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Vermont Its Government 1904-1905 (SIGNED COPY) by: Jeffrey, William H.
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Vermont Its Government 1904-1905 (SIGNED COPY)
by: Jeffrey, William H.

Hardcover. East Burke VT, The Historical Publishing Company, 1st, 1905, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green cloth stamped in gilt. 104 pages with b&w photos of government officials. "Compliments of William H. Jeffrey" in his hand on front fly leaf. Valuable historical research book covering all Vermont office holders at the federal, state, and county levels with professional photo-portraits and details. Printed on heavy glossy paper stock. Mild scuffing to spine, otherwise clean.

Record # 397439

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom by: Strickland, Ron
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Vermonters: Oral Histories from Down Country to the Northeast Kingdom
by: Strickland, Ron

Softcover. San Francisco, Chronicle Books, 1st, 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 186 pages, b&w illustrations. Warm, wonderfully entertaining accounts by a general store proprietor, a basket weaver, a gravedigger, a town gadfly, and 34 others reveal how time-honored traditions are carried on in spite of the inroads of the 20th century. As colorful as the state's autumn hues, and, in the matter of opinions, as obdurate as mountain granite, these recollections are accompanied by candid portraits. Clean copy.

Record # 397440

Price: $30.00
Price: $30.00 

Champlain Valley Memories: Volume II- the 1940s, '50s And '60s by: The Burlington Free Press
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Champlain Valley Memories: Volume II- the 1940s, '50s And '60s
by: The Burlington Free Press

Hardcover. Burlington VT, Pediment Publishing, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 144 pages, b&w photos throughout. Clean copy.

Record # 397441

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

VERDUN and the Battles for its Possession by: (Michelin)
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VERDUN and the Battles for its Possession
by: (Michelin)

Softcover. UK, Antony Rowe, reprint, nd, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 112 pages, b&w illustrations. 178 b/w photos. The great German assault on Verdun opened on 21 February 1916 and the battle went on with furious attacks and counterattacks till it finally petered out on 18 December, ten months later, some two and a half months longer than the British offensives of the Somme and Third Ypres combined. After describing the origins and conduct of the battle with maps and illustrations the book takes us on a tour of the town and of various parts of the battlefield with its numerous forts. Originally published in 1919 by Michelin. Clean copy.

Record # 397443

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Roosevelt and Wilson: A Comparative Study by: D. H. Elletson
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Roosevelt and Wilson: A Comparative Study
by: D. H. Elletson

Hardcover. London, John Murray, 1st, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 236 pages. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397447

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765 - 1803 by: Brasseaux, Carl A
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The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765 - 1803
by: Brasseaux, Carl A

Hardcover. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University, 1st, 1987, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 227 pages, b&w illustrations. In this penetrating study, Carl Brasseaux looks beyond long-standing mythology to provide a critical account of early Acadian culture in Louisiana and the reasons for its survival. He convincingly dispels many received notions about the routes Acadians traveled from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, their original settlement sites, and the patterns of their subsequent migrations within the state, and closely examines the relations of Louisiana's Acadians with their black, Spanish, Indian, and Creole neighbors. In adapting to subtropical Louisiana, with its turmoil of alternating French and Spanish regimes, the Acadians exhibited industry, pragmatism, individualism, and the ability to close ranks in the face of a general threat. As Brasseaux reveals, Acadians' cohesiveness and insularity preserved the core elements of their culture and helped them adjust to new physical and social demands. Names, inscription to front fly leaf, interior clean and bright.

Record # 397448

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]
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Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]

Democracy Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's
by: Peterson, Merrill D. [Editor]

Softcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs Merrill, 2nd pr., 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 452 pages. This book covers the Massachusetts Convention of 1820-21; New York State Convention of 1821; and the Virginia State Convention of 1829-1830, along with numerous tables. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 397449

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

History of the Town of Carlisle, Massachusets, 1754-1920 With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons by: Bull, Sidney A.
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History of the Town of Carlisle, Massachusets, 1754-1920 With Biographical Sketches of Prominent Persons
by: Bull, Sidney A.

