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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “mark a lause”
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  • Counterfeiting Labor's Voice

    William A. A. Carsey and the Shaping of American Reform Politics

    by Mark A. Lause ...
    Series series Working Class in American History
    Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany Hall to build a career undermining working-class political organizations on behalf of the Democratic Party. Mark A. Lause’s biography of Carsey takes readers inside the bare-knuckle era of Gilded Age politics. An astroturfing trailblazer and master of dirty tricks, Carsey fit ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Collapse of Price's Raid

    The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri

    by Mark A. Lause ...
    Series series Shades of Blue and Gray
    As the Civil War was drawing to a close, former Missouri governor Sterling Price led his army on one last desperate campaign to retake his home state for the Confederacy, part of a broader effort to tilt the upcoming 1864 Union elections against Abraham Lincoln and the Republicans. In The Collapse of Price’s Raid: The Beginning of the End in Civil War Missouri, Mark A. Lause examines the complex ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Price's Lost Campaign

    The 1864 Invasion of Missouri

    by Mark A. Lause ...
    Series series Shades of Blue and Gray
    In the fall of 1864, during the last brutal months of the Civil War, the Confederates made one final, desperate attempt to rampage through the Shenandoah Valley, Tennessee, and Missouri. Price’s Raid was the common name for the Missouri campaign led by General Sterling Price. Involving tens of thousands of armed men, the 1864 Missouri campaign has too long remained unexamined by a book-length ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Long Road to Harpers Ferry

    The Rise of the First American Left

    by Mark A. Lause ...
    Series series People's History
    This is the first comprehensive history of pre-Civil War American radicalism, mapping the journeys of the land reformers, Jacksonian radicals and militant abolitionists on the long road to the failed slave revolt of Harpers Ferry in 1859.This book contains new and fascinating insights into the cast of characters who created a homegrown American socialist movement through the nineteenth century - ... Read more

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  • Civil War Logistics

    A Study of Military Transportation

    by Earl J. Hess ...
    Winner of the Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies by the New York Military Affairs SymposiumDuring the Civil War, neither the Union nor the Confederate army could have operated without effective transportation systems. Moving men, supplies, and equipment required coordination on a massive scale, and Earl J. Hess’s Civil War Logistics offers the first comprehensive analysis of this vital process ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Unholy Sabbath: The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862

    The Battle of South Mountain in History and Memory, September 14, 1862

    by Brian Matthew Jordan ...
    Many readers of Civil War history have been led to believe the battle of South Mountain (September 14, 1862) was but a trifling skirmish, a preliminary engagement of little strategic or tactical consequence overshadowed by Antietams horrific carnage just three days later. In fact, the fight was a decisive Federal victory and important turning point in the campaign, as historian Brian Matthew ... Read more

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  • Freedom by the Sword

    The U.S. Colored Troops, 1862-1867

    by William A. Dobak ...
    The Civil War changed the United States in many ways—economic, political, and social. Of these changes, none was more important than Emancipation. Besides freeing nearly four million slaves, it brought agricultural wage labor to a reluctant South and gave a vote to black adult males in the former slave states. It also offered former slaves new opportunities in education, property ownership—and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864

    Edited by Gary W. Gallagher ...
    Series series Military Campaigns of the Civil War
    Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than four months and claimed more than 25,000 casualties. The armies of Philip H. Sheridan and Jubal A. Early contended for immense stakes. Beyond the agricultural bounty and the boost in morale a victory would bring, events in the Valley also would affect ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Tennessee Campaign of 1864

    by Stewart L. Bennett, Andrew S. Bledsoe, John J Gaines, Jennifer M. Murray, Paul L. Schmelzer, Brooks D. Simpson, Timothy B Smith, Scott L. Stabler, Jonathan M. Steplyk, D. L. Turner, Lee White, John R Lundberg ...
    Series series Civil War Campaigns in the West
    Few American Civil War operations matched the controversy, intensity, and bloodshed of Confederate general John Bell Hood’s ill-fated 1864 campaign against Union forces in Tennessee. In the first-ever anthology on the subject, The Tennessee Campaign of 1864, edited by Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear, fourteen prominent historians and emerging scholars examine the three-month operation, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Chancellorsville

    by Stephen W. Sears ...
    A new look at the Civil War battle that led to Stonewall Jackson's death: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year and "tour de force in military history" ( Library Journal).From the award-winning, national bestselling author of Gettysburg, this is the definitive account of the Chancellorsville campaign, from the moment "Fighting Joe" Hooker took command of the Army of the Potomac to the Union's ... Read more

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  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    by Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Tullahoma

    The Forgotten Campaign that changed the Civil War, June 23–July 4, 1863

    by David A. Powell, Eric J. Wittenberg ...
    "The definitive account of Union Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans' operational masterpiece—the almost bloodless conquest . . . of Middle Tennessee." —Sam Davis Elliott, author of Soldier of TennesseeJuly 1863 was a momentous month in the Civil War. News of Gettysburg and Vicksburg electrified the North and devastated the South. Sandwiched geographically between those victories and lost in the heady ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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