Category - History
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Embattled River: The Hudson and Modern American Environmentalism
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In Embattled River, David Schuyler describes the efforts to reverse the pollution and bleak future of the Hudson River that became evident in the...
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Alexander Hamilton on Finance, Credit, and Debt
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /While serving as the first Treasury Secretary from 1789 to 1795, Alexander Hamilton engineered a financial revolution. Hamilton established the T...
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The Battle for Gotham: New York in the Shadow of Robert Moses and Jane Jacobs
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /In the 1970s, New York City hit rock bottom. Crime was at its highest, the middle class exodus was in high gear, and bankruptcy loomed. Many peop...
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Getting Tough: Welfare and Imprisonment in 1970s America
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The politics and policies that led to America's expansion of the penal system and reduction of welfare programsIn 1970s America, politicians bega...
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The Deportation Machine: America's Long History of Expelling Immigrants
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /The unknown history of deportation and of the fear that shapes immigrants' lives Constant headlines about deportations, detention camps, and bord...
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Command: The Politics of Military Operations from Korea to Ukraine
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /Using examples from a wide variety of conflicts, Lawrence Freedman shows that successful military command depends on the ability not only to use ...
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Southeast Missouri from Swampland to Farmland: The Transformation of the Lowlands
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /As the 20th century began, swamps with immense timber resources covered much of the Missouri Bootheel. After investors harvested the timber, the...
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The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics
PaperbackOriginal price $20.95 - Original price $20.95Original price $20.95$24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /How the New Deal was a unique historical moment and what this reveals about U.S. politics, economics, and cultureWhere does the New Deal fit in t...
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Seeking the Bomb: Strategies of Nuclear Proliferation
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /The first systematic look at the different strategies that states employ in their pursuit of nuclear weaponsMuch of the work on nuclear prolifera...
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The Marshall Plan: Dawn of the Cold War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the 2019 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the 2018 American Academy of ...
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Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /Root Shock examines 3 different U.S. cities to unmask the crippling results of decades-old disinvestment in communities of color and the urban re...
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The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00$26.99$26.99 - $26.99Current price $26.99| /Federal entitlement programs are strewn throughout the pages of U.S. history, springing from the noble purpose of assisting people who are destit...
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Statecraft as Soulcraft
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /From Simon & Schuster, Statecraft as Soulcraft is George F. Will's exploration of what government does.The conservative thinker and columnist...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal: 1932-1940
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /When the stability of American life was threatened by the Great Depression, the decisive and visionary policy contained in FDR's New Deal offered...
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From Enemies to Partners: Vietnam, the U.S. and Agent Orange
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The impact and tragedy of war do not end when the guns fall silent... Ten to fifteen percent of all Vietnamese with disabilities are probably Age...
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Blunt Instruments: Recognizing Racist Cultural Infrastructure in Memorials, Museums, and Patriotic Practices
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A field guide to the memorials, museums, and practices that commemorate white supremacy in the United States—and how to reimagine a more deeply s...
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Our Common Ground: A History of America's Public Lands
HardcoverOriginal price $45.00 - Original price $45.00Original price $45.00$47.99$47.99 - $47.99Current price $47.99| /The little-known story of how the U.S. government came to hold nearly one-third of the nation’s land and manage it primarily for recreation, educ...
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Unequal Cities: Overcoming Anti-Urban Bias to Reduce Inequality in the United States
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00$49.99$49.99 - $49.99Current price $49.99| /Cities are central to prosperity: they are hubs of innovation and growth. However, the economic vitality of wealthy cities is marred by persisten...
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Boston in Transit: Mapping the History of Public Transportation in The Hub
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00Original price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00Current price $57.99$57.99 - $57.99Current price $57.99| /A richly illustrated story of public transit in one of America’s most historic cities, from public ferry and horse-drawn carriage to the MBTA.A l...
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Moving toward Integration: The Past and Future of Fair Housing
HardcoverOriginal price $46.00 - Original price $46.00Original price $46.00$59.99$59.99 - $59.99Current price $59.99| /Reducing residential segregation is the best way to reduce racial inequality in the United States. African American employment rates, earnings, t...
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Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture
HardcoverOriginal price $59.95 - Original price $59.95Original price $59.95$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nationwide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adaptin...
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The Plot to Seize Russia: The Untold History
PaperbackOriginal price $75.00 - Original price $75.00Original price $75.00$78.99$78.99 - $78.99Current price $78.99| /"Take care of Russia," Boris Yeltsin said as he departed his presidency in August 1999. These words were directed at current Russian president, V...
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Gifts from Amin: Ugandan Asian Refugees in Canada
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$81.99$81.99 - $81.99Current price $81.99| /In August 1972, military leader and despot Idi Amin expelled Asian Ugandans from the country, professing to return control of the economy to "Ugand...
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University City: History, Race, and Community in the Era of the Innovation District
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$48.99$48.99 - $48.99Current price $48.99| /In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive gro...
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