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The Civil War Dictionary
$35.00 AUD
Author: Mark M. Boatner IIIBinding: HardbackPublished: David McKay, 1962Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Slight stains on book block. This comprehensive historical reference...
Ready To Riot
$25.00 AUD
Author: Nathan Wright, Jr.Binding: HardbackPublished: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerThis book examines the underlying causes and manifestations of social unrest. It provides an in-depth analysis...
By Little And By Little: The Selected Writings Of Dorothy Day
$20.00 AUD
Author: Dorothy DayBinding: SoftbackPublished: Dove Communications, 1983Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compilation presents a collection of significant works from a pivotal figure in American social and religious...
A Day In The Life Of America
$30.00 AUD
Author: Rick SmolanBinding: HardbackPublished: Collins, New York, 1986Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a comprehensive photographic record of a single day across the United States. It captures diverse...
Those Who Love: A Biographical Novel Of Abigail And John Adams
$25.00 AUD
Author: Irving StoneBinding: HardbackPublished: Cassell London, 1966Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThe book presents a biographical narrative centered on the lives of Abigail and John Adams. This work reimagines their...
The Rise And Fall Of Black Slavery
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Author: C. Duncan RiceBinding: HardbackPublished: Macmillan, 1975Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book provides a comprehensive historical analysis of black slavery. It traces the institution's origins and development across various...
Blind Ambition: The White House Years
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Author: John W. Dean IiiBinding: HardbackPublished: Simon and Schuster, 1976Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerJohn W. Dean III recounts his experiences during his tenure in the Nixon administration. The narrative...
White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy And Southern Reconstruction
$110.00 AUD
Author: Allen W. TreleaseBinding: HardbackPublished: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis historical account meticulously details the origins and activities of the Ku Klux Klan. The narrative...
Harry S. Truman
$20.00 AUD
Author: Margaret TrumanBinding: HardbackPublished: William Morrow, 1973Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book presents a comprehensive account of the life and presidency of Harry S. Truman. It...
Letters From North America And The Pacific: 1898
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Author: Charles Philips TrevelyanBinding: HardbackPublished: Chatto & Windus, 1969Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Book in very good condition tears to the back of the DJ.This volume...
A Day In The Life Of California
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Author: John GrishamBinding: HardbackPublished: Cornerstone, United Kingdom, London, 1988Condition:Book: ExcellentJacket: UnblemishedPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis book captures the essence of daily existence within California. It presents a vivid portrayal of the...
Fossil In The Sandstone: The Recollecting Judge (SIGNED)
$45.00 AUD
Author: Sir Kevin AndersonBinding: HardbackPublished: Spectrum Publications Melbourne, 1986Condition:Book: Very goodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: Number 118 of 250 copies. Faded DJ. This book presents a detailed account...
Main Currents In American Thought: An Interpretation Of American Literature From The Beginnings To 1920
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Author: Vernon Louis ParringtonBinding: HardbackPublished: HARCOURT, BRACE & WORLD, INC., 1930Condition:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Overall in very good condition. Some of the pages in the...
Secret Service Chief
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Author: U.E. Baughman With Leonard Wallace RobinsonBinding: HardbackPublished: William Heinemann, 1963Condition:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tearPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsCondition remarks: Faded cloth. Worn Dj with surface wear. Clean text. This book...
The Oxford Companion To American Literature: Fifth Edition
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Author: James D. HartBinding: HardbackPublished: Oxford University Press, 1983Condition:Book: Ex-libraryJacket: Wear and tearPages: Aging or markingMarkings: Previous ownerThis comprehensive reference work provides an authoritative guide to the vast landscape of...
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play
The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American life Stadiums are monuments to recreation,...
The Stadium: An American History of Politics, Protest, and Play
The sweeping story of the American stadium-from the first wooden ballparks to today's glass and steel mega-arenas-revealing how it has made, and remade, American life Stadiums are monuments to recreation,...
Burnside'S Bridge: The Climactic Struggle of the 2nd and 20th Georgia
Before the heroic stand of the 20th Maine at Little Round Top, the 2nd and 20th Georgia Infantries, led by Brigadier General Robert Toombs, held off a veritable Yankee juggernaut...
Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World
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"Our women are serving actively in many ways in this war, and they are doing a grand job on both the fighting front and the home front." -- Eleanor Roosevelt,...
The Soccer War
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Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency,...
The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the
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Longlisted for the 2014 National Book Award The astonishing story of aunique missionary project and the America it embodied from award-winning historian John Demos. Near the start of the nineteenth...
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
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From the perilous ocean crossing to the shared bounty of the first Thanksgiving, the Pilgrim settlement of New England has become enshrined as our most sacred national myth. Yet, as...
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
In this unique history of 1776, Claudio Saunt looks beyond the familiar story of the thirteen colonies to explore the many other revolutions roiling the turbulent American continent. In that...
A History of the Twentieth Century: 1933-1951
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The world was still reeling from the ravages of the century's first Great War when a dramatic and inexorable chain of events set it afire once again. In the Second...
I've Got a Home in Glory Land: The True Story of Two Runaway Slaves
It was the day before Independence Day, 1833. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be sold down the river, Thornton Blackburn planned a daring and successful daylight escape from...
Brothers Down: Pearl Harbor and the Fate of the Many Brothers Aboard
The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history, destroying a naval fleet, killing over a thousand crew members,...
Final Victory: FDR's Extraordinary World War II Presidential Campaign
When the wartime 1944 presidential election campaign geared up late that spring, Franklin D. Roosevelt had already occupied the White House years longer than any other president. Sensing likely weakness,...
Copperheads: The Rise and Fall of Lincoln's Opponents in the North
The Northern home-front during the Civil War was far from tranquil. Fierce political debates set communities on edge, spurred secret plots against the Union, and triggered widespread violence. At the...
Pragmatism and Other Writings
The writings of William James represent one of America's most original contributions to the history of ideas. Ranging from philosophy and psychology to religion and politics, James composed the most...
Capital Dames
Cokie Roberts, the author of three New York Times bestsellers, including Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty , turns her attention to the Civil War in a riveting exploration of...
Paths to Victory: A History and Tour Guide of the Stone's River,
$15.00 AUD
The fourth volume in The Civil War Campaign Series covers every aspect of the campaigns in central and southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. Includes a tour guide. Illustrated and indexed....
Fields of Glory: a History and Tour Guide of the Atlanta Campaign
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traces the 1864 campaign and leads readers on a driving tour of Sherman's path. Franklin Garrett of the Atlanta Historical Society calls it "a difficult job well done" A History...
Historic Tales of Michigan Up North
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Centuries ago, Europeans desperate for gold and a route to the East found a lush, green paradise populated by native tribes in the New World. Despite a clash of cultures,...
Izzy: A Biography of I. E. Stone
America's foremost left-wing journalist of the post-World War I era was I.F. "Izzy" Stone. At the time of his death in 1989, Stone had completed the passage he once predicted...
Civil War Newspaper Maps: A Historical Atlas
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Bull Run - Ball's Bluff - Chickamauga - Antietam - Secessionville - Champion's Hill. To the Northern public during the Civil War, they were exotic names of unfamiliar places where...
Race of a Lifetime: How Obama Won the White House
Forget everything you think you know about the making of the most powerful man on the planet. President Barack Obama's triumph was not inevitable: it was the end product of...
The Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 3, Affairs of
This volume analyzes the cultural and intellectual impact of the war, considering how it reshaped Americans' spiritual, cultural, and intellectual habits. The Civil War engendered an existential crisis more profound...
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and...
Running from Bondage: Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for
Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and...
The Falklands War: An Imperial History
Why did Britain and Argentina go to war over a wintry archipelago that was home to an unprofitable colony? Could the Falklands War, in fact, have been a last-ditch revival...
Why America Loses Wars: Limited War and US Strategy from the Korean
How can you achieve victory in war if you don't have a clear idea of your political objectives and a vision of what victory means? In this provocative challenge to...
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 4, 1945 to the
The fourth volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines the heights of American global power in the mid-twentieth century and how challenges from at home and...
The Cambridge History of America and the World
The second volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States rose to great power status in the nineteenth century and how the rest...
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 1, 1500-1820
The first volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World examines how the United States emerged out of a series of colonial interactions, some involving indigenous empires and...
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of
1968 was an unprecedented year in terms of upheaval on numerous scales: political, military, economic, social, cultural. In the United States, perhaps no one was more undone by the events...