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Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995Linda Dowling AlmeidaThe story of one of the most visible groups of immigrants in the major city of immigrants in the last half of the 20th century."Almeida offers a dynamic portrait of Irish New York, one that keeps...
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Die Kraft Der Deutschen Erde: Das Bier Im Nationalsozialismus Und Die Hauptvereinigung Der Deutschen Brauwirtschaft in Berlin-SchonebergHitler bedeutet Krieg" - das erkannten anfangs nur wenige, doch bald nach 1933 setzte die zunehmende Aufrustung ein. Damit ging zwar die Arbeitslosigkeit zuruck, aber das bessere Leben, das Angehorigen der "Volksgemeinschaft" versprochen wurde, blieb mit wenigen Ausnahmen wie den Freizeitangeboten von Kraft durch...
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Let Us Vote!: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th AmendmentThe fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age "Let Us Vote!" tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans,...
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The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual HealthA comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as the...
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Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis: Political Nativism in the Antebellum WestWhy have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America's first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the...
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The Great Fear: Stalin's Terror of the 1930sBetween the winter of 1936 and the autumn of 1938, approximately three quarters of a million Soviet citizens were subject to summary execution. More than a million others were sentenced to lengthy terms in labour camps. Commonly known as 'Stalin's Great Terror', it is...
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The Cold WarThe East-West struggle for supremacy from 1945 to 1989 shaped the lives of hundreds of millions and brought the world to the brink of disaster on several occasions. More than two decades on, the debate over its causes and dynamics is far from over....
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The United States Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934"A good history of a sordid intervention that submitted a people to autocratic rule and did little for economic development." --The New York Times "From Schmidt we get the full details . . . of the brutal racist practices inflicted on the Haitians for...
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Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman BorderlandsShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered...
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Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold WarThe Cold War conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China did not only encompass political, military, diplomatic, and economic clashes. The two powers also confronted each other on the cultural front. Despite a long history of extensive and mostly constructive...
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Access to History for the Ib Diploma: The Second World War and the Americas 1933-1945 Second EditionA new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 13: The Second World War and the Americas 1933-1945. The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor. An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources...
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Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century LiteratureHow eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of...
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Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony ComstockAnthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million...
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The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical EnvironmentalismDisenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of...
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Access to History for the Ib Diploma: Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs 1880-1929This edition's examination guidance has recently been updated for the 2015 IB guide for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 10: Emergence of the Americas in global affairs 1880-1929 The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor. An...
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Pulitzer's Gold: A Century of Public Service JournalismThe Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for meritorious public service is an unparalleled American media honor, awarded to news organizations for collaborative reporting that moves readers, provokes change, and advances the journalistic profession. Updated to reflect new winners of the Pulitzer Prize for public service...
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Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: A British Intellectual HistoryBetween 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the "founder of modern conservatism" - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to...
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Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast CapitalismNostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial...
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Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Turning from more traditional modes of historical inquiry, Korea Between Empires explores the formative influence of language and social discourse on conceptions of nationalism, national identity, and the nation-state.Author: Andre SchmidPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 07/17/2002Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.97dISBN:...
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Prove It on Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920sIn the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and...
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