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Memorializing the Gdr: Monuments and Memory After 1989Since unification, eastern Germany has witnessed a rapidly changing memorial landscape, as the fate of former socialist monuments has been hotly debated and new commemorative projects have met with fierce controversy. Memorializing the GDR provides the first in-depth study of this contested arena of...
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The Wars of Yesterday: The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13Though persistently overshadowed by the Great War in historical memory, the two Balkan conflicts of 1912-1913 were among the most consequential of the early twentieth century. By pitting the states of Greece, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Montenegro against a diminished Ottoman Empire--and subsequently against one...
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Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in GreecePutting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating...
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The Wars of German UnificationThe Wars of German Unification is the definitive account of the three of the most decisive conflicts in the history of modern Europe. In this new edition, Dennis Showalter offers a thoroughly updated look at the wars and their context that will be invaluable...
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L'histoire et la généalogie de la famille GravoisThis book, which spans three-hundred years and fourteen generations, skillfully combines family history and genealogy to give the reader an insight into the lives of the various generations as the Gravois family multiplied and prospered since the first ones arrived in Louisiana in 1766....
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An Inquiry Into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United StatesOriginally published in 1814, this is a reprint of the Yale University Press 1950 edition with an introduction by Roy Franklin Nichols. 562 pp. Taylor wrote this important work in 1814 as a reply to John Adams's Defence of the Constitutions of Government of...
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In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth CenturyDespite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the...
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Hollywood and the Great Depression: American Film, Politics and Society in the 1930sIn the popular imagination, 1930s Hollywood was a dream factory producing escapist movies to distract the American people from the greatest economic crisis in their nation's history. But while many films of the period conform to this stereotype, there were a significant number that...
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The Whole Genuine and Complete Works of Flavius Josephus Translated From the Original in the Greek Language And Diligently Revised and Compared With tThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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North to Aztlan 2eContemporary observers often quip that the American Southwest has become "Mexicanized," but this view ignores the history of the region as well as the social reality. Mexican people and their culture have been continuously present in the territory for the past four hundred years,...
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From Washington to Moscow: US-Soviet Relations and the Collapse of the USSRWhen the United States and the Soviet Union signed the first Strategic Arms Limitation Talks accords in 1972 it was generally seen as the point at which the USSR achieved parity with the United States. Less than twenty years later the Soviet Union had...
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William J. Seymour and the Origins of Global Pentecostalism: A Biography and Documentary HistoryIn 1906, William J. Seymour (1870-1922) preached Pentecostal revival at the Azusa Street mission in Los Angeles. From these and other humble origins the movement has blossomed to 631 million people around the world. Gast n Espinosa provides new insight into the life and...
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Stages of Emergency: Cold War Nuclear Civil DefenseIn an era defined by the threat of nuclear annihilation, Western nations attempted to prepare civilian populations for atomic attack through staged drills, evacuations, and field exercises. In Stages of Emergency the distinguished performance historian Tracy C. Davis investigates the fundamentally theatrical nature of...
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Mussolini's Intellectuals: Fascist Social and Political ThoughtFascism has traditionally been characterized as irrational and anti-intellectual, finding expression exclusively as a cluster of myths, emotions, instincts, and hatreds. This intellectual history of Italian Fascism--the product of four decades of work by one of the leading experts on the subject in the...
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Religion Around Billie HolidaySoulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as "Strange Fruit" and "God Bless the Child." Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often in surprising...
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Courage to Dissent: Atlanta and the Long History of the Civil Rights MovementIn this Bancroft Prize-winning history of the Civil Rights movement in Atlanta from the end of World War II to 1980, Tomiko Brown-Nagin shows that long before "black power" emerged and gave black dissent from the mainstream civil rights agenda a name, African Americans...
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What Comes Naturally: Miscegenation Law and the Making of Race in AmericaA long-awaited history that promises to dramatically change our understanding of race in America, What Comes Naturally traces the origins, spread, and demise of miscegenation laws in the United States--laws that banned interracial marriage and sex, most often between whites and members of other...
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Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953How presidents spark and sustain support for wars remains an enduring and significant problem. Korea was the first limited war the U.S. experienced in the contemporary period - the first recent war fought for something less than total victory. In Selling the Korean War,...
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The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy: America's Most Controversial Dam and the Birth of Modern EnvironmentalismIn the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off...
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Noah's Curse: The Biblical Justification of American Slavery"A servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren." So reads Noah's curse on his son Ham, and all his descendants, in Genesis 9:25. Over centuries of interpretation, Ham came to be identified as the ancestor of black Africans, and Noah's curse to...
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