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Momentous Inconclusions: The Life and Work of Larry EignerLarry Eigner (1927-1996), born with cerebral palsy, was an active and significant figure for the New American Poets of the 1950s and 1960s, particularly with the Black Mountain School. While his writing has been overshadowed by his contemporaries, such as Charles Olson and Robert...
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The 1960s in Sports: A Decade of ChangeThis book includes the most significant sporting events of the 1960s, covering all the moments that generated tremendous growth in professional and college sports in America during this decade. It features stories such as Roger Maris breaking Babe Ruth's home run record, Wilt Chamberlain...
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Babies for Sale: The Tennessee Children's Home Adoption ScandalIn 1950, the Governor of Tennessee called for an investigation of the Tennessee Children's Home black market baby operations, said to have grossed $1 million for Georgia Tann, the superintendent of the local branch of the home. Tann was accused of fraudulently persuading pregnant...
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The Earliest Dutch Imposition Manual: Facsimile of the Manuscript Overslag-Boek by Joannes Josephus Balthazar VanderstraelenThis facsimile, entitled Overslag-Boek, zeer nuttig voor alle Liefhebbers der Edele Boekdruk-konste (Imposition Manual, very useful for all Practitioners of the Noble Art of Printing"), is a reproduction of a unique manuscript housed in the Grolier Club Library. It was compiled in the years...
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Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory: The Importance of Constructivist ValuesIn Modernist Poetry and the Limitations of Materialist Theory, Charles Altieri skillfully dissects the benefits and limitations of Materialist theory for works of art. He argues that while Materialist theory can intensify our awareness of how art can foreground sensual dimensions of experience, it...
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The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World During the World War I EraThe Industrial Workers of the World--or Wobblies, as they were known--included legendary figures from U.S. labor history. Joe Hill, Big Bill Haywood, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn have become a part of American popular folklore. In this book, author Eric T. Chester shows just how...
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Man-Made Disaster: The Story of St. Francis Damvolume 3On March 12, 1928, a huge dam nestled in the foothills north of Los Angeles collapsed and spread death and devastation from Newhall to the Pacific Ocean near Ventura. Some 450 lives were lost, making this disaster equivalent in its human tragedy to the...
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Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America's two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical developments--including numerous waves of immigration, two financial Panics, increasing wealth disparities, and the Civil War--American theater and literature were developing...
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Owning Performance Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British StageIn 1710, England's first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance. Between these dates, generations of playwrights grappled for control over their intellectual property in...
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Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore HillPresident Theodore Roosevelt called himself a "book lover" and for good reason. From his boyhood days in the 1860s to the very end of his life in 1919, Roosevelt had a deep-seated passion for reading books. Wherever he went, he brought books with him....
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Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties ReaderThe fourth edition of Takin' it to the streets revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents from the 1960s that has become the leading reader about the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which had been unavailable for years...
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Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star StateGone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the state's successive...
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Sound an Alarm! Joseph Perl's Revealer of Secrets and Testing the RighteousRevealer of Secrets is a portrayal-both realistic and satirical-of Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nineteenth century. It reflects the struggle that raged between the Haskalah and Hasidism as the Jewish people stood on the threshold of modernity. In...
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African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs: Opportunity, Access, and CommunityThis bookexamines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by the uniqueness of Black experience rather than individual artists' works, Mary Ann Calo makes the case that the revolutionary vision of these...
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Modernist AlchemyModernist Alchemy takes a close look at the work of twentieth-century poets whose use of the occult constitutes a recovery of discarded beliefs and modes of thought: Yeats and Plath try to dismiss conventional religion, Hughes captures a sense of adventure, H.D. seeks to...
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Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of FranceDuring the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of former French Interior Minister Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the morning of 26 July launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy's murder to the highest echelons of the...
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Hungary in the Cold War, 1945-1956: Between the United States and the Soviet UnionBased on new archival evidence, examines Soviet Empire building in Hungary and the American response to it. Hungary was not important enough to resist the Soviets, its democratic opposition failed to win American sympathy, the US simply had no leverage over the Soviets, who...
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Une Histoire Homosexuelle: Paolo Sarpi Et La Recherche de l'Individu a Venise Au Xviie SieclePaolo Sarpi was the great adversary of the papacy of the Counter-Reformation and an early advocate of the separation of church and state in Venice. Taking Sarpi's homosexuality into account makes it possible to understand certain aspects of his thinking that have, until now,...
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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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