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Nash, Howard P.,
THE FORGOTTEN WARS:
THE U.S. NAVY IN THE QUASI-WAR WITH FRANCE AND THE BARBARY WARS, 1798-1805.
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Owen, Ira E.
NEW SALEM VILLAGE.
Petersburg, Illinois: The
Petersburg Observor, 1938. Eighth Edition, 1950. book: Very
Good. In nice condition. A history of the frontier village
New Salem, Illinois, home to Abraham Lincoln. Photos of
cabins, mill, etc. 15 pages. $15.00
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(Percival) Long, David Foster.
MAD JACK: THE BIOGRAPHY OF CAPTAIN JOHN PERCIVAL, USN, 1779-1862.
Greenwood Publishing Group, 1993. NEW copy. Library binding. Maps,
bibliographical essay, index, 260 pages. A respected writer of naval history,
David Long is most qualified to write this first biography of "Mad Jack," a
legend in the U.S. Navy. Using family accounts and primary materials, Long
recounts the 40-year career of an eccentric, maverick naval officer and in
doing so gives the low-down on how the Navy worked in its early years. Anyone
interested in 18th and 19th century military history will find this engrossing
reading. Currently in print at $72.50.
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(Pickering) Clarfield, Gerald H.,
TIMOTHY PICKERING AND
THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC.
Pittsburgh., 1980. NEW, still in shrinkwrap. "Traces Pickerings long career in
early national, political, military and diplomatic affairs. 320 pages.
(Originally in print at $49.95).
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Prucha, Francis Paul.
GUIDE TO THE MILITARY
POSTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Madison, Wisconsin.: The State Historical Society of Wisconsin., 1966. As new
condition. 11x8. Very minor flaws to jacket. Original "$7.50" price still
intact on jacket flap. Originally published in 1964, this is the Second
Printing from 1966, with a number of corrections. Includes the following: ~A
brief chronological history of the expansion and contraction of the military
frontier; ~An alphabetical catalog of military posts of every description:
forts, camps, barracks & cantonments; ~A chronological series of cartographs
showing the distribution of regular army troops; ~A set of detailed two-color
maps locating the posts in their topographical setting; ~An outline of army
territorial commands; ~An extensive bibliography on military posts; ~A
selection of 18 etchings & photographic plates ilustrating the military
frontier. The material has been gathered from the official records of the War
Department and the cartographic collections of the National Archives. This one
reference book presents information hiteherto scattered in many places. It will
serve both the scholar and the general reader as a brief, accurate encyclopedia
of army posts from 1789 to 1895. Maps, etchings, photographs, appendices,
bibliography, 178 pages.
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(Quincy), McCaughey, Robert A.,
JOSIAH QUINCY, 1772-1864:
THE LAST FEDERALIST.
Harvard University
Press., 1974. As new, mint
copy. First Edition. Dust jacket in mylar protector.
Extensive notes, index, 264 pages. No. 90 in the Harvard
Historical Studies series. Josiah Quincy was a United States
Congressman, the second mayor of Boston, and the fifteenth
president of Harvard Univesity.
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Richardson, Robert H.
TILTON TERRITORY: A
HISTORICAL NARRATIVE.
Dorrance & Company, 1977., NF/NF. Nearly mint.
DJ in mylar protector. "Warren County, Jefferson County,
Ohio~ 1775-1838". Photographs, bibliography, index, 300 pp.
An account of one family on the Virginia and Ohio frontiers.
$35.00
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$9950.00
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Roosevelt, Theodore,
THE WINNING OF THE WEST
. The Daniel Boone Edition, one of only 200 numbered sets, with tipped-in original manuscript page by author. In four volumes.
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The early republic period is covered in Volume Three: The Founding of
the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 (339 pages) and in
Volume Four: Louisiana and the Northwest, 1791-1807 (363 pages).
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Sapio, Victor,
PENNSYLVANIA & THE WAR OF 1812.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1970. First Edition. NEW. Hardcover
with dust jacket. Tables, notes, index, 206 pages. "This study covers the
events leading up to the war ~ from the conflict over the embargo of 1808 to
election campaigns for Madison, the opposition of DeWitt Clinton, and the
turmoil of the election itself. It terminates with an investigation of
Pennsylvania's contribution the war effort and its political support of
Madison's strategy in handling his forces and politicians." Out of Print.
$25.00
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Scott, Pamela,
TEMPLE OF LIBERTY: BUILDING THE
CAPITOL FOR A NEW NATION.
Oxford University Press., 1995. NEW copy.
Paperback. 8.5x11. Glossy paper throughout. Profusely
illustrated, color plates. Notes, bibliography, index, 159
pages.
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Seeman, Mark F. (editor),
CULTURAL VARIABILITY:
WOODLAND SETTLEMENTS OF THE MID-OHIO VALLEY.
