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44 produkter
America's Civil War
Häftad, 2013
351 kr
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Such is the continuing volume of work on the Civil War that we are regularly in need of an authoritative and accessible brief synthesis to keep us up to date with this endlessly fascinating subject. Brooks Simpson meets that need for the 1990s in America's Civil War, a wonderful feat of compression …
Politics as Usual
The Age of Truman and Eisenhower
Häftad, 2003
337 kr
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Like its predecessor, the second edition of Politics as Usual, treats the decade and a half after World War II as a discrete historical era, the end of which represents a watershed in the political life of the nation. Despite the pressures created by the Cold War and the challenges posed by …
Supreme Court under Marshall and Taney
Häftad, 2005
337 kr
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In preparing the long-awaited second edition of his well-liked text, Kent Newmyer consulted the best and most relevant of the recent scholarship on the antebellum Court, prompting him to revise important points in the story of the Court’s evolution.Nevertheless, the revised edition of the text …
American Consumer Society, 1865 - 2005
From Hearth to HDTV
Häftad, 2008
377 kr
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This startlingly original and highly readable volume adds a new richness and depth to an element of U.S. history that is all too often taken for granted. In American Consumer Society, Regina Lee Blaszczyk examines the emergence of consumerism in the Victorian era, and, in tracing its evolution over …
United States at War, 1941 - 1945
Av Gary R. Hess
Häftad, 2011
330 kr
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This 3rd edition presents a concise overview of how the war was fought as well as a consideration of the ways in which Americans regarded allies and enemies, embraced heroes, and viewed the war's purpose. Making the important distinction between popular notions and military and political realities, …
Home Front U.S.A.
America During World War II
Häftad, 2013
508 kr
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New scholarship on World War II continues to broaden our understanding. With each passing year we know more about the triumphs and the tragedies of America’s involvement in the momentous conflict. Tapping into this greater awareness of the accomplishments of both soldiers and civilians and a better …
Parties and Politics in the Early Republic 1789 - 1815
Häftad, 2013
380 kr
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In this engaging, succinct study of the accomplishments and difficulties of the young American republic, key historical questions are discussed with references to important scholarship. Among the topics covered are the development of political parties, the animosity between the Republicans and …
Twenties in America
Häftad, 2013
337 kr
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A principal theme of the 1920s was "paradox," and Professor Carter explains the tensions that existed between city and country, progress and nostalgia for the past, progressive attitudes and the persistence of bigotry. Carter also provides incisive reevaluations of some archetypal figures of the …
Ferment of Reform 1830 - 1860
Häftad, 2013
337 kr
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EXCERPT: "So great was the ferment of reform in the pre-Civil War United States that to understand it, to grasp the motives of the reformers, the nature of their work, their successes and failures, is to understand much about the American nation as a whole. To be sure, there was more to antebellum …
American Mind in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1982
374 kr
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EXCERPT: "The half century between the War of 1812 and the Civil War was above all an age of expansiveness in America. Whether measured in terms of population, territory, urbanization, economic growth, technological development, democratization, or nationalism, American society was transformed …
Progressivism
Av Arthur S. Link, Richard L. McCormick
Häftad, 2013
337 kr
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A brief, interpretive analysis of the highly ambitious American reform movements from the 1890s to 1917 that shows progressivism to have been a vital and significant phenomenon although there was no unified progressive movement. Link and McCormick succeed in making the events comprehensible while …
From the Old Diplomacy to the New
1865 - 1900
Häftad, 1986
334 kr
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Historians have long argued about the nature of the changes that occurred in American foreign policy at the turn of the century, and whether those changes represented an abrupt break from the past or the culmination of long-term trends. Beisner addresses these issues by recasting the questions …
Coming of the Civil War
1837 - 1861
Av John Niven
Häftad, 2013
337 kr
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This book explores the interrelated themes of modernization and slavery, issues that created reform movements in the North, defensive sectionalism in the South, social disruption, and a general failure of political leadership. During this period the Union underwent the increasing strains of uneven …
Struggle for a Continent
The Wars of Early America
Av John Ferling
Häftad, 2013
337 kr
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America's origins are inextricably linked to warfare. In Struggle for a Continent, John Ferling tells the complex story of conquest and survival not only in the encounters between European settlers and the native peoples of North America, but also the North American wars among the great powers of …
And Still They Come
Immigrants and American Society 1920 to the 1990s
Häftad, 2014
438 kr
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In this distinctive study of the impact of immigration and ethnicity on twentieth-century America, Barkan thoughtfully examines the changing composition of our immigrant populations, highlighting the ways in which certain facets of the struggle to adapt to American society have persisted from the …
American Politics in the Gilded Age
