This book examines the status and uses of ethnicity in political debate during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that immediately preceded the onset of modern racialist and nationalist thinking. Ranging widely across the political cultures of England, Scotland, Ireland and revolutionary America, it also considers European influences and comparisons as well as engaging historically with current debates over nationalism and identity.

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Joel Williamson - A Rage for Order, Black-White Re lations in the American South Since Emancipation ( 1986).jpg

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash's The Mind of Jim Crow. Representing 20 years of research and writing on the history of the South, The Crucible of Race explores the large topic of Southern race relations for a span of a century and a half. Oxford is pleased to make available an abridgement of this parent volume: A Rage for Order preserves all the theme lines that were advanced in the original volume and many of the individual stories. As in Crucible of Race, Williamson here confronts the awful irony that the war to free blacks from slavery also freed racism. He examines the shift in the power base of Southern white leadership after 1850 and recounts the terrible violence done to blacks in the name of self-protection. This condensation of one of the most important interpretations of Southern history is offered as a means by which a large audience can grasp the essentials of black-white relations--a problem that persists to this day and one with which we all must contend--North and South, black and white.

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Ronald J. Zboray - A Fictive People, Antebellum Ec onomic Development and the American Reading Public (1993).jpg

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This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public. A Fictive People explodes two notions that are commonplace in cultural histories of the nineteenth century: first, that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and, second, that there was a body of nineteenth-century literature that reflected a "nation of readers." Zboray shows that the output of the press was so diverse and the public so indiscriminate in what it would read that we must rethink these conclusions. The essential elements for the rise of publishing turn out not to be the usual suspects of rising literacy and increased schooling. Zboray turns our attention to the railroad as well as private letter writing to see the creation of a national taste for literature. He points out the ambiguous role of the nineteenth-century school in encouraging reading and convincingly demonstrates that we must look more deeply to see why the nation turned to literature. He uses such data as sales figures and library borrowing to reveal that women read as widely as men and that the regional breakdown of sales focused the power of print.

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Terry Abraham - Mountains So Sublime, Nineteenth-c entury British Travellers And the Lure of the Rock y Mountain West (2006).jpg

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Culled from both published and unpublished accounts, these descriptions of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists represent a long tradition of relating to landscape and its appreciation in art.

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Terry Abraham - Mountains So Sublime, Nineteenth-c entury British Travellers And the Lure of the Rock y Mountain West (2006).pdf

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Carol Sonenklar - We Are a Strong, Articulate Voic e, A History of Women at Penn State (2006).jpg

No history of Penn State is complete without the stories of its many achieving women. From Rebecca Ewing, the first female graduate, to early pioneering faculty members like Harriet McElwain and Lucretia Van Tuyl Simmons, to latter-day standouts Pat Farrell, Nina Federoff, Cynthia Baldwin, and Connie Moore, women have been an integral part of Penn State's tradition of excellence. In We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice, Carol Sonenklar traces the collective path of female students, staff, and faculty at the University.
Women have overcome many obstacles in their march toward equal representation and professional recognition at Penn State. We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice provides a unique look at their struggle, revealing moments that have shaped the history and identity of the University. The clash between female undergrads and the housemothers charged with keeping them out of trouble, the rise of sororities, the invaluable contribution of the Curtiss-Wright Cadets during World War II, firsthand accounts of the infamous 1950s panty raids, the effect of Title IX on women's athletic programs--events big and small, solemn and silly, are all recorded here.
Sonenklar also examines recent milestones in women's progress at Penn State, including one of the most important events of the last twenty-five years: the formation in the 1980s of the Strategic Study Group on the Status of Women. She considers the gains made by women faculty, staff, and students in the years since, while looking ahead to the opportunities and challenges of the future.
Based on personal interviews and extensive research in the University Archives, We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice combines a lively narrative with dozens of striking photographs, making this book a fitting tribute to women's progress at Penn State.

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Curtis C. Roseman, Elizabeth Mercer Roseman - Gran d Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River, Place s, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854 (2 004).jpg

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In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists, politicians, academics, writers, artists, business and industry leaders, and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans—an area of great natural beauty that offered much promise for additional development.
One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of "excursions," the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi.
Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be appreciated by tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, and railroad and steamboat history buffs as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.

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Curtis C. Roseman, Elizabeth Mercer Roseman - Gran d Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River, Place s, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854 (2 004).pdf

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Joseph Gibbs - Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh, The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment (2002).jpg

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Kevin Mattson - Intellectuals in Action, The Origi ns of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-19 70 (2002).jpg

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Looking at the ideas that informed the protest, social movements and activism of the 1960s, this text combines traditional intellectual biography with social history to examine a group of intellectuals whose thinking was crucial in the formulation of New Left political theory.

