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Ayn Rand and the Russian Intelligentsia: The Origins of an Icon of the American RightThis book examines the writings of the American novelist Ayn Rand, especially The Fountainhead (1943) and Atlas Shrugged (1957), which Rand considered her definitive statement about the need for an unregulated free market in which superior humans could fully realize themselves by living for...
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Food in the United States, 1890-1945From the Gilded Age to the end of World War II, what, where, when, and how Americans ate all changed radically. Migration to urban areas took people away from their personal connection to food sources. Immigration, primarily from Europe, and political influence of the...
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The 1980sThe eighties are seen by many as a time of excess and extremes. From Boy George to Madonna, metal heads to valley girls, and workout clothes to shoulder pads, many pushed the boundaries of what was was conventional. After a decade of war, disillusionment...
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Europe Between Democracy and Dictatorship: 1900 - 1945Fischer offers a captivating analysis of Europe's turbulent history during the first half of the twentieth century, from the optimism at the turn of the century to the successive waves of destruction of the First and Second World Wars. Written by a leading authority...
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Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe: New Revised Edition SetThis encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine...
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Imperial Republics: Revolution, War and Territorial Expansion from the English Civil War to the French RevolutionRepublicanism and imperialism are typically understood to be located at opposite ends of the political spectrum. In Imperial Republics, Edward G. Andrew challenges the supposed incompatibility of these theories with regard to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century revolutions in England, the United States, and France.Many scholars...
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Self-Determination Struggles: In Pursuit of the Democratic Confederalist IdealA thorough contemporary discussion of the meaning and theory of self-determination. Self-determination is a concept as indispensable as it is contentious. This volume examines the theory and meaning of self-determination today through an exploration of the work of figures such as Rosa Luxembourg, Frantz...
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Regular Army O!: Soldiering on the Western Frontier, 1865-1891"The drums they roll, upon my soul, for that's the way we go," runs the chorus in a Harrigan and Hart song from 1874. "Forty miles a day on beans and hay in the Regular Army O " The last three words of that...
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Pension Roll of 1835. in Four Volumes. Volume I: The New England States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, VermontThe Pension Roll of 1835 is the most complete roll of Revolutionary War pensioners ever published. Compiled by the War Department under Senate resolutions of 1834-35 from lists of pensioners who had been enrolled under all previous acts of Congress, as well as from...
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A Cheyenne Voice: The Complete John Stands in Timber InterviewsRarely does a primary source become available that provides new and significant information about the history and culture of a famous American Indian tribe. With A Cheyenne Voice, readers now have access to a vast ethnographic and historical trove about the Cheyenne people--much of...
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Who Gets to Go Back-To-The-Land?: Gender and Race in U.S. Self-Sufficiency Popular CultureIn Who Gets to Go Back-to-the-Land?, Valerie Padilla Carroll examines a variety of media from the last century that proselytized self-sufficiency as a solution to the economic instability, environmental destruction, and perceived disintegration of modern America. In the early twentieth century, books already advocated...
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Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the WestThese essays will interest readers familiar with the work of Nobel Prize-winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and are a great starting point for those eager for an introduction to the great Russian's work.When people think of Russia today, they tend to gravitate toward images of Soviet...
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America's Hardscrabble General: Ulysses S. Grant, from Farm Boy to ShilohHow Grant's humble beginnings shaped his unique military genius Renowned for his skill, courage, and indomitability during the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant is considered a model for outstanding American generalship. However, unlike most of his fellow officers, Grant came from humble Midwestern beginnings...
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A Failed Vision of Empire: The Collapse of Manifest Destiny, 1845-1872Since the early twentieth century, historians have traditionally defined manifest destiny as the belief that the United States was destined to expand from coast to coast. This generation of historians has posed manifest destiny as a unifying ideology of the nineteenth century, one that...
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Mexican Americans with Moxie: A Transgenerational History of El Movimiento Chicano in Ventura County, California, 1945-1975In Mexican Americans with Moxie Frank P. Barajas argues that Chicanas and Chicanos of the 1960s and 1970s expressed politics distinct from the Mexican American generation that came of age in the decades prior. Barajas focuses on the citrus communities of Fillmore and Santa...
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The Cambridge History of the American Civil WarThe Cambridge History of the American Civil War provides the most comprehensive analysis of the War to date. The three volume reference work covers the full range history of the conflict, from military campaigns and major battles to social changes and cultural reactions.Author: Aaron...
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Narrative, Catastrophe and Historicity in Eighteenth-Century French LiteratureHow do communities tell and re-tell stories of catastrophe to explain their own origins, imagine their future, and work for their survival? This book contends that such stories are central to how communities claim a position within history. It explores this question, so vital...
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Holocaust Encyclopedia: Uncensored and Unconstrained (b&w edition)We all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...
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Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for EqualityWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an American, and I never retreat." The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of the...
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Framing the HolocaustIn December 1941, German police and their local collaborators shot 2,749 Jews at the beach in Sķēde, near Liepāja, Latvia. Twelve photographs were taken at the scene. These now-infamous images show people in extreme distress, sometimes without clothing. Some capture the very moments when...
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