Chronological Period/1800-1850
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Liberty and Power
$23.99 Add to cartAs an engaging and persuasive survey of American public life from 1816 to 1848, Harry L. Watson’s Liberty and Power remains a landmark achievement. Now updated to address twenty-five years of new scho
- Author: Watson, Harry L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0809065479
- Language: English
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Cyrano de Bergerac: An Heroic Comedy in Five Acts
$6.99 Add to cartThis is Edmond Rostand’s immortal play in which chivalry and wit, bravery and love are forever captured in the timeless spirit of romance. Set in Louis XIII’s reign, it is the moving and exciting dram… [more below]
- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Rostand, Edmond
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 1950
- ISBN10: 0553213601
- Language: English
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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author, the larger than life story of America’s fifth president, who transformed a small, fragile nation into a powerful empire
In this compelling biography, award- Author: Unger, Harlow Giles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 030681918X
- Language: English
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The Women of Colonial Latin America
$45.33 Add to cartIn this second edition of her acclaimed volume, The Women of Colonial Latin America, Susan Migden Socolow has revised substantial portions of the book – incorporating new topics and illustrative cases… [more below]
- Series: New Approaches to the Americas
- Author: Socolow, Susan Migden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 16 2015
- ISBN10: 0521148820
- Language: English
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American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
$21.99 Add to cartThe American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the nation its democratic framework. Alan Taylor, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Author: Taylor, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: September 26 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354768
- Language: English
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Storm for the Living and the Dead: Uncollected and Unpublished Poems
$18.00 Add to cartA timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowski’s best unpublished and uncollected poems
Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reach
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 006265652X
- Language: English
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Philosophy of Right
$10.95 Add to cartComplete and unabridged, this edition of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel’s 1821 classic offers a comprehensive view of the philosopher’s influential system. In the Philosophy of Right, Hegel applies hi… [more below]
- Series: Dover Philosophical Classics
- Author: Hegel, G. W. F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0486445631
- Language: English
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River of Promise: Lewis and Clark on the Columbia
$18.95 Add to cartIn the many published accounts of the Lewis and Clark expedition, historians have tended to undervalue the explorers’ encounter with Columbia River country. Most narratives emphasize Lewis and Clark’s
- Author: Nicandri, David L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224152
- Language: English
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Goya
$20.00 Add to cartFrom court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jos? de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain’s most revered and controversial ar
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hagen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 16 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532689
- Language: English
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Life of Black Hawk, or Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak
$14.00 Read moreA rediscovered, defiant work of Native American literature, presented here on the 175th anniversary of its first publication
Upon its publication in 1833, this unflinching narrative by the vanquished- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Black Hawk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01, 2008
- ISBN10: 0143105396
- Language: English
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Gichi Bitobig, Grand Marais: Early Accounts of the Anishinaabeg and the North Shore Fur Trade
$21.95 Add to cartThe journals of two clerks of the American Fur Company recall a lost moment in the history of the fur trade and the Anishinaabeg along Lake Superior’s North Shore
Long after the Anishinaabeg first i
- Author: Cochrane, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 1517905931
- Language: English
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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
$26.99 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES EDITOR’S CHOICE
From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE RECOMMENDED BOOK
WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE- Author: Grandin, Greg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 13 2015
- ISBN10: 1250062101
- Language: English
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The Lady’s Stratagem: A Repository of 1820s Directions for the Toilet, Mantua-Making, Stay-Making, Millinery & Etiquette
$75.00 Add to cartThe Lady’s Stratagem is a comprehensive, step-by-step, illustrated guide to early 19th-century dressmaking, corset making, millinery, knitting, embroidery, clothing care, beauty treatments, and manner… [more below]
- Author: Grimble, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 755
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0963651773
- Language: English
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The Oregon Trail
$20.99 Add to cartKeen observations and a graphic style characterize the author’s remarkable record of a vanishing frontier. Detailed accounts of the hardships experienced while traveling across mountains and prairies;… [more below]
- Series: Economy Editions
- Author: Parkman, Francis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 15 2002
- ISBN10: 0486424804
- Language: English
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The Rose of Martinique: A Life of Napoleon’s Josephine
$17.00 Add to cartOne of the most remarkable women of the modern era, Josephine Bonaparte was born Rose de Tasher on her family’s sugar plantation in Martinique. She embodied all the characteristics of a true Creole-se… [more below]
- Author: Stuart, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: May 16 2005
- ISBN10: 0802142028
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery, and Survival at the Edge of the World
$29.99 Add to cartIn Left for Dead, Eric Jay Dolin–“one of today’s finest writers about ships and the sea” (American Heritage)–tells the true story of a wild and fateful encounter between an American sealing vessel,
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093080
- Language: English
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The Greatest Mountain Men Stories Ever Told
$19.95 Add to cartLong the dominant icon embodying the spirit of America’s frontier past, the image of the cowboy no longer stands alone as the ultimate symbol of independence and self-reliance. The great canvas of the… [more below]
- Series: Greatest
- Author: Underwood, Lamar
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032879
- Language: English
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So Far from God: The U. S. War with Mexico, 1846-1848
$26.95 Add to cartThe Mexican-American War of the 1840s, precipitated by border disputes and the U.S. annexation of Texas, ended with the military occupation of Mexico City by General Winfield Scott. In the subsequent
- Author: Eisenhower, John S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 498
- Publish Date: February 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0806132795
- Language: English
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A Country of Vast Designs: James K. Polk, the Mexican War and the Conquest of the American Continent
$23.00 Add to cartPresident James K. Polk, often overlooked yet ever-consequential, comes to life in this “compelling, perceptive portrait” (The Wall Street Journal) biography of the 11th President of the United States… [more below]
- Series: Simon & Schuster America Collection
- Author: Merry, Robert W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: November 02 2010
- ISBN10: 074329744X
- Language: English
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
$14.99 Add to cart“A good story, well told, of a sliver of life in Richmond, a small, elite-driven capital city in the young nation’s most influential state.” -Publishers Weekly
George Wythe clung to the mahogany banist
- Author: Chadwick, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 01 2009
- ISBN10: 1681621053
- Language: English
