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Speeches of Frederick Douglass A Critical Edition

Douglass Frederick, McKivigan John R. IV, Husband Julie, Kaufman Heather L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300192179, Yale University Press, October 2018
656 pp., 21x14 cm, 5 black&white illus.

This volume brings together twenty of Frederick Douglass's most historically significant speeches on a range of issues, including slavery, abolitionism, civil rights, sectionalism, temperance, women's rights, economic development, and immigration. Do...

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Benjamin Franklin The Religious Life of a Founding Father

Kidd Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300240177, ISBN: HB: 9780300217490, Yale University Press, October 2018
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

A major new biography, illuminating the great mystery of Benjamin Franklin's faith. Renowned as a printer, scientist, and diplomat, Benjamin Franklin also published more works on religious topics than any other eighteenth-century American layperson....

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Through Their Eyes A Community History of Eagle, Circle, and Central

Koskey Michael, Lotvonen Varpu, Tyrell Laurel

ISBN: PB: 9781602233577, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2018
210 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 2 maps, 2 tables

The towns of Eagle, Circle, and Central are tucked away in the cold, rugged, and sparsely populated central-eastern interior of Alaska. These communities have fewer than three hundred residents in an area of more than 22,000 square miles. Yet they ar...

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World of Homeowners American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid

Kwak Nancy H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598253, ISBN: HB: 9780226282350, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Is there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around th...

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Political Science

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Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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Christianity

Christianity and Race in the American South A History

Harvey Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780226598086, ISBN: HB: 9780226415352, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 table

The history of race and religion in the American South is infused with tragedy, survival, and water – from St. Augustine on the shores of Florida's Atlantic Coast to the swampy mire of Jamestown to the floodwaters that nearly destroyed New Orleans. D...

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Origins of Cool in Postwar America

Dinerstein Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226599069, ISBN: HB: 9780226152653, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

"Cool". It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. "The Origins of Cool in Postwar America" uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came...

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America

Caribbean Winter

Morand Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781909930681, Signal Books, October 2018
176 pp., 21.5x16 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1927, Paul Morand – a French diplomat and noted European author – made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a diary about his experience o...

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Against the Grain A Deep History of the Earliest States

James C. Scott

ISBN: PB: 9780300240214, Yale University Press, September 2018
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 13 black&white illus.

Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today's states? Most people believe that plant and animal domestication allowed humans, finally, to settle...

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American Enlightenments Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason

Winterer Caroline

ISBN: PB: 9780300240269, Yale University Press, September 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

A provocative reassessment of the concept of an American golden age of European-born reason and intellectual curiosity in the years following the Revolutionary War The accepted myth of the "American Enlightenment" suggests that the rejection of monar...

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