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California Through Russian Eyes, 1806-1848In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English...
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Sources of Korean Tradition: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth CenturiesModeled after the classic Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Indian Tradition, this collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for...
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Napoleon's Garden Island: Lost and Old Gardens of St Helena, South Atlantic OceanNapoleon's Garden Island reveals the amazing botanical history of one remote Atlantic island. Though the South Atlantic island of St. Helena is best known as the site of Napoleon's exile following his final defeat in 1815, this remote locale also has a rich gardening...
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Poets and PuritansOriginally published in 1915, the essays in this book deal with 9 English writers - as diverse in outlook and temperament as Bunyan and Boswell; poets and Puritans and men who were neither. The book examines each writer in his historical and social context...
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Charles I and the Puritan Upheaval: A Study of the Causes of the Great MigrationOriginally published in 1955 and based on research of public records and other contemporary sources, this book builds up an excellent picture of England before the Civil War. Through a series of case studies, it examines the type of person who emigrated to New...
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George Washington Parke Custis: A Rarefied Life in America's First FamilyGeorge Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857) was raised at Mount Vernon by George and Martha Washington. Young "Wash" appears in Savage's 1789 painting of the first presidential family, his small hand placed symbolically on a globe. He would later make his mark on the national...
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Illuminating Natural History: The Art and Science of Mark CatesbyThe life and art of the 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, and his pioneering work depicting the flora and fauna of North America, are explored in vibrant detail This book explores the life and work of the celebrated eighteenth-century English naturalist, explorer, artist and author...
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Emma Goldman, Mother Earth, and the Anarchist AwakeningThis book unveils the history and impact of an unprecedented anarchist awakening in early twentieth-century America. Mother Earth, an anarchist monthly published by Emma Goldman, played a key role in sparking and spreading the movement around the world.One of the most important figures in...
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The Puritan Revolution: A Documentary HistoryOriginally published in 1968, the documents collected in this volume (all re-set for ease of reading), trace the history of the Puritan Revolution from its roots in the early seventeenth century to the Restoration. They show how the causes and the course of the...
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We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us: Native Networks and the Spread of the Ghost DanceIn the 1860s and 1870s, the United States government forced most western Native Americans to settle on reservations. These ever-shrinking pieces of land were meant to relocate, contain, and separate these Native peoples, isolating them from one another and from the white populations coursing...
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920Finalist for CSAW's Outstanding Western Book of 2021 Historical Society of New Mexico's Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award Santa Fe Trail Association's Louise Barry Writing Award The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s...
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The Kennedys, Photographs by Mark ShawThis is the definitive collection of Mark Shaw's renowned photographs of the Kennedys, featuring many unseen images. For the first time, complete access has been granted to the Mark Shaw Photographic Archive in order to produce this fresh and expanded take on Shaw's classic...
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A Strange Mixture, 16: The Art and Politics of Painting Pueblo IndiansAttracted to the rich ceremonial life and unique architecture of the New Mexico pueblos, many early-twentieth-century artists depicted Pueblo peoples, places, and culture in paintings. These artists' encounters with Pueblo Indians fostered their awareness of Native political struggles and led them to join with...
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With Golden Visions Bright Before Them, 2: Trails to the Mining West, 1849-1852During the mid-nineteenth century, a quarter of a million travelers--men, women, and children--followed the "road across the plains" to gold rush California. This magnificent chronicle--the second installment of Will Bagley's sweeping Overland West series--captures the danger, excitement, and heartbreak of America's first great rush...
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Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age (Revised)"The most belated of nations," Theodore Roosevelt called his country during the workmen's compensation fight in 1907. Earlier reformers, progressives of his day, and later New Dealers lamented the nation's resistance to models abroad for correctives to the backwardness of American social politics. Atlantic...
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Sweet Land of Liberty: America in the Mind of the French Left, 1848-1871In Sweet Land of Liberty, Tom Sancton examines how the French left perceived and used the image of the United States against the backdrop of major historical developments in both countries between the Revolution of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871. Along the...
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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War FilmsKing of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film's historical moment,...
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The Battle of Negro Fort: The Rise And Fall Of A Fugitive Slave CommunityThe dramatic story of the United States' destruction of a free and independent community of fugitive slaves in Spanish Florida In the aftermath of the War of 1812, Major General Andrew Jackson ordered a joint United States army-navy expedition into Spanish Florida to destroy...
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Vineyards and Vaqueros: Indian Labor and the Economic Expansion of Southern California, 1771-1877volume 1Indian labor was vital to the early economic development of the Los Angeles region. This first volume in the new series Before Gold: California under Spain and Mexico explores for the first time Native contributions to early Southern California. Opening with a survey of...
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At Sword's Point, Part 2, 11: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858-1859The Utah War--an unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon-controlled Utah Territory and the U.S. government--was the most extensive American military action between the U.S.-Mexican and Civil Wars. Drawing on author-editor William P. MacKinnon's half-century of research and a wealth of carefully selected new material, At...
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