A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Br...Loe edasi...
A Hero Returns to a Young Country in Turmoil. A story about the promise in the Declaration of Independence, about revolution, in America and elsewhere, about journeys up and down great rivers, and through wilds. It is a story of memory and union. Ab...Loe edasi...
The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white suprema...Loe edasi...
W. Caleb McDaniel, Alexander X. Byrd, Ruth J. Simmons
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807184424)
During the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, segregation, and racial injustice. Slavery, Se...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953878)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953885)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, ISBN-13: 9780374254377)
The saga of the gifted Schuyler sisters, embroiled in turmoil, triumph, and tragedy at the very heart of our countrys founding-- Provided by publisher. America’s Founding Era reconsidered through the lives of two women as formidable...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668053744)
Traces the enduring conflict between Hamilton’s vision of strong federal power and Jefferson’s emphasis on states’ rights, examining how their constitutional interpretations have influenced key historical moments and continue to shape contemporary de...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196411)
In telling Clark’s story, White Hat illuminates the history of the nineteenth-century American military and the Great Plains, including the Grand Duke Alexis’s buffalo hunt, the Great Sioux War, and the careers of Crook and Sheridan....Loe edasi...
From multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all time—and the lawmen tasked with rooting them out.Robbers Roost,...Loe edasi...
The Depression of the 1890s caused widespread economic suffering throughout the country and triggered a march of unemployed men from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. Known in the press as Coxeys Army--led, ironically, by successful busin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541415)
Oscar Wildes Paris explores Wildes connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile and death, examining his self-fashioning in the city, its impact on his career, and his eventual absorption into Parisian cultural hist...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031974687)
This book studies geographical societies, which were the institutional basis of geography until the early twentieth century. Although they were a global phenomenon, most research has focused on the most famous societies (such as Paris, London, and...Loe edasi...
This volume delves into the colonial past and identifies papers on nature and natural phenomenon that were deemed ‘primitive’ and ‘superstitious’ by those who narrated them and analyzed them in the pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Socie...Loe edasi...
Over the course of the Napoleonic wars, the French emperor mobilised over two million fighting men – most of them conscripts. Napoleon’s Conscripts tells their story. Exploring the system of conscription and soldiers’ experiences of service, it sheds...Loe edasi...
War the Turtles Back examines all the campaigns fought by Woodland Indians of North America during the period of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) and beyond from 1752 to 1766. Using contemporary documents and accounts, and recorded oral e...Loe edasi...
After 10 years of the War of Spanish Succession and repeated defeats in Flanders, Louis XIVs France found itself in a desperate predicament, facing an imminent invasion. The Battle of Denain tells the story of the little-known battle that saved Fran...Loe edasi...
Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinati...Loe edasi...
