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This book offers a major rereading of US foreign policy from Thomas Jefferson's purchase of Louisiana expanse to the Korean War. This period of one hundred and fifty years saw the expansion of the United States from fragile republic to transcontinental...

Communism was never a popular ideology in America, but the vehemence of American anticommunism varied from passive disdain in the 1920s to fervent hostility in the early years of the Cold War. Nothing so stimulated the white hot anticommunism of the late...

This book demonstrates that American agricultural development was far more dynamic than generally portrayed. In the two centuries before World War II, a stream of biological innovations revolutionized the crop and livestock sectors, increasing both land...

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9780415934329Author Eleanor CliftFormat PaperbackPage Count 366Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 499g

The record of civil disobedience by African Americans, which George and Willene Hendrick recount in Why Not Every Man?, begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the...

A Century of Dishonor (1884) is a work of nonfiction by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by a speech given by Ponca chief Standing Bear in Boston, A Century of Dishonor attempts to reckon with the genocide and displacement of Native Americans and the passage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738836553Author William Van Dusen WishardFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 612g

An original and important contribution to the history of television & provides a glimpes into the dawn of broadcasting and the growth of our most ubiquitous cultural mediumAn original and important contribution to the history of television & provides a...

Shines a new light on a dark era in American journalismBook InformationISBN 9781592133413Author Edward AlwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Temple University Press,U.S.Publisher Temple University Press,U.S.

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The advent of war with Spain was a glorious opportunity for forceful leadership not to be missed by the hotheaded young Theodore Roosevelt. He resigned his post as assistant-secretary of the Navy in April, 1898, and, despite the strong disapproval of...

Buried Lives offers the first critical examination of the experience of imprisonment in early America. These interdisciplinary essays investigate several carceral institutions to show how confinement shaped identity, politics, and the social imaginary...

Recent history-the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired a modern audience, and in the last several years interest in recent topics has grown exponentially. From...

America's democratic ideals have long been the hope of the world, but our allies increasingly see us as abandoning those ideals. It's not hard to understand why. In the months before 9/11, the United States walked away from a number of international...

James Campbell provides an in-depth survey of crime, punishment and justice in African American history. Presenting cutting-edge scholarship on issues of criminal justice in African American history in an accessible way for students, he makes connections...

From the Ivy League to the oval office, Woodrow Wilson was the only professional scholar to become a U.S. president. A professor of history and political science, Wilson became the dynamic president of Princeton University in 1902 and was one of its most...

In the years following World War I, America's armed services, industry, and government took lessons from that conflict to enhance the country's ability to mobilize for war. Paul Koistinen examines how today's military-industrial state emerged during that...

Early nineteenth-century ethnologists viewed the American Indians through a prism of intellectual arguments inherited from European Enlightenment thinkers. From that perspective, the Indians were seen as an inferior race whose primitive existence stemmed...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674436107Author Richard PolenbergFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 581g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998248431Author Phil CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Republic PublishingPublisher Republic PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

A comprehensive work about the first families' children, this is the only book available that treats these privileged few at any depth. The reading is enjoyable, answering questions such as, What happened to...? and, Did this president have any children?...

Wars and Peace is a historical look at how Americans have tried to conceptualize peace during five national security crises: The Civil War, Spanish-American War, World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. Mayers examines the intellectual foundations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186989Author John Grier HibbenFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809030477Author Professor of History Eric RauchwayFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S...

This volume traces the social history of African American men from the days of slavery to the present, focusing on their achievements, their changing image, and their role in American society. The author places the contemporary issue of Black men's...

Benson J. Lossing (1813-1891), whose career as a populizer of United States history spanned nearly sixty years, is the focus of this study of the production and uses of history in nineteenth-century American culture. After an introduction on relevant...

The legal changes that brought religious liberty to the United States have been thoroughly documented. But no one has explained how 18th-century Americans managed to accommodate the religious differences that had produced so much bloodshed in the past...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313208898Author Jack S. BlockerFormat HardbackPage Count 289Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

A survey of the historiography of the history of ideas in America. The opening chapter examines the treatment of ideas by pre-20th century American historians and the final chapter is devoted to new directions since the 1940's.Book InformationISBN...

A sweeping yet intimate history of the diverse individuals who, together, make up America. Ronald Takaki uses letters, diaries & oral histories to share their stories. Workers, immigrants, shopkeepers, women, children & others, their lives often...

The civil rights movement occupies a prominent place in popular thinking and scholarly work on post-1945 U.S. history. Yet the dominant narrative of the movement remains that of a nonviolent movement born in the South during the 1950s that emerged...

While presidents have always kept a watchful eye on the military, our generals have been equally vigilant in assessing the commander-in-chief. Their views, however, have been relatively neglected in the literature on civil-military relations. By taking...

This engaging narrative chronicles the history of the immigration to America from the 1600s to the present. The author offers an in-depth exploration of the American immigration experience, including why people emigrated, what they left behind, and what...

General Abner Doubleday (1819-1893) is best known as the man who "invented" baseball, but his admirable service on behalf of the Union earned him a reputation as a solid commander and patriot. He saw action at Fort Sumter where he aimed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578237954Author Robert D OhmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Rdo PublicationsPublisher Rdo PublicationsWeight(grams) 216g

Nineteenth-century Cincinnati was northern in its geography, southern in its economy and politics, and western in its commercial aspirations. While those identities presented a crossroad of opportunity for native whites and immigrants, African Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692484265Author David BennerFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Life & Liberty Publishing GroupPublisher Life & Liberty Publishing...

Traces the movement from mutualism to individualism in the context of American family life. Families survived or even flourished during colonization, Revolution, slavery, immigration and economic upheaval. In the past century, prosperity created a...

Each year, more than two million visitors line up near Philadelphia's Independence Hall and wait to gaze upon a flawed mass of metal forged more than two and a half centuries ago. Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has...

For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert's Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson's Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states...