(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226834092)
The Chigi Codex makes available for the first time a critical edition and comprehensive study of a late fifteenth-century anthology of sacred musical works. Compiled between 1500 and 1504, The Chigi Codex contains the complete contents of...Loe edasi...
New perspectives on the battles that opened the Confederacy to invasion In early 1862, the Civil War had been raging for almost ten months, and the Confederacy had enjoyed virtually uninterrupted success. From seizing federal property to e...Loe edasi...
Steven E. Woodworth, Charles D. Grear, Michael Burns, Blakeney K. Hill, Brian S. Wills, Jonathan M. Steplyk, Sheilah R. Elwardani
Sari: Civil War Campaigns in the West
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Southern Illinois University Press, ISBN-13: 9780809339983)
New perspectives on the battles that opened the Confederacy to invasion In early 1862, the Civil War had been raging for almost ten months, and the Confederacy had enjoyed virtually uninterrupted success. From seizing federal property to e...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226849201)
How evangelical businessmen in the 1930s and 1940s joined their religious and business lives. The evangelical embrace of conservatism is a familiar feature of the contemporary political landscape. What’s less well-known, however,...Loe edasi...
Sari: Pioneering Women: Leaders and Trailblazers, Sponsored by the Jane Nelson Institute for Women's Leadership, Texas Woman's University
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648433856)
In 1964, the task of racial desegregation of public schools hung over the country. In Denton, North Texas town, a remarkable alliance transcended racial divides, ignited a city-wide grassroots civil rights movement. Denton Womens Interracial Fellow...Loe edasi...
Sari: Becoming Modern: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625349354)
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbatedand were exacerbated bythe spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a smallpox epidemi...Loe edasi...
Sari: Becoming Modern: Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN-13: 9781625349347)
An examination of early American literature that highlights how racial divides exacerbated—and were exacerbated by—the spread of infection In April of 1721, the HMS Seahorse arrived in Boston from the West Indies, causing a s...Loe edasi...
A #1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF BARACK OBAMAS FAVOURITE BOOKS OF 2025 NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2025 IN THE Financial Times, Economist, New Statesman, Bloomberg, TIME, Washington Post and The New York Times Superb.....Loe edasi...
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s reflections on the civil rights struggle and the power of nonviolent action taken together in community. Part of Dr. King’s archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.Martin Luther King Jr On Gat...Loe edasi...
Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation tells the unknown story of how ethnic Mexicans built the unprecedented movement that led to the Mendez, et al. v. Westminster School District of Orange County, et al. (1946) decision. Beginning in the 1880s, Da...Loe edasi...
Sole Assassin of President Kennedy, or the Fall Guy for a Conspiracy? Or Something Else? This Updated Edition with Added Material Provides New Answers. Among the many enigmas in the saga of the Kennedy assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald...Loe edasi...
Sari: Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009710596)
This book details the life of a celebrated gangster and Civil War hero to show the ubiquity of violence in nineteenth-century America. It will appeal to students, scholars, and interested readers of true crime, biography, and nineteenth-century Amer...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Chicken Soup for the Soul Publishing, LLC, ISBN-13: 9781611594621)
Americas favorite storyteller brings you101 stories that truly illustrate the spirit of this great nation as we celebrate its 250th birthday....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The New Press, ISBN-13: 9798893850581)
A “lucid, detailed, and imaginative analysis” (The Nation) of the model city that working-class New Yorkers created after World War II—and its tragic demiseMore than any other city in America, New York in the years after th...Loe edasi...
This book offers a window into history: to the most famous conflicts fought on American soil, the triumphant victories of its sporting events and even journeys to race in space which jettisoned from the land of the free and the home of the brave....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807182338)
Professing Darkness confirms the centrality of Catholic thought, imagery, and sacrament to the spiritual and ethical outlook of the work of Cormac McCarthy and, more specifically, its consistent assessment of Enlightenment values and their often-cat...Loe edasi...
Mapping out the development of the great American restaurant, the author takes us on a nostalgic journey in From Boarding House to Bistro (originally published in 1990) through the history of a nations eating houses....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Lyons Press, ISBN-13: 9781493077021)
In the mid-twentieth century, Walter Beinecke began buying up downtown storefronts and buildings in Nantucket, Massachusetts and his efforts laid the groundwork for the island’s revitalization. Massachusetts State Historian Jack Warner tells the f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780190933340)
A richly detailed collection of transcripts of Henry Kissingers secretly recorded phone conversations from his time in the Nixon administration that touch on every important issue of Kissingers day and provide a sweeping view of his era. ...Loe edasi...
