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Eisenhower and the Cold War EconomyThroughout his two-term presidency, Dwight D. Eisenhower faced the challenge of managing a period of peacetime prosperity after more than two decades of depression, war, and postwar inflation. The essential issue he addressed was how the country would pay for the deepening Cold War...
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Some South Carolina County Records, Vol. #2By: Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., Pub. 1989, Reprinted 2016, 634 pages, Hard Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-648-7.This book contains records from UNION COUNTY: Will Book "A" 1792-1815, Deed Books "A&B" 1785-1791, Miscellaneous Records Book "1&2" and Probate Office 1785-1800; PICKENS COUNTY: Real Estate Sales Book...
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Empire of the AirFrom the flights of the Wright brothers through the mass journeys of the jet age, airplanes inspired Americans to reimagine their nation's place within the world. Now, Jenifer Van Vleck reveals the central role commercial aviation played in the United States' rise to global...
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Tiger, Tyrant, Bandit, Businessman: Echoes of Counterrevolution from New ChinaThe rural county of Poyang, lying in northern Jiangxi Province, goes largely unmentioned in the annals of modern Chinese history. Yet records from the Public Security Bureau archive hold a treasure trove of data on the every day interactions between locals and the law....
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Poetic Form and Romantic ProvocationCritics have long understood the development of Romantic aesthetics as a turning point in the history of literary theory, a turn that is responsible for theories of mind and body that continue to inform our understandings of subjectivity and embodiment today. Yet the question...
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Writing the Mind: Social Cognition in Nineteenth-Century American FictionNovels are often said to help us understand how others think--especially when those others are profoundly different from us. When interpreting a character's behavior, readers are believed to make use of "Theory of Mind," the general human capacity to attribute mental states to other...
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Inside Israel's Northern Command: The Yom Kippur War on the Syrian BorderOn October 6, 1973, Israel's Northern Command was surprised by the thunder of cannon fire and the sight of dense, black smoke. A Syrian force of 1,400 tanks supported by artillery and air power had attacked from the north while the Egyptian military invaded...
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Understanding Philip RothA panoramic and accessible guide to one of the most celebrated--and controversial--authors of the twentieth centuryPhilip Roth was one of the most prominent, controversial, and prolific American writers of his generation. By the time of his death in 2018, he had won the Pulitzer...
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The Geopolitics of Culture: James Billington, the Library of Congress, and the Failed Quest for a New RussiaThrough the lens of James Billington and the institution he led as Librarian of Congress during a key period of US-Russian relations, The Geopolitics of Culture examines culture as a neglected area of US foreign policy. Billington advised presidents and members of Congress and...
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Ambassadors of Social Progress: A History of International Blind Activism in the Cold WarAmbassadors of Social Progress examines the ways in which blind activists from the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe entered the postwar international disability movement and shaped its content and its course. Maria Cristina Galmarini shows that the international work of socialist blind activists was...
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Unraveling the Gray Area Problem: The United States and the INF TreatyIn Unraveling the Gray Area Problem, Luke Griffith examines the US role in why the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty took almost a decade to negotiate and then failed in just thirty years. The INF Treaty enhanced Western security by prohibiting US and Russian...
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Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern AmericaHow the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.In Energizing Neoliberalism, Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the...
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The Liberty to Take Fish: Atlantic Fisheries and Federal Power in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn The Liberty to Take Fish, Thomas Blake Earle offers an incisive and nuanced history of the long American Revolution, describing how aspirations to political freedom coupled with the economic imperatives of commercial fishing roiled relations between the young United States and powerful Great...
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The Industrial Revolution in World HistoryNow in its fifth edition, this book explores the ways in which the industrial revolution reshaped world history, covering the international factors that helped launch the industrial revolution, its global spread and its impact from the end of the eighteenth century to the present...
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Uskoks of Senj: Piracy, Banditry, and Holy War in the Sixteenth-Century AdriaticIn this highly original and influential book, Catherine Wendy Bracewell reconstructs and analyzes the tumultuous history of the uskoks of Senj, the martial bands nominally under the control of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia, who between the 1530s and the 1620s developed a...
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The Market in Birds: Commercial Hunting, Conservation, and the Origins of Wildlife Consumerism, 1850-1920A fascinating look at how a commercial market for birds in the late nineteenth century set the stage for conservation and its legislation. Between the end of the Civil War and the 1920s, the United States witnessed the creation, rapid expansion, and then disappearance...
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Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal NationNow in its second edition, Tyler Stovall's Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key aspect of France's political culture: universalism.Beginning with the French Revolution and its aftermath, Stovall traces French history right...
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Israel's Wars: A History Since 1947Israel's Wars is a fascinating and essential insight into the turbulent history of this troubled country which, since its foundation, has endured almost constant violence. Bringing its coverage up to date with recent conflicts, this fourth edition includes a new chapter on the Gaza...
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Path of Empire: Panama and the California Gold RushMost people in the United States have forgotten that tens of thousands of U.S. citizens migrated westward to California by way of Panama during the California Gold Rush. Decades before the completion of the Panama Canal in 1914, this slender spit of land abruptly...
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Awkward Dominion: American Political, Economic, and Cultural Relations with Europe, 1919 1933In Awkward Dominion, Frank Costigliola offers a striking interpretation of the emergence of the United States as a world power in the 1920s, a period in which the country faced both burdens and opportunities as a result of the First World War. Exploring the...
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