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The American West: The Reader by Walter Nugent
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.01"Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." -Nebraska History Designed for survey courses-yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion-these... -
Progressivism: A Very Short Introduction by Walter Nugent
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $15.44After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political,... -
Into the West: The Story of Its People by Walter Nugent 9780679777496
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $36.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679777496Author Walter NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random... -
Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansionism by Walter Nugent 9781400078189
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $24.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400078189Author Walter NugentFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
Crossings: The Great Transatlantic Migrations, 1870-1914 by Walter Nugent
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.44"Nugent's study, well illustrated and documented . . . will become a must for courses on migration history." -Dirk Hoerder, International Migration Review"A brilliant analysis of a critical chapter... -
The Tolerant Populists, Second Edition: Kansas Populism and Nativism Walter Nugent 9780226054087
Booksplease Price: $50.19A political movement rallies against under regulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of... -
Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950-2016 by Walter Nugent
RRP: $54.58Booksplease Price: $47.89The now-staunchly red state of Texas was deep blue in 1950 and had virtually no functioning Republican Party. California, on the other hand, was reliably red. Today, both states have jumped to the... -
Color Coded: Party Politics in the American West, 1950-2016 Walter Nugent 9780806195599
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $32.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rush to Gold: The French and the California Gold Rush, 1848-1854 by Malcolm J. Rohrbough 9780300181401
Booksplease Price: $142.66The California Gold Rush began in 1848 and incited many "wagons west." However, only half of the 300,000 gold seekers traveled by land. The other half traveled by sea. And it's the story of this... -
Trans-Appalachian Frontier, Third Edition: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 by Malcolm J. Rohrbough
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $20.20The first American frontier lay just beyond the Appalachian Mountains and along the Gulf Coast. Here, successive groups of pioneers built new societies and developed new institutions to cope with... -
The Growth of American Government, Revised and Updated Edition: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present by Ballard C. Campbell 9780253014184
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $41.81American government evolved over the generations since the mid-nineteenth century. The changing character of these institutions is a critical part of the history of the United States. This engaging... -
![With Scarcely a Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration into the United States and Western Canada, 1880-1920: Volume 29 by Randy William Widdis 9780773517332 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/6584259/6661180/9780773517332__73339.1738900636.jpg?c=1 "With Scarcely a Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration into the United States and Western Canada, 1880-1920: Volume 29 by Randy William Widdis 9780773517332 [USED COPY]")
With Scarcely a Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration into the United States and Western Canada, 1880-1920: Volume 29 by Randy William Widdis 9780773517332 [USED COPY]
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $12.34Much of the development of regions and communities on both sides of the United States-Canada border resulted from migration. "With Scarcely a Ripple", the first study to link persistence,... -
Trails: Toward a New Western History by Patricia Nelson Limerick 9780700605019
Booksplease Price: $60.53This is the new story of the Old West, told by ten historians who dare to reenvision the American West and knock the field of Western history on its ear. Some historians call it a revolution. The... -
The Organization of American Historians and the Writing and Teaching of American History by Richard S. Kirkendall 9780199790562
Booksplease Price: $111.35The field of American history has undergone remarkable expansion in the past century, all of it reflecting a broadening of the historical enterprise and democratization of its coverage. Today, the... -
Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879 - 1893 by Malcolm J. Rohrbough 9780870815928
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $46.33All those who delight in modern Aspen as a ski resort and cultural center, as well as those who enjoy reading about all the old Wild West, will be charmed by this book. In its heyday as a mining... -
America's West: A History, 1890-1950 by David M. Wrobel 9780521192019
Booksplease Price: $155.01The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action,... -
America's West: A History, 1890-1950 by David M. Wrobel 9780521150132
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $43.08The American West has influenced important national developments throughout the twentieth century, not only in the cultural arena, but also in economic development, in political ideology and action,... -
Americanizing the West: Race, Immigrants and Citizenship, 1890-1930 by Frank Van Nuys 9780700612062
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.39The arrival of immigrants on America's shores has always posed a singular problem: once they are here, how are these diverse peoples to be transformed into Americans? The Americanization movement of... -
Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne Farrar Hyde
RRP: $85.80Booksplease Price: $73.28Winner of the 2012 Bancroft Prize in American HistoryFinalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in History To most people living in the West, the Louisiana Purchase made little difference: the United... -
Frontier Illinois by James E. Davis
Booksplease Price: $57.70Now in paperback!Frontier IllinoisJames E. Davis "A comprehensive, readable history of this distinctive prairie state before the Civil War. . . . This deft synthesis of existing knowledge is likely... -
Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West by Brian Q. Cannon 9780700616572
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.39The offer of free farmland after World War II may not have sparked the same stampede that it did in frontier days, but, as Brian Cannon shows in this path-breaking study, postwar homesteading... -
Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 by Jacqueline M. Moore 9780814763414
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Cowboys are an American legend, but despite ubiquity in history and popular culture, misperceptions abound. Technically, a cowboy worked with cattle, as a ranch hand, while his boss, the cattleman,... -
The New Disability History: American Perspectives by Paul K. Longmore 9780814785638
RRP: $132.60Booksplease Price: $108.85A collected volume highlighting disability's hidden history in American society Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification... -
The New Disability History: American Perspectives by Paul K. Longmore
RRP: $58.48Booksplease Price: $50.93A collected volume highlighting disability's hidden history in American society Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about... -
From Furs to Farms: The Transformation of the Mississippi Valley, 1762-1825 by John Reda
Booksplease Price: $48.28This original study tells the story of the Illinois Country, a collection of French villages that straddled the Mississippi River for nearly a century before it was divided by the treaties that ended... -
William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative by Jonathan Lurie 9780521514217
RRP: $171.60Booksplease Price: $155.90In this biographical study of the only American ever to have been both President and Chief Justice of the United States, Jonathan Lurie reassesses William Howard Taft's multiple careers, which... -
William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative by Jonathan Lurie 9781107425132
RRP: $54.60Booksplease Price: $52.28In this biographical study of the only American ever to have been both President and Chief Justice of the United States, Jonathan Lurie reassesses William Howard Taft's multiple careers, which... -
Rising Up from Indian Country: The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago Ann Durkin Keating 9780226678580
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $39.64In August 1812, under threat from the Potawatomi, Captain Nathan Heald began the evacuation of ninety-four people from the isolated outpost of Fort Dearborn to Fort Wayne, hundreds of miles away. The... -
Political Hell-Raiser: The Life and Times of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana Marc C. Johnson 9780806194868
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $33.11Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975) may have been the most powerful politician Montana ever produced, and he was one of the most influential-and controversial-members of the United States Senate during... -
Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920 by David E. Shi 9780195106534
Booksplease Price: $32.19"A true poem," Walt Whitman proclaimed in 1852, "is the daily newspaper"--and American culture was never the same again. Like a blast of cold air in a stuffy drawing room, Whitman's campaign to give... -
Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium by Dirk Hoerder
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $64.12A landmark work on human migration around the globe, Cultures in Contact provides a history of the world told through the movements of its people. It is a broad, pioneering interpretation of the... -
Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930 by Karen V. Hansen 9780190624545
RRP: $80.91Booksplease Price: $59.53In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants...