A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century.The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Br...Lasīt vairāk
A Hero Returns to a Young Country in Turmoil. A story about the promise in the Declaration of Independence, about revolution, in America and elsewhere, about journeys up and down great rivers, and through wilds. It is a story of memory and union. Ab...Lasīt vairāk
The book is a study of the ways that white radicals deployed the physical and literary image of amputation during the Civil War and Reconstruction to argue for full Black citizenship and against a national reconciliation that reimposed white suprema...Lasīt vairāk
W. Caleb McDaniel, Alexander X. Byrd, Ruth J. Simmons
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807184424)
During the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, segregation, and racial injustice. Slavery, Se...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953878)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953885)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...Lasīt vairāk
The saga of the gifted Schuyler sisters, embroiled in turmoil, triumph, and tragedy at the very heart of our countrys founding-- Provided by publisher. Americas Founding Era reconsidered through the lives of two women as formidable...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Simon & Schuster, ISBN-13: 9781668053744)
Traces the enduring conflict between Hamiltons vision of strong federal power and Jeffersons emphasis on states rights, examining how their constitutional interpretations have influenced key historical moments and continue to shape contemporary de...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Izdevniecība: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196411)
In telling Clarks story, White Hat illuminates the history of the nineteenth-century American military and the Great Plains, including the Grand Duke Alexiss buffalo hunt, the Great Sioux War, and the careers of Crook and Sheridan....Lasīt vairāk
From multiple New York Times bestselling author Tom Clavin comes the thrilling true story of the most infamous hangout for bandits, thieves and murderers of all timeand the lawmen tasked with rooting them out.Robbers Roost,...Lasīt vairāk
The Depression of the 1890s caused widespread economic suffering throughout the country and triggered a march of unemployed men from Massillon, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. Known in the press as Coxeys Army--led, ironically, by successful busin...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487541415)
Oscar Wildes Paris explores Wildes connection with the French capital from his rise to fame to his eventual exile and death, examining his self-fashioning in the city, its impact on his career, and his eventual absorption into Parisian cultural hist...Lasīt vairāk
This book studies geographical societies, which were the institutional basis of geography until the early twentieth century. Although they were a global phenomenon, most research has focused on the most famous societies (such as Paris, London, and...Lasīt vairāk
This volume delves into the colonial past and identifies papers on nature and natural phenomenon that were deemed primitive and superstitious by those who narrated them and analyzed them in the pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Socie...Lasīt vairāk
Over the course of the Napoleonic wars, the French emperor mobilised over two million fighting men most of them conscripts. Napoleons Conscripts tells their story. Exploring the system of conscription and soldiers experiences of service, it sheds...Lasīt vairāk
War the Turtles Back examines all the campaigns fought by Woodland Indians of North America during the period of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) and beyond from 1752 to 1766. Using contemporary documents and accounts, and recorded oral e...Lasīt vairāk
After 10 years of the War of Spanish Succession and repeated defeats in Flanders, Louis XIVs France found itself in a desperate predicament, facing an imminent invasion. The Battle of Denain tells the story of the little-known battle that saved Fran...Lasīt vairāk
Entangled Alliances is a reinterpretation of the American Revolution through analysis of diplomacy in the emerging United States during decades of hemispheric transformation. Ronald Angelo Johnson brings to light the fascinati...Lasīt vairāk
