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Abraham Lincoln and Civil War America: A Biographyby William E. GienappISBN 0195151003 (0-19-515100-3)
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American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in Californiaby James N. GregoryISBN 0195071360 (0-19-507136-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California'Book summary:Fifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west to California by dust storms, drought, and economic hardship. It was a story that generations of Americans have also come to know through Dorothea Lange's unforgettable photos of migrant families struggling to make a living in Depression-torn California. Now in James N. Gregory's pathbreaking American Exodus, there is at last an historical study that moves beyond the fiction of the 1930s to uncover the full meaning of these events.
American Exodus takes us back to the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and the war boom influx of the 1940s to explore the experiences of the more than one million Oklahomans, Arkansans, Texans, and Missourians who sought opportunities in California. Gregory reaches into the migrants' lives to reveal not only their economic trials but also their impact on California's culture and society. He traces the development of an "Okie subculture" that over the years has grown into an essential element in California's cultural landscape.
Gregory vividly depicts how Southwesterners brought with them on their journey west an allegiance to evangelical Protestantism, "plain-folk American" values, and a love of country music. These values gave Okies an expanding cultural presence their new home. In their neighborhoods, often called "Little Oklahomas," they created a community of churches and saloons, of church-goers and good-old-boys, mixing stern-minded religious thinking with hard-drinking irreverence. Today, Baptist and Pentecostal churches abound in this region, and from Gene Autry, "Oklahoma's singing cowboy," to Woody Guthrie, Bob Wills, and Merle Haggard, the special concerns of Southwesterners have long dominated the country music industry in California. The legacy of the Dust Bowl migration can also be measured in political terms. Throughout California and especially in the San Joaquin Valley Okies have implanted their own brand of populist conservatism.
The consequences reach far beyond California. The Dust Bowl migration was part of a larger heartland diaspora that has sent millions of Southerners and rural Midwesterners to the nation's northern and western industrial perimeter. American Exodus is the first book to examine the cultural implications of that massive 20th-century population shift. In this rich account of the experiences and impact of these migrant heartlanders, Gregory fills an important gap in recent American social history. [via]More editions of American Exodus: The Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California:
American Places: Encounters With Historyby William E. LeuchtenburgISBN 019515245X (0-19-515245-X)
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American Vistasby Kenneth T. Jackson, Leonard DinnersteinISBN 0195060598 (0-19-506059-8)
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American Vistas: 1607-1877by Leonard Dinnerstein, Kenneth T. JacksonISBN 0195087836 (0-19-508783-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'American Vistas: 1607-1877'Book summary:Excellent supplement for understanding American history. Offering up-to-date coverage of America's social, political, and diplomatic past, this anthology of articles by nationally renowned scholars introduces students to the excitement of American history. With seven new selections the Seventh Edition has been substantially revised to examine such topics as the relationship between Native Americans and early colonists, the experience of women - both black and white - in colonial America and the early republic, the Northwest Ordinance, society and republicanism, slavery on the western frontier. [via]
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Antietam: The Soldiers' Battleby John M. PriestISBN 0195084667 (0-19-508466-7)
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Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africaby George M. FredricksonISBN 0195109783 (0-19-510978-3)
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In Black Liberation, George Fredrickson offers a fascinating account of how blacks in the United States and South Africa came to grips with the challenge of white supremacy. He reveals a rich history--not merely of parallel developments, but of an intricate, transatlantic web of influences and cross-fertilization. He begins with early moments of hope in both countries--Reconstruction in the United States, and the liberal colonialism of British Cape Colony--when the promise of suffrage led educated black elites to fight for color-blind equality. A rising tide of racism and discrimination at the turn of the century, however, blunted their hopes and encouraged nationalist movements in both countries. Fredrickson teases out the connections between movements and nations, examining the transatlantic appeal of black religious nationalism (known as Ethiopianism), and the pan-Africanism of Du Bois and Garvey. He brings to vivid life the decades of struggle, organizing, and debate, as blacks in the United States looked to Africa for identity and South Africans looked to America for new ideas and hope. The book traces the rise of Communist influence in black movements in the two nations in the 1920s and '30s, and the adoption of Gandhian nonviolent protest after World War II. The story of India's struggle, however, was not to be repeated in either America or South Africa: in one nation, nonviolence revealed its limitations, encouraging splits in the civil rights movement; in the other, it failed, fostering an armed struggle against white supremacy. Fredrickson brings the story up through the present, exploring the divergence between African-American identity politics and the nonracialism that has triumphed in South Africa.
