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  • The Enigmatic South

    Toward Civil War and Its Legacies

    The Enigmatic South brings together leading scholars of the Civil War period to challenge existing perceptions of the advance to secession, the Civil War, and its aftermath. The pioneering research and innovative arguments of these historians bring crucial insights to the study of this era in American history.Christopher Childers, Sarah L. Hyde, and Julia Huston Nguyen consider the ways politics, ... Read more

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  • The Transformation of the Japanese Left

    From Old Socialists to New Democrats

    by Sarah Hyde ...
    Series series Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies
    This book examines the transition within the Japanese party system that has seen the demise of ‘the old socialists’, the Japan Socialist Party, and in its place, the emergence of the Democratic Party of Japan as the leading opposition party. Sarah Hyde has produced an original book which looks at the intra-left (non-communist) opposition party manoeuvrings during the 1990s through to the new ... Read more

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    America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-18

    by Eric Foner ...
    From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period that shaped modern America.Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white ... Read more

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  • The Slave's Cause

    A History of Abolition

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    "Traces the history of abolition from the 1600s to the 1860s . . . a valuable addition to our understanding of the role of race and racism in America."— Florida CourierReceived historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois, mostly white reformers burdened by racial paternalism and economic conservatism. Manisha Sinha overturns this image, broadening her scope beyond the antebellum period ... Read more

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  • Apostles of Disunion

    Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

    Series series A Nation Divided
    Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • America Aflame

    How the Civil War Created a Nation

    In this spellbinding new history, David Goldfield offers the firstmajor new interpretation of the Civil War era since James M. McPherson'sBattle Cry of Freedom. Where past scholars have limned the waras a triumph of freedom, Goldfield sees it as America's greatestfailure: the result of a breakdown caused by the infusion of evangelicalreligion into the public sphere. As the Second GreatAwakening ... Read more

    $13.59 USD

  • Race and Reunion

    The Civil War in American Memory

    Winner of the Bancroft PrizeWinner of the Gilder Lehrman Lincoln PrizeWinner of the Merle Curti awardWinner of the Frederick Douglass PrizeNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals ... Read more

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  • The Civil War

    A Concise History

    One hundred and fifty years after the first shots were fired on Fort Sumter, the Civil War still captures the American imagination, and its reverberations can still be felt throughout America's social and political landscape. Louis P. Masur's The Civil War: A Concise History offers a masterful and eminently readable overview of the war's multiple causes and catastrophic effects. Masur begins by ... Read more

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  • Look Away!

    A History of the Confederate States of America

    William C. Davis, one of America's best Civil War historians, here offers a definitive portrait of the Confederacy unlike any that has come before. Drawing on decades of writing and research among an unprecedented number of archives, Look Away! tells the story of the Confederate States of America not simply as a military saga (although it is that), but rather as a full portrait of a society and ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Ecstatic Nation

    Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877

    "From the death of John Quincy Adams through the Civil War to the tragedy of Reconstruction, Wineapple tells the American story brilliantly." —Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning authorA New York Times Notable Book of 2013A Kirkus Best Book of 2013A Bookpage Best Book of 2013Dazzling in scope, Ecstatic Nation illuminates one of the most dramatic and momentous ... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Wars of Reconstruction

    The Brief, Violent History of America's Most Progressive Era

    A groundbreaking new history, telling the stories of hundreds of African-American activists and officeholders who risked their lives for equality-in the face of murderous violence-in the years after the Civil War.By 1870, just five years after Confederate surrender and thirteen years after the Dred Scott decision ruled blacks ineligible for citizenship, Congressional action had ended slavery and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Revolutionary Founders

    Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

    In twenty-two original essays, leading historians reveal the radical impulses at the founding of the American Republic. Here is a fresh new reading of the American Revolution that gives voice and recognition to a generation of radical thinkers and doers whose revolutionary ideals outstripped those of the Founding Fathers.While the Founding Fathers advocated a break from Britain and espoused ideals ... Read more

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