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Abolitionists Abroad: Lamin Sanneh; In 1792, nearly 1,200 freed American slaves crossed the Atlantic and established in Freetown, West Africa, a community dedicated to anti-slavery and opposed to the African chieftain hierarchy that was tied to slavery. Lamin Sanneh's engrossing book narrates this story of freed slaves who set out to establish communities that would be havens for ex-slaves and an example to the rest of Africa. Tracking this potent African American anti-slavery and democratizing movement through the nineteenth century, Lamin Sanneh recounts a crucial development in the history of West Africa.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

The Accidental Republic: John Fabian Witt; John Fabian Witt argues that experiments in accident law at the turn of the twentieth century arose out of competing views of the loose network of ideas and institutions that historians call the ideology of free labor. These experiments a century ago shaped twentieth- and twenty-first-century American accident law; they laid the foundations of the American administrative state; and they occasioned a still hotly contested legal transformation from the principles of free labor to the categories of insurance and risk.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 7, January 1786-February 1787: Adams Family; Edited by Margaret A. Hogan; Edited by C. James Taylor; Edited by Celeste Walker; Edited by Anne Decker Cecere; Edited by Gregg L. Lint; Edited by Hobson Woodward; Edited by Mary T. Claffey; In their myriad letters to one another the Adamses interspersed observations about their own family life--births and deaths, illnesses and marriages, new homes and new jobs, education and finances--with commentary on the most important social and political events of their day, from the scandals in the British royal family to the deteriorating political situation in Massachusetts that eventually culminated in Shays' Rebellion.; Hardcover 2005

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 8, March 1787-December 1789: Adams Family; Edited by Margaret A. Hogan; Edited by C. James Taylor; Edited by Jessie May Rodrique; Edited by Hobson Woodward; Edited by Gregg L. Lint; Edited by Mary T. Claffey; By early 1787, as this latest volume of the award-winning series Adams Family Correspondence opens, John and Abigail Adams, anticipating a quiet retirement from government in Massachusetts, were quickly pulled back into the public sphere by John's election as the first vice president under the new Constitution. With their characteristic candor, the Adamses thoughtfully observe the world around them, from the manners of English court life to the politics of the new federal government in New York during this crucial historical period.; Hardcover 2007

Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 9, January 1790–December 1793: Adams Family; Edited by Margaret A. Hogan; Edited by C. James Taylor; Edited by Karen N. Barzilay; Edited by Mary T. Claffey; Edited by Hobson Woodward; Edited by Robert F. Karachuk; Edited by Sara B. Sikes; Edited by Gregg L. Lint; Hardcover 2009

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 1 and 2, December 1761 - March 1778: Adams Family; Edited by L. H. Butterfield; Wendell D. Garrett, Associate Editor; Marjorie Sprague, Assistant Editor; The Adams Family Correspondence, Mr. Butterfield writes, "is an unbroken record of the changing modes of domestic life, religious views and habits, travel, dress, servants, food, schooling, reading, health and medical care, diversions, and every other conceivable aspect of manners and taste among the members of a substantial New England family who lived on both sides of the Atlantic and wrote industriously to each other over a period of more than a century." These volumes are the first in the estimated twenty or more in Series 2 of The Adams Papers.; Hardcover

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 3 and 4, April 1778 - September 1782: Adams Family; Edited by L. H. Butterfield; Edited by Marc Friedlaender; Hardcover

Adams Family Correspondence, Volumes 5 and 6, October 1782 - December 1785: Adams Family; Edited by Richard Alan Ryerson; Edited by Joanna Revelas; Edited by Celeste Walker; Edited by Gregg L. Lint; Edited by Humphrey Costello; With the summer of 1784, most of the family reunited to spend nearly a year together in Europe. Their correspondence expanded to include an ever larger and more fascinating range of Cultural topics and international figures. The record of this remarkable expansion, these volumes document John Adams' diplomatic triumphs, his wife and daughter's participation in the cosmopolitan scenes of Paris and London, and his son John Quincy's travels in Europe and America.; Hardcover 1992

Affairs of State: Morton Keller; This first modern history of American public life after the Civil War is a work of magisterial sweep and sophisticated insight. Integrating political, legal, and administrative history on a scale not previously attempted, Keller examines crosscurrents in American institutions during a key transitional period in American history.; Paperback

African American Midwifery in the South: Gertrude Jacinta Fraser; Starting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in rural areas. They brought traditional midwives under the control of a supervisory body, and eventually eliminated them.; Hardcover 1998

African American Women and Christian Activism: Judith Weisenfeld; When the middle class black women of Judith Weisenfeld's history organized a black chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association in 1905, it was a clear step toward establishing a suitable environment for young working women. Weisenfeld's account gives a vibrant picture of African American women as significant actors in the life of New York. It also bears telling witness to the religious, class, gender, and racial negotiations so often involved in American social reform movements.; Hardcover 1998

The Age of Independence: Michael J. Rosenfeld; Rosenfeld offers a new theory to account for the startling changes in American family composition in recent years. His argument revolves around the independent life stage that emerged around 1960, experienced by young adults after leaving their parents' homes and before settling down to start their own families. He shows how this stage has reduced parental control over their children's mate selection and has resulted in a rise in interracial and same-sex unions--unions that were more easily averted by previous generations.; Hardcover 2007

Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrection of Christian America: Matthew Avery Sutton; Aimee Semple McPherson was the most flamboyant and controversial minister in the United States between the world wars, building a successful megachurch, a mass media empire, and eventually a political career to resurrect what she believed was America's Christian heritage. Sutton's definitive study reveals the woman as a trail-blazing pioneer, her life marking the beginning of Pentecostalism's advance to the mainstream of American culture.; Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2009

All You Need Is Love: Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman; Traversing four decades and three continents, this story of the Peace Corps and the people and politics behind it is a fascinating look at American idealism at work amid the hard political realities of the second half of the twentieth century.; Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

All on a Mardi Gras Day: Reid Mitchell; With this colorful study, Reid Mitchell takes us to Mardi Gras--to a yearly ritual that sweeps the richly multicultural city of New Orleans into a frenzy of parades, pageantry, dance, drunkenness, music, sexual display, and social and political bombast. Mitchell tells us some of the most intriguing stories of Carnival since 1804 and he examines the meaning and messages of Mardi Gras.; Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1999

Alternative America: John Thomas; George's Progress and Poverty, Bellamy's Looking Backward, and Lloyd's Wealth against Commonwealth each in its turn became an international best-seller, championing a course of national policy that owed allegiance neither to the large-scale capitalist model then emerging, nor to the bureaucratic socialism espoused on the left. Through vivid and searching portraits of these three redoubtable journalists, prizewinning historian Thomas traces for the first time the evolving ideologies of the most significant reformers of their age.; Hardcover

America's Geisha Ally: Naoko Shibusawa; During World War II, Japan was vilified by America as our hated enemy. As the Cold War heated up, however, the U.S. government decided to make Japan its bulwark against communism in Asia. In this revelatory work, Naoko Shibusawa charts the remarkable reversal from hated enemy to valuable ally that occurred in the two decades after the war.; Hardcover 2006

America's Germany: Thomas Alan Schwartz; America's Germany describes a unique period in the relationship between America and Germany, when the two nations forged an extraordinary range of connections--political, economic, military, and cultural--as the Federal Republic became part of the Western club and the new Europe.; Hardcover 1991