Hardcover. Cambridge MA, Murray Printing Company, 1st, 1920, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover red cloth with gilt lettering and decoration on front cover. Illustrated with b&w photos, map illustration. Name on front fly, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397462

Price: $60.00
Price: $60.00 

The Rise of Modern Industry by: Hammond, J. L. and Barbara
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The Rise of Modern Industry
by: Hammond, J. L. and Barbara

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 302 pages. This book presents the historical setting of the industrial revolution in a form suitable for the general reader. It seeks to explain why 18th-century England was the theatre of the great series of mechanical inventions that caused the revolution, and what were the great social changes that preceded, accompanied and followed it. Clean copy.

Record # 397464

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Tudor Puritanism: A Chapter in the History of Idealism by: Knappen, M.M.
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Tudor Puritanism: A Chapter in the History of Idealism
by: Knappen, M.M.

Softcover. University of Chicago Press, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 555 pages. Traces the political fortunes of the Puritans from 1524, the year in which William Tyndale left London for Germany, to the Stuart Settlement at the beginning of the seventeenth century. The author then examines the social, cultural, and intellectual aspects of Puritanism which, he believes, represented a more genuine idealism than any rival religious movement during the Tudor period. Remainder mark to bottom edge, otherwise a clean copy.

Record # 397465

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400 by: Bennett, H. S.
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Life on the English Manor: A Study of Peasant Conditions 1150-1400
by: Bennett, H. S.

Softcover. NY, Cambridge University Press, reprint, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 364 pages. A picture of the daily and yearly round of the English peasant in the Middle Ages. Bennett explains the feudal system which linked the poor man to the soil and to the service of his lord and the church. Since all of the inhabitants of England at that time were countrymen, except for a few large towns, this book is really an introduction to life in Medieval England as a whole. Clean and unmarked wraps in reddish-brown with a woodcut illustration. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397466

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 by: Duffy, Eamon
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The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580
by: Duffy, Eamon

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 654 pages, b&w illustrations. This major revisionist account of the pre-Reformation Church recreates lay people's experience of religion in 15th-century England. Eamon Duffy shows that late mediaeval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but was a strong and vigorous tradition, and that the Reformation represented a violent rupture from a popular and theologically respectable religious system. Clean copy.

Record # 397467

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly by: David Freeman Hawke
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Benjamin Rush: Revolutionary Gadfly
by: David Freeman Hawke

Hardcover. Indianapolis/NY, Bobbs-Merrill, 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket, 490 pages, b&w frontis. Rush, the Philadelphia doctor who signed the Declaration of Independence, was an energetic, ambitious man given to devising reforms and, as the author puts it, meddling in politics. He studied medicine in Edinburgh and London, meeting Hume, Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, et al. and, Hawke thinks, solidifying his republican disposition. Back in Pennsylvania he agitated for independence, made friends with John Adams, urged Paine to write Common Sense, and entered Congress. Apart from the recurrent epidemics of the age, the practice of military medicine and propaganda for resuming debt payments occupied Rush during the war; afterwards he turned to progressive education, speculated in land, fought paper money, equivocally supported the abolition of slavery, declared that tobacco is unhealthful, and boosted the Constitution before it was even written. Dust jacket chipped, faded in parts, clean internally.

Record # 397469

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

James Madison: The Founding Father by: Rutland, Robert A.
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James Madison: The Founding Father
by: Rutland, Robert A.

Hardcover. NY, Macmillan, Book Club Ed., 1987, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 287 pages. Index, notes, illustrations. A detailed biography of the Virginian who served in the Continental Congress, wrote the Federalist Papers, helped write the Constitution and Bill of Rights, was Majority Leader in Congress, and was the fourth president of the US. Clean copy.

Record # 397470

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Edmund Randolph: A Biography by: John J. Reardon
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Edmund Randolph: A Biography
by: John J. Reardon

Hardcover. NY/London, Macmillan / Collier Macmillan, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 517 pages, b&w illustrations. Life of the signer of the Declaration of Independence, first US Attorney General, and second Secretary of State. Clean copy.

Record # 397472

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

The Night The Revolution Began: The Boston Tea Party, 1773 by: Wesley S. Griswold
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The Night The Revolution Began: The Boston Tea Party, 1773
by: Wesley S. Griswold

Hardcover. Brattleboro VT, Stephen Greene Press, 1st, 1972, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, 160 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397474

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

William Byrd of Westover by: Richmond Croom Beatty
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William Byrd of Westover
by: Richmond Croom Beatty

Hardcover. Hamden CT, Archon Books, reprint, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 243 pages, b&w portrait frontis. A biography of the Virginia cavalier and landowner who lavished his wealth in the building of Westover where he lived on an almost feudal estate and gathered the most valuable library in the colonies. Originally published in 1932.

