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Howard Pyle
Imagining an American School of Art
Inbunden, 2011
624 kr
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Best remembered as an influential illustrator and teacher, Howard Pyle (1853–1911) produced magnificent artwork and engrossing books and magazine stories about King Arthur, Robin Hood, swashbuckling pirates, and the American Revolution. He also completed public murals and trained many famous …
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
Häftad, 2013
468 kr
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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly …
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
Inbunden, 2013
1391 kr
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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas's famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so partly …
John a. Quitman
Old South Crusader
Häftad, 1985
341 kr
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The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert E. May takes issue with the recent tendency to portray secessionists as rabble-rousing, maladjusted outsiders bent …
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Filibustering in Antebellum America
Häftad, 2004
486 kr
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Robert May offers an imaginative new approach to antebellum America's notorious ""filibusters"" - the adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as pirates, the filibusters were often …
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Filibustering in Antebellum America
E-bok, 2003
535 kr
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This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America’s notorious “filibusters” — the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering …
Southern Dream of a Caribbean Empire, 1854-1861
Häftad, 2002
280 kr
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A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, The Southern Dream remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico, and Central America in particular - before the Civil War. Robert May shows that the South's expansionists had no more …
Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim, Revised Edition
E-bok, 2013
179 kr
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From French intervention in Mexico to British interests in the Caribbean, the impact of the Civil War extended far beyond military campaigns in Virginia, diffusing widely into the Atlantic world. Revised to take into account the outpouring of scholarship on Civil War diplomacy that has appeared …
Union, the Confederacy, and the Atlantic Rim, Revised Edition
E-bok, 2013
349 kr
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From French intervention in Mexico to British interests in the Caribbean, the impact of the Civil War extended far beyond military campaigns in Virginia, diffusing widely into the Atlantic world. Revised to take into account the outpouring of scholarship on Civil War diplomacy that has appeared …
Yuletide in Dixie
Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
E-bok, 2019
411 kr
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How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes …
Yuletide in Dixie
Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
Häftad, 2020
312 kr
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How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes …
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
E-bok, 2013
454 kr
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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas''s famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so …
Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics
Lincoln, Douglas, and the Future of Latin America
E-bok, 2013
444 kr
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Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics challenges the way historians interpret the causes of the American Civil War. Using Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas''s famed rivalry as a prism, Robert E. May shows that when Lincoln and fellow Republicans opposed slavery in the West, they did so …
Spearheading Environmental Change
The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian
Inbunden, 2022
1203 kr
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Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental movement in late twentieth-century America. Spearheading Environmental Change highlights Fithian's …
Spearheading Environmental Change
The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian
Häftad, 2022
411 kr
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Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental movement in late twentieth-century America. Spearheading Environmental Change highlights Fithian's …
Spearheading Environmental Change
The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian
E-bok, 2022
486 kr
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Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental movement in late twentieth-century America. Spearheading Environmental Change highlights Fithian’s …
Spearheading Environmental Change
The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian
E-bok, 2022
465 kr
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Spearheading Environmental Change: The Legacy of Indiana Congressman Floyd J. Fithian describes the life of a four-term United States congressman, focusing on his role in the emerging environmental movement in late twentieth-century America. Spearheading Environmental Change highlights Fithian’s …
Debunking the Yule Log Myth
The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend
Inbunden, 2024
297 kr
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A powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls "a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.”According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations …
Debunking the Yule Log Myth
The Disturbing History of a Plantation Legend
E-bok, 2024
321 kr
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A powerful new book that corrects a false myth in African American history that Kirkus Reviews calls "a thoughtful antidote to white Southern propaganda.” According to an oft repeated legend, during Christmas before the Civil War, all enslaved people in the American South enjoyed lengthy vacations …
Manifest Destiny's Underworld
Filibustering in Antebellum America
E-bok, 2003
535 kr
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This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum America’s notorious “filibusters” — the freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace. Offering the first full-scale analysis of the filibustering …
Yuletide in Dixie
Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
Inbunden, 2019
409 kr
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How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? Did Christmastime provide slaves with a lengthy and jubilant respite from labor and the whip, as is generally assumed, or is the story far more complex and troubling? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes …
Union, the Confederacy and the Atlantic Rim
Inbunden, 1995
352 kr
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These four essays by Howard Jones, R. J. M. Blackett, Thomas Schoonover, and James M. McPherson reconsider why the Confederacy never received the foreign aid that it counted on, and trace the war's impact upon European and Latin nations and dependencies. The book provides fresh perspectives …
