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This book presents the first comprehensive and authoritative collection of Emerson's writings against slavery and the subjugation of American Indians-writings that reveal Emerson's deep commitment to social reform. Included are speeches and lectures that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781412005777Author Barbara J CulbreathFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint Trafford PublishingPublisher Trafford PublishingWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781450032261Author Darwin O'Ryan CurtisFormat HardbackPage Count 40Imprint Xlibris CorporationPublisher Xlibris CorporationWeight(grams) 231g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532644115Author Matthew B SchwartzFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Resource Publications (CA)Publisher Resource Publications (CA)Weight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781435756236Author Seymour DunbarFormat HardbackPage Count 402Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604449594Author Gilbert K ChestertonFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604449587Author Gilbert K ChestertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 196Imprint Indoeuropeanpublishing.comPublisher Indoeuropeanpublishing.comWeight(grams) 152g

There is no book quite like National Security and Core Values in American History. Drawing upon themes from the whole of the nation's past, William O. Walker III presents a new interpretation of the history of American exceptionalism, that is, of the...

For more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of 'American citizenship'. Welke draws on that wealth of historical,...

The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616192075Author Charles a BeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

In four decades since its first broadcasts, television news has revolutionized public life and political policy making, transformed political careers, advanced civil rights, and radically changed newspapers and magazines. In Unsilent Revolution, veteran...

This book examines a trans-Atlantic chain migration from a Norwegian fjord district to settlements in the nineteenth-century rural Upper Middle West and considers the social and economic conditions experienced in Europe as well as the immigrants'...

Tracing the reciprocal relationship between Africa and North America from the seventeenth-century slave trade onwards, two leading authorities in the field provide a major revision to traditional colonial African history as well as to US history...

Recently there has been a renewed interest in moral inquiry among American scholars in a variety of disciplines. This collection of accessible essays by scholars in philosophy, political theory, psychology, history, literary studies, sociology, religious...

Chicago, Boston, and Baltimore all suffered terrible fires in the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. Residents of these cities agreed that the destruction caused by the fires provided them with a special opportunity to improve their inadequately...

Three Cheers for the Unemployed describes the beginnings and development of unemployment reform up to the New Deal. As a consequence of the large-scale industrialization after the Civil War, joblessness could no longer be considered to be caused by...

Neither an autobiography nor a scholarly analysis, Labor's Struggles, 1945-1950: A Participant's View is a skilful blend of both genres. Informative and original in its insights and analyses, this book provides the reader with information available from...

When Charles Martin Hall patented the process for refining the metal in 1886, it was far from self-evident that the new technology would be a business success. Problems involving the technology had to be solved. Capital and a labour force were needed...

This book tells the story of how and why industrial research was established in America by two large and innovative corporations: General Electric, formed in a merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston in 1892, and the dominant force in the...

The demographic shockwaves of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Europe produced tremendous change in the national economies and affected the political, social, and cultural development of these societies. Migration historians have begun to...

Figured Tapestry is a study of industrial maturity and decline, focused on the Philadelphia textile trades from the era of the Knights of Labor through World War II. Unlike the bulk fabric enterprises of New England and the South, Quaker City textile...

Path-breaking research into the Atomic Energy Commission's internal memorandum files supports this text's explanation of how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority and political clout declined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593490204Author James ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 578g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798989197705Author O Michael MaysamFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Boundary Peak PublishingPublisher Boundary Peak PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

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Read here the storied history of these United States.The stories in this book are part of what Abraham Lincoln called the "mystic chords of memory." They are the symbols that define the essence of the United States, that mark its historic course, and...

Martin Van Buren was a one-term president whose public life has long been overshadowed by the more fiery personalities of his day-Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. Nevertheless, Van Buren was a transforming political figure...

As the first chief of the Special Intelligence Unit at the Treasury Department, Elmer L. Irey accomplished what J. Edgar Hoover wouldn't and Eliot Ness couldn't. From the 1920s through the 1940s, he headed the investigations that led to the prosecution...

Has America always been capitalist? Today, the US sees itself as the heartland of the international capitalist system, its society and politics intertwined deeply with its economic system. This book looks at the history of North America from the founding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789389821338Author Thomas CrosbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint Lector HousePublisher Lector HouseWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789888273256Author Graham EarnshawFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Earnshaw BooksPublisher Earnshaw Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593640170Author Madison GrantFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint Liberty Bell PublicationsPublisher Liberty Bell PublicationsWeight(grams) 660g

This superb documentary collection illuminates the history of witchcraft and witch-hunting in seventeenth-century New England. The cases examined begin in 1638, extend to the Salem outbreak in 1692, and document for the first time the extensive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498011808Author President George BushFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 381g

"The American Bill of Rights is . . . a magic mirror," writes Bernard Schwartz, "wherein we see reflected not only our lives, but the whole pageant of Anglo-American constitutional development and all that those struggles have meant in the...

Born into the plantation gentry of South Carolina, granted the advantages of wealth, social position, and education by virtue of her family and her marriage to another prominent South Carolina family, Mary Chesnut has emerged as one of the key figures in...

In Debating American Immigration, 1882-Present, prominent historians Roger Daniels and Otis Graham offer competing interpretations of the past, present, and future of American immigration policy and American attitudes towards immigration. Through...

In Independence on Trial, Frederick W. Marks III focuses on the impact of foreign affairs and trade, arguing that they had an overwhelming influence in shaping constitutional reform for the founding fathers. He argues that problems relating to the...

This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history.Book...