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  • River Dreams

    The people and landscape of the Cooks River

    by Ian Tyrrell ...
    River Dreams reveals the complex history of the Cooks River in south-eastern Sydney—a river renowned as Australia's most altered and polluted. While nineteenth century developers called it "improvement," the sugar mill, tanneries, and factories that lined the banks of Sydney's Cooks River had drastic consequences for the health of the river. While much of the river has been rehabilitated in recent ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Exceptionalism

    A New History of an Old Idea

    by Ian Tyrrell ...
    A powerful dissection of a core American myth.The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career, Ian Tyrrell has been one of the most influential historians of the idea of American exceptionalism, but he has never written a book focused solely on it until now. The notion that American identity might ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Empire's Twin

    U.S. Anti-imperialism from the Founding Era to the Age of Terrorism

    Edited by Ian Tyrrell, Jay Sexton ...
    Series series The United States in the World
    Across the course of American history, imperialism and anti-imperialism have been awkwardly paired as influences on the politics, culture, and diplomacy of the United States. The Declaration of Independence, after all, is an anti-imperial document, cataloguing the sins of the metropolitan government against the colonies. With the Revolution, and again in 1812, the nation stood against the most ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • Crisis of the Wasteful Nation

    Empire and Conservation in Theodore Roosevelt's America

    by Ian Tyrrell ...
    Long before people were “going green” and toting reusable bags, the Progressive generation of the early 1900s was calling for the conservation of resources, sustainable foresting practices, and restrictions on hunting. Industrial commodities such as wood, water, soil, coal, and oil, as well as improvements in human health and the protection of “nature” in an aesthetic sense, were collectively seen ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Woman's World/Woman's Empire

    The Woman's Christian Temperance Union in International Perspective, 1880-1930

    by Ian Tyrrell ...
    Frances Willard founded the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union in 1884 to carry the message of women’s emancipation throughout the world. Based in the United States, the WCTU rapidly became an international organization, with affiliates in forty-two countries. Ian Tyrrell tells the extraordinary story of how a handful of women sought to change the mores of the world — not only by abolishing ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Reforming the World

    The Creation of America's Moral Empire

    by Ian Tyrrell ...
    Series series America in the World
    Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale. Looking at various organizations such as the Young Men's Christian Association and the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, Ian Tyrrell describes the influence that ... Read more

    $51.89 USD