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John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal architect of early New England society. This book discusses Winthrop's family life and the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the seventeenth century by placing his life in the context of the times.

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John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal architect of early New England society. This book discusses Winthrop's family life and the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the seventeenth century by placing his life in the context of the times.

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Presents a collection of portraits, in words and photographs, of nineteen former US prisoners of war who endured captivity in Nazi Germany in World War II. This book explores these struggles, using both oral histories and photographs to humanise how we think about these men as POWs, survivors, and veterans.

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The most evocative and richly contextualised account of the Salem Witch trials in print.

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White supremacy shaped all aspects of post-Civil War southern life, yet its power was never complete or total. This book presents the southern men and women - some heroic and decent, others mean and sinister, most a mixture of both - who supported and challenged Jim Crow, showing that white supremacy always had to prove its power.

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Long before Americans were imbued with the sense of a national past, local antiquarians and amateur historians wrote about the people, places, and happenings that were closest to their hearts, creating in the process a historical record of incalculable value.

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"For, Lo! We live in an Iron Age--In the age of Steam and Fire!" wrote a poet mesmerized by the engines that were transforming American transportation, agriculture, and industry during his lifetime. Indeed, by the nineteenth century fire had become America's leitmotif--for good and for ill. "Keeping the flame" was deadly serious: even the slightest

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By placing the judiciary and the moonshiners in their institutional and cultural contexts, this work shows how Florida judges acted independently, and balanced individual rights with legal necessity in the enforcement of the liquor laws in Florida.

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After almost two centuries of on-and-off resistance to white encroachment on Indian lands, a band of Ohio Indians attacked and almost destroyed the army of the infant U.S.A.

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American history has been produced by the union of disparate states, each with its own ethnic, geographical and economic history. The number of articles and monographs on Kentucky history has increased dramatically since the last Kentucky bibliography was published in 1949.

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A persuasive reassessment of the nature of the institution that was in the forefront of the American revolutionary struggle with Great Britain--the Continental Congress. Providing a completely new perspective on the history of the First and Second Continental Congresses before independence, the author argues that American expectations regarding the

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This text tells the story of the battle between a group of "over-the-mountain" men from Tennessee and the British troops who roamed the Southern countryside striking fear into the hearts of rebels. The American victory there forced the British to retreat.

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Later joining forces with the growing middle class, the upper class continued to emphasize liberalism and promoted nostalgia for things Hispanic. Once united with the elite in the protection of their own interests, the middle class used nostalgia to protect their social position even as they continued to press for modernization.

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"Luis Sierra treads new ground in his authoritative research on the influence of indigenous migration and the subsequent political activism of La Paz's urban inhabitants upon the transformation of Bolivia in the first half the 20th century. Sierra examines the role of the neighborhoods in the process of urbanization, a shift from the current focus on individuals"--

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In 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. This book paints a multifaceted portrait of the complexities and contours of the Mexican American struggle for equality from the 1930s to the postwar era.

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Examines the historical, political and socioeconomic contexts in which indigenous communities in Paraguay are mobilizing for land rights. This book analyzes the sociopolitical mobilization around land rights of the indigenous communities in this country.