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Nation's Crucible The Louisiana Purchase and the Creation of America

Kastor Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194616, Yale University Press, January 2013
326 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

In 1803 the United States purchased Louisiana from France. This seemingly simple acquisition brought with it an enormous new territory as well as the country's first large population of nonnaturalized Americans-Native Americans, African Americans, an...

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America

Marlborough's America

Saunders Webb Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9780300178593, Yale University Press, January 2013
704 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 colour images, 25 black&white illus.

Scholars of British America generally conclude that the early eighteenth-century Anglo-American empire was commercial in economics, liberal in politics, and parochial in policy, somnambulant in an era of "salutary neglect", but, in Marlborough's Amer...

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Technology & Engineering

America

Iron Way Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America

Thomas William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187465, Yale University Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Beginning with Frederick Douglass' escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and national forma...

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America

Yale, 1900-2001 Volume 1 & 2: Yale College Twentieth Century - a History in Present Time; Whiffenpoofs - Twentieth Century

Nash Gould Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780300047592, Yale University Press, January 2013
556 pp., 25x15 cm

This slipcased, two-volume set includes: "Yale College Twentieth Century", and "A History in Present Time". Beginning in 1900 and concluding with the events of 2001, VOLUME I is a chronological history of Yale College in the 20th Century. Using excer...

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America

Jeffersons at Shadwell

Kern Susan

ISBN: PB: 9780300187434, ISBN: HB: 9780300153903, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 56 black&white illus.

Merging archaeology, material culture, and social history, historian Susan Kern reveals the fascinating story of Shadwell, the birthplace of Thomas Jefferson and home to his parents Jane and Peter Jefferson, their eight children and over sixty slaves...

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America

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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History of Art

America

Civil War and American Art

Jones Harvey Eleanor

ISBN: HB: 9780300187335, Yale University Press, November 2012
352 pp., 31.8x25.4 cm, 177 colour images, 37 black&white illus.

The American Civil War was arguably the first modern war. Its grim reality, captured through the new medium of photography, was laid bare. American artists could not approach the conflict with the conventions of European history painting, which glamo...

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Biography & Memoires

America

Edward Bancroft Scientist, Author, Spy

Schaeper Thomas J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187458, Yale University Press, October 2012
352 pp., 22.6x14.5 cm, 4 black&white illus.

A man of as many names as motives, Edward Bancroft is a singular figure in the history of Revolutionary America. Born in Massachusetts in 1745, Bancroft moved to England as a young man in the 1760s and began building a respectable resume as both a sc...

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America

American Georgics Writings on Farming, Culture, and the Land

Hagenstein Edwin C., Gregg Sara M., Donahue Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300188042, Yale University Press, October 2012
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 33 black&white illus.

From Thomas Jefferson's Monticello to Michelle Obama's White House organic garden, the image of America as a nation of farmers has persisted from the beginnings of the American experiment. In this rich and evocative collection of agrarian writing fro...

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America

Media Studies

Enemies Within The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America

Goldberg Robert Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780300194722, Yale University Press, September 2012
370 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

There is a hunger for conspiracy news in America. Hundreds of Internet websites, magazines, newsletters, even entire publishing houses, disseminate information on invisible enemies and their secret activities, sub-versions, and coverups. Those who su...

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