Books by Michael A. Bellesiles and Complete Book Reviews

Michael A. Bellesiles, New Press, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59558-441-0
If you think the United States has problems today, try 1877. That single year, according to historian Bellesiles, saw an unprecedented surge in lynchings, racism, homicides, army attacks on Indians, labor violence (including a near national general...
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Michael A. Bellesiles, Author University of Virginia Press $32.5 (444p) ISBN 978-0-8139-1603-3
Emory professor Bellesiles examines the history of the New England frontier and the life of fabled Revolutionary hero Ethan Allen; History Book Club selection in cloth. (Feb.)
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Michael A. Bellesiles, Author Alfred A. Knopf $30 (624p) ISBN 978-0-375-40210-4
Like most students of U.S. history, Bellesiles (Emory University) believed gun-related violence was inextricably woven into the American past from its earliest days. Then he started studying county probate records as part of a project about the...
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Michael A. Bellesiles. New Press, $29.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59558-628-5
In just under 400 pages Central Connecticut State University history professor Bellesiles (1877: America’s Years of Living Violently) provides a captivating history, based largely on first-person accounts, of America’s military. Drawing on letters,...
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