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Displaying records 141 through 150 of 1861 |
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $8.94
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Manufacturer: Burford Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frank Freidel
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Publisher: Burford Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.89
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Publication Date: 2002-02-25
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Indeed it was splendid for the American public, but for the Rough Riders and other soldiers it was as grim, dirty, and bloody as any other war.
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Price: $18.00
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Sale: $16.95
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Manufacturer: Fordham University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert Engs
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.541200496073
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Publication Date: 2004-11-01
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Reading Level: 198
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Description: In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America "might have been." Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were fulfilled. Why was the American Dream realized by blacks in Hampton and not elsewhere? Engs follows a community of freedmen over a thirty-year period to answer this compelling question.
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $27.41
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Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Randolph B. Campbell
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Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 976.4
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Publication Date: 1998-02
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Reading Level: 251
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $4.90
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Manufacturer: Bison Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Charles Johnson Post
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Publisher: Bison Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.893
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Publication Date: 1999-04-01
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Charles Johnson Post (1873–1956) received not one but two handmade red flannel bellybands for protection against tropical fevers when he enlisted as a private in 1898 with the 71st New York Infantry. He was paid a monthly wage of $13.00, with an additional $1.30 combat pay per month. Setting off for what he later termed "the little wars that are the mere trivia of history," he came back to write "a mild chronicle of many little men who were painting on a big canvas, and of their little epic routines of life, with a common death at their elbow. It is only the little, but keen, tribulations that made the epic routine of an old-fashioned war."
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Price: $17.50
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Sale: $11.89
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Manufacturer: Perennial
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Eric Foner::Olivia Mahoney
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Publisher: Perennial
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.81
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Publication Date: 1995-02
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: An illustrated companion volume to the first major museum exhibit on the era of Reconstruction, written by the author of Reconstruction, the award-winning definitive book on the period. The book reproduces many of the exhibit's photos, lithographs, political cartoons, flags, quilts, and other artifacts of the era. 100 black-and-white photos; 8 pages of color photos.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $9.00
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Manufacturer: Vintage
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: David Traxel
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.89
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Publication Date: 1999-12-07
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: The 20th century may have begun in the year 1901, but the "American Century" actually began three years earlier, according to historian David Traxel, who pinpoints 1898 as the pivotal year for America's new found presence on the world stage. In his book 1898: The Birth of the American Century, Traxel combines scholarly knowledge with eloquent storytelling to chronicle the events of this crucial year that set in train the transformation of the United States from a 19th-century isolated agrarian society, into a leading world power both economically and politically. Traxel views the Spanish-American War as the epicenter of events in 1898--a war which the States won in a matter of months, though the Europeans never quite managed to defeat Spain even after several centuries of warfare. With this victory, the U.S. was now firmly established as a major military player. Economically the United States was also getting richer due to increased trade with foreign markets and because of a new generation of innovative industrialists like Ford and Westinghouse. The word "marketing" also entered the American business vocabulary, and 1898 saw the first million-dollar advertising campaign--to launch a well-known biscuit! Traxel goes on to detail how America's workforce was changing--unions fought for the rights of workers, and women pursued jobs and the right to vote. Although the United States didn't suddenly metamorphose overnight, 1898 was certainly a crucial year in its development, and Traxel recounts these events in meticulous detail. --Naomi Gesinger
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $22.76
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Manufacturer: Schiffer Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Swift Seibert
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Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.80222
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Publication Date: 2003-06
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: What did normal farm, town, and city dwellers really look like between 1880 and 1940? How did they live? During this era of rapid evolution, Western nations switched from horse-drawn vehicles to airplanes, from oil lamps to electricity, and from an agricultural to an industrial-based economy. This extensively illustrated book looks at the homes, occupations, pastimes, and transportation of the times. Here are actual events and places where everyday people display their actual furniture, clothing, hairstyles, architecture, and working conditions. Using over 250 authentic and never-before-published period photographs, it is an important reference for antique and vintage fashion collectors, decorators, preservationists, and people just plain curious about this important time of change in American history.
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Price: $20.95
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Sale: $4.50
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Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1991-05-01
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Reading Level: 264
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Description: Thirty years after the publication of John Hope Franklin's influential interpretative essay Reconstruction: After the Civil War, ten distinguished scholars have contributed to a new appraisal of Reconstruction scholarship. Recognizing Professor Franklin's major contributions to the study of the Reconstruction era, their work of analysis and review has been dedicated to him. Representing a variety of perspectives, the authors have sought to follow John Hope Franklin's admonition that Reconstruction should not be used as "a mirror of ourselves." If they have succeeded, this book in honor of a profound scholar and inspiring teacher will provoke new discussion about "the facts of Reconstruction."
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Price: $131.95
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Sale: $138.70
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Manufacturer: Greenwood Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Donald H. Dyal
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8903
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Publication Date: 1996-04-30
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: Foreshadowing the twentieth-century experience, the Spanish American War was America's first modern foreign war. Catapulting the United States into an international world power, the war had lasting international implications. Besides America's acquisition of Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Hawaii, and Guam, the war led the United States to take to the international stage, confronting Germany and Japan (foreshadowing the conflict of World War II), and creating a diplomatic bridge between Great Britain and the United States. For Spain, the 1898-1899 conflict was the death knell of empire, which led to a national crisis culminating in the Spanish Civil War. This volume provides easily accessible information on the naval and army operations, Spanish operations, and the political background to the military events, with an emphasis on future foreign affairs. The Spanish American War is seminal to an understanding of twentieth-century U.S. foreign relations--in Cuba, the Pacific, especially Japan, and with Great Britain. It is also central to an understanding of twentieth-century Spain. U.S. military history also requires an understanding of amphibious operations, naval and army reform, deployment command and control, and interservice cooperation as reflected in the Spanish American War. This book provides a quick reference to what was once called this "splendid little war."
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $18.94
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Manufacturer: Louisiana State University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: William Gillette
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Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 1980-05-01
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Reading Level: 480
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Description: Retreat from Reconstruction is a clarifying, comprehensive analysis of the course of Reconstruction during the 1870s, a decade that provided the true test for the political programs of the Republicans. This award-winning study interweaves events in the South with the political developments in the North that eventually brought about the withdrawal of support from the program.
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Displaying records 141 through 150 of 1861
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