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America

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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America

Bankers and Empire How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean

Hudson Peter James

ISBN: PB: 9780226598116, ISBN: HB: 9780226459110, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

From the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a stunning, unprecedented, and often bloody period of international expansion in the Caribbean. The precursors to institutions like Citibank and J...

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America

Building a Revolutionary State The Legal Transformation of New York, 1776-1783

Pashman Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226544014, ISBN: HB: 9780226334356, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 1 table

How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed...

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America

Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America

Walker Anders

ISBN: HB: 9780300223989, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like...

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America

Military

By Fire and Bayonet Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

Brown Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781911512608, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 8 maps

There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in We...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 2 A Narrative History from 1877

Dailey Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226300825, ISBN: HB: 9780226300795, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 haltfones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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America

Building the American Republic, Volume 1 A Narrative History to 1877

Watson Harry L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226300511, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
640 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

Now more than ever, we need informed citizens who bring a thorough knowledge of America's history to community life and the political process. Understanding what built our republic allows us to better maintain its democracy. These books are here to h...

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America

Building the Prison State Race and the Politics of Mass Incarceration

Schoenfeld Heather

ISBN: PB: 9780226521015, ISBN: HB: 9780226520964, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 13 line drawings, 4 tables

The United States incarcerates more people per capita than any other industrialized nation in the world – about 1 in 100 adults, or more than 2 million people – while national spending on prisons has catapulted 400 percent. Given the vast racial disp...

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America

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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Military

Battle above the Clouds Lifting the Siege of Chattanooga and the Battle of Lookout Mountain, October 16 - November 24, 1863

Powell David A.

ISBN: PB: 9781611213775, Casemate, Savas Beatie, August 2017
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images and maps

In October 1863, the Union Army of the Cumberland was besieged in Chattanooga, all but surrounded by familiar opponents: The Confederate Army of Tennessee. The Federals were surviving by the narrowest of margins, thanks only to a trickle of supplies...

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