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  • Heart versus Head

    Judge-Made Law in Nineteenth-Century America

    by Peter Karsten ...
    Series series Studies in Legal History
    Challenging traditional accounts of the development of American private law, Peter Karsten offers an important new perspective on the making of the rules of common law and equity in nineteenth-century courts. The central story of that era, he finds, was a struggle between a jurisprudence of the head, which adhered strongly to English precedent, and a jurisprudence of the heart, a humane concern ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in Twentieth-Century America

    Closing Ranks

    by Kevin Greene, Peter Karsten, Selika M. Ducksworth-Lawton, Elizabeth F. Desnoyers-Colas, Hal M. Friedman, Jeremy P. Maxwell, Robert F. Jefferson Jr. ...
    Series series War and Society in Modern American History
    Fusing riveting testimony from African American veterans with the most incisive research of current military scholars, Black Veterans, Politics, and Civil Rights in 20th-Century America: Closing Ranks explores the intersecting characteristics of civil rights struggle and political activism that was reflected in the lives of ex-GIs throughout Twentieth Century American history. The volume examines ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Military-State-Society Symbiosis

    Edited by Peter Karsten ...
    Series series Military and Society
    These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems serve nations; they may also reflect them. Soldiers are enlisted; they may also be said to self-select. Military units have missions; they also have interests. In an older, more traditional military history, while the ... Read more

    $244.99 USD

  • Recruiting, Drafting, and Enlisting

    Two Sides of the Raising of Military Forces

    Edited by Peter Karsten ...
    Series series Military and Society
    These five volumes concern one of the most important institutions in human history, the military, and the interactions of that institution with the greater society. Military systems serve nations; they may also reflect them. Soldiers are enlisted; they may also be said to self-select. Military units have missions; they also have interests. In an older, more traditional military history, while the ... Read more

    $280.00 USD

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  • The Dutch Atlantic

    Slavery, Abolition and Emancipation

    by Kwame Nimako, Glenn Willemsen ...
    Series series Decolonial Studies, Postcolonial Horizons
    This book interrogates the Dutch involvement in Atlantic slavery and assesses the historical consequences of this for contemporary European society.Kwame Nimako and Glenn Willemsen show how the slave trade and slavery intertwined economic, social and cultural elements, including nation-state formation in the Netherlands and across Europe. They explore the mobilisation of European populations in ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Soldier and the State

    The Theory and Politics of Civil–Military Relations

    by Samuel P. Huntington ...
    In a classic work, Samuel P. Huntington challenges most of the old assumptions and ideas on the role of the military in society. Stressing the value of the military outlook for American national policy, Huntington has performed the distinctive task of developing a general theory of civil–military relations and subjecting it to rigorous historical analysis.Part One presents the general theory of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Your Country, My Country

    A Unified History of the United States and Canada

    by Robert Bothwell ...
    Canada: land of hockey, terrible weather, unfailing politeness-and little else, as far as many Americans are aware. For Canadians, the United States is seen as a land of unparalleled opportunity and unparalleled failure, a country of heights and abysses. The straitlaced country in the north could hardly have much to tell about its powerhouse of a neighbor to the south, eh? Not so, according to ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • Military in America

    by Peter M. Karsten ...
    In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq.From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the American Revolution to the all-volunteer specialized troops of today, these twelve essays analyze the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in Great War Canada, 1914-1919

    by Brock Millman ...
    Compared to the idea that Canada was a nation forged in victory on Vimy Ridge, the reality of dissent and repression at home strikes a sour note. Through censorship, conscription, and internment, the government of Canada worked more ruthlessly than either Great Britain or the United States to suppress opposition to the war effort during the First World War.Polarity, Patriotism, and Dissent in ... Read more

    $33.09 USD

  • Seven Years’ War: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Geoffrey Plank ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Safe Passage

    The Transition from British to American Hegemony

    by Dr. Kori Schake ...
    History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. What made that transition uniquely cooperative and nonviolent? Does it offer lessons to guide policy as the United States faces its own challengers to the order it has enforced since the 1940s? To answer these questions, Kori Schake explores nine points of ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Rise to Greatness

    The History of Canada From the Vikings to the Present

    by Conrad Black ...
    Masterful, ambitious, and groundbreaking, this is a major new history of our country by one of our most respected thinkers and historians -- a book every Canadian should own.From the acclaimed biographer and historian Conrad Black comes the definitive history of Canada -- a revealing, groundbreaking account of the people and events that shaped a nation.Spanning 874 to 2014, and beginning from ... Read more

    $16.99 USD