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1491 (Second Edition): New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Charles C. Mann.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781400032051.  Daedalus Item Code: 29704
 
Americans have long been taught that Native American ancestors crossed the Bering Strait some 13,000 years ago, existed mainly in nomadic bands, and lived so lightly on the land that the Americas ... (Read More)
 
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780143035282.  Daedalus Item Code: 30298
 
(A 2004 New York Times Notable Book of the Year) We all know Benjamin Franklin, or think we do, as the genial polymath, aphorist, and self-made man—the quintessential American. The ... (Read More)
 
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Benjamin Franklin
Edmund S. Morgan.
Publisher: Yale.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780300095326.  Daedalus Item Code: 22089
 
(Finalist for the 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award; a New York Times Notable Book; and named a Best Book of 2002 by Los Angeles Times Book Review, Washington Post Book ... (Read More)
 
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Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Adam Hochschild.
Publisher: Mariner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780618619078.  Daedalus Item Code: 22052
 
(2005 National Book Award Finalist) "Adam Hochschild's wonderful, vivid new Bury the Chains argues, in part, that the British abolition movement of the late 1700s pioneered the ... (Read More)
 
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Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
Robert K. Massie.
Publisher: Random House.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780345408778.  Daedalus Item Code: 29372
 
(Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction) The Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and the Romanov family here relates the ... (Read More)
 
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815
Gordon S. Wood.
Publisher: Oxford.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9780195039146.  Daedalus Item Code: 30720
 
(Pulitzer Prize Finalist; Winner of the New-York Historical Society American History Book Prize; New York Times Notable Book) In this brilliant account of the early American Republic, ... (Read More)
 
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Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
S.C. Gwynne.
Publisher: Scribner.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781416591061.  Daedalus Item Code: 38540
 
This vivid historical account of the 40-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West describes the remarkable fighting force that kept Spanish, French, and ... (Read More)
 
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Joseph J. Ellis.
Publisher: Vintage.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780375705243.  Daedalus Item Code: 31272
 
(Pulitzer Prize Winner) In this history, the National Book Award–winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, ... (Read More)
 
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis.
Publisher: Penguin.   Format: hardcover.
ISBN: 9781594203121.  Daedalus Item Code: 30303
 
(Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award) In the late 1940s George Kennan wrote two documents, the "Long Telegram" and the "X Article," which set out the ... (Read More)
 
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A Great Civil War: A Military and Political History, 1861–1865
Russell F. Weigley.
Publisher: Indiana.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780253217066.  Daedalus Item Code: 31948
 
(2001 Lincoln Prize Winner) A brilliant narrator of battle action and historical events, Russell Weigley is never content merely to tell a good story. In this narrative history and ... (Read More)
 
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Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Jared Diamond.
Publisher: Norton.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9780393317558.  Daedalus Item Code: 38539
 
This Pulitzer Prize-winning sweep of human history considers why Europeans were able to conquer, displace, and decimate Native Americans, Aboriginal Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse. ... (Read More)
 
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Harlem is Nowhere: A Journey to the Mecca of Black America
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts.
Publisher: Granta.   Format: paperback.
ISBN: 9781847084576.  Daedalus Item Code: 30651
 
(One of the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books of 2011 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award) This perceptive and impressionistic history of Harlem seeks ... (Read More)
 
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