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The Last Honest Man: The Cia, the Fbi, the Mafia, and the Kennedys - And One Senator's Fight to Save DemocracyIn this "gripping ... spectacular piece of reporting" (Ken Burns), a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist examines Senator Frank Church, the man at the center of numerous investigations into the abuses of power within the American government. For decades now, America's national security state has grown...
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Life Is Unfair: The Truths And Lies About John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy is a name known worldwide. Libraries throughout the world are full of literature about the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. However, most narrations and facts presented are twisted and do not convey the true legacy of JFK. Life Is Unfair: The...
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Quakers in the British Atlantic World, C.1660-1800Examines the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, and scrutinizes the role of Quaker merchants and the business ethics they followed. The book studies the two largest Quaker communities in the early modern British Atlantic World, London and Philadelphia....
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Hartly House, Calcutta: Phebe GibbesThis novel is a designedly political document. Written at the time of the Hastings impeachment and set in the period of Hastings's Orientalist government, Hartly House, Calcutta (1789) represents a dramatic delineation of the Anglo-Indian encounter. The novel constitutes a significant intervention in the...
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The Myth of the Press Gang: Volunteers, Impressment and the Naval Manpower Problem in the Late Eighteenth CenturyOverturns the generally held view that the press gang was the main means of recruiting seamen by the British navy in the late eighteenth century. SHORTLISTED for the Society for Nautical Research's prestigious Anderson Medal. The press gang is generally regarded as the means...
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Representing Childhood and AtrocityExamines the ways in which writers and artists have attempted to address children's experience of atrocity.Author: Victoria NesfieldPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/02/2023Pages: 334Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75dISBN: 9781438490748About the AuthorVictoria Nesfield is Lecturer in Religion at York...
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This Side of Philosophy: Literature and Thinking in Twentieth-Century Spanish LettersAssesses a distinct style of thinking in twentieth-century Spanish writing, one in which literature plays a central role in reaching behind philosophy to essential sources of life and meaning.Author: Stephen GingerichPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 08/02/2023Pages: 360Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x...
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Racism and Resistance: Essays on Derrick Bell's Racial RealismAfrican American legal theorist Derrick Bell argued that American anti-Black racism is permanent but that we are nevertheless morally obligated to resist it. Bell--an extraordinary legal scholar, activist, and public intellectual whose academic and political work included his employment as a young attorney with...
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The New Civil Rights Movement Reader: Resistance, Resilience, and JusticeIn the United States, the fight to secure full civil rights for African American people has endured for centuries. The movement has included many voices, among them, working people, charismatic activists, musicians and artists, the LGBTQIA community, veterans, suburbanites, and elected officials. Moving from...
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Detonators: The Secret Plot to Destroy America and an Epic Hunt for JusticeOne hundred years ago, in July 1916, an act of terrorism in New York Harbor changed the world. The attack in New York Harbor was so explosive that people as far away as Maryland felt the ground shake. Windows were blown out uptown at...
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Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions: Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in BritainThe National Health Service has provided Britain's healthcare since 1948. This institution has been the subject of tense political debate since its inception and has undergone a number of complex reforms and restructures. But the meanings of the NHS are not only - or...
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Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to AmericaFrom 1910 to 1940, over half a million people sailed through the Golden Gate, hoping to start a new life in America. But they did not all disembark in San Francisco; instead, most were ferried across the bay to the Angel Island Immigration Station....
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Fall of the Sultanate: The Great War and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1908-1922The collapse of the Ottoman Empire was by no means a singular event. After six hundred years of ruling over the peoples of North Africa, the Balkans and Middle East, the death throes of sultanate encompassed a series of wars, insurrections, and revolutions spanning...
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Class, Work and Whiteness: Race and Settler Colonialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1919-79This book offers the first comprehensive history of white workers from the end of the First World War to Zimbabwean independence in 1980. It reveals how white worker identity was constituted, examines the white labouring class as an ethnically and nationally heterogeneous formation comprised...
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The Ideological Origins of the Dirty War: Fascism, Populism, and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century ArgentinaArgentina is famous for its ties with fascism as well as its welcoming of Nazi war criminals after World War II. At mid-century, it was the home of Peronism. It was also the birthplace of the Dirty War and one of Latin America's most...
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Surrealist Sabotage and the War on WorkIn Surrealist sabotage and the war on work, art historian Abigail Susik uncovers the expansive parameters of the international surrealist movement's ongoing engagement with an aesthetics of sabotage between the 1920s and the 1970s, demonstrating how surrealists unceasingly sought to transform the work of...
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Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron CurtainThe building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and...
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Bodies Complexioned: Human Variation and Racism in Early Modern English Culture, C. 1600-1750Bodily contrasts - from the colour of hair, eyes and skin to the shape of faces and skeletons - allowed the English of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries to discriminate systematically among themselves and against non-Anglophone groups. Making use of an array of...
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Knowing BrittenKnowing Britten is a vivid and insightful account of Steuart Bedford's long association with both Britten the man and his music The conductor and pianist Steuart Bedford (199-2021) could not remember a time when he did not know Benjamin Britten. His mother, Lesley Duff,...
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Every Hill a Burial Place: The Peace Corps Murder Trial in East AfricaOn March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a picnic. Local authorities arrested Kinsey's husband, Bill, and charged him with murder as witnesses came forward claiming to have...
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