Skip to main content

Panier

Vous profitez des avantages réservés aux VIP !

Article(s) non disponible(s) à la vente
Veuillez vérifier votre panier. Vous pouvez supprimer le ou les articles qui ne sont pas disponibles maintenant ou nous les supprimerons automatiquement au moment du règlement de la commande.
articlesarticle
articlesarticle

Recommandé pour vous

Loading...


« john dean davis »

1-12 sur 12 résultats pour « john dean davis »
Skip side bar filters
  • Reconstructors

    Land, Work, and Engineering After the Civil War

    par John Dean Davis ...
    Explores the institutional and environmental transformations that occurred during the Reconstruction Era.While the Reconstruction Era in America saw a paradigmatic realignment of the country’s core institutions and values, there was a physical quality to Reconstruction as well: the country was not only rebuilding the South after the Civil War, but flat-out building as it expanded westward.In ... En savoir plus

    $31.89 CAD

Les lecteurs de ce roman ont aussi aimé

  • Children of Fire

    A History of African Americans

    par Thomas C. Holt ...
    "Simply brilliant. . . . The first survey of African American history to rival John Hope Franklin and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham's From Slavery to Freedom." —Henry Louis Gates, Jr.Ordinary people don't experience history as it is taught by historians. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • 1775

    A Good Year for Revolution

    par Kevin Phillips ...
    The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American RevolutionIn 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775—Congress’s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England’s rage militaire, the ... En savoir plus

    $8.99 CAD

  • African Founders

    How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals

    In this sweeping, foundational work of American history, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David Hackett Fischer draws on extensive research to show how enslaved Africans and their descendants enlarged American ideas of freedom in varying ways in different regions of the early United States.African Founders explores the little-known history of how enslaved people from different regions of Africa ... En savoir plus

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Distinct Alien Race

    The Untold Story of Franco-Americans, Industrialization, Immigration, Religious strife

    par David Vermette ...
    Americans don’t think of Canada as a source of potential terrorists—speaking a foreign tongue, serving a foreign religion, and invading their country. But when a million French-Canadians crossed the border between 1840 and 1930, many seeking work in New England’s burgeoning textile industry, they were cast as foot soldiers in an alleged Roman Catholic plot. A Distinct Alien Race places these ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • This Vast Southern Empire

    Slaveholders at the Helm of American Foreign Policy

    par Matthew Karp ...
    Winner of the John H. Dunning Prize, American Historical AssociationWinner of the Stuart L. Bernath Book Prize, Society for Historians of American Foreign RelationsWinner of the James H. Broussard Best First Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American RepublicWinner of the North Jersey Civil War Round Table Book AwardFinalist for the Harriet Tubman Prize, Lapidus Center for the ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD

  • A Dreadful Deceit

    The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama's America

    In 1656, a planter in colonial Maryland tortured and killed one of his slaves, an Angolan man named Antonio who refused to work the fields. Over three centuries later, a Detroit labor organizer named Simon Owens watched as strikebreakers wielding bats and lead pipes beat his fellow autoworkers for protesting their inhumane working conditions. Antonio and Owens had nothing in common but the color ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Generations of Captivity

    A History of African-American Slaves

    par Ira Berlin ...
    Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later.Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one fixed in the mid-nineteenth century when most American slaves grew cotton, resided in the deep South, and subscribed to Christianity. Here, however, ... En savoir plus

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Iron Way

    Railroads, the Civil War, and the Making of Modern America

    How railroads both united and divided us: "Integrates military and social history…a must-read for students, scholars and enthusiasts alike."— Civil War MonitorBeginning with Frederick Douglass's escape from slavery in 1838 on the railroad, and ending with the driving of the golden spike to link the transcontinental railroad in 1869, this book charts a critical period of American expansion and ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Slavery's Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    Modifié par Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Collections series Early American Studies
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... En savoir plus

    $50.39 CAD

  • Appalachia

    A History

    Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the Appalachian past. Along the way, he explores Appalachia’s long-contested boundaries and the numerous, often contradictory images that have shaped perceptions of the region as both the essence of America and a place apart.Williams begins his story in the ... En savoir plus

    $31.99 CAD

  • Slavery's Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    Modifié par Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Collections series Early American Studies
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... En savoir plus

    $41.99 CAD