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Pearl Harbor: Japan's Attack and America's Entry Into World War IIHawaii, 7th December 1941, shortly before 8 in the morning: Japanese torpedo bombers launch a surprise attack on the US Pacific fleet anchored in Pearl Harbor. The devastating attack claims the lives of over 2,400 American soldiers, sinks or damages 18 ships and destroys...
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Instrument of War: Volume 1 - The Austrian Army in the Seven Years WarHow did an 18th Century army work? This book is the most important examination of such an army yet done, written by the premier military historian of the era.Maria Theresa had seen her inheritance almost lost to unprovoked attacks from her neighbors. Her army...
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She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in AmericaIn the late nineteenth century hundreds of clubs formed across the United States devoted to the reading of Shakespeare. From Pasadena, California, to the seaside town of Camden, Maine; from the isolated farm town of Ottumwa, Iowa, to Mobile, Alabama, on the Gulf coast,...
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Feminism and SuffrageIn the two decades since Feminism and Suffrage was first published, the increased presence of women in politics and the gender gap in voting patterns have focused renewed attention on an issue generally perceived as nineteenth-century. For this new edition, Ellen Carol DuBois addresses...
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Arrested Development: The Soviet Union in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali, 1955-1968Arrested Development examines the USSR's involvement in West Africa during the 1950s and 1960s as aid donor, trade partner, and political inspiration for the first post-independence governments in Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. Buoyed by solid economic performance in the 1950s, the USSR opened itself...
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Tennessee's Experience During the First World War"On the day that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated, Tennesseans worried about the weather," Carole Bucy writes. Indeed, the war that began in Europe in 1914 was unimaginably remote from Tennessee--until it wasn't. Drawing on a depth of research...
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Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography: The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyIn Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography, Stefan H. Uhlig offers a new account of the emergence of literary studies. Most histories of the early years of the field search for unifying origins of literature as a discipline and object of study. Uhlig turns to...
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The Book of Books: Biblical Interpretation, Literary Culture, and the Political Imagination from Erasmus to MiltonJust as the Reformation was a movement of intertwined theological and political aims, many individual authors of the time shifted back and forth between biblical interpretation and political writing. Two foundational figures in the history of the Renaissance Bible, Desiderius Erasmus and William Tyndale,...
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A History of Global Health: Interventions Into the Lives of Other PeoplesA sweeping history explores why people living in resource-poor areas lack access to basic health care after billions of dollars have been invested in international-health assistance.Over the past century, hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in programs aimed at improving health on...
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The Statistical Handbook of Trigg County, KentuckyBy: Eurie Pearl Wilford Neel, pub.1961, reprinted 2020, 726 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-678-9. Trigg County was created in 1820 from Christian and Caldwell counties. It too is located in the Southwestern portion of the State along the Kentuck-Tennessee border. Records within this book are:...
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Biographical Memoirs of Laclede, Camden, Dallas, Webster, Wright, Texas, Pulaski, Phelps, and Dent Counties MissouriBy: Goodspeed Publishing Company, Pub. 1889, Reprinted 2018; 652 pages, New Index, Soft Cover, ISBN #089308-875-7 The original book was divided into two main sections, The first being the histories of the various counties while the second section concentrated it efforts onto the biographical...
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Terrence Malick and the Examined LifeTerrence Malick is one of American cinema's most celebrated filmmakers. His films--from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most recently, A Hidden