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“jonathan todd hancock”

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  • Convulsed States

    Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America

    by Jonathan Todd Hancock ...
    The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, a broad cast of thinkers struggled to explain these seemingly unprecedented natural phenomena. They summoned a range of traditions of inquiry into the natural world and drew ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD

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  • Making the White Man's West

    Whiteness and the Creation of the American West

    by Jason E. Pierce ...
    The West, especially the Intermountain states, ranks among the whitest places in America, but this fact obscures the more complicated history of racial diversity in the region. In Making the White Man’s West, author Jason E. Pierce argues that since the time of the Louisiana Purchase, the American West has been a racially contested space. Using a nuanced theory of historical “whiteness,” he ... Read more

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  • Wilderness and the American Mind

    Fifth Edition

    by Roderick Frazier Nash ...
    Roderick Nash’s classic study of changing attitudes toward wilderness during American history, as well as the origins of the environmental and conservation movements, has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine included it in a survey of books ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • Colonial America

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Alan Taylor ...
    Series series 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 ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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  • The Americans: The National Experience

    by Daniel J. Boorstin ...
    Series Book 2 - Americans Series
    This second volume in "The Americans" trilogy deals with the crucial period of American history from the Revolution to the Civil War. Here we meet the people who shaped, and were shaped by, the American experience—the versatile New Englanders, the Transients and the Boosters. Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize. ... Read more

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  • Faith and Betrayal

    A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West

    by Sally Denton ...
    In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rio’s great-great-granddaughter, uses the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Color of Christ

    The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America

    by Edward J. Blum, Paul Harvey ...
    How is it that in America the image of Jesus Christ has been used both to justify the atrocities of white supremacy and to inspire the righteousness of civil rights crusades? In The Color of Christ, Edward J. Blum and Paul Harvey weave a tapestry of American dreams and visions — from witch hunts to web pages, Harlem to Hollywood, slave cabins to South Park, Mormon revelations to Indian ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Throes of Democracy

    The American Civil War Era, 1829–1877

    by Walter A. McDougall ...
    A "provocative and richly detailed" history of 19th-century America from the age of Jackson to the abandonment of Reconstruction ( Kirkus, starred review).From its shocking curtain-raiser—the conflagration that consumed Lower Manhattan in 1835—to the climactic centennial year of 1876, when Americans staged a corrupt, deadlocked presidential campaign (fought out in Florida), Walter A. McDougall's ... Read more

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  • The Rise of the American Conservation Movement

    Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection

    by Dorceta E. Taylor ...
    In this sweeping social history Dorceta E. Taylor examines the emergence and rise of the multifaceted U.S. conservation movement from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. She shows how race, class, and gender influenced every aspect of the movement, including the establishment of parks; campaigns to protect wild game, birds, and fish; forest conservation; outdoor recreation; and the ... Read more

    $36.29 CAD

  • California through Native Eyes

    Reclaiming History

    by William J. Bauer, Jr. Jr. ...
    Series series Indigenous Confluences
    Bauer tells California history strictly through Native perspectives.Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer ... Read more

    $32.79 CAD

  • The Heathen School

    A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic

    by John Demos ...
    Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardThe astonishing story of a unique missionary project—and the America it embodied—from award-winning historian John Demos.Near the start of the nineteenth century, as the newly established United States looked outward toward the wider world, a group of eminent Protestant ministers formed a grand scheme for gathering the rest of mankind into the redemptive ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Humboldt Current

    Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism

    by Aaron Sachs ...
    A masterly and beautifully written account of the impact of Alexander von Humboldt on nineteenth-century American history and cultureThe naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) achieved unparalleled fame in his own time. Today, however, he and his enormous legacy to American thought are virtually unknown. In The Humboldt Current, Aaron Sachs traces Humboldt's pervasive influence ... Read more

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