Before there was the United States, there was America. The former is a country, a nation, a geographic reality, but the latteris an idea. Invented more than discovered, “America” signified a revolutionary ideal of freedom, liberty,equality, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839728)
Tells the history of St. Vincents Hospital and the transformative impact of Catholic health care in New York City.St. Vincent’s Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, cr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674302518)
A sharp analysis of the propaganda partnerships between US presidents and private organizations that fueled the Cold War and paved the way for the War on Terror.How do US presidents motivate public support for their foreign policy a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: August Books, ISBN-13: 9798217269419)
A relationship takes work, compromise and trust in one another. But in order to make it a special relationship, a little more diplomacy may be required…A relationship takes work, compromise and trust in one another. But in order to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839452)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839469)
Shows how apocalypticism helped drive anti-slavery abolitionism and inspire progressive social reform in nineteenth-century AmericaIn March 1844, Melissa Botsford of Meriden, Connecticut, defiantly left her local Methodist church be...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: New York University Press, ISBN-13: 9781479839414)
Uncovers the untold story of LGBT activism in the American South as they navigated faith, politics, and activismFor more than forty years, historians have researched the formation of gay communities and activism in the United States...Loe edasi...
A celebration of the extraordinary lost natural wonder of the eastern U.S.—once the center of American wildness before its despoliation—and a lively tour through recent efforts to return elk, bison, wolves, and other creatures to their ver...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469695518)
When Zackary Vernon moved to the Appalachian town of Boone, North Carolina, he had a goal: to make more ethical food choices. Soon he was working on an organic farm; volunteering at a pay-what-you-can restaurant; and interviewing a range of people,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The University of North Carolina Press, ISBN-13: 9781469695501)
When Zackary Vernon moved to the Appalachian town of Boone, North Carolina, he had a goal: to make more ethical food choices. Soon he was working on an organic farm; volunteering at a pay-what-you-can restaurant; and interviewing a range of people,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: American Philosophical Society, ISBN-13: 9781606180471)
A richly illustrated account of the life and work of Jane Colden, America’s first woman botanistJane Colden (1724–1760) was America’s first woman botanist, yet her contributions to the field of early American botany remain little-kn...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Down East Books,U.S., ISBN-13: 9781684752508)
Ten miles out to sea, Smuttynose Island, in the Isles of Shoals, is a kind of time machine. Native Americans hunted here more than 6,000 years ago. In the dawning days of the American colonies, hundreds of European fishermen salted and dried their...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503646278)
Zhongping Chen traces the origins and rise of the Cantonese-dominated Chinese migration to Canada between 1788 and 1898. Combining a diaspora studies approach with both qualitative and quantitative analyses of Chinese and English-language documents,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Castle Point Books, ISBN-13: 9781250282675)
From Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Eric Moskowitz comes the riveting story of the first true coast-to-coast automobile race in U.S. history, a fast-paced tale of the gritty and determined drivers who braved hostile terrain, mechanical failu...Loe edasi...
Dive into the electrifying tale of a Brooklyn-born patriot turned radical activist, in an era when America was torn by its ideological extremes In the shadow of recent turmoil, Join the Conspiracy transports readers to a pivotal moment of...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Minnesota Press, ISBN-13: 9781517922030)
Winner of the 2021 Minnesota Book Award for Minnesota Nonfiction The story of the scientist who first mapped Minnesotas geology, set against the backdrop of early scientific inquiry in the state At twenty, Newton Horace Winchell...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House Inc, ISBN-13: 9798217087174)
On the eve of Americas 250th anniversary comes a groundbreaking history of patriotism and the question of how to love a country.American patriotism is a love that kills. From the nation’s earliest days, it has been used to justify inn...Loe edasi...
Sari: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826369680)
The first combined social and ecological look at how institutions in New Mexico intentionally built the Rio Grande Valley through the heart of Albuquerque to create “natural” corridors of green spaces in a modern American city.Dry one...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of New Mexico Press, ISBN-13: 9780826369598)
Former New Mexico State Historian Robert J. Tórrez draws from the marvelous treasure trove of primary documentation in New Mexicos Mexican-era archives to bring to light this little-known but crucial period in the states history. In a bro...Loe edasi...
A definitive biography that sheds light on the life and times of one of the Civil Wars most important generals.William Tecumseh Sherman, a West Point graduate and veteran of the Seminole War, became one of the best-known gen...Loe edasi...