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William E. Leuchtenburg - American Places, Encount ers with History (2000).jpg

For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially historical places, hold a special fascination. Whether it is a battlefield or the home of a notable American, there is no question that we understand the past in a different and more immediate way when we encounter it "on the ground."
In American Places, more than two dozen of America's most gifted historians write about their own encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear on a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway Park. Here James M. McPherson writes about the battlefied of Gettysburg, and how walking the ground of Pickett's Charge inspired one of his books. Kevin Starr visits the Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood and finds many of the flavors of California history there. Joel Williamson takes a bemused tour of Elvis Presley's Graceland, and David Kennedy tells the story of the "Pig War" of San Juan Island, where a spat between Britain and America over a speck of land in the Pacific helped determine the shape of the U.S. and Canada. William Freehling compares two places, Charleston's Battery and New Orleans' Jackson Square, showing how each reveals the different spirit of the society that created it. And Edward Ayers talks about spending time in Cyberspace, U.S.A., a virtual place that has much in common with the America visited by Alexis de Tocqueville a century and a half ago. Other pieces include Robert Dallek on the FDR Memorial, David Hackett Fischer on the Boston Common, and William Leuchtenburg on his native borough of Queens.
American Places celebrates the career of Sheldon Meyer, who over his years at Oxford University Press has published some of our most distinguished historians, including many Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize winners, virtually all of whom have contributed to this volume.

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William R. Taylor - Cavalier and Yankee, The Old S outh and American National Character (1993).jpg

William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960s. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. First published in 1961 and out of print for several years, Taylor's classic study remains essential to the study of the pre-Civil War South.

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William R. Taylor - Cavalier and Yankee, The Old S outh and American National Character (1993).pdf

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Three more volumes in the Presidential Profiles series, providing one-stop shopping for information on the key personalities surrounding each presidential administration since 1933. Entries are arranged A-Z and supported by chronologies, lists of principal government officials, and selected primary documents. Because of their biographical focus, these books complement other resources on U.S. presidents that cover events, policies, and so forth, and they are useful in particular for undergraduate libraries.

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Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, served two terms in the White House and became the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be re-elected to office. Among other accomplishments, a low unemployment and inflation rate and a decrease in crime have led many influential people to declare that during his administration the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well-being than at any other time in its history. Comprehensive and easy to navigate, The Clinton Years gives readers a full perspective of Bill Clinton's presidency, from his successful economic policies to his relations with Monica Lewinsky. This comprehensive A-to-Z reference contains more than 250 biographical entries examining the main politicians and foreign leaders during the administration, and includes a number of primary source documents such as presidential speeches and executive decisions.

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Presidential Profiles - Tracy S. Uebelhor - The Tr uman Years (2005).jpg

"Presidential Profiles" is a new series that highlights the administrations of the most recent U.S. Presidents. Organized in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, each volume focuses on a particular administration, including an introduction, a section of biographical entries, a chronology that spans the history of the administration, and much more. Extensive appendixes contain important documents such as inaugural addresses, important presidential speeches, tables listing the members of the White House staff, cabinet members, and members of Congress and the Senate. These timely, fact-filled compendiums are written for high school and college students and serve as wonderful resources for anyone interested in American government or these select presidents.

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Presidential Profiles - Tracy S. Uebelhor - The Tr uman Years (2005).pdf

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Harrison S Kerrick - Military and Naval America (1 918).jpg

404 pages attempting to explain the Army and Navy way of life to the American civilian during World War 1. 46 chapters with many outstanding photos. Starting with all the branches of the Army ;the War Department, the General Staff Corps, the Adjutant General's Department, the Inspector General's Department, The Judge Advocate General's Department, The Quartermaster Corps, The Medical Corps, The Infantry, The Cavalry etc....through the U.S. Military Academy. All the different departments of the Navy including the Naval Militia. Excellent section on the United States Marine Corps. Garrison life in the army and navy. Includes a foldout map of military and naval America and another foldout of insignia in use at the time of the great war. Great photos including a U.S. Cavalryman in the saddle with the experimental M1912 gear. The medical section shows a photo of a medic wearing the M-1912 ration bags, and if you look closely you can see the rare canteen extender on his belt! The photos of the early M1910 gear are outstanding with one photo showing the full equipment laid out. This is the only photo I have ever seen of the original hinged M-1910 bacon can showing the lid open and the rare square flap canteen cover. Another full page photo of the pack on the soldier. This one showing the eagle snap mess kit pouch , canteen cover and belt. the artillery section has a photo of men manning the guns with their unique M1910 pistol cartridge belt. The section on the Marine Corps has one of the few photos I have seen of the pre war Marine wearing the pre 1910 gear including the M1903 belt, the 1878 pattern haversack and blanket bag, both marked USMC and, oddly, what looks to be an M1910 canteen and cover!! Another USMC photo showing the "junk on the bunk" individual equipment laid out for inspection. You'll need a magnifying glass to see some of the gear but it looks to be pre 1910 stuff. All the photos and pages are in good shape as well as both foldouts, but the rear cover is starting to separate. Some pen and pencil marks but nothing covering the text or photos. I ship USPS priority mail with delivery confirmation. Overseas bidders be aware that the US postal service has raised their international rates. Just looked at the book again and relised t are two photos of the "China Marines" being reviewed at attention with their pre-war gear!!

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This unique title profiles several hundred African American fiction and nonfiction writers from Colonial times to the present. The table of contents lists the authors alphabetically and then divides them into 17 categories (novels, short stories, slave narratives, etc.) and nine themes (Folktales, the Harlem Renaissance, Trickster Tales, etc.); authors whose work spans several categories are listed separately under each. The profiles themselves, presented alphabetically and ranging from a paragraph for less well known writers like Ai Ogawa to three pages for writers like Ralph Ellison or Terry McMillan, are both biographical and critical, although the amount of criticism varies. Included in each entry are the writer's birth and death dates, the categories into which he or she fits, and any pseudonyms. Black-and-white illustrations, references, genre lists, a comprehensive index, and chronologies of the writer's life dates and of African American literary firsts complete this impressive title.

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