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  • Remaking North American Sovereignty

    State Transformation in the 1860s

    de Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    This essay collection presents a transnational history of mid-nineteenth century North America, a time of crisis that forged the continent's political dynamics.North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the US Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and ... Leer más

    Antes $12.99 USD Ahora $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Confederate Cities

    The Urban South During the Civil War Era

    Edición de Andrew L. Slap, Frank Towers ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    When we talk about the Civil War, we often describe it in terms of battles that took place in small towns or in the countryside: Antietam, Gettysburg, Bull Run, and, most tellingly, the Battle of the Wilderness. One reason this picture has persisted is that few urban historians have studied the war, even though cities hosted, enabled, and shaped Southern society as much as they did in the North ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Continent in Crisis

    The U.S. Civil War in North America

    de Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler, Frank Towers, Alice Baumgartner, Beau D. Cleland, Susan-Mary Grant, Amy Greenberg, John Craig Hammond, John W. Quist, Andrew L. Slap0 ...
    Series series Reconstructing America
    Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Civil War in Maryland Reconsidered

    de Richard Bell, Thomas G. Clemens, Robert J. Cook, Sharita Jacobs-Thompson, Martha Jones, Brian Matthew Jordan, Jessica Millward, Timothy J. Orr, Rob Schoeberlein, Frank Towers, Jonathan W. White, Frank J. Williams ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    CONTENTS:Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell“Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell“Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slavery in Pre–Civil War Maryland,” Jessica Millward“Confronting Dred Scott: Seeing Citizenship from Baltimore,” Martha S. Jones“‘Maryland Is This Day . . . True to the American Union’: The Election of 1860 and ... Leer más

    Antes $44.99 USD Ahora $18.99 USD

  • Secession as an International Phenomenon

    From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

    de Alan M. Wachman, Aleksandar Pavkovic, Andrés Reséndez, Bruno Coppieters, Charles B. Dew, Christopher Wellman, David Armitage, Frank Towers, Margaret Moore, Paul Kubicek, Paul Quigley, Peter Radan, Peter Sluglett, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Robert Bonner, Stefan Zahlmann, Susan-Mary Grant, Terry Rugeley ...
    About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader ... Leer más

    $33.99 USD

  • The Old South's Modern Worlds

    Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress

    Edición de Frank Towers, Brian Schoen, L. Diane Barnes ...
    The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

  • The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens

    Place, Personality, and Politics in the Civil War Era

    de Amy S. Greenberg, Thomas J. Balcerski, Douglas R. Egerton, Matthew Pinsker, William P. MacKinnon, Frank Towers, Joan Cashin, John David Smith, Michael Green, James Oakes, Bruce C. Levine, T. Michael Parrish ...
    Series series Conflicting Worlds: New Dimensions of the American Civil War
    The Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era’s most prominent politicians as well as the political landscapes they inhabited and informed. Both men called Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, their home, and both were bachelors. During the 1850s, James Buchanan tried to keep the Democratic Party alive as the slavery ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Southern Middle Class in the Long Nineteenth Century

    de Susanna Delfino, Angela Lakwete, Martin Reuf, Don H. Doyle, Sally Hadden, Sonya Ramsey, Jennie Goloboy, Bruce W. Eelman, Amanda R. Mushal, Frank Towers, James Oakes, John G. Deal ...
    Jonathan Daniel Wells and Jennifer R. Green provide a series of provocative essays reflecting innovative, original research on professional and commercial interests in the nineteenth-century South, a place often seen as being composed of just two classes—planters and slaves. Rather, an active middle class, made up of men and women devoted to the cultural and economic modernization of Dixie, worked ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Old South's Modern Worlds

    Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of Progress

    Edición de L. Diane Barnes, Brian Schoen, Frank Towers ...
    The Old South has traditionally been portrayed as an insular and backward-looking society. The Old South's Modern Worlds looks beyond this myth to identify some of the many ways that antebellum southerners were enmeshed in the modernizing trends of their time. The essays gathered in this volume not only tell unexpected narratives of the Old South, they also explore the compatibility of slavery-the ... Leer más

    $29.69 USD

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  • Children of Fire

    A History of African Americans

    de Thomas C. Holt ...
    "Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... Leer más

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  • The Production of Difference

    Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. History

    de David R. Roediger, Elizabeth D. Esch ...
    In 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a radically new way of understanding the history of management in the United States, placing race, migration, and empire at the center of what has ... Leer más

    $38.69 USD

  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    de Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

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