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  • The South at Work

    Observations from 1904

    by William Garrott Brown ...
    Series series Southern Classics
    A compelling glimpse of the Southern economy at the dawn of the twentieth centuryIn 1904 William Garrott Brown traveled the American South, investigating the region's political, economic, and social conditions. Using the pen name "Stanton," Brown published twenty epistles in the Boston Evening Transcript detailing his observations. The South at Work is a compilation of these newspaper articles, ... Read more

    $20.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remembering Reconstruction

    Struggles over the Meaning of America's Most Turbulent Era

    Edited by Carole Emberton, Bruce E. Baker ...
    Academic studies of the Civil War and historical memory abound, ensuring a deeper understanding of how the war’s meaning has shifted over time and the implications of those changes for concepts of race, citizenship, and nationhood. The Reconstruction era, by contrast, has yet to receive similar attention from scholars. Remembering Reconstruction ably fills this void, assembling a prestigious ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Cotton Kings

    Capitalism and Corruption in Turn-of-the-Century New York and New Orleans

    by Bruce E. Baker, Barbara Hahn ...
    The Cotton Kings relates a colorful economic drama with striking parallels to contemporary American economic debates. At the turn of the twentieth century, dishonest cotton brokers used bad information to lower prices on the futures market, impoverishing millions of farmers. To fight this corruption, a small group of brokers sought to control the price of cotton on unregulated exchanges in New ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Freedoms Gained and Lost

    Reconstruction and Its Meanings 150 Years Later

    by Adam H. Domby, Simon Lewis, Bruce E. Baker, Don H. Doyle, Brian K. Fennessy, Michael Fitzgerald, Ethan Kytle, Holly Pinheiro, Sergio Pinto-Handler0, Shannon Smith1, Felicity Turner2, Samuel Watts3, Hilary N. Green4 ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Reconstruction is one of the most complex, overlooked, and misunderstood periods of American history. The thirteen essays in this volume address the multiple struggles to make good on President Abraham Lincoln’s promise of a “new birth of freedom” in the years following the Civil War, as well as the counter-efforts including historiographical ones—to undermine those struggles. The forms these ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Southern Scoundrels

    Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth Century

    by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., Alexandra J. Finley, T. R. C. Hutton, John Lindbeck, Maria R. Montalvo, Elaine Frantz Parsons, Rodney Steward, Jeff Strickland ...
    The history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted to explain how capitalism in the South took root and functioned in all of its diverse—and duplicitous—forms. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Essential Skills for Historians

    A Practical Guide to Researching the Past

    by J. Laurence Hare, Dr. Jack Wells, Bruce E. Baker ...
    Essential Skills for Historians helps undergraduate students make the transition from general university study to a more in-depth study of history, and to gain the skills and techniques they need to conduct an independent research project or embark on a career as a professional historian.The book begins with an examination of the historical discipline and its relevance to contemporary culture. It ... Read more

    $29.99 USD