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The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4
American Anti-Slavery Society
Paperback - $51.95
Four volumes of this radical early 19th century periodical
The Complete Lincoln-Douglas Debates of 1858
Paul M. Angle
Paperback - $61.95
The Lincoln-Douglas debates remain our culture's model of what public political debate ought to be. This new edition of the complete transcripts of the debates and eyewitness interpretations of them (previously published under the title "Created Equa ...
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic, Volume 2 : The Coming of the Civil War, 1850-1861
John Ashworth
Paperback - $70.95
This book asks why the United States experienced a civil war in 1861 and analyses the descent into war in the final decade of peace.
Slavery, Capitalism, and Politics in the Antebellum Republic : Volume 1, Commerce and Compromise, 1820-1850
John Ashworth
Paperback - $86.95
This is the first of a two-volume treatment of slavery, capitalism and politics in the forty years before the Civil War. It is both a novel reinterpretation, from a Marxist perspective, of American political and economic development and a synthesis o ...
On Shaky Ground : The New Madrid Earthquakes of 1811-1812
Norma Hayes Bagnall
Paperback - $20.95
Although most Americans associate earthquakes with California, the tremors that shook the Mississippi Valley in southeast Missouri from December 16, 1811, through February 7, 1912, are among the most violent quakes ever to hit the North American cont ...
The Journals of Lewis and Clark
John Bakeless
Mass Market Paperbound - $14.95
An award-winning author, who also penned the book's Introduction, crafts this abridgement of the original journals kept by Captains Meriweather Lewis and William Clark. In the spring of 1805, Lewis and Clark set out with their Shoshone guide, Sacagaw ...
Navigating Failure : Bankruptcy and Commercial Society in Antebellum America
Edward J. Balleisen
Paperback - $49.95
The "self-made" man is a familiar figure in nineteenth-century American history. But the relentless expansion of market relations that facilitated such stories of commercial success also ensured that individual bankruptcy would become a prominent fea ...
The Mexican-American War
Sudipta Bardhan-Quallen
Library Binding - $41.95
The Mexican-American War was a turning point in the fortunes of both the United States and Mexico. Behind the momentous events were prominent people, from James K. Polk to Abraham Lincoln, from Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna to Zachary Taylor. This book ...