U.S. History
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The Free Women of Petersburg
Status and Culture in a Southern Town, 1784-1860
Paperback
ISBN: 0393952649
In this book, which has important implications for our vision of thefemale past, Suzanne Lebsock examines the question, Did the position ofwomen in America deteriorate or improve in the first half of thenineteenth century?
Calf Roping
Paperback
ISBN: 091164704x
World champion Roy Cooper tells how to compete and win, and offers step-by-step instruction for the beginner in this event.
City of Women
Sex and Class in New York, 1789-1860
Paperback
ISBN: 0252014812
Language and Politics
Paperback
ISBN: 0921689349
A series of previously unpublished interviews, spanning the twenty year period from 1968 to 1988, that looks at the connection between Chomsky's linguistic studies and his political analysis. Prepared for Chomsky in celebration of his sixtieth birthday. "This wide-ranging book offers glimpses of his studies on language, anarchist theory and critiques of radical politics."--NACLA Report on the Americas
Parting the Waters
America in the King Years, 1954-63
Paperback
ISBN: 0671687425
Traces the birth of the American civil rights movement and profiles Martin Luther King, Jr., detailing the roles played by key figures around him and in government
Within the Plantation Household
Black and White Women of the Old South
Paperback
ISBN: 080784232x
Discusses how class, race, and gender shaped women's experiences in the South
This House of Sky, Landscapes of a Western Mind
Landscapes of a Western Mind
Paperback
ISBN: 0156899825
Ivan Doig recalls growing up among the ranches and wilderness of Montana with his father and grandmother, and their friends in the rural community
The Falls of st Anthony
The Waterfall That Built Minneapolis
Paperback
ISBN: 0873512057
The Mississippi's major waterfall played an important role in the development of lumbering, flour milling, and hydroelectric power in Minneapolis. The revised edition contains more than 50 photographs and a new epilogue by the author describing the commercial development along the waterfront since the 1960s.
Andrew Jackson
Paperback
ISBN: 0060801328
Examines the life, character, and career of Andrew Jackson evaluating his military, political, and diplomatic abilities
