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The cause of all nations : an international history of the American Civil War
Don Harrison Doyle · Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2015. Pages: 382 Format: Print book |
"When Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address in 1863, he had broader aims than simply rallying a war-weary nation. Lincoln realized that the Civil War had taken on a wider significance-that all of Europe and Latin America was watching to see whether the United States, a beleaguered... |
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Empire and Liberty: The Civil War and the West
Virginia Scharff · University of California Press Format: Hardcover |
Empire and Liberty brings together two epic subjects in American history: the story of the struggle to end slavery that reached a violent climax in the Civil War, and the story of the westward expansion of the United States. Virginia Scharff and the contributors to this volume show how the West... |
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The Ordeal of the Reunion: A New History of Reconstruction
Mark Wahlgren Summers · The University of North Carolina Press; 1 edition Format: Hardcover |
For a generation, scholarship on the Reconstruction era has rightly focused on the struggles of the recently emancipated for a meaningful freedom and defined its success or failure largely in those terms. In The Ordeal of the Reunion, Mark Wahlgren Summers goes beyond this vitally important... |
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Katrina: After the Flood
Gary Rivlin · Simon & Schuster Pages: 480 Format: Hardcover |
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana - on August 29, 2005 - journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects not just on the city's geography... |
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present
John Pomfret · Henry Holt and Company Pages: 704 Format: Print book |
A remarkable history of the two-centuries-old relationship between the United States and China, from the Revolutionary War to the present dayFrom the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap Chinese tea, to the US warships facing off against China's... |
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Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
Bernard Bailyn · Knopf Format: Hardcover |
From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflects a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history.The past has always been elusive: How can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different... |
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Insurrections of the Mind: 100 Years of Politics and Culture in America
Franklin Foer · Harper Format: Hardcover |
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of The New Republic, an extraordinary anthology of essays culled from the archives of the acclaimed and influential magazine.Founded by Herbert Croly and Walter Lippmann in 1914 to give voice to the growing progressive movement, The New Republic has charted... |
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The Story of the World in 100 Species
Christopher Lloyd · Bloomsbury Pages: 415 Format: Print book |
In the retitled paperback edition of his book What on Earth Evolved?, Christopher Lloyd leads us on an extraordinary journey, from the birth of life to the present day, as he explains, in a jargon-free way, the phenomenon we call "life on Earth." Lloyd starts with the Earth "before... |
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City of Remembering: A History of Genealogy in New Orleans
Susan Tucker · University Press of Mississippi Pages: 224 Format: Print book |
City of Remembering represents a rich testament to the persistence of a passionate form of public history. In exploring one particular community of family historians in New Orleans, Susan Tucker reveals how genealogists elevate a sort of subterranean foundation of the city--sepia photographs... |
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Eyes in the Night: An Untold Zulu Story
Nomavenda Mathiane · Bookstorm Pages: 265 Format: Print book |
'1879, the year in which I grew up faster than I could shout my name. That year was the one in which we experienced events and encounters that no one, particularly a child, should ever witness. It was also the year my people lost everything - their land and fields - and were reduced... |
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On the Western Front: The Great War 1914–1918
Michael Lepine · Front Row Books Pages: 120 Format: Print book |
A centenary collector's set containing four DVDs along with a highly illustrated book, examining the most major brutal conflict of World War I Understanding World War I is crucial to understanding the history of the 20th century, to the present day. This book and DVD set provides a detailed... |
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