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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674594678Author David B TyackFormat HardbackPage Count 299Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 612g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674335950Author David John MaysFormat HardbackPage Count 412Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 753g

"An important contribution to American social history. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and the general public." Choice "The first-hand accounts of exposure to various habit-forming drugs is a particularly valuable aspect...

Students connect with Americans of the past through quality works of fiction, nonfiction, biography, folktale, and legend. American history ceases to be remote and unfamiliar and becomes the story of real individuals--colonists, pioneers, Native...

"An excellent Afikoman gift for the teen or young adult at the seder... Diner...writes in a clear style that pulls together that diverse entity known as the American Jewish community."-The Chicago Jewish Star An engaging chronicle of Jewish...

One 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837162676Author Walter J. SteinFormat HardbackPage Count 302Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809027491Author Ted WidmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 355Imprint Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Publisher Hill & Wang Inc.,U.S.Weight(grams) 454g

Following the course of Civil War campaigns can be taxing for even the most well-read military scholar. The operations at major sites such as Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and Petersburg were complicated matters, with generals on each side commanding infantry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250346414Author Bill O'ReillyFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

From 1912 to 1940, social worker Harry Hopkins committed himself to the ideal of government responsibility for impoverished Americans. This look at Hopkins' life and social work career broadens our understanding of the political and cultural currents...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530002781Author Stanley DeatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams)...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313220609Author Margaret HobbieFormat HardbackPage Count 155Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

This work serves as an introductory reference guide to the growing body of literature on the history of the American family. Recognizing the family unit as the institution most central to any society, the volume covers a broad range of theoretical...

Economic themes underlie many aspects of Native American history from the fur trade, the devastating impact of European diseases, and the taking of Native American land to the current issues of uranium mining on Navajo land and casino gambling. Yet this...

Use this collection of over 60 primary documents to trace the evolution of trial rights from English and colonial beginnings to our contemporary understanding of their meaning. Court cases and other documents bring to life the controversies that have...

Almost a century before their arrival in the English New World, Blacks appeared alongside the Spanish in what is now the American West. Through their families, communities, and institutions, these Western Blacks left behind a long history, which is just...

In sailing westward in 1492, did Columbus defy the prevailing belief that the Earth was flat? Was Thomas Paine an atheist? Was Truman plucked from obscurity to be FDR's running mate in 1944? Are presidential campaigns nowadays far dirtier than they were...

This book narrates and analyzes the southern tours that Booker T. Washington and his associates undertook in 1908-1912, relating them to Washington's racial philosophy and its impact on the various parts of black society.Book InformationISBN...

Welfare politics have now been part of American life for four centuries. Beyond a persistent general idea that Americans have a collective obligation to provide for the poorest among us, there has been little common ground on which to forge political and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802863119Author Wilfred M. McClayFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power,' from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780028218120Author McGraw HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublisher McGraw-Hill CompaniesWeight(grams) 163g

Both sides of the highly charged capital punishment debate in the United States are examined in this breakthrough collection of 112 key documents, arranged by historical period. The political and social aspects of the debate are represented through a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313222344Author William StinchcombeFormat HardbackPage Count 167Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Dismantling the myths of United States isolationism and exceptionalism, No Higher Law is a sweeping history and analysis of American policy toward the Western Hemisphere and Latin America from independence to the present. From the nation's earliest days,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674729131Author Richard M AbramsFormat HardbackPage Count 341Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674431591Author Robert Francis SeyboltFormat HardbackPage Count 429Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 780g

American communalism is not a disjointed, erratic, almost ephemeral part of our past, but an on-going, essential part of American history. This important study begins with an examination of America's first religious utopia at Ephrata, near Lancaster,...

This exhaustive bibliography is the result of Kim's research of the Asian American experience for almost two decades. It contains some 3,396 entries in the social and behavioral sciences and the humanities, arranged in chapters that address dozens of...

An updated and expanded revision of a popular book published in 1981, American Political Trials examines the role of politicized criminal trials and impeachments in U.S. history from the early colonial era to the late 20th century. Each chapter focuses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313221545Author Lawrence S. KaplanFormat HardbackPage Count 175Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

From the early years of the republic, many Americans anticipated a Pacific Age in world affairs that the United States would inevitably dominate, not in a territorial sense so much as in a cultural and commercial one. Despite the reality that Asia was of...

The hero's journey is a process of (re)discovery of the principles that make up the national identity of a country. These principles must then be applied in the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. For the seventh time in its history,...

The Business of Being Buffalo Bill provides new insight into a colorful figure in American history. William F. Cody was interested in developing the American West through irrigation, transportation, and settlement. He invested heavily in development...

This book details the Italian immigrant experience in San Francisco from the Gold Rush to the Mayoralty of George Moscone - which is to say the entire life cycle of the Italian community - and defines the concept of community in a way never seen before...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990872740Author Pat StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Wybar HousePublisher Wybar HouseWeight(grams) 327g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780530001005Author John DealFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Dissertation Discovery CompanyPublisher Dissertation Discovery CompanyWeight(grams) 558g