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  • The Monroe Doctrine

    Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Jay Sexton ...
    A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American EmpirePresident James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Nation Forged by Crisis

    A New American History

    by Jay Sexton ...
    A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start**In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 2, 1820–1900

    Edited by Kristin Hoganson, Jay Sexton ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of America and the World
    The second volume of The 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 outsider views, cultural, social, political, military, environmental, legal, technological, and other veins of analysis, it places ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Crossing Empires

    Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain

    Edited by Kristin L. Hoganson, Jay Sexton ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Weaving U.S. history into the larger fabric of world history, the contributors to Crossing Empires de-exceptionalize the American empire, placing it in a global transimperial context. They draw attention to the breadth of U.S. entanglements with other empires to illuminate the scope and nature of American global power as it reached from the Bering Sea to Australia and East Africa to the Caribbean. ... Read more

    $28.79 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

  • Connections after Colonialism

    Europe and Latin America in the 1820s

    by Matthew Brown, Will Fowler, Josep M. Fradera, Carrie Gibson, Brian Roger Hamnett, Maurizio Isabella, Iona Macintyre, Scarlett O'Phelan Godoy, Gabriel Paquette, David Rock0, Christopher Schmidt-Nowara1, Jay Sexton2, Reuben Zahler3 ...
    Series series Atlantic Crossings
    Contributing to the historiography of transnational and global transmission of ideas, Connections after Colonialism examines relations between Europe and Latin America during the tumultuous 1820s.In the Atlantic World, the 1820s was a decade marked by the rupture of colonial relations, the independence of Latin America, and the ever-widening chasm between the Old World and the New. Connections ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Global Lincoln

    Edited by Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton ...
    Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world. Karl Marx judged Lincoln "the single-minded son of the working class"; Tolstoy reported his fame in the Caucasus; Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, drew strength as "the Lincoln of Central Europe"; racially-mixed, republican ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

  • The Global Lincoln

    Edited by Richard Carwardine, Jay Sexton ...
    Perhaps more than any other American, Abraham Lincoln has become a global figure, one who spoke--and continues to speak--to people across the world. Karl Marx judged Lincoln "the single-minded son of the working class"; Tolstoy reported his fame in the Caucasus; Tomas Masaryk, the first president of Czechoslovakia, drew strength as "the Lincoln of Central Europe"; racially-mixed, republican ... Read more

    $44.09 USD

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    A Nation Forged by Crisis

    A New American History

    by Jay Sexton ...
    Narrated by Graham Corrigan ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    A concise new history of the United States revealing that crises -- not unlike those of the present day -- have determined our nation's course from the start**In A Nation Forged by Crisis, historian Jay Sexton contends that our national narrative is not one of halting yet inevitable progress, but of repeated disruptions brought about by shifts in the international system. Sexton shows that the ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • 1494

    How a Family Feud in Medieval Spain Divided the World in Half

    by Stephen R. Bown ...
    An "exciting" account of the feud between monarchs, clergy, and explorers that split the globe between Spain and Portugal and made the oceans a battleground ( Kirkus Reviews).When Columbus triumphantly returned to Spain in 1493, his discoveries inflamed an already-smoldering conflict between Spain's monarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, and Portugal's João II. Which nation was to control the world's ... Read more

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  • The Formation of Christendom

    by Judith Herrin ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    A groundbreaking history of how the Christian “West” emerged from the ancient Mediterranean worldIn this acclaimed history of Early Christendom, Judith Herrin shows how—from the sack of Rome in 410 to the coronation of Charlemagne in 800—the Christian “West” grew out of an ancient Mediterranean world divided between the Roman west, the Byzantine east, and the Muslim south. Demonstrating that ... Read more

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  • This America

    The Case for the Nation

    by Jill Lepore ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice SelectionOne of President Bill Clinton’s “Best Things I’ve Read This Year”From the acclaimed historian and New Yorker writer comes this urgent manifesto on the dilemma of nationalism and the erosion of liberalism in the twenty-first century.At a time of much despair over the future of liberal democracy, Jill Lepore makes a stirring case for the nation ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

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