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Magic Bean: The Rise of Soy in AmericaAt the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America's land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation's largest cash...
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Rising Titans, Falling Giants: How Great Powers Exploit Power ShiftsAuthor: Joshua R. Itzkowitz ShifrinsonPublisher: Cornell University PressPublished: 08/15/2023Pages: 276Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.62dISBN: 9781501770227Audience: Young AdultAbout the AuthorJoshua R. Itzkowitz Shifrinson is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Pardee School of Boston University. He has published in International...
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Khmer Nationalist: Sơn Ngọc Thành, the Cia, and the Transformation of CambodiaKhmer Nationalist is a political history of Cambodia from World War II until 1975, examining the central role of Sõn Ngọc Thành. It is a story of nationalistic independence movements, political intrigue, coup attempts, war, and American intelligence. The rise of Cambodian nationalism, the...
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Dutch Moment: War, Trade, and Settlement in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic WorldIn The Dutch Moment, Wim Klooster shows how the Dutch built and eventually lost an Atlantic empire that stretched from the homeland in the United Provinces to the Hudson River and from Brazil and the Caribbean to the African Gold Coast. The fleets and...
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Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930Historians of migration will welcome Mark Wyman's new book on the elusive subject of persons who returned to Europe after coming to the United States. Other scholars have dealt with particular national groups... but Wyman is the first to treat... every major group.... Wyman...
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To Serve the People: My Life Organizing with Cesar Chavez and the PoorThe long pilgrimage of LeRoy Chatfield weaves its way through multiple collective projects designed to better the condition of the marginalized and forgotten. From the cloisters of the Christian Brothers and the halls of secondary education to the fields of Central California and the...
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How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey Across AmericaHours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in...
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Counterculture Kaleidoscope: Musical and Cultural Perspectives on Late Sixties San FranciscoForty years after the fact, 1960s counterculture---personified by hippies, protest, and the Summer of Love---basks in a nostalgic glow in the popular imagination as a turning point in modern American history and the end of the age of innocence. Yet, while the era has...
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Faith in the City: Preaching Radical Social Change in Detroit"The dynamics of Black Theology were at the center of the 'Long New Negro Renaissance, ' triggered by mass migrations to industrial hubs like Detroit. Finally, this crucial subject has found its match in the brilliant scholarship of Angela Dillard. No one has done...
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A Short History of the Twentieth CenturyGeoffrey Blainey's Short History of the World, published by Ivan R. Dee in 2002, rapidly became a book of choice on the subject. Jacques Barzun called it "a unique achievement," and William L. O'Neill described it as "a delightful read, gracefully written and filled...
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The White Pacific: U.S. Imperialism and Black Slavery in the South Seas After the Civil WarWorldwide supplies of sugar and cotton were impacted dramatically as the U.S. Civil War dragged on. New areas of production entered these lucrative markets, particularly in the South Pacific, and plantation agriculture grew substantially in disparate areas such as Australia, Fiji, and Hawaii. The...
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The Great Arizona Orphan AbductionIn 1904, New York nuns brought forty Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Catholic families. The Catholic families were Mexican, as was the majority of the population. Soon the town's Anglos, furious at this interracial transgression, formed a...
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Tomorrow, the World: The Birth of U.S. Global SupremacyA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year A new history explains how and why, as it prepared to enter World War II, the United States decided to lead the postwar world. For most of its history, the United States avoided making political and...
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The Suitcase: The Life and Times of Captain XThe Suitcase is a tour-de-force, an imagining of the autobiography of an opportunistic Czech playboy, who avoided legal troubles and subsequently, the Holocaust by moving to Shanghai. There, he joined the fight against fascism, and later continued that struggle in London while his family...
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Letters from SnowdonHow did an English traveller experience North Wales in 1770? In a series of letters, Joseph Cradock's fascinating account tells us about its towns and villages-Llanrwst, with its 17th-century bridge; Rhuddlan, with its marsh and ruins; the region's numerous Mediaeval castles, such as Conwy,...
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A People's War on Poverty: Urban Politics and Grassroots Activists in HoustonIn A People's War on Poverty, Wesley G. Phelps investigates the on-the-ground implementation of President Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty during the 1960s and 1970s. He argues that the fluid interaction between federal policies, urban politics, and grassroots activists created a significant site of...
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The United Nations Genocide Convention: An IntroductionTHE UNCG is a complicated piece of international law. This book, authored by two experts on the topic of genocide, enables readers to more accurately analyze these horrific events.Author: Samuel Totten, Henry C. TheriaultPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 11/22/2019Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.40h...
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Cold War CameraCold War Camera explores the visual mediation of the Cold War and illuminates photography's role in shaping the ways it was prosecuted and experienced. The contributors show how the camera stretched the parameters of the Cold War beyond dominant East-West and US-USSR binaries and...
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God's Law and Order: The Politics of Punishment in Evangelical AmericaWinner of a Christianity Today Book Award An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped--and were shaped by--the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive scale. Despite recent reforms, the United States locks up large numbers of people--disproportionately poor and nonwhite--for long...
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The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, from Herbert Hoover to the SmartphoneFrom the former chief economist of the FCC, a remarkable history of the U.S. government's regulation of the airwaves Popular legend has it that before the Federal Radio Commission was established in 1927, the radio spectrum was in chaos, with broadcasting stations blasting powerful...
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