, and institutional myth among marines of the First Division. Although it has elements of each, the book is neither a... -
Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era by Robert Buzzanco 9780521480468
RRP: $207.90$177.20Throughout the last decade, defenders of the US role in Vietnam have argued that America's defeat was not the result of an illegitimate intervention or military shortcomings but rather a failure of will because national leaders, principally Lyndon B... -
German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917 by Henry Geitz 9780521470834
RRP: $239.40$206.12This volume summarizes recent scholarship on German-American relations in the field of education until World War I. The articles prove the various influences of German scholarship and institutions on the development of the American system of education... -
The National Integration of Italian Return Migration, 1870-1929 by Dino Cinel 9780521400589
RRP: $189.00$161.89This book examines return migration to Italy from the United States from 1870 to 1929. Many imigrants did not intend to settle permanently in the United States, but to make money in order to buy land in Italy. The book documents the flow from America... -
Home to Work: Motherhood and the Politics of Industrial Homework in the United States by Eileen Boris 9780521455480
RRP: $73.48$65.75In the minds of most people, the home has stood apart from the world of work. By bringing the factory or office home, homework challenges this division. Home to Work restores the voices of homeworking women to the century-long debate over their labour... -
American Samurai: Myth and Imagination in the Conduct of Battle in the First Marine Division 1941-1951 by Craig M. Cameron 9780521441681
RRP: $189.00$152.40American Samurai offers an innovative approach to military history by linking battlefield dynamics of the Pacific War to cultural, social, and institutional myth among marines of the First Division. Although it has elements of each, the book is neither a... -
From Monopoly to Competition: The Transformations of Alcoa, 1888-1986 by George David Smith 9780521352611
RRP: $264.60$240.28When 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... -
Economic Development, the Family, and Income Distribution: Selected Essays by Simon Kuznets 9780521343848
RRP: $277.20$239.02This is a collection of essays by Simon Kuznets, winner of the 1971 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, published posthumously. It represents the primary concerns of his research at a late phase of his career, as well as themes from his earlier... -
Cotton's Renaissance: A Study in Market Innovation by George David Smith 9780521298957
RRP: $65.08$55.52Cotton's Renaissance is an analytical and interpretive history of the responses of US cotton growers to problems of supply and demand, and of the unique public-private organization they founded to help them grow, compete, and survive in an increasingly... -
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990: A Handbook by Detlef Junker 9780521168656
RRP: $92.38$87.09Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945-1990: A Handbook by Detlef Junker 9780521168649
RRP: $92.38$90.38These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an... -
Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States by Hugh Rockoff 9780521244961
RRP: $189.00$152.40This is a history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to Richard Nixon's experiment with controls in the 1970s. It explores the impact of controls on prices and productivity, side-effects such as the growth of black markets... -
Another Dimension to the Black Diaspora: Diet, Disease and Racism by Kenneth F. Kiple 9780521236645
RRP: $188.98$162.73This is an engrossing study of black disease immunities and susceptibilities and their impact on both slavery and racism. Its pages interweave the nutritional, biological, and medical sciences with demography. The book begins with an examination of the... -
Three Black Generations at the Crossroads: Community, Culture, and Consciousness by Lois Benjamin 9780742560017
$85.24The 20th century, marked by dramatic socioeconomic, cultural, and technological changes, greatly altered the value systems of many Americans. Three Black Generations at the Crossroads: Community, Culture, and Consciousness looks at how these values... -
Wall Street to Main Street: Charles Merrill and Middle-Class Investors by Edwin J. Perkins 9780521027793
RRP: $65.08$56.22Wall Street to Main Street, first published in 1999, focuses on the spectacularly successful career of financier Charles Merrill (1885-1956), the founder of Merrill Lynch & Co., the world's largest brokerage and investment firm. Merrill was the most... -
Tom Quick the Indian Slayer by James E Quinlan 9780464764335
RRP: $34.44$30.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780464764335Author James E QuinlanFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 236g -
A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885-1915 by David Rosner 9780521528627
RRP: $62.98$57.54This 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... -
Drastic Measures: A History of Wage and Price Controls in the United States by Hugh Rockoff 9780521522038
RRP: $62.98$57.54This is a history of America's use of wage and price controls from colonial times to Richard Nixon's experiment with controls in the 1970s. It explores the impact of controls on prices and productivity, side-effects such as the growth of black markets... -
American Jewry: A New History by Eli Lederhendler 9780521196086
RRP: $188.98$162.73Understanding the history of Jews in America requires a synthesis of over 350 years of documents, social data, literature and journalism, architecture, oratory, and debate, and each time that history is observed, new questions are raised and new... -
