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Revolution Against Empire Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence
ISBN: HB: 9780300214246, Yale University Press, August 2017
396 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 30 black&white illus.
A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representation "Revolution Against Empire" sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political a...
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£30,00
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Sarah Osborn's World The Rise of Evangelical Christianity in Early America
ISBN: PB: 9780300226911, ISBN: HB: 9780300182903, Yale University Press, August 2017
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.
In 1743, sitting quietly with pen in hand, Sarah Osborn pondered how to tell the story of her life, how to make sense of both her spiritual awakening and the sudden destitution of her family. Remarkably, the memoir Sarah created that year survives to...
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£25,00
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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 42 March 1 through August 15, 1784
ISBN: HB: 9780300222692, Yale University Press, June 2017
648 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
The forty-second volume of the collected writings and correspondences of the American statesman, ambassador, and Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. In the spring of 1784, Franklin, John Jay, and British negotiator David Hartley exchanged ratificatio...
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£85,00
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Contender Richard Nixon, the Congress Years, 1946-1952
ISBN: PB: 9780300220209, Yale University Press, May 2017
624 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The definitive account of Richard Nixon's congressional career, back in print with a new preface. Unsurpassed in the fifteen years since its original publication, Irwin F. Gellman's exhaustively researched work is the definitive account of Richard N...
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£20,00
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Presidents' Secrets The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power
ISBN: HB: 9780300223743, Yale University Press, May 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
How presidents use secrecy to protect the nation, foster diplomacy, and gain power. Ever since the nation's most important secret meeting – the Constitutional Convention – presidents have struggled to balance open, accountable government with necess...
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£25,00
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Bloody Engagements John R. Kelso's Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9780300210965, Yale University Press, April 2017
264 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.
The first edited edition of a Union soldier's remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War. While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws abound, there are few scholarly accounts of th...
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£20,00
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Self-Evident Truths Contesting Equal Rights from the Revolution to the Civil War
ISBN: HB: 9780300197112, Yale University Press, April 2017
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 22 black&white illus.
From a distinguished historian, a detailed and compelling examination of how the early Republic struggled with the idea that "all men are created equal". How did Americans in the generations following the Declaration of Independence translate its lo...
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Slave's Cause A History of Abolition
ISBN: PB: 9780300227116, Yale University Press, April 2017
784 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 66 black&white illus.
A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War. Received historical wisdom casts abolitionists as bourgeois...
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£16,99
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Saltwater Frontier Indians and the Contest for the American Coast
ISBN: PB: 9780300227024, Yale University Press, April 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
Andrew Lipman's eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a "frontier" between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape...
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£18,99
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Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300221183, Yale University Press, February 2017
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
A startling history of the forlorn war between the Weather Underground and the FBI, based on interviews and 30,000 pages of previously unreleased FBI documents In the summer of 1970 and for years after, photos of Bill Ayers, Bernadine Dohrn, Jeff Jon...
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