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  • Abraham Lincoln: pocket GIANTS

    by Adam I.P. Smith ...
    Series series Pocket GIANTS
    The President who 'freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. The teller of ribald stories, and the author of the most sublime speeches in the English language. A clever, complex, secretive man who rose from frontier obscurity to become the central figure at the moment when the United States of America came close to ... Read more

    $1.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gettysburg

    by Adam I. P. Smith ...
    Series series Great Battles
    How did Gettysburg become the most famous battle of the American Civil War and one of the most consequential in world history? Why is the most visited battlefield, the place where veterans came in the greatest numbers, where Presidents pay homage, and millions of families have vacationed? What was it about this three-day struggle in July 1863 in the rolling hills of Pennsylvania that made it seem ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • No Party Now

    Politics in the Civil War North

    by Adam I. P. Smith ...
    During the Civil War, Northerners fought each other in elections with almost as much zeal as they fought Southern rebels on the battlefield. Yet politicians and voters alike claimed that partisanship was dangerous in a time of national crisis. In No Party Now, Adam I. P. Smith challenges the prevailing view that political processes in the North somehow helped the Union be more stable and effective ... Read more

    $91.79 USD

  • Practicing Democracy

    Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War

    by Adam I. P. Smith, Professor Tyler Anbinder, Douglas Bradburn, Professor John L. Brooke, PhD, Professor Reeve Huston, PhD, Johann N. Neem, Professor Kenneth Owen, Graham A. Peck, Andrew W. Robertson0, Professor Andrew Heath1 ...
    In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The essays in this collection address critical themes such as the origins, evolution, and disintegration of party competition, the relationship between ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Stormy Present

    Conservatism and the Problem of Slavery in Northern Politics, 1846–1865

    by Adam I. P. Smith ...
    Series series Civil War America
    In this engaging and nuanced political history of Northern communities in the Civil War era, Adam I. P. Smith offers a new interpretation of the familiar story of the path to war and ultimate victory. Smith looks beyond the political divisions between abolitionist Republicans and Copperhead Democrats to consider the everyday conservatism that characterized the majority of Northern voters. A sense ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • America Imagined

    Explaining the United States in Nineteenth-Century Europe and Latin America

    by Axel Körner, Adam I. P. Smith ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Why has "America" - that is, the United States of America - become so much more than simply a place in the imagination of so many people around the world? In both Europe and Latin America, the United States has often been a site of multiple possible futures, a screen onto which could be projected utopian dreams and dystopian nightmares. Whether castigated as a threat to civilized order or ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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    Gettysburg

    Great Battles

    by Adam I. P. Smith ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Todd Ross ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 2 min

    Gettysburg explains the battle's place in the Civil War, why two vast armies clashed there, and how, in the century and a half since, it has been re-imagined, re-created, and re-enacted. It is the story of a battle which no one planned but which became the bloodiest encounter of the war, and one with dramatically high stakes. The postwar romanticization of Gettysburg as the place of "might-have ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery

    by Eric Foner ...
    “A masterwork [by] the preeminent historian of the Civil War era.”—Boston GlobeSelected as a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times Book Review, this landmark work gives us a definitive account of Lincoln's lifelong engagement with the nation's critical issue: American slavery. A master historian, Eric Foner draws Lincoln and the broader history of the period into perfect balance. We see ... Read more

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  • Brazil - An Interpretation

    by Gilberto Freyre ...
    A series of lectures on the ethnic and social fusion that makes Brazil the country it is today. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of ... Read more

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  • Racisms

    From the Crusades to the Twentieth Century

    by Francisco Bethencourt ...
    " Racisms impresses the reader by its author's vast reading, his thoroughness and precision . . . intellectual ambition, and [its] visual and textual sources." —Peter Burke, University of CambridgeRacisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that ... Read more

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