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 | Forging the American Character: Readings in United States History Since 1865, Volume II Product# 460544134 Selling for $67.6 "Broad and balanced in perspective—and reader-friendly in format and design—this collection of authoritative readings focuses on the various forces, ideologies, people, and experiences that have forged the distinctive American character. Drawn from an extensive and impressive variety of historical sources—including popular history journals, chapters from key books, and scholarly journals—coverage ranges from traditional fields such as historiography and political, cultural, diplomatic, and religious history, to the new social and women's history. The New View of Reconstruction; Ten-Gallon Hero; Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity, 1870-1915; Rural Radicals; The First Anti-Imperialists; Citizen Ford; Woodrow Wilson, Ethnicity, and the Myth of American Unity; Women in Politics between the Wars; Depression; The Achievement of the New Deal; The Centrality of the Bomb; The American Environment; E Pluribus Unum? For anyone interested in American History, especially the American character." |
| Forging the American Character: Readings in United States History Since 1865, Volume II Product# 460550512 Selling for $67.6 "Broad and balanced in perspective—and reader-friendly in format and design—this collection of authoritative readings focuses on the various forces, ideologies, people, and experiences that have forged the distinctive American character. Drawn from an extensive and impressive variety of historical sources—including popular history journals, chapters from key books, and scholarly journals—coverage ranges from traditional fields such as historiography and political, cultural, diplomatic, and religious history, to the new social and women's history. The New View of Reconstruction; Ten-Gallon Hero; Suburban Men and Masculine Domesticity, 1870-1915; Rural Radicals; The First Anti-Imperialists; Citizen Ford; Woodrow Wilson, Ethnicity, and the Myth of American Unity; Women in Politics between the Wars; Depression; The Achievement of the New Deal; The Centrality of the Bomb; The American Environment; E Pluribus Unum? For anyone interested in American History, especially the American character." |
 | Clever Girl: Elizabeth Bentley, the Spy Who Ushered in the McCarthy Era Product# 460682351 Selling for $14.95 "A portrait of Soviet spy-turned-FBI informant Elizabeth Bentley describes her work at the head of two of Russia's most productive spy rings in America, decision to expose Communist agents in her own government, and contributions to American political life. Reprint." |
 | The Economic Transformation of America: 1600 To the Present Product# 460687488 Selling for $84 "This extraordinary text offers a proven combination of scholarship from an insightful economist and a renowned American historian. It recounts the development of capitalism and the age of machines through the voices of business leaders, working people, inventors, and an unusual cast of presidents, generals, and patriots. Unlike other books in the field of economic history, this text tells a story. While not ignoring statistics and percentages, this narrative focuses on the fact that America's economic transformation is an extraordinary drama--a drama that continues today." |
 | American Experience: A Concise History of America Product# 460767831 Selling for $51.95 "A concise, readable narrative text aimed squarely at the mid-level introductory U.S. History student. America Interpreted is ideal for instructors concerned both about cost and interested in assigning their own outside readings. This text also is available in versions combining the concise narrative with secondary readings." |
 | Black and White Manhattan; The History of Racial Formation in Colonial New York City Product# 460768256 Selling for $93.5 "Race first emerged as an important ingredient of New York City's melting pot when it was known as New Amsterdam and was a fledgling colonial outpost on the North American frontier. Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to the building of the settler colony at the tip of Manhattan Island. During the colonial era, the art of governing the city's diverse and factious population, Foote reveals, involved the subordination of confessional, linguistic, and social antagonisms to binary racial difference. Foote investigates everyday formations of race in slaveowning households, on the colonial city's streets, at its docks, taverns, and marketplaces, and in the adjacent farming districts. Even though the northern colonial port town afforded a space for black residence, that setting did not, Foote argues, effectively undermine the city's institution of black slavery. The history" |