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Télécharger le livre :  Domestic Manners of the Americans
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Domestic Manners of the Americans


Fanny Trollope


When Fanny Trollope set sail for America in 1827 with hopes of joining a Utopian community of emancipated slaves, she took with her three of her children and a young French artist, leaving behind her son Anthony, growing debts and a husband going slowly mad from mercury...

Parution : 2006-11-30
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  A Muslim in Victorian America
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A Muslim in Victorian America


Umar F. Abd-Allah


Conflicts and controversies at home and abroad have led Americans to focus on Islam more than ever before. In addition, more and more of their neighbors, colleagues, and friends are Muslims. While much has been written about contemporary American Islam and pioneering...

Parution : 2006-09-21
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Télécharger le livre :  In Search of the Promised Land
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In Search of the Promised Land


John Hope Franklin , Loren Schweninger


The matriarch of a remarkable African American family, Sally Thomas went from being a slave on a tobacco plantation, to a "virtually free" slave who ran her own business and purchased one of her sons out of bondage. In Search of the Promised Land offers a vivid portrait...

Parution : 2005-09-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Conquest by Law
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Conquest by Law


Lindsay G. Robertson


John Marshall's landmark 1823 decision in Johnson v. M'Intosh gave the European sovereigns who "discovered" North America rights to the land, converting Native Americans in one stroke into mere tenants. In 1991, while investigating the historical origins of this highly...

Parution : 2005-08-25
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Télécharger le livre :  Walt Whitman
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Walt Whitman


David S. Reynolds


From the great events of the day to the patient workings of a spider, few poets responded to the life around them as powerfully as Walt Whitman. Now, in this brief but bountiful volume, David S. Reynolds offers a wealth of insight into the life and work of Whitman,...

Parution : 2005-01-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Sleuthing the Alamo
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Sleuthing the Alamo


James E. Crisp


In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in...

Parution : 2004-12-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Chants Democratic
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Chants Democratic


Sean Wilentz


Since its publication in 1984, Chants Democratic has endured as a classic narrative on labor and the rise of American democracy. In it, Sean Wilentz explores the dramatic social and intellectual changes that accompanied early industrialization in New York. He provides a...

Parution : 2004-10-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Mark Twain
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Mark Twain


Larzer Ziff


Mark Twain towered above the American literary landscape. With a worldwide fame greater than that of statesmen, scientists, or entertainers, Twain was in his own words "the most conspicuous man on the planet." Now, in this wonderful recounting of his career, Larzer Ziff...

Parution : 2004-10-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Jefferson's War
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Jefferson's War


Joseph Wheelan


Author Joseph Wheelan has marvelously captured the story of America's war against the Barbary pirates, our first war against terror and the nations that support it. The Barbary pirates, a Muslim enemy from Tripoli, attacked European and American merchant shipping with...

Parution : 2004-09-21
Format(s) : ePub
Éditeur : PublicAffairs
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Télécharger le livre :  Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
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Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause


Roger G. Kennedy


Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system, particularly with the Louisiana Purchase, squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to...

Parution : 2003-03-06
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Télécharger le livre :  A River Running West
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A River Running West


Donald Worster


If the word "hero" still belonged in the historian's lexicon, it would certainly be applied to John Wesley Powell. Intrepid explorer, careful scientist, talented writer, and dedicated conservationist, Powell led the expedition that put the Colorado River on American...

Parution : 2002-11-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Identifying the Image of God
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Identifying the Image of God


Dan Mckanan


Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social...

Parution : 2002-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  God and Mammon
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God and Mammon


Mark A. Noll


This collection of all new essays by leading historians offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new American nation, money was everywhere on the minds of church leaders and...

Parution : 2001-11-29
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Télécharger le livre :  God and Mammon
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God and Mammon


Mark A. Noll


This collection of all new essays by leading historians offers a close look at the connections between American Protestants and money in the Antebellum period. During the first decades of the new American nation, money was everywhere on the minds of church leaders and...

Parution : 2001-11-29
Format(s) : ePub
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Télécharger le livre :  Land and Freedom
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Land and Freedom


Reeve Huston


During the early nineteenth-century, two million acres of New York's farmland were controlled by a handful of great families. Along the Hudson Valley and across the Catskills lay the great estates of the Van Rensselaers, the Livingstons, and a dozen lesser landlords....

Parution : 2000-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson
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Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson


Roger G. Kennedy


This book restores Aaron Burr to his place as a central figure in the founding of the American Republic. Abolitionist, proto-feminist, friend to such Indian leaders as Joseph Brant, Burr was personally acquainted with a wider range of Americans, and of the American...

Parution : 2000-09-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Runaway Slaves
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Runaway Slaves


John Hope Franklin , Loren Schweninger


From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled against their...

Parution : 2000-07-20
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Télécharger le livre :  The Gospel Working Up
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The Gospel Working Up


Beth Barton Schweiger


The Gospel Working Up offers a history of three generations of Baptist and Methodist clergymen in nineteenth-century Virginia, and through them of the congregations and communities in which they lived and worked. Schweiger examines the religious experience both before...

Parution : 2000-02-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming Southern
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Becoming Southern


Christopher Morris


Mississippi represented the Old South and all that it stood for--perhaps more so than any other state. Tracing its long histories of economic, social, and cultural evolution, Morris takes a close and richly detailed look at a representative Southern community: Jefferson...

Parution : 1999-07-22
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Télécharger le livre :  The Birth of Empire
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The Birth of Empire


Evan Cornog


DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) dominated the politics of New York State during the first quarter of the nineteenth century, serving as mayor of New York City and then governor of the state. At the same time, he was influential on the national scene, running for president in...

Parution : 1998-12-03
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