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  • The Money Men

    Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar

    de H. W. Brands ...
    Series series Enterprise
    An "insightful" (Publishers Weekly) history of the development of American capitalism and the men who made it great.Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history—the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering ... Leer más

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  • A Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]

    de Eric Foner ...
    From the “preeminent historian of Reconstruction” (New York Times Book Review), an updated abridged edition of Reconstruction, the prize-winning classic work of Civil War history on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America.Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans—black and white—responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery, a pivotal ... Leer más

    $209 MXN

  • Hamilton's Curse

    How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today

    Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton--two of the most influential Founding Fathers--were also fierce rivals with two opposing political philosophies and two radically different visions for America.While Jefferson is better remembered today, it is actually Hamilton’s political legacy that has triumphed--a legacy that has subverted the Constitution and transformed the federal government into the ... Leer más

    $158 MXN

  • Reconstruction after the Civil War

    Series series The Chicago History of American Civilization
    The classic work of American history by the renowned author of From Slavery to Freedom, with a new introduction by historian Eric Foner.First published in 1961, John Hope Franklin's revelatory study of the Reconstruction Era is a landmark work of history, exploring the role of former slaves and dispelling longstanding popular myths about corruption and Radical rule. Looking past dubious ... Leer más

    $211 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Andrew Johnson

    The American Presidents Series: The 17th President, 1865-1869

    Series series The American Presidents
    A Pulitzer Prize-winning historian recounts the tale of the unwanted president who ran afoul of Congress over Reconstruction and was nearly removed from officeAndrew Johnson never expected to be president. But just six weeks after becoming Abraham Lincoln's vice president, the events at Ford's Theatre thrust him into the nation's highest office.Johnson faced a nearly impossible task—to succeed ... Leer más

    $180 MXN

  • Franklin Pierce

    The American Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857

    Series series The American Presidents
    The genial but troubled New Englander whose single-minded partisan loyalties inflamed the nation's simmering battle over slaveryCharming and handsome, Franklin Pierce of New Hampshire was drafted to break the deadlock of the 1852 Democratic convention. Though he seized the White House in a landslide against the imploding Whig Party, he proved a dismal failure in office.Michael F. Holt, a leading ... Leer más

    $180 MXN

  • American Colossus

    de H. W. Brands ...
    From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War: a "first-rate" narrative history (The New York Times)that brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy ... Leer más

    $232 MXN

  • An Empire of Wealth

    The Epic History of American Economic Power

    "Superb . . . the best one-volume economic history of the United States in a long time and, perhaps, ever." — NewsweekIn this illuminating history, John Steele Gordon tells the extraordinary story of the world's first economic superpower. He shows how the American economy became not only the world's largest, but also its most dynamic and innovative. Combining its English political inheritance with ... Leer más

    $215 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Georgia

    A Brief History

    Here, for the first time is a brief, balanced, and up-to-date history of Georgia from the early Native Americans to the twenty-first century. Based on the most recent research, GEORGIA: A BRIEF HISTORY surveys the people and events that shaped our state's history in a style that reads easily and flows effortlessly. ... Leer más

    $169 MXN

  • Martin Van Buren

    The American Presidents Series: The 8th President, 1837-1841

    Series series The American Presidents
    The first president born after America's independence ushers in a new era of no-holds-barred democracyThe first "professional politician" to become president, the slick and dandyish Martin Van Buren was to all appearances the opposite of his predecessor, the rugged general and Democratic champion Andrew Jackson. Van Buren, a native Dutch speaker, was America's first ethnic president as well as the ... Leer más

    $180 MXN

  • Ways and Means

    Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War

    **“Captivating . . . [Lowenstein] makes what subsequently occurred at Treasury and on Wall Street during the early 1860s seem as enthralling as what transpired on the battlefield or at the White House.” —Harold Holzer, Wall Street Journal“Ways and Means, an account of the Union’s financial policies, examines a subject long overshadowed by military narratives . . . Lowenstein is a lucid stylist, ... Leer más

    $232 MXN

  • Founding Finance

    How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation

    Series series Discovering America
    The author of The Whiskey Rebellion "dig[s] beneath history's surface and note[s] both the populist and anti-populist dimensions of the nation's founding" ( Library Journal).Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and ... Leer más

    $164 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus