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  • Rebels Unraveling

    A Short History of the Confederacy

    by William L. Barney ...
    This is not the Confederacy as imagined by secessionists or mythologized by white supremacists but the Confederacy as it really was--a rapacious state unraveling from the beginning. The imagined Confederacy was a projection of enslavers' ideology, a united South in which all, free and enslaved, would sacrifice everything upon the altar of Confederate nationalism. Blessed by God, the enslavers ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War

    by William L. Barney ...
    A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major personalities and pivotal events of the war that redefined the American nation. Drawing upon recent research that has moved beyond battles and military campaigns to address the significant roles played by civilians, women, and African Americans ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War

    by William L. Barney ...
    A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major personalities and pivotal events of the war that redefined the American nation. Drawing upon recent research that has moved beyond battles and military campaigns to address the significant roles played by civilians, women, and African Americans ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Rebels in the Making

    The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy

    by William L. Barney ...
    Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery. As shown by their blaming British and Northern slave traders for saddling them with slavery, most were uncomfortable with the institution. While many wanted it ended, most were content to leave that up to God. All that changed with the election of Abraham Lincoln. Rebels in the Making is a narrative ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Rain

    A Novella

    by William Barney ...
    Lost and searching for meaning, Adam Dante's life takes a dark turn when a chance encounter in the backwoods of New Jersey sparks a deadly chase. As rain falls and ghosts rise, Adam is drawn into a world of necromancy, folklore, and fear--where the living and the dead collide, and his own soul may be the price. ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • The Making of a Confederate

    Walter Lenoir's Civil War

    by William L. Barney ...
    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Despite the advances of the civil rights movement, many white southerners cling to the faded glory of a romanticized Confederate past. In The Making of a Confederate, William L. Barney focuses on the life of one man, Walter Lenoir of North Carolina, to examine the origins of southern white identity alongside its myriad ambiguities and complexities. Born into a wealthy slaveholding family, Lenoir ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Making of a Confederate

    Walter Lenoir's Civil War

    by William L. Barney ...
    Series series New Narratives in American History
    Despite the advances of the civil rights movement, many white southerners cling to the faded glory of a romanticized Confederate past. In The Making of a Confederate, William L. Barney focuses on the life of one man, Walter Lenoir of North Carolina, to examine the origins of southern white identity alongside its myriad ambiguities and complexities. Born into a wealthy slaveholding family, Lenoir ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Rebels in the Making

    The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy

    by William L. Barney ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 21 min

    Regardless of whether they owned slaves, Southern whites lived in a world defined by slavery.They seceded from the Union to defend that world when they viewed the election of Abraham Lincoln as a threat to slavery.Rebels in the Making is a narrative-driven history of how and why secession occurred. In this work, eminent Civil War historianWilliam L. Barney narrates the explosion of the sectional ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Drugs, Law, People, Place and the State

    Ongoing regulation, resistance and change

    Edited by Stewart Williams, Barney Warf ...
    Though any psychoactive substance can be revered or reviled as a drug, as people’s cultural norms shift, ultimately its status is determined in law by the state. This publication explores the regulation of drugs – alcohol and cannabis to heroin and cocaine – and practices such as social drinking and public injecting under political regimes. Drugs are discussed in their geographical contexts: the ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Secession Winter

    When the Union Fell Apart

    by Robert J Cook, William L Barney, Elizabeth R. Varon ...
    Series series The Marcus Cunliffe Lecture Series
    Three historians examine what drove southern secession in the winter of 1860-1861 and why it culminated in the American Civil War.Politicians and opinion leaders on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line struggled to formulate coherent responses to the secession of the deep South states. The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in mid-April 1861 triggered civil war and the loss of four upper South states ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Interviews with American Composers

    Barney Childs in Conversation

    by Barney Childs, Virginia Anderson, Robert Fink, Kevin Holm-Hudson, Thomas S. Clark, Gayle Sherwood Magee1, Sara Haefeli4, Frances White6, James Pritchett7, Jay M. Arms9, Dave Headlam1, John Schneider2, Ronald Kuivila5, Bruce Quaglia7, Rob Haskins0, Michelle Fillion2, Stuart Dempster4, David Neal Lewis6, Jeffrey Perry8, Peter Gena1, Horace J. Maxile Jr.4 ...
    Series series Music in American Life
    In 1972-73, Barney Childs embarked on an ambitious attempt to survey the landscape of new American concert music. He recorded freewheeling conversations with fellow composers, most of them under forty, all of them important but most not yet famous. Though unable to publish the interviews in his lifetime, Childs had gathered invaluable dialogues with the likes of Robert Ashley, Olly Wilson, Harold ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

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    Mapping the Cold War

    Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power

    by Timothy Barney ...
    Narrated by William Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 45 min

    In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed and constrained the means by which foreign policy elites, popular audiences, and social activists ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook