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  • The Brave New World

    A History of Early America

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    The distinguished historian "does a remarkable job" with this lively and comprehensive textbook—now in a new, expanded edition (Daniel P. Kotzin, Teaching History).The Brave New World covers the span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to creation of the new nation. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Clio among the Muses

    Essays on History and the Humanities

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    History helps us understand change, provides clues to our own identity, and hones our moral sense. But history is not a stand-alone discipline. Indeed, its own history is incomplete without recognition of its debt to its companions in the humane and social sciences. In Clio among the Muses, noted historiographer Peter Charles Hoffer relates the story of this remarkable collaboration. Hoffer traces ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Denmark Vesey's Revolt

    The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter

    par Lofton ...
    Collections series American Abolitionism and Antislavery
    In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution in U.S. history. At the time of Vesey’s conviction, Charleston was America’s chief slave port and ... En savoir plus

    $27.49 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield

    Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Collections series Witness to History
    The story of a unique friendship in colonial America between a Founding Father and a founder of the evangelical movement.In the 1740s, two very different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought—the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement—the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Prelude to Revolution

    The Salem Gunpowder Raid of 1775

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Collections series Witness to History
    "A fine study . . . by a prolific scholar who adeptly restores the Salem Gunpowder Raid to its rightful place in the history of the American Revolution." — New England QuarterlyOn April 19, 1775, British raids on Lexington Green and Concord Bridge made history, but it was an episode nearly two months earlier in Salem, Massachusetts, that set the stage for the hostilities. Peter Charles Hoffer has ... En savoir plus

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  • Three Speeches that Saved the Union

    Clay, Calhoun, Webster, and the Crisis of 1850

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    How three skilled orators navigated a polarized political landscapeFor the generation of politicians who inherited the Republic and the Union, the opening months of 1850 were a desperate time filled with increasing animosity between free and slave state leaders over issues of the expansion of slavery. Following the end of the Mexican-American War and the subsequent expansion of American territory ... En savoir plus

    $25.29 CAD

  • A Nation of Laws

    America's Imperfect Pursuit of Justice

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    America’s founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny. Nearly two and a half centuries later, that system remains the ultimate safeguard for us all. With concise but penetrating and provocative insights, the eminent Peter Charles Hoffer recaptures the spirit of this grand enterprise ... En savoir plus

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Supreme Court Footnote

    A Surprising History

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Finalist, 2025 PROSE Awards: Legal Studies and CriminologyA history of the humble footnote and its impact on the highest court in the landIn May 2022, a seismic legal event occurred as the draft majority opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was leaked. The majority aimed to eliminate constitutional protection for abortion. Amidst the fervor, an unnoticed detail emerged: over 140 footnotes ... En savoir plus

    $23.09 CAD

  • The Supreme Court

    An Essential History, Second Edition

    par Peter Charles Hoffer, Williamjames Hull Hoffer, N. E. H. Hull ...
    For more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation’s history. Now a veteran team of talented historians—including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series—have updated the most readable, astute single-volume history of this venerated institution with a new chapter on the Roberts Court ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD

  • Reading Law Forward

    The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    In the current legal climate where “everyone is an originalist,” conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to the past the central goal and criterion. By contrast, the alternative approach, “reading the law forward”—what some call judicial pragmatism or consequentialism—is viewed as heretical. Rather than mount a ... En savoir plus

    $60.99 CAD

  • Past Imperfect

    Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: "A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today." He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Brave New World

    A History of Early America

    par Peter Charles Hoffer ...
    A lively synthesis of early American history, now in its third edition.The Brave New World covers the entire span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans landed on North American shores to the Revolutionary War. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this comprehensive new edition of a classic textbook brings together the most recent scholarship on ... En savoir plus

    $45.99 CAD