Illusions of Empire: The Civil War and Reconstruction in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Hardcover - William S. Kiser

Reducere. Illusions of Empire adopts a multinational view of North American borderlands, examining the ways in which Mexico's North overlapped with the U.S. ...

Reducere. Following Zebulon Pike's expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, s...

It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. It is often taken as a simple truth that the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution ended slavery in the United States. In the ...

Reducere. Stephen Atkins Swails is a forgotten American hero. A free Black in the North before the Civil War began, Swails exhibited such exemplary service i...

Reducere. The Civil War is the greatest trauma ever experienced by the American nation, a four-year paroxysm of violence that left in its wake more than 600,...

Reducere. An authoritative history by the preeminent scholar of the Civil War era, The Second Founding traces the arc of the three foundational Reconstructio...

Reducere. Bondspeople who fled from slavery during and after the Civil War did not expect that their flight toward freedom would lead to sickness, disease, s...

The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an examination of the post-Civil War migration of former southern slaveholders into Mexico.Illustrations: 6 photog...

Reducere. Although hundreds of thousands of people died fighting in the Civil War, perhaps the war's biggest casualty was the nation's legal order. A Nation ...

The Civil War was undeniably an integral event in American history, but for African Americans, whose personal liberties were dependent upon its out...

DescriptionThe Declaration of Independence announced equality as an American ideal, but it took the Civil War and the subsequent adoption of three ...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

Civil War in Central Europe argues that Polish independence after the First World War was forged in the fires of the post-war conflicts which shoul...

Reducere. Still the least-understood theater of the Civil War, the Southwest Borderlands saw not only Union and Confederate forces clashing but Indians, Hisp...

I Freed Myself: African American Self-Emancipation in the Civil War Era - David Williams

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

Reducere. In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small t...

Reducere. DescriptionJoining the U.S.' war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel vila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and ...

Reducere. Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native Ame...

Drawing together leading scholars in literary studies and history, this volume offers accessible treatments of major authors and subjects. Its twen...

Reducere. Historians overwhelmingly have blamed the demise of Reconstruction on Southerners' persistent racism. Heather Cox Richardson argues instead that cl...

The most famous Civil War name in Northern Virginia, other than General Lee, is Colonel John Singleton Mosby, the Gray Ghost. He stands out among n...

Reducere. A vast and desolate region, the Texas-New Mexico borderlands have long been an ideal setting for intrigue and illegal dealings--never more so than ...

DescriptionAn important investigation of the sociocultural fallout of America's work on the atomic bombIn The Nuclear Borderlands, Joseph Masco off...

Reducere. In January 1868, a Union veteran named Gilbert Bates set out from his Wisconsin farm for Vicksburg, Mississippi, to prove a point and win a bet: th...

Reducere. A deep dive into the period after the Civil War, when the country struggled to both heal and find a way forward. An essential read for students age...

Reducere. John Potts Slough, the Union commander at the Battle of Glorieta Pass, lived a life of relentless pursuit for success that entangled him in the tur...

DescriptionThe War Criminal's Son brings to life hidden aspects of the Civil War through the sweeping saga of the firstborn son in the infamous Con...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Worlds of James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens examines the political interests, relationships, and practices of two of the era's mos...

"Reconstruction after the Civil War "explores the role of former slaves during this period in American history. Looking past popular myths and cont...

Reducere. After the end of the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, the Southwest Borderlands remained hotly contested territory. Over following decades, the United Sta...

Reducere. For a century and a half, Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation has been the dominant narrative of African American freedom in...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ray C. ColtonBetween 1861 and 1865 the violent struggles of the Civil War extended into the Western Territories, where they...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom the New York Times bestselling, celebrated, and award-winning author of Empire of the Summer Moon and Rebel Yell comes the spellbin...

Reducere. Americans came to fight the Civil War in the midst of a wider cultural world that sent them messages about death that made it easier to kill and to...

Reducere. A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Undergrou...

Reducere. Based on years of exhaustive and meticulous research, David C. Keehn's study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the Knights of the Golden...

DescriptionAt the crux of America's history stand two astounding events: the immediate and complete destruction of the most powerful system of slav...

Reducere. DescriptionThe two great commentaries of Julius Caesar - the Gallic War and the Civil War - are united in this superb hardcover edition. The commen...

Reducere. (Note: The limited deluxe edition of Mapping Virginia has sold out.) As one of the chief gateways to the earliest exploration and settlement of the...

Reducere. How did Civil War soldiers endure the brutal and unpredictable existence of army life during the conflict? This question is at the heart of Peter S...

Reducere. The essential field guide to the raptors of Mexico and Central AmericaRaptors are among the most challenging birds to identify in the field due to ...

Reducere. Guerrilla warfare, border fights, and unorganized skirmishes are all too often the only battles associated with Missouri during the Civil War. Comb...

Reducere. A compact, incisive history of one of the defining conflicts of our time Leaving almost half a million dead and displacing an estimated twelve mill...

Reducere. The first comprehensive study of the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad in the Civil War, this book includes detailed drawings of rail...