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Displaying records 161 through 170 of 1861 |
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Price: $51.95
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Sale: $8.00
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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: Kenneth E. Hendrickson
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Publisher: Greenwood Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.89
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Publication Date: 2003-08-30
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: The 1898 war between the United States and Spain receives relatively little attention in most American history texts, yet it is an event of major importance. The United States emerged as the world's greatest power in the 20th century. In many ways, the war with Spain was a stepping stone from one era of American history to the next, showing Americans that aggressive nationalism could be fraught with danger, even as it was crowned with splendor. This book includes an overview essay, five essays on specific aspects of the war, and a conclusion. A biographical section features sketches of Americans, Spaniards, Cubans, and Filipinos who played important roles, showing the human element of the events. Fifteen primary documents grant readers and researchers a direct view of the elements that transpired and how they were reported. This book provides everything students or general readers need to begin their research into a watershed conflict in American history.
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Manufacturer: University of Idaho Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John D. McDermott
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Publisher: University of Idaho Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.83
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Publication Date: 1978-06
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Reading Level: 246
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Description: "Forlorn Hope" is a term that dates to the Revolutionary War or earlier. It means to send a small group of men, usually soldiers, on a desperate, possibly suicidal, mission. On a June morning in 1877, 109 soldiers and civilian volunteers rode into White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory. They planned to launch a surprise attack on a band of Nez Perce Indians camped in the canyon. In the encounter that followed, a numerically inferior force of Nez Perce warriors inflicted a defeat on the soldiers more complete than the one suffered the previous year by the Seventh Cavalry at the Little Bighorn. The battle at White Bird Canyon was the spark that ignited a four-month, 1,200-mile trek that ended in tragedy for the tribe that only seventy years earlier had saved Lewis and Clark from starvation. Published in a limited edition in 1978, Forlorn Hope was named by Indian wars historians as one of the best books ever written on the Nez Perce War. It provides an easy-to-read snapshot of the politics and people involved in a unique chapter in the history of Idaho and the American West.
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Price: $47.00
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Sale: $41.26
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Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Richard Franklin Bensel
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 1991-01-25
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Reading Level: 468
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Description: This book describes the impact of the American Civil War on the development of central state authority in the late nineteenth century. The author contends that intense competition for control of the national political economy between the free North and slave South produced secession, which in turn spawned the formation of two new states, a market-oriented northern Union and a southern Confederacy in which government controls on the economy were much more important. During the Civil War, the American state both expanded and became the agent of northern economic development. After the war ended, however, tension within the Republican coalition led to the abandonment of Reconstruction and to the return of former Confederates to political power throughout the South. As a result, American state expansion ground to a halt during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book makes a major contribution to the understanding of the causes and consequences of the Civil War and the legacy of the war in the twentieth century.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $15.89
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355
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Publication Date: 1996-04
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Reading Level: 228
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.95
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Manufacturer: University of Arizona Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh
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Publisher: University of Arizona Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 2007-05-17
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: On April 30, 1871, an unlikely group of Anglo-Americans, Mexican Americans, and Tohono O’odham Indians massacred more than a hundred Apache men, women, and children who had surrendered to the U.S. Army at Camp Grant, near Tucson, Arizona. Thirty or more Apache children were stolen and either kept in Tucson homes or sold into slavery in Mexico. Planned and perpetrated by some of the most prominent men in Arizona’s territorial era, this organized slaughter has become a kind of “phantom history” lurking beneath the Southwest’s official history, strangely present and absent at the same time. Seeking to uncover the mislaid past, this powerful book begins by listening to those voices in the historical record that have long been silenced and disregarded. Massacre at Camp Grant fashions a multivocal narrative, interweaving the documentary record, Apache narratives, historical texts, and ethnographic research to provide new insights into the atrocity. Thus drawing from a range of sources, it demonstrates the ways in which painful histories continue to live on in the collective memories of the communities in which they occurred. Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh begins with the premise that every account of the past is suffused with cultural, historical, and political characteristics. By paying attention to all of these aspects of a contested event, he provides a nuanced interpretation of the cultural forces behind the massacre, illuminates how history becomes an instrument of politics, and contemplates why we must study events we might prefer to forget.
