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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781008941083Author Bob NavarroFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806515502Author Columbus SalleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 404Imprint Citadel PressPublisher Kensington PublishingWeight(grams) 591g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806313344Author Peter Wilson ColdhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674863576Author Elizabeth Stuart PhelpsFormat HardbackPage Count 196Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674498396Author Edward Chase KirklandFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674429833Author Leon H MayhewFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 644g

Freedom of expression is enshrined in the Constitution as a sacred right of the American people. The appeal is clear: Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. Yet the ink had barely dried on the Constitution before...

A companion to the ALA-award-winning Retrospective Bibliography of American Demographic History (1989), this volume includes literature on American demographic history published from 1984 to 1994. It covers such topics as marriage and fertility; health,...

Dispelling the myth that women became involved in partisan politics only after they obtained the vote, this study uses contemporary newspaper sources to show that women were active in the party struggle long before 1920. Although their role was initially...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674863699Author Edgar B NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 677Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1270g

Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses on agriculture, the primary economic activity and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837183985Author S. El-KhawasFormat HardbackPage Count 188Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

In this book, Paul Campos argues that the American worship of law and legality can at times become so pathological that it comes to resemble a type of legal madness, or Jurismania. Campos offers an intensely critical look at the role of law and legal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989080910Author Dwayna LitzFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Lighting the Way Worldwide BooksPublisher Lighting the Way Worldwide BooksWeight(grams)...

The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history. Their core theme is the diversity of both American intellectual life and of the frameworks that we must use to make sense of that diversity. The Worlds of...

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl remains the most-read woman's slave narrative of all time. Jean Fagan Yellin recounts the experiences that shaped Incidents-the years Jacobs spent hiding in her grandmother's attic from her sexually...

This collection of essays looks at the impact of anticommunism on black political culture during the early years of the Cold War, with an eye toward local and individual stories that offer insight into larger national and international issues.Book...

Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American Republic. Watkins views the struggle through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions,...

In 1949 and 1950, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) expelled many left-wing unions, representing 750,000 workers, because they were supposedly Communist-dominated. This collection of previously unpublished essays explores the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780937666586Author Don RittnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint New Netherland PressPublisher New Netherland PressWeight(grams) 152g

An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334816Author Octavius Thorndike HoweFormat HardbackPage Count 221Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674366022Author John W SpanierFormat HardbackPage Count 324Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 635g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181021Author William Goodfellow LandFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 653g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674598515Author Robert F LucidFormat HardbackPage Count 462Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 930g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674332379Author Oscar HandlinFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 540g

As Nathan Huggins once stated, altering American history to account fully for the nation's black voices would change the tone and meaning-the frame and the substance-of the entire story. Rather than a sort of Pilgrim's Progress tale of bold ascent and...

In an era of heightened securitization, print, televisual and networked media have become obsessed with the 'pre-mediation' of future events. In response to the shock of 9/11, socially networked US and global media worked to pre-mediate collective...

A collection of 27 papers presented by scholars from all parts of the Americas at the 1975 New World Conference.Book InformationISBN 9780313200533Author Joseph S. TulchinFormat HardbackPage Count 445Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781436321853Author William G BurmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 363g

An oral-history-based biography of a seminal Asian-American activist. The book traces Embrey's life from her youth in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, to her harrowing experiences in the Japanese internment camps, to her many decades of...

This book explores particular facets of the history and representation of the Pacific Rim region, fo cusing on the interactions between the United States and China at the beginning of the twentieth century. It critically examines contemporary discourses...

Librarians Lincove and Treadway have compiled a collection of 1,953 titles, published between 1945 and 1985 but covering Anglo-American relations from their formal inception in 1783 through their finest hour in 1985. . . . This model bibliography...

This book spans more than 200 years of U.S. diplomatic history. Its geographical scope widens along with the expanding interests of America itself, from initial exclusive concern with the empires of Europe, to the emerging nations of Latin America, to...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313229497Author Lenwood G. DavisFormat HardbackPage Count 643Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

Although women's rights, disarmament initiatives, and other contemporary social movements receive substantial critical attention, no new work on American reformism as a whole has been published since the late 1960s. In this wide-ranging history, David De...

There has always been a symbiotic relationship between New York City and the people who have settled there. This study traces the major developments on Manhattan Island, which began as a base for privateering, as it evolved into one of the world's great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674421219Author Martin MeyersonFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 363g

This unique guide will enable students, librarians, teachers, and general readers to easily identify the best biographies and autobiographies of 500 of the most notable women in American history. Spanning from colonial America through 1998, the guide...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780759690998Author Leonard R. N. AshleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint AuthorHousePublisher AuthorHouseWeight(grams) 415g