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Past and Prologue Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300234961, Yale University Press, January 2021
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
In "Past and Prologue", Michael Hattem shows how colonists' changing understandings of their British and colonial histories shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s and 1800s, Ame...
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£30,00
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Peculiar Places A Queer Crip History of White Rural Nonconformity
ISBN: PB: 9780226696881, ISBN: HB: 9780226696911, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones
Peculiar Places narrates queer and disability histories of white social nonconformity in twentieth-century rural United States. Ryan Lee Cartwright contends that, during the last hundred years, rural American gossip about queer and peculiar white nei...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Peppermint Kings A Rural American History
ISBN: HB: 9780300236828, Yale University Press, August 2020
288 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 1 black&white illus.
This unconventional history relates the engaging and unusual stories of three families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries whose involvement in the peppermint oil industry provides insights into the perspectives and concerns of rural...
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Province of Affliction Illness and the Making of Early New England
ISBN: HB: 9780226714424, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
How do we balance individual and collective responsibility for illness? This question, which continues to resonate today, was especially pressing in colonial America, where episodic bouts of sickness were pervasive, chronic ails common, and epidemics...
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£44,00
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People's Revolt Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism
ISBN: HB: 9780300100976, Yale University Press, May 2020
592 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 37 black&white illus.
In the years after the Civil War, the banks, railroads, and industrial corporations of Gilded?Age America, abetted by a corrupt political system, concentrated vast wealth in the hands of the few and made poverty the fate of many. In response, a group...
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Puritan Spirits in the Abolitionist Imagination
ISBN: HB: 9780226694023, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
The Puritans of popular memory are dour figures, characterized by humorless toil at best and witch trials at worst. "Puritan" is an insult reserved for prudes, prigs, or oppressors. Antebellum American abolitionists, however, would be shocked to hear...
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£40,00
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Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture
ISBN: PB: 9780226684444, ISBN: HB: 9780226298993, University of Chicago Press, October 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects...
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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 43 August 16, 1784, through March 15, 1785
ISBN: HB: 9780300236064, Yale University Press, March 2019
640 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
In August 1784, Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson began their congressional commission to negotiate commercial treaties with twenty nations. Their treaty proposal, which Prussia alone would consider, contained unprecedented humanitarian arti...
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Planters, Merchants, and Slaves Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
ISBN: PB: 9780226639246, ISBN: HB: 9780226286105, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 18 tables
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. Beyond resources and weapons, a plantation required a significant force of cruel and rapacious men – men w...
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£36,00
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Polarizers Postwar Architects of Our Partisan Era
ISBN: HB: 9780226407258, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
Even in this most partisan and dysfunctional of eras, we can all agree on one thing: Washington is broken. Politicians take increasingly inflexible and extreme positions, leading to gridlock, partisan warfare, and the sense that our seats of governme...
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