In a career spanning thirty years, George Fredrickson has won recognition as the leading scholar of the struggle over racial domination in the United States and South Africa. In Black Liberation, he provides the essential companion volume to his award-winning White Supremacy, telling the story of how blacks fought back on both sides of the Atlantic. [via]More editions of Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa:
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The Boisterous Sea of Liberty: A Documentary History of America from Discovery Through the Civil Warby Steven Mintz, David Brion DavisISBN 0195116704 (0-19-511670-4)
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Brown V. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacyby James T. PattersonISBN 0195156323 (0-19-515632-3)
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Patterson outlines the stories of several influential pre-Brown cases and details the thinking and exploits of the legal minds involved with Brown, including Marshall and Chief Justice Earl Warren. He also follows the various responses to the decision by those most affected by it, including bigoted Arkansas governor Orval Faubus as well as President Dwight Eisenhower. More than a simple chronology, Brown v. Board of Education raises many questions about America's unfinished business of truly democratizing its educational system once and for all. Both instructive and disturbing, this book calls for us to question whether we will turn back the clock or demand movement forward. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Characterby Roger G. KennedyISBN 0195140559 (0-19-514055-9)
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Chants Democratic: New York City And the Rise of the American Working Class, 1788-1850by Sean WilentzISBN 0195174496 (0-19-517449-6)
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Communities of Dissent: A History of Alternative Religions in Americaby Stephen J. SteinISBN 0195158253 (0-19-515825-3)
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Congressional Anecdotesby Boller, Paul F., Jr.ISBN 0195077067 (0-19-507706-7)
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Congressional Anecdotesby Paul F. BollerISBN 019506092X (0-19-506092-X)
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Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper Minesby Larry LanktonISBN 0195083571 (0-19-508357-1)
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Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early Americaby Virginia Dejohn AndersonISBN 0195304462 (0-19-530446-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America'Book summary:When we think of the key figures of early American history, we think of explorers, or pilgrims, or Native Americans--not cattle, or goats, or swine. But as Virginia DeJohn Anderson reveals in this brilliantly original account of colonists in New England and the Chesapeake region, livestock played a vitally important role in the settling of the New World.
Livestock, Anderson writes, were a central factor in the cultural clash between colonists and Indians as well as a driving force in the expansion west. By bringing livestock across the Atlantic, colonists believed that they provided the means to realize America's potential, a goal that Indians, who lacked domestic animals, had failed to accomplish. Settlers believed that Indians who learned to keep livestock would also advance along the path toward civility and Christian faith. But colonists failed to anticipate that the animals they hoped would convert Indians instead generated friction between the two people as Indians encountered free-ranging livestock at almost every turn, often trespassing in their cornfields. Moreover, concerned about feeding their growing populations and committed to a style of husbandry that required far more space than they had expected, colonists could see no alternative but to appropriate Indian land. This created tensions that reached the boiling point with King Philip's War and Bacon's Rebellion. And it established a pattern that would repeat time and again over the next two centuries.
A stunning account that presents our history in a truly new light, Creatures of Empire restores a vital element of our past, illuminating one of the great forces of colonization and the expansion westward. [via]More editions of Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America:
The Decline of Popular Politicsby Michael E. McGerrISBN 0195054245 (0-19-505424-5)
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Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil Warby Catherine Clinton, Nina Silber, James M. McPhersonISBN 0195080343 (0-19-508034-3)
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Essays on the Making of the Constitutionby Leonard W. LevyISBN 0195049020 (0-19-504902-0)
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The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195082710 (0-19-508271-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600'Book summary:The late Samuel Eliot Morison, a former U.S. Navy admiral, was also one of America's premier historians. Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with a brilliantly readable narrative style, he produced what has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great age of European exploration. In his riveting and richly illustrated saga, Morison offers a comprehensive account of all the known voyages by Europeans to the New World from 500 A.D. to the seventeenth century. Together, the two volumes of The European Discovery of America tell the compelling stories of the many intrepid explorers who made what was then a journey frought with danger--figures as diverse as Leif Ericsson, Columbus, John Cabot, Jacques Cartier, Martin Frobisher, Magellan, Sir Walter Raleigh, and Sir Francis Drake to name but a few. They also follow the adventures of lesser-known but no less interesting mariners and offer a detailed look at those who set them forth on their travels.
