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The Road to Disunion

Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854

By: William W. Freehling

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The Road to Disunion

Volume I: Secessionists at Bay, 1776-1854

By: William W. Freehling

Far from a monolithic block of diehard slave states, the antebellum South was, in William Freehling's words, "a world so lushly various as to be a storyteller's dream." It was a world where Deep South cotton planters clashed with South Carolina rice growers, as Northern egalitarianism infiltrated border states already bitterly divided on key issues. It was the world of Jefferson Davis, John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson, and Thomas Jefferson, and also of Gullah Jack, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass.Now, in the first volume of his long awaited, monumental study of the South's road to disunion, historian William Freehling offers a sweeping political and social history of the antebellum South from 1776 to 1854. All the dramatic events leading to secession are here: the Missouri Compromise, the Nullification Controversy, the Gag Rule, the Annexation of Texas, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Vivid accounts of each crisis reveal the surprising extent to which slavery influenced national politics before 1850 and provide important reinterpretations of American republicanism, Jeffersonian states' rights, Jacksonian democracy, and the causes of the American Civil War.Freehling's brilliant historical insights illustrate a work of rich social observation. In the cities of the Antebellum South, in the big house of a typical plantation, we feel anew the tensions between the slaveowner and his family, poor whites and planters, the Old and New Souths, and most powerfully between slave and master. Freehling has evoked the Old South in all its color, cruelty, and diversity. It is a memorable portrait, certain to be a key analysis of this crucial era in American history.

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Oxford University Press

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ISBN 10

0195072596

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9780195072594

A Quiet Life

A Novel

By: William Cooper,Michael McKinley

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A Quiet Life

A Novel

By: William Cooper,Michael McKinley

It was just a link in an email. Michael Housen is living a typical, white-collar American life at a security company when he falls for a phishing campaign with dire implications. One click, and suddenly the US is under marshal law and bombing Tehran. Michael unknowingly triggered a cyberattack by Iranian hackers, which a belligerent President Davis uses as pretext for war against Iran. Michael blinks and he and his wife, Pam, are thrown into private prisons owned by the president, a multibillionaire tycoon. This ordinary couple suddenly must answer a harrowing question: What do you do when the enemy of the state is you? And they find themselves cooperating with extraordinary partners, from right-wing militias to Iranian documentarians, as they work to clear their names and stop the global conflict that Michael set off with an unwitting click. Written by a renowned cybersecurity attorney and a bestselling author, A Quiet Life is a cyberthriller for the times that we all live in, and how we can lose everything on the strength of a lie. And how once we start fighting back, we cannot stop.

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286

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Simon and Schuster

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1648210368

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9781648210365

Arkansas Made, Volume 2

A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas Through 1950

By: Swannee Bennett,Jennifer Carman,William B. Worthen

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Arkansas Made, Volume 2

A Survey of the Decorative, Mechanical, and Fine Arts Produced in Arkansas Through 1950

By: Swannee Bennett,Jennifer Carman,William B. Worthen

Volume I. Quilts and textiles, Ceramics, Silver, Weaponry, Furniture, Vernacular architecture, Native American art -- volume II. Photography, Fine art.

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529

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University of Arkansas Press

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1682261441

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Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County

Volume 1

By: William Denison Lyman

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Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County

Volume 1

By: William Denison Lyman

Reproduction of the original: Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County by William Denison Lyman

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830

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3752409584

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Inner Seven

The History of Seven Unique American Combat ""Aces"" of WWII & Korea

By: William E. Oliver

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The History of Seven Unique American Combat ""Aces"" of WWII & Korea

By: William E. Oliver

The history of seven unique American combat "aces" of World War II and Korea.

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155

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Turner Publishing Company

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168162141X

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9781681621418

Approaching Civil War and Southern History

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

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Approaching Civil War and Southern History

By: William J. Cooper, Jr.

Initially published between 1970 and 2012, the essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History span almost the entirety of William J. Cooper’s illustrious scholarly career and range widely across a broad spectrum of subjects in Civil War and southern history. Together, they illustrate the broad scope of Cooper’s work. While many essays deal with his well-known interests, such as Jefferson Davis or the secession crisis, others are on lesser-known subjects, such as Civil War artist Edwin Forbes and the writer Daniel R. Hundley. In the new introduction to each chapter, Cooper notes the essay’s origins and purpose, explaining how it fits into his overarching interest in the nineteenth-century political history of the South. Combined and reprinted here for the first time, the ten essays in Approaching Civil War and Southern History reveal why Cooper is recognized today as one of the most influential historians of our time.

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LSU Press

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0807170976

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9780807170977

Book's by William A. Davis

The Road to Disunion

The Road to Disunion

A Quiet Life

A Quiet Life

Arkansas Made, Volume 2

Arkansas Made, Volume 2

Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County

Lyman's History of Old Walla Walla County

Inner Seven

Inner Seven

Approaching Civil War and Southern History

Approaching Civil War and Southern History

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