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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  Synopsis In this historical study, Saxton asks why white racism remained an idealogical force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared. It examines images of race at a popular level, from blackfaced minstrels to dime...
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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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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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Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America
by Jason Goodwin Publisher Comments With the wry and admiring eye of a modern Tocqueville, Jason Goodwin gives us a biography of the dollar and the story of its astonishing career through the wilds of American history. Looking at the dollar over the years as a form of art, a kind of...
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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by Justin Kaplan Publisher Comments Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, two heirs of arch-capitalist John Jacob Astor battled with each other for social primacy. William Waldorf Astor (born 1848) and his cousin John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864) led incomparably privileged...
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Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
by Stephen Frank Synopsis Who was the Victorian patriarch, and what kind of father was he? In this richly documented study, Stephen M. Frank presents the first account of nineteenth-century family life to focus on the role of fathers. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, and...
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Creating the American Mind: Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges
by J David Hoeveler Synopsis 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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A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States
by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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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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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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The Contrast: Manners, Morals, and Authority in the Early American Republic
by Cynthia A Kierner Publisher Comments "This powerful and lively package of primary materials and historical context will demonstrate how historical 'forces' play themselves out on the ground. Kierner's collection offers a fresh lens on a new world struggling into being and will inspire...
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Nation Transformed (07 Edition)
by Henig Synopsis 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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Organizing America: Wealth, Power, and the Origins of Corporate Capitalism
by Charles Perrow Synopsis In this book, the first organizational history of 19th century America, Yale sociologist Perrow shows that there was nothing inevitable about the surge in corporate size and power by century's end. The resultant insights presage a new historical genre....
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Carpetbaggers, Cavalry, and the Ku Klux Klan: Exposing the Invisible Empire During Reconstruction (American Crisis)
by J Michael Martinez Synopsis 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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Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University (Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University)
by David H Fischer Synopsis A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other...
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Cradle of Liberty: Race, the Child, and National Belonging from Thomas Jefferson to W. E. B. Du Bois (New Americanists)
by Caroline F Levander Publisher Comments Throughout American literature, the figure of the child is often represented in opposition to the adult. In Cradle of Liberty Caroline F. Levander proposes that this opposition is crucial to American political thought and the literary cultures that...
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The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918
by Randolph Bourne Synopsis Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s...
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