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Displaying records 151 through 160 of 1861 |
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $27.96
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Manufacturer: University Press of Kansas
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Peter C. Myers
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Publisher: University Press of Kansas
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8092
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Publication Date: 2008-02-21
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Reading Level: 265
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Description: For Frederick Douglass, the iconic nineteenth-century slave and abolitionist, the foundations for his arguments in support of racial equality rested on natural rights and natural law - and the bold proclamation of the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal. But because many Americans never observed this principle - and in Douglass' day even renounced it - he made it his life's work to move the nation toward this vision of a more noble liberalism. Peter Myers now considers that effort and the natural rights arguments by which Douglass confronted race in America.Myers examines the philosophic core of Douglass' political thought, offering a greater understanding of its depth and coherence. He depicts Douglass as the leading thinker to apply the Founders' doctrine of natural rights to the plight of African Americans - an activist who grounded his arguments on the rights guaranteed by the Constitution and the inherent injustice not only of slavery but of any form of racial superiority.Myers first reconsiders Douglass' descriptive analysis of slavery, developing his arguments for its natural wrongness and for its natural weakness in conjunction with the right of resistance. He then examines Douglass' understandings of civil government in general and of the U.S. constitutional order in particular, exploring his argument on the Constitution's relation to slavery and his thoughts on the powers and duties of the federal and state governments in the matter of postslavery race relations - including new insight into Douglass' controversial "do nothing" doctrine.Myers argues that Douglass' political thought at its core is both more coherent and more defensible in substance than his critics acknowledge. He maintains that Douglass was right in finding the natural rights principles of the Declaration a sufficient theoretical basis for addressing the nation's racial problems and contends that his hopefulness for the demise of slavery and white supremacy was marked by moderation and realism.Myers finds in Douglass' political thought the foundations of a revitalized argument for the mainstream civil rights, integrationist tradition of African American political thought. His analysis offers a new way of looking at an important thinker, as well as a compelling case for hoping that race relations in America will improve over time.
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $23.22
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 2006-11-09
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: The pivotal era of Reconstruction has inspired an outstanding historical literature. In the half-century after W.E.B. DuBois published Black Reconstruction in America (1935), a host of thoughtful and energetic authors helped to dismantle racist stereotypes about the aftermath of emancipation and Union victory in the Civil War. The resolution of long-running interpretive debates shifted the issues at stake in Reconstruction scholarship, but the topic has remained a vital venue for original exploration of the American past. In Reconstructions: New Perspectives on the Postbellum United States, eight rising historians survey the latest generation of work and point to promising directions for future research. They show that the field is opening out to address a wider range of adjustments to the experiences and effects of Civil War. Increased interest in cultural history now enriches understandings traditionally centered on social and political history. Attention to gender has joined a focus on labor as a powerful strategy for analyzing negotiations over private and public authority. The contributors suggest that Reconstruction historiography might further thrive by strengthening connections to such subjects as western history, legal history, and diplomatic history, and by redefining the chronological boundaries of the postwar period. The essays provide more than a variety of attractive vantage points for fresh examination of a major phase of American history. By identifying the most exciting recent approaches to a theme previously studied so ably, the collection illuminates the creative process in scholarly historical literature.
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Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marshall Sprague
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.83
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Publication Date: 1980-02-01
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Reading Level: 364
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Description: Massacre is a highly readable and well-researched account of a violent outbreak of a party of White River Utes on the western slope of the Rockies during the autumn of 1879. . . . Written in an exciting narrative style which rivals that of a good novel."—Kliatt
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Price: $34.95
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Sale: $34.95
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Manufacturer: University of South Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Matthew J. Mancini
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Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 365.65
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Publication Date: 1996-05
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Reading Level: 283
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Description: A cruel chapter in Southern criminal justice.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $7.32
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Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: W. A. Graham
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 1988-09-01
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Reading Level: 284
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Description: First published in 1926 and respected ever since for its measured view of the most famous battle in the American West, The Story of the Little Big Horn asks questions that are still being debated. What were the causes of the debacle that wiped out Custer’s command? Was it due to lack of a definite battle plan? To lack of correct information about the number, organization, and equipment of the Indians? To Custer’s hot-headedness and thirst for glory? To Reno’s alleged cowardice? To Benteen’s delay in providing reinforcement? In his factual but dramatic account, W. A. Graham suggests that an awesome concatenation of attitudes and circumstances ensured the defeat of the Seventh Cavalry. On that Sunday in June 1876, the Indians were simply better (though not braver) soldiers.
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Price: $11.50
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Sale: $4.20
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Manufacturer: Belknap Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Frederick Douglass
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Publisher: Belknap Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 326.92
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Publication Date: 1991-01-01
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Reading Level: 192
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Description: Frederick Douglass was born into bondage and sold repeatedly in the slave markets of the South. Because he secretly taught himself to read and write, we possess one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Written over 100 years ago, this classic goes far to explain why American still suffers from the great injustices of the past.
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Price: $21.25
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Sale: $16.00
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Manufacturer: PowerKids Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Library Binding
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Author: Georgene Poulakidas
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Publisher: PowerKids Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.89
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Publication Date: 2005-01
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Reading Level: 24
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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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: $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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Manufacturer: University of Nebraska Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Paul Andrew Hutton
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Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.80924
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Publication Date: 1985-03-01
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: Philip H. Sheridan's reputation in the Civil War often overshadows his longer and more significant roles as the nation's chief Indian fighter and commander of the army. Phil Sheridan and His Army is the first comprehensive biography and study of that later career. Formed by his experience in the Civil War and Reconstruction era, Sheridan came to see himself as the instrument of the United States' social and political destiny to open the West for white settlement and development. Paul Hutton analyzes Sheridan's relations with his subordinates, the institutional nature of his army, his campaigns, the logistics of them, and the special circumstances of defeating, pacifying, relocating, and negotiating with the Indians. At the same time, Gilded Age politics and laissez-faire capitalism shaped the grim future of the Indian—and of Sheridan's beleagured quasi-peacetime army. This definitive, abundantly illustrated history also fills out other sides of General Sheridan, who commanded Chicago after its great fire, quelled its labor riots, launched Buffalo Bill Cody on his career, served as an observed in the Franco-Prussian War, played a key role in the 1876 election crisis, and championed a national park system free from commercial exploitation.
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Displaying records 151 through 160 of 1861
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