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Fruitlands The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia
ISBN: HB: 9780300140415, Yale University Press, November 2010
336 pp., 23.1x16.5 cm, 20 black&white illus.
This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful, but most significant, utopian experiments. It was established in Massachusetts in 1843 by Bronson Alcott (whose ten-year-old daughter Louisa May, future author of...
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£25,00
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Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility
ISBN: HB: 9780226037431, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
During the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. Writing to each other of public events and private feelings, loyalty and love, revolution and parenting, th...
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£26,00
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City for Empire An Anchorage History, 1914-1941
ISBN: PB: 9781602230842, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2010
214 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
First settled in 1915, Anchorage, Alaska, was founded with the American empire in mind. During World War I, it served as a conduit through which coal could be shipped to the Pacific, where the U. S. Navy was engaged with Japan. Decades later, during...
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£20,50
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Dominion from Sea to Sea Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
ISBN: PB: 9780300168006, Yale University Press, October 2010
672 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus., 13 colour illus.
America is the first world power to inhabit an immense land mass open at both ends to the world's two largest oceans – the Atlantic and the Pacific. This gives America a great competitive advantage often overlooked by Atlanticists, whose focus remain...
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£27,00
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Cruel and Unusual The Culture of Punishment in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300168013, ISBN: HB: 9780300111743, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...
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Reading, Riting, and Reconstruction The Education of Freedmen in the South, 1861-1870
ISBN: PB: 9780226539294, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
This study of education for freedmen following Emancipation is the definitive treatment of the subject. Employing a wide range of sources, Robert C. Morris examines the organizations that staffed and managed black schools in the South, with particula...
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£34,50
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Specter of Salem Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: PB: 9780226005430, ISBN: HB: 9780226005416, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In "The Specter of Salem", Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to de...
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£21,00
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£39,00
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Bourgeois Frontier French Towns, French Traders, and American Expansion
ISBN: PB: 9780300168037, Yale University Press, September 2010
290 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Histories tend to emphasize conquest by Anglo-Americans as the driving force behind the development of the American West. In this fresh interpretation, Jay Gitlin argues that the activities of the French are crucial to understanding the phenomenon of...
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£20,00
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Furs and Frontiers in the Far North The Contest among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur Trade
ISBN: PB: 9780300167993, Yale University Press, September 2010
496 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 10 maps, 42 black&white illus.
This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries is without precedent. The Bering Strait formed the nexus of the circumpolar fur trade in which Russians, British, Americans, and...
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£23,00
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Visualizing American Empire Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines
ISBN: PB: 9780226075341, ISBN: HB: 9780226075334, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 66 halftones
In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one ele...
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£76,00
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