The Queen of America Goes to Washington City : Essays on Sex and Citizenship (9780822319245)
In The Queen of America Goes to Washington City, Lauren Berlant focuses on the need to…
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America : Volume 3, The Emergence of Modern America, World War I, and the Great Depression, 1900-1940 (9780313337055)
The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environ…
Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America (9781501707742)
Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, fri…
Acts of God : The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster in America (9780195309683)
As the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain began to pour into New O…
Killer Show - The Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert (9781611688535)
On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadh…
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography (9780199246809)
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in th…
Red Meat Republic : A Hoof-to-Table History of How Beef Changed America (9780691182315)
How beef conquered America and gave rise to the modern industrial food complex By the …
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire (9780199246762)
Volume I of The Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. I…
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume III: The Nineteenth Century (9780199246786)
Volume III of The Oxford History of the British Empire covers the long nineteenth cent…
The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century (9780199246779)
Volume II of The Oxford History of the British Empire examines the history of British …
Decision at Sea : Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History (9780195312119)
From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the ca…
Chasing Dirt : The American Pursuit of Cleanliness (9780195111286)
Americans in the early 19th century were, as one foreign traveller bluntly put it, &qu…
Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation : Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (9780801851582)
Since their classic volume The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes was published in 1978, …
Creole : The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color (9780807126011)
The word Creole evokes a richness rivaled only by the term's widespread misunderst…
We the People, Volume 1: Foundations (9780674948419)
Bruce Ackerman offers a sweeping reinterpretation of our nation's constitutional e…
The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges (9780691177472)
Why efforts to improve American higher educational attainment haven't worked, and …
A War to be Won : Fighting the Second World War (9780674006805)
In the course of the 20th century, no war looms as profoundly transformative or as des…
The Making of Black Lives Matter : A Brief History of an Idea (9780190910754)
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon M…
The Making of Black Lives Matter : A Brief History of An Idea (9780190601348)
Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon M…
Pursuits of Happiness : The Social Development of Early Modern British Colonies and the Formation of American Culture (9780807842270)
In this book, Jack Greene reinterprets the meaning of American social development. Syn…
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