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  • Property Values

    The Rise and Fall of the American Homeowner

    by Joshua Specht ...
    A wide-ranging history of American land ownership, from westward expansion to the suburban housing crisisFrom its very beginnings, the United States has defined itself by its relationship to land. Settlers saw the continent as the raw material for building a prosperous life while their leaders viewed it as a means for building a people. In the 1950s, the suburban home became a place for Americans ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Audiobook

    Red Meat Republic

    A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

    by Joshua Specht ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life

    Unabridged

    9 hours 28 min

    In this audiobook, John Chancer narrates the story of how beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with ... Read more

    $18.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Red Meat Republic

    A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America

    by Joshua Specht ...
    Series series Histories of Economic Life
    How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complexBy the late nineteenth century, Americans rich and poor had come to expect high-quality fresh beef with almost every meal. Beef production in the United States had gone from small-scale, localized operations to a highly centralized industry spanning the country, with cattle bred on ranches in the rural West, slaughtered ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • An Analysis of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    by Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Historians of the American Revolution had always seen the struggle for independence either as a conflict sparked by heavyweight ideology, or as a war between opposing social groups acting out of self-interest.In The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Bernard Bailyn begged to differ, re-examining familiar evidence to establish new connections that in turn allowed him to generate fresh ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • An Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange

    Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492

    by Joshua Specht, Etienne Stockland ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    One criticism of history is that historians all too often study it in isolation, failing to take advantage of models and evidence from scholars in other disciplines. This is not a charge that can be laid at the door of Alfred Crosby. His book The Columbian Exchange not only incorporates the results of wide reading in the hard sciences, anthropology and geography, but also stands as one of the ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Macat Analysis of Alfred W. Crosby's The Columbian Exchange

    by Joshua Specht ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 39 min

    Crosby’s landmark 1972 work argues that environmental factors shape our history just as much as—and sometimes more than—human factors. While earlier scholars emphasized cultural and technological factors as defining the way our world developed, Crosby claims that nonhuman factors, such as the exchange of plants, animals, and microbes between the Old and New Worlds, had greater overall impact. ¶One ... Read more

    $11.18 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Macat Analysis of Bernard Bailyn's The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

    by Joshua Specht ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    Before Bailyn’s 1967 work, it was generally accepted that the American Revolution was driven by social conflict between settlers and the British government and class conflict in American society. However, Bailyn’s Pulitzer-winning work proposed that radical ideas, not social conflict, fired the American Revolution, and it was an ideological, constitutional, and political struggle. He showed how ... Read more

    $11.18 USD

  • The Kansas Beef Industry

    by Charles L. Wood ...
    This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of production—including specific business problems and the significant work in upbreeding—and an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpest focus is on the period 1890 to 1940, after the Western beef industry had passed ... Read more

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    Chicago and the Great West

    by William Cronon ...
    A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize. "No one has written a better book about a city…Nature's Metropolis is elegant testimony to the proposition that economic, urban, environmental, and business history can be as graceful, powerful, and fascinating as a novel." —Kenneth T. Jackson, Boston Globe ... Read more

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  • Indian Nations of Wisconsin

    Histories of Endurance and Renewal, 2 Edition

    by Patty Loew ...
    From origin stories to contemporary struggles over treaty rights and sovereignty issues, Indian Nations of Wisconsin explores Wisconsin's rich Native tradition. This unique volume—based on the historical perspectives of the state’s Native peoples—includes compact tribal histories of the Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oneida, Menominee, Mohican, Ho-Chunk, and Brothertown Indians. Author Patty Loew focuses on ... Read more

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  • Dust Bowl

    The Southern Plains in the 1930s

    by Donald Worster ...
    In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in world history. Donald Worster's classic chronicle of the devastating years between 1929 and 1939 tells the story of the Dust Bowl in ecological as well as human terms. Now, twenty-five years after his book helped to define the new field of environmental history, Worster shares his more recent ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Pacific Northwest

    An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

    by Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes ...
    Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period, the environment of the region, the impact of the Klondike gold rush, and politics since 1945. ... Read more

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