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  • Exporting Reconstruction

    Ulysses S. Grant and a New Empire of Liberty

    by Ryan P. Semmes ...
    Series series Reconstruction Reconsidered
    How Reconstruction-era political battles reflected global struggles over the era's core idealsExporting Reconstruction examines Ulysses S. Grant's Reconstruction-era policy, both foreign and domestic, as an integrated whole. Grant's vision for America's international role in the aftermath of the Civil War was best articulated in his 1869 memorandum, considering whether the United States should ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • American Nations

    A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America

    by 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 ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • West from Appomattox

    The Reconstruction of America after the Civil War

    by Heather Cox Richardson ...
    "This thoughtful, engaging examination of the Reconstruction Era . . . will be appealing . . . to anyone interested in the roots of present-day American politics" ( Publishers Weekly).The story of Reconstruction is not simply about the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War. In many ways, the late nineteenth century defined modern America, as Southerners, Northerners, and Westerners forged a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    The Transformation of America, 1815-1848

    by Daniel Walker Howe ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi-volume history of our nation. In this Pulitzer prize-winning, critically acclaimed addition to the series, historian Daniel Walker Howe illuminates the period from the battle of New Orleans to the end of the Mexican-American War, an era when the United States expanded to the Pacific and won control over the richest part of ... Read more

    $24.79 CAD

  • The Republic for Which It Stands

    The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896

    by Richard White ...
    Series series Oxford History of the United States
    The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the seedbed of modern America. At the end of the Civil War the leaders and citizens of the victorious ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • A Nation Without Borders

    The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

    by Steven Hahn, Eric Foner ...
    Series series The Penguin History of the United States
    **A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston GlobeVolume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner**In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • The Monroe Doctrine

    Empire and Nation in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Jay Sexton ...
    A Concise History of the (In)Famous Doctrine that Gave Rise to the American EmpirePresident James Monroe's 1823 message to Congress declaring opposition to European colonization in the Western Hemisphere became the cornerstone of nineteenth-century American statecraft. Monroe's message proclaimed anticolonial principles, yet it rapidly became the myth and means for subsequent generations of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • We Have Not a Government

    The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution

    by George William Van Cleve ...
    "Provides a focused explanation of the reasons the Articles of Confederation, the nation's first federal constitution, went lurching toward collapse." —Jack Rakove, Pulitzer Prize winner, The Washington PostIn 1783, as the Revolutionary War came to a close, Alexander Hamilton resigned in disgust from the Continental Congress after it refused to consider a fundamental reform of the Articles of ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of the Second American Republic

    Reconstruction, 1860-1920

    by Manisha Sinha ...
    **Winner of the Biennial President's Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era, 2026"Sinha not only has taken on this vast subject, but has greatly expanded its definition, both temporally and spatially. . . . She covers these difficult issues with remarkable skill and clarity." —S. C. Gwynne, New York Times Book Review**We are told that the present moment bears ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Equality

    An American Dilemma, 1866–1896

    by Charles Postel ...
    An in-depth study of American social movements after the Civil War and their lessons for today by a prizewinning historianThe Civil War unleashed a torrent of claims for equality—in the chaotic years following the war, former slaves, women's rights activists, farmhands, and factory workers all engaged in the pursuit of the meaning of equality in America. This contest resulted in experiments in ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • A New History of the American South

    by Laura F. Edwards, Jon F. Sensbach ...
    Series series A Ferris and Ferris Book
    For at least two centuries, the South’s economy, politics, religion, race relations, fiction, music, foodways, and more have figured prominently in nearly all facets of American life. In A New History of the American South, W. Fitzhugh Brundage joins a stellar group of accomplished historians in gracefully weaving a new narrative of southern history from its ancient past to the present ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Storm over Texas:The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War

    The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War

    by Joel H. Silbey ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In the Spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union, a hard-fought and bitter controversy that profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, the battle over Texas marked the crucial moment when partisan differences were transformed into a North-vs-South antagonism, and the momentum towards ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD