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Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian LiteratureIn nineteenth-century Britain, the word queer was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms of financial association and trust. Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature centers this forgotten facet of queer by recovering an alternative economic narrative of the Victorian...
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A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations: Volume 87The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal and political experiences...
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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III: Volume 9These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth of digital projects: unlike traditional scholarship, digital...
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America: A Narrative HistoryAmerica: A Narrative History puts narrative front and center with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colorful biographical sketches, and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect our society and our students today by continuing to incorporate diverse voices into the narrative with new...
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The Reconstructed 1810 Census of TennesseeSubstitute for the lost 1810 Tennessee Census, abstracted from a wide range of records from 1809-1811. Many entries include extra information about women, children, free blacks/slaves. Cites name, county and original source record, and any notes. 33,000 Long-Lost Records from Tax Lists, Court Minutes,...
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Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. MorganGentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships. At the turn of the...
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Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War Against Nazi GermanyAmerica's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing...
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New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960sIn the 1960s, a number of Catholic women religious in the United States abandoned traditional apostolic works to experiment with new and often unprecedented forms of service among non-Catholics. Amy Koehlinger explores the phenomenon of the "new nun" through close examination of one of...
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The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the WorldComputers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how we got here. The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World covers topics from early efforts at mathematical computation back in ancient times, such as the abacus and...
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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, RepressionAlready famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is...
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Harriet Tubman: A Life in American HistoryHarriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chronicle of her life and work with information about her life as a slave, role as conductor on the Underground Railroad,...
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Politisches ScheiternDas politische Scheitern im Europa der Vormoderne ist bis heute von der Geschichtswissenschaft mit wenigen Ausnahmen nicht als eigenes Themenfeld beforscht worden. Ausgehend von einem integrativen Politikbegriff im Sinne der Neuen Politikgeschichte widmet sich der Band solchen historischen Akteuren und Gruppen, Bestrebungen und Entwicklungen,...
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Das Öl Und Der Kampf Um Eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung: Die Bedeutung Der Ölkrisen Der 1970er Jahre Für Die Nord-Süd-BeziehungenDie beiden "Ölschocks" von 1973/74 und 1979/80 waren nicht nur zentrale wirtschaftliche Ereignisse, sondern übten entscheidenden Einfluss auf die zeitgenössischen Debatten um eine grundlegende Reform, wenn nicht gar Revolution, der Weltwirtschaftsordnung aus. Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die Ölkrisen erstmals nicht allein mit Blick auf...
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Die Erzeugung von ArbeitWas Arbeit war, ist oder sein soll, versteht sich nicht von selbst. Arbeit war und ist Gegenstand und Produkt von Auseinandersetzungen. Die Beiträge des Bandes reflektieren am Beispiel Österreichs von ca. 1918-1938 verschiedene Facetten aktueller internationaler Forschungsdebatten zur Geschichte von Arbeit und folgen dabei...
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Pearson Bacc Hist: Auth 2e BundleFour new and revised titles providing comprehensive coverage of the most popular history topics for the 2015 Group 3 curriculum. Each title provides coverage of the appropriate topics, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to answer essay questions on Paper One and...
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A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business Like ItFrom the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the '20s, the 'true musicals' of the '40s, the politicisation of the '60s and the 'mega-musicals' of the '80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors. Nathan...
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The SixtiesThe Sixties is a stimulating account of a turbulent age in America. Terry Anderson examines why the nation experienced a full decade of tumult and change, and he explores why most Americans felt social, political and cultural changes were not only necessary but mandatory...
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Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi PoliticsFrom extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler's Women's Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women - as followers, victims and resisters - in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution...
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Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. in Two Volumes. Volume IIIn 1752 a hurricane destroyed the courthouse containing the Onslow County records; nonetheless, all records that could be found were restored, and to them were added authorized copies of lost records. The records contained in these volumes, therefore, are abstracts of all existing records...
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Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. in Two Volumes. Volume IIn 1752 a hurricane destroyed the courthouse containing the Onslow County records; nonetheless, all records that could be found were restored, and to them were added authorized copies of lost records. The records contained in these volumes, therefore, are abstracts of all existing records...
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