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Riches, Rivals and Radicals 100 Years of Museums in America

Schwarzer Marjorie

ISBN: PB: 9781933253756, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, March 2013
263 pp., 29.2x23 cm, 200 colour illus.

Highly illustrated, exhaustively researched, and eminently readable, this new edition of "Riches, Rivals and Radicals" describes the rise of the museum in the United States from the early twentieth century to the present – a story that parallels hist...

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America

Republic Afloat Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America

Raffety Matthew Taylor

ISBN: HB: 9780226924007, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 10 halftones

In the years before the Civil War, many Americans saw the sea as a world apart, an often violent and insular culture governed by its own definitions of honor and ruled by its own authorities. The truth, however, is that legal cases that originated at...

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America

John Brown's Spy The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

Lubet Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300180497, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Brown's "Spy" tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armoury in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a woman...

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Law

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Colorado Doctrine Water Rights, Corporations, and Distributive Justice on the American Frontier

Schorr David

ISBN: HB: 9780300134476, Yale University Press, January 2013
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Making extensive use of archival and other primary sources, David Schorr demonstrates that the development of the "appropriation doctrine", a system of private rights in water, was part of a radical attack on monopoly and corporate power in the arid...

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America

Good Rich and What They Cost Us Chapters in the Curious History of Wealth and American Democracy

Dalzell Robert F.

ISBN: HB: 9780300175592, Yale University Press, January 2013
224 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 23 black&white illus.

This timely book holds up for scrutiny a great paradox at the core of the American Dream: a passionate belief in the principle of democracy combined with an equally passionate celebration of the creation of wealth. Americans treasure an open, equal s...

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America

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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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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