[GRAYSON, DAVID]. [PSEUD. RAY STANNARD BAKER].

The Lowly Estate.

London: Andrew Melrose, 1910. 1st edition. Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946) (also known by his pen name David Grayson) was an American journalist, historian, biographer, and author. This is one of a 9-volume series of stories about rural living in America, under his pseudonym David Grayson. Pp.278/2(ads for other books). Blue cloth with gilt border to front and bright gilt title to spine. VG.

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AVERETT, WALTER R.

Through the Rainbow Canyon.

Grand Junction, Colorado: Walter R.Averett, 1995. 0870622374. 1st edition. A personal narrative of people, places and events from Caliente to Carp, Nevada. Pp.xiv/177, signed by the author to base of title page, many black & white photos throughout. Brown boards,dustwrapper has slight rippling to lower front. VG/VG.

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BENNETT, WSLTER HARTWELL.

Letters from the Federal Farmer to the Republican.

University of Alabama Press, 1978. 0817351132. 1st edition. "The letters have long been considered to be among the most significant of the political literature published in America during the great debate over the ratification of the Constitution. Alexander Hamilton refers to the Federal Farmer in the sity-eighth essay of 'The Federalist' as "the most plausible" of the opponents of the Constitution to have appeared in print." 24cms x 15.5cms x 2cms. Pp.xii/145, owner's name to front free endpaper, light spotting to closed page edges. Blue boards, dustwrapper has crease and 2cm tear to lower front corner. VG/G+.

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Keywords: Bennett Letters Federal Farmer Republican History Us Constitution Ratification Government Representatives Senate Elections Executive Branch Judiciary Bill Rights State Goverment Power Politics 53208 History: : Usa

BURNER, DAVID AND MARCUS, ANTHONY.

Turning Points: Making Decisions in American History to 1876. (Volume I).

New York: Brandywine Press, 1999. 1881089517. 1st edition. Contents: 1.First Blood: The Pequot War; 2.Coloring the Colonies: Black and White in Early America; 3.Revolution in Print: The Zenger Case; 4.Brewing Tea in Boston Harbor; 5.The People Decide: Ratifying the Constitution; 6.Westward, How? The Louisiana Purchase; 7.The Trail of Tears: Exiling the Cherokee; 8."Demon Rum": Battling the Bottle; 9.Manifest Destiny? War with Mexico; 10.Women in Public: The First Women's Movement; 11.Run, Fight, Evade, Resist: Slaves as "Troublesome Property"; 12.Crisis in Black and White: Uncle Tom's Cabin; 13.The War over Slavery: Blue and Gray and Black; 14."Forty Acres and a Mule": Land for the Ex-Slaves. Pp.viii/254. Paperback, scuffing and creasing to spine and front cover at spine edge. Good.

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D.C.HEATH AND COMPANY.

The Makings of America: The United States and the World. Volume I: To 1865.

Lexington: D.C.Heath and Company, 1993. 0669332518. Contents includes: Native American Traditions; Europe on the Eve of Contact; The Short Route to Asia; Contact in Meso-America; Two Worlds Discover Each Other; The Chesapeake: England's First Successful Colonization; New England: The Settlement of the Puritan Colonies; Colnial Women; Enslavement of Africans; The Origins of American Foreign Policy; The New Nation: The Creation of the Constitution of 1787; Women's Views of the New Nation; African Americans in the Revolutionary Age; Movement West; Antebellum Reform and Reformers; The Industrial Revolution in the United States: The Rise of Northern Capitalism; From the Artisan's Republic to the Factory System; Work and Protest in Antebellum New England; Slavery and the Old South; The Civil War; Fighting the War: The Experience of the Soldiers; Emancipation and its Aftermath; Two Views of the War's Meaning; Diplomatic Issues in the Civil War Era; Manifest Destiny and the War with Mexico; Civil War Diplomacy; The Era of Reconstruction; The Republican Party and the Reconstruction Party; The African-American Experience in the Reconstruction South; Walt Whitman Remembers President Lincoln. 23cms x 16cms. Pp.xviii/569. Paprback. VG.

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D.C. HEATH & COMPANY.

The Makings of America: The United States and the World.. Volume II: Since 1865.

Lexington: D.C. Heath & Company, 1993. 20669332526. Contents: Americanization on Whose Terms? City and Suburb: New Vistas, New Walls; New South Image Versus New South Reality; Progressivism: The Spirit of Reform; United States Entry into World War I; Woodrow Wilson, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the League Fight; Literature After World War I; Commercialized Leisure and Spectator Sports; Women and the Peace Movement after World War I; Suffrage and Social Reform; After Suffrage: Gender, Race, and Politics; Diplomacy in the 1920s; Industrial Unionism During the Great Depression; :Labor and the State; Franklin D.Roosevelt, Isolationism, and World War II; U.S. Society Views the World After World War II: The Origins of the Cold War; American Society in the 1950s;The New Left and the Politics of the 1960s; The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy of the 1950s; Cuba and the Missile Crisis; The Vietnam War; From the Feminine Mystique to the New Feminism; Richard M.Nixon, Watergate, and the Crisis of the "Imperial" Presidency; Growth, Technology, and the Fate of the Earth; Politics and Society in the Reagan Era; Beyond the Cold War: American Foreign Policy in the Reagan-Bush Era; Feminism and Antifeminism in the 1980s. 23cms x 16cms. Pp.xviii/533. Paperback, scuffing to spine edges. VG.

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DICK, EVERETT.

Vanguards of the Frontier. (Illustrated).

New York: D.Appleton-Century Company, 1941. Social History of the Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains from the Earliest White Contacts to the Coming of the Homemaker. Prequel to "The Sod-House Frontier". Pp.xviii/574, black & white frontispiece + 31 further black & white plates, maps to endpapers (The Northern Plains and Rocky Mountains), small owner's name to front free endpaper. Brown cloth, cowboy on a horse motif to front board. VG.