Kent State, MCJA Special
Paper No. 7., 1992., New, unopened. 8.5"x 11". Wraps.
Photographs, charts, maps, graphs, 93 pp. Archaeological
study of the prehistory of the Ohio River Valley.
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$25.00
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Essah, Patience,
A HOUSE DIVIDED: Slavery and Emancipation in Delaware, 1838-1865.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
(Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996). Map, Tables, Notes, Index,
216 pages.
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Delaware stood outside the primary streams of New World emancipation. Despite slavery's
virtual demise in that state during the antebellum years and Delaware's staunch Unionism
during the Civil War itself, the state failed to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment,
which prohibits slavery, until 1901. Patience Essah takes the reader of A House Divided
through the introduction, evolution, demise, and final abolition of slavery in Delaware. In
unraveling the enigma of how and why tiny Delaware abstained from the abolition mandated in
northern states after the American Revolution, resisted the movement toward abolition in
border states during the Civil War, and stubbornly opposed ratification of the
Thirteenth Amendment, she offers fresh insight into the history of slavery, race,
and racialism in America. The citizens of Delaware voluntarily freed over 90 percent
of their slaves, yet they declined Lincoln's 1862 offer of compensation for
emancipation, and the legislature persistently foiled all attempts to mandate
emancipation. Those arguing against emancipation expressed fears that it inadvertently
would alter the delicate balance of political power in the state. What Essah has found
at the base of the Delaware paradox is a political discourse stalemated by instrumental
appeals to racialism. In showing the persistence of slavery in Delaware, she raises
questions about postslavery race relations. Her analysis is vital to an understanding
of the African-American experience.
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Goldstone, Lawrence,
DARK BARGAIN: Slavery, Profits and the Struggle for the Constitution.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
(Walker & Co.). 230 pages.
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On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from
twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution.
Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a
nation that would last. Most were driven more by pragmatic, regional interests
than by idealistic vision. No issue was of greater concern to the delegates than
that of slavery. Goldstone chronicles the forging of the Constitution through the
prism of the crucial compromises made by men consumed with the needs of the slave
economy. As the daily debates and backroom conferences in inns and taverns
stretched through July and August of that hot summer - and as the philosophical
leadership of James Madison waned - Goldstone clearly reveals how tenuous the
document was, and how an agreement between unlikely collaborators - John Rutledge
of South Carolina, and Roger Sherman and Oliver Ellsworth of Connecticut - got
the delegates past their most difficult point. Dark Bargain recounts an event as
dramatic and compelling as any in our nation's history.
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Wiethoff, William E.,
A PECULIAR HUMANISM: The Judicial Advocacy of Slavery in High Courts of the Old South, 1820-1850.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket.
(Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996). Extensive notes, Works Consulted, Index,
247 pages.
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In early nineteenth-century America, and especially in the Old South, the use of
oratory appealed to legal professionals - judges as well as advocates. Consistent with
the humanism proclaimed in classical and neoclassical works, appellate judges perceived
their civic duties to demand oratorical skill as well as legal expertise. In A
Peculiar Humanism, William E. Wiethoff assesses the judicial use of oratory in
reviewing slave cases and the struggle to fashion a humanist jurisprudence on slavery
despite the customary restraints placed on judicial advocacy. Drawing attention to a
neglected intersection of law and letters, Wiethoff analyzes the proslavery discourse
embedded in antebellum judicial opinions by examining the public addresses, judicial
narratives, and private papers of sixty-nine appellate judges. Wiethoff documents the
judges' familiarity with the humanist tradition and surveys their attempts to equate
humanism with self-interest and humanity with the desire for peace, prosperity, and
the conservation of property. Yet as Wiethoff clearly demonstrates, in their struggle
to obey humanist ideals, the judges articulated a humanism that was peculiarly suited
to preserving existing social structures and affirming the beliefs and values of the
ruling class. In Wiethoff's critical examination of judicial oratory and narrative,
the discursive artifacts created by judicial advocates of slavery attest historically
to the limits of law. By contrasting the judges' proslavery appeals in a variety of
cases in the upper and deep South, Wiethoff shows how context shaped the judges'
perceptions, priorities, and arguments. An outstanding contribution to the literature
on law and slavery, A Peculiar Humanism testifies to the character of the legal
profession in the Old South and serves as an index of the beliefs and attitudes that
coexisted with legal decision making.
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Smith, Gene A.,
"FOR THE PURPOSES OF DEFENSE":
THE POLITICS OF THE JEFFERSONIAN GUNBOAT PROGRAM.
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Snow, Elliot, Rear Admiral, USN (Ret), and Lt. Cdr. H. Allen Gosnell, USNR,
ON THE DECKS OF "OLD IRONSIDES".
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