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An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great. Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but ……続きを見る

Merciless killing in the nineteenth-century American West, as this unusual book shows, was not as simple as depicted in dime novels and movie Westerns. The scholars interviewed here, experts on viol……続きを見る

A short Illustrated Narrative of Dr. Livingstone's expedition and his discoveries during the trip.続きを見る

**Earn College Credit with REA’s Test Prep for CLEP History of the United States II: 1865 to the Present Everything you need to pass the exam and get the college credit you deserve.** REA leads the ……続きを見る

The ‘Syria idea’ emerged in the nineteenth century as a concept of national awakening superseding both Arab nationalism and separatist currents. Looking at nationalist movements, ideas and individua……続きを見る

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorpo……続きを見る

Details the first major U.S. setback in the War of 1812 and analyzes the background and aftermath of Hull’s surrender. 続きを見る

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics covered include - diet, housing, prisons, rural festivals, bordellos, play……続きを見る

Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have……続きを見る

As one of the older towns in Vernon County, Moundville pre-dates the Civil War. However, the border war in western Missouri so devastated the area that the town had to begin anew when the war had en……続きを見る

A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematic……続きを見る

In the mid-nineteenth century many parts of England and Wales were still subjected to a system of regulated prostitution which, by identifying and detaining for treatment infected prostitutes, aimed……続きを見る

It was the Battle of Vimeiro that established the reputation of Sir Arthur Wellesley, later to be the Duke of Wellington. This book forms part of the Bretwalda Battles series on The Peninsular War. ……続きを見る

Philosophy for busy people. Read a succinct account of the philosophy of John Dewey in just one hour. In early twentieth-century America John Dewey was regarded as the foremost philosopher of his ag……続きを見る

This study is a reinterpretation of nineteenth-century Mexican American history, examining Mexico's struggle to secure its northern border with repatriates from the United States, following a war th……続きを見る

The towering figure who remade American politicsーthe champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege "It is rare that historians manage both Wilentz's deep interpretation a……続きを見る

Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the pol……続きを見る

This third volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on the evolution of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in Texas during the years 1840 and 1841. Comanche Indians were the leading rival to……続きを見る

This is the spectacular rags-to-riches story of James Morrison (1789–1857), who began life humbly but through hard work and entrepreneurial brilliance acquired a fortune unequalled in nineteenth-cen……続きを見る

La vie de Vidocq a été une suite d'aventures à ce point extraordinaires que l'on ne comprend pas pourquoi les romanciers, qui ont fait de lui le héros de leurs récits imaginaires, ne se sont pas con……続きを見る

Philip Reid grew up in slavery near Charleston, South Carolina, where he became a skilled foundry craftsman. He was purchased by Clark Mills, who owned the Clark Mills Foundry of Washington, D.C. Cl……続きを見る

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the third President of the U……続きを見る

In the decade after the death of their revered chief Cochise in 1874, the Chiricahua Apaches struggled to survive as a people and their relations with the U.S. government further deteriorated. In Fr……続きを見る

Billy the Kid spent the winter of 1880-1881 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, trying desperately to get out its jail. He hired lawyers. He wrote the Governor. He even tried digging his way out! Nothing worke……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and List of Illustrations CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I Parents, School and Teacher ー Foundation of the Negroes' Mechanical K……続きを見る

Assembling a full and comprehensive collection of material which illustrates all aspects of the emergent women’s movement during the years 1850-1900, this fascinating book will prove invaluable to s……続きを見る

“In all the vast collection of books on the American Civil War there is no book like this one,” says Bruce Catton. Never before has such a stunning body of facts dealing with the war been gathered t……続きを見る

Like Charles Seife s Zero and Dava Sobel s Longitude, this passionate intellectual history is the story of the intersection of science and the human, in this case the rivals who discovered oxygen in……続きを見る

During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, Ireland experienced the worst disaster a nation could suffer. Fully a quarter of its citizens either perished from starvation o……続きを見る

A contemporaneous account of the raids, pursuit and capture of the confederate raider John Morgan. Illustrated.続きを見る