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The Rough Riders
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 15.00In 1898, as the Spanish-American War was escalating, Theodore Roosevelt assembled an improbable regiment of Ivy Leaguers, cowboys, Native Americans, African-Americans, and Western Territory land speculators. This group of men, which became known as the Rough Riders, trained for four weeks in the Texas desert and then set sail for Cuba. Over the course... more...
A Fierce Discontent
Free Press 2010; US$ 30.00The Progressive Era, a few brief decades around the turn of the last century, still burns in American memory for its outsized personalities: Theodore Roosevelt, whose energy glinted through his pince-nez; Carry Nation, who smashed saloons with her axe and helped stop an entire nation from drinking; women suffragists, who marched in the streets until... more...
Personal Memoirs
Random House Publishing Group 2000; US$ 16.00Mark Twain had known many of the great men of the Civil War and the Gilded Age, and esteemed none more highly than Ulysses S. Grant, who was modest, sensitive, generous, honest, and superlatively intelligent. Grant's courage, both moral and physical, was a matter of record. His genius as a general assured his immortality. In 1881, Twain urged Grant... more...
The Age of Gold
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 17.95?I have found it.? These words, uttered by the man who first discovered gold on the American River in 1848, triggered the most astonishing mass movement of peoples since the Crusades. California?s gold drew fortune-seekers from the ends of the earth. It accelerated America?s imperial expansion and exacerbated the tensions that exploded in the Civil... more...
The New South and the Old West 1866-1890
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00The end of the Civil War brought significant change to the United States. The war had destroyed the South, ushering in an age of rebuilding that created a new South free from slavery and open to progress and industrialization. But much of the promise of the post-war South was lost in the political heat of Reconstruction. At the same time, more people... more...
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant
ReadHowYouWant 2007; US$ 3.99?Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant? is considered among the greatest of military memoirs. Marshalling the forces of the North in the American Civil War, he was the only general who was able to bring the South to heels. The descriptions of the great battles and his assessments of the generals, many of whom he knew intimately from the Mexican war, are... more...
Populismus
Campus Verlag 2007; US$ 16.52Hauptbeschreibung Als populistisch werden Politiker oder Parteien bezeichnet, die mit wohlfeilen Parolen über »die da oben« schimpfen. Karin Priester zeigt, dass der Populismus weit mehr als das ist, nämlich eine spezifische politische Strömung. So setzen sich populistische Bewegungen für den selbstständigen Mittelstand ein und wehren sich gegen... more...
The Populist Moment
Oxford University Press, USA 1978; US$ 18.99This condensed version of Lawrence Goodwyn's Democratic Promise, the highly-acclaimed study on American Populism which the Civil Liberties Review called "a brilliant, comprehensive study," offers new political language designed to provide a fresh means of assessing both democracy and authoritarianism today. more...
Der Aufstieg des amerikanischen Imperialismus
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1987; US$ 26.40Biographische Informationen Dr. Hans-Ulrich Wehler ist emer. Professor für Allgemeine Geschichte an der Universität Bielefeld. more...
Reunion and Reaction
Oxford University Press 1991; US$ 34.99First published in 1951, this historical textbook has been reissued with a new introduction by the author. It discusses the American Reconstruction period, the history of the US Republican Party and the realignment of forces that fought the American Civil War. more...