Entangling Migration History: Borderlands and Transnationalism in the United States and Canada by Benjamin Bryce 9780813060736
$172.12For almost two centuries North America has been a major destination for international migrants, but from the late nineteenth century onward, governments began to regulate borders, set immigration quotas, and define categories of citizenship. To develop a... -
J. Edgar Hoover: The Father of the Cold War by R. Andrew Kiel 9780761817628
$226.80Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Race and History: Selected Essays, 1938-1988 by John Hope Franklin 9780807117644
$64.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History by Annette Gordon-Reed 9780195122794
$225.75Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Configuring History: Teaching the Harlem Renaissance Through Virtual Reality Cityscapes by James J. Sosnoski 9780820467849
RRP: $52.71$42.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820467849Author James J. SosnoskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 207Imprint Peter Lang Publishing IncPublisher Peter Lang Publishing IncWeight(grams) 310g -
America on Record: A History of Recorded Sound by Andre Millard 9780521835152
RRP: $170.10$152.40With Thomas Edison's invention of the phonograph, the beautiful music that was the preserve of the wealthy became a mass-produced consumer good, cheap enough to be available to all. In 1877 Edison dreamed that one day there would be a talking machine in... -
Vietnam and the American Political Tradition: The Politics of Dissent by Randall Bennett Woods 9780521811484
RRP: $117.60$106.37This 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... -
Globalization and the American Century by Alfred E. Eckes, Jr. 9780521804097
RRP: $96.60$87.93Using globalization as a unifying theme, Eckes and Zeiler offer a bold new approach to American history and diplomacy in the twentieth century. The American Century of global leadership, they show, resulted both from innovations and ideas. Revolutionary... -
The Cambridge History of Law in America by Michael Grossberg 9780521803076
RRP: $252.00$228.04Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of Law in America covers the period from 1920 to the present, 'the American Century'. It charts a century of legal transformations, and shows how, politically, socially and culturally, the twentieth century was when law... -
The Cambridge History of Law in America by Michael Grossberg 9780521803069
RRP: $252.00$228.04Volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Law in America focuses on the long nineteenth century (1789-1920). It deals with the formation and development of the American state system, the establishment and growth of systematic legal education, the spread of... -
The Cambridge History of Law in America by Michael Grossberg 9780521803052
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Taxing America: Wilbur D. Mills, Congress, and the State, 1945-1975 by Julian E. Zelizer 9780521795449
RRP: $73.48$66.76Taxing 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... -
Reinventing Free Labor: Padrones and Immigrant Workers in the North American West, 1880-1930 by Gunther Peck 9780521778190
RRP: $62.98$53.45One of the most infamous villains in North America during the Progressive Era was the padrone, a mafia-like immigrant boss who allegedly enslaved his compatriots and kept them uncivilized, unmanly, and unfree. In this history of the padrone, first... -
The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations by Warren I. Cohen 9780521763622
RRP: $100.80$91.62Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. The fourth volume of the updated edition explores the... -
From Buildings and Loans to Bail-Outs: A History of the American Savings and Loan Industry, 1831-1995 by David L. Mason 9780521827546
RRP: $113.40$102.69For most Americans, the savings and loan industry is defined by the fraud, ineptitude and failures of the 1980s. However, these events overshadow a long history in which thrifts played a key role in helping thousands of households buy homes. First... -
All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 Presidential Election by Robert David Johnson 9780521737524
RRP: $56.68$47.88All the Way with LBJ mines an extraordinarily rich but underutilized source - the full range of LBJ tapes - to analyze the 1964 presidential campaign and the political culture of the mid-1960s. The president achieved a smashing victory over a divided... -
Hispanics in the United States: A Demographic, Social, and Economic History, 1980-2005 by Laird W. Bergad 9780521718103
RRP: $65.08$57.06In 1980 the US government began to systematically collect data on Hispanics. By 2005 the Latino population of the United States had become the nation's largest minority and is projected to comprise about one-third of the total US population in 2050... -
On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and its Consequences, 1948-2000 by Julian E. Zelizer 9780521681278
RRP: $65.08$53.47Thirty years after the 'Watergate Babies' promised to end corruption in Washington, Julian Zelizer offers a major history of the demise of the committee era Congress and the rise of the contemporary legislative branch. Based on research in over 100... -
Paths to Power: The Historiography of American Foreign Relations to 1941 by Michael J. Hogan 9780521664134
RRP: $54.58$46.18Paths to Power includes essays on US foreign relations from the founding of the nation though the outbreak of World War II. Essays by leading historians review the literature on American diplomacy in the early Republic and in the age of Manifest Destiny,...