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FARNHAM, THOMAS J.

Weston. The Forging of a Connecticut Town.

Canaan, New Hampshire: Phoenix Publishing for Weston Historical Society, 1979. 0914016598. 1st edition. "No great battles were ever fought in Weston, but the chronicle of its ordinary people is the enchanting and richly human story of a town whose past is woven through its present - and its future." Pp.xvi/266, many black & white photos and illustrations throughout, inscribed by the author to title page. Black cloth spine with red boards, dustwrapper slightly rubbed. VG/G+.

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FONER, PHILIP S. (EDITOR).

The Factory Girls.

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. 0252004221. 1st edition. A collection of writings on life and struggles in the New England factories of the 1840s by the Factory Girls themselves, and the story, in their own words, of the first trade unions of women workers in the United States. "Until the emergence of these vocal dissidents in the 1840s, the 'factory girls' status had been pictured in glowing terms of nice evenings, pianos, lectures, literary meetings, and selfless devotion to duty and the mill. But the flowery myth of the 'beauty of factory life' began to wilt as many women became fully committed to improving their working conditions..These women, in voicing their discontent over mill conditions, spearheaded formation of the first trade unions of industrial women in the United States." Pp.xxvii/360, light spotting to closed page edges not affecting margins internally. Purple cloth, dustwrapper rubbed with edge tears with small losses to top edge and spine. VG/G+.

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JORDAN, WINTHROP D.

White Over Black. American Attitudes Toward the Negro 1550-1812.

Chapel Hill: University of California Press, 2000. 0807845507. Winner of 1969 Francis Parkman Prize (Society of American Historians) and Winner ofthe 1969 Bancroft Prize (Columbia University). "This study attempts to answer a simple question: What were the attitudes of white men toward Negroes during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what became the United States of America?" Pp.xx/651, owner's name to rear free endpaper. Paperback, slight curling to front edge. VG.

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KENT, FRANK R.

The Story of Alex. Brown & Sons. 1800-1950.

Baltimore: The Barton-Gillet Co, 1950. One Volume Edition Issued on the One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the House in 1800. Volume One: 1800-1925 is the history of the first five generations and Volume Two: 1925-1950 concludes the history of the fifth generation (represented by B.Howell Griswold, Jr) and tells the story of the sixth generation. 10" x 7" x 1.5". Pp.210/60, colour frontispiece + 33 further plates. Brown cloth, gilt title to front and spine, minor wear to top and tail of spine. Plus acrylic bookmark (dated 2010) commemorating William Brown (1715-1778) and Margaretta Davison (1725-1805) the parents of Alexander Brown, founder of the Company. (A heavy voloume which may cost extra to send overseas). VG.** Alex. Brown & Sons was the first investment bank in the United States, founded by Alexander Brown, an Irish linen merchant, in 1800 in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1830 theyfinanced the continent's first railroad, the Baltimore & Ohio, which opened markets to the West. In 1865 they issued letters of credit, one of the firm's earliest innovations, to help rebuild businesses in the South after the Civil War.

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LONG, RENATA ELEY.

In the Shadow of the Alabama. The British Foreign Office and the American Civil War.

Annapolis: Naval Insitute Press, 2015. 9781612518367. 1st edition. "A fascinating new talle of an old story - the Anglo-American dynamic of the Civil War era - that is part history, part mystery, and compellingly crowded with statesmen, spies, and great scholarship. " (Howard J.Fuller). Pp.xiv/254, 8 pages of black & white plates, signed by the author to title page. Blue and red boards, dustwrapper has a removable clear protective wrap. VG/VG.

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MAY, VIRGINIA.

A Plantation Called Petapawags: Some Notes on the History of Groton, Massachusetts.

Groton Historical Society, 1976. Compilation of the author's extensive research on the history of Groton, Massachusetts, which was named in honour of Dean Winthrop - the first petitioner and selectman, whose former home was Groton, England. Pp.xiv/267,several maps, plans and other illustrations. Light blue cloth,gilt title "Groton Plantation" to spine. Scarce. VG.

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MILLER, PERRY.

Errand Into The Wilderness.

Cambridge, Mass:The Belknap Press, 1956. 1st edition. "What was the underlying aim of the first colonies in coming to America?..Did they consider themselves errand boys for a higher power which might, as is frequently the habit of authority, change its mind about the importance of their job before they had completed it?..This crucial uncertainty of the age is the starting point of Mr Miller's engrossing account of what happened to the European mind when, in spite of itself, it began to become something other than European.." 24cms x 16cms x 1.5cms. Pp.xii/244, gift message and date to front free endpaper. Dark grey cloth, dustwrapper has edge tears and small losses. VG/G.

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Keywords: Perry Miller Errand Into Wilderness Thomas Hooker Democracy Connecticut Puritan Divinity Religion Society Virginia Jonathan Edwardes Great Awakening Emerson National Ego American America 53363 History: : Usa

MILLER, DOUGLAS T.

On Our Own. Americans in the Sixties.

Lexington: D.C.Heath and Company, 1996. 0669247774. "Through massive civil-rights and antiwar movements; struggles for the rights of women, gays, Native Americans, Hispanics; and concern for the environment, a generation emerged into maturity and took responsibility for reshaping the world that it had inherited. Of course, innumerable Americans either opposed these social movements or remained indifferent to them, and ultimately these idealistic dreams of changing America into a 'beloved community' went unrealized. Nevertheless, a series of boisterous upheavals profoundly shookl society." Pp.xiv/366, occasional black & white photo illustrations, owner's name to rear free endpaper. Paperback, crease to rear. G+.

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