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In Cultivating California, David Vaught shows how fruit and nut growers were neither industrialists nor agrarians. From the very outset, he explains, these "horticulturists" saw themselves as guardians of California's unique culture-raising...

Colonial Living is EdwinTunis's a vigorous re-creation of 17th- and 18th-century America-of the everyday living of those sturdy men and women who carved a way of life out of the wilderness. In lively text and accurate drawings we see the dugouts and...

"Masters and Statesmen" delineates a provocative set of parallels between the proslavery argument, concepts of political representation, dueling, the theory and practice of political parties, and secession in the American South. "Slavery...

In this now-classic work in legal and constitutional theory, Stanley Kutler examines one of the Supreme Court's most celebrated decisions: the right of the state of Massachusetts to erect a free bridge over the Charles River in 1837--even though the...

"Rosen has broken entirely new ground in what will surely remain the definitive study of urban prostitution in America for many years to come."--'TLS'Book InformationISBN 9780801826658Author Ruth RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Johns...

Volume 3 illuminates Marshall's evolving relationships with President Roosevelt and his selection of such commanders.Book InformationISBN 9780801825538Author George Catlett MarshallFormat HardbackPage Count 840Imprint Johns Hopkins University...

Did urbanization kill communities in the 19th century, or even earlier? Many historians proclaim that it did, but author Bender says otherwise. Here he argues that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization and remains a...

More concerned than ever with questions of theory and method in their work, contemporary historians find themselves turning to other disciplines for the ideas that help them piece together the puzzle of the past. Among these interdisciplinary approaches,...

"It is a glorious country," exclaimed Stephen J. Field, the future U.S. Supreme Court justice, upon arriving in California in 1849. Field's pronouncement was more than just an expression of exuberance. For an electrifying moment, he and another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780788423321Author William C BraithwaiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 718Imprint Heritage BooksPublisher Heritage BooksWeight(grams) 816g

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A shrewd synthesizer, gifted popularizer, and inspiring founder of the Christian and Missionary Alliance movement, A.B. Simpson (1843-1919) was enmeshed in the most crucial threads of evangelical Christianity at the turn of the twentieth century. Daryn...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408234Author Deann Bice SegalFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

This book is the first systematic study of the relations between German high society and the Nazis. It uses unpublished archival material, private diaries and diplomatic documents to take us into the hidden areas of power where privileges, tax breaks,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780717809370Author William Z FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 604Imprint International PublishersPublisher International PublishersWeight(grams) 757g

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When Bill Clinton, flanked by Presidents Bush past and present, stood in the rain in Little Rock to open his presidential library, the moment seemed to transcend the partisan fray. The imposing structure itself was carefully crafted to play up Clinton's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674730366Author Launcelot Minor BlackfordFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 630g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674729261Author Dean AchesonFormat HardbackPage Count 147Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 277g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674289840Author Albert Bushnell HartFormat HardbackPage Count 622Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 1039g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674288782Author Elihu RootFormat HardbackPage Count 476Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 839g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674181564Author Walter M MerrillFormat HardbackPage Count 407Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 762g

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The first 3 generations of Casper Rader's Descendants. He is found first on the ship Edinberg in 1750 Pennsylvania. He lives in Lebanon county and Cumberland county Pennsylvania during the Rev War -- --- His children are in Greene County Tennessee and...

American OSS agent is used as a stalking horse to draw out an SS General who is on the verge of discovering the identity of a deep British agent.Unknown to the American and his team another agent has been sent to kill the SS General.Book InformationISBN...

Building on Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're on our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s American leaders developed a policy of supporting...

Cotton's Renaissance is an analytical and interpretive history of the responses of US cotton growers to problems of supply and demand, and of the unique public-private organization they founded to help them grow, compete, and survive in an increasingly...

This book explores life in America during that brief promising moment in the early Sixties when John F. Kennedy was President. Kennedy's Cold War frustrations in Cuba and Vietnam worried Americans. The 1962 missile crisis narrowly avoided a nuclear...

These volumes were originally published in 2004. The close association between the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany was a key element in the international order of the Cold War era. No country had as wide-reaching or as profound an...