The World of the Revolutionary American Republic: Land, Labor, and the Conflict for a Continent [1 ed.] 0415537088, 9780415537087

Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic 9781512824476

Speculation Nation chronicles the “mania” for land speculation that swept the new United States, as the nation’s elite f

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The American Manufactory: Art, Labor, and the World of Things in the Early Republic 9780691227740, 0691089515, 0691015589

This cultural history of American federalism argues that nation-building cannot be understood apart from the process of

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The Conquest of the American Continent 9781014373380

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Translating Property: The Maxwell Land Grant and the Conflict over Land in the American West, 1840-1900 9780520926486

Although Mexico lost its northern territories to the United States in 1848, battles over property rights and ownership h

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Law and the Shaping of the American Labor Movement 9780674037083

In a richly detailed survey of labor law and labor history, Forbath challenges the notion of American “individualism.” H

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Beneath the China Boom: Labor, Citizenship, and the Making of a Rural Land Market 9780520973428

For nearly four decades, China’s manufacturing boom has been powered by the labor of 287 million rural migrant workers,

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The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature 9780812201222

American literature has been deeply shaped by the presence of American Indians. American literature has been deeply sh

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John Witherspoon and the Founding of the American Republic 9780268087227

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A Short History of the American Revolutionary War 9780755603817, 9781848858121

The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologi

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Working the Diaspora: The Impact of African Labor on the Anglo-American World, 1650-1850 9780814749128

From the sixteenth to early-nineteenth century, four times more Africans than Europeans crossed the Atlantic Ocean to th

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