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The Civil War in 50 Objects
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 19.99The American companion to A History of the World in 100 Objects : A fresh, visual perspective on the Civil War From a soldier?s diary with the pencil still attached to John Brown?s pike, the Emancipation Proclamation, a Confederate Palmetto flag, and the leaves from Abraham Lincoln?s bier, here is a unique and surprisingly intimate look at the... more...
Nothing But Freedom
LSU Press 2007; US$ 17.95Nothing But Freedom examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under. Taking a comparative approach, Eric Foner examines Reconstruction in the southern... more...
Reconstruction
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 19.99This "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" ( New Republic ) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war... more...
A Short History of Reconstruction
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 12.99An abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize. more...
Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men
Oxford University Press, USA 1995; US$ 17.99Since its publication twenty-five years ago, Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men has been recognized as a classic, an indispensable contribution to our understanding of the causes of the American Civil War. A key work in establishing political ideology as a major concern of modern American historians, it remains the only full-scale evaluation of the ideas... more...
Who Owns History?
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2003; US$ 16.99A thought-provoking new book from one of America's finest historians "History," wrote James Baldwin, "does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that... more...
Politics and Ideology in the Age of the Civil War
Oxford University Press, USA 1980; US$ 21.99Insisting that politics and ideology must remain at the forefront of any examination of nineteenth-century America, Foner reasserts the centrality of the Civil War to the people of that period. The first section of this book deals with the causes of the sectional conflict; the second, with the antislavery movement; and a final group of essays treats... more...
Reconstruction
HarperCollins 2011; Not AvailableThis "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" ( New Republic ) made history when it was originally published in 1988. It redefined how Reconstruction was viewed by historians and people everywhere in its chronicling of how Americans -- black and white -- responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war... more...
A Short History of Reconstruction
HarperCollins 2010; Not AvailableAn abridged version of Reconstruction: America's Unfinished Revolution, the definitive study of the aftermath of the Civil War, winner of the Bancroft Prize, Avery O. Craven Prize, Los Angeles Times Book Award, Francis Parkman Prize, and Lionel Trilling Prize. more...
Give Me Liberty!: An American History (Third Edition) (Vol. 1)
W. W. Norton & Company 2010; US$ 48.80A clear, concise, up to date, authoritative history by one of the leading historians in the country. Give Me Liberty! is the leading book in the market because it works in the classroom. A single-author book, Give Me Liberty! offers students a consistent approach, a single narrative voice, and a coherent perspective throughout the text. Threaded... more...









