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American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation
by Matthew Prat Guterl  Publisher Comments How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the wider fraternity of...
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American Transcendentalism: A History
by Philip F Gura Publisher Comments The First Comprehensive History of Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism is a comprehensive narrative history of America’s first group of public intellectuals, the men and women who defined American literature and indelibly marked...
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The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Patricia Clin Cohen Publisher Comments Obscene, libidinous, loathsome, lascivious. Those were just some of the ways critics described the nineteenth-century weeklies that covered and publicized New York City’s extensive sexual underworld. Publications like the Flash and the Whip—...
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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Haymarket)
by Alexander Saxton Publisher Comments In this acclaimed historical study, Alexander Saxton establishes the centrality of white racism to American politics and culture. Examining images of race at a popular level--from black-face minstrelsy to the construction of the Western hero, from...
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Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood & Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
by Gary W Gallagher Publisher Comments More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war—why it was fought, what was won, what was lost—not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging...
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American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century
by Christine Stansell Publisher Comments A brilliant account of the American bohemians whose experiments in living, writing, and loving created the modern world and made New York its capital. In the early years of the twentieth century, an exuberant band of talented individualists living in a...
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Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges
by J David Hoeveler Publisher Comments The nine colleges of colonial America confronted the major political currents of the 17th and 18th centuries, while serving as the primary intellectual institutions for Puritanism and the transition to Enlightenment thought. The colleges also confronted...
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Let a Common Interest Bind Us Together: Associations, Partisanship, and Culture in Philadelphia, 1775-1840 (Jeffersonian America)
by Albrecht Koschnik Synopsis After examining American society in 1831-32, Alexis de Tocqueville concluded, In no country in the world has the principle of association been more successfully used or applied to a greater multitude of objects than in America. What he failed to note...
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Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
by Anne Baker Publisher Comments As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans...
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A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments The Bancroft Prize-winning author of "The Name of War" brings her historical narrative skill to a group portrait of seven men who had radically different aims and temperaments but shared a common belief in the importance of language in shaping national...
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A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States
by Stephen Mihm Publisher Comments Listen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron andamp; Crane Few of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon...
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Men of Letters in the Early Republic: Cultivating Forums of Citizenship
by Catherine Od Kaplan Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the Revolutionary War, after decades of intense upheaval and debate, the role of the citizen was seen as largely political. But as Catherine O'Donnell Kaplan reveals, some Americans saw a need for a realm of public men outside...
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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by Justin Kaplan Publisher Comments This newest book by Pulitzer Prize winner Kaplan is a sparkling combination of biography, social history, architectural appreciation, and pure pleasure, as he looks at the Astor familys dynasty and its contributions to the city of New York....
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The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
by Thomas Beer Publisher Comments Laced with witty anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses the wild panoply of the Gilded Age's last decade--from high society to the closing of the West--bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's...
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Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early American Studies
by Malini Jo Schueller Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-253) and index....
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A Nation Transformed: How the Civil War Changed America Forever
by Gerald Henig Publisher Comments This comprehensive look at the changes the Civil War introduced and exacerbated in America illustrates just how deeply the war affected the nation--and how America would never be the same because of it....
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Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890
by Gustavus Stadler Publisher Comments The nature of genius has long been a subject of fascination and critique. Over the course of the mid- to late-nineteenth century, the representative capacities of the idea of genius in the United States shifted toward an increasingly detailed...
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Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction (American Crisis)
by J Michael Martinez Publisher Comments This is the story of the rise and fall of the Reconstruction-era Klan, focusing especially on Major Merrill and the Seventh Cavalry's efforts to expose the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan to the light of day....
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Secret Eye: The Journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, 1848-1889 (Gender and American Culture)
by Virginia Ingra Burr Publisher Comments The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras. Thomas, who was born to wealth and privilege and...
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A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments What ties Americans to one another? Not race, religion, or ethnicity. At the nation’s founding, some commentators wondered whether adopting a common tongue might help bind the newly United States together. “A national language is a national...
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