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ISBN 978-0-19-505412-5
EAN 9780195054125
The first full biography of the talented and troubling figure of John Wilkes Booth, the man who killed Abraham LincolnWith a single shot from a pistol small enough to conceal in his hand, John Wilkes Booth catapulted into history on the night of April 14, 1865. The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln stunned a nation ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-021269-8
EAN 9780190212698
A riveting and necessary take on some of the most prevalent myths surrounding oil securityThe last decade has seen a far-reaching revolution in the oil industry, both in the US and globally. By some measures, America is on pace to become the world's biggest oil producer in the next decade, an outcome that was inconceivable ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-50382-3
EAN 9780674503823
Colonial Americans were enamored with the rich colors and silky surface of mahogany. As this exotic wood became fashionable, demand for it set in motion a dark, hidden story of human and environmental exploitation. Anderson traces the path from source to sale, revealing how prosperity and desire shaped not just people's lives but the natural ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-021839-3
EAN 9780190218393
An engaging look at how Abraham Lincoln's final public address traces the debate over reconstruction from the earliest days of the Civil WarWhat did Abraham Lincoln envision when he talked about "reconstruction?" Assassinated in 1865, the president did not have a chance to begin the work of reconciling the North and South, nor to oversee ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023307-5
EAN 9780190233075
Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-022745-6
EAN 9780190227456
It is the most famous speech Lincoln ever gave, and one of the most important orations in the history of the nation. Delivered on November 19, 1863, among the freshly dug graves of the Union dead, the Gettysburg Address defined the central meaning of the Civil War and gave cause for the nation's incredible suffering. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-537483-4
EAN 9780195374834
A gripping portrait of a charged landscape and the people who have continually redefined itIn the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially seeking evacuation, area activists ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-982800-5
EAN 9780199828005
A groundbreaking reinterpretation of the bloodiest slave revolt in American historyOn the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had ever been killed in any slave revolt ...
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A book that radically changes our understanding of North America before and after the arrival of Europeans .Encounters at the Heart of the World" concerns the Mandan Indians, iconic Plains people whose teeming, busy towns on the upper Missouri River were for centuries at the center of the North American universe. We know of them ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-05039-6
EAN 9780674050396
Americans look to China with fascination and fear, unsure whether the rising Asian power is friend or foe but certain it will play a crucial role in America's future. This is nothing new, Gordon Chang says. For centuries, Americans have been convinced of China's importance to their own national destiny. Fateful Ties draws on literature, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-137-27994-1
EAN 9781137279941
For many Americans, the words 'American and 'Muslim simply do not marry well; for many the combination is an anathema, a contradiction in values, loyalties, and identities. This is the story of one American Muslim family--the story of how, through their lives, their schools, their friends, and their neighbors, they end up living the challenges, ...
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ISBN 978-1-4767-6989-9
EAN 9781476769899
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ISBN 978-0-19-937577-6
EAN 9780199375776
Renowned historian James M. McPherson considers the legacy of the Civil War and its continuing relevance for America in the 21st centuryMore than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had "uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
ISBN 978-0-19-023196-5
EAN 9780190231965
The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Once known as the greatest deliberative body in the world, it now has a reputation as a partisan, dysfunctional chamber. What happened to the house that forged American history's great compromises?In this groundbreaking work, a distinguished journalist and an eminent historian provide an insider's history of ...
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ISBN 978-0-19-021786-0
EAN 9780190217860
Lee's surrender to Grant at Appomattox Court House evokes a highly gratifying image in the popular mind -- it was, many believe, a moment that transcended politics, a moment of healing, a moment of patriotism untainted by ideology. But as Elizabeth Varon reveals in this vividly narrated history, this rosy image conceals a seething debate ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-06-237657-2
EAN 9780062376572
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 400 páginas
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ISBN 978-0-19-544880-1
EAN 9780195448801
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
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ISBN 978-1-78168-667-6
EAN 9781781686676
Since the birth of the nation, the idea of empire has been at the heart of United States's image of itself. Through a close reading of both the acknowledged grand strategists as well as the more non-conformist foreign policy analysts Anderson charts the entwined historical development of America's imperial reach with its role as the ...
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ISBN 978-0-674-50387-8
EAN 9780674503878
Spreading democracy abroad or protecting business at home: this book offers a new look at the history of the contest between isolationalism and internationalism that is as current as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and as old as America itself, with profiles of the people, policies, and events that shaped the debate.
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ISBN 978-0-674-50385-4
EAN 9780674503854
Nineteenth-century Muslim peddlers arrived at Ellis Island, bags heavy with silks from their villages in Bengal. Demand for "Oriental goods" took these migrants on a curious path, from New Jersey's boardwalks to the segregated South. Bald's history reveals cross-racial affinities below the surface of early twentieth-century America.
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