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University of Tennessee (Paperback): Aaron D. Purcell University of Tennessee (Paperback)
Aaron D. Purcell
R610 R553 Discovery Miles 5 530 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In 1794, two years before Tennessee became a state, the legislature of the Southwest Territory chartered Blount College in Knoxville as one of the first three colleges established west of the Appalachian Mountains. In 1807, the school changed its name to East Tennessee College. The school relocated to a 40-acre tract, known today as the Hill, in 1828 and was renamed East Tennessee University in 1840. The Civil War literally shut down the university. Students and faculty were recruited to serve on battlefields, and troops used campus facilities as hospitals and barracks. In 1869, East Tennessee University became the states land-grant institution under the auspices of the 1862 Morrill Act. In 1879, the state legislature changed the name of the institution to the University of Tennessee. By the early 20th century, the university admitted women, hosted teacher institutes, and constructed new buildings. Since that time, the University of Tennessee has established campuses and programs across the state. Today, in addition to a rich sports tradition, the University of Tennessee provides Tennesseans with unparalleled opportunities.

The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California - An 1896 Unsolved Mystery (Paperback): Tobin Gilman The McGlincy Killings in Campbell, California - An 1896 Unsolved Mystery (Paperback)
Tobin Gilman
R539 R499 Discovery Miles 4 990 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Haunted Reno (Paperback): Janice Oberding Haunted Reno (Paperback)
Janice Oberding
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Haunted Roads of Western Pennsylvania (Paperback): Thomas White, Tony Lavorgne Haunted Roads of Western Pennsylvania (Paperback)
Thomas White, Tony Lavorgne
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Beartooth Highway: A History of America's Most Beautiful Drive (Paperback): Jon Axline The Beartooth Highway: A History of America's Most Beautiful Drive (Paperback)
Jon Axline
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Memphis Zoo (Paperback): Robert W Dye Memphis Zoo (Paperback)
Robert W Dye
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Wicked Columbus, Indiana (Paperback): Paul J Hoffman Wicked Columbus, Indiana (Paperback)
Paul J Hoffman
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Making the American Century - Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America (Hardcover): Bruce J Schulman Making the American Century - Essays on the Political Culture of Twentieth Century America (Hardcover)
Bruce J Schulman
R4,084 Discovery Miles 40 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The twentieth century has been popularly seen as "the American Century," as publisher Henry Luce dubbed it, a long period in which the United States had amassed the economic resources, the political and military strength, and the moral prestige to assume global leadership. By century's end, the trajectory of American politics, the sense of ever waxing federal power, and the nation's place in the world seemed less assured. Americans of many stripes came to contest the standard narratives of nation building and international hegemony that generations of historians dutifully charted. In this volume, a group of distinguished junior and senior historians-including John McGreevy, James Campbell, Elizabeth Borgwardt, Eric Rauchway, Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman, and James Kloppenberg- revisit and revise many of the chestnuts of American political history. First and foremost, the contributors challenge the teleological view of the inexorable transformation of the United States into a modern nation. To be sure, chain stores replaced mom-and-pop businesses, interstate highways knit together once isolated regions, national media shaped debate from coast-to coast, and the IRS, the EPA, the Federal Reserve, the Social Security Administration and other instruments of national power became daily presences in the lives of ordinary Americans. But the local and the parochial did not inexorably give way to the national and eventually to global integration. Instead, the contributors to this volume illustrate the ongoing dialectic between centrifugal and centripetal forces in the development of the twentieth century United States. The essays analyze a host of ways in which local places are drawn into a wider polity and culture. At the same time, they reveal how national and international structures and ideas repeatedly create new kinds of local movements and local energies. The authors also challenge the tendency to view American politics as a series of conflicts between liberalism and conservatism, which Arthur Schlesinger, Sr. and Jr. codified as the idea that American national politics routinely experienced roughly fifteen year periods of liberal reform followed by similar intervals of conservative reaction. For generations, American political history remained the story of reform, the rise and fall, triumphs and setbacks of successive waves of reformers-Jacksonian Democrats and abolitionists, Populists and Progressives, New Dealers and Great Society poverty warriors-and, recently, equally rich scholarship has explored the origins and development of American conservatism. The contributors do not treat the left and right as separate phenomena, as the dominant forces of different eras. Instead they assert the liberal and the conservative are always and essentially intertwined, mutually constituted and mutually constituting. Modern American liberalism operates amid tenacious, recurring forces that shape and delimit the landscape of social reform and political action just as conservatives layered their efforts over the cumulative achievements of twentieth century liberalism, necessarily accommodating themselves to shifts in the instruments of government, social mores and popular culture. These essays also unravel a third traditional polarity in twentieth century U.S. history, the apparent divide between foreign policy and domestic politics. Notwithstanding its proud anti-colonial heritage and its enduring skepticism about foreign entanglements, the United States has been and remains a robustly international (if not imperial) nation. The authors in this volume-with many formative figures in the ongoing internationalization of American history represented among them-demonstrate that international connections (not only in the realm of diplomacy but also in matters of migration, commerce, and culture) have transformed domestic life in myriad ways and, in turn, that the American presence in the world has been shaped by its distinctive domestic political culture. Blurring the boundaries between political, cultural, and economic history, this collective volume aims to raise penetrating questions and challenge readers' understanding of the broader narrative of twentieth-century U.S. history.

