The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War, Hardcover - Jonathan Daniel Wells

Reducere. In a rapidly changing New York, two forces battled for the city's soul: the pro-slavery New Yorkers who kept the illegal slave trade alive and well...

A comprehensive and up-to-date study of the combat and logistics vehicles which formed part of the German contingent that fought in the Spanish Civ...

Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

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Reducere. Cash is king - for now. Over the years, many shots have been fired in the war on cash, but physical money is still surviving, despite the myriad pa...

Reducere. Amid the fearsome battles of the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers were urged onward by song. There were songs to wake them up and son...

Pieter Bruegel the Elder - Fall of the Rebel Angels is the first comprehensive book on one of the most cherished masterpieces of the Royal Museums ...

Explores the Battle of Gettysburg of the US Civil War. Authoritative text, colorful illustrations, illuminating sidebars, and questions to prompt c...

Reducere. As stock prices and investor confidence have collapsed in the wake of Enron, WorldCom, and the dot-com crash, people want to know how this happened...

Reducere. The story of the longest and most complex legal challenge to slavery in American history "A revelatory and fluidly written chronicle. . . . An esse...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jeff Shaara comes the riveting final installment in the Civil War series that began with A Blaze of Glory and cont...

The relationship between people and parish in the late medieval ages illuminated by this study of a remarkable survival from the period.

Reducere. A captivating history of the Civil War in northeast Florida "Captures in rich detail the competition between the Confederates and Unionists, blacks...

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. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

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Reducere. DescriptionForeward by Gene Smith, author of Lee and Grant An original and deeply human portrait of soldiers and civilians caught in the vortex of ...

Reducere. A Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the "Age of Neoslavery, " the American period following the Emancipation Proclamation in which convicts, mostly...

Reducere. Here is an in-depth account of the worst riot in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, assembled by one of Tulsa's most important oral histori...

Reducere. The untold story of an eccentric Wall Street tycoon and the circle of scientific geniuses he assembled before World War II to develop the science f...

The evolution of the battle for true equality in America seen through the men, ideas, and politics behind the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments passe...

Reducere. Lens of War grew out of an invitation to leading historians of the Civil War to select and reflect upon a single photograph. Each could choose any ...

Reducere. The Great Lie of the Civil War If you think the Civil War was fought to end slavery, you've been duped. In fact, as distinguished military historia...

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War: The definitive Civil War classic as Sam wanted it revised complete with his edits, new pe...

"Entertainingly indiscreet... Knee's talent for wicked pen portraits is put to good use. "--Financial Times Investment bankers used to be known as ...

Reducere. Worldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative...

Reducere. DescriptionExplore the Deadliest War in American History No other war in the history of the United States has sparked as much debate and conflict a...

Reducere. An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds ...

Historically tested long-term strategies that always outperform the market "O'Shaughnessy's conclusion that some strategies do produce consistently...

Reducere. When the United States was divided by war, future president James Abram Garfield was one of many who stepped forward to defend the Union. While his...