19th-century American History – Bücher, CDs, Diverse und mehr, Seite 6

Ron Melugin
Tales from the Gainesville Daily Hesperian

After legendary sheriff Pat Ware was thrown from his horse on a very muddy Commerce Street, the Gainesville Daily Hesperian observed that he "had enough mud sticking to his wardrobe to start a land b…

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Jim Rasenberger
A Perfect Coincidence

An extraordinary look at the long and complex relationship between Founding Fathers Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died on the same historic day---July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the adoptio…

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Martin Pegler,
Colt Single-Action Revolvers

In 1836, Samuel Colt changed the face of warfare with the production of the first of a series of iconic and influential single-action revolvers, including the .44-caliber Colt Walker and the seminal .45-c…

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John Quincy Adams,
John Quincy Adams: Speeches & Writings (Loa #390)

21 essential works trace a great statesman's lifelong engagement with the promise of America and the legacy of the Founding Fathers"Few presidents ever thought about words as carefully as John Quincy…

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Julie Dobrow
Love and Loss After Wounded Knee

A dual biography of two activists whose marriage challenged the gender and racial norms of their timeLike any set of star-crossed lovers, Elaine and Charles came from different worlds. Elaine, an acclaime…

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Kathryn Ferry
Twentieth-Century Seaside Architecture

A nostalgic exploration of Britain's distinctive and architecturally significant seafront buildings from the 1920s to the new millennium.

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James M Tabor
Lightning Beneath the Sea

In 1854, the American entrepreneur Cyrus Field set out to lay a 2,000-mile telegraph cable across the Atlantic. Nothing like it had ever been attempted and Field knew nothing about electricity, telegraphy…

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Gerald P Cestkowski
American Dynamite

While everyone can mentally visualize a stick or bundle of dynamite, very few have any real understanding of one of mankind's most important industrial implements.This comprehensive treatment of the decei…

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Aileen Teague
Policing on Drugs

Internationally, although the war on drugs is widely considered a failure, it continues to be deeply entrenched in US diplomacy with partner nations through counternarcotics agreements, continued DEA pres…

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Robert Tomlinson
Black Montmartre in the Jazz Age

In Jazz Age Montmartre, African American musicians arrived in response to a demand for American dance rhythms. Hallowed entertainment venues acquired jazz orchestras, and a plethora of clubs sprang up in …

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Carmen Lamas
The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas

The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas argues that the process of recovering Latina/o figures and writings in the nineteenth century does not merely create a bridge between the US and La…

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Ralph Brauer
The Age of Discontent

This revisionist view of late-nineteenth-century history credits Main Street, not Wall Street, with laying the foundations of modern AmericaIn American history, the prevailing narratives of the tumultuous…

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Haley Young
Kentucky Greenhorn

When Archie's mother passes away, his tyrannical father takes his upbringing into his own hands. Born to a wealthy family in a sprawling estate in the Kentucky Hills, Archie faces a rude awakening when hi…

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Eric Jay Dolin
The Wreck of the Mentor

From the best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters comes the story of the American whaleship Mentor , wrecked in 1832 on a remote reef in the western Pacific. With supplies dwindling, the twenty-two…

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Paul Lewis McBain
A Drunken Bee

Sunthorn Phu (1786-1855) is an unlikely figure through which to understand nineteenth-century Buddhism in Siam. Despite being described as a "drunken writer" by the court astrologer after his de…

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David S Brown
A Hell of a Storm

"Insightful." ---The Wall Street Journal * "Noteworthy...readers will come away better informed about antebellum history and how it mirrors current events." ---BooklistThe fascinating …

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Paul Quigley
The Man Behind the Cane

A new perspective on the life of the US politician best known for the infamous assault that paved the bloody road to the Civil War. In 1856, South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks assaulted Massachuset…

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Catherine Clinton
Battles of the American Civil War

"A fascinating series that examines the causes and consequences of one of the deadliest conflicts in our country's history. More than 3 million men, women, and--yes--children fought in the Civil War.…

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Securing Empire

This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats.

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Catherine Clinton
Battles of the American Civil War

"A fascinating series that examines the causes and consequences of one of the deadliest conflicts in our country's history. More than 3 million men, women, and--yes--children fought in the Civil War.…

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