American Congo: Nan Elizabeth Woodruff; This is the story of how rural black people struggled against the oppressive sharecropping system of the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta during the first half of the twentieth century. Delta planters, aided by local law enforcement, engaged in peonage, murder, theft, and disfranchisement. As individuals and through collective struggle, black men and women fought back, demanding a just return for their crops and laying claim to a democratic vision of citizenship. Nan Woodruff shows how the freedom fighters of the 1960s would draw on this half-century tradition of protest, thus expanding our standard notions of the civil rights movement and illuminating a neglected but significant slice of the American black experience.; Hardcover 2003

American Empire: Andrew J. Bacevich; In a provocative book, Andrew Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of American global power. Examining the presidencies of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton--as well as George W. Bush's first year in office--he demolishes the view that the United States has failed to devise a replacement for containment as a basis for foreign policy.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

The American Enlightenment, 1750-1820: Robert A. Ferguson; This concise literary history of the American Enlightenment captures the varied and conflicting voices of religious and political conviction in the decades when the new nation was formed. Ferguson's trenchant interpretation yields new understanding of this pivotal period for American culture.; Paperback 1997

American Jewish Ephemera: Compiled by Charles Berlin; Introduction by Oscar Handlin; The ephemera reproduced in this volume consist mainly of broadsides, posters, and leaflets produced in the United States from the late nineteenth century on. They deal with Jewish immigration to America and attitudes toward lands of origin; early efforts to organize American Jewish life through a variety of social structures; anti-Semitism; American Jewish religious affairs; the response of American Jewry to World Wars I and II; the participation of American Jewry in the Zionist movement; the adjustment to American economic and political life; and the flourishing of Yiddish theater.; Paperback 2005

American Mediterranean: Matthew Pratt Guterl; How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers and examines how the Southern elite connected—by travel, print culture, even the prospect of future conquest—with the communities of New World slaveholders as they redefined their world.; Hardcover 2008

The American Newness: Irving Howe; What is the Emersonian spirit? What inspired it, what propelled it? And what does it mean to us today? Howe lays before us the intellectual and personal tragedy of the first great American man of letters, yet also shows that Emerson's belief in the untapped power of free men pervades not only the lives and works of his contemporaries but is also a permanent part of the American psyche.; Hardcover 1986

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 1, 1828-1854: Edited and with an introduction by Joel H. Silbey; The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The nature of political controversy, as well as the substance of politics, is embedded in these party documents which both united and divided Americans. Unlike today's party platforms, these pamphlets explicated real issues and gave insight into the society at large.; Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

The American Party Battle: Election Campaign Pamphlets, 1828-1876, Volume 2, 1854-1876: Edited by Joel H. Silbey; The nineteenth century was the heyday of furious contention between American political parties, and Joel Silbey has recaptured the drama and substance of those battles in a representative sampling of party pamphlets. The pamphlets demonstrate how, for this fifty-year period, political parties were surrogates for American demands and values.; Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

American Politics: Samuel P. Huntington; Huntington examines the persistent, radical gap between the promise of American ideals and the performance of American politics. He shows how Americans, throughout their history as a nation, have been united by the democratic creed of liberty, equality, and hostility to authority. At the same time he reveals how, inevitably, these ideals have been perennially frustrated through the institutions and hierarchies required to carry on the essential functions of governing a democratic society.; Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

American Protest Literature: With a Foreword by John Stauffer and an Afterword by Howard Zinn; Edited by Zoe Trodd; Foreword by John Stauffer; Afterword by Howard Zinn; "I like a little rebellion now and then," wrote Thomas Jefferson to Abigail Adams, enlisting in a tradition that throughout American history has led writers to rage and reason, prophesy and provoke. American Protest Literature presents sources from eleven protest movements--political, social, and cultural--from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest. In this impressive work, Trodd provides an enlightening and inspiring survey of this most American form of literature.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Americanization of the Common Law: William E. Nelson; Paperback

Americans All: Diana Selig; From the 1920s—a decade marked by racism and nativism—through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. Progressive activists encouraged pluralism in homes, schools, and churches across the country.Selig tells the neglected story of the cultural gifts movement, which flourished between the world wars.; Hardcover 2008

Americans First: K. Scott Wong; World War II was a watershed event for many of America's minorities, but its impact on Chinese Americans has been largely ignored. Utilizing extensive archival research as well as oral histories and letters from over one hundred informants, Wong explores how Chinese Americans carved a newly respected and secure place for themselves in American society during the war years.; Hardcover 2005

Among Empires: Charles S. Maier; This elegantly written book examines the structure and impact of empires and asks whether the United States shares their traits and behavior. Charles S. Maier outlines the essentials of empire throughout history, then explores the exercise of U.S. power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. With learning, dispassion, and clarity, Among Empires offers bold comparisons and an original account of American power.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2007

The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture: Amy Kaplan; Kaplan shows how U.S. imperialism--from "Manifest Destiny" to the "American Century"--has profoundly shaped key elements of American culture at home, and how the struggle for power over foreign peoples and places has disrupted the quest for domestic order. In literature, journalism, film, political speeches, and legal documents, Kaplan traces the undeniable connections between American efforts to quell anarchy abroad and the eruption of such anarchy at the heart of the empire.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Are We to Be a Nation?: Richard B. Bernstein; Hardcover / Paperback

Are We to Be a Nation?: Richard B. Bernstein; Hardcover / Paperback

The Arts in Boston: Bernard Taper; In this lively and informed book, Bernard Taper, a writer for the New Yorker, scrutinizes the social and economic characteristics of the arts in Boston, seeking specific answers to the questions: What might be done to foster, strengthen, enrich, and invigorate the arts? What can make them more meaningful to a larger segment of the community?; Hardcover 1970 / Paperback

The Arts of Deception: James W. Cook; In The Arts of Deception, James Cook explores the distinctly modern mode of trickery designed to puzzle the eye and challenge the brain. Upsetting the normally strict boundaries of value, race, class, and truth, the spectacles offer a revealing look at the tastes, concerns, and prejudices of America's very first mass audiences.; Paperback 2001 / Hardcover 2001

As Seen on TV: Karal Ann Marling; From the painting-by-numbers fad to the public fascination with the First Lady's apparel to the television sensation of Elvis Presley to the sculptural refinement of the automobile, Marling explores what Americans saw and what they looked for in the 1950s with a gaze newly trained by TV.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1998

The Autobiographical Notes of Charles Evans Hughes: Charles Evans Hughes; Hughes was lawyer, governor of New York, Supreme Court Justice, presidential candidate in 1916, Secretary of State in the Harding and Coolidge administrations, a member of the World Court, and Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 until his retirement in 1941. His Autobiographical Notes portray him as no biography could and provide comment on almost a century of American history as seen by one who played a part in shaping its course.; Hardcover 1973

The Averaged American: Sarah E. Igo; Americans today "know" that a majority of the population supports the death penalty, that half of all marriages end in divorce, and that four out of five prefer a particular brand of toothpaste. But remarkably, such data--now woven into our social fabric--became common currency only in the last century. With a bold and sophisticated analysis, Sarah Igo demonstrates the power of scientific surveys to shape Americans' sense of themselves as individuals, members of communities, and citizens of a nation.; Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

Awash in a Sea of Faith: Jon Butler; Challenging the formidable tradition that places early New England Puritanism at the center of the American religious experience. Yale historian Jon Butler offers a new interpretation of three hundred years of religious and cultural development. Butler stresses the instability of religion in Europe where state churches battled dissenters, magic, and astonishingly low church participation. He charts the transfer of these difficulties to America, including the failure of Puritan religious models, and describes the surprising advance of religious commitment there between 1700 and 1865. Through the assertion of authority and coercion, a remarkable sacralization of the prerevolutionary countryside, advancing religious pluralism, the folklorization of magic, and an eclectic, syncretistic emphasis on supernatural interventionism, including miracles, America emerged after 1800 as an extraordinary spiritual hothouse that far eclipsed the Puritan achievement -even as secularism triumphed in Europe.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