George Washington's 1790 Grand Tour of Long Island (Paperback): Dr Joanne S Grasso George Washington's 1790 Grand Tour of Long Island (Paperback)
Dr Joanne S Grasso
R564 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Mount Pleasant (Paperback): Mara Cherkasky Mount Pleasant (Paperback)
Mara Cherkasky
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Mount Pleasant--Samuel P. Brown must have thought the name perfect when he chose it for his country estate on a wooded hill overlooking Washington City. The name also suited the New Englanders who settled in the village that Brown founded near Fourteenth Street and Park Road just after the Civil War. Around 1900, the once-isolated village began its transformation into a fashionable suburb after the city extended Sixteenth Street through Mount Pleasant's heart, and a new streetcar line linked the area to downtown. Developers constructed elegant apartment buildings and spacious brick row houses on block after block, and successful businessmen built stately residences along Park Road. Change arrived again with the Great Depression and then World War II, as the suburb evolved into an urban, exclusively white, working-class enclave that eventually became mostly African American. In addition, a Latino presence was evident as early as the 1960s. By the 1980s, the neighborhood was known as the heart of D.C.'s Latino and counterculture communities. Today these communities are dispersing, however, in response to a booming real estate market in Washington, D.C.

Haunted Inns and Ghostly Getaways of Vermont (Paperback): Thea Lewis Haunted Inns and Ghostly Getaways of Vermont (Paperback)
Thea Lewis
R526 R485 Discovery Miles 4 850 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Discover the stories behind Vermont's most haunted inns, hotels, and B&Bs.

The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback): Richard P Kollen The Patriot Parson of Lexington, Massachusetts: Reverend Jonas Clarke and the American Revolution (Paperback)
Richard P Kollen
R627 R570 Discovery Miles 5 700 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Maine Nursing - Interviews and History on Caring and Competence (Paperback): Valerie Hart, Susan Henderson, Juliana... Maine Nursing - Interviews and History on Caring and Competence (Paperback)
Valerie Hart, Susan Henderson, Juliana L'Heureux, Ann Sossong
R561 R521 Discovery Miles 5 210 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hidden History of the Finger Lakes (Paperback): Patti Unvericht Hidden History of the Finger Lakes (Paperback)
Patti Unvericht
R564 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Murder at Rocky Point Park - Tragedy in Rhode Island's Summer Paradise (Paperback): Kelly Sullivan-Pezza Murder at Rocky Point Park - Tragedy in Rhode Island's Summer Paradise (Paperback)
Kelly Sullivan-Pezza
R524 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

An exploration of the murder that occurred at Rocky Point Park in Warwick, Rhode Island in 1893.

Scotlandville (Paperback): Rachel L Emanuel Phd, Ruby Jean Simms Phd, Charles Vincent Phd Scotlandville (Paperback)
Rachel L Emanuel Phd, Ruby Jean Simms Phd, Charles Vincent Phd; Foreword by Mayor-President Melvin Holden
R609 R552 Discovery Miles 5 520 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Lawrence (Paperback): Virgil W. Dean Lawrence (Paperback)
Virgil W. Dean
R591 R545 Discovery Miles 5 450 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Pennsylvania Scrapple - A Delectable History (Paperback): Amy Strauss Pennsylvania Scrapple - A Delectable History (Paperback)
Amy Strauss
R583 R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Save R51 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Las Villas of Plattekill and Ulster County (Paperback): Ismael Martinez Las Villas of Plattekill and Ulster County (Paperback)
Ismael Martinez
R600 R543 Discovery Miles 5 430 Save R57 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Classic Eateries of the Arkansas Delta (Paperback): Kat Robinson Classic Eateries of the Arkansas Delta (Paperback)
Kat Robinson; Photographs by Grav Weldon
R618 R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Save R51 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Brockton Tragedy at Moosehead Lake (Paperback): James E. Benson, Nicole B Casper The Brockton Tragedy at Moosehead Lake (Paperback)
James E. Benson, Nicole B Casper; Foreword by Colonel Joel T Wilkinson Maine Warden Service
R534 R494 Discovery Miles 4 940 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Better Made in Michigan: - The Salty Story of Detroit's Best Chip (Paperback): Karen Dybis Better Made in Michigan: - The Salty Story of Detroit's Best Chip (Paperback)
Karen Dybis
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Haunted Guthrie, Oklahoma (Paperback): Jeff Provine, Tanya McCoy Haunted Guthrie, Oklahoma (Paperback)
Jeff Provine, Tanya McCoy
R553 R513 Discovery Miles 5 130 Save R40 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Life Along the Apalachicola River (Paperback): Jim McClellan Life Along the Apalachicola River (Paperback)
Jim McClellan
R527 R487 Discovery Miles 4 870 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Inspiring Life of Texan Hector P. Garcia (Paperback): Cecilia Garcia Akers The Inspiring Life of Texan Hector P. Garcia (Paperback)
Cecilia Garcia Akers
R544 R503 Discovery Miles 5 030 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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