American History


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  • Cover scan of American Culture In The 1910s

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    American Culture In The 1910s - Mark Whalan - Paperback
    This book provides a fresh account of the major cultural and intellectual trends of the United States in the 1910s, a decade characterized by war, the flowering of modernism, the birth of Hollywood, and progressive interpretations of culture and society.
  • Cover scan of American Culture In The 1990s

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    American Culture In The 1990s - Colin Harrison - Paperback
    This is a clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1990s America: fiction and poetry; music and performance; film and television; art and photography; digital and 'post-human' cultures, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.
  • Cover scan of Frontier Scots

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    Frontier Scots - Jenni Calder - Paperback
    This book offers an unbiased view of the Scots who were so important to the shaping of American history and the frontier legacy, showing them as heroes and abusers, law makers and law breakers as deserved.
  • Cover scan of Letters from Rupert's Land, 1826-1840
    Letters From Rupert's Land, 1826-1840: James Hargrave Of The Hudson's Bay Company - James Hargrave - Hardback
    These letters provide a vivid depiction of the lives of a Scottish fur trader and his far-flung family on both sides of the Atlantic.
  • Cover scan of Dìleab Ailein
    Dìleab Ailein - Margaret Bennett - Hbk. + CD
    This text discusses the history and traditions of a community of Scottish Gaels who emigrated from the Isle of Canna and Moidart in the 19th century and settled in the Codroy Valley, Newfoundland.
  • Cover scan of Walking To America
    Walking To America: A Boyhood Dream - Roger Hutchinson - Hardback
    'Walking to America' follows and recreates the immense journey, in search of a new life and a miracle doctor who could cure the blindness of one of a family unit from England in the 1880s.
  • Cover scan of Born Fighting
    Born Fighting: How The Scots-Irish Shaped America - James H. Webb - Paperback
    'Born Fighting' is the first book to chronicle the epic journey of this remarkable ethnic group and the profound but unrecognised role it has played in shaping the social, political and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through to the present day.
  • Cover scan of The Warriors And Wordsmiths Of Freedom
    Warriors And Wordsmiths Of Freedom: The Birth And Growth Of Democracy - Linda MacDonald-Lewis - Paperback
    This title will take you from the days of William 'Braveheart' Wallace and Robert the Bruce during the Wars of Independence in Scotland, to the days when Scottish and Irish people emigrated to the American Colonies and helped George Washington and Thomas Jefferson fight for freedom in America during the Revolutionary War.
  • Cover scan of Sea King

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    Sea King: The Last Confederate - Gary Mckay - Paperback
    This is a biography of the life of James Waddell. It uses documents never before revealed to the general public from the US Navy, the National Archives of the United States of America and the British Home Office.
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    Obama's America - Carl Pedersen - Hardback
    This book explores the rise of Barack Obama and his vision of One America in the context of profound social and political changes in the US, and the potential transformation of American foreign policy in the post-Bush era.

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