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Frontier Seaport Detroit's Transformation into an Atlantic Entrepot

Cangany Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226096704, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 1 map, 2 tables

Detroit's industrial health has long been crucial to the American economy. Today's troubles notwithstanding, Detroit has experienced multiple periods of prosperity, particularly in the second half of the eighteenth century, when the city was the cent...

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Long View Dispatches on Alaska History

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9780974922171, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
225 pp., 20x12.7 cm, 53 halftones

Too often the history of a place is reduced to a list of dates and a handful of major events, ignoring the daily stories that help shape its legacy".In The Long View", Ross Coen stops to explore the smaller yet extremely meaningful moments in Alaska'...

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Fur Farms of Alaska Two Centuries of History and a Forgotten Stampede

Crawford Isto Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9781602231719, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2012
230 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 50 halftones

After its rudimentary beginning in 1749, fur farming in Alaska rose and fell for two centuries. It thrived during the 1890s and again in the 1920s, when rising fur prices caused a stampede for land and breed stock and led to hundreds of farms being s...

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From Peace to Freedom Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761

Carey Brycchan

ISBN: HB: 9780300180770, Yale University Press, November 2012
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

This is the first book to investigate the development of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends. Through meticulous examination of the earliest writings of the Friends, including diaries and letters, Brycchan Carey reveals the...

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Breaking Ice for Arctic Oil The Epic Voyage of the SS Manhattan Through the Northwest Passage

Coen Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781602231696, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2012
215 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 25 halftones

In 1969, an icebreaking tanker, the SS Manhattan, was commissioned by Humble Oil to transit the Northwest Passage in order to test the logistical and economic feasibility of an all-marine transportation system for Alaska North Slope crude oil. Propos...

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Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 40 May 16 Through September 15, 1783

Cohn Ellen R., Dull Jonathan R., Ohno Kate M., Anderson Alicia K., Garbooshian Adrina, Sletcher Michael, Ziesche Philipp, Cain Alysia M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300165463, Yale University Press, February 2012
784 pp., 20.4x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.

During the period of this volume, the United States of America completed its transformation into a fully recognized independent nation. In May, Franklin and his fellow American peace commissioners John Adams, John Jay, and Henry Laurens recommenced t...

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Notes from the Ground Science, Soil & Society in the American Countryside

Cohen Benjamin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300177701, ISBN: HB: 9780300139235, Yale University Press, January 2012
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

"Notes from the Ground" examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in nineteenth-century America. Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, the book shows how and why agrarian...

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Slaveholders' Union Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic

Cleve George William

ISBN: PB: 9780226846705, ISBN: HB: 9780226846682, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
408 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 1 line illus.

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution in 1865. But increasingly during the contested polit...

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Defiance of the Patriots The Boston Tea Party and the Making of America

Carp Benjamin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300178128, ISBN: HB: 9780300117059, Yale University Press, September 2011
328 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 33 black&white illus.

On the evening of December 16, 1773, a group of disguised Bostonians boarded three merchant ships and dumped more than forty-six tons of tea into Boston Harbour. The Boston Tea Party, as it later came to be known, was an audacious and revolutionary a...

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War Stories Suffering and Sacrifice in the Civil War North

Clarke Frances M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108629, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
272 pp., 23.6x16 cm, 7 halftones

The American Civil War is often seen as the first modern war, not least because of its immense suffering. Yet unlike later conflicts, it did not produce an outpouring of disillusionment or cynicism, as most people continued to portray the war in high...

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