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Price: $4.95
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Sale: $3.03
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Manufacturer: National Woodlands Publishing Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jack Utter
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Publisher: National Woodlands Publishing Company
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.86
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Publication Date: 1991-04
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Reading Level: 29
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Price: $30.95
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Sale: $19.98
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dwight T. Pitcaithley
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Edition: 2003. Corr. 5th
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 2003-05
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Paul Shackel uses four well-known Civil War-era National Park sites to illustrate the evolution of commemorative expression at sites of controversy. He shows how interpretation may change dramatically from one generation to another as interpreters try to accommodate, or ignore, certain memories. Memory in Black and White is important reading for all who are interested in history and memory. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $44.79
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Manufacturer: Praeger Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Joseph A. Ranney
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Publisher: Praeger Publishers
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Dewey Decimal Number: 342.73029
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Publication Date: 2006-10-30
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Reading Level: 212
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Description: The Civil War devastated the South, and the end of slavery turned Southern society upside down. How did the South regain social, economic, and political stability in the wake of emancipation and wartime destruction, and how did the South come together with its former enemies in the North? Why did the South not slip back into chaos? This book holds the keys to the answers to these tantalizing questions. Author Joseph Ranney explodes the myth of a unified South and exposes just how complex and fragile the postwar recovery was. The end of slavery and the emergence of a radically new social order raised a host of thorny legal issues: What place should newly freed slaves have in Southern society? What was the proper balance between states' rights and a newly powerful federal government? How could postwar economic distress be eased without destroying property rights? Should new civil rights be extended to women as well as blacks? Southern states addressed these issues in surprisingly different ways. Ranney also shatters the popular myth that a new legal system was imposed upon the South by the victorious North during Reconstruction. Southern states took an active hand in shaping postwar changes, and Southern courts often defended civil rights and national reunification against hostile Southern legislators. How did that come about? Ranney provides some surprising answers. He also profiles judges and other lawmakers who shaped Southern law during and after Reconstruction, including heretofore little-known black leaders in the South. These extraordinary individuals created a legal heritage that assisted leaders of the second civil rights revolution a century after Reconstruction ended. This book adds immeasurably to our knowledge not only of Southern history, but also of American legal and social history.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $17.73
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Manufacturer: University of Oklahoma Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James, H. Bradley
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Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 2007-02-01
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: This is a journal kept by Lieutenant James H. Bradley of the Seventh Infantry, which records in considerable detail the major incidents of the march of the Montana Column, under the command of Colonel John Gibbon, from Fort Shaw to Fort Ellis to participate in the Sioux campaign of 1876. Bradley was engaged in putting his journal into shape from field when he was called to fight another Indian campaign, agains Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces, from which he never returned. So, as not to leave an unfinished story, a letter written by Bradley describing the finding of the bodies of Custer's commanded, is appended to the Journal.
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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Stackpole Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: John Phillip Langellier
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Publisher: Stackpole Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82092
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Publication Date: 2000-07
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: 80 b/w photos 8 x 11 "In this readable and well-researched study, John Langellier establishes himself as the premier biographer of Hollywood's Custer. Custer: The Man, the Myth, the Movies is a fascinating tour of this country's peculiar popular culture." -Gregory J. W. Urwin, author of Custer Victorious: The Civil War Battles of General George Armstrong Custer Far from a standard biography of Custer, this book chronicles his widow's mythmaking influence in the popular press, examines how historians have distorted or conflated facts to suit their ideology, and explores his legacy through the lens of popular culture. Custer: The Man, the Myth, the Movies traces the evolution of a minor incident that became an internationally recognized symbol of the American West, with a focus on Hollywood's ever-changing versions of "Custer's Last Stand." Featured throughout the book are rare photos of Custer and his life on the plains, posters and movie stills, and exhibits of Custer memorabilia. John P. Langellier, currently a museum director, is the author of numerous books and articles on the American West and military history. He is also a contributing author and series editor of Greenhill Books' G.I. Series.
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Displaying records 161 through 170 of 1861
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