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Oxford University Press
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English
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"The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically acclaimed volume -- a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize -- offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic. Beginning with the French and Indian War and continuing to the election of George Washington as first president, Robert Middlekauff offers a panoramic history of the conflict between England and America,...
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Oxford history of the United States volume 9
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English
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Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. This Pulitzer Prize-winning history tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities. The Depression was both a disaster and an opportunity. As David Kennedy vividly demonstrates, the economic crisis of the 1930s was far more than a simple reaction to the alleged excesses...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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In his last years as president of the United States, an embattled George Washington yearned for a time when his nation would have 'the strength of a Giant and there will be none who can make us afraid.' At the turn of the 20th century, the United States seemed poised to achieve a position of world power beyond what even Washington could have imagined. In this book, George C. Herring recounts the rise of the United States from the dawn of what came...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"During Reconstruction Northerners attempted to remake the United States in their own image. They would make incarnate the new world Republicans imagined at the end of the Civil War. That new world seemed possible because the Republican Party controlled the Union in 1865 as fully as any political party would ever control the country. Reconstruction would produce a nation built around free labor with a homogeneous citizenry whose rights would be guaranteed...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"George C. Herring's "From colony to superpower" won wide acclaim from critics and readers alike on publications. In "Years of peril and ambition", the first part of a new split paperback edition of that magisterial work, Herring follows the United States' rise from a loose grouping of British colonies to its dramatic emergence as a superpower following the First World War, illuminating the central importance of foreign relations to the existence...
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English
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James M. McPherson, professor emeritus of U.S. history at Princeton, is one of the foremost scholars of the Civil War. In this informative and meticulously researched masterpiece, he clarifies the differing ways of life and philosophy that led to this shattering conflict. Abraham Lincoln wondered whether “in a free government the minority have the right to break up the government.” Jefferson Davis felt “forced to take up arms” to guarantee...