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The First British Trade Expedition to China: Captain Weddell and the Courteen Fleet in Asia and Late Ming CantonA groundbreaking study of early modern British enterprise in south China. In The First British Trade Expedition to China, Nicholas D. Jackson explores the pioneering British trade expedition to China launched in the late Ming period by Charles I and the Courteen Association. Utilizing...
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Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial PunjabIn the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called "mass conversion movements" towards a range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South Asia's two thousand-year Christian history. For...
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The Making of Modern America: The Nation from 1945 to the PresentThe third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson's highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day.Author: Gary A. DonaldsonPublisher: Rowman &...
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Women's Roles in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThe nineteenth century has been referred to as the Woman's Century, and it was a period of amazing change and progress for American women. There were great leaps forward in women's legal status, their entrance into higher education and the professions, and their roles...
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Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the CountryReforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the swelling masses of workers in the capitals of Britain and Belgium, the industrial powerhouses of...
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The Idea of EpilepsyEpilepsy has a fascinating history. To the medical historian Oswei Temkin it was 'the paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease'. It is justifiably considered a window on brain function. And yet its story is more than simply a medical...
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Why Mothers Died and How Their Lives Are Saved: The Story of Confidential Enquiries Into Maternal DeathsOne of the most dramatic changes to women's lives in the twentieth century was the advent of safe childbirth, reducing the maternal mortality rate from 1 in 400 births to 1 in 10,000 in just 80 years. The impetus behind this change was the...
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The Reagan Revolution and the Rise of the New Right: A Reference GuideThis book covers Ronald Reagan's long rise to the presidency and the conservative political revolution he brought about in the 1980s. Spurning the moderate values and policies Republicans had previously championed, Reagan's revolution continues to play an outsized role in America's political life. This...
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Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867: Series 3, Volume 1: Land and Labor, 1865Land and Labor, 1865 examines the transition from slavery to free labor during the tumultuous first months after the Civil War. Letters and testimony by the participants--former slaves, former slaveholders, Freedmen's Bureau agents, and others--reveal the connection between developments in workplaces across the South...
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Archiv Bibliographia Judaica - Deutschsprachiges Judentum OnlineMit über 20.000 bio-bibliographischen Einträgen präsentiert die Datenbank "Archiv Bibliographia Judaica" die gro e Vielfalt jüdischen Lebens im deutschen Sprachraum zwischen 1750 und 1950. Das von Renate Heuer in den 1960er Jahren gegründete Archiv sollte deutschsprachigen Jüdinnen und Juden nach dem Nationalsozialismus ihre Stimme...
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Enterprising Women: Gender, Race, and Power in the Revolutionary AtlanticIn the Caribbean colony of Grenada in 1797, Dorothy Thomas signed the manumission documents for her elderly slave Betty. Thomas owned dozens of slaves and was well on her way to amassing the fortune that would make her the richest black resident in the...
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Renaissance Papers 2022Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins with a "who is it" mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and...
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States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern MediterraneanThe final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a critical period of transformation in agricultural technologies and administration. Chemical fertilizers and mechanized equipment inspired model farms while government officials and technocratic elites...
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Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian NakbaAmong the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational Jewish-Arab state and officially opposed mass displacement of Palestinians. But, Hashomer Hatzair...
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Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020In the 1950s-80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the developing countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial...
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Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe After 1945How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their...
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Women's Diaries from the Civil War South: A Literary-Historical Reading"Traditionally, narratives of war have been male," Sharon Talley writes. In the pages that follow, she goes on to disrupt this tradition, offering close readings and comparative studies of fourteen women's diaries from the Civil War era that illuminate women's experiences in the Confederacy...
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Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical.By: William Henry Perrin, Pub. 1891, Reprinted 2018, 802 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-764-5.This book is a MUST for persons doing research in the state of Louisiana (with particular interest in the Southern Half of the state). Parish that are cover: Acadia, Calcasieu,...
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From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in AmericaPeer through history at Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet, whose steady nature and dominating figure earned him the nicknames "War Horse," "Bulldog," and "Bull of the Woods." Years after the war, Longstreet's reputation swung between Confederate hero and brutish scoundrel. A dutiful soldier with...
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Renaissance Papers 2021Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the...
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