Barbaric Traffic: Philip Gould; Studying the rhetoric of various antislavery genres, Gould exposes the close relation between antislavery writings and commercial capitalism. By distinguishing between good commerce, or the importing of commodities that refined manners, and bad commerce, like the slave trade, the literature offered both a critique and an outline of acceptable forms of commercial capitalism. A challenge to the premise that objections to the slave trade were rooted in modern laissez-faire capitalism, Gould's work revises--and expands--our understanding of antislavery literature as a form of cultural criticism in its own right.; Hardcover 2003

Barren in the Promised Land: Elaine T. May; Chronicling astonishing shifts in public attitudes toward reproduction, May reveals the intersection between public life and the most private part of our lives--sexuality, procreation, and family.; Paperback 1997

Becoming African Americans: Clare Corbould; Hardcover 2009

Becoming America: Jon Butler; In his panoramic view of Britain's mainland American colonies after 1680, Jon Butler reveals a strikingly "modern" character that belies the eighteenth-century quaintness fixed in history. Multinational, profit-driven, materialistic, politically self-conscious, power-hungry, religiously plural--the colonies in this epoch became a society the earliest colonists never imagined, a "new order of the ages" that anticipated the American Revolution.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Becoming Free in the Cotton South: Susan Eva O'Donovan; This book challenges our most basic ideas about slavery and freedom in America. Instead of seeing emancipation as the beginning or the ending of the story, as most histories do, O'Donovan explores the perilous transition between these two conditions, offering a unique vision of both the enormous changes and the profound continuities in black life before and after the Civil War.; Hardcover 2007

Beloved Strangers: Anne C. Rose; Interfaith marriage is a visible and often controversial part of American life--and one with a significant history. Rose draws a vivid picture of interfaith marriages over the century before World War I, their problems and their social consequences. She shows how mixed-faith families became agents of change in a culture moving toward pluralism.; Hardcover 2001

Benjamin Franklin: Edited by Esmond Wright; Ever the chronicler and teacher, Franklin wrote an autobiography, ostensibly for his illegitimate son William. Apart from hurried additions when he was in his eighties, his story halts at 1757. Tracing his footsteps centuries later, Franklin's most celebrated biographer completes the last twenty-five years of the autobiography by drawing on Franklin's most personal and insightful letters and writings--even making additions within the interrupted Autobiography to give us the expository memoir that Franklin intended. Indeed, as he wrote it.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1996

The Betrayal of Faith: Emma Anderson; Anderson uses one man's compelling story to explore the collision of Christianity with traditional Native religion in colonial North America. Pastedechouan's story illuminates key struggles to retain and impose religious identity on both sides of the seventeenth-century Atlantic, even as it has a startling relevance to the contemporary encounter between native and nonnative peoples.; Hardcover 2007

Beyond Suffrage: Susan Ware; The New Deal administration of Franklin Roosevelt brought an unprecedented number of women to Washington to serve in positions of power and influence. Beyond Suffrage is a study of women who achieved positions of national leadership in the 1930s. Susan Ware discusses the network they established, their attitudes toward feminism and social reform, and the impact they had upon the New Deal's social welfare policies and on Democratic party politics.; Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Big Enough to Be Inconsistent: George M. Fredrickson; This book focuses on the most controversial aspect of Lincoln’s thought and politics—his attitudes and actions regarding slavery and race. Drawing attention to the limitations of Lincoln’s judgment and policies without denying his magnitude, the book provides the most comprehensive and even-handed account available of Lincoln’s contradictory treatment of black Americans in matters of slavery in the South and basic civil rights in the North.; Hardcover 2008

Birth of a Salesman: Walter A. Friedman; In this entertaining and informative book, Walter Friedman chronicles the remarkable metamorphosis of the American salesman from itinerant amateur to trained expert. From the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, the development of sales management transformed an economy populated by peddlers and canvassers to one driven by professional salesmen and executives.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Birthing a Slave: Marie Jenkins Schwartz; Birthing a Slave depicts the competing approaches to reproductive health that evolved on plantations in the antebellum South, as both black women and white men sought to enhance the health of enslaved mothers--in very different ways and for entirely different reasons. This is the first book to focus exclusively on the health care of enslaved women, and it argues convincingly for the critical role of reproductive medicine in the slave system of antebellum America.; Hardcover 2006

Bitter Fruit: Stephen Schlesinger; Stephen Kinzer; Introduction by John H. Coatsworth; Foreword by Richard A. Nuccio; Bitter Fruit is a comprehensive and insightful account of the CIA operation to overthrow the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954. This book has become a classic, a textbook case of the relationship between the United States and the Third World. It is a warning of what happens when the United States abuses its power.; Paperback 2005

The Black Hearts of Men: John Stauffer; Drawing on the largest extant bi-racial correspondence in the Civil War era, this book braids together Gerrit Smith, Frederick Douglass, James McCune Smith, and John Brown's struggles to reconcile ideals of justice with the reality of slavery and oppression. As the nation headed toward armed conflict, these men waged their own war by establishing model interracial communities, forming a new political party, and embracing a malleable and "black-hearted" self that was capable of violent revolt against a slaveholding nation.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004

Black Is a Country: Nikhil Pal Singh; Despite black gains in modern America, the end of racism is not yet in sight. Singh asks what happened to the worldly and radical visions of equality that animated black intellectual activists from W. E. B. Du Bois in the 1930s to Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 1960s. In so doing, he constructs an alternative history of civil rights in the twentieth century, a long civil rights era, in which radical hopes and global dreams are recognized as central to the history of black struggle.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

Black Jacks: W. Jeffrey Bolster; Jeffrey Bolster, master mariner and historian, shatters the myth that black seafaring in the age of sail was limited to the Middle Passage. Rescuing African American seamen from obscurity, this stirring account reveals the critical role sailors played in helping forge new identities for black people in America. An epic tale of the rise and fall of black seafaring, Black Jacks is African Americans' freedom story presented from a fresh perspective.; Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998

Black Rice: Judith A. Carney; Few Americans identify slavery with the cultivation of rice, yet rice was a major plantation crop during the first three centuries of settlement in the Americas. It accompanied African slaves across the Middle Passage throughout the New World to Brazil, the Caribbean, and the southern United States. Judith Carney reveals how racism has shaped our historical memory and neglected this critical African contribution to the making of the Americas.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Bloodstoppers and Bearwalkers: Richard M. Dorson; Folklore as it comes from the mouths of living storytellers has a matchless authority and conviction. Richard Dorson, living for five months among the Indians, Finns, Canadiens, Cornishmen, lumberjacks, sailors, miners, and sagamen of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, has listened to their tales, which this book reproduces with all their native thunder and salt. Rooted deep in storytelling tradition, these tales hark back to the frontier and immigrant past of an America shaped by many peoples with extraordinary experiences.; Paperback

Borderline Americans: Katherine Benton-Cohen; Hardcover 2009

Born Losers: Scott A. Sandage; This is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

Born in Bondage: Marie Jenkins Schwartz; Following the life cycle of a child from birth through youth to young adulthood, Marie Jenkins Schwartz explores the daunting world of American slave children, a world governed by the dual authority of parent and owner, each with conflicting agendas. Schwartz counters the commonly held vision of the paternalistic slaveholder who determines the life and welfare of his passive chattel, showing instead how slaves struggled to give their children a sense of self and belonging that denied the owner complete control.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2001

