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Military

Blue & Gray Almanac The Civil War in Facts and Figures, Recipes and Slang

Nofi Albert

ISBN: HB: 9781612005522, Casemate, November 2017
304 pp., 21x15 cm

Albert Nofi tells the story of the American War through a range of insightful essays, anecdotes, and facts. Did you know... - During the final days of the war some Richmond citizens were wont to throw "Starvation Parties", at which elegantly attired...

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America

Military

In the Shadows of Victory II America's Forgotten Military Leaders, The Spanish-American War to World War II

Phillips Thomas D.

ISBN: HB: 9781612005461, Casemate, November 2017
288 pp., 21x15 cm, 30 illus.

During the course of America's existence, history has enshrined an exceptional few military leaders in the public's collective consciousness while sometimes ignoring others often equally as deserving, relegating them to footnotes at best. Though the...

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Business & Economics

Sovereign of the Market The Money Question in Early America

Sklansky Jeffrey

ISBN: HB: 9780226480336, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

What should serve as money, who should control its creation and circulation, and according to what rules? For more than two hundred years, the "money question" shaped American social thought, becoming a central subject of political debate and class c...

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Standing Up for Civil Rights in St. Louis

Doyle Amanda E., Adams Melanie A.

ISBN: PB: 9781883982911, University of Chicago Press, Missouri Historical Society Press, November 2017
64 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 18 halftones

The bustling river city of St. Louis occupies a special place in the long history of African American advocacy for civil rights and equal justice. The city was home to a small but thriving population of free blacks even before the Civil War. It was t...

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America

First Impressions A Reader's Journey to Iconic Places of the American Southwest

Weber David J., DeBuys William

ISBN: HB: 9780300215045, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 colour illus., 52 black&white illus.

This unique guide for literate travelers in the American Southwest tells the story of fifteen iconic sites across Arizona, New Mexico, southern Utah, and southern Colorado through the eyes of the explorers, missionaries, and travelers who were the fi...

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America

Forgotten Continent A History of the New Latin America

Reid Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300224658, Yale University Press, October 2017
416 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Ten years after its first publication, Michael Reid's best-selling survey of the state of contemporary Latin America has been wholly updated to reflect the new realities of the "Forgotten Continent". The former Americas editor for the Economist, Reid...

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America

American Genocide The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873

Madley Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300230697, ISBN: HB: 9780300181364, Yale University Press, October 2017
712 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars tha...

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America

American West A New Interpretive History

Hine Robert V., Faragher John Mack, Coleman Jon T.

ISBN: PB: 9780300185171, Yale University Press, October 2017
520 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 228 black&white illus.

The newly revised second edition of this concise, engaging, and unorthodox history of America's West has been updated to incorporate new research, including recent scholarship on Native American lives and cultures. An ideal text for course work, it p...

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Military

Autobiography or Narrative of a Soldier The Peninsular War Memoirs of William Brown of the 45th Foot

Brown William

ISBN: HB: 9781911512943, Casemate, Helion and Company, October 2017
152 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 6 maps

William Brown's autobiography is a unique historical document, since he is the only memoirist to have come to light from the ranks of the 45th (1st Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot for the period of the Peninsula War – a regiment that was one of Wel...

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America

Education

School, Society, and State A New Education to Govern Modern America, 1890-1940

Steffes Tracy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226435305, ISBN: HB: 9780226772097, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
304 pp., 23x15 cm

"Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife", wrote John Dewey in his classic work "The School and Society". In "School, Society, and State", Tracy Steffes places that idea at the center of her exploration of the con...

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