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Télécharger le livre :  The Nation at Sea
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The Nation at Sea


Kevin Arlyck


The Nation at Sea tells a new story about the federal judiciary, and about the early United States itself. Most accounts of the nation's transformation from infant republic to world power ignore the courts. Their importance, if any, was limited to domestic politics. But...

Parution : 2025-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America
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The Mother of Washington in Nineteenth-Century America


Kate Haulman


In May 1894, President Grover Cleveland gave a speech thanking those who gathered “to worship at this national shrine.” He was not referring to the battlefields at Gettysburg or Antietam, nor to Mount Vernon, but to the gravesite of Mary Ball Washington,...

Parution : 2025-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Lineage
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Lineage


Karin Wulf


In eighteenth-century America, genealogy was more than a simple record of family ties--it was a powerful force that shaped society. Lineage delves into an era where individuals, families, and institutions meticulously documented their connections. Whether driven by...

Parution : 2025-06-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Mark Twain
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Mark Twain


Ron Chernow


The complex and fascinating life of Mark Twain, as told by a Pulitzer prizewinning biographerBorn in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influen­tial, literary celebrity spent his childhood dreaming of piloting steamboats on the Mississippi. But...

Parution : 2025-05-13
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Éditeur : Penguin
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Télécharger le livre :  Gendering Secession
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Gendering Secession


Melissa Develvis


Gendering Secession explores the lives and politics of South Carolina's elite white women from 1859 to 1861. The political drama that unfolded during the secession crisis of 1860 has long captured our attention, but scant regard has been paid to the secessionist women...

Parution : 2025-02-28
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Télécharger le livre :  The Pacific's New Navies
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The Pacific's New Navies


Thomas M. Jamison


The initial creation of the United States' ocean-going battlefleet – otherwise known as the 'New Navy' – was a result of the naval wars and arms races around the Pacific during the late-nineteenth century. Using a transnational methodology, Thomas Jamison spotlights how...

Parution : 2024-12-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Dread Danger
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Dread Danger


Lesley J. Gordon


When confronted with the abject fear of going into battle, Civil War soldiers were expected to overcome the dread of the oncoming danger with feats of courage and victory on the battlefield. The Fire Zouaves and the 2nd Texas Infantry went to war with high expectations...

Parution : 2024-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Three Consuls
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Three Consuls


Lawrence A. Peskin


For two generations after independence, Americans viewed the Mediterranean as the new commercial frontier. From common sailors to wealthy merchants, hundreds of Americans flocked to live and work there. Documenting the eventful lives of three American consuls and their...

Parution : 2024-11-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Emerson's Civil Wars
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Emerson's Civil Wars


Kenneth S. Sacks


Kenneth S. Sacks explores how America's first public intellectual, determined to live self-reliantly, wrestled with his personal philosophy and eventually supported collective action to abolish slavery. Ralph Waldo Emerson was successful in creating a national audience...

Parution : 2024-11-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Serpent in Eden
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Serpent in Eden


Tyson Reeder


A story of espionage, shadow diplomacy, foreign scheming, and domestic backstabbing in the formative years of the American republic. Tyson Reeder's book traces early America's rocky beginnings, when foreign interference and political conflict threatened to undermine...

Parution : 2024-06-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Plentiful Country
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Plentiful Country


Tyler Anbinder


From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, “a superb revisionist history” of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, using their “riveting and deeply...

Parution : 2024-03-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Born in Blood
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Born in Blood


Scott Gac


Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the United States as measurably different than that which troubles the rest of the globe, citing reasons including gun...

Parution : 2024-01-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Nothing More than Freedom
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Nothing More than Freedom


Giuliana Perrone


Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877, supreme courts in former slave states decided approximately...

Parution : 2023-05-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Monitoring American Federalism
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Monitoring American Federalism


Christian G. Fritz


Monitoring American Federalism examines some of the nation's most significant controversies in which state legislatures have attempted to be active partners in the process of constitutional decision-making. Christian G. Fritz looks at interposition, which is the...

Parution : 2023-01-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Freedom's Crescent
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Freedom's Crescent


John C. Rodrigue


The Lower Mississippi Valley is more than just a distinct geographical region of the United States; it was central to the outcome of the Civil War and the destruction of slavery in the American South. Beginning with Lincoln's 1860 presidential election and concluding...

Parution : 2023-01-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Experiencing Olmsted
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Experiencing Olmsted


Charles Birnbaum , Arleyn Levee , Dena Tasse-Winter


200 Iconic Landscapes That Define North America  Frederick Law Olmsted is the father of American landscape architecture. His firm, and the successor firms that sprung from it, worked through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to shape some of our most beloved...

Parution : 2022-10-04
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Éditeur : Timber Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Dangerous Ground
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Dangerous Ground


John Suval


The squatter--defined by Noah Webster as "one that settles on new land without a title"--had long been a fixture of America's frontier past. In the antebellum period, white squatters propelled the Jacksonian Democratic Party to dominance and the United States to the...

Parution : 2022-05-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Civil War Settlers
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Civil War Settlers


Anders Bo Rasmussen


Civil War Settlers is the first comprehensive analysis of Scandinavian Americans and their participation in the USCivil War. Based on thousands of sources in multiple languages, that have to date been inaccessible to most US historians, Anders Bo Rasmussen brings the...

Parution : 2022-05-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Unsettled Land
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Unsettled Land


Sam W. Haynes


A bold new history of the origins and aftermath of the Texas Revolution, revealing how Indians, Mexicans, and Americans battled for survival in one of the continent’s most diverse regions  The Texas Revolution...

Parution : 2022-05-03
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Éditeur : Basic Books
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Télécharger le livre :  The Cambridge History of America and the World
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The Cambridge History of America and the World


Kristin Hoganson , Jay Sexton


The second volume ofThe Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest of the world has shaped the United States. Mixing top-down and bottom-up perspectives, insider and...

Parution : 2022-03-03
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