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WW Norton & Co Give Me Liberty
The leading U.S. history textbook, with a new focus on Who is an American?
£64.43
W. W. Norton & Company Give Me Liberty with Ebook InQuizitive History Skills Tutorials Exercises and Student Site Brief 1 Vol Seventh Edition
£76.89
W. W. Norton & Company Give Me Liberty with Norton Illumine Ebook InQuizitive History Skills Tutorials Exercises and Student Site Brief Volume 1 7th Edition
£65.29
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Reconstruction Updated Edition: America's Unfinished Revolution, 1863-1877
Newly Reissued with a New Introduction: From the "preeminent historian of Reconstruction" (New York Times Book Review), a newly updated edition of the prize-winning classic work on the post-Civil War period which shaped modern America. Eric Foner's "masterful treatment of one of the most complex periods of American history" (New Republic) redefined how the post-Civil War period was viewed. Reconstruction chronicles the way in which Americans-black and white-responded to the unprecedented changes unleashed by the war and the end of slavery. It addresses the ways in which the emancipated slaves' quest for economic autonomy and equal citizenship shaped the political agenda of Reconstruction; the remodeling of Southern society and the place of planters, merchants, and small farmers within it; the evolution of racial attitudes and patterns of race relations; and the emergence of a national state possessing vastly expanded authority and committed, for a time, to the principle of equal rights for all Americans. This "smart book of enormous strengths" (Boston Globe) remains the standard work on the wrenching post-Civil War period-an era whose legacy still reverberates in the United States today.
£17.09
WW Norton & Co Give Me Liberty
The #1 U.S. history text with inclusive new coverage and improved support for student readers
£56.25
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Short History of Reconstruction [Updated Edition]
£15.45
WW Norton & Co Give Me Liberty
The most successful U.S. History textbook, available in a brief edition.
£78.83
International Publishers Co Inc.,U.S. Reconstruction: The Battle for Democracy
£21.00
Penguin Books Ltd Rights of Man
One of the great classics on democracy, Rights of Man was published in England in 1791 as a vindication of the French Revolution and a critique of the British system of government. In direct, forceful prose, Paine defends popular rights, national independence, revolutionary war, and economic growth - all considered dangerous and even seditious issues. In his introduction Eric Foner presents an overview of Paine's career as political theorist and pamphleteer, and supplies essential background material to Rights of Man. He discusses how Paine created a language of modern politics that brought important issues to the common man and the working classes and assesses the debt owed to Paine by the American and British radical traditions.
£7.78