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Founded in 1866, the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was the nation's first animal welfare organization. The society had its origins in the fervor for social reform that characterized the era following the Civil War. Its...

Firth Haring Fabend has studied a large colonial American family over five generations. The Haring family settled in the Hackensack Valley (on the New York/New Jersey border), where they lived, prospered, and remained throughout the eighteenth century...

In the first half of the 19th century, Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867) was at the center of an aggressive anti-Shaker movement - an informal yet effective group joined by their despisal of Shakerism and their determination to thwart the new faith. With...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281899Author Paul GoodmanFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674435711Author Caroline RobbinsFormat HardbackPage Count 470Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 835g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674435544Author Winton U SolbergFormat HardbackPage Count 395Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 767g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674423701Author James T PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 630g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674429857Author Brooks McNamaraFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674428843Author Samuel Eliot MorisonFormat HardbackPage Count 111Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 340g

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313229596Author Light Townsend CumminsFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Sarah Hicks Williams was the northern-born wife of an antebellum slaveholder. Rebecca Fraser traces her journey as she relocates to Clifton Grove, the Williams' slaveholding plantation, presenting her with complex dilemmas as she reconciled her new role...

This book offers a meticulously researched, comprehensive chronology of the Congressional Page system, from the late 1700s to modern day. From the origins of the page system in 1774 to the period in the 1940s when Congress demonstrated an indifference...

Muslims began arriving in the New World long before the rise of the Atlantic slave trade. Kambiz GhaneaBassiri's fascinating book traces the history of Muslims in the United States and their different waves of immigration and conversion across five...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674865556Author Gottlieb MittelbergerFormat HardbackPage Count 121Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 367g

Gillette shows that the sciences of sociobiology and evolutionary psychology were undergoing rapid development in the early Twentieth century. However, many of the early researchers in these sciences were also eugenicists. With the rise of behaviourism...

This book examines the evolution of Black Power activism at the local level. Comprised of essays that examine Black Power's impact at the grassroots level in cities in the North, South, Mid-West and West, this anthology expands on the profusion of new...

The first volume in the series State Bibliographies, this book provides comprehensive coverage of secondary materials on Kansas history and also includes useful references to major archival and manuscript collections. Although excellent specialized...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313234811Author David Herbert DonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 105Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This is the first systematic study of the Stimson Doctrine of Nonrecognition as applied to Lithuania and the other Baltic States. The book blends political history, U.S. public policy formulation and implementation, and international law to present a...

This book maps the intriguing story about how the tycoons of the two most powerful circuits, Keith-Albee in the East and the Orpheum in the West, conspired to control the big time. Despite the battles between the performers and the circuit moguls, the...

Concerned primarily with relations between Protestant Christianity and the main currents in secular intellectual life over the course of the past century, the essays in this volume disclose the persistence, complexity, and fragility of religious thought...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977861743Author Rory, LitwinFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Library Juice PressPublisher Library Juice PressWeight(grams) 392g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674187399Author Marcus Lee HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 241Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 367g

Marvin W. Falk offers a systemic and select listing of just over 3,000 publications on the history of Alaska, published from the 18th century to early 2004. Early explorations were conducted by nationals from several nations, and the results were...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674281998Author Joseph FrankFormat HardbackPage Count 353Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989697811Author Bonnie BlueFormat PaperbackPage Count 442Imprint B L Richey PublishingPublisher B L Richey PublishingWeight(grams) 644g

The fight for Little Round Top on July 2, 1863, is forever etched in the annals of America's Civil War. The heroic defence of the high ground by Joshua Chamberlain and the men of the 20th Maine is one of the most famous incidents in American history,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985814083Author John HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Tangible PressPublisher Tangible PressWeight(grams) 395g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781425757977Author Frank DurrFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 290g

From the nation's beginnings, efforts have been made to silence U.S. women. Yet they spoke. This biographical dictionary, the first of two companion volumes, gives their voices new recognition. Selecting thirty-seven key orators, Karlyn Kohrs Campbell...

One of the best known consensus or synthesis historians, Daniel J. Boorstin crosses disciplinary boundaries by writing about universities and students, lawyers and historians, history of science and everyday phenomena, material and popular culture,...

Tabak has created a fascinating exploration of a unique and uniquely beautiful North American language. The story begins in 18th century France in the first schools to use signed language as the language of instruction. Early in the 19th century a few...

At its founding, the United States was one of the most religiously diverse places in the world. Baptists, Methodists, Catholics, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Quakers, Dutch Reformed, German Reformed, Lutherans, Huguenots, Dunkers,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985869281Author Mark E ZimmermanFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Zimco Publications LLCPublisher Zimco Publications LLCWeight(grams) 216g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679767213Author David Harry BennettFormat PaperbackPage Count 587Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990713708Author Tom StreissguthFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Archive LLCPublisher Archive LLCWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674499447Author Samuel Eliot MorisonFormat HardbackPage Count 43Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282513Author Charlotte EricksonFormat HardbackPage Count 279Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 576g

An analysis of how since the end of te 19th-century advertising agencies and their housework product clients utilized a remarkably consistent depiction of housewives and housework, illustrating that that although Second Wave feminism successfully called...

Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of...