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In the summer of 1925, the sleepy hamlet of Dayton, Tennessee, became the setting for one of the 20th century's most contentious dramas: the Scopes trial that pit William Jennings Bryan and the anti-Darwinists against a teacher named John Scopes into a famous debate...
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Basic Books
Parution :
2008-07-31
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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, hisLife has an immediacy, candor, and...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-07-28
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Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave is the first fugitive slave narrative in American history. Because Grimes wrote and published his narrative on his own, without deference to white editors, publishers, or sponsors, hisLife has an immediacy, candor, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-07-28
ePub
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How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important second book, Alison Games, a colonial American historian, explores the period from 1560 to 1660, when England challenged dominion over the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-07-15
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In the 1970s, the United States faced challenges on a number of fronts. By nearly every measure, American power was no longer unrivalled. The task of managing America's relative decline fell to President Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger, and Gerald Ford. From 1969 to...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-07-11
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The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
ePub
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The Oregon Trail is the gripping account of Francis Parkman's journey west across North America in 1846. After crossing the Allegheny Mountains by coach and continuing by boat and wagon to Westport, Missouri, he set out with three companions on a horseback journey that...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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During the first eighty years of permanent European colonization, webs of alliances shaped North America from northern New England to the Outer Banks of North Carolina and entangled all peoples in one form or another.
In Brothers among Nations, Cynthia Van Zandt...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-07-08
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All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective … this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-06-05
ePub
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Most Americans saw President Bill Clinton and Speaker Newt Gingrich as staunch foes--"the polar extremes of Pennsylvania Avenue." But as Steven Gillon reveals in The Pact, these powerful adversaries formed a secret alliance in 1997, a pact that would have rocked the...
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Oxford University Press
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2008-06-03
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Sitney analyzes in detail the work of eleven American avant-garde filmmakers as heirs to the aesthetics of exhilaration and innovative vision articulated by Ralph Waldo Emerson and explored by John Cage, Charles Olson and Gertrude Stein. The films discussed span the...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2008-04-18
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A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed. 30 essays explore the history of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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There is an extraordinary range of material in this anthology, from Lincoln’s Gettysburg address to a contemporary account of a visit from the Ku Klux Klan. The primary sources reproduced are both visual and written, and the secondary materials present a remarkable...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents. The most comprehensive collection of primary and secondary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
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This is an authoritative volume of historiographical essays that survey the state of U.S. diplomatic history. The essays cover the entire range of the history of American foreign relations from the colonial period to the present. They discuss the major sources and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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A Companion to 20th-Century America is an authoritative survey of the most important topics and themes of twentieth-century American history and historiography. Contains 29 original essays by leading scholars, each assessing the past and current state of American...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars synthesize the best and most provocative work in the field and provide a comprehensive overview of themes and...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the seventeenth century to the present day. Analyzes the major sources and the most influential...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
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Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America. Covers society and culture, people and movements, politics and foreign policy Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2008-04-15
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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