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14-18: Understanding the Great Warby Stephane Audoin-Rouzeau, Annette BeckerISBN 0809046431 (0-8090-4643-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: '14-18: Understanding the Great War'Book summary:With this brilliantly innovative book, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau and Annette Becker have shown that the Great War was the matrix on which all subsequent disasters of the twentieth century were formed. Three elements of the conflict, all too often neglected or denied, are identified as those that must be grasped if we are to understand the war: First, what inspired its unprecedented physical brutality, and what were the effects of tolerating such violence? Second, how did citizens of the belligerent states come to be driven by vehement nationalistic and racist impulses? Third, how did the tens of millions bereaved by the war come to terms with the agonizing pain? With its strikingly original interpretative strength and its wealth of compelling documentary evidence drawn from all sides in the conflict, 14-18: Understanding the Great War has quickly established itself as a classic in the history of modern warfare.[via]More editions of 14-18: Understanding the Great War:
1943, the Victory That Never Wasby John GriggISBN 0809073773 (0-8090-7377-3)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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Adapting to a New World: English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeakeby James P. P. HornISBN 0807846147 (0-8078-4614-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960sby David Farber, Eric FonerISBN 0809024012 (0-8090-2401-2)
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The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960sby Eric Foner, David R. FarberISBN 0809015676 (0-8090-1567-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of the Centuryby John F. KassonISBN 0809001330 (0-8090-0133-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Aristotle's Poeticsby AristotleISBN 0809005271 (0-8090-0527-1)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Artificial River: The Erie Canal and the Paradox of Progress, 1817-1862by Carol SheriffISBN 0809016052 (0-8090-1605-2)
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Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Foreign Peoples at Home and Abroad, 1876-1917by Matthew Frye JacobsonISBN 0809016281 (0-8090-1628-1)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Brecht on Theatre: The Development of an Aestheticby Bertolt BrechtISBN 0809005425 (0-8090-0542-5)
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Bulfinch's Mythologyby BulfinchISBN 0808501747 (0-8085-0174-7)
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Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable/the Legend of Charlemagne/the Age of Chivalryby Thomas Bulfinch, Edmund FullerISBN 0808501186 (0-8085-0118-6)
Hardcover, Dell Yearling
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This editon contains all three volumes.
It is a classic work of mythology. Includes an extensive glossary and detailed table of contents. The original book contains hundreds of pages full of essential information for anyone interested in the study of mythology. [via]More editions of Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable/the Legend of Charlemagne/the Age of Chivalry:
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Cityby David MacaulayISBN 0808507729 (0-8085-0772-9)
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Cloud of Unknowingby James WalshISBN 0809123320 (0-8091-2332-0)
Softcover, Paulist Pr
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The Collected Poemsby Sylvia Plath, Ted HughesISBN 0808595040 (0-8085-9504-0)
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Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives in Americaby Andrea ToneISBN 0809038161 (0-8090-3816-1)
Softcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Divided Lives: American Women in the Twentieth Centuryby Eric Foner, Rosalind RosenbergISBN 0809097842 (0-8090-9784-2)
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Doveby Robin Lee GrahamISBN 0808510452 (0-8085-1045-2)
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Draw 50 Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animalsby Lee J. AmesISBN 080853758X (0-8085-3758-X)
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The Dreamer's Dictionaryby Stearn Robinson, Tom GorbettISBN 0808500872 (0-8085-0087-2)
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The Establishment Clause: Religion and the First Amendmentby Leonard W. LevyISBN 0807844667 (0-8078-4466-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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A Fatal Friendship: Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burrby Arnold a RogowISBN 0809016214 (0-8090-1621-4)
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A Feeling for Booksby Janice A. RadwayISBN 0807848301 (0-8078-4830-1)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Fighting for the Confederacy: The Personal Recollections of General Edward Porter Alexanderby Edward Porter Alexander, Gary W. GallagherISBN 0807847224 (0-8078-4722-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Filmgoer's Companionby Leslie HalliwellISBN 0809044846 (0-8090-4484-6)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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A Fool and His Money: Life in a Partitioned Town in Fourteenth-Century Franceby Ann WroeISBN 0809015927 (0-8090-1592-7)
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From British Peasants to Colonial American Farmersby Allan KulikoffISBN 0807848824 (0-8078-4882-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Beginning with the dispossession of the peasantry in early modern England, Kulikoff follows the immigrants across the Atlantic to explore how they reacted to a hostile new environment and its Indian inhabitants. He discusses how colonists secured land, built farms, and bequeathed those farms to their children. Emphasizing commodity markets in early America, Kulikoff shows that without British demand for the colonists' crops, settlement could not have begun at all. Most important, he explores the destruction caused during the American Revolution, showing how the war thrust farmers into subsistence production and how they only gradually regained their prewar prosperity. [via]
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The Genius of Alexander the Greatby N. HammondISBN 0807847445 (0-8078-4744-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Genius of Alexander the Great'Book summary:By the time of his death in 323 B.C., Alexander III of Macedonia had built an empire that stretched from the eastern Mediterranean coast through Asia Minor and into the Indus valley. Even before his sudden death, Alexander had achieved mythical status throughout his kingdom, and in the centuries that followed his life became the subject of countless chronicles and biographies.
