Home Fires: How Americans Kept Warm in the Nineteenth Century (How Things Worked) 1421413574, 9781421413563, 1421413566, 9781421413570, 9781421413587, 1421413582, 2013037988

How Agriculture Made Canada: Farming in the Nineteenth Century 9780773587922

An original and textured analysis of how agricultural developments in Quebec and Ontario had a significant and direct im

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Coming Home: How Black Americans Will Re-Elect Trump 9781630061432

Trump, the one term asshole

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Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World 9780190225056, 2018006686, 2018022541, 9780190225049, 9780190908317, 9780190225032

Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material

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Keeping the Home Fires Burning 9781399004411, 9781399004428

"Keeping the Home Fires Burning tells the story of how the troops and the general public were kept happy and conten

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At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History 9780814769157

Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimen

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Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles: Americans in Nineteenth-Century Fiji 9781501740350

Shoemaker's book shows how ordinary Americans living or working overseas found unusual venues where they could show

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To See A Promised Land: Americans and the Holy Land in the Nineteenth Century 0271008849, 9780271008844

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Rude Republic: Americans and Their Politics in the Nineteenth Century 9781400823611, 0691089868, 0691001308

What did politics and public affairs mean to those generations of Americans who first experienced democratic self-rule?

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Forged in the Fires: How Providence, Purpose, and Perseverance Shaped America 1098025334, 9781098025335

Individuals are not born to greatness, but through failure and defeat, they are prepared for it. Our struggles seem to d

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How Zoologists Organize Things 9780711252271, 9780711252264

Humankind’s fascination with the animal kingdom began as a matter of survival – differentiating the edible from the toxi

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