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  • Frederick Watts and the Founding of Penn State

    de Roger L. Williams ...
    Frederick Watts came to prominence during the nineteenth century as a lawyer and a railroad company president, but his true interests lay in agricultural improvement and in raising the economic, social, and political standing of Pennsylvania’s farmers. After being elected founding president of The Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society in 1851, he used his position to advocate vigorously for the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • A Guide To Rocky Mountain Plants, Revised

    de Roger L. Williams ...
    A completely revised edition of Williams's previous work with the late Ruth Ashton Nelson, Handbook of Rocky Mountain Plants, this edition uses simple and clear keys to identify more than 350 species of plants found in the Rocky Mountain region from the United States to Canada. Useful in the classroom as well as the field, the new edition also contains seventy-two color plates of popular species ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • A Region of Astonishing Beauty

    The Botanical Exploration of the Rocky Mountains

    de Roger L. Williams ...
    As we approach the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 2004, attention will inevitably turn to the nineteenth-century explorers who risked life and limb to interpret the natural history of the American West. Beginning with Meriwether Lewis and his discovery of the bitterroot, the goal of most explorers was not merely to find an adequate route to the Pacific, but also to comment on ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education

    George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement

    de Roger L. Williams ...
    The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being the inevitable consequence of the unfolding dynamic of institutional and socioeconomic forces, Williams ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Evan Pugh’s Penn State

    America’s Model Agricultural College

    de Roger L. Williams ...
    When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania’s Farmers’ High School—later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University—the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. During his tenure as president he molded the school into a model institution of its kind: America’s first ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

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  • Chocolate City

    A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital

    de Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove ...
    Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation’s capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America’s expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Age of Betrayal

    de Jack Beatty ...
    Age of Betrayal is a brilliant reconsideration of America's first Gilded Age, when war-born dreams of freedom and democracy died of their impossibility. Focusing on the alliance between government and railroads forged by bribes and campaign contributions, Jack Beatty details the corruption of American political culture that, in the words of Rutherford B. Hayes, transformed “a government of the ... Leer más

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  • George Washington's Washington

    Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic

    de Adam Costanzo ...
    Series series Early American Places
    The vision, controversy and political rivalries that shaped America's capital are examined in this fascinating history of Washington, D.C.When America's first congress declared that a national capital was to be built along the Potomac, President Washington was given complete control over its design and construction. Eager to establish a federal city worthy of a powerful and rapidly expanding ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Taming Democracy

    "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

    de Terry Bouton ...
    Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the Revolutionary elite often seemed as determined to squash democracy after the war as they were to support it before. Centering on Pennsylvania, the ... Leer más

    $33.29 USD

  • Civil Rights and the Making of the Modern American State

    de Megan Ming Francis ...
    Did the civil rights movement impact the development of the American state? Despite extensive accounts of civil rights mobilization and narratives of state building, there has been surprisingly little research that explicitly examines the importance and consequence that civil rights activism has had for the process of state building in American political and constitutional development. Through a ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

  • The Highest Glass Ceiling

    Women’s Quest for the American Presidency

    de Ellen Fitzpatrick ...
    In The Highest Glass Ceiling, best-selling historian Ellen Fitzpatrick tells the story of three remarkable women who set their sights on the American presidency. Victoria Woodhull (1872), Margaret Chase Smith (1964), and Shirley Chisholm (1972) each challenged persistent barriers confronted by women presidential candidates. Their quest illuminates today’s political landscape, showing that Hillary ... Leer más

    $18.69 USD

  • Grassroots Leviathan

    Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic

    de Ariel Ron ...
    Series series Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
    How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state.Recipient of The Center for Civil War Research's 2021 Wiley-Silver Book Prize, Winner of the Theodore Saloutos Memorial Award by the Agricultural History SocietyIn this sweeping look at rural society from the American Revolution to the Civil War, ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD