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Surveying Early America The Point of Beginning: An Illustrated History
ISBN: PB: 9781947603028, University of Chicago Press, University of Cincinnati Press, February 2021
176 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 100 colour plates
At the age of sixteen, our first president began his professional life as a surveyor, going on to lead several expeditions to measure and map the American interior. The early surveyors, whether determining a colonial border, setting a boundary for a...
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£28,00
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Skull Collectors Race, Science, and America's Unburied Dead
ISBN: PB: 9780226760575, ISBN: HB: 9780226233482, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
When Philadelphia naturalist Samuel George Morton died in 1851, no one cut off his head, boiled away its flesh, and added his grinning skull to a collection of crania. It would have been strange, but perhaps fitting, had Morton's skull wound up in a...
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Surviving Genocide Native Nations and the United States from the American Revolution to Bleeding Kansas
ISBN: PB: 9780300255362, ISBN: HB: 9780300218121, Yale University Press, November 2020
544 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 49 black&white illus.
In the first part of this sweeping two-volume history, Jeffrey Ostler investigates how American democracy relied on Indian dispossession and the federally sanctioned use of force to remove or slaughter Indians in the way of U.S. expansion. He charts...
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Singer's Needle An Undisciplined History of Panama
ISBN: PB: 9780226342450, ISBN: HB: 9780226342313, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones
Ezer Vierba's The Singer's Needle offers an innovative history of twentieth-century Panama that illuminates the nature of power and politics in a small but volatile nation. Using novelistic techniques, Vierba explores three episodes that proved criti...
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£24,00
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£76,00
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Steam City Railroads, Urban Space, and Corporate Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Baltimore
ISBN: HB: 9780226720258, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
Anyone interested in the rise of American corporate capitalism should look to the streets of Baltimore. There, in 1827, citizens launched a bold new venture: a "rail-road" that would link their city with the fertile Ohio River Valley. They dubbed thi...
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£44,00
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States of Exception in American History
ISBN: PB: 9780226712321, ISBN: HB: 9780226712291, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing
"States of Exception in American History" brings to light the remarkable number of instances since the Founding in which the protections of the Constitution have been overridden, held in abeyance, or deliberately weakened for certain members of the p...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...
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£27,00
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£79,00
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Stay and Fight it Out The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863, Culp's Hill and the North End of the Battlefield
ISBN: PB: 9781611213317, Casemate, Savas Beatie, December 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 10 maps, 150 illus.
July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army's XI Corps. Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg, the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village. Reinf...
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£11,00
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Supermarket USA Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race
ISBN: HB: 9780300232691, Yale University Press, November 2018
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.
Supermarkets were invented in the United States, and from the 1940s on they made their way around the world, often explicitly to carry American-style economic culture with them. This innovative history tells us how supermarkets were used as anticommu...
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Speeches of Frederick Douglass A Critical Edition
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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