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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674734715Author Jr John L BlackmanFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674731134Author Professor James H CassedyFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 499g

Acclaimed in his own time, Captain Randolph B. Marcy--trailblazer, geographer, fighter in the Mexican War, American Indian authority, and author--traveled as extensively as any other nineteenth-century explorer. Yet Marcy has not achieved the fame of...

What critic Lewis Mumford has vilified as a disorganized mass of formless low-grade urban tissue and what Katherine Lee Bates enshrined in America the Beautiful as alabaster cities . . . undimmed by human tears provides the subject of this bibliography:...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837194783Author Charles R. HearnFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Arkansas has frequently been omitted from surveys of the South and from national history. One reason has been the limited archival resources; another, the absence of a university press. Recently, however, archives have proliferated, and a solid mass of...

Books on Early American History and Culture, 1981-1985: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Meant for scholars, librarians, and students of early...

Product information not available.Book InformationISBN 9780313227509Author Gerald K. HainesFormat HardbackPage Count 393Imprint Greenwood PressPublisher ABC-CLIO

In the mid-1960s, C. Vann Woodward was asked to organize a programme of broadcast lectures on US history for the Voice of America as part of a longer series designed to acquaint foreign audiences with leaders in American arts and sciences. Reasoning that...

This outstanding collection of essays is the product of a symposium on peacemaking and peacekeeping, sponsored by the National Committee for the Bicentennial of the Treaty of Paris. The original papers included in this volume were written by leading...

This study contends that historians and intellectuals failed to understand the difference between race and ethnicity, which has in turn impaired their ability to understand who Black people are in America. The author argues that Black Americans are to be...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313227271Author John J. DuffyFormat HardbackPage Count 172Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773407916Author Jody M RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

America's prison-based system of punishment has not always enjoyed the widespread political and moral legitimacy it has today. In this groundbreaking reinterpretation of penal history, Rebecca McLennan covers the periods of deep instability, popular...

This history of the Ku Klux Klan traces the evolution of the organization from its 1865 founding to the present, drawing extensively on contemporaneous media reports. The Ku Klux Klan tells the story of America's oldest and largest homegrown terrorist...

Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move the historical debate on Republicanism and Liberalism to a new stage. Previously, the relationship between...

The great majority of Americans-more than 80%-say they approve of gambling, even if they themselves don't gamble. Still, deep divisions persist in our attitudes toward the gambling industry. Is it profoundly destructive, preying on human weakness and...

This volume examines letters, newspaper articles, and eyewitness accounts from 1776-1794, documenting James Monroe's time in the Continental Army, in state and national government, and as an attorney, while also revealing aspects of his personal life...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674424845Author Frederick MerkFormat HardbackPage Count 406Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 780g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788457135Author Thomas RileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 209g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674435681Author Donald a RitchieFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674430037Author Patience PenningtonFormat HardbackPage Count 479Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 857g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674365698Author Frank P DavidsonFormat HardbackPage Count 334Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674599451Author Edgar B NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 650Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1229g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674367449Author Robert E SpillerFormat HardbackPage Count 223Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674435049Author Francis Paul PruchaFormat HardbackPage Count 365Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674335707Author G Thomas TanselleFormat HardbackPage Count 297Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 603g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837175706Author Charles W. ThayerFormat HardbackPage Count 299Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

This in-depth study draws on never-before-published early personal correspondence and interviews to trace Richard Hofstadter's early career from his family's background in Poland and Germany through his childhood, high school, and training years at the...

One might argue as to whether `the South is another land' or only a separate verse in the American song. There should be little argument over the usefulness of this collection of ten essays. They find their common ground in a loose schema--the...

Vietnam precipitated a crisis in national self-confidence and a breakdown in political consensus out of which new ideological perspectives emerged. This book offers fresh perspectives on a defining event in 'the American Century', examining its...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780380800919Author Steve TallyFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 372g

This study examines the role of race in the construction of history and the validation of knowledge. Using Martin Bernal's Black Athena and its critiques as an entree into the historical inquiries of African American intellectuals and many of their...

Throughout history, the reality of America's diverse religious life has continually been subordinated to the themes of Protestant unity and dominance. At the centre of this study are seven religious groups that are usually accorded a secondary influence...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674289666Author Harold JenkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 712g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806351124Author BurnsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 248g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674282827Author Daniel Hovey CalhounFormat HardbackPage Count 245Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788408342Author John Martin HammondFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 458g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837173559Author John C. GabrielFormat HardbackPage Count 230Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

In the first general history of colonial New England to be published in over twenty-five years, Joseph A. Conforti synthesizes current and classic scholarship to explore how Puritan saints and "strangers" to Puritanism participated in the...