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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “steven rowan”
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  • The Mysteries of New Orleans

    by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein ...
    Translated by Steven Rowan ...
    Series series The Longfellow Series of American Languages and Literatures
    One of the most scandalous books published in America at the time."Reizenstein's peculiar vision of New Orleans is worth resurrecting precisely because it crossed the boundaries of acceptable taste in nineteenth-century German America and squatted firmly on the other side . . . This work makes us realize how limited our notions were of what could be conceived by a fertile American imagination in ... Read more

    $37.69 USD

  • Religious Movements in the Middle Ages

    by Herbert Grundmann ...
    Translated by Steven Rowan ...
    Medievalists, historians, and women's studies specialists will welcome this translation of Herbert Grundmann's classic study of religious movements in the Middle Ages because it provides a much-needed history of medieval religious life--one that lies between the extremes of doctrinal classification and materialistic analysis--and because it represents the first major effort to underline the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Baron in the Grand Canyon

    Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein in the West

    by Steven Rowan ...
    In The Baron in the Grand Canyon, Steven Rowan presents the first comprehensive look at the life of Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein, mapmaker, artist, explorer, and inventor. Utilizing new German and American sources, Rowan clarifies many mysteries about the life of this major artist and cartographer of the American West.This revealing account concentrates on Egloffstein’s activity in the ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

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  • The First Frontier

    The Forgotten History of Struggle, Savagery, & Endurance in Early America

    by Scott Weidensaul ...
    "Excitement abounds in Scott Weidensaul's detailed history of the first clashes between European settlers and Native Americans on the East Coast."—Nancy Marie Brown, author of The Far Traveler: Voyages of a Viking WomanFrontier: the word carries the inevitable scent of the West. But before Custer or Lewis and Clark, before the first Conestoga wagons rumbled across the Plains, it was the East that ... Read more

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  • Pox Americana

    The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

    by Elizabeth A. Fenn ...
    The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birthA horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Trace

    Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape

    by Lauret Savoy ...
    **Winner of the American Book AwardPEN Literary Award FinalistThese essays blending memoir, history, and landscape “will create seismic shifts in readers’ perspectives on race, gender, and nature” as they explore how America’s ideas of ‘race’ have marked its people and the land (BuzzFeed).**Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Imperfect Union

    How Jessie and John Frémont Mapped the West, Invented Celebrity, and Helped Cause the Civil War

    by Steve Inskeep ...
    Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political coupleJohn C. Frémont, one of the United States’s leading explorers of the nineteenth century, was relatively unknown in 1842, when he commanded the first of his expeditions to ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Fur, Fortune, and Empire: The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

    The Epic History of the Fur Trade in America

    by Eric Jay Dolin ...
    A Seattle Times selection for one of Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010Winner of the New England Historial Association's 2010 James P. Hanlan AwardWinner of the Outdoor Writers Association of America 2011 Excellence in Craft Award, Book Division, First Place"A compelling and well-annotated tale of greed, slaughter and geopolitics." —Los Angeles TimesAs Henry Hudson sailed up the broad river that would ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • West of the Revolution

    An Uncommon History of 1776

    by Claudio Saunt ...
    **Claudio Saunt is an advisor for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on PBSThis panoramic account of 1776 chronicles the other revolutions unfolding that year across North America, far beyond the British colonies.**In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • When the Mississippi Ran Backwards

    Empire, Intrigue, Murder, and the New Madrid Earthquakes

    by Jay Feldman ...
    From Jay Feldmen comes an enlightening work about how the most powerful earthquakes in the history of America united the Indians in one last desperate rebellion, reversed the Mississippi River, revealed a seamy murder in the Jefferson family, and altered the course of the War of 1812.On December 15, 1811, two of Thomas Jefferson's nephews murdered a slave in cold blood and put his body parts into ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Simon Girty

    Wilderness Warrior

    by Edward Butts ...
    Series Book 29 - Quest Biography
    During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty's name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an "Indian lover," Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against ... Read more

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  • The German Canadians 1750-1937

    Immigration, Settlement & Culture

    by Heinz Lehmann ...
    In tracing the pioneering role that German-speaking settlers from all over Europe and America played in the opening up and development of large parts of eastern and western Canada, Lehmann shows German Canadians to be one of Canada's founding peoples. His work establishes the important role played by ethnic Germans in the cultural and economic growth of Canada. Lehmann's account brings out the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD