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Displaying records 61 through 70 of 1861 |
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $13.54
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Manufacturer: Montana Historical Society Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jerome A. Greene
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Publisher: Montana Historical Society Press
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 355
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Publication Date: 2001-10-01
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: Nez Perce Summer, 1877 tells the story of a people's epic struggle to survive spiritually, culturally, and physically in the face of unrelenting military force. Written by one of the foremost experts in frontier military history and reviewed by members of the Nez Perce tribe, this definitive treatment of the Nez Perce War is the first to incorporate research from all known accounts of Nez Perce and U.S. military participants. Enhanced by sixteen detailed maps and forty-nine historic photographs, Jerome A. Greene's gripping narrative takes readers on a three-and-a-half-month, 1,700-mile journey across the wilds of Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana territories. All of the skirmishes and battles of the war receive detailed treatment, which benefits from Greene's astute analysis of both sides' strategies and decision making. Between 100 and 150 of the more than 800 Nez Perce men, women, and children who began the trek were killed during the war. Almost as many died in the months following the surrender, after they were exiled to malaria-ridden northwestern Oklahoma. Army deaths numbered 113. The casualties, on both sides, were an extraordinary price for a war that nobody wanted, but whose history has since intrigued generations of Americans. (6 x 9, 576 pages, b&w photos, illustrations, maps)
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $3.99
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Manufacturer: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: James Welch::Paul Stekler
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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 1995-11-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: In his first nonfiction work, the author of The Death of Jim Loney and The Indian Lawyer poignantly resurrects the Plains Indians' side of the story of the Little Bighorn from beneath a mountain of myth and misinterpretation, revamping the meaning of the conflict for a multicultural society. Photos.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $5.85
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Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Steven J. Diner
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1998-08-05
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: The early twentieth century was a time of technological revolution in the United States. New inventions and corporations were transforming the economic landscape, bringing a stunning array of consumer goods, millions of additional jobs, and ever more wealth. Steven J. Diner draws on the rich scholarship of recent social history to show how these changes affected Americans of all backgrounds and walks of life, and in doing so offers a striking new interpretation of a crucial epoch in our history.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $16.15
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Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Graham A. Cosmas
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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.89
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Publication Date: 1998-01
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Reading Level: 349
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Description: This fully documented study presents the organization and administration of the Spanish-American War army and the responses of the War Department to the conflict of 1898 and the challenges of overseas empire. In a clear and concise manner, Cosmas puts forth factors that invited many of the war's disasters. The Congressional penury of the 1890s, the political conflict in Congress, changes in President William McKinley's military strategy and goals, which placed frequent shifting demands upon the army - all contributed to sending inexperienced land forces ashore in Cuba. This account reconstructs the War Department's story of the war and traces the course of the department's effort to organize and equip an army and then deploy it to secure objectives of national policy. Cosmas analyzes each major decision concerning these matters: how and why it was made and the results it produced.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $15.81
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Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Carl H. Moneyhon
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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 976.405
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Publication Date: 2004-11
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: At the end of the Civil War, Texans existed in a world with an uncertain future. The South - and especially Texas, which had escaped the military ravages of the war - stood poised on the brink of a new social, economic, and political order. Congressional Reconstruction, the Freedmen's Bureau, the U.S. Army, and a Republican state administration all presaged change. Nonetheless, nine years later in 1874, Texas more closely resembled the Texas of 1861 than anyone might have predicted at war's end. Reconstruction had remade little. In Texas after the Civil War, Carl H. Moneyhon reconsiders the reasons Reconstruction failed to live up to its promise. He shows that the period was not one of corruption and irresponsible government, as earlier studies have argued, nor was the Republican regime of Edmund J. Davis devoid of accomplishments. Rather, the fact that the Civil War had shaken but not destroyed the antebellum community made the resistance to changes in government and society even greater than elsewhere in the South. Moneyhon examines the character of violence in the state, as well as the social and economic forces that shaped the response to Reconstruction. Clearly written, this culmination of the last fifty years of research on the era will stand as the definitive synthesis and interpretation of Reconstruction in Texas for years to come.
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Sale: $13.27
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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: Kenneth M. Stampp
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Publisher: Vintage
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.81
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Publication Date: 1967-10-12
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Reading Level: 256
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $9.86
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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: Herman J. Viola::Jan Shelton Danis
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Publisher: Bison Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.82
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Publication Date: 2001-09-01
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Reading Level: 101
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Description: "I am an old man, and soon my spirit must leave this earth to join the spirit of my fathers. Therefore, I shall speak only the truth in telling what I know of the fight on the Little Bighorn River where General Custer was killed. Curly, who was with us, will tell you that I do not lie." So spoke White Man Runs Him, a Crow Indian who with five other Crow warriors had served as a scout for Custer's Seventh Cavalry on June 25, 1876, the day of the battle known to generations of white Americans as "Custer's Last Stand." They survived the battle, but Custer and more than 250 troopers did not. Thus their accounts and those of the Lakotas and Cheyennes who triumphed at Little Bighorn (or Greasy Grass, as it was known to the Lakotas) offer the only firsthand picture of what happened that fateful day. These stories—from leaders as renowned as Black Elk and Sitting Bull, warriors such as Wooden Leg, a Cheyenne woman, and Arikara and Crow scouts—at last bring one of the most unforgettable showdowns in American history to vivid, complex, multifaceted life.
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Price: $22.50
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Sale: $21.75
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Manufacturer: The University of North Carolina Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Paul D. Escott
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Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.7456
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Publication Date: 2008-10-01
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Although North Carolina was a "home front" state rather than a battlefield state for most of the Civil War, it was heavily involved in the Confederate war effort and experienced many conflicts as a result. North Carolinians were divided over the issue of secession, and changes in race and gender relations brought new controversy. Blacks fought for freedom, women sought greater independence, and their aspirations for change stimulated fierce resistance from more privileged groups. Republicans and Democrats fought over power during Reconstruction and for decades thereafter disagreed over the meaning of the war and Reconstruction. With contributions by well-known historians as well as talented younger scholars, this volume offers new insights into all the key issues of the Civil War era that played out in pronounced ways in the Tar Heel State. In nine essays composed specifically for this volume, contributors address themes such as ambivalent whites, freed blacks, the political establishment, racial hopes and fears, postwar ideology, and North Carolina women. These issues of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras were so powerful that they continue to agitate North Carolinians today. Contributors include David Brown, Judkin Browning, Laura F. Edwards, Paul D. Escott, John C. Inscoe, Chandra Manning, Barton A. Myers, Steven E. Nash, Paul Yandle, and Karin Zipf. The editor is Paul D. Escott.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $9.95
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Manufacturer: University Press of Florida
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
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Publisher: University Press of Florida
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.9061
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Publication Date: 1999-04-05
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Reading Level: 352
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Description: Written by the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin", this work describes life in Florida in the latter half of the 19th century. Through simple stories of events and people, Stowe portrays an idyllic life of picnicking, sailing and river touring expeditions.
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Price: $12.95
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Sale: $265.15
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Manufacturer: Dutton Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Leigh W. Rutledge
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Publisher: Dutton Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.8
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Publication Date: 1996-04-01
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: A nostalgic look back at what life was like in America at the turn of the century captures a world in which only four states had given women the right to vote, the Statue of Liberty was only fifteen years old, and women could be arrested for smoking on New York streets.
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Displaying records 61 through 70 of 1861
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