In the first volume, The Nrthern Voyages--winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for History--Morison re-creates the lives and perilous times of those who claimed to have seen the shores of North America in the 600 years after the Norsemen first landed. He brings to his account a rare immediacy, making the drama and unpredictability of their voyages as significant in relation to the people of their era as the astronauts' journeys have been for our own times. Morison also offers a fascinating look at the imaginary lands reported by early travelers (such mythical places as Antilia and the Seven Cities, the glorious Kingdoms of Norumbega and Saguenay, and Hy-Brasil the Isle of the Blest) and examines as well the alleged discoverers of these lands. With warmth and wit he distinguishes fact from fiction, and imaginary explorers and their exploits from actual men and events.
In the second volume, Morison turns his attention to the navigators who negotiated the waters of the Caribbean and the treacherous coasts of South America, even following them as they ventured ashore to the dark inland of the southern continent. The Southern Voyages begins with the events leading up to Columbus's arrival in San Salvador in 1492 and concludes with the discovery of the southernmost bit of land, Cape Horn, by Dutch explorers in 1616. In between, Morison retraces the routes of all the great mariners, including a step-by-step account of Magellan's voyage that would take him around the world. Morison has enlivened his narrative with a wide range of source material from Italy, Spain, Portugal, and South America, in the process shedding new light on questions that have divided scholars througout history: Did Sir Francis Drake discover San Francisco Bay? Was Amerigo Vespucci a great explorer or a fraud--or a little of both? What role did the French have in the European discovery of Brazil?
Each volume brims with contemporary illustrations, maps (many of them specially drawn for this history) and photographs (often taken by Morison himself as he flew at low altitude along the coastal routes of explorers), which together identify virtually every allusion to land and sea made by the great European navigators in their ship logs and their later accounts.
With the 500th anniversary of the European arrival in America came much controversy over Columbus's true legacy. With its lively and engaging style, and with its unsurpassed understanding of the age, The European Discovery of America helps put the era of exploration in much-needed perspective. Anyone interested in the history of America, indeed, in the history of Western Civilization, will find these volumes absolutely essential. [via]More editions of The European Discovery of America Vol. 1: The Northern Voyages, A. D. 500 - 1600:
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The European Discovery of America Vol. 2 : The Southern Voyages, A. D. 1492 - 1616by Samuel Eliot MorisonISBN 0195082729 (0-19-508272-9)
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The Faiths of the Founding Fathersby David L. HolmesISBN 0195300920 (0-19-530092-0)
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The Geronimo Campaignby Odie B. FaulkISBN 0195083512 (0-19-508351-2)
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Ghosts of the Confederacy: Defeat, the Lost Cause and the Emergency of the New South, 1865-1913by Gaines M. FosterISBN 0195054202 (0-19-505420-2)
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Homes in the Wilderness: A Pilgrim's Journal of Plymouth Plantation in 1620, by William Bradford and Others of the Mayflower Companyby Margaret Wise Brown, Mary W. StewartISBN 0208022694 (0-208-02269-4)
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nationsby Adam SmithISBN 0198281846 (0-19-828184-6)
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Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri During the American Civil Warby Michael FellmanISBN 0195064712 (0-19-506471-2)
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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution Rebellion on a Virginia Plantationby Rhys IsaacISBN 0195189086 (0-19-518908-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution And Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation'Book summary:Landon Carter, a Virginia planter patriarch, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Rhys Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution.
The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom. Carter writes at white heat, his words sputtering from his pen as he documents the terrible rupture that the Revolution meant to him. Indeed, Carter felt in his heart he was chronicling a world in decline, the passing of the order that his revered father had bequeathed to him. Not only had Landon's king betrayed his subjects, but Landon's own household betrayed him: his son showed insolent defiance, his daughter Judith eloped with a forbidden suitor, all of his slaves conspired constantly, and eight of them made an armed exodus to freedom. The seismic upheaval he helped to start had crumbled the foundations of Carter's own home.
