19th century american studies 30% DISCOUNT CODE: BrANCH23
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Black Gun, Silver Star
The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves Art T. Burton "[Burton's] years of research resulted in a remarkable story of an Old West giant, one who arguably was the best in his business."—True West In this new edition of the biography of Bass Reeves, who was formerly enslaved and then served as a peace officer in and around late nineteenth-century Indian Territory, Art Burton traces Reeves’s presence in contemporary national media and in popular modern media. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Race and Ethnicity in the American West September 2022 32 photos, 2 maps, index 416pp 9781496233424 £19.99 PB now £13.99
Friendly Enemies
Soldier Fraternization throughout the American Civil War Lauren K. Thompson Thompson analyzes the relations and fraternization of American soldiers on opposing sides of the Civil War and argues that these relations represented common soldiers’ efforts to fight the war on their own terms. Friendly Enemies reveals that soldiers constructed a space to lessen hostilities and make their daily lives more manageable. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS Series: Studies in War, Society, and the Military January 2023 4 photographs, 8 illustrations, index 240pp 9781496233394 £25.99 PB now £18.19
The Garden Politic
Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century America Mary Kuhn The Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped 19th-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas of biotic distinctiveness helped fuel narratives of American exceptionalism. By the nineteenth century, however, these ideas and narratives were unsettled by the unprecedented scale at which the United States and European empires prospected for valuable plants and exchanged them across the globe. NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: America and the Long 19th Century February 2023 4 b&w illus. 288pp 9781479820153 £25.99 PB now £18.19
Continent in Crisis
The U.S. Civil War in North America Edited by Brian Schoen, Jewel L. Spangler & Frank Towers Written by leading historians of the 19th century, this book focuses on the U.S. Civil War. It seeks to understand America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in world history. This volume focuses on North America, British Canada, and sovereign indigenous states in the West. This continental perspective highlights the uncertainty of the period when the fate of old nations and possibilities for new ones were truly up for grabs. FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS Series: Reconstructing America January 2023 3 b&w illus. 272pp 9781531501297 £29.99 PB now £20.99
Smitten
Sex, Gender, and the Contest for Souls in the Second Great Awakening Rodney Hessinger Hessinger examines how the Second Great Awakening disrupted gender norms. The internal migration of Americans created ripe conditions for religious competition. During this time of religious ferment, religious seekers could play the missionary or the convert. Opening their own hearts to new religious impulses, some religious visionaries offered radical dispensations including visions of how God wanted them to reorder sex and gender. CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS December 2022 15 b&w halftones 228pp 9781501766473 £29.99 HB now £20.99
The Republic Shall Be Kept Clean
How Settler Colonial Violence Shaped Antileft Repression Tariq D. Khan The colonizing wars against Native Americans created the template for anticommunist repression in the United States. Tariq D. Khan’s analysis reveals bloodshed and class war as foundational aspects of capitalist domination and vital elements of the nation’s long history of internal repression and social control. Khan shows how the state wielded the tactics, weapons, myths, and ideology refined in America’s colonizing wars to repress anarchists, labor unions, and a host of others labeled as alien, multiracial, multi-ethnic urban rabble. The ruling classes considered radicals of all stripes to be anticolonial insurgents. As Khan charts the decades of red scares that began in the 1840s, he reveals how capitalists and government used muchpracticed counterinsurgency rhetoric and tactics against the movements they perceived and vilified as “anarchist.” UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS September 2023 2 b&w photos 288pp 9780252087431 £25.99 PB now £18.19
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