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  • Our American Israel

    The Story of an Entangled Alliance

    by Amy Kaplan ...
    “Our American Israel is masterful and deserves a larger audience.” —Ta-Nehisi CoatesAn essential account of America’s most controversial alliance, and how that strong and divisive partnership plays out in our own time.In 1945, it was not inevitable that a global superpower emerging victorious from World War II would come to identify with a small state for Jewish refugees, refugees who at that time ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • The Anarchy of Empire in the Making of U.S. Culture

    by Amy Kaplan ...
    Series Book 32 - Convergences: Inventories of the Present
    The United States has always imagined that its identity as a nation is insulated from violent interventions abroad, as if a line between domestic and foreign affairs could be neatly drawn. Yet this book argues that such a distinction, so obviously impracticable in our own global era, has been illusory at least since the war with Mexico in the mid-nineteenth century and the later wars against Spain ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • The Red Badge of Courage (Warbler Classics Annotated Edition)

    by Stephen Crane, Amy Kaplan ...
    An instant international bestseller when first published in 1895, Stephen Crane's fictional narrative recounts one soldier's experiences during the American Civil War (1860-1865). The Red Badge of Courage is a psychological portrait of fear. By turns gripping, lyrical, and deeply sensitive, the book chronicles the repercussions of war on the individual and collective psyche. Rather than describing ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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  • Stony the Road

    Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow

    by Henry Louis Gates Jr. ...
    **“Stony the Road presents a bracing alternative to Trump-era white nationalism. . . . In our current politics we recognize African-American history—the spot under our country’s rug where the terrorism and injustices of white supremacy are habitually swept. Stony the Road lifts the rug." —Nell Irvin Painter, New York Times Book ReviewA profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans ... Read more

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  • The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War

    by Stephen Crane ...
    Henry Fleming is a young private fighting for the Union Army in the American Civil War. His head filled with visions of heroic glory, Henry is eager for the battlefield, but when faced with his first real chance to fight, Henry begins to doubt his resolve and flees the battlefield. Ashamed, he soon regrets his actions, and longs to regain his honour by earning his "red badge of courage" by being ... Read more

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  • Thinking About History

    by Sarah Maza ...
    What distinguishes history as a discipline from other fields of study? That's the animating question of Sarah Maza’s Thinking About History, a general introduction to the field of history that revels in its eclecticism and highlights the inherent tensions and controversies that shape it.Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

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  • The Red Badge of Courage

    by Stephen Crane ...
    The Red Badge of Courage was published in 1895, when its author, an impoverished writer living a bohemian life in New York, was only twenty-three. It immediately became a bestseller, and Stephen Crane became famous. Crane set out to create "a psychological portrayal of fear." Henry Fleming, a Union Army volunteer in the Civil War, thinks "that perhaps in a battle he might run....As far as war was ... Read more

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  • Racecraft

    The Soul of Inequality in American Life

    by Karen Fields, Barbara J. Fields ...
    Hailed by Zadie Smith and Ta-Nehisi Coates, this new edition of the celebrated contemporary work on race and racism “ought to be positioned at the center of any discussion of race in American life” (Bookforum).Most people assume racism grows from a perception of human difference: the fact of race gives rise to the practice of racism. Sociologist Karen E. Fields and historian Barbara J. Fields ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Delphi Complete Works of Stephen Crane (Illustrated)

    by Stephen Crane ...
    The American novelist Stephen Crane is now recognised by modern critics as one of the most innovative writers of his generation. Having won international acclaim in 1895 for his Civil War novel ‘The Red Badge of Courage’, Crane was prolific throughout his short life, creating notable works in the Realist and American Naturalism traditions.  Now readers can enjoy Crane’s ... Read more

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  • Rebirth of a Nation

    The Making of Modern America, 1877–1920

    by Jackson Lears ...
    Series series American History
    An illuminating and authoritative history of America in the years between the Civil War and World War I.One of the best books of 2009: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune , and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ."Fascinating. . . . Engaging. . . . Like the best histories, it is also a book that speaks to our own time." — The N... ... Read more

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  • The Red Badge Of Courage (Mobi Classics)

    by Stephen Crane ...
    The Red Badge of Courage is a 1895 war novel by American author Stephen Crane. It is considered one of the most influential works in American literature. The novel, in which a young recruit in the American Civil War is faced by the cruelty of war, made Crane an international success. Although he was born after the war and had not at the time experienced battle firsthand, the novel is considered an ... Read more

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  • The Liberal Tradition in America

    The Classic on the Causes and Effects of Liberal Thought in the U.S.

    by Louis Hartz ...
    This "brilliantly written" look at the original meaning of the liberal philosophy has become a classic of political science ( American Historical Review).Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation AwardAs the word "liberal" has been misused and its meaning diluted in recent decades, this study of American political thought since the Revolution is a valuable look at the "liberal tradition" that has ... Read more

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