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The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic
John Demos · Alfred A. Knopf
Pages: 337
Format: Hardcover |
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardThe astonishing story of a unique missionary project - and the America it embodied - from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world,... |
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The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
Edward E. Baptist · Basic Books
Format: Hardcover |
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Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution - the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.As historian Edward Baptist reveals in The Half... |
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Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival
David Pilling, (Editor) · The Penguin Press, 2014. ©2014
Pages: 416
Format: Print book |
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"[A]n excellent book..." --The EconomistFinancial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister... |
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Their Lives, Their Wills: Women in the Borderlands, 1750-1846
Amy M. Porter · Texas Tech University Press; 1 edition |
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In 1815, in the Spanish settlement of San Antonio de Béxar, a dying widow named MarÃa Concepción de Estrada recorded her last will and testament. Estrada used her will to record her debts and credits, specify her property, leave her belongings to her children, make requests for her funeral... |
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D-Day Through French Eyes: Normandy 1944
Mary Louise Roberts · University Of Chicago Press |
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“Like big black umbrellas, they rain down on the fields across the way, and then disappear behind the black line of the hedges.” Silent parachutes dotting the night sky—that’s how one woman in Normandy in June of 1944 learned that the D-Day invasion was under way.... |
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With Malice toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era
William A. Blair · The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition |
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Few issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But as William A. Blair shows in this engaging history, the way politicians, soldiers, and civilians dealt with disloyalty varied widely. Citizens often moved... |
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Daydreams and Nightmares: A Virginia Family Faces Secession and War
Brent Tarter · University of Virginia Press
Format: Hardcover |
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The decision of the eventual Confederate states to secede from the Union set in motion perhaps the most dramatic chapter in American history, and one that has typically been told on a grand scale. In Daydreams and Nightmares, however, historian Brent Tarter shares the story of one Virginia... |
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Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
Charles Spencer · Bloomsbury Press; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover |
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On August 18, 1648, with no relief from the siege in sight, the royalist garrison holding Colchester Castle surrendered and Oliver Cromwells army firmly ended the rule of Charles I of England. To send a clear message to the fallen monarch, the rebels executed four of the senior officers... |
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