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This book emphasises the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson's thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project sought the alignment of the Amer……続きを見る

An autobiographical narrative, BEHIND THE SCENES traces Elizabeth Keckley's life from her enslavement in Virginia and North Carolina to her time as seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln in the White House……続きを見る

Slavery existed long before the United States of America was founded, but so did opposition to slavery. Both flourished after the founding of the country, and the anti-slavery movement was known as ……続きを見る

An Arab-centric perspective dominates the West’s understanding of Islam. Purohit presses for a view of Islam as a heterogeneous religion that has found a variety of expressions in local contexts. Th……続きを見る

Marianne, Louise and Cassandra Knight were nieces of the great 19th century novelist who gave us Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility. Jane knew the girls well, reading and sewing with them……続きを見る

Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unitand A……続きを見る

Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène est l'œuvre majeure du comte de Las Cases, où il a consigné jour après jour, tout ce qu'a dit et fait Napoléon durant le temps où il a partagé son exil à Sainte-Hélène. ……続きを見る

In The Market Revolution, one of America's most distinguished historians offers a major reinterpretation of a pivotal moment in United States history. Based on impeccable scholarship and written wit……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index CONTENTS (abridged list) CHAPTER I. Origin of the Sac and Fox Indians, Removal to Green Bay, Their subjugatio……続きを見る

Condemned to hang after his raid on Harper’s Ferry, John Brown prophesied that the crimes of a slave-holding land would be purged away only with blood. A study of omens, maledictions, and inspired i……続きを見る

The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). V……続きを見る

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This book illuminates the origins and development of violence as a social issue by examining a critical period in the evolution of attitudes towards violence. It explores the meaning of violence thr……続きを見る

This edition features illustrations. Excerpt CAUSES OF THE WAR Since neither France nor Great Britain would accept the opportunity to make a friend of the United States, the captures went on; and En……続きを見る

Preface: Preface This little book will interest the Pittsburgher of 1916 chiefly because the parts and pieces of which it is made were written by men who were living here or who passed this way in 1……続きを見る

Miguel Antonio Otero served as the first Hispanic governor of the U.S. Territory of New Mexico, from 1897 to 1906. He was appointed to the office by President William McKinley. Long after his retire……続きを見る

Opening with the military preparations before Paris was besieged by the invading German army in September 1870, Alistair Horne's compelling account of this dramatic episode takes the reader through ……続きを見る

First-Hand Accounts of Slavery in America. With active Table of contents. Hundreds of former slaves were interviewed during the depression as part of the WPA project sponsored by the Library of Cong……続きを見る

Often remembered as the president who died shortly after taking office, William Henry Harrison remains misunderstood by most Americans. Before becoming the ninth president of the United States in 18……続きを見る

In 1856, Paul Du Chaillu ventured into the African jungle in search of a mythic beast, the gorilla. After wild encounters with vicious cannibals, deadly snakes, and tribal kings, Du Chaillu emerged ……続きを見る

He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kidーwhose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaughーled a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaug……続きを見る

The fact that Abraham Lincoln is now universally recognized as America’s greatest political orator would have surprised many of the citizens who voted him into office. Ungainly in stature and awkwar……続きを見る

June 26 to July 1, 1862, from Mechanicsville to Malvern Hill details the Seven Days Battles on the Peninsular as McClellan Changed his base to the James River. This essay draws heavily on the offic……続きを見る

A major one-volume history of the Oregon Trail from its earliest beginnings to the present, by a prize-winning historian of the American West. Starting with an overview of Oregon Country in the earl……続きを見る

The campaigns of Burnside, Goldsborough and Foster at coastal North Carolina. Contemporaneous Reporting. Illustrated.続きを見る

When the crowd came to Gettysburg in November 1863 to commemorate the battle fought there 4 months earlier, they came to hear a series of speeches about the Civil War and the events of that battle. ……続きを見る

The story of Baby Doe Tabor has seduced America for more than a century. Long before her body was found frozen in a Leadville shack near the Matchless Mine, Elizabeth McCourt “Baby Doe” Tabor was th……続きを見る

Bernadotte et Napoléon, deux grands hommes, deux destins croisés... presque deux rivaux. Bernadotte a épousé Désirée Clary, la fiancée que Bonaparte a délaissée pour Joséphine. Le frère de Napoléon,……続きを見る

In his eighty-seven years, Norman Maclean played many parts: fisherman, logger, firefighter, scholar, teacher. But it was a role he took up late in life, that of writer, that won him enduring fame a……続きを見る

Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard was a Louisiana-born American military officer, politician, inventor, writer, civil servant, and the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during t……続きを見る