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  • The Yankee Road

    Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, Vol. 3: Apotheosis

    by James D. McNiven ...
    Who is a Yankee and where did the term come from? Join author Jim McNiven as he explores the emergence and influence of Yankee culture while traversing an old transcontinental highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific—US 20, which he nicknames "The Yankee Road." The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America combines fascinating history with a ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • The Yankee Road

    Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America, Vol. 2: Domination

    by James D. McNiven ...
    Who is a Yankee and where did the term come from? Join author Jim McNiven as he explores the emergence and influence of Yankee culture while traversing an old transcontinental highway reaching from the Atlantic to the Pacific—US 20, which he nicknames "The Yankee Road." The Yankee Road: Tracing the Journey of the New England Tribe that Created Modern America combines fascinating history with a ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

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  • The Men Who United the States

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  • The Tycoons

    How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy

    by Charles R. Morris ...
    "Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science MonitorThe modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most ... Read more

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  • Americana

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    **An absorbing and original narrative history of American capitalismNAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE ECONOMIST**From the days of the Mayflower and the Virginia Company, America has been a place for people to dream, invent, build, tinker, and bet the farm in pursuit of a better life. Americana takes us on a four-hundred-year journey of this spirit of innovation and ambition through a series of Next ... Read more

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  • Nature's Metropolis

    Chicago and the Great West

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  • How the Post Office Created America

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    by Winifred Gallagher ...
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  • The Edge of Anarchy

    The Railroad Barons, the Gilded Age, and the Greatest Labor Uprising in America

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  • A City So Grand

    The Rise of an American Metropolis: Boston 1850-1900

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  • The Pacific Northwest

    An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)

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  • American Colossus

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    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 ... Read more

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