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The Union As It Is
Constitutional Unionism and Sectional Compromise, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
The first scholar to trace the meaning and importance of the idea of political compromise from the founding of the Republic to the onset of the Civil War, Knupfer shows how recurring justifications of sectional compromise reflected common ideas about the way governments were supposed to work.
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The Darkest Days of the War
The Battles of Iuka and Corinth
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2017
During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The outcome of this offensive--the only coordinated Confederate attempt to carry the conflict to the enemy--was disastrous. The results at Antietam and in Kentucky are well known; the third...
by John Williams, J. Kenneth Morland
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2018
A social-developmental psychologist and a social anthropologist describe what is known--and what needs to be investigated--concerning the development of race and color concepts in young children. The authors summarize the results of their fifteen-year research and integrate their findings with those...
by Laura Kalman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
For more than one hundred years, Harvard's use of the case method of appellate opinions dominated legal education. Deploring the attempt to reduce law to an autonomous system of rules and principles, the realists at Yale developed a functional approach to the discipline--one that stressed the factual...
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten
How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know about the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2008
More than 60,000 books have been published on the Civil War. Most Americans, though, get their ideas about the war--why it was fought, what was won, what was lost--not from books but from movies, television, and other popular media. In an engaging and accessible survey, Gary W. Gallagher guides readers...
Protestants in an Age of Science
The Baconian Ideal and Antebellum American Religious Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Since Princeton College and Princeton Seminary were major radii of Realist influence, the conservative Presbyterianism headquartered there is an ideal choice for a case study in the American impact of Baconianism. Presbyterian thinkers, already committed to a synthesis of Protestant religion and Newtonian...
Home Grown
Marijuana and the Origins of Mexico's War on Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial...
by Gordon B. McKinney
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
The mountaineer stereotype--violent people who preserve a traditional lifestyle and vote Republican--has been perpetuated through the years. McKinney found that the impact of the Civil War and the absence of blacks, rather than economic and geographical factors, were responsible for the persistence...
Racial Discrimination and Private Education
A Legal Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Miller discusses the possible governmental sanctions against integration and the possible ways in which the guarantees of the First and Fourteenth Amendments might be sought and obtained for private schools. He also analyzes the possible effects of discriminatory administrative enforcement of laws...
The City as Comedy
Society and Representation in Athenian Drama
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
These thirteen essays combine classical scholars' interest in theatrical production with a growing interdisciplinary inquiry into the urban contexts of literary production. Taking as their departure point the annual comic competitions at the Athenian dramatic festivals, the contributors examine how...
Poetics of the Holy
A Reading of Paradise Lost
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
With full attention to the classical, medievel, and Renaissance traditions that constituted the milieu in which Milton wrote, Lieb explores the sacral basis of Milton's thought. He argues that Milton's responsiveness to the holy as the most fundamental of experiences caused his outlook to transcend...
The Politics of Negotiation
America's Dealings with Allies, Adversaries, and Friends
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Brady examines the role that politics has played in the success or failure of negotiations between the United States and other countries during the 1970s and 1980s. Drawing on her experience as a negotiator with the U.S. State and Defense Departments, she argues that security talks cannot be conducted...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This collection of essays describes the genesis of ten classic works of American literature. Using biographical, cultural, and manuscript evidence, the contributors tell the "stories of stories," plotting the often curious and always interesting ways in which notable American books took...
Adventurism and Empire
The Struggle for Mastery in the Louisiana-Florida Borderlands, 1762-1803
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
In this expansive book, David Narrett shows how the United States emerged as a successor empire to Great Britain through rivalry with Spain in the Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coast. As he traces currents of peace and war over four critical decades--from the close of the Seven Years War through the...