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"Koistinen puts the 'political' back in political economy in this fascinating account of New England's twentieth-century industrial erosion. First-rate research and sound judgments make this study essential reading."--Philip Scranton, Rutgers...

First published in 1808, ""Horrors of Slavery"" is the tale of a sailor, captured during the United States' first military encounter with the Islamic world, the Tripolitan War. William Ray, along with three hundred crewmates, spent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805087239Author Robert D HormatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 344Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 499g

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Beginning with archaeological sites in northeast Iowa, Martha Royce Blaine traces Ioway history from ancient to modern times. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French, Spanish, and English traders vied for the tribe's favor and for permission...

Although he did not travel farther inland than the slopes of the Appalachians, Thomas Jefferson must take his place alongside Zebulon Pike, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and Lewis and Clark--the men who blazed the great western trails. Donald Jackson cogently...

Events which become historical, says Michael Kraus, do not live on because of their mere occurrence. They survive when writers re-create them and thus preserve for posterity their otherwise fleeting existence. Paul Revere's ride, for example, might well...

"General Bill" Sterling, as his friends called him, was a Texas Ranger of the old tradition--hard-riding and fearless but not a killer. Rising through the ranks, he became commander of the famed Rangers in the 1930s, when he served as adjutant...

In Bayonets in the Wilderness, Alan D. Gaff explores a long-neglected period in American history to tell the complete story of how the U.S. Army conquered the first American frontier, the Northwest Territory. Wayne's successful campaign led to the...

Between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth century, technology transformed the entertainment industry as much as it did such heavy industries as coal and steel. Among those most directly affected were musicians, who had to adapt to successive...

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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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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