N. G. L. Hammond, the foremost expert on ancient Macedonian history, here presents a new account of Alexander's fabled career. Based on a thorough analysis of the ancient sources and enriched by a lifetime of research, Hammond's narrative pronounces the Macedonian conqueror a man truly deserving of the title Alexander the Great.
According to Hammond, Alexander was a visionary statesman and general, the force behind a kingdom which rose above racism and nationalism to enjoy peace and prosperity. His intellect and charismatic personality, which earned him the respect, admiration, and devotion of his subjects, also help explain Alexander's endurance as a source of fascination into the present day. [via]
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Harper Lee's to Kill a Mockingbirdby Harper LeeISBN 0808510258 (0-8085-1025-8)
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History of Philosophy: Fichte to Nietzscheby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0809100711 (0-8091-0071-1)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr
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History of Philosophy: Greece and Romeby Frederick CoplestonISBN 0809100657 (0-8091-0065-7)
Hardcover, Paulist Pr
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slaveryby Eric Foner, James Brewer StewartISBN 080901596X (0-8090-1596-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slavery'Book summary:The abolitionist movement, writes Stewart in this engaging study, grew out of a number of historical conditions in early American society. Fearful of secularism and materialism, and disdainful of the luxurious life of the upper class, evangelical Christians of varying ethnicity banded together to forge a religious revival called the Great Awakening. In the South these evangelicals, especially the Quakers, confronted slave-holding Anglicans. They steadily worked to convert pro-slavery individuals, and they were often successful. By recruiting escaped slaves to speak out publicly against "the peculiar institution," the abolitionists galvanized public opinion outside the South, leading to the sectionalism that would later find its ultimate expression in the Civil War. Stewart's account of the important role that women played in the abolitionist movement is of special interest. [via]
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slaveryby James B. StewartISBN 0809001233 (0-8090-0123-3)
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Holy Warriors: The Abolitionists and American Slaveryby James Brewer StewartISBN 0809055198 (0-8090-5519-8)
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Humeby A.J. AyerISBN 0809014092 (0-8090-1409-2)
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In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil Warby Alice Rains TrulockISBN 0807849804 (0-8078-4980-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800by Jack P. GreeneISBN 0807846317 (0-8078-4631-7)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Intellectual Construction of America: Exceptionalism and Identity from 1492 to 1800'Book summary:Jack Greene explores the changing definitions of America from the time of Europe's first contact with the New World through the establishment of the American republic. Challenging historians who have argued that colonial American societies differed little from those of early modern Europe, he shows that virtually all contemporary observers emphasized the distinctiveness of the new worlds being created in America. Rarely considering the high costs paid by Amerindians and Africans in the construction of those worlds, they cited the British North American colonies as evidence that America was for free people a place of exceptional opportunities for individual betterment and was therefore fundamentally different from the Old World.
