new forthcoming titles 2007
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blackwell publishing is pleased to present its 2007 american history catalog inside you ll find our extensive list of offerings covering the many subfields of american history including new textbooks key backlist and important forthcoming titles we hope you find this catalog to be a useful resource for identifying possible texts and invite you to request examination copies for more information and to browse our entire catalog online visit www.blackwellpublishing.com/history sincerely peter coveney executive editor u.s history table of c ontents key new titles 1 2 american history survey 1 2 semester 3 4 colonial america 4 american revolution 4 early national period 4 civil war reconstruction 4 5 gilded
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new for 2007 sports in american life a history richard o davies university of nevada reno a valuable addition to our understanding of this institution that works itself so deeply into our culture frank deford sports illustrated this richly documented book traces the evolution of american sports from the colonial period to the present the narrative is organized around the argument that sports have been a significant social force throughout american history b rief c ontents acknowledgments introduction 1 games the colonists played 2 emergence of organized sports 1815-1860 3 this noble and envigorating game 4 formative years of college football 5 sports and the emergence of modern america 1865-1920 6 baseball ascendant 1890-1930 7 an evil to be endured sports on campus 1920-1950 8 sports in an age of ballyhoo depression and war 1920-1945 9 america s great dilemma 10 television changes the face of american sports 11 college sports in the modern era 12 play for pay 13 do you believe
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announcing a new series uncovering the past documentary readers in american history the books in this series introduce students in american history courses to two important dimensions of historical analysis they enable students to engage actively in historical interpretation and they further students understanding of the interplay between social and political forces in historical developments series editors steven f lawson and nancy a hewitt the colonial era edited by paul clemens rutgers university offers a clear and original framework for studying the important issues in colonial american history i more than 80 essential documents on colonial america i short headnotes introduce each selection i begins with a brief introduction by the editor and concludes with a bibliography designed to stimulate student research b rief c ontents introduction part i beginnings 1 english and african background 2 images of the new world 3 native american lives 4 borderlands 5 founding colonies 6 northe
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american history survey 1 2 semester american history workbook vol 1 to 1877 2003 · 180 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-72-8 · $14.95 the american journey united states history through letters and diaries vol 1 firsthand america a history of the united states vol 1 second edition edited by marsha markman jonathan boe and susan corey california lutheran university late of california lutheran university california lutheran university 2003 · 232 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-61-2 · $22.95 eighth edition david burner virginia bernhard and stanley kutler 2005 · 608 pages · pb · 978-1-933385-02-0 · $44.95 american history workbook vol 2 since 1860 2003 · 188 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-82-7 · $14.95 firsthand america a history of the united states vol 2 the american journey united states history through letters and diaries vol 2 edited by marsha markman jonathan boe and susan corey california lutheran university late of california lutheran university california lutheran university 2000 · 240 pages · pb
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nation of letters a concise anthology of american literature vol 1 colonial america a companion to the american revolution edited by jack greene and j r pole john hopkins university st catherine s college oxford second edition edited by stephen cushman and paul newlin university of virginia suny stony brook 2005 · 408 pages · pb · 978-1-933385-09-9 · $31.95 new the colonial era a documentary reader edited by paul clemens rutgers university blackwell companions to american history 2003 · 796 pages · pb · 978-1-4051-1674-9 · $41.95 nation of letters a concise anthology of american literature vol 2 edited by stephen cushman and paul newlin university of virginia suny stony brook 1999 · 432 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-90-2 · $31.95 uncovering the past documentary readers in american history fall 2007 · 256 pages · pb · 978-14051-5662-2 · $29.95 early national period jeffersonian america edited by peter onuf and leonard sadosky university of virginia iowa state university new in paperback a c
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two witnesses at gettysburg the personal accounts of whitelaw reid and a j l fremantle edited by gary gallagher university of virginia 1994 · 192 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-23-0 · $14.95 honest graft the world of george washington plunkitt second edition william riordon 1997 · 176 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-58-2 · $18.95 incidents in the life of a slave girl by harriet a jacobs a true tale of slavery by john s jacobs edited by george hendrick and willene hendrick professor emeritus university of illinois at urbana-champaign 1999 · 208 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-65-0 · $21.95 the civil war era an anthology of sources edited by lyde cullen-sizer and jim cullen sarah lawrence college ethical culture fieldston school new york city 2005 · 464 pages· pb · 978-1-4051-0691-7 · $36.95 nineteenth-century america new in paperback a companion to 19th-century america edited by william l barney university of north carolina chapel hill american west new meteor of war the john brown story zoe trodd and j
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a companion to the american south edited by john b boles rice university to redeem a nation a history and anthology of the civil rights movement edited by thomas west and james mooney catholic university late of american university 1993 · 320 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-20-9 · $24.95 the strawberry statement notes of a college revolutionary james simon kunen 1995 · 168 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-52-0 · $24.95 blackwell companions to american history 2004 · 536 pages · pb · 978-1-4051-2130-9 · $43.95 watergate the fall of richard m nixon edited by stanley kutler professor emeritus university of wisconsin-madison 1996 · 256 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-30-8 · $24.95 1920s 1930s vietnam war 1960s 1970s the birth of modern america 1919-1939 john mcclymer assumption college 2005 · 208 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-00-1 · $19.95 new in paperback a companion to post-1945 america edited by jean-christophe agnew and roy rosenzweig yale university george mason university twentieth-century american dip
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america s failing empire u.s foreign relations since the cold war warren i cohen university of maryland at baltimore county a companion to american technology edited by carroll pursell macquarie university hollywood s america united states history through its films third edition edited by steven mintz and randy roberts university of houston purdue university 2001 · 392 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-68-1 · $29.95 america s recent past 2005 216 pages · pb · 978-1-4051-1427-1 · $21.95 blackwell companions to american history 2004 · 480 pages · hb · 978-0-631-22844-8 · $154.95 american adventurism abroad invasions interventions and regime changes since world war ii michael j sullivan iii drexel university fall 2007 · 240 pages · pb · 978-1-4051-7075-8 · $29.95 american technology carroll pursell macquarie university blackwell readers in american social and cultural history 2001 · 376 pages · pb · 978-0-631-21997-2 · $44.95 popular culture in american history edited by jim cullen ethical cultu
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native american voices a history and anthology african american voices the life cycle of slavery history of american women second edition edited by steven mintz university of houston 2000 · 264 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-59-9 · $29.95 third edition edited by steven mintz university of houston 2004 · 248 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-02-5 · $29.95 a companion to american women s history edited by nancy a hewitt rutgers university a companion to american indian history edited by philip deloria and neal salisbury university of michigan smith college meteor of war the john brown story zoe trodd and john stauffer both harvard university 2004 · 304 pages · pb · 978-1-881089-39-1 · $19.95 blackwell companions to american history 2004 · 512 pages · pb · 978-1-4051-2685-4 · $41.95 writing women s lives american women s history through letters and diaries edited by marsha markman jonathan boe and susan corey professor emerita california lutheran university late of california lutheran university profe
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