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Illiberal America

A History

by Steven Hahn ...

**“[Hahn’s] book makes an important case for vigilance in the face of extremism and warns against telling the history of the United States as one of inevitable progress.” —David Leonhardt, New York Times Book ReviewIf your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That’s not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a ... Read more

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**“[Hahn’s] book makes an important case for vigilance in the face of extremism and warns against telling the history of the United States as one of inevitable progress.” —David Leonhardt, New York Times Book ReviewIf your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That’s not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a
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A Nation under Our Feet

Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration

by Steven Hahn ...

This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people—an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and ... Read more

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This is the epic story of how African-Americans, in the six decades following slavery, transformed themselves into a political people—an embryonic black nation. As Steven Hahn demonstrates, rural African-Americans were central political actors in the great events of disunion, emancipation, and nation-building. At the same time, Hahn asks us to think in more expansive ways about the nature and
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A Nation Without Borders

The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

by Steven Hahn, Eric Foner ...

Series series The Penguin History of the United States
**A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston GlobeVolume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner**In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven ... Read more

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**A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston GlobeVolume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner**In this ambitious story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven
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The Roots of Southern Populism

Yeoman Farmers and the Transformation of the Georgia Upcountry, 1850-1890

by Steven Hahn ...

Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the lot of small farmers was little improved. Examining the nonplantation region of upcountry Georgia as a microcosm of the South, Steven Hahn showed how farmers were buffeted by such forces as the unravelling of antebellum household economy, the development of market forces, the growth of a new class of ... Read more

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Despite the vast changes in plantation agriculture following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the lot of small farmers was little improved. Examining the nonplantation region of upcountry Georgia as a microcosm of the South, Steven Hahn showed how farmers were buffeted by such forces as the unravelling of antebellum household economy, the development of market forces, the growth of a new class of
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A Nation Without Borders

The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910

by Steven Hahn ...

Narrated by Barry Press ...

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27 hours 8 min

In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize—winning historian Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in Mexico and, throughout, is internationalist in orientation. It challenges the political narrative of ... Read more

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In this monumental story of American imperial conquest and capitalist development, Pulitzer Prize—winning historian Steven Hahn dismantles the conventional histories of the nineteenth century and offers a perspective that promises to be as enduring as it is controversial. It begins and ends in Mexico and, throughout, is internationalist in orientation. It challenges the political narrative of
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Illiberal America

A History

by Steven Hahn ...

Narrated by Mitch Crawford ...

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17 hours 12 min

If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.Driven by popular movements and implemented through courts and legislation, illiberalism is part of the American bedrock. The United ... Read more

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If your reaction to the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol was to think, 'That's not us,' think again: in Illiberal America, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian uncovers a powerful illiberalism as deep seated in the American past as the founding ideals.Driven by popular movements and implemented through courts and legislation, illiberalism is part of the American bedrock. The United
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The Life and Times of Mary Musgrove

by Steven C Hahn ...

The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.As a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and wife of an Anglican clergyman, Mary was one of a small number of "mixed blood" Indians to achieve a position of prominence among English colonists. Born to a Creek mother and an English father, Mary's bicultural heritage ... Read more

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The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.As a literate Christian, entrepreneur, and wife of an Anglican clergyman, Mary was one of a small number of "mixed blood" Indians to achieve a position of prominence among English colonists. Born to a Creek mother and an English father, Mary's bicultural heritage
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A Pirate's Life No More

The Pardoned Pirates of the Bahamas

by Steven C. Hahn ...

Series Book 27 - Early American Places
In 1718 the British crown in the Bahamas pardoned 209 mariners accused of piracy. In A Pirate's Life No More, Steven C. Hahn explores the lives of these "retired” pirates. While there are a number of "famous" names on that list—Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane, and Palsgrave Williams, for example—the vast majority of the pardoned are "mostly nobodies." By focusing holistically on pirates—and on ... Read more

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In 1718 the British crown in the Bahamas pardoned 209 mariners accused of piracy. In A Pirate's Life No More, Steven C. Hahn explores the lives of these "retired” pirates. While there are a number of "famous" names on that list—Benjamin Hornigold, Charles Vane, and Palsgrave Williams, for example—the vast majority of the pardoned are "mostly nobodies." By focusing holistically on pirates—and on
... Read more
The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman

Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South

by Henry Adams ...

**A FORGOTTEN EPISODE FROM THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION: An extraordinary American hero travels to the nation's capital to tell an unforgettable story of violence, resistance, and social action in the post-Civil War South.For Black History Month, the never-before-published testimony with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven Hahn.**In March 1880 a committee of the U.S. Senate ... Read more

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**A FORGOTTEN EPISODE FROM THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION: An extraordinary American hero travels to the nation's capital to tell an unforgettable story of violence, resistance, and social action in the post-Civil War South.For Black History Month, the never-before-published testimony with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven Hahn.**In March 1880 a committee of the U.S. Senate
... Read more
Light on the Path

The Anthropology and History of the Southeastern Indians

by Thomas J. Pluckhahn, Robbie Ethridge, Adam King, Jerald T. Milanich, Eric E. Bowne, Theda Purdue, John E. Worth, S. Kowalewski, Scott Jones0, William M. Jurgelski1, Mark Williams2, Dr. Marvin T. Smith3, Dr. Steven C. Hahn, Ph.D.4 ...

Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and historyThe past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th ... Read more

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Social history of the native peoples of the American South, bridging prehistory and historyThe past 20 years have witnessed a change in the study of the prehistory and history of the native peoples of the American South. This paradigm shift is the bridging of prehistory and history to fashion a seamless social history that includes not only the 16th-century Late Mississippian period and the 18th
... Read more
The Countryside in the Age of Capitalist Transformation

Essays in the Social History of Rural America

Edited by Steven Hahn, Jonathan Prude ...

This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.The essays cover a broad range ... Read more

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This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history. Building on the insights and methodologies that social historians have directed toward urban life, the contributors explore the past as it unfolded in the rural settings in which most Americans have lived during most of American history.The essays cover a broad range
... Read more
Nothing But Freedom

Emancipation and Its Legacy

by Eric Foner ...

Series series Walter Lynwood Fleming Lectures in Southern History
Nothing 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 states against the experience of Haiti, where ... Read more

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Nothing 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 states against the experience of Haiti, where
... Read more

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