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  • Into the West

    The Story of Its People

    by Walter Nugent ...
    Acclaimed historian Walter Nugent brings us what is perhaps the most comprehensive and fascinating account to date of the peopling of the American West. In this epic social-demographic history, Nugent explores the populations of the West as they grow, change and intersect from the Paleo-Indians, the Spanish Conquistadors, to displaced Okies, wartime African American immigrants, and all the ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Tolerant Populists

    Kansas Populism and Nativism

    by Walter Nugent ...
    A political movement rallies against underregulated banks, widening gaps in wealth, and gridlocked governments. Sound familiar? More than a century before Occupy Wall Street, the People's Party of the 1890s was organizing for change. They were the original source of the term "populism," and a catalyst for the later Progressive Era and New Deal.Historians wrote approvingly of the Populists up into ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Color Coded

    Party Politics in the American West, 1950–2016

    by Walter Nugent ...
    The now–staunchly red state of Texas was deep blue in 1950 and had virtually no functioning Republican Party. California, on the other hand, was reliably red. Today, both states have jumped to the opposite end of the political spectrum. Texas is one of the most conservative states, while California has become one of today’s most liberal bastions. These are the most dramatic cases, but notable ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Progressivism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Walter Nugent ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Progressivism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Walter Nugent ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    After decades of conservative dominance, the election of Barack Obama may signal the beginning of a new progressive era. But what exactly is progressivism? What role has it played in the political, social, and economic history of America? This very timely Very Short Introduction offers an engaging overview of progressivism in America--its origins, guiding principles, major leaders and major ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Habits of Empire

    by Walter Nugent ...
    Since its founding, the United States' declared principles of liberty and democracy have often clashed with aggressive policies of imperial expansion. In this sweeping narrative history, acclaimed scholar Walter Nugent explores this fundamental American contradiction by recounting the story of American land acquisition since 1782 and shows how this steady addition of territory instilled in the ... Read more

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  • Religion and Public Life in the Mountain West

    Sacred Landscapes in Transition

    by Walter Nugent, Ferenc Morton Szasz, Kathleen Flake, Randi Jones Walker, Philip A. Deloria ...
    Series series Religion By Religion (rla
    Huge mountain ranges and vast uninhabited areas characterize the Mountain West. The region is home to several dense urban centers, but there is enough space between cities for three very distinct religious cultures to develop. Arizona and New Mexico's religious public life is still dominated by the Catholic church which was in place three centuries before these areas became U.S. states. Mormons ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • 40Th Anniversary Retrospective

    Overseas Study at Indiana University

    Edited by Kathleen Sideli, Walter Nugent ...
    This 40th Anniversary Retrospective presents the reminiscences of the directors of Indiana Universitys Office of Overseas Study, from its creation in 1972 until the present day. They recount not only how IU faculty and administrators selected partners and locations around the world but also how they established systems at the university to facilitate student access and participation. Integrating ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The American West

    The Reader

    Edited by Walter Nugent, Martin Ridge ...
    "Those who appreciate the impact of history will be impressed with the selection of articles." —Nebraska HistoryDesigned for survey courses—yet in-depth enough to support intensive discussion—these seventeen classic essays traverse the history of the American West, from women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California to the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864, from homesteading and mining to the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    The Vineyard of Liberty, The Workshop of Democracy, and The Crosswinds of Freedom

    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series series The American Experiment
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning author's stunning trilogy of American history, spanning the birth of the Constitution to the final days of the Cold War.In these three volumes, Pulitzer Prize– and National Book Award–winner James MacGregor Burns chronicles with depth and narrative panache the most significant cultural, economic, and political events of American history. In The Vineyard of Liberty, he ... Read more

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  • Work Won't Love You Back

    How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited, Exhausted, and Alone

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    An examination of why "doing what you love" is a recipe for exploitation, creating a new tyranny of work in which we cheerily acquiesce to doing jobs that take over our lives.**“Illuminating and inspiring." —**New RepublicYou're told that if you "do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life." In Work Won't Love You Back, Sarah Jaffe, a preeminent voice on labor, inequality, and social ... Read more

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  • The Comanche Empire

    by Pekka Hamalainen ...
    Series series The Lamar Series in Western History
    A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Native American empire.In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native American empire rose to dominate the fiercely contested lands of the American Southwest, the southern Great Plains, and northern Mexico. This powerful empire, built by the Comanche Indians, eclipsed its various European rivals in military ... Read more

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