Search Results - "Preluders"

The political trial of Benjamin Franklin a prelude to the American Revolution / by Penegar, Kenneth Lawing

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Lincoln and the election of 1860 by Green, Michael S.

Table of Contents: “…Prelude to a turning point -- Tasting a candidacy -- Everybody's second choice -- From candidate to leader -- The making of the president, 1860.…”
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Bloody Valverde a Civil War battle on the Rio Grande, February 21, 1862 / by Taylor, John McLellan, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Origins -- Prelude to a fight -- Opening gambits -- The battle is joined -- Apparent victory -- Change of command -- The tide turns -- The field is lost -- Pyrrhic victory -- Retrospective.…”
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La Florida del Inca and the struggle for social equality in colonial Spanish America by Steigman, Jonathan D., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude -- Purpose, style, and themes of La Florida del Inca -- El Inca's Native Americans -- La Florida's ideal conquerors -- El Inca's prophetic voice.…”
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Race defaced paradigms of pessimism, politics of possibility / by Kyriakides, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Hopeful subjects and the 'system of natural liberty' -- The weakness of whiteness -- From social democratic race relations to multicultural capitalism -- Other than Mexicans -- What may I hope? -- A prelude to class.…”
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The American challenge the world resists US liberalism / by Catley, Robert

Table of Contents: “…American hegemony in the twenty first century -- The anglo-sphere nations -- The great wars and the Cold War, 1914-1991 -- The end of the Cold War and the Middle East -- Prelude to war -- The global war on terror -- Allies -- Foundations of American power -- Competitors -- Contested zones -- A balance sheet.…”
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A commonwealth of hope the New Deal response to crisis / by Lawson, R. Alan, 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Prelude : the fall of the American system -- The shaping of Franklin Roosevelt -- Landslide -- The struggle for financial stability -- The recovery of industry -- Saving the farms -- Launching the welfare state -- Revival of the spirit -- Renewing the New Deal lease -- The judicial revolution -- A rendezvous with destiny -- The common man at the end of the decade -- The international climax -- Epilogue : another cycle?…”
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The American Republic primary sources /

Table of Contents: “…Forging a nation -- pt. 9. Prelude to war.…”
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Summer lightning : a guide to the second Battle of Manassas / by Spruill, Matt

Table of Contents: “…Prelude: Maneuvering to Battle -- Thursday, August 28, 1862 -- Friday, August 29, 1862 -- Saturday, August 30, 1862 -- The Aftermath -- Appendix I: Union Order of Battle -- Appendix II: Confederate Order of Battle -- Appendix III: Casualties -- Appendix IV: August 30, 1862, South Flank Cavalry Engagement -- Appendix V: The Stone Bridge -- Appendix VI: August 28, 1862, Thoroughfare Gap.…”
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The Peninsula Campaign and the necessity of emancipation African Americans and the fight for freedom / by Brasher, Glenn David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: an evening on Malvern Hill -- Preludes: war, slavery, and the Virginia peninsula -- Contraband of war: April-July 1861 -- War is a swift educator: July-December 1861 -- The best informed residents in Virginia: December 1861-April 1862 -- The monuments to negro labor: April-May 1862 -- Those by whom these relations are broken: May 1862 -- An invaluable ally: late May-July 1862 -- A higher destiny: July 1862 -- Conclusion: monarchs of all they survey.…”
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Insidious foes the Axis Fifth Column and the American home front / by MacDonnell, Francis

Table of Contents: “…1. Prelude to the Fifth Column Scare: The Lessons of World War I -- 2. …”
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Mrs. Dred Scott a life on slavery's frontier / by VanderVelde, Lea

Table of Contents: “…Peter's Agency -- Winters deep -- 1836 : spring and the change of the guard -- Celestial explorers -- Call of the wood as a prelude to treaty -- 1837 : treaty made before her eyes -- Marriage : together alone -- Traveling the length of the river -- New baby in a new land -- Deteriorating community -- Battles and baptisms -- Taliaferro's last stand -- Leaving Minnesota and its new tribunals -- While the doctor was away : St. …”
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Contested commonwealths essays in American history / by Pencak, William, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Crandall) -- The social structure of revolutionary Boston : evidence from the Great Fire of 1760 -- Play as prelude to revolution : Boston, 1765-1776 -- "The fine theoretic government of Massachusetts is prostrated to the earth" : the response to Shays's Rebellion reconsidered -- Politics and ideology in eighteenth-century almanacs : Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard and Nathanael Ames, Sr.'…”
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