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  • Peace and Friendship

    An Alternative History of the American West

    by Stephen Aron ...
    A new understanding of how the West came to be For over 35 years, the dominant histories of the American West have been narratives of horrific conflicts. Framed in terms of empire building, these histories use modern constructs of ethnic cleansing and genocide to reckon the costs of centuries of conquest and settler colonialism. This vocabulary, and the interpretation it supports, sharply ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • America on the World Stage

    A Global Approach to U.S. History

    by Organization of American Historians, Ted Dickson, David Armitage, Stephen Aron, Edward L. Ayers, Thomas Bender, Stuart M. Blumin, J. D. Bowers, Stuart M. Burton0, Charap1, Jonathan Chu2, Kathleen Dalton3, Betty A. Dessants4, Kevin Gaines5, Fred Jordan6, Melvyn P. Leffler7, Louisa B. Moffitt8, Philip D. Morgan9, Mark A. Noll0, Gary W. Reichard1, Daniel T. Rodgers2, Leila J. Rupp3, Brenda Santos4, Gloria Sesso5, Shammas Carole6, Suzanne M. Sinke7, Omar Valerio-Jimenez8, Penny M. Von Eschen9, Patrick Wolfe0, Pingchao Zhu1 ...
    Recognizing the urgent need for students to understand the emergence of the United States' power and prestige in relation to world events, Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson reframe the teaching of American history in a global context. Each essay covers a specific chronological period and approaches fundamental topics and events in United States history from an international perspective, emphasizing ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The American West

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Aron ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the West" from the building of the Cahokia Mounds around 900 AD to the post-World War II migration to California. His Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Reimagined PhD

    Navigating 21st Century Humanities Education

    by Leanne M Horinko, Jordan M Reed, James M Van Wyck, Leonard Cassuto, Robert Townsend, Robert Weisbuch, Michael J. McGandy0, Augusta Rohrbach1, Joseph M. Vukov2, Melissa Dalgleish3, Karen Wilson4, Stephen Aron5, Vernita Burrell6, William Fenton7, Alexandra M. Lord8, Paula Chambers9 ...
    Long seen as proving grounds for professors, PhD programs have begun to shed this singular sense of mission. Prompted by poor placement numbers and guided by the efforts of academic organizations, administrators and faculty are beginning to feel called to equip students for a range of careers. Yet, graduate students, faculty, and administrators often feel ill-prepared for this pivot. The ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Human Tradition in the American Revolution

    by Edward J. Cashin, David Grimsted, Gary L. Hewitt, Alison Duncan Hirsch, Phillip W. Hoffman, Thomas J. Humphrey, Michelle Leung, Katherine M. J. McKenna, Gary B. Nash, Jon W. Parmenter, John Sainsbury, John Shy, Sheila Skemp, Daniel Vickers, Maurice Jackson, Stephen Aron ...
    Series series The Human Tradition in America
    This collection of 17 biographies provides a unique opportunity for the reader to go beyond the popular heroes of the American Revolution and discover the diverse populace that inhabited the colonies during this pivotal point in history. ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • The American West

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stephen Aron ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific time and place for the region, author and longtime Californian Stephen Aron tracks "the West" from the building of the Cahokia Mounds around 900 AD to the post-World War II migration to California. His Very ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Complete Chopin Mazurkas

    Fifty-one Mazurkas Newly Arranged for Solo Guitar

    by Stephen Aron ...
    This collection presents The Complete Chopin Mazurkas arranged for solo classical guitar for the first time. The Mazurka is the only form the composer embraced throughout his lifetime. The distinctive and personal pieces are unimaginably varied and colorful, ranging from brief and vigorous dances to deep and complex extended works. Always achingly melodic and featuring surprising harmonies not ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • The Wild Frontier

    Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

    by William M. Osborn ...
    The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world.In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Last Indian War

    The Nez Perce Story

    by Elliott West ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted government action and a doomed flight to freedom. To tell the story, West begins with the early ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Three Roads to the Alamo

    The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis

    by William C. Davis ...
    "William C. Davis's Three Roads to the Alamo is far and away the best account of the Alamo I have ever read. The portraits of Crockett, Bowie, and Travis are brilliantly sketched in a fast-moving story that keeps the reader riveted to the very last word." — Stephen B. OatesThree Roads to the Alamois the definitive book about the lives of David Crockett, James Bowie and William Barret Travis—the ... Read more

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  • David Crockett

    The Lion of the West

    by Michael Wallis ...
    "Vivid, Comprehensible . . . cuts through decades of mythmaking." —Texas MonthlyPopular culture transformed his memory into “Davy Crockett,” and Hollywood gave him a raccoon hat he hardly ever wore. In this surprising New York Times bestseller, historian Michael Wallis has cast a fresh look at the flesh-and-blood man behind one of the most celebrated figures in American history. More than a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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