Boston: Walter Muir Whitehill; Lawrence W. Kennedy; This urbane and delightful book covering more than 300 years of the course of Boston's history has now been enlarged with an account of the city's new urban design, architecture, and historic preservation and is richly illustrated with 32 additional photographs and drawings. In the last three decades momentous changes have visited this colonial city made modern. Lawrence Kennedy portrays the Boston that preserved much of the intimacy of the remembered place while creating a dramatic new skyline.; Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000

Boston Priests, 1848-1910: Donna Merwick; Merwick rejects the usual assumption that Boston Catholicism is, definitively, Irish Catholicism. In her penetrating study of three distinct generations of Boston priests in the late nineteenth century, the author shows that Irish Catholicism met with steady opposition. Her account of the struggle of Boston clerics and intellectuals to relate their faith to their experiences in the changing city provides a new interpretation of Boston Catholic culture.; Hardcover 1973

The Boston Rehabilitation Program: Langley C. Keyes, Jr; Hardcover 1968

Boston's Immigrants, 1790-1880: Oscar Handlin; As fresh in 1991 as when it first published a half-century ago, Boston's Immigrants illuminates the history of a particular city and an important phase of the American experience. Focusing on the life of people from the perspective of the social historian, the book explores a wide range of subjects: peasants society and the cause of European migration, population growth and industrial development, the ideology of progress and Catholic thought, and urban politics and the dynamic of prejudice.; Paperback 1991

Brandeis of Boston: Allon Gal; Hardcover 1980

Bright Radical Star: Robert Dykstra; Hardcover

Brook Farm: Sterling F. Delano; In the first comprehensive examination of the famous utopian community in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, Delano reveals a surprisingly grim side to paradise as the Brook Farmers faced relentless financial pressures, a declining faith in their leaders, and smoldering class antagonisms. This wonderfully evocative account vividly chronicles the spirit of the Transcendental age.; Hardcover 2004

Brotherhoods of Color: Eric Arnesen; From the time the first tracks were laid in the early nineteenth century, the railroad has occupied a crucial place in America's historical imagination. Now, for the first time, Arnesen gives us an untold piece of that vital American institution--the story of African Americans on the railroad. African Americans have been a part of the railroad from its inception, but today they are largely remembered as Pullman porters and track layers. The real history is far richer, a tale of endless struggle, perseverance, and partial victory.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Buccaneers of the Caribbean: Jon Latimer; Hardcover 2009

By Order of the President: Greg Robinson; On February 19, 1942, following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed a fateful order that allowed for the summary removal of Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese descent from their West Coast homes and their incarceration under guard in camps. Amid the numerous histories and memoirs devoted to this shameful event, FDR's contributions have been seen as negligible. Now, using Roosevelt's own writings, his advisors' letters and diaries, and internal government documents, Greg Robinson reveals the president's central role in making and implementing the internment and examines not only what the president did but why.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Cannibals All! Or, Slaves without Masters: George Fitzhugh; Edited by C. Vann Woodward; Fitzhugh was provocative because of his stinging attack on free society, laissez-faire economy, and wage slavery, along with their philosophical underpinnings. He used socialist doctrine to defend slavery and drew upon the same evidence Marx used in his indictment of capitalism. Socialism, he held, was only "the new fashionable name for slavery," though slavery was far more humane and responsible, "the best and most common form of socialism."; Hardcover 1960 / Paperback

Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade: Jacob Price; Hardcover 1980

Capital and Labor in American Copper, 1845-1990: George Hildebrand; Garth Mangum; The book is the first comprehensive study of the American copper industry to include labor markets, unionism, and labor relations as an integral part of its focus. It also undertakes a careful examination of the influences exerted by geography and geology in the shaping of the industry.; Hardcover 1991

Celebrating the Family: Elizabeth H. Pleck; Elizabeth Pleck examines two centuries of changing family traditions and finds a complicated process of change in the way Americans celebrate holidays, as well as the life cycle rituals of birth, coming of age, marriage, and death. This multicultural, comparative history of American family celebration, rich in detail and spiced with telling anecdotes and illustrations and a keen sense of irony, offers insight into the significance of ethnicity and consumer culture in shaping what people regard as the most memorable moments of family life.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback

Century of Struggle: Eleanor Flexner; Ellen Fitzpatrick; Century of Struggle tells the story of one of the great social movements in American history. The struggle for women's voting rights was one of the longest, most successful, and in some respects most radical challenges ever posed to the American system of electoral politics.; Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996

Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery: David Brion Davis; Challenging the boundaries of slavery ultimately brought on the Civil War and the unexpected, immediate emancipation of slaves long before it could have been achieved in any other way. This imaginative and fascinating book puts slavery into a brilliant new light and underscores anew the desperate human tragedy lying at the very heart of the American story.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006

Charles Follen's Search for Nationality and Freedom: Edmund Spevack; This unique account of the life of Charles Follen--German nationalist and revolutionary, Harvard professor, Unitarian minister, and abolitionist--opens a window on several worlds during the first half of the nineteenth century.; Hardcover 1997

Chester Bowles: Howard B. Schaffer; Hardcover

Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History, Volume I, 1600-1865: Edited by Robert H. Bremner; John Barnard, Associate Editor; Temara K. Hareven, Associate Editor; Robert M. Mennel, Associate Editor; This book, the first of three volumes that will provide the most complete documentary history of public provision for American children, traces the changing attitudes of the nation toward youth during the first two and one half centuries of its history.; Hardcover 1970

Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History, Volume II, 1866-1932: Robert H. Bremner, Editor; John Barnard, Associate Editor; Temara K. Hareven, Associate Editor; Robert M. Mennel, Associate Editor; This second of three volumes that trace the history of the nation's changing provisions for its youth covers the period from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the New Deal. These were years rich in innovations which, although not fully realized, represented substantial advances in the welfare, education, and health of children.; Hardcover 1971

Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History, Volume III, 1933-1973: Edited by Robert H. Bremner; John Barnard, Associate Editor; Temara K. Hareven, Associate Editor; Robert M. Mennel, Associate Editor; The concluding volumes present forty years of tumultuous history. Now completed, they constitute an indispensable reference and absorbing chronicle of American social history.; Hardcover 1974 / Paperback 1974

Circles and Lines: John Demos; John Demos offers an illuminating portrait of how colonial Americans viewed their life experiences. The earliest settlers lived in a traditional world of natural cycles that shaped their behavior: day and night; seasonal rhythms; the lunar cycle; the life cycle itself. During the transitional world of the American Revolution, people began to see their society in newer terms. Their cyclical frame of reference was coming unmoored, giving way to a linear world view.; Hardcover 2004

Citizens and Citoyens: Mark Hulliung; Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals.; Hardcover 2002

The Civil War and the Limits of Destruction: Mark E. Neely; The Civil War is often portrayed as the most brutal war in America's history, a premonition of twentieth-century carnage. In challenging this view, Neely considers the war's destructiveness in a comparative context, revealing the sense of limit that guided the conduct of American soldiers and statesmen. The modern overemphasis on violence in Civil War literature has led many scholars to go too far in drawing close analogies with the twentieth century's "total war" and the grim guerrilla struggles of Vietnam.; Hardcover 2007

Class and Community: Alan Dawley; In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition of his Bancroft Prize-winning book, Dawley reflects once more on labor and class issues, poverty and progress, and the contours of urban history in the city of Lynn, Massachusetts, during the rise of industrialism in the early nineteenth century.; Paperback 2000