Like Laurel Ulrich in her classic A Midwife's Tale, Rhys Isaac here unfolds not just the life, but the mental world of our countrymen in a long-distant time. Moreover, in this presentation of Landon Carter's passionate narratives, the diarist becomes an arresting new character in the world's literature, a figure of Shakespearean proportions, the Lear of his own tragic kingdom. This long-awaited work will be seen both as a major contribution to Revolution history and a triumph of the art of biography. [via]More editions of Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation:
The Limits of Liberty: American History, 1607-1980by Maldwyn Allen JonesISBN 0199131309 (0-19-913130-9)
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The Limits of Liberty: American History, 1607-1992by Maldwyn A. JonesISBN 0198205724 (0-19-820572-4)
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Lone Star Justice: The First Century of Texas Rangersby Robert M. UtleyISBN 0195127420 (0-19-512742-0)
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Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960by Robert DallekISBN 0195079043 (0-19-507904-3)
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But Johnson was also a representative figure. His career speaks volumes about American politics, foreign policy, and business in the forty years after 1930. As Charles de Gaulle said when he came to JFK's funeral: Kennedy was America's mask, but this man Johnson is the country's real face.
In Lone Star Rising, Robert Dallek, winner of the prestigious Bancroft Prize for his study of Franklin D. Roosevelt, now turns to this fascinating "sinner and saint" to offer a brilliant, definitive portrait of a great American politician. Based on seven years of research in over 450 manuscript collections and oral histories, as well as numerous personal interviews, this first book in a two-volume biography follows Johnson's life from his childhood on the banks of the Pedernales to his election as vice-president under Kennedy. We see Johnson, the twenty-three-year-old aide to a pampered millionaire Representative, become a de facto Congressman, and at age twenty-eight the country's best state director of the National Youth Administration. We see Johnson, the "human dynamo," first in the House and then in the Senate, whirl his way through sixteen- and eighteen-hour days, talking, urging, demanding, reaching for influence and power, in an uncommonly successful congressional career.
Dallek pays full due to Johnson's failings--his obsession with being top dog, his willingness to cut corners, and worse, to get there-- but he also illuminates Johnson's sheer brilliance as a politician, the high regard in which key members of the New Deal, including FDR, held him, and his genuine concern for minorities and the downtrodden.
No president in American history is currently less admired than Lyndon Johnson. Bitter memories of Vietnam have sent Johnson's reputation into free fall, and recent biographies have painted him as a scoundrel who did more harm than good. Lone Star Rising attempts to strike a balance. It does not neglect the tawdry side of Johnson's political career, including much that is revealed for the first time. But it also reminds us that Lyndon Johnson was a man of exceptional vision, who from early in his career worked to bring the South into the mainstream of American economic and political life, to give the disadvantaged a decent chance, and to end racial segregation for the well-being of the nation. [via]More editions of Lone Star Rising : Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960:
Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New Worldby Stephen Jay GreenblattISBN 0198123825 (0-19-812382-5)
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Natives and Newcomers: The Cultural Origins of North Americaby James AxtellISBN 019513771X (0-19-513771-X)
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The New England Soul: Preaching and Religious Culture in Colonial New Englandby Harry S. StoutISBN 0195056450 (0-19-505645-0)
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New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905by Rebecca EdwardsISBN 0195147294 (0-19-514729-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905'Book summary:New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 provides a fascinating look at one of the most crucial chapters in U.S. history. Rejecting the stereotype of a "Gilded Age" dominated by "robber barons," author Rebecca Edwards invites us to look more closely at the period when the United States became a modern industrial nation and asserted its place as a leader on the world stage. Employing a concise, engaging narrative, Edwards recounts the contradictions of the era, including stories of tragedy and injustice alongside tales of humor, endurance, and triumph. She offers a balanced perspective that considers a number of different viewpoints, including those of native-born Anglos, Native Americans, African Americans, and an array of Asian, Mexican, and European immigrants. Beginning with Emancipation and ending with the first deployment of U.S. troops overseas, New Spirits traces the roots of today's diverse and conflicted nation. Organized around major themes, the text consists of three parts. Opening with the legacies of the Civil War, Part I focuses on the era's political and economic transformations. Part II explores upheavals in family life, scientific thought, and religious faith. Part III follows the depression of the 1890s and its aftermath. The book reveals a world of hopeful immigrants and striving professionals; generations in conflict with one another; a new West and South; and religious, political, intellectual, and sexual experimentation. Offering a fresh, sweeping narrative, New Spirits is ideal for readers seeking an introduction to this critical epoch, and for undergraduate and graduate courses on the Gilded Age, the Progressive Era, and 20th-century U.S. history. [via]
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The Old World's New Worldby Comer Vann WoodwardISBN 0195064518 (0-19-506451-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old World's New World'Book summary:No history of the European imagination, and no understanding of America's meaning, would be complete without a record of the ideas, fantasies, and misconceptions the Old World has formed about the New. Europe's fascination with America forms a contradictory pattern of hopes and fears, dreams and nightmares, yearnings and forebodings. America and Americans--according to one of their more indulgent European critics--have long been considered "a fairlyland of happy lunatics and lovable monsters."
