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  • Ginseng Diggers

    A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia

    by Luke Manget ...
    The harvesting of wild American ginseng (panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply established in North America and has played an especially vital role in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. Traded through a trans-Pacific network that connected the region to East Asian markets, ginseng was but one of several medicinal ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Ginseng Diggers

    A History of Root and Herb Gathering in Appalachia

    by Luke Manget ...
    Narrated by Stephen Bowlby ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    The harvesting of wild American ginseng (panax quinquefolium), the gnarled, aromatic herb known for its therapeutic and healing properties, is deeply established in North America and has played an especially vital role in the southern and central Appalachian Mountains. Traded through a trans-Pacific network that connected the region to East Asian markets, ginseng was but one of several medicinal ... Read more

    $28.13 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Southern Communities

    Identity, Conflict, and Memory in the American South

    by Steven E. Nash, Stephen Berry, Ras Michael Brown, Judkin Browning, Katharine S. Dahlstrand, Mary Ella Engel, Matthew Christopher Hulbert, George Justice, Luke Manget0, Barton A. Myers1, Kyle Osborn2, Robert C. Poister3, Katherine Rohrer4, Kevin Young5, Samuel B. McGuire6 ...
    Community is an evolving and complex concept that historians have applied to localities, counties, and the South as a whole in order to ground larger issues in the day-to-day lives of all segments of society. These social networks sometimes unite and sometimes divide people, they can mirror or transcend political boundaries, and they may exist solely within the cultures of like-minded people.This ... Read more

    $124.99 CAD

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  • The Half Has Never Been Told

    Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism

    by Edward E Baptist ...
    The classic history demonstrating that America's economic supremacy was built on the backs of enslaved people.**"Gripping." —**New York Times**“A stinging indictment of slavery.” —**NPR Books?Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation's original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America's later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Ramp Hollow

    The Ordeal of Appalachia

    by Steven Stoll ...
    How the United States underdeveloped AppalachiaAppalachia—among the most storied and yet least understood regions in America—has long been associated with poverty and backwardness. But how did this image arise and what exactly does it mean? In Ramp Hollow, Steven Stoll launches an original investigation into the history of Appalachia and its place in U.S. history, with a special emphasis on how ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Bees in America

    How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

    by Tammy Horn ...
    "Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept" ( Buffalo News).The tiny, industrious honey bee has become part of popular imagination—reflected in our art, our advertising, even our language itself with such terms as queen bee and busy as a bee. Honey bees—and the values associated with them—have influenced American ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Reshaping of Everyday Life, 1790–1840

    by Jack Larkin ...
    A fascinating history of the daily lives of Americans in the first fifty years of the new republic, told often in their own words.The years between the patrician leadership of George Washington and the campaign that elected William Henry Harrison marked a period of startling changes in American life. However, most American were enmeshed in the myriad ordinary concerns of their lives, and although ... Read more

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  • American Eden

    David Hosack, Botany, and Medicine in the Garden of the Early Republic

    by Victoria Johnson ...
    Finalist for the 2018 National Book Award for NonfictionA New York Times Editors' Choice SelectionThe untold story of Hamilton’s—and Burr’s—personal physician, whose dream to build America’s first botanical garden inspired the young Republic.On a clear morning in July 1804, Alexander Hamilton stepped onto a boat at the edge of the Hudson River. He was bound for a New Jersey dueling ground to ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Down to Earth

    Nature's Role in American History

    by Ted Steinberg ...
    A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of America as he recounts how the environment has played a key role in virtually every social, economic, and ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Slavery's Capitalism

    A New History of American Economic Development

    Edited by Sven Beckert, Seth Rockman ...
    Series series Early American Studies
    During the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality to the emergence of American capitalism in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. According to ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Born in the Country

    A History of Rural America

    by David B. Danbom ...
    Series series Revisiting Rural America
    Updated edition: "A balanced economic, social, political, and technological history of rural America . . . A splendid book, rich with detail." — Agricultural History ReviewThrough most of its history, America has been a rural nation, largely made up of farmers. David B. Danbom's Born in the Country was the first—and is still the only—general history of rural America. Ranging from pre-Columbian ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Environmental History

    An Introduction

    by Carolyn Merchant ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    By studying the many ways diverse peoples have changed, shaped, and conserved the natural world over time, environmental historians provide insight into humanity's unique relationship with nature and, more importantly, are better able to understand the origins of our current environmental crisis. Beginning with the precolonial land-use practice of Native Americans and concluding with our twenty ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD