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  • Borderland Narratives

    Negotiation and Accommodation in North America’s Contested Spaces, 1500-1850

    Serier serie Contested Boundaries
    Broadening the idea of "borderlands" beyond its traditional geographic meaning, this volume features new ways of characterizing the political, cultural, religious, and racial fluidity of early America. It extends the concept to regions not typically seen as borderlands and demonstrates how the term has been used in recent years to describe unstable spaces where people, cultures, and viewpoints ... Læs mere

    175,99 kr.

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  • Native Nations

    A Millennium in North America: Winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for History

    WINNER OF THE 2025 PULITZER PRIZE FOR HISTORYWINNER OF THE 2024 CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZEWinner of the Bancroft Prize 2025Winner of the Mark Lynton History Prize 2025For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had be... ... Læs mere

    129,05 kr.

  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    af Colin Woodard ...
    **• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fictionParticularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven “nations” that continue to shape North America—by the bestselling author of Nations Apart**According to ... Læs mere

    76,49 kr.

  • Indigenous Continent

    The Epic Contest for North America

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNew York Times Book Review • 100 Notable Books of 2022Best Books of 2022 — New Yorker, Kirkus ReviewsLonglisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence“I can only wish that, when I was that lonely college junior and was finishing Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, I’d had Hämäläinen’s book at hand.” —David Treuer, The New Yorker“[T]he single best book I have ever read on ... Læs mere

    142,49 kr.

  • Pox Americana

    The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82

    The astonishing, hitherto unknown truths about a disease that transformed the United States at its birthA horrifying epidemic of smallpox was sweeping across the Americas when the American Revolution began, and yet we know almost nothing about it. Elizabeth A. Fenn is the first historian to reveal how deeply variola affected the outcome of the war in every colony and the lives of everyone in North ... Læs mere

    106,74 kr.

  • American Republics

    A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

    af Alan Taylor ...
    **Winner of the 2022 New-York Historical Society Book Prize in American HistoryA Washington Post and BookPage Best Nonfiction Book of the YearFrom a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a fragile nation as it expands across a contested continent.**In this beautifully written history of America’s formative period, a preeminent historian upends the traditional story of a young ... Læs mere

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  • Colonial America:A Very Short Introduction

    A Very Short Introduction

    af Alan Taylor ...
    Serier serie Very Short Introductions
    In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as native peoples and African slaves, were treated in passing as unfortunate aberrations in a fundamentally upbeat story of Englishmen becoming freer and more prosperous by colonizing an abundant continent of "free land." Over the last generation, historians have broadened our understanding of colonial ... Læs mere

    64,06 kr.

  • Ebony and Ivy

    Race, Slavery, and the Troubled History of America's Universities

    A groundbreaking exploration of the intertwined histories of slavery, racism, and higher education in America, from a leading African American historian.A 2006 report commissioned by Brown University revealed that institution's complex and contested involvement in slavery--setting off a controversy that leapt from the ivory tower to make headlines across the country. But Brown's troubling past was ... Læs mere

    128,28 kr.

  • The Scratch of a Pen

    1763 and the Transformation of North America

    Serier serie Pivotal Moments in American History
    In this superb volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series, Colin Calloway reveals how the Treaty of Paris of 1763 had a profound effect on American history, setting in motion a cascade of unexpected consequences, as Indians and Europeans, settlers and frontiersmen, all struggled to adapt to new boundaries, new alignments, and new relationships. Britain now possessed a vast American empire ... Læs mere

    112,17 kr.

  • New Worlds for All

    Indians, Europeans, and the Remaking of Early America

    Serier serie The American Moment
    The interactions between Indians and Europeans changed America—and both cultures.Although many Americans consider the establishment of the colonies as the birth of this country, in fact early America existed long before the arrival of the Europeans. From coast to coast, Native Americans had created enduring cultures, and the subsequent European invasion remade much of the land and society. In New ... Læs mere

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  • They Stole our World: How Native Americans were Treated from Early Colonial Times Onward

    History and Historical Fiction, #22

    af Jason Wallace ...
    Serier Bog 22 - History and Historical Fiction
    From the earliest moments of contact until after World War I, find out what debates raged on behalf of and against Native Americans, how their culture was stripped from them, citizenship denied them, and the schemes against them, to not only steal their land but to make them white. Their contributions to society have been monumental and immeasurable, but their rewards have been few and almost ... Læs mere

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  • Colonial America

    A History to 1763

    Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliographyIncludes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated ... Læs mere

    449,49 kr.