In The Old World's New World, award-winning historian C. Vann Woodward has written a brilliant study of how Europeans have seen and discussed America over the last two centuries. Woodward shows how the character and the image of America in European writings often depended more upon Old World politics and ideology than upon New World realities. America has been seen both as human happiness resulting from the elimination of monarchy, aristocracy, and priesthood, and as social chaos and human misery caused by their removal. It was proof that democracy was the best form of government, or that mankind was incapable of self government. America was regularly used both as an inspiration for revolutionaries and as a stern warning against radicals of all kinds. Americans have been seen as uniformly materialistic, hot in pursuit of dollars: "Such unity of purpose," wrote Mrs. Trollope, "can, I believe, be found nowhere else except, perhaps, in an ants' nest." And they have been admired for their industry--one young Russian Communist visited New York in 1925 and wrote that America is "where the 'future,' at least in terms of industrialization, is being realized." Decade after decade, America has been hailed for its youth, and lambasted for its immaturity. It has been looked to as a model of liberty, and attacked for maintaining the tyranny of the majority. But always it has been a metaphor for the possibilities of human society--possibilities both bright and foreboding. After a year of heady talk of a "New World Order," of American victory in the Cold War, of a new American Century, The Old World's New World provides a thoughtful and sobering perspective on how America has been seen in centuries past.
C. Vann Woodward is one of America's foremost living historians. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Parkman prizes--and he has served as president of the American Historical Association as well as the Organization of American Historians and the Southern Historical Association. With this new book, he further enhances his reputation while making his vast learning accessible to a general audience. [via]More editions of The Old World's New World:
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The Oxford Mark Twainby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher FishkinISBN 0195090888 (0-19-509088-8)
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The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Aloneby Joseph S. NyeISBN 0195161106 (0-19-516110-6)
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Philosophy, the Federalist, and the Constitutionby Morton WhiteISBN 0195059484 (0-19-505948-4)
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The Politics of Individualism: Parties and the American Character in the Jacksonian Eraby Lawrence Frederick KohlISBN 0195067819 (0-19-506781-9)
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Presidential Anecdotesby Paul F. BollerISBN 0195097319 (0-19-509731-9)
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The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution 1770-1823by David Brion DavisISBN 0195126718 (0-19-512671-8)
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Quakers and the American Family: British Settlement in the Delaware Valleyby Barry LevyISBN 0195049764 (0-19-504976-4)
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Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929by Maury KleinISBN 0195158016 (0-19-515801-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929'Book summary:The first major history of the Crash in over a decade, Rainbow's End tells the story of the stock market collapse in a colorful, swift-moving narrative that blends a vivid portrait of the 1920s with an intensely gripping account of Wall Street's greatest catastrophe.
The book offers a vibrant picture of a world full of plungers, powerful bankers, corporate titans, millionaire brokers, and buoyantly optimistic stock market bulls. We meet Sunshine Charley Mitchell, head of the National City Bank, powerful financiers Jack Morgan and Jacob Schiff, Wall Street manipulators such as the legendary Jesse Livermore, and the lavish-living Billy Durant, founder of General Motors. As Klein follows the careers of these men, he shows us how the financial house of cards gradually grew taller, as the irrational exuberance of an earlier age gripped America and convinced us that the market would continue to rise forever. Then, in October 1929, came a "perfect storm"-like convergence of factors that shook Wall Street to its foundations. We relive Black Thursday, when police lined Wall Street, brokers grew hysterical, customers "bellowed like lunatics," and the ticker tape fell hours behind. This is followed by the even worse Bloody Tuesday, when an irrational desire to sell at any price gripped the market and even blue chip stocks plummeted precariously.