Record # 397475

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Most Uncommon Jacksonians: The Radical Leaders of the Early Labor Movement by: Edward Pessen
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Most Uncommon Jacksonians: The Radical Leaders of the Early Labor Movement
by: Edward Pessen

Hardcover. Albany NY, State University of New York Press, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn and tanned dust jacket, 208 pages with index. This book attempts to throw new light on that early labor movement, mainly by answering the questions that modern critics have raised concerning its authenticity, but the major concern of the volume is with the labor leaders' views regarding American society. If these were uncommon labor leaders, they were also uncommon Jacksonians. At a time when the mass of Americans seemed to be engaged in a frenzied contest for material gain, and increasingly optimistic about their chances, the labor leaders stood apart both from the pursuit of the main chance and from its moralistic critics. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397476

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

William Brewster of the Mayflower: Portrait of a Pilgrim by: Brewster, Dorothy
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William Brewster of the Mayflower: Portrait of a Pilgrim
by: Brewster, Dorothy

Hardcover. NY, New York University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 116 pages, b&w illustrations. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397477

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics by: Kutler, Stanley I.
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Judicial Power and Reconstruction Politics
by: Kutler, Stanley I.

Hardcover. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 178 pages. A new perspective on the Supreme Court during the Reconstruction period. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397478

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Black Bondage in the North by: McManus, Edgar J.
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Black Bondage in the North
by: McManus, Edgar J.

Hardcover. Syracuse NY, Syracuse University Press, 1st, 1973, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 236 pages. This foremost history of the Northern slave system examines its operation from its colonial beginnings to its dissolution. Unlike the South, which used slaves primarily for agricultural labor, the North trained and diversified its slave force to meet the needs of a complicated economy. In the early 19th century the author sees that economic displacement allows an emancipation of blacks that is at least as beneficial to the masters as to the blacks. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397481

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography by: Gerald Howson
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Burgoyne of Saratoga: A Biography
by: Gerald Howson

Hardcover. NY, Times Books, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket that shows fading, 360 pages, b&w illustrations, endpaper maps. General John Burgoyne was a British army officer, politician and dramatist. He first saw action during the Seven Years' War when he participated in several battles, mostly notably during the Portugal Campaign of 1762. Burgoyne is best known for his role in the American War of Independence. During the Saratoga campaign he surrendered his army of 5,000 men to the American troops on October 17, 1777. Appointed to command a force designated to capture Albany and end the rebellion, Burgoyne advanced from Canada but soon found himself surrounded and outnumbered. He fought two battles at Saratoga, but was forced to open negotiations with Horatio Gates. Although he agreed to a convention, on 17 October 1777, which would allow his troops to return home, this was subsequently revoked and his men were made prisoners. Burgoyne faced criticism when he returned to Britain, and never held another active command. Clean copy.

Record # 397483

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States by: Kessler-Harris, Alice
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Out to Work: A History of Wage Earning Women in the United States
by: Kessler-Harris, Alice

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright, unclipped dust jacket, 400 pages, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397484

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Liberty and Authority: Early American Political Ideology, 1689-1763 by: Leder, Lawrence H.
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Liberty and Authority: Early American Political Ideology, 1689-1763
by: Leder, Lawrence H.

Hardcover. Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in an unclipped dust jacket, 167 pages. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397485

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment by: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.
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Birthplace of an Army: A Study of the Valley Forge Encampment
by: Trussell, John B.B., Jr.

Softcover. Harrisburg PA, Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission, 1st, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 145 pages with index, b&w illustrations. Clean copy.

Record # 397486

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Growth of Southern Civilization 1790-1860 by: Clement Eaton
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The Growth of Southern Civilization 1790-1860
by: Clement Eaton

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 357 pages. A scholarly study about life in the Old South. Clean copy.

Record # 397487

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution by: Thayer, Theodore
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Nathanael Greene: Strategist of the American Revolution
by: Thayer, Theodore

Hardcover. NY, Twayne Publishers, 1st, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a worn, faded dust jacket. 500 pages, b&w maps, index. Clean copy. Nathanael Greene, Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, known for his effective leadership in the Southern Campaign against British forces. He was born on August 7, 1742, in Rhode Island and died on June 19, 1786, in Georgia, leaving a legacy as one of George Washington's most trusted officers.