Greene suggests that this concept of American societies as exceptional was a central component in their emerging identity. The success of the American Revolution helped subordinate Americans' long-standing sense of cultural inferiority to a more positive sense of collective self that sharpened and intensified the concept of American exceptionalism. [via]
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Jonathan Edwards: America's Evangelicalby Philip F. GuraISBN 0809061961 (0-8090-6196-1)
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Killer Angelsby Michael ShaaraISBN 0808598104 (0-8085-9810-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Killer Angels'Book summary:This novel reveals more about the Battle of Gettysburg than any piece of learned nonfiction on the same subject. Michael Shaara's account of the three most important days of the Civil War features deft characterizations of all of the main actors, including Lee, Longstreet, Pickett, Buford, and Hancock. The most inspiring figure in the book, however, is Col. Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, whose 20th Maine regiment of volunteers held the Union's left flank on the second day of the battle. This unit's bravery at Little Round Top helped turned the tide of the war against the rebels. There are also plenty of maps, which convey a complete sense of what happened July 1-3, 1863. Reading about the past is rarely so much fun as on these pages. [via]
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Koko's Kittenby Francine PattersonISBN 0808588257 (0-8085-8825-7)
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Liberty And Power: The Politics of Jacksonian Americaby Harry L. WatsonISBN 0809065479 (0-8090-6547-9)
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The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indiansby Eric Foner, Anthony F. C. WallaceISBN 0809015528 (0-8090-1552-8)
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This account of Congress's Indian Removal Act of 1830 focuses on the plight of the Indians of the Southeast--Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles--who were forced to leave their ancestral lands and relocate to what is now the state of Oklahoma. Revealing Andrew Jackson's central role in the government's policies, Wallace examines the racist attitudes toward Native Americans that led to their removal and, ultimately, their tragic fate.More editions of The Long, Bitter Trail: Andrew Jackson and the Indians:
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Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglassby Maria DiedrichISBN 0809066866 (0-8090-6686-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Love Across Color Lines: Ottilie Assing and Frederick Douglass'Book summary:Mulatto ex-slave Frederick Douglass and half-Jewish, German-bred journalist Ottilie Assing were unlikely candidates for romance when they met in New York in 1856. But what began as an interview for a biography on the famed African American abolitionist turned into a torrid, extramarital love affair that lasted 28 years. In Love Across Color Lines, Maria Diedrich explores the labyrinthine sexual, social, and racial conventions of 19th-century American society with which these two intelligent people had to contend. Through Douglass and Assing's letters, Diedrich reconstructs the triumph and tragedy of their union. "Douglass was enchanted with his German companion, but he never again forgot that any liaison with a white woman could prove fatal to his political mission," she writes. "Assing," meanwhile, "respected the burden he had taken upon himself. She defied conventional notions of morality and became both intellectually and physically intimate with this extraordinary man, certain that he would marry her." When Douglass's wife died, however, he eventually married another (younger, white) woman--and Assing committed suicide. In addition to uncovering a vital aspect of Douglass's personal life largely overlooked by previous biographers, Diedrich's informative work looks at Assing's remarkable sacrifice, powered by a love that propelled her into America's bewildering racial wilderness. --Eugene Holley Jr. [via]
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The Maya of Morganton: Work and Community in the Nuevo New Southby Leon Fink, Alvis E. DunnISBN 0807854476 (0-8078-5447-6)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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A Midsummer Night's Dreamby William ShakespeareISBN 0808508962 (0-8085-0896-2)
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The Minutemen and Their Worldby Robert A. GrossISBN 0809001209 (0-8090-0120-9)
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Modern Medea: A Family Story of Slavery and Child-Murder from the Old Southby Steven WeisenburgerISBN 0809069547 (0-8090-6954-7)
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Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in Americaby Elliott J. GornISBN 0809070944 (0-8090-7094-4)
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Mother Jones was on the brink of old age when she began her public life, and her early years have long been shrouded in obscurity. Elliott J. Gorn has uncovered them here, as he not only interprets her career as an agitator but also looks back at her emigration from Ireland, her work as schoolteacher and dressmaker, the tragic early deaths of her husband and children, and the "lost years" when she faded from view altogether. In so doing, he shows how great world events (the Irish potato famine, the cholera epidemic) affected the course of her life and thus the life of the American labor movement. In short, Gorn makes it clear why, in the words of Eugene V. Debs, Mother Jones "has won her way into the hearts of the nation's toilers, and . . . will be lovingly remembered by their children and their children's children forever." [via]
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The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Centuryby Catherine ClintonISBN 0809016222 (0-8090-1622-2)
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The People's Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century Americaby William J. NovakISBN 0807846112 (0-8078-4611-2)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Portrait of Jane Austenby David CecilISBN 0809013924 (0-8090-1392-4)
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82by Elizabeth A. FennISBN 080907821X (0-8090-7821-X)
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A horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the War of Independence began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North America.
