Old Is Gold
-
The Untold History of the First Illinois State Hospital for the InsaneMoral treatment, the vogue of early American psychology, freed the mentally ill of their chains. They were, however, still relegated to separate institutions, commonly called asylums, for at least a brief respite from the stressors that were thought to cause their madness. Did it...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
1919, the Year of Racial Violence: How African Americans Fought Back1919, The Year of Racial Violence recounts African Americans' brave stand against a cascade of mob attacks in the United States after World War I. The emerging New Negro identity, which prized unflinching resistance to second-class citizenship, further inspired veterans and their fellow black...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Gangs of St. Louis: Men of RespectSt. Louis was a city under siege during Prohibition. Seven different criminal gangs violently vied for control of the town's illegal enterprises. Although their names (the Green Ones, the Pillow Gang, the Russo Gang, Egan's Rats, the Hogan Gang, the Cuckoo Gang and the...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American NationDelightful and discerning . . . In this evocative study a remarkable woman, creator of the 'first lady' role, comes vividly to life.--The New York Times When the roar of the Revolution had finally died down, a new generation of politicians was summoned to...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Concise History of the New DealDuring the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal carried out a program of dramatic reform to counter the unprecedented failures of the market economy exposed by the Great Depression. Contrary to the views of today's conservative critics, this book argues that New Dealers were...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent ConflictThis nationally-acclaimed book shows how popular movements used nonviolent action to overthrow dictators, obstruct military invaders and secure human rights in country after country, over the past century. Peter Ackerman and Jack DuVall depict how nonviolent sanctions--such as protests, strikes and boycotts--separate brutal regimes...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Oregon Trail: An American SagaIn today's world of jet airplanes and smooth highways, it is nearly impossible to imagine the hardships faced by the thousands of people who headed west along the great Oregon Trail. In this detailed and engaging account, historian David Dary recounts the full saga...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The Studs Terkel Reader: My American CenturyA new addition to the collection of elegant reissues of the Studs Terkel oeuvre The Studs Terkel Reader, originally published under the title My American Century, collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
895 Days That Changed the World: The Presidency of Gerald R. FordMaking extensive use of the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, both the archives and the museum, Mount examines the very documents produced by President Ford, members of his cabinet, and the White House staff and through that examination offers a window on the world between...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
A Legal History of the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Nation of RightsAlthough hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation of Rights explores the implications of this major change by bringing legal history into dialogue with the scholarship of other...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States ConstitutionFirst published in 1967, Class Conflict, Slavery, and the United States Constitution was among the first studies to identify the importance of slavery to the founding of the American Republic. Provocative and powerful, this book offers explanations for the movements and motivations that underpinned...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Saving the Guinea Hogs: The Recovery of an American Homestead Breed"These were the best hogs I've ever seen," said seventy-five year old Cohen Archer. He grew up with the amiable black Guinea Hogs in Washington County, Georgia. Cohen's father died when he was just twelve years old, in 1954. His mother subsequently sold the...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Prophet of Evil: Aleister Crowley, 9/11 and the New World OrderDo the numbers and dates of the events of September 11th, 2001 terror attacks have a secret meaning? Why are the numbers 11, 77, 93 and 175 extremely significant in understanding the most important event in the New Millenium? Who was Aleister Crowley and...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Interwar Itineraries: Authenticity in Anglophone and French Travel WritingHow people traveled, and how people wrote about travel, changed in the interwar years. Novel technologies eased travel conditions, breeding new iterations of the colonizing gaze. The sense that another war was coming lent urgency and anxiety to the search for new places and...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
The War of 1812: Conflict for a ContinentThis book is a narrative history of the many dimensions of the War of 1812 - social, diplomatic, military, and political - which places the war's origins and conduct in transatlantic perspective. The events of 1812-1815 were shaped by the larger crisis of the...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Political Torture in the Twentieth CenturyUnanimously banned and condemned, torture has been used in many countries throughout the 20th century. Ruxandra Cesereanu's essay aims to deepen this subject, showing the unimaginable dimensions that human cruelty can sometimes reach. The Armenian Genocide, the Nazi camps, the Gulag, the Military Juntas...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Ernest Hemingway: A Literary LifeErnest Hemingway: A Literary Life includes new research on the best-known of the posthumous publications: A Moveable Feast, 1964 (and the 2009 A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition); Islands in the Stream, 1970; and The Garden of Eden, 1986. Linda Wagner-Martin provides background and...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Taking Hawaii: How Thirteen Honolulu Businessmen Overthrew the Queen of Hawaii in 1893, with a BluffOn a January afternoon in 1893, men hunkered down behind sandbagged emplacements in the streets of Honolulu, with rifles, machine guns, and cannon ready to open fire. Troops and police loyal to the queen of the sovereign nation of Hawaii faced off against a...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United StatesFor more than a generation, historians and legal scholars have documented inequalities at the heart of American law and daily life and exposed inconsistencies in the generic category of "American citizenship." Welke draws on that wealth of historical, legal, and theoretical scholarship to offer...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per
-
Toni Morrison: A Literary LifeA reading of the oeuvre of Toni Morrison--fiction, non-fiction, and other--drawing extensively from her many interviews as well as her primary texts, Toni Morrison: A Literary Life, second edition provides an overview of Morrison's intellectual growth as an artist. Linda Wagner-Martin aligns Morrison's novels...
- ¥5,624 JPY
- ¥5,624 JPY
- Unit price
- per