Record # 397488

Price: $50.00
Price: $50.00 

The American Revolution in the South by: Henry Lee (aka Light Horse Harry Lee), Editor: Robert E. Lee
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The American Revolution in the South
by: Henry Lee (aka Light Horse Harry Lee), Editor: Robert E. Lee

Hardcover. NY, Arno Press, reprint, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 620 pages. History of the American Army in the Southern states during the Revolutionary war. Written by Henry (Light Horse) Lee, father of Robert E Lee. This is a reprint of the 1869 edition, with a biography of Henry Lee by Robert E Lee. Clean copy.

Record # 397489

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination by: Michael G Kammen
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A Season of Youth: The American Revolution and the Historical Imagination
by: Michael G Kammen

Softcover. NY, Oxford University Press, reprint, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 384 pages with index. In this major contribution to cultural history Kammen focuses on the American Revolution and it's impact on literature and art. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397490

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

English Whiggism and the American Revolution by: G. H. Guttridge
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English Whiggism and the American Revolution
by: G. H. Guttridge

Softcover. Berkeley CA, University of California Press, reprint, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 151 pages. Deals with the parliamentary group in England which claimed the Whig tradition during the American Revolution. The Americans asserted rights that were essentially Whig, but at the same time repudiated the authority of parliament, the stronghold of Whig tradition. Fading to spine, name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397491

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830 by: David W. Noble
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Historians Against History: The Frontier Thesis and the National Covenant in American Historical Writing since 1830
by: David W. Noble

Hardcover. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, 2nd pr., 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 197 pages. Professor Noble examines the basic philosophy and writing of six American historians, George Bancroft, Frederick Jackson, Charles A. Beard, Carl Becker, Vernon Louis Parrington, and Daniel J. Boorstin, and finds in them a common tradition which he calls anti-historical. He argues that this viewpoint is founded in the frontier interpretation of American history, that American historians have served as the chief political theorists and theologians of this country since 1830, and that their writings can be interpreted as Jeremiads designed to preserve a national covenant with nature. Clean copy.

Record # 397493

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft Parkman and Adams by: Vitzthum, Richard C.
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The American Compromise: Theme and Method in the Histories of Bancroft Parkman and Adams
by: Vitzthum, Richard C.

Hardcover. Norman OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 1st, 1974, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 236 pages. Clean copy.

Record # 397494

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Era Of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War, 1865-1877 by: Kenneth M. Stampp
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The Era Of Reconstruction: America After The Civil War, 1865-1877
by: Kenneth M. Stampp

Hardcover. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1st UK, 1965, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Fair, Hardcover in a worn dust jacket with pieces gone, 229 pages plus index. A study of the controversial period in America which followed the Civil War examining the political situation in the South.

Record # 397496

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War by: Clinton, Catherine /Silber, Nina [Editors]
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Divided Houses: Gender and the Civil War
by: Clinton, Catherine /Silber, Nina [Editors]

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 418 pages. The first book to show how the Civil War transformed gender roles and attitudes toward sexuality among Americans. This unique volume brings together a wide spectrum of critical viewpoints by newly emerging scholars as well as distinguished authors in the field to show how gender became a prism through which the political tensions of antebellum America were filtered and focused. Through the course of the book, many fascinating subjects are explored, from new "manly" responsibilities both black and white men had thrust upon them as soldiers, to women's roles in the guerrilla fighting, to the wartime dialogue on interracial sex. In addition, an incisive introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson helps place these various subjects within an overall historical context. Copyright page states first edition, but no price on dj says Book Club. Clean, bright copy.

Record # 397501

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Burr Conspiracy by: Abernethy, Thomas Perkins
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The Burr Conspiracy
by: Abernethy, Thomas Perkins

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 1st, 1954, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light brown cloth with black lettering on spine, 301 pages. Endpapers map, frontis. portrait. Light ring stain on front cover otherwise clean, no dust jacket.

Record # 397502

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Sea Serpent Journal: Hugh McCulloch Gregory's Voyage Around the World in a Clipper Ship, 1854-55 by: Gregory, Hugh McCulloch (writer) / Burgess, Robert H. (editor)
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The Sea Serpent Journal: Hugh McCulloch Gregory's Voyage Around the World in a Clipper Ship, 1854-55
by: Gregory, Hugh McCulloch (writer) / Burgess, Robert H. (editor)

Hardcover. Charlottesville, University Press of Virginia, 1st, 1975, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 142 pages. This volume covers the voyage, a few days less than a year in duration, of the clipper ship Sea Serpent around the world in 1854-55, from New York to New York by way of Cape Horn, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. One of the crew, Hugh McCulloch Gregory, better educated than the average seaman of his day, kept a journal in which he made daily entries of events on board.

