Joyce Appleby, Author . Norton $29.95 (494p) ISBN 978-0-393-06894-8
Arguing that capitalism is a cultural—rather than purely economic—phenomenon, Appleby (Liberalism and Republicanism in the Historical Imagination
) traces its trajectory through European, American, and Asian successes and setbacks, its...
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Joyce Appleby, Author Belknap Press $28.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-674-00236-4
An esteemed historian of early America, Appleby (UCLA) has written a social history of ""the first generation of Americans""--not those who fought the American Revolution but, as her title indicates, those who inherited it, who had to figure out...
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Joyce Appleby, Author, Margaret C. Jacob, With, Lynn Hunt, With W. W. Norton & Company $25 (322p) ISBN 978-0-393-03615-2
Three historians here team up for a worthy, demanding foray into the battle over the academy, taking on ``both the relativists on the left and the defenders of the status quo ante on the right.'' The authors argue that skepticism and relativism...
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Joyce Appleby, Author, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Editor . Holt/Times $20 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6924-2
Thomas Jefferson, so multifaceted and long-lived, tries the skills of most who venture to write his biography, especially a short one like this. But UCLA historian Appleby (Inheriting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans) has succeeded...
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Henry F. Graff, Author, Arthur Meier Schlesinger, Jr., Editor, Joyce Appleby, Author . Holt/Times $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6923-5
In this brief, excellent volume written for Arthur Schlesinger's American Presidents series, Columbia professor emeritus Graff (The Tuesday Cabinet) picks up the often neglected Grover Cleveland, dusts him off and reminds us how substantial he...
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