A Class of Their Own: Adam Fairclough; In this major undertaking, civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. A Class of Their Own is indispensable for understanding how blacks and whites interacted after the abolition of slavery, and how black communities coped with the challenges of freedom and oppression.; Hardcover 2007

Clinging to Mammy: Micki McElya; Loving, hating, pitying, or pining for mammy became a way for Americans to make sense of shifting economic, social, and racial realities. Assertions of black contentment with servitude alleviated white fears while reinforcing racial hierarchy. McElya's stories expose the power and reach of this myth, not only in advertising, films, and literature about the South, but also in national monument proposals, child custody cases, New Negro activism, anti-lynching campaigns, and the civil rights movement.; Hardcover 2007

The Cold War and the Color Line: Thomas Borstelmann; The Cold War and the Color Line is the first comprehensive examination of how the Cold War intersected with the final destruction of global white supremacy. Thomas Borstelmann pays close attention to the two Souths--Southern Africa and the American South--as the primary sites of white authority's last stand. He reveals America's efforts to contain the racial polarization that threatened to unravel the anticommunist western alliance. In so doing, he recasts the history of American race relations in its true international context, one that is meaningful and relevant for our own era of globalization.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

Cold War at 30,000 Feet: Jeffrey A. Engel; In a gripping story of international power and deception, Engel reveals the "special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain. As allies, they fought Communism; as rivals, they clashed over which would lead the Cold War fight. In the quest for sovereignty and hegemony, Engel shows that one important key was airpower, which created jobs, forged ties with the developing world, and ensured military superiority, ultimately affecting forever the global balance of power.; Hardcover 2007

The Color of Race in America, 1900-1940: Matthew Pratt Guterl; How white and black people thought about race and how both groups understood and attempted to define and control the demographic transformation are the subjects of this new book by a rising star in American history. An elegant account of the roiling environment that witnessed the shift from the multiplicity of white races to the arrival of biracialism, this book focuses on four representative spokesmen for the transforming age.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Commander of All Lincoln’s Armies: John F. Marszalek; In the first comprehensive biography of Halleck, Marszalek recreates the life of a man of enormous achievement who bungled his most important mission. When Lincoln summoned him to the nation's capital, Halleck boasted outstanding qualifications as a military theorist, a legal scholar, a brave soldier, and a California entrepreneur. Yet in the thick of battle, he couldn't make essential decisions. Unable to produce victory for the Union forces, he saw his power become subsumed by Grant's emergent leadership, a loss that paved the way for Halleck's path to obscurity.; Hardcover 2004

Common Lands, Common People: Richard W. Judd; In this innovative study of the rise of the conservation ethic in northern New England, Richard Judd shows that the movement had its roots in the communitarian ethic of countrypeople rather than among urban intellectuals or politicians. Drawing on agricultural journals and archival sources, Judd demonstrates that ordinary people, struggling to define the morality of land and resource use, contributed immensely to America's conservation legacy.; Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

The Common Law: Oliver Wendell Holmes; Introduction by G. Edward White; Paperback 2009

Commonwealth: Oscar Handlin; Mary Flug Handlin; Commonwealth, when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy. It revealed for the first time the importance of political action in the development of the American free enterprise system. The present edition has been revised by the authors to take into account the research of the past two decades.; Hardcover 1969 / Paperback

The Confederate Battle Flag: John M. Coski; Pursuing the flag's conflicting meanings, Coski suggests how this provocative artifact, which has been viewed with pride, fear, anger, nostalgia, and disgust, might ultimately provide Americans with the common ground of a shared and complex history. He reveals the flag's origins as one of many banners unfurled on the battlefields of the Civil War and shows how it emerged as the preeminent representation of the Confederacy and was transformed into a cultural icon from Reconstruction on, becoming an aggressively racist symbol only after World War II and during the Civil Rights movement.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2006

The Confederate War: Gary W. Gallagher; If one is to believe contemporary historians, the South never had a chance. Many allege that the Confederacy lost the Civil War because of internal division or civilian disaffection; others point to flawed military strategy or ambivalence over slavery. But, argues distinguished historian Gary Gallagher, we should not ask why the Confederacy collapsed so soon but rather how it lasted so long. In The Confederate War he reexamines the Confederate experience through the actions and words of the people who lived it to show how the home front responded to the war, endured great hardships, and assembled armies that fought with tremendous spirit and determination.; Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999

Conflicting Paths: Harvey J. Graff; Spanning more than two centuries, this book traces the many paths to adulthood that Americans have pursued over time. Conflicting Paths is an innovative history of growing up in America that includes analysis and five hundred first-person testimonials--autobiographies, diaries, and letters.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

The Consent of the Governed: Gillian Brown; What made the United States what it is began long before a shot was fired at a redcoat in Lexington, Massachusetts in 1775. It began quietly in homes and schoolrooms across the colonies in the reading lessons women gave to children. Just as the Protestant revolt originated in a practice of individual reading of the Bible, so the theories of reading developed by John Locke were the means by which a revolutionary attitude toward authority was disseminated throughout the British colonies in North America.; Hardcover 2001

Conservation and the Gospel of Efficiency: Samuel P. Hays; Paperback

The Conservative Ascendancy: Donald T. Critchlow; In this provocative history of the Right in modern America, Critchlow finds a deep dilemma inherent in how conservative Republicans expressed their anti-statist ideology in an age of mass democracy and Cold War hostilities. As the Right moved forward with its political program, partisanship intensified and ideological division widened--both between the parties and across the electorate. This intensified partisanship reflects the vibrancy of a mature democracy, Critchlow argues, and a new level of political engagement despite its disquieting effect on American political debate.; Hardcover 2007

The Conservative Turn: Michael Kimmage; Hardcover 2009

Constructing the Monolith: Marc J. Selverstone; This book not only explains the cold war mindset that determined global policy for much of the twentieth century, but reveals how the search to define a foreign threat can shape the ways in which that threat is actually met.; Hardcover 2009

The Corporate State and the Broker State: Robert F. Burk; The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought the policies that gave government more and more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.; Hardcover 1990

Creating a Nation of Joiners: Johann N. Neem; Ever since Alexis de Tocqueville published his observations in Democracy in America, Americans have recognized the distinctiveness of their voluntary tradition. In a work of political, legal, social, and intellectual history, Neem traces the origins of this venerable tradition to the vexed beginnings of American democracy in Massachusetts.; Hardcover 2008

A Culture of Credit: Rowena Olegario; In the growing and dynamic economy of nineteenth-century America, businesses sold vast quantities of goods to one another, mostly on credit. This book explains how business people solved the problem of whom to trust--how they determined who was deserving of credit, and for how much. Rowena Olegario traces the way resistance, mutual suspicion, skepticism, and legal challenges were overcome in the relentless quest to make information on business borrowers more accurate and available.; Hardcover 2006

The Dangerous Class: Eric H. Monkkonen; Hardcover 1975

Daniel DeLeon: L. Glen Seretan; Hardcover 1979

Dark Paradise: David T. Courtwright; In a newly enlarged edition of this book, David Courtwright offers an original interpretation of the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often with a criminal record.; Paperback 2001

Daughters of the Union: Nina Silber; This book casts a spotlight on some of the most overlooked and least understood participants in the American Civil War: the women of the North. Unlike their Confederate counterparts, who were often caught in the midst of the conflict, most Northern women remained far from the dangers of battle. Nonetheless, they enlisted in the Union cause on their home ground, and the experience transformed their lives.; Hardcover 2005