1868 - 1900
Häftad, 2014
556 kr
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Often Gilded-Age politics has been described as devoid of content or accomplishment, a mere spectacle to divert voters from thinking about the real issues of the day. But by focusing too closely on dramatic scandals and on the foibles of prominent politicians, many historians have tended to obscure …
America and the Great War
1914 - 1920
Av D. Clayton James, Anne Sharp Wells
Häftad, 1997
330 kr
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In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the principal military, political, and social developments in United States History as the nation responded to, and was changed by, a world in crisis.A …
Women in Antebellum Reform
Häftad, 2000
315 kr
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This is a soul-stirring era," remarked the Reverend William Mitchell in 1835, "and will be so recorded in the annals of time." Countless antebellum reformers agreed. The United States was awash in efforts to change itself, a "sisterhood of reforms" emerging to characterize the efforts of hundreds …
Emancipation and Reconstruction
Häftad, 2013
308 kr
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An adept distillation of the scholarship that has been produced since the 1950s-thoughtfully reorganized and updated to include a consideration of new works that have appeared since 1987-this new edition of Michael Perman's highly popular book examines the ways in which historians have interpreted …
Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920
Häftad, 2012
374 kr
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Sport in Industrial America, 1850-1920 presents the second edition of Stephen A. Riess’s well-loved synthesis of the development of sport during one of the most transformational times in the nation’s history. New edition maintains the book’s acclaimed level of research, analysis, and …
Working Hard for the American Dream
Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present
Av Randi Storch
Inbunden, 2013
1340 kr
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Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. Presents an overview of labor history that also considers women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II …
Working Hard for the American Dream
Workers and Their Unions, World War I to the Present
Av Randi Storch
Häftad, 2013
394 kr
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Working Hard for the American Dream examines the various economic, social, and political developments that shaped labor history in the United States from World War I until the present day. Presents an overview of labor history that also considers women workers, ethnic America, and post-World War II …
Progressives
Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893 - 1917
Häftad, 2014
366 kr
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The Progressives offers comprehensive coverage of the origins, evolution, and notable events that came to define the pivotal period of American history known as the Progressive Era. Offers a rich, in-depth analysis of who the progressives were and the process through which they identified and …
Progressives
Activism and Reform in American Society, 1893 - 1917
Inbunden, 2014
1021 kr
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The Progressives offers comprehensive coverage of the origins, evolution, and notable events that came to define the pivotal period of American history known as the Progressive Era. Offers a rich, in-depth analysis of who the progressives were and the process through which they identified and …
"Times Are Altered with Us"
American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic
Häftad, 2015
380 kr
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"Times Are Altered with Us": American Indians from Contact to the New Republic offers a concise and engaging introduction to the turbulent 300-year-period of the history of Native Americans and their interactions with Europeans—and then Americans—from 1492 to 1800. Considers the interactions of …
"Times Are Altered with Us"
American Indians from First Contact to the New Republic
Inbunden, 2015
1156 kr
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"Times Are Altered with Us": American Indians from Contact to the New Republic offers a concise and engaging introduction to the turbulent 300-year-period of the history of Native Americans and their interactions with Europeans—and then Americans—from 1492 to 1800. Considers the interactions of …
"We Are Still Here"
American Indians Since 1890
Häftad, 2014
366 kr
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In addition to revisions and updates, the second edition of “We Are Still Here” features new material, seeing this well-loved American History Series volume maintain its treatment of American Indians in the 20th century while extending its coverage into the opening decades of the 21st century. …
Cold War
A Post-Cold War History
Häftad, 2016
366 kr
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Now available in a fully revised and updated third edition, The Cold War: A Post-Cold War History offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the history and enduring legacy of the Cold War. Thoroughly updated in light of new scholarship, including revised sections on President Nixon’s …
Respectable Army
The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789
Av James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender
Häftad, 2015
366 kr
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A fully revised and updated third edition of the most established and innovative historical analysis of the Continental Army and its role in the formation of the new republic. Written by two experts in the field of early U.S. historyIncludes fully updated coverage of the military, political, …
Deadlock and Disillusionment
American Politics since 1968
Inbunden, 2016
1185 kr
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Deadlock and Disillusionment: American Politics Since 1968 is an insightful consideration of the events people, and policy debates that have shaped and continue to influence, even control, the current political era. Rejects conventional wisdom that the dominant force shaping recent American …
