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  • The Dominion of War

    Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000

    Americans often think of their nation’s history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton boldly reinterpret the development of the United States, arguing instead that war has ... Leer más

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  • Contact Points

    American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830

    Edición de Andrew Cayton, Fredrika J. Teute ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America’s frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas that produced new forms of social and political organization.Contributors to the volume offer ... Leer más

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  • Love in the Time of Revolution

    Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818

    de Andrew Cayton ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin’s wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay and Godwin himself. Wollstonecraft’s life and writings became central to a continuing discussion about love’s ... Leer más

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  • This Side of Paradise

    This Side of Paradise is the debut novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Published in 1920, and taking its title from a line of the Rupert Brooke poem Tiare Tahiti, the book examines the lives and morality of post-World War I youth. Its protagonist, Amory Blaine, is an attractive Princeton University student who dabbles in literature. The novel explores the theme of love warped by greed and status-seeking ... Leer más

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  • Rise to Greatness

    The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

    de Conrad Black ...
    Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from ... Leer más

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  • The Wordy Shipmates

    de Sarah Vowell ...
    From the author of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States, The Wordy Shipmates is New York Times bestselling author Sarah Vowell's exploration of the Puritans and their journey to America to become the people of John Winthrop's "city upon a hill," a shining example, a "city that cannot be hid."To this day, America views itself as a Puritan nation, but Vowell investigates what that means? and what ... Leer más

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  • In the Kingdom of Ice

    The Grand and Terrible Polar Voyage of the USS Jeannette

    de Hampton Sides ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and heroism in the Gilded Age from the New York Times bestselling author of Blood and Thunder and Ghost Soldiers. • “A splendid book in every way…a marvelous nonfiction thriller.” —The Wall Street JournalOn July 8, 1879, Captain George Washington De Long and his team of thirty-two men set sail from San Francisco on the USS Jeanette ... Leer más

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  • A Storm of Witchcraft

    The Salem Trials and the American Experience

    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort their bodies, complaining of pins stuck into their flesh and of being haunted by specters. Believing that they suffered from assaults by an ... Leer más

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  • The Barbarous Years

    The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675

    **Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeA compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.**The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden ... Leer más

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  • An Empire on the Edge

    How Britain Came to Fight America

    de Nick Bunker ...
    Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origins of the American Revolution shows how a lethal blend of politics, personalities, and economics led to a war that few people welcomed but nobody could prevent.In this powerful but fair-minded narrative, British author Nick Bunker tells the story of the last three years of mutual embitterment that ... Leer más

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  • The World's Greatest Civilizations: The History and Culture of the Inca

    *Includes over 25 pictures of important people, places, and events, including Macchu Picchu, Inca ruins, Inca clothing, and more. *Describes the everyday life, religion, architecture and cities of the Inca Empire*Includes a Table of ContentsDuring the Age of Exploration, Native American tribes fell victim to European conquerors seeking legendary cities made of gold and other riches, attempts that ... Leer más

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  • Fort William Henry 1755–57

    A battle, two sieges and bloody massacre

    de Ian Castle ...
    Series Libro 260 - Campaign
    An illustrated history of the French siege of Fort William Henry in 1757 and the most infamous incident of the French-Indian War: the massacre that inspired the book The Last of the Mohicans.After the British garrison of Fort William Henry in the colony of New York surrendered to the besieging army of the French commander Marquis de Montcalm in August 1757, it appeared that this particular episode ... Leer más

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