Creatures of Empire: How Domestic Animals Transformed Early America, Paperback - Virginia DeJohn Anderson

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Reducere. Relying on meticulous original archival research, historian Peter Silver uncovers a fearful and vibrant early America in which Lutherans and Presby...

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Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic histo...

Black women living in the French empire played a key role in the decolonial movements of the mid-twentieth century. Thinkers and activists, these w...

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Escape to a mystical garden where birds make magical nests and kittens trick-or-treat in a pumpkin patch. In this whimsically charming coloring boo...

Reducere. Provides an ambitious history of pigs and pig products from the Columbian exchange to the present, emphasizing critical stories of production, cons...

DescriptionWhat the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe empires of the past were far-flung ...

Contested Spaces of Early America is a wide-ranging, eclectic volume that seeks to reconcile the parallel histories and historiographies of Europea...

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Reducere. Since the September 11th, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, traditional American foreign policy has proven inadequate to 21st Ce...

Atlantic Lives offers insight into the lived experiences of a range of actors in the early modern Atlantic World. Organized thematically, each chap...

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"If you want to get beyond gestures and slogans and to the truth, this is the book to get you there" Russell Brand"Kehinde Andrews is a crucial voi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James N. GregoryBetween 1900 and the 1970s, twenty million southerners migrated north and west. Weaving together for the fi...

Reducere. Theodore J. Karamanski's sweeping maritime history demonstrates the far-ranging impact that the tools and infrastructure developed for navigating t...

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Completely updated, revised and redesigned in colour throughout, this classic bestselling text provides a concise introduction to the fundamentals ...

Reducere. DescriptionLiberty's Prisoners examines how changing attitudes about work, freedom, property, and family shaped the creation of the penitentiary sy...

Reducere. If sexology--the science of sex--came into being sometime in the nineteenth century, then how did statesmen, scientists, and everyday people make m...

Reducere. Religion and Profit Moravians in Early America Katherine Carté Engel Winner of the 2010 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Ana...

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Reducere. Every Third Woman in America: How Legal Abortion Transformed Our Nation tells the forgotten story of the transition from the back alley to safe car...

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Reducere. Finalist for the Pulitzer PrizeWidely hailed as a "powerfully written" history about America's beginnings (Annette Gordon-Reed), New England Bound ...

Reducere. "Decolonizing the Diet" challenges the common claim that native American communities were decimated after 1492 because they lived in "virgin soils"...

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The inspiring story of how the Salisburys, enthusiastic but amateur gardeners, transformed an unloved rural wasteland into a thriving, renowned wil...

Learn the insider secrets professional cartoonists use to turn regular cartoon animals into completely cute characters Warm and fuzzy characters al...

Ten years after the landmark legislation, Ezekiel Emanuel leads a crowd of experts, policy-makers, doctors, and scholars as they evaluate the Affor...

Mostly hidden from public view, scores of putative locks of George Washington's hair are held in the collections of America's historical societies,...

This book explores the fascinating hidden world of the planet's most peculiar creatures. It's packed with bizarre full-color images and breathtakin...

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In the beginning, North America was Indian country. But only in the beginning. After the opening act of the great national drama, Native Americans ...

The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Grea...

The emergence of the early American republic as a new nation on the world stage conjured rival visions in the eyes of leading statesmen at home and...

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The increasing global appetite for Japanese amigurumi is catered to with these guides to thirty miniature designs, handily divided across six categ...

An award-winning historian reveals the harrowing forgotten story of America's internal slave trade--and its role in the making of America. Slave tr...