The De Peyster Genealogy: Waldron Phoenix, Jr. Belknap; Hardcover

The Deadly Truth: Gerald N. Grob; This book chronicles the complex interactions between disease and the peoples of America from the pre-Columbian world to the present. In a powerful challenge to our tendency to see disease as unnatural and its virtual elimination as a real possibility, Grob asserts the undeniable biological persistence of disease.; Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2005

The Death of Reconstruction: Heather Cox Richardson; Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Richardson argues instead that class, along with race, was critical to Reconstruction's end. She reveals a growing backlash from Northerners against those who believed that inequalities should be addressed through working-class action, and the emergence of an American middle class that championed individual productivity and saw African-Americans as a threat to their prosperity.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004

Defender of the Faith: Lawrence Levine; Paperback

Degrees of Freedom: Rebecca J. Scott; As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through social and political upheaval. Both Louisiana and Cuba were rich in sugar plantations that depended on an enslaved labor force. But by the beginning of the twentieth century, they diverged sharply in the meanings attributed to race and color in public life and in the boundaries placed on citizenship.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2008

Deliberate Speed: W. T. Lhamon; By surveying the artistic terrain of the period--examining works by figures as varied as Miles Davis, Ralph Ellison, Robert Frank, Allen Ginsberg, Little Richard, Charlie Parker, Jackson Pollock, Thomas Pynchon, and Ludwig Wittgenstein--Lhamon demonstrates how many of the distinctive elements that so many attribute to the revolutionary period of the 1960s had their roots in the fertile soil of the 1950s.; Paperback 2002

Democracy Is in the Streets: James Miller; On June 12, 1962, sixty young activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--The Port Huron Statement--that ignited a decade of dissent. Democracy Is in the Streets is the definitive history of the people and ideas that shaped the New Left in America during the turbulent 1960s. From the ideal of "participatory democracy" to the reality of community organizing, from the most publicized radical leaders to less well known theorists and activists, James Miller brings to life the hopes and struggles, the triumphs and tragedies, of the students and organizers who took the political vision of The Port Huron Statement to heart--and to the streets.; Paperback 1994

A Democracy at War: William O'Neill; As America fought to defend democracy in Europe and Asia during World War II, its own democratic politics both aided and impeded the war effort at home and the military campaigns abroad. Now, in a broad-ranging social, political, military, and diplomatic history, William O'Neill reveals how the United States won its victory despite its reluctance to enter the war, and despite proceeding by costly half-measures even after committing to battle.; Paperback 1998

Democracy's Discontent: Michael J. Sandel; In a searching account of current controversies over morality in politics, Michael Sandel discovers that we suffer from an impoverished vision of citizenship and community. Democracy's Discontent provides a new interpretation of the American political and constitutional tradition that offers hope of rejuvenating our civic life.; Hardcover 1996 / Paperback 1998

Democracy's Prisoner: Ernest Freeberg; In 1920, socialist leader Eugene V. Debs ran for president while serving a ten-year jail term for speaking against America's role in World War I. In this book, Freeberg shows that the campaign to send Debs from an Atlanta jailhouse to the White House was part of a wider national debate over the right to free speech in wartime. In this story of democracy on trial, Freeberg excavates an extraordinary episode in the history of one of America's most prized ideals.; Hardcover 2008

Designs on the Heart: Karal Ann Marling; In this book, Karal Ann Marling looks at Grandma Moses as a cultural phenomenon of the postwar period and explores the meaning of her subject matter--and her astonishing fame. Between the cultural ephemera, folklore, song, and history embedded in Moses' paintings and the potent advertising shorthand for Americana that her images rapidly became, this book reveals the widespread longing for the memories, comforts, and small victories of a mythic, intimate American past tapped by the phenomenon of Grandma Moses.; Hardcover 2006

A Diary from Dixie: Mary Boykin Chesnut; Edited by Ben Ames Williams; Foreword by Edmund Wilson; One of the most important documents in southern history, this is a day-by-day diary of the Civil War years. It rings with authenticity while evoking the nostalgia, bitterness, and comedy of the Confederacy.; Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume I, A-C: Frederic G. Cassidy, Chief Editor; This series captures the language spoken on America's main streets and country roads, words and phrases passed along within homes and communities, from east to west, north to south, childhood to old age. Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, DARE preserves the language with all its idioms and peculiarities.; Hardcover

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume II, D-H

Frederic G. Cassidy, Editor-in-chief

Edited by Joan Houston Hall

Like its popular predecessor, Volume II of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a treasury of vernacular Americanisms. Initiated under the leadership of Frederic G. Cassidy, DARE represents an unprecedented attempt to document the living language of the entire country. The result is a monument to the richness of American folk speech. Computer-generated maps accompanying many of the entries illustrate the regional distribution of words and phrases.

The more than 11,000 entries contained in Volume II--from the poetic and humorous to the witty and downright bawdy--will delight and inform readers.

Hardcover 1991

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume III, I-O: Frederic G. Cassidy, Editor-in-chief; Edited by Joan Houston Hall; Built upon an unprecedented survey of spoken English across America and bolstered by extensive historical research, the Dictionary of American Regional English preserves a language that lives and dies as we breathe. It will amuse and inform, delight and instruct, and keep alive the speech that we have made our own, and that has made us who we are.; Hardcover 1996

Dictionary of American Regional English, Volume IV, P-Sk: Joan Houston Hall, Editor-in-chief; Like the popular first three volumes of DARE, the fourth is a treasure-trove of linguistic gems, a book that invites exclamation, delight, and wonder. More than six hundred maps pinpoint where you might live if your favorite card games are sheepshead and skat; if you eat pan dulce rather than pain perdu. The language of our everyday lives is captured in DARE, along with expressions our grandparents used but our children will never know.; Hardcover 2002

The Dimensions of Liberty: Oscar Handlin; Mary Flug Handlin; Hardcover 1961

Dominance by Design: Michael Adas; Long before the United States became a major force in global affairs, Americans believed in their superiority over others because of their inventiveness, productivity, and economic and social well-being. U.S. expansionists assumed a mandate to "civilize" non-Western peoples by demanding submission to American technological prowess and design. Michael Adas brilliantly pursues the history of this mission through America's foreign relations over nearly four centuries from North America to the Philippines, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2009

Dorothea Dix: Thomas J. Brown; An influential lobbyist as well as a paragon of the doctrine of female benevolence, Dorothea Dix vividly illustrated the complexities of the "separate spheres" of politics and femininity. An activist who disdained the women's rights and antislavery movements, Dix, an old-line Whig, sought to promote national harmony and became the only New England social reformer to work successfully in the lower South right up to the eve of secession.; Hardcover 1998

Dry Manhattan: Michael A. Lerner; In 1919, the United States made its boldest attempt at social reform: Prohibition. This "noble experiment" was aggressively promoted, and spectacularly unsuccessful, in New York City. In the first major work on Prohibition in a quarter century, and the only full history of Prohibition in the era's most vibrant city, Lerner describes a battle between competing visions of the United States that encompassed much more than the freedom to drink.; Hardcover 2007 / Paperback 2008

Elizabeth Palmer Peabody: Bruce A. Ronda; This is the first full-length biography of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, one of the three notable Peabody sisters of Salem, Massachusetts, and sister-in-law of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Horace Mann. In elegant prose it traces the intricate private life and extraordinary career of one of nineteenth-century America's most important Transcendental writers and educational reformers.; Hardcover 1999

The Emerson Museum: Lee R. Brown; In 1832, Emerson made his famous decision to pursue wholeness in his life and in his writing. The Emerson Museum shows how this undertaking transformed American literary practice by turning the legacy of European romanticism into a writing project answerable to American urgencies.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover 1997