Record # 397505

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation by: Sklar, Kathryn Kish/ Stewart, James Brewer
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Women's Rights and Transatlantic Antislavery in the Era of Emancipation
by: Sklar, Kathryn Kish/ Stewart, James Brewer

Softcover. New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1st, 2007, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 385 pages, b&w illustrations. Two epochal developments profoundly influenced the history of the Atlantic world between 1770 and 1870-the rise of women's rights activism and the drive to eliminate chattel slavery. The contributors to this volume, eminent scholars from a variety of disciplines, investigate the intertwining histories of abolitionism and feminism on both sides of the Atlantic during this dynamic century of change. They illuminate the many ways that the two movements developed together and influenced one another. Approaching a wide range of transnational topics, the authors ask how conceptions of slavery and gendered society differed in the United States, France, Germany, and Britain; how women's activism reached across national boundaries; how racial identities affected the boundaries of women's activism; and what was distinctive about African-American women's participation as activists. Their thought-provoking answers provide rich insights into the history of struggles for social justice across the Atlantic world. Sine faded. Clean copy.

Record # 397506

Price: $20.00
Price: $20.00 

Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State by: WPA Federal Writers' Project
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Vermont: A Guide to the Green Mountain State
by: WPA Federal Writers' Project

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton and Mifflin, 1st, 1937, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, green pebbled cloth, 392 pages, many b&w photogravures. Color map in rear pocket in excellent condition. Believed to be a first printing with the 1937 date on the title page. No dust jacket. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397512

Price: $90.00
Price: $90.00 

Eleven Exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution by: Blakeley, Phyllis R. & Grant, John N.
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Eleven Exiles: Accounts of Loyalists of the American Revolution
by: Blakeley, Phyllis R. & Grant, John N.

Softcover. Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 336 pages. Includes table of contents, bibliography, index, maps and b&w photographs and illustrations. The 11 exiles were: John Howe, Printer; Francis Green; Joseph Durfee, Shelburne Pioneer; Molly Brant, Mohawk Heroine; Ward Chipman, founding father of New Brunswick; William Schurman of Prince Edward Island; Sir John Johnson; Ranna Cossit; Sarah Sherwood; Boston King and William Jarvis.

Record # 397513

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846 by: Charles Sellers
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The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846
by: Charles Sellers

Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, Book Club, 1991, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 502 pages. Bookplate on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397514

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 

The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950 by: Herken, Gregg
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The Winning Weapon: The Atomic Bomb in the Cold War 1945-1950
by: Herken, Gregg

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1980, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 425 pages. Based his work primarily on official documents released during the 1970s Yale historian Gregg Herken makes clear how, and why, after World War II American diplomats tried-but failed- to make the nation's nuclear monopoly an advantage in negotiating with the Soviet Union. And why Truman's advisers wrongly predicted that a Soviet bomb was a generation away. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397515

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Cities and Camps of the Confederate States by: Fitzgerald Ross, Editor: Richard Barksdale Harwell
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Cities and Camps of the Confederate States
by: Fitzgerald Ross, Editor: Richard Barksdale Harwell

Hardcover. Urbana IL, University of Illinois Press, 1st, 1958, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket, 262 pages, b&w illustrations. A studied volume by an English military man and on-site witness to many of the events of the American Civil War enhanced with 16 pages of contemporary B&W photographs and drawings. The book was originally published in the 1860s and is one of the finest and most informative of the few records left by outside observers of the Confederacy in its own time. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.

Record # 397522

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War by: John J. Pullen
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The Twentieth Maine: A Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War
by: John J. Pullen

Softcover. Dayton OH, Morningside Bookshop, reprint, 1983, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 338 pages, b&w illustrations. Reprint of 1957 Edition. "Mr. Pullen...has gone to the letters, diaries and memoirs of the participants with the thoroughness and care of a good historian...He can also describe battle action with much distinction, his account of the 20th's fight at Gettysburg is as good a piece of battle writing as you are likely to find anywhere." - Bruce Catton. Clean copy.