By 1776, when military action and political ferment increased the movement of people and microbes, the epidemic worsened. Fenn's remarkable research shows us how smallpox devastated the American troops at Québec and kept them at bay during the British occupation of Boston. Soon the disease affected the war in Virginia, where it ravaged slaves who had escaped to join the British forces. During the terrible winter at Valley Forge, General Washington had to decide if and when to attempt the risky inoculation of his troops. In 1779, while Creeks and Cherokees were dying in Georgia, smallpox broke out in Mexico City, whence it followed travelers going north, striking Santa Fe and outlying pueblos in January 1781. Simultaneously it moved up the Pacific coast and east across the plains as far as Hudson's Bay.
The destructive, desolating power of smallpox made for a cascade of public-helath crises and heartbreaking human drama. Fenn's innovative work shows how this mega-tragedy was met and what its consequences were for America.More editions of Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82:
Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European Cityby Peter DemetzISBN 0809016095 (0-8090-1609-5)
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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Powerby Timothy B. TysonISBN 0807849235 (0-8078-4923-5)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power'Book summary:This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and forever altered the arc of American history. In the late 1950s, as president of the Monroe, North Carolina, branch of the NAACP, Williams and his followers used machine guns, dynamite, and Molotov cocktails to confront Klan terrorists. Advocating "armed self-reliance" by blacks, Williams challenged not only white supremacists but also Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights establishment. Forced to flee during the 1960s to Cuba--where he broadcast "Radio Free Dixie," a program of black politics and music that could be heard as far away as Los Angeles and New York City--and then China, Williams remained a controversial figure for the rest of his life.
Historians have customarily portrayed the civil rights movement as a nonviolent call on America's conscience--and the subsequent rise of Black Power as a violent repudiation of the civil rights dream. But Radio Free Dixie reveals that both movements grew out of the same soil, confronted the same predicaments, and reflected the same quest for African American freedom. As Robert Williams's story demonstrates, independent black political action, black cultural pride, and armed self-reliance operated in the South in tension and in tandem with legal efforts and nonviolent protest. [via]
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Redeeming America: Piety and Politics in the New Christian Rightby Michael LieneschISBN 0807844284 (0-8078-4428-4)
Softcover, Univ of North Carolina Pr
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Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Imageby Andrew BursteinISBN 0809085364 (0-8090-8536-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sentimental Democracy: The Evolution of America's Romantic Self-Image'Book summary:The 1992 publication of Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution renewed interest in interpreting the War for Independence as an expression of national rather than regional values. Most of these studies trace the universal desire for republican governance in the 13 colonies to the Enlightenment's valorization of reason and intellect. In Sentimental Democracy, Andrew Burstein argues that this nation's forefathers were not just led by the power of their minds but by the feelings in their hearts.
Americans, according to Burstein, viewed their culture as exceptional because of their susceptibility to emotions. While European politicos coldly manipulated their subjects, Americans recognized both the benefits and temptations that their senses provided them. By the time of the Revolution, patriots such as "the martyr" Joseph Warren demonstrated their commitment to public virtue by exercising sentimental passion while restraining excess emotion. Later, both republicans and federalists defined themselves publicly as individuals moderately appeasing the appetites of democracy. During and after Andrew Jackson's administration, Burstein argues, the virtues of moral restraint were relegated to the domestic sphere, while men exerted their nationalistic sentiments in a vigorous campaign of territorial expansion.