Emerson in His Journals: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Edited by Joel Porte; This long-awaited volume offers the general reader the heart of Emerson's journals, that extraordinary series of diaries and notebooks in which he poured out his thoughts for more than fifty years. Drawing from Harvard's sixteen-volume scholarly edition of the journals--but omitting the textual apparatus that makes it hard to read--Porte presents a sympathetic selection that brings us close to Emerson the man.; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

The End of Globalization: Harold James; Signified by an increasingly close economic interconnection that has led to profound political and social change around the world, the process of globalization seems irreversible. In this book, however, Harold James provides a sobering historical perspective, exploring the circumstances in which the globally integrated world of an earlier era broke down under the pressure of unexpected events.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2002

Engines of Enterprise: Peter Temin; New England's economy has a history as dramatic as any in the world. From an inauspicious beginning--as immigration ground to a halt in the eighteenth century--New England went on to lead the United States in its transformation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. And when the rest of the country caught up in the mid-twentieth century, New England reinvented itself as a leader in the complex economy of the information society. Engines of Enterprise tells this dramatic story in a sequence of narrative essays written by preeminent historians and economists.; Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

The English Atlantic in an Age of Revolution, 1640-1661: Carla Gardina Pestana; Between 1640 and 1660, England, Scotland, and Ireland faced civil war, invasion, religious radicalism, parliamentary rule, and the restoration of the monarchy. Pestana offers a sweeping history that systematically connects these cataclysmic events and the development of the infant plantations from Newfoundland to Surinam.; Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2007

Enter the New Negroes: Martha Jane Nadell; With the appearance of the urban, modern, diverse "New Negro" in the Harlem Renaissance, writers and critics began a vibrant debate on the nature of African-American identity, community, and history. Nadell offers an illuminating new perspective on the period and the decades immediately following it in a fascinating exploration of the neglected role played by visual images of race in that debate.; Hardcover 2004

Enterprise: Stuart Bruchey; Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990

Enterprising Elite: Robert F. Dalzell; Hardcover

Errand into the Wilderness: Perry Miller; Paperback 1956 / Hardcover

The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Ralph Waldo Emerson; Text established by Alfred R. Ferguson; Text established by Jean Ferguson Carr; Introduction by Alfred Kazin; Emerson, Alfred Kazin observes in his Introduction, "was a great writer who turned the essay into a form all his own." His celebrated essays--the twelve published in Essays: First Series (1841) and eight in Essays: Second Series (1844)--are here presented for the first time in an authoritative one-volume edition, which incorporates all the changes and corrections Emerson made after their initial publication.; Paperback

Ethnic Modernism: Werner Sollors; In the first half of the twentieth century, the United States moved from the periphery to the center of global cultural production. How did African American, European immigrant, and other minority writers take part in these developments that also transformed the United States, giving it an increasingly multicultural self-awareness? This book attempts to address this question in a series of innovative and engaging close readings of major texts from this period.; Paperback 2008

Exile Within: Thomas James; The experience of the 30,000 Japanese American children torn from their homes and incarcerated in camps left a tangle of social meanings that had not been inspected with the care it deserves until this book was written. Because they were schoolchildren, theirs was an educational history; and James tells it here, fully mindful of the irony of children studying democracy and its ideals while suffering as victims of the most undemocratic of all processes--imprisonment in a relocation camp solely on the basis of their race.; Hardcover 1987

Exiles at Home: Shirley Elizabeth Thompson; New Orleans has always captured our imagination as an exotic city in its racial ambiguity and pursuit of les bons temps. In tracing the experiences of creoles of color, Thompson illuminates the role ordinary Americans played in shaping an understanding of identity and belonging.; Hardcover 2009

Facing East from Indian Country: Daniel K. Richter; In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans yielded to the westward rush of European settlers. Or so the story usually goes. Yet, for three centuries after Columbus, Native people controlled most of eastern North America and profoundly shaped its destiny. In Facing East from Indian Country, Daniel K. Richter keeps Native people center-stage throughout the story of the origins of the United States.; Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

The Failure of the Founding Fathers: Bruce Ackerman; Based on seven years of archival research, the book describes previously unknown aspects of the electoral college crisis of 1800, presenting a revised understanding of the early days of two great institutions that continue to have a major impact on American history: the plebiscitarian presidency and a Supreme Court that struggles to put the presidency's claims of a popular mandate into constitutional perspective. Through close studies of two Supreme Court cases, Ackerman shows how the court integrated Federalist and Republican themes into the living Constitution of the early republic.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007

The Faithful: James M. O'Toole; Shaken by the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal, and challenged from within by social and theological division, Catholics in America are at a crossroads. O’Toole tells the story of this ancient church from the perspective of ordinary Americans, the lay believers who have kept their faith despite persecution from without and clergy abuse from within.; Hardcover 2008

The Faithful Shepherd: David D. Hall; This description of the Americanization of the Puritan ministry as it was transported to the New England colonies offers a host of new insights into American religious history. This book also affords the reader one of the freshest and most comprehensive histories of the seventeenth-century New England mind and society.; Paperback 2006

Fanny Kemble's Journals: Fanny Kemble; Edited by Catherine Clinton; Henry James called Fanny Kemble's autobiography "one of the most animated autobiographies in the language." Born into the first family of the British stage, Fanny Kemble was one of the most famous woman writers of the English-speaking world, a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. In addition to her essays, poetry, plays, and a novel, Kemble published six works of memoir, eleven volumes in all, covering her life, which began in the first decade of the nineteenth century and ended in the last. Her autobiographical writings are compelling evidence of Kemble's wit and talent, and they also offer a dazzling overview of her transatlantic world.; Paperback 2000 / Hardcover 2000

Fierce Communion: Helena Wall; Helena Wall shows what life was like in colonial America, a culture where individuals and family were subordinated to the demands of the community. Using local town, church, and especially court records from every colony, she examines the division of authority between family and community throughout colonial America.; Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1995

The Fire Spreads: Randall J. Stephens; Pentecostalism came to the South following the post-Civil War holiness revival, a northern-born crusade that emphasized sinlessness and religious empowerment. With the growth of southern Pentecostal denominations and the rise of new, affluent congregants, the movement slipped cautiously into the evangelical mainstream. By the 1980s the once-apolitical faith looked entirely different: while many still watched and waited for spectacular signs of the end, a growing number did so as active political conservatives.; Hardcover 2008

A Fire in Their Hearts: Tony Michels; The Yiddish socialist movement shaped Jewish communities across the United States well into the twentieth century and left an important political legacy that extends to the rise of neoconservatism. A story of hopeful successes and bitter disappointments, A Fire in Their Hearts brings to vivid life this formative period for American Jews and the American left.; Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2009

First Lady of the Confederacy: Joan E. Cashin; When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions.Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt: Jeffrey S. Adler; Between 1875 and 1920, Chicago's homicide rate more than quadrupled. Based on an analysis of nearly six thousand homicide cases, First in Violence, Deepest in Dirt examines the ways in which industrialization, immigration, poverty, ethnic and racial conflict, and powerful cultural forces reshaped Chicago city life and generated soaring levels of lethal violence. From rage killers to the "Baby Bandit Quartet," Jeffrey Adler offers a dramatic portrait of Chicago during a period in which the characteristic elements of modern homicide in America emerged.; Hardcover 2006

