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Rising Up from Indian Country
The Battle of Fort Dearborn and the Birth of Chicago
Ann Durkin Keating “[An] informative, ambitious account. . . . Keating’s wellresearched book rights some misconceptions about the old conflicts, the strategies of the whites and Indians to keep their land, and how early Chicago came to exist.” —Publishers Weekly
Ties That Bound
Founding First Ladies and Slaves
Marie Jenkins Schwartz “Fascinating. . . . A thought-provoking explication of the thorny personal relationships between slaveholding and enslaved women.” —Virginia Magazine “Ties That Bound ’s most important contribution is refocusing our attention on First Ladies as slaveholders and revealing how slaveholding influenced their roles.” —Journal of Southern History 2017 416 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 37 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-14755-0 $35.00 Your Price: $10.00
Abigail and John Adams The Americanization of Sensibility
G. J. Barker-Benfield “[Barker-Benfield’s] engagement with the inner strengths and utter humanity of Abigail and John is just the beginning of this ingenious and expansive study.”—Andrew Burstein, author of The Original Knickerbocker “A convincing reconstruction of people whose lives were utterly different from our own.” —James Walvin, author of The Trader, the Owner, the Slave 2010 520 p. 6 x 9 38 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-03743-1 $32.50 Your Price: $9.00
We Have Not a Government
The Articles of Confederation and the Road to the Constitution
George William Van Cleve “Instead of asking how the Constitution came to be adopted, Van Cleve asks why the previous government, the Articles of Confederation, failed—and why it failed not only in our own modern eyes, but in the eyes of its contemporaries. Pairing an enormous amount of scrupulous research with the unique perspective of a legal scholar, Van Cleve bridges the divide between scholarship and the curious reader. He writes with smooth, powerful, unobtrusive beauty.”—Daniel Walker Howe, author of What Hath God Wrought 2017 400 p. 6 x 9 3 tables 39 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-48050-3 $30.00 Your Price: $12.00 40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64152-2 $20.00 Your Price: $8.00
2012 6 x 9 35 halftones, 14 maps 41 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-42896-3 $30.00 Your Price: $10.00
American Indians Fourth Edition
William T. Hagan and Daniel M. Cobb Hagan’s classic American Indians has become standard reading in the field of Native American history. Spanning the arrival of white settlers in the Americas through the twentieth century, this concise account includes more than twenty new maps and illustrations, as well as a bibliographic essay that surveys the most recent research in Indianwhite relations. 2012 256 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones, 4 maps 42 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-31239-2 $26.00 Your Price: $8.00
Political Essay on the Island of Cuba A Critical Edition
Alexander von Humboldt “To read what Humboldt actually wrote, in this scrupulous, clear, and modern translation, is to embark on a truly encyclopedic adventure in history. . . . This primary and foundational work, a landmark of physical and cultural geography that includes one of the era’s most important denunciations of slavery, in one stroke reorients the study of the Americas and reinvents the making of knowledge.” —Laura Dassow Walls, University of South Carolina 2010 496 p. 6 x 9 115 tables 45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46567-8 $81.00 Your Price: $19.00
The First Wall Street
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, and the Birth of American Finance
Robert E. Wright “An outstanding, accessible account of Philadelphia’s status as the nation’s first financial center. Wright has written a breezy, clear, and humorous history of the city’s central role as the American capital of banking and related industries.” —Pennsylvania Magazine of History
Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
2005 218 p. 6 x 9 3 line drawings, 9 tables 46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-91026-0 $25.00 Your Price: $9.00
Chip Colwell “A lightly written, insider’s account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America’s culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider’s account—just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield.”—Spectator
Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun
Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America’s Culture
Necessary Evil
2017 360 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29899-3 $30.00 Your Price: $13.00
Joe Johnston Necessary Evil is the first book to chronicle the implications of vigilantism in Missouri, ultimately showing that the state could never have been settled without a healthy dose of rebel justice. Packed with stories of popular gunslingers such as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Jesse James, this action-filled read will be of interest to crime enthusiasts and historians alike.
Facing Racial Revolution Eyewitness Accounts of the Haitian Insurrection
Jeremy D. Popkin “[Popkin] manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it.” —Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Soul’s Rising “The book, with its fascinating collection of personal narratives, helps to demonstrate and to explain the complexity and ambiguity of the Haitian Revolution.” —H-France Review 2007 416 p. 6 x 9 11 halftones 44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67583-1 $19.00 Your Price: $7.00
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Distributed for Missouri Historical Society Press 2014 336 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones, 5 line drawings, 4 maps 47 Paper ISBN: 978-1-883982-81-2 $24.95 Your Price: $9.00
The Culinarians
Lives and Careers from the First Age of American Fine Dining
David S. Shields “The Culinarians is more than a collection of biographies. It is a celebration of lost voices—cooks, creators, and visionaries who paved the way for the food we eat today. With this book, Shields pulls back the curtain of modern cuisine in America to reveal a story we forgot existed.”—Dan Barber, author of The Third Plate 2017 560 p. 7 x 10 16 color plates, 91 halftones, 10 line drawings 48 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-40689-3 $45.00 Your Price: $13.00
