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Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
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Ralph Ketcham (Editor)
The complete text of dissenting opinions of those who saw the Constitution as a threat are collected in this volume with Convention debates, commentaries, and lists that cross-reference to its companion Signet Classics volume "The Federalist Papers."
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World Civilizations: The Global Experience
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Professor Peter N Stearns
The primary goal of World Civilizations is to present a truly global history since the development of agriculture and herding to the present. Using a unique periodization, this book divides the main periods of human history according to changes in the nature and extent of global contacts. This global world history text emphasizes the major stages ...
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Women's America: Refocusing the Past
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Linda K Kerber
This is the most widely used anthology of American women's history. Organized chronologically, the book is divided into four sections which cover the span of women's experiences in the US from colonial times to the present. Each section begins with a short introduction by the editors which sums up the particular historicla era being covered and ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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James Howard Kunstler
The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life much sooner than anticipated. This title describes what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing readers for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale.
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The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson believed that the pure-principled teachings of Jesus should have been separated from the dogma and abuse of organized religion of the day. This led him to recast, by cutting and pasting from the gospels, a new narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus.
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Two Lives of Charlemagne
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Einhard, Notker the Stammerer, David Ganz (Translator)
Einhard's "Life of Charlemagne" is an absorbing chronicle of one of the most powerful and dynamic of all medieval rulers, written by a close friend and adviser. In elegant prose it describes Charlemagne's personal life, details his achievements in reviving learning and the arts, recounts his military successes and depicts one of the defining ...
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Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution & Religion
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David Barton
This book deals with what the author calls "judicial micromanagement" of the American government, charging that the courts have virtually rewritten the liberties enumerated in the Constitution. He proposes ideas for returning to "original intent.
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The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History
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Paul R Mendes-Flohr (Editor), Professor Jehuda Reinharz (Editor)
Most complete source book available on modern Jewish History. The second edition of The Jew in the Modern World is an expanded and highly diverse collection of primary materials that trace the Jewish experience in the modern period and illustrate the transformation of Jewish religion, culture, and identity from the 17th and 18th centuries to 1948. ...
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The Long Emergency: Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century
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James Howard Kunstler
The depletion of nonrenewable fossil fuels is about to radically change life much sooner than anticipated. This title describes what to expect after the honeymoon of affordable energy is over, preparing readers for economic, political, and social changes of an unimaginable scale.
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Medieval Europe: A Short History
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Judith M Bennett, C Warren Hollister, Warren Hollister C
Marked by C. Warren Hollister's clear historical vision and engaging teaching style, this classic text has been judiciously revised by Judith Bennett; the tenth edition includes greater coverage of Byzantium and Islam, a revised map program, a new essay program on medieval myths, and more. In his preface to the eighth edition, Professor Hollister ...
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Documents of the Christian Church
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Chris Maunder (Editor), Henry Bettenson (Editor)
'That invaluable Christian reference book.' Church Times 'Covering the whole range of Christian thought, it is specially valuable to the young student.' Church Quarterly Review This selection of writings from the most important moments in the history of Christianity has become established as a classic work. Now incorporating a wealth of new ...
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Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook
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Patricia Buckley Ebrey (Editor)
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The American Spirit, Volume 1: To 1877
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David M Kennedy (Selected by), Thomas Andrew Bailey (Selected by)
This detailed primary source reader focuses on political, diplomatic, and social history, presenting documents that include travel literature, religious sermons, newspaper articles, court testimony, and diary entries. An ideal companion for the Thirteenth Edition of The American Pageant, the text can be used with any U.S. history survey text.
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The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America
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Professor Colin G Calloway (Editor)
This collection presents Native American perspectives on the events of the colonial era, from the first encounters between Indians and non-Indians in the early 17th century to the American Revolution in the late 18th century. The documents are drawn from letters, speeches and the records of treaty negotiations in which Indians were addressing non ...
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Diary from Dixie
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Mary Chesnut, Mary B Chestnut
This original diary of the wife of Confederate General James Chesnut, Jr., who was also an aide to President Jefferson Davis, provides an eyewitness narrative of all of the years of the war. Period photos illustrate this "you-are-there" account of the daily lives and tribulations of all those who suffered through the war, from ordinary people to ...
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Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s Through the 1980s
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Henry Hampton, Steve Fayer
In this companion to the acclaimed television series "Eyes on the Prize", the authors draw on nearly 1,000 interviews with civil rights activists, politicians, reporters, Justice Department officials, and hundreds of ordinary people who took part in the struggle, to weave a fascinating narrative of the civil rights movement as told by the people ...
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Eyewitness to History
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John Carey (Editor)
Spanning from ancient Greece to the end of the Marcos regime in the Philippines, this collection of eyewitness accounts of significant historical events is culled from hundreds of memoirs, letters, travel books, and newspapers.
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Documents of the Christian Church
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Henry Bettenson (Editor)
Here is a fine collection of the most important source materials for the history of Christianity, in a compact and attractive little volume. --The Christian Century
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The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders
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Ernst Klee (Editor), Willi Dressen (Editor), Volker Reiss (Editor)
"The Good Old Days" is the title of a photo album kept by the Camp Commandant of Treblinka, Kurt Franz. This volume contains letters, diaries, reports and photographs kept by the executioners and sympathizers of the Holocaust.
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War of the Rebellion Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
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American Reader: Words That Moved a Nation
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Professor Diane Ravitch (Editor)
This collection of over 200 speeches, songs, and other writings intended to inspire and motivate the listener includes work from an assortment of Americans from all eras, from the Founding Fathers through Woody Guthrie and Jesse Jackson. It has been assembled under the editorship of Diane Ravitch, a historian of education who for years has been a ...
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Major Problems in American Women's History: Documents and Essays
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Mary Beth Norton
Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays on important topics in U.S. history. Major Problems in American Women's History is the leading reader for courses on the history of American women, covering the subject's entire ...
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Major Problems in the Civil War and Reconstruction
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Michael Perman, Thomas Paterson
This best-selling title, designed to be either the primary anthology or textbook for the course, covers the Civil War's entire chronological span with a series of documents and essays.
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
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Miguel Leon-Portilla
In this updated edition of his classic "The Broken Spears", Leon-Portilla has included accounts from native Aztec descendants across the centuries. These texts bear witness to the extraordinary vitality of an oral tradition that preserves the viewpoints of the vanquished instead of the victors.
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Native American testimony : a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992
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Peter Nabokov
From their first encounters with traders, explorers, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers, to the heyday of "Red Power" during the 1960s and '70s, the relations of Native Americans with white men are explored in a powerful series of documents--seen through Indian eyes and told in Indian voices. Photographs.
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