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Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur TradeWith expert scholarship and a keen eye for detail, Bockstoce provides the first analysis of the historic competition among the Russians, British, and Americans for control of Alaska. This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and...
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Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban NorthParish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century American race relations. In vivid portraits of parish life, John...
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American Taxation, American SlaveryIn American Taxation, American Slavery, Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong and democratic government as a threat...
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The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert...
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Country Music: An Illustrated HistoryA gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the eight-part film series. This fascinating history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South,...
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The Making of Gone with the WindGone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the film's producer, and...
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Ernst Haas: The American WestThis collection of striking color images from the American West is both a moving national portrait as well as a celebration of analog color photography from an undisputed genius of the form. The photographer behind Life magazine's first ever all-color photographic essay, Ernst Haas...
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'More Furies Than Men': The Irish Brigade in the Service of France 1690-1792The history of the Irish Brigade remains fascinating more than three centuries after its creation in the late seventeenth century and is regularly revived in the English-speaking world as well as in Western Europe thanks to historians, journalists, and even politicians. The military feats...
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Black Dragon: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company in the Central PacificBlack Dragon recounts the experience of a single Marine rifle company--2-F-23, or "Fox" Company--and its drive through the central Pacific in World War II. Author Steven D. McCloud, through painstaking research of battlefield reports and extensive interviews with surviving members of Fox Company, has...
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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal GovernmentThe McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were...
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Charles X's Wars: Volume 2 - The Wars in the East, 1655-1657This book describes and analyses the 'Swedish Deluge' (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655-1660 series of wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish King...
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A History of Paradise: Cache County, Utah 1860-1999From its pioneer settlers and those who came later, this history of Paradise, Cache County Utah, shares stories that resonate as true today as they did for the people who lived through them.This volume was compiled after years of studious research on the people,...
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Exploring the Deep: The Titanic ExpeditionsHaving undertaken more than thirty dives to the wreck of Titanic, acclaimed director James Cameron has probably gained more firsthand insight into the sinking of the ship than any person alive today. Now, more than one hundred years after the tragedy, Exploring the Deep...
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Not So Easy, Lads: Wearing the Red Coat 1786-1797First-hand unpublished eye-witness accounts of redcoats, particularly of redcoats in Georgian England, surface infrequently. Here the personal and public life in the letters of Serjeant Major William Roworth to his wife form the basis of one particular journey. A journey which was experienced by...
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Access to History for the Ib Diploma: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries Second EditionA new book for Paper 2, World History Topic 12: The Cold War: Superpower Tensions and Rivalries (20th Century)Readable and rigorous coverage that gives you the depth of knowledge and skills development required for the Diploma. Provides: - Reliable, clear and in-depth narrative from...
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Grant, Lincoln and the Freedmen: Reminiscences of the Civil War by John EatonIn 1863, General Ulysses S. Grant appointed one of his regimental chaplains, John Eaton of Ohio, as general superintendent of contrabands for the Department of the Tennessee. As the American Civil War raged, the former chaplain's approach to humanitarian aid and education for the...
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Wisconsin Post Office MuralsThe united states government commissioned over 1,100 murals for the embellishment of post offices nationwide. Wisconsin received 35 of these murals. After nearly 85 years, the story of their existence is elusive and often overlooked. Gates's research of the correspondence between the artists and...
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Exodus!: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black AmericaNo other story in the Bible has fired the imaginations of African Americans quite like that of Exodus. Its tale of suffering and the journey to redemption offered hope and a sense of possibility to people facing seemingly insurmountable evil. Exodus! shows how this...
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We Shook Up the World: The Spiritual Rebellion of Muhammed Ali and George HarrisonGeorge Harrison met Muhammad Ali in 1964, when both men were on the cusp of worldwide fame. We Shook Up the World is the story of these two larger-than-life figures at a momentous time. A unique blend of biography and cultural history, this book...
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Selecting the Mercury Seven: The Search for America's First AstronautsThe names of the seven Mercury astronauts were announced in April 1959 amid a flurry of publicity and patriotism. This work provides biographical details of all thirty-two finalists for the seven coveted places as America's pioneering astronauts. All of the candidates were among the...
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