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11 produkter
William Clark's World
Describing America in an Age of Unknowns
Inbunden, 2011
1242 kr
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William Clark, co-captain of the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition, devoted his adult life to describing the American West. But this task raised a daunting challenge: how best to bring an unknown continent to life for the young republic? Through Clark's life and career, this book explores how the …
Nation's Crucible
The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America
Häftad, 2012
532 kr
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In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country’s first large population of nonnaturalized Americans—Native Americans, African Americans, and Francophone residents. What would become of …
Empires of the Imagination
Transatlantic Histories of the Louisiana Purchase
Av Francois Weil, Peter J. Kastor
E-bok, 2009
764 kr
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Empires of the Imagination takes the Louisiana Purchase as a point of departure for a compelling new discussion of the interaction between France and the United States. In addition to offering the first substantive synthesis of this transatlantic relationship, the essays collected here offer new …
Washington's Government
Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration
Av Max Edling, Peter J. Kastor
Inbunden, 2021
613 kr
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Washington's Government shows how George Washington's administration the subject of remarkably little previous study was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought. Rather than simply following a blueprint laid out by the Constitution, Washington and his advisors constructed over …
Washington's Government
Charting the Origins of the Federal Administration
Av Peter J. Kastor, Max Edling
E-bok, 2021
578 kr
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Washington’s Government shows how George Washington’s administration—the subject of remarkably little previous study—was both more dynamic and more uncertain than previously thought. Rather than simply following a blueprint laid out by the Constitution, Washington and his advisors constructed over …
What So Proudly We Hailed
Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812
Av Pietro S. Nivola, Peter J. Kastor
E-bok, 2012
418 kr
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With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The war is waged without adequately preparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications. The executive …
What So Proudly We Hailed
Essays on the Contemporary Meaning of the War of 1812
Av Pietro S. Nivola, Peter J. Kastor
Häftad, 2012
385 kr
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With distrust between the political parties running deep and Congress divided, the government of the United States goes to war. The war is waged without adequately preparing the means to finance it or readying suitable contingency plans to contend with its unanticipated complications. The executive …
French St. Louis
Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Av Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
761 kr
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A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this …
French St. Louis
Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Av Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey m. fl.
E-bok, 2021
358 kr
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A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this …
French St. Louis
Landscape, Contexts, and Legacy
Av Jay Gitlin, Robert Michael Morrissey m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
399 kr
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A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this …
The Louisiana Purchase
Emergence of an American Nation
Av Peter J. Kastor, Peter J. Kastor
Inbunden, 2002
2451 kr
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The new reference series, Landmark Events in U.S. History, uses both contributed essays from eminent scholars and excerpts of primary source documents with explanatory headnotes to focus on critical events in American political history and explain how it came about and why it continues to play such …
