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1619

Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

de James Horn ...

The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in Virginia“If anyone today knows colonial Virginia, it is James Horn.” —Wall Street JournalAlong the banks of the James River, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a month of one another that would profoundly shape the course of ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

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The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in Virginia“If anyone today knows colonial Virginia, it is James Horn.” —Wall Street JournalAlong the banks of the James River, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a month of one another that would profoundly shape the course of
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
A Brave and Cunning Prince

The Great Chief Opechancanough and the War for America

de James Horn ...

**The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homeland“An accomplished work of scholarly detection... Swift, moving prose along a twisting storyline lends this brilliant book the feel of a mystery.” —Kirkus (starred)**In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

**The extraordinary story of the Powhatan chief who waged a lifelong struggle to drive European settlers from his homeland“An accomplished work of scholarly detection... Swift, moving prose along a twisting storyline lends this brilliant book the feel of a mystery.” —Kirkus (starred)**In the mid-sixteenth century, Spanish explorers in the Chesapeake Bay kidnapped an Indian child and took him back
... Leer más
A Land as God Made It

Jamestown and the Birth of America

de James Horn ...

**The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history“An absolutely terrific book.” —New York Times**In this beautiful, vividly told story, James Horn describes the beginnings of England’s first successful colony in America, persuasively demonstrating that Jamestown was the first great crucible of American history.A Land As God Made It describes the unimaginable ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

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**The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history“An absolutely terrific book.” —New York Times**In this beautiful, vividly told story, James Horn describes the beginnings of England’s first successful colony in America, persuasively demonstrating that Jamestown was the first great crucible of American history.A Land As God Made It describes the unimaginable
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
A Kingdom Strange

The Brief and Tragic History of the Lost Colony of Roanoke

de James Horn ...

**From a leading historian, the definitive untold story of the Roanoke Colony’s mysterious disappearance“A fast-paced tale of greed, adventure, and tragedy that distills pretty much all that is known and most of what is surmised about the Lost Colony.” —Seattle Times**In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a ... Leer más

$13.99 USD

**From a leading historian, the definitive untold story of the Roanoke Colony’s mysterious disappearance“A fast-paced tale of greed, adventure, and tragedy that distills pretty much all that is known and most of what is surmised about the Lost Colony.” —Seattle Times**In 1587, John White and 117 men, women, and children landed off the coast of North Carolina on Roanoke Island, hoping to carve a
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Virginia 1619

Slavery and Freedom in the Making of English America

Edición de Paul Musselwhite, Peter C. Mancall, James Horn ...

Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

Virginia 1619 provides an opportunity to reflect on the origins of English colonialism around the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic world. As the essays here demonstrate, Anglo-Americans have been simultaneously experimenting with representative government and struggling with the corrosive legacy of racial thinking for more than four centuries. Virginia, contrary to popular stereotypes, was not the
... Leer más
Adapting to a New World

English Society in the Seventeenth-Century Chesapeake

de James Horn ...

Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behavior on the social and cultural evolution of the early Chesapeake. Using detailed local and ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

Often compared unfavorably with colonial New England, the early Chesapeake has been portrayed as irreligious, unstable, and violent. In this important new study, James Horn challenges this conventional view and looks across the Atlantic to assess the enduring influence of English attitudes, values, and behavior on the social and cultural evolution of the early Chesapeake. Using detailed local and
... Leer más
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A Land As God Made It

Jamestown and the Birth of America

de James Horn ...

Narrado por Danny Campbell ...

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11 hora 22 minutos

The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history**"An absolutely terrific book." —**New York TimesIn this beautiful, vividly told story, James Horn describes the beginnings of England's first successful colony in America, persuasively demonstrating that Jamestown was the first great crucible of American history.A Land As God Made It describes the unimaginable ... Leer más

$25.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

The definitive history of the Jamestown colony, the crucible of American history**"An absolutely terrific book." —**New York TimesIn this beautiful, vividly told story, James Horn describes the beginnings of England's first successful colony in America, persuasively demonstrating that Jamestown was the first great crucible of American history.A Land As God Made It describes the unimaginable
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook
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1619

Jamestown and the Forging of American Democracy

de James Horn ...

Narrado por Dan Woren ...

Completo

6 hora 47 minutos

The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in Virginia“If anyone today knows colonial Virginia, it is James Horn.” —Wall Street JournalAlong the banks of the James River, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a month of one another that would profoundly shape the course of ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

Disponible también en: eBook

The essential history of the extraordinary year in which American democracy and American slavery emerged hand in hand in Virginia“If anyone today knows colonial Virginia, it is James Horn.” —Wall Street JournalAlong the banks of the James River, during an oppressively hot spell in the middle of summer 1619, two events occurred within a month of one another that would profoundly shape the course of
... Leer más

Disponible también en: eBook

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Love and Hate in Jamestown

John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

de David A. Price ...

Narrado por Josh Innerst ...

Completo

10 hora 52 minutos

A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Company–which financed the settlement of Jamestown–David Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. He takes us into ... Leer más

$20.99 USD

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A gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Company–which financed the settlement of Jamestown–David Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. He takes us into
... Leer más

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Audiolibro

Glass House

The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town

de Brian Alexander ...

Narrado por Bob Souer ...

Completo

11 hora 7 minutos

The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon, ... Leer más

$29.99 USD

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The Anchor Hocking Glass Company, once the world's largest maker of glass tableware, was the base on which Lancaster's society was built. As Glass House unfolds, bankruptcy looms. With access to the company and its leaders, and Lancaster's citizens, Alexander shows how financial engineering took hold in the 1980s, accelerated in the 21st Century, and wrecked the company. We follow CEO Sam Solomon,
... Leer más

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Audiolibro

Bringing Down the Colonel

A Sex Scandal of the Gilded Age, and the "Powerless" Woman Who Took On Washington

de Patricia Miller ...

Narrado por Christina Delaine ...

Completo

13 hora 22 minutos

“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won ... Leer más

$28.99 USD

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“I’ll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his.”In Bringing Down the Colonel, journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women’s rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her “ruined,” Pollard brought the man—and the hypocrisy of America’s control of women’s sexuality—to trial. And, surprisingly, she won
... Leer más

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Invisible

The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America's Most Powerful Mobster

de Stephen L. Carter ...

Narrado por Karen Chilton ...

Completo

12 hora 39 minutos

Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life.She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s—and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia ... Leer más

$26.99 USD

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Bestselling author Stephen L. Carter delves into his past and retrieves the inspiring story of his grandmother’s extraordinary life.She was black and a woman and a prosecutor, a graduate of Smith College and the granddaughter of slaves, as dazzlingly unlikely a combination as one could imagine in New York of the 1930s—and without the strategy she devised, Lucky Luciano, the most powerful Mafia
... Leer más

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