From superb biographies of its greatest patriots to the shattering impact of the civil war, this collection contains fascinating studies on every aspect of American history.
Praised as ‘the most distinguished series in American historical scholarship’, The Oxford History of the United States offers an unsurpassed narrative of the history of the nation. This 4-volume set chronicles the first tumultuous century, from the birth of the republic to the end of the Civil War.
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A searing and visceral account of how the American West was really won. Told from the point of view of the American Indian, the catalogue of broken promises, treaties and battles is a tragic but essential story. Translated into 17 languages and a bestseller worldwide, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee awakened a new understanding of America’s past.
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From about the third century AD to the sixteenth, when the Europeans arrived and native American civilisation rapidly collapsed, three ancient empires - the Maya, the Aztecs and the Incas - dominated the region.
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Benjamin Franklin was an unrivalled polymath and the intellectual architect of many revolutionary ideas, yet he started his career as a runaway with a few coins in his pocket. This acclaimed biography is part of a Folio collection of America's Founding Fathers.
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In examining the many-faceted character of Thomas Jefferson – farmer, inventor, natural historian, architect, brilliant lawyer and politician – Pulitzer-Prize-nominated historian, R. B. Bernstein reveals the complexity and passion of the author of the Declaration of Independence.
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George Washington, commander-in-chief of the army and America's first president, remains the most celebrated figure in the pantheon of the American Revolution. Ellis’s aim was to create ‘not another epic, but rather a fresh portrait’. The result is a landmark work.
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Angie Debo's comprehensive and compassionate account provides an unrivalled history of American Indians from the dawn of their first contact with Europeans to the late twentieth century.
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Nothing could have prepared the American explorer and historian Hiram Bingham for what awaited him in the awe-inspiring mountains of the Andes in the summer of 1911.
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George Catlin's pictorial record of Indian peoples is one of the wonders of 19th-century art, while his account of their customs and lives is authentic and fascinating. This edition combines highlights of Catlin’s prose and his renowned paintings.
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The story of the American revolution, from the Boston Tea Party to Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown, is often celebrated as the triumph of heroic American patriots over tyrannical imperialists. Yet, as this gripping and detailed account reveals, it hardly seemed like that to those who lived through it.
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| 1 x Music for King Henry | |
| 1 x Empires of the Word | |
| 1 x Impossible Journeys | |
| 1 x Napoleon | |
| 1 x The Apocrypha | |
| 1 x The Book of Exploration | |
| 1 x The Blind Watchmaker | |
| 1 x The Celts | |
| 1 x Robinson Crusoe | |
| 1 x Down the Garden Path | |
| » plus 16 more books | |
| Total | US$3,423.85 |
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