This compelling history of the Crash--the first to follow the market closely for the two years leading up to the disaster--illuminates a major turning point in our history. [via]More editions of Rainbow's End: The Crash of 1929:
The Rascal King: The Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958by Jack BeattyISBN 0201626179 (0-201-62617-9)
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The Red King's Rebellion: Racial Politics in New England 1675-1678by Russell BourneISBN 0195069765 (0-19-506976-5)
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Religion in American Life: A Short Historyby Randall Balmer, Jon Butler, Grant WackerISBN 0195158245 (0-19-515824-5)
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Rivers of Empire: Water, Aridity, and the Growth of the American Westby Donald WorsterISBN 0195078063 (0-19-507806-3)
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Roughing Itby Mark Twain, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, George PlimptonISBN 0195101332 (0-19-510133-2)
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Salmon P. Chase: A Biographyby John NivenISBN 0195046536 (0-19-504653-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Salmon P. Chase: A Biography'Book summary:Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure. As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the highest moral purposes--the freedom and equality of all mankind--these lofty ideas failed to mask a thirst for power so deeply ingrained in his character that it drove away many who shared his principles, but mistrusted his motives.
Niven provides a vivid description of Chase's early years--his childhood in New Hampshire (where his father's failed business venture and early death left the family all but destitute) and in Ohio (where he was sent to live with his uncle Philander, an Episcopal bishop), his education at Dartmouth, and his early law career in Cincinnati. Niven shows how the plight of the slaves stirred this reticent young lawyer, and how Chase gradually moved to the forefront of the antislavery movement. At the same time, we see how he used his growing prominence in the antislavery movement to forward his political ambitions. Niven illuminates Chase's long tenure as a public man. Twice elected United States Senator, twice chosen governor of Ohio (then the third most populous state in the Union), Chase organized the widespread but diffuse anti-slavery movement into a workable political organization, the Free Soil party (whose slogan "Free Soil, Free Labor, Freemen" Chase coined himself). We read of Chase's work in Lincoln's war cabinet and his tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and we also follow his many political maneuvers, his attempts to undercut rivals, and his poorly run campaigns for presidential nominations. Niven also provides an intimate portrait of Chase's family life--his loss of three wives and four of his six children, and the unfortunate marriage of his beautiful daughter Kate to a rich but dissolute man--and a vivid picture of life at mid-century.
What emerges is a portrait of a tragic figure, whose high qualities of heart and mind and whose many achievements were ultimately tarnished by an often unseemly quest for power. It is a striking look at an eminent statesman as well as a revealing glimpse into political life in 19th-century America, all set against a background of the anti-slavery movement, the Civil War, and the turmoil of Reconstruction. [via]More editions of Salmon P. Chase: A Biography:
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Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860by William W. Freehling, Craig M. SimpsonISBN 0195079450 (0-19-507945-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860'Book summary:The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between secessionists and Unionists in Georgia generated as much popular interest south of the Mason-Dixon line, and perhaps had an even more profound immediate effect on the future of the United States.
With Abraham Lincoln's "Black Republican" triumph in the presidential election of 1860 came ardent secessionist sentiment in the South. But Unionists were equally zealous and while South Carolina--a bastion of Disunionism since 1832--seemed certain to secede; the other fourteen slave states were far from decided. In the deep South, the road to disunion depended much on the actions of Georgia, a veritable microcosm of the divided South and geographically in the middle of the Cotton South. If Georgia went for the Union, secessionist South Carolina could be isolated. So in November of 1860 all the eyes of Dixie turned to tiny Milledgeville, pre-war capital of Georgia, for a legislative confrontation that would help chart the course toward civil war.
In Secession Debated, William W. Freehling and Craig M. Simpson have for the first time collected the seven surviving speeches and public letters of this greatest of southern debates over disunion, providing today's reader with a unique window into a moment of American crisis. Introducing the debate and debaters in compelling fashion, the editors help bring to life a sleepy Southern town suddenly alive with importance as a divided legislature met to decide the fate of Georgia, and by extension, that of the nation. We hear myriad voices, among them the energetic and self-righteous governor Joseph E. Brown who, while a slaveholder and secessionist, was somewhat suspect as a native North Georgian; Alexander H. Stephens, the eloquent Unionist whose "calm dispassionate approach" ultimately backfired; and fiery secessionist Robert Toombs who, impatient with Brown's indecisiveness and the caution of the Unionists, shouted to legislators: "Give me the sword! but if you do not place it in my hands, before God! I will take it." The secessionists' Henry Benning and Thomas R.R. Cobb as well as the Unionists Benjamin Hill and Herschel Johnson also speak to us across the years, most with eloquence, all with the patriotic, passionate conviction that defined an era. In the end, the legislature adopted a convention bill which decreed a popular vote on the issue in early January, 1861. The election results were close, mirroring the intense debate of two months before: 51% of Georgians favored immediate secession, a slim margin which the propaganda-conscious Brown later inflated to 58%. On January 19th the Georgia Convention sanctioned secession in a 166-130 vote, and the imminent Confederacy had its Southern hinge.
