African-American Activism before the Civil War

The Freedom Struggle in the Antebellum North

Edited by Patrick Rael

Historians have long understood that racial oppression in American history was about more than slavery. On the eve of the Civil War, over five percent...

Published March 26th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Maryland Campaign of September 1862

Ezra A. Carman’s Definitive Study of the Union and Confederate Armies at Antietam

Edited by Joseph Pierro

Completed in the early 1900s, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 is still the essential source for anyone seeking understanding of the bloodiest day in...

Published March 24th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Tet Offensive

A Brief History with Documents

Edited by William Thomas Allison

With Americans turning against the war in ever greater numbers, struggles for power between the government and the military, and no end in sight to...

Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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Quantitative Economic History

The good of counting

Edited by Joshua L. Rosenbloom

The essays in this book use the analytical tools and theoretical framework of economics to interpret quantitative historical evidence, offering new ways to approach historical...

Published March 18th 2008 by Routledge.

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American Families

A Multicultural Reader

Edited by Stephanie Coontz

With its clear conceptual focus, well-chosen essays exploring the interactions between race-ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality in shaping family life by leading names from across...

Published March 6th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Marketing of Edgar Allan Poe

By Jonathan Hartmann

Edgar Allan Poe is today considered one of the greatest masters and most fascinating figures of the American literary world. However, an examination of Poe's...

Published February 15th 2008 by Routledge.

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The Struggle for Free Speech in the United States, 1872-1915

Edward Bliss Foote, Edward Bond Foote, and Anti-Comstock Operations

By Janice Ruth Wood

Passed in 1873, the Comstock Act banned 'obscene' materials from the mail without defining obscenity, leaving it open to interpretation by courts that were hostile...

Published December 25th 2007 by Routledge.

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Womanism, Literature, and the Transformation of the Black Community, 1965–1980

By Kalenda C. Eaton

This book examines how cultural and ideological reactions to activism in the post-Civil Rights Black community were depicted in fiction written by Black women writers,...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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The New South

New Histories

By J. William Harris

William Harris, the editor of Routledge’s The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture, aims in The New South to introduce students to the...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.

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American Culture

An Anthology

Edited by Anders Breidlid, Fredrik Chr. Brøgger, Oyvind T. Gulliksen, Torbjorn Sirevag

This new edition of American Culture includes contemporary events and provides an introduction to American civilization. Extracts are taken from diverse sources such as political addresses,...

Published December 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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