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This volume unites two classic Civil War campaign studies by the foremost southern historian of the immediate postwar era: History of the Campaign of Gen. T. J. (Stonewall) Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and The Army of Northern Virginia in...

In the spring of 1864, as the armies of Grant and Lee waged a highly scrutinized and celebrated battle for the state of Virginia, a no- less important, but historically obscured engagement was being conducted in the pine barrens of northern Louisiana. In...

The dreary presidential campaign of 1996 and Clinton's disillusioning presidency matched the convulsive pattern of events which yanked the nation in every direction except forward throughout the final decades of the twentieth century. The swings of the...

Amidst the current debates on the future of welfare, one voice has been conspicuously absent: that of the unemployed and underprivileged. The result of almost a half-century of research, America Before Welfare traces the leadership and activities of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807050392Author Thomas FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 372g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806347615Author Stephen M. MillettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ClearfieldPublisher ClearfieldWeight(grams) 283g

From the assertion of the Monroe Doctrine in 1823 to the Reagan Doctrine of the 1980s, the United States has presumed a position of political leadership and pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere. This has been made possible by two main factors:...

In this vivid history of American western expansion, Conevery Bolton Valencius captures the excitement, romanticism, and confusion of the frontier experience as well as another, less renowned reality of settling: how terrifying the untamed wilderness of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806313764Author Peter Wilson ColdhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 358Imprint Genealogical Publishing CompanyPublisher Genealogical Publishing...

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who...

This collection of essays examines the development of the American South from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II. Written by both well-known and emerging scholars, the essays are divided into sections that address some of the major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674732520Author J Ross BrowneFormat HardbackPage Count 620Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1080g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674863729Author Edgar B NixonFormat HardbackPage Count 646Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1229g

This volume brings together historians, economists, political scientists, and anthropologists to present a global perspective on the new forms of lending and borrowing that have become a key feature of twentieth-century mass consumer societies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674188068Author Gerald M CraigFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 717g

This volume is part of a series of annotated bibliographies on early American history, including North America and the Caribbean, from 1492 to 1815. It includes monographs, reference works, exhibition catalogues, and essay collections published between...

In this concise interpretation of Wilson's Russian policy, Schild challenges the belief that Wilson's response to the 1917 October Revolution was exclusively ideological. Contrary to the belief that when Wilson sent American troops to intervene in 1918,...

Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from...

With California's passage of the Save Our State Initiative in 1994, fear of aliens has once again appeared in U.S. legislative history. Since 1790, congressional legislation on federal immigration and naturalization policy has been harsh on Asian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313225383Author Dan CaldwellFormat HardbackPage Count 283Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Books on Early American History and Culture, 1971-1980: An Annotated Bibliography continues a series of bibliographies listing book-length works on North America and the Caribbean prior to 1815. Essential for scholars, librarians, and students of early...

Rapid changes in medical care and in society's attitudes about death have made the right-to-die debate a timely topic, but its roots can be traced back to the founding of this country. High school and college students can explore the history of this...

This book discusses the relations between the United States and Egypt from Roosevelt to Eisenhower. To protect the free flow of oil, American policymakers looked to Egypt to provide the progressive, pro-Western leadership they believed would insure...

This is a combination of essays from several disciplines with incisive commentary by the editor. This volume provides a unique perspective on sexual variance as a dimension of the larger social history of the United States. Every society has had to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313225345Author Walter J. FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 286Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Few would dispute that the United States had been the world's most influential nation since Henry Luce first popularized the notion of an American Century in 1941. The significance of the influence, however, remains a subject of hot debate. This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313223822Author Thomas H. GreerFormat HardbackPage Count 313Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313233937Author Mansel G. BlackfordFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Creating an unconventional portrait of the life and thought of an Enlightenment historian and scientist, this study focuses upon Jeremy Belknap's letters, journals, and essays, which provide a clear sense of how a dialogue with the past can yield an...

This engaging encyclopedia profiles the lives and times of the most colorful buccaneers from the mid-17th to early 18th centuries. This unique A-Z reference work includes stories of prominent and lesser-known individuals, battles, weapons, ships, fleets,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997802603Author Samantha HorwitzFormat PaperbackImprint Courage to Win, LLCPublisher Courage to Win, LLCWeight(grams) 272g

'Anti-Americanism' is an unusual expression; although stereotypes and hostility exist toward every nation, we do not hear of 'anti-Italianism' or 'anti-Brazilianism'. Only Americans have elevated such sentiment to the level of a world view, an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780966131833Author John FiskFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Ara Pacis PublishersPublisher Ara Pacis PublishersWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674420878Author Frederick MerkFormat HardbackPage Count 441Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 794g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674336230Author Samuel Eliot MorisonFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 816g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674434806Author Leland B YeagerFormat HardbackPage Count 367Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 703g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674334991Author Mary Lee MannFormat HardbackPage Count 329Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674186774Author Howard Mumford JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 315Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 445g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837173733Author L. WilsonFormat HardbackPage Count 309Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO