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Virgin Land : The American West as Symbol and Myth - Henry Nash Smith - 9780674939554 - 0674939557
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Virgin Land : The American West as Symbol and Myth - Henry Nash Smith - 9780674939554 - 0674939557

ISBN13: 9780674939554. ISBN10: 0674939557. by Henry Nash Smith. Published by Triliteral. Edition: 50 More at Textbooks.com

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Jill Lepore - Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Jill Lepore - Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Skillfully interpreting reactions to the war on both sides, the historian author reveals the crucial role the conflict played in shaping the ...
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"Marlborough has been laid waste, with only three houses left standing. In Narragansett, Warwick a..." Read full review

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Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

Eric Foner - Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877

<p align="left">This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (<i>New Republic</i>) made history when it ...
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Henry Nash Smith - Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth

Henry Nash Smith - Virgin Land: The American West As Symbol and Myth

Examines the significance and impact of the nineteenth-century Westward movement on American literature. Bibliogs.
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Bernard Augustine De Voto - Across the Wide Missouri

Bernard Augustine De Voto - Across the Wide Missouri

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. De Voto weaves a compelling story of the Rocky mountain fur trade during the 1830s, vividly ...
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Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman - Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman - Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery

Time on the Cross is at once a jarring attack on the methods and conclusions of traditional scholarship and a lucid, highly readable analysis of the ...
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Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

Frances Fitzgerald - Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam

A new edition of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning portrait of Vietnam seeks to inform readers on its cultural traditions, political ...
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Mary P. Ryan - Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865

Mary P. Ryan - Cradle of the Middle Class: The Family in Oneida County, New York, 1790-1865

Winner of the 1981 Bancroft Prize. Focusing primarily on the middle class, this study delineates the social, intellectual and psychological ...
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Charles Royster - The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

Charles Royster - The Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall Jackson, and the Americans

From the moment the Civil War began, says the author in this fearfully vivid book, partisans on both sides were calling not just for conquest but for ...
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Bernard Bailyn - The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

Bernard Bailyn - The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution

In this book, Bailyn discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that ...
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"This work is a classic. Bailyn brilliantly traces the ideological background of the revolutionaries...." Read full review
Ira Berlin - Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

Ira Berlin - Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America

A major historical study of two centuries of African-American experience in America during slavery. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West

In this groundbreaking work, a Yale University professor of history gives an environmental perspective on the history of 19th-century America. "No ...
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Philip D. Morgan - Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

Philip D. Morgan - Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry

On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the ...
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Stanley Elkins and Eric L. McKitrick - The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800

Stanley Elkins and Eric L. McKitrick - The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800

Written by two esteemed historians, this work gives readers a reflective, deeply formed analytical survey of this extraordinary period in American ...
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Carl N. Degler - Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

Carl N. Degler - Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States

    Carl Degler's 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback ...
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James Sterling Young - The Washington Community, 1800-1828

James Sterling Young - The Washington Community, 1800-1828

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