All in all, Burstein sheds new light on the primary documents upon which the political history of this nation rests. His assertion that nationalist intellectuals such as Thomas Jefferson and J. Hector Saint John de Crèvecoeur invested as much faith in human emotion as in reason provocatively revises traditional interpretations surrounding the passionate nature of politics in the Republic's formative years. --John M. Anderson [via]
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Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragistsby Jean H. BakerISBN 0809087030 (0-8090-8703-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists'Book summary:They forever changed America: Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Frances Willard, Alice Paul. At their revolution's start in the 1840s, a woman's right to speak in public was questioned. By its conclusion in 1920, the victory in woman's suffrage had also encompassed the most fundamental rights of citizenship: the right to control wages, hold property, to contract, to sue, to testify in court. Their struggle was confrontational (women were the first to picket the White House for a political cause) and violent (women were arrested, jailed, and force-fed in prisons). And like every revolutionary before them, their struggle was personal.[via]
For the first time, the eminent historian Jean H. Baker tellingly interweaves these women's private lives with their public achievements, presenting these revolutionary women in three dimensions, humanized, and marvelously approachable.More editions of Sisters: The Lives of America's Suffragists:
Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation Before the Civil Rights Movement in the Southby John EgertonISBN 0807845574 (0-8078-4557-4)
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The Specter of Communism: The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1917-1953by Eric Foner, Melvyn P. LefflerISBN 0809015749 (0-8090-1574-9)
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Spreading the American Dreamby Eric Foner, Emily RosenbergISBN 0809001462 (0-8090-0146-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Spreading the American Dream'Book summary:In examining the economic and cultural trs that expressed America's expansionist impulse during the first half of the twentieth century, Emily S. Rosenberg shows how U.S. foreign relations evolved from a largely private system to an increasingly public one and how, soon, the American dream became global.[via]More editions of Spreading the American Dream:
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Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945by Eric Foner, Emily S. RosenbergISBN 0809087987 (0-8090-8798-7)
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Stone Voices: The Search for Scotlandby Neal AschersonISBN 0809088452 (0-8090-8845-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland'Book summary:The rediscovery of Scotlands past and a wake-up call about its future, from a leading scholar-journalist[via]
Scotland has a new Parliament and it has North Sea oil, but is it yet an independent, self-sustaining democracy? Is it a true nation? In Stone Voices, Neal Ascherson launches what he calls an imaginative invasion of his native land, searching for the relationships, themes, and fantasies that make up Scotland.
Beginning with a breathtaking portrait of the countrys landscape, and of the way humanity has indelibly marked even its rockiest contours, Ascherson takes us on a journey through Scotlands past, interweaving his historical accounts with a rollicking report on a back-country bus expedition he joined during the 1997 referendum campaign that led to Scotlands first modern Parliament. He asked voters then what kind of country they hoped for, what they feared, and what they expectedquestions that animate his book as well.
In his search for a nation, Acherson explores many themes: the slow, hybrid formation of the Scottish people over centuries of successive immigrations; the way their most renowned intellectuals and writers came to hate the national church; the peculiar nature of their diaspora; the coexistence of their search for an authentic Scotland with the myths others create; and the Scots proud sense of true independence. Stone Voices enlightens us about Scotland, about Europe, and about the conditions for freedom that we must all seek today.More editions of Stone Voices: The Search for Scotland:
Tomorrow Is Another Countryby Allister SparksISBN 0809094053 (0-8090-9405-3)
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Trade Unionists Against Terror: Guatemala City, 1954-1985by Deborah Levenson-EstradaISBN 0807844403 (0-8078-4440-3)
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Twelfth Nightby William ShakespeareISBN 0808509098 (0-8085-0909-8)
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Unruly Women: The Politics of Social and Sexual Control in the Old Southby Victoria E. BynumISBN 080784361X (0-8078-4361-X)
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A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Eraby Steven DinerISBN 0809016117 (0-8090-1611-7)
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Wage Labor & Guilds in Medieval Europeby Steven A. EpsteinISBN 0807844985 (0-8078-4498-5)
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The Weimar Republic: The Crisis of Classical Modernityby Detlev J.K. Peukert, Richard DevesonISBN 0809015560 (0-8090-1556-0)
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Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing Worldby Eric FonerISBN 0809097052 (0-8090-9705-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World'Book summary:A thought-provoking new book from one of America's finest historians[via]
"History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do."
Rarely has Baldwin's insight been more forcefully confirmed than during the past few decades. History has become a matter of public controversy, as Americans clash over such things as museum presentations, the flying of the Confederate flag, or reparations for slavery. So whose history is being written? Who owns it?
In Who Owns History?, Eric Foner proposes his answer to these and other questions about the historian's relationship to the world of the past and future. He reconsiders his own earlier ideas and those of the pathbreaking Richard Hofstadter. He also examines international changes during the past two decades--globalization, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the end of apartheid in South Africa--and their effects on historical consciousness. He concludes with considerations of the enduring, but often misunderstood, legacies of slavery, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This is a provocative, even controversial, study of the reasons we care about history--or should.More editions of Who Owns History?: Rethinking the Past in a Changing World:
Zohar: The Book of Enlightenmentby Daniel Chanan MattISBN 0809103206 (0-8091-0320-6)
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