A Fool's Errand: Albion W. Tourgee; Edited by John Hope Franklin; Though the discussion of sectional and racial problems is an important element in the book, A Fool’s Errand has merit as a dramatic narrative—with its love affair, and its moments of pathos, suffering, and tragedy. This combination of tract and melodrama made it a bestseller in its day. Total sales have been estimated as 200,000, a remarkable record in the l880’s for a book of this kind.; Paperback

Forging Freedom: Gary B. Nash; This book is the first to trace the good and bad fortunes, over more than a century, of the earliest large free black community in the United States. Gary Nash shows how blacks in the City of Brotherly Love struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish neighborhoods and social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children in schools, forge a political consciousness, and train black leaders who would help abolish slavery.; Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1991

The Forgotten Fifth: Gary B. Nash; As the United States gained independence, a full fifth of the country's population was African American. The experiences of these men and women have been largely ignored in the accounts of the colonies' glorious quest for freedom. In this compact volume, Gary B. Nash reorients our understanding of early America, and reveals the perilous choices of the founding fathers that shaped the nation's future. The Forgotten Fifth is a powerful story of the nation's multiple, and painful, paths to freedom.; Hardcover 2006

The Founders and the Classics: Carl J. Richard; The influence of Greek and Roman authors on our American forefathers finally becomes clear in this fascinating book--the first comprehensive study of the founders' classical reading. In this analysis, we see how the classics not only supplied the principal basis for the U.S. Constitution but also contributed to the founders' conception of human nature, their understanding of virtue, and their sense of identity and purpose within a grand universal scheme.; Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

The Founding of Harvard College: With a new foreword by Hugh Hawkins; Samuel Eliot Morison; Foreword by Hugh Hawkins; Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities in Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" [Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].; Paperback 1998

The Founding of Harvard College: Samuel Eliot Morison; Hardcover 1935

Francis Parkman: Howard Doughty; Best known as author of The Oregon Trail, Francis Parkman is now increasingly recognized as one of the greatest nineteenth&ndashcentury American historians. Parkman, more than anyone else, first grasped the tragic element implicit in our pioneer heritage and placed the opening up of the great North American wilderness in broad historical perspective.; Paperback

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Foreign Affairs: Edited by Edgar B. Nixon; Hardcover 1969

Franklin of Philadelphia: Esmond Wright; The most original and delightful of the Founding Fathers, Franklin was publisher and printer, essayist and author, businessman and "general," scientist and philologist, politician and diplomat, moralist and sage--and a thoroughly rational patriot. This first comprehensive biography in fifty years has taken advantage of Yale's massive edition-in-progress of Franklin's papers and of the many specialized studies inspired by the correspondence. Designed for the general reader, it is also a work for scholars, for the author appends a thorough analysis of other interpretations of Franklin's career and personality.; Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1988

Freda Kirchwey: Sara Alpern; Freda Kirchwey was a salient figure in twentieth-century America, a beacon for liberals and activists of her era. A journalist with The Nation from 1918 to 1955--owner, editor, and publisher after 1937--she was an advocate of advanced ideas about sexual freedom and birth control and a tireless foe of fascism. The quintessential new woman, she combined a private and highly visible public life. In this full-scale biography of Kirchwey, Alpern weaves the strands of gender-related issues with larger social explorations.; Hardcover 1987

Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System: Cynthia Zaitzevsky; Whether flying a kite in Franklin Park, gardening in the Fens, or jogging along the Riverway, today's Bostonians are greatly indebted to the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted. America's premier landscape architect, Olmsted designed New York's Central Park and Boston's "emerald necklace." His invigorating influence shapes the city to this day, despite the encroachment of highways and urban sprawl. Zaitzevsky's book is the first of its kind: a richly detailed, fully illustrated account of the design and construction of Olmsted's Boston parks.; Hardcover 1982 / Paperback

Freedom Is Not Enough: Nancy MacLean; In this bold and groundbreaking work, Nancy MacLean shows how African-American and later Mexican-American civil rights activists and feminists concluded that freedom alone would not suffice: access to jobs at all levels is a requisite of full citizenship. Tracing the struggle to open the American workplace to all, MacLean chronicles the cultural and political advances that have irrevocably changed our nation over the past fifty years.; Hardcover 2006 / Paperback 2008

Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't: Scott Saul; In the long decade between the mid-fifties and the late sixties, jazz was changing more than its sound. The age of Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme, and Charles Mingus's The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady was a time when jazz became both newly militant and newly seductive, its example powerfully shaping the social dramas of the Civil Rights movement, the Black Power movement, and the counterculture. Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the first book to tell the broader story of this period in jazz--and American--history.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

Freedom on Fire: John Shattuck; As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. This is the story of what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration's human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice. Shattuck criticizes the Bush Administration's approach, which he says undermines human rights at home and around the world and argues that human rights wars are breeding grounds for terrorism.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2005

From Allies to Enemies: Simei Qing; In a stunningly original work about the impact of cultural perceptions in international relations, Simei Qing,/author> offers a new perspective on relations between the United States and China after World War II. Based on American, Russian, and newly declassified Chinese sources, this book reveals rarely examined assumptions that were entrenched in mainstream policy debates on both sides, and sheds light on the origins and development of U.S.-China confrontations.; Hardcover 2007

From Puritan to Yankee: Richard L. Bushman; Hardcover / Paperback

From the Outer World: Edited by Oscar Handlin; Edited by Lillian Handlin; Oscar and Lilian Handlin show how the new voyagers in the twentieth century--from Asia, Africa, Australia, and Latin America--record their experiences in the United States. Many accounts are newly translated from Arabic, Persian, Hebrew, and Spanish, and include such authors as Rabindranath Tagore, V. S. Naipaul and Octavio Paz.; Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Fruits and Plains: Philip J. Pauly; Plant engineering has a long history, and Pauly urges us to think of horticulturists as pioneer "biotechnologists," hacking their plants to create a landscape that reflects their ambitions and ideals. In telling the histories of Concord grapes and Japanese cherry trees, the problem of the prairie and the war on the Medfly, Pauly hopes to provide a new understanding of not only how horticulture shaped the vegetation around us, but how it influenced our experiences of the native, the naturalized, and the alien.; Hardcover 2008

Fruits of Propaganda in the Tyler Administration: Frederick Merk; Hardcover 1971

Gardens and Cultural Change: Edited by Michel Conan; Edited by Jeffrey Quilter; Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural change in Argentina, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens express popular cultural invention and attempts at political manipulation, as well as provide places of cultural resistance by subjugated people.; Paperback 2008

Gates of Eden: Morris Dickstein; Now, on the twentieth anniversary of Gates of Eden's original publication, Dickstein has written a new introduction, reassessing the period's achievements and failures, and providing a fresh perspective on the ways that the sixties continue to influence our politics and culture.; Paperback 1997

A Generation of Women: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann; Lagemann's concern is education--not in the limited sense of going to college, but education as a lifelong "process of interaction that changes the self." The relationships Lagemann shows between education and individual achievement and between education and social change create a new understanding of feminism and progressivism in the early twentieth century.; Hardcover 1979

Generations of Captivity: Ira Berlin; Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans have a singular vision of slavery, fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Berlin offers a major reinterpretation in which slavery was made and remade by successive generations of Africans and African Americans who lived through settlement and adaptation, plantation life, economic transformations, revolution, forced migration, war, and ultimately, emancipation.; Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Germany and the United States: Hans W. Gatzke; Beginning with Bismarck's forging of a nation with "iron and blood," Gatzke tells of Germany's relentless struggle for domination in Europe and in the West, its defeat in two world wars, its division, East Germany's travail, and West Germany's search for identity as a modern democratic state.; Hardcover 1980

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