Record # 397524

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Carlisle, Composite Community: Historical Facts Concerning the Settlers in Present Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the Colonial Period by: Lapham, Donald A
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Carlisle, Composite Community: Historical Facts Concerning the Settlers in Present Carlisle, Massachusetts, in the Colonial Period
by: Lapham, Donald A

Hardcover. np, self-published, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, Hardcover in a lightly soiled dust jacket, 86 pages, b&w illustrations. Folded map laid in, index. Signed and dated by the author on the title page. Clean copy.

Record # 397525

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

The Civilization of the Old South: Writings of Clement Eaton by: Eaton, Clement, Editor: Kirwan, Albert D.
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The Civilization of the Old South: Writings of Clement Eaton
by: Eaton, Clement, Editor: Kirwan, Albert D.

Hardcover. Lexington KY, University of Kentucky Press, 1st, 1968, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, light green cloth, 307 pages. This volume of Eaton's selected writings forms a rich and provocative mosaic of southern life from the years of Thomas Jefferson to the close of the Civil War. These selections, perceptively edited by Albert D. Kinvan, show the wide range of Eaton's interests, including the impact of slavery, the influence of religion, and the art of politics, and they demonstrate the depth of his insight into the civilization of the Old South. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397526

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780 by: Robert E. Brown
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Middle Class Democracy and the Revolution in Massachusetts, 1691-1780
by: Robert E. Brown

Softcover. NY, Harper Torchbooks, reprint, 1969, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 458 pages. This book argues that there was a middle-class democracy in Massachusetts even before the Revolution, which only removed British power from the area. Bump to top corner of volume causing a crease, remainder lines to bottom edge. No markings.

Record # 397527

Price: $15.00
Price: $15.00 

Bonnet Brigades by: Massey, Mary Elizabeth
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Bonnet Brigades
by: Massey, Mary Elizabeth

Hardcover. NY, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 1966, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 371 pages plus index. B&w illustrations. A study of the Civil War's effects on the "development" of women 1861-65 and how this led to further advances in the women's movement in later years. Name on front fly leaf, page 133 wrinkled. No dust jacket.

Record # 397528

Price: $25.00
Price: $25.00 

American Military History; Army Historical Series by: Matloff, Maurice (edited)
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American Military History; Army Historical Series
by: Matloff, Maurice (edited)

Hardcover. Washington DC, Office of the Chief of Military History, 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt eagle seal at top front, gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with selections from the Department Of Defense files . Forty-seven maps by B. C. Mossman . This is a team effort by a number of the nation's leading scholars including Matloff , Kent Greenfield , Richard Leighton , and other leaders of the Army Historical Series. The volume covers through the Vietnam war. Small name blacked out on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397529

Price: $28.00
Price: $28.00 

Ubi Sumus? The State of Naval and Maritime History by: Hattendorf, John B.
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Ubi Sumus? The State of Naval and Maritime History
by: Hattendorf, John B.

Softcover. Newport RI, Naval War College Press, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 419 pages. Naval War College Historical Monograph Series No. 11. Collection of papers by naval historians on the state of international maritime history in the 1990;s. Includes footnotes, chapter bibliographies, Illustrated with b&w charts & tables. Clean copy.

Record # 397533

Price: $18.00
Price: $18.00 

The Character of John Adams by: Shaw, Peter
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The Character of John Adams
by: Shaw, Peter

Hardcover. Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 324 pages, b&w illustrations. Published for the Williamsburg, VA Institute of Early American History & Culture. Instead of recounting, in detail, the public events of John Adams's extraordinary career, Peter Shaw views as a whole Adams's character, thought, and acts, personalizing for the reader the most remote of our Founding Fathers. This compact but comprehensive biography brilliantly portrays the poignant revelations of John Adams's inner life implicit in the recently released Adams family manuscripts. The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by the author's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Adams's behavior appears less eccentric when viewed in the context of its origin in the village life of eighteenth~century Massachusetts; and his politics and ideas appear less abstractly motivated when viewed in the light of the evolution of his character. Name on front fly leaf, otherwise clean.

Record # 397537

Price: $12.00
Price: $12.00 


  

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The history section spans American and world history in used, rare and out-of-print editions, from local and regional chronicles to Civil War narratives and primary sources. Titles include Joseph Judge's Season of Fire: The Confederate Strike on Washington, Letters of Abraham Lincoln (Heretofore Unpublished) and the two-volume History of Pittsfield, MA.

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