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Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam
A new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning portrait of Vietnam seeks to inform readers on its cultural traditions, political and religious conflicts, and historical events as experienced by its citizens, what the author believes to be American missteps that contributed to cu... Read more
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$6.55 - $12.23
Henry Nash Smith - Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth
Examines the significance and impact of the nineteenth-century Westward movement on American literature. Bibliogs. ... Read more
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$21.00 - $24.00
Jill Lepore - Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
Skillfully interpreting reactions to the war on both sides, the historian author reveals the crucial role the conflict played in shaping the adversaries' ideas of themselves and to each other. 34 illustrations, 2 maps. ... Read more
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$5.89 - $11.45
Robert A. Gross - The Minutemen and Their World
On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts....In THE MINUTEMEN AND THEIR WORLD, Robert A. Gross has written a remarkably subtle and detailed reconstruction of the lives and community of this special place, and offers a compelling interpretation... Read more
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$14.00 - $17.00
William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America. "No one has written about Chicago with more power, clarity, and intelligence than Cronon. Indeed, no one has ever written a better book about a city&quo... Read more
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$12.00 - $14.00
Walter Lafeber - The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Throughout History
One of America's leading historians tells the entire story behind the disagreements, tensions, and skirmishes between Japan--a compact, homogeneous, closely-knit society terrified of disorder--and America--a sprawling, open-ended society that fears economic depression and continually seeks an intern... Read more
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$11.00 - $13.00
Linda Gordon - The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction
In 1904, New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Mexican Catholic families. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this 'interracial' transgression, formed a vigilante squad that kidnapped the children and nearly lynched the nuns and the local priest. Th... Read more
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$17.00 - $33.00
George Dangerfield - The Era of Good Feelings
This is a prize-winning history of the years between the terms of Presidents Jefferson and Jackson. ... Read more
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Anthony F. C. Wallace - Rockdale: The Growth of an American Village in the Early Industrial Revolution
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Robert Middlekauff - The Mathers: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals, 1596-1728
In this classic work of American religious history, Robert Middlekauff traces the evolution of Puritan thought and theology in America from its origins in New England through the early eighteenth century. He focuses on three generations of intellectual ministers -- Richard, Increase, and Cotton Math... Read more
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$22.00 - $28.00
Alan Taylor - William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic
WILLIAM COOPER'S TOWN is the story of a father and son who embodied many of the contradictions that divided the United States during the early years of the Republic. William Cooper founded Cooperstown, New York, and his son, James Fenimore Cooper, became a successful novelist. Their story shows how ... Read more
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Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman - Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery
Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the special American problem - black slavery. ... Read more
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$11.00 - $13.00
James T. Patterson - Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
A highly readable and balanced work that weaves the major political, cultural, and economic events of the period into a superb portrait of America from 1945 through Watergate, "Grand Expectations" offers a brilliant summation of the years which created the America we know today. 48 illustr... Read more
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$17.00 - $18.00
Samuel Morison - Rising Sun in the Pacific: History of the United States Naval Operations in World War Two
History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. ... Read more
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$49.00 - $50.00
Winthrop D. Jordan - White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812
A discussion of white racial attitudes from before the first Negroes set foot on American soil in 1619 to the present national situation. ... Read more
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$27.00 - $37.00
Gordon S. Wood - The Creation of the American Republic 1776-1787
Illuminates the concepts of the Constitution by studying the cultural situation of the colonists. ... Read more
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Carl N. Degler - Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
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John Lewis Gaddis - The United States and the Origins of the Cold War: 1941-1947
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Stanley Elkins and Eric L. McKitrick - The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800
Written by two esteemed historians, this work gives readers a reflective, deeply formed analytical survey of this extraordinary period in American history. Ranging over the widest variety of concerns--political, cultural, economic, diplomatic, and military--the authors provides a sweeping historical... Read more
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$28.00 - $29.00
Thomas M.A. Doerflinger - A Vigorous Spirit Of Enterprise: Merchants And Economic Development In Revolutionary Philadelphia
A social, economic, and political study of Philadelphia merchants, this study presents both the spirit and statistics of merchant life. Doerflinger studies the Philadelphia merchant community from three perspectives: their commercial world, their confrontation with the Revolution and its aftermath, ... Read more
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