Secession Debated is a colorful and gripping tale told in the words of the actual participants, one which sheds new light on one of the great and hitherto neglected verbal showdowns in American history. It is essential to a full understanding of the origins of the war between the states. [via]More editions of Secession Debated: Georgia's Showdown in 1860:
The Shadow of the Panther: Huey Newton and the Price of Black Power in Americaby Hugh PearsonISBN 0201483416 (0-201-48341-6)
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Soul on Iceby Eldridge CleaverISBN 0224616951 (0-224-61695-1)
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The South Vs. the South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil Warby William W. FreehlingISBN 0195156293 (0-19-515629-3)
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Storm over Texas: The Annexation Controversy And the Road to Civil Warby Joel H. SilbeyISBN 0195315928 (0-19-531592-8)
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Strategies Of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold Warby John Lewis GaddisISBN 019517447X (0-19-517447-X)
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He concludes, provocatively, that Reagan more effectively than any other Cold War president drew upon the strengths of both approaches while avoiding their weaknesses. A must-read for anyone interested in Cold War history, grand strategy, and the origins of the post-Cold War world. [via]More editions of Strategies Of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War:
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Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Readerby Alexander Bloom, Wini BreinesISBN 019514290X (0-19-514290-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader'Book summary:The second edition of "Takin' it to the streets" revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents of the 1960s that has become the leading reader on the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which have been unavailable for years or have never been reprinted. Drawn from mainstream sources, little-known sixties periodicals, pamphlets, public speeches, and personal voices, the selections range from the Port Huron Statement and the NOW Bill of Rights to speeches by Malcolm X, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan, to private letters from civil rights workers and Vietnam soldiers.
Introductions and headnotes by the editors highlight the importance of particular documents, relating them to each other and placing them within the broader context of the decade. Particular attention is paid to civil rights, Black Power, the counterculture, the women's movement, anti-war activity, and gay and lesbian struggles, as well as the conservative current that ran counter to more typical sixties movements. For this revised edition, the editors have added nearly thirty selections, including new readings on religion, the drug culture, the sexual revolution, gay rights, conservatism, and the Vietnam War experience. Covering an extremely popular period of history, "Takin' it to the streets" remains the most accessible and authoritative reader on an extraordinary decade, one unlike America had seen before or has experienced since. [via]More editions of Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties Reader:
Tiger: The Rise and Fall of Tammany Hallby Oliver E. AllenISBN 020162463X (0-201-62463-X)
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Tom Paine And Revolutionary Americaby Eric FonerISBN 0195174852 (0-19-517485-2)
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The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memoryby Edward T. LinenthalISBN 0195161076 (0-19-516107-6)
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Unpredictable Pastby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0195082966 (0-19-508296-6)
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The Unpredictable Past: Explorations in American Cultural Historyby Lawrence W. LevineISBN 0195082974 (0-19-508297-4)
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Wall Street: A Historyby Charles GeisstISBN 0195170601 (0-19-517060-1)
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Women's America: Refocusing the Pastby Linda K. Kerber, Jane Sherron De HartISBN 0195159829 (0-19-515982-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Women's America: Refocusing the Past'Book summary:Featuring a mix of primary source documents, articles, and illustrations, Women's America: Refocusing the Past has long been an invaluable resource. Now in its sixth edition, the book has been extensively revised and updated to cover recent events in American women's history. It provides many new selections from leading theorists and historians and restores several readings that were cut from the fifth edition. Successfully classroom-tested, these new essays offer more material on the impact of ethnicity in American culture, the roles that women have played in the creation of male-dominated structures, and the international dimensions of women's lives. The book covers such diverse groups as Christian Indian women in colonial America, African-American women in post-Civil War Atlanta, young Jewish labor organizers in turn-of-the-century New York, new arrivals to San Francisco's Chinatown, Japanese-American women during World War II, and Chicana feminists. The introductory essay has been revised and the bibliography has been updated to take into account the growing body of contemporary literature in the field. Women's America is an essential text for courses in women's history and an ideal supplement for more general survey courses on American history. [via]
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Women's America: Refocusing the Pastby Jane Sherron De Hart, Linda K. KerberISBN 0195048792 (0-19-504879-2)
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