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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william earl weeks”
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  • Building the Continental Empire

    American Expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War

    by William Earl Weeks ...
    Series series
    In this fresh survey of foreign relations in the early years of the American republic, William Earl Weeks argues that the construction of the new nation went hand in hand with the building of the American empire. Mr. Weeks traces the origins of this initiative to the 1750s, when the Founding Fathers began to perceive the advantages of colonial union and the possibility of creating an empire within ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations: Volume 1, Dimensions of the Early American Empire, 1754–1865

    by William Earl Weeks ...
    Series series The New Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
    Since their first publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the definitive source for the topic, from the colonial period to the Cold War. This entirely new first volume narrates the British North American colonists' pre-existing desire for expansion, security and prosperity and argues that these desires are both the essence of American ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire

    by William Earl Weeks ...
    This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally. As ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • What Hath God Wrought

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

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  • The Vineyard of Liberty, 1787–1863

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 1 - The American Experiment
    A Pulitzer Prize winner looks at the course of American history from the birth of the Constitution to the dawn of the Civil War.The years between 1787 and 1863 witnessed the development of the American Nation—its society, politics, customs, culture, and, most important, the development of liberty. Burns explores the key events in the republic's early decades, as well as the roles of heroes from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cause

    The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

    by Joseph J. Ellis, Ph.D. ...
    New York Times Book Review — Editors’ Choice • Chicago Tribune — "60 Best Reads for Right Now" • St. Louis Post-Dispatch — "50 Fall Books You Should Consider Reading"Challenging conventional wisdom, The Cause offers a “necessary” (John S. Gardner, Guardian) account of the origins and clashing ideologies of America’s revolutionary era.For Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The C... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Country of Vast Designs

    James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent

    by Robert W. Merry ...
    Series series Presidential Biography Bestseller
    President James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States, Andrew Jackson**’s** protégé, and champion of “manifest destiny.”When James K. Polk was elected president in 1844, the United States was locked in a bitter diplomatic struggle with Britain over which country ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • American Republics

    A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • The Ascent of George Washington

    The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

    by John Ferling ...
    Perhaps the most revered American of all, George Washington has long been considered a stoic leader who held himself above the fray of political infighting. What has gone unnoticed about the much-researched life of Washington is that he was in fact a consummate politician, as historian John Ferling shows in this revealing and provocative new book. As leader of the Continental Army, Washington's ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • American Revolutions

    A Continental History, 1750-1804

    by Alan Taylor ...
    **Alan Taylor is featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on PBS"Excellent…deserves high praise. Mr. Taylor conveys this sprawling continental history with economy, clarity, and vividness." —Brendan Simms, Wall Street Journal**The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

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  • America: The Last Best Hope (Volume I)

    From the Age of Discovery to a World at War

    by William J. Bennett ...
    Series series America: The Last Best Hope Series
    America, how well do you know your history?Who quelled a coup d'etat by putting on a pair of reading glasses?Which U.S. senator was nearly caned to death on the Senate floor?Which first lady refused to serve alcohol in the White House?What famous inventor was called to find the assassin's bullet in President Garfield's back?Which successful candidate for president insisted on telling the truth ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Unknown American Revolution

    The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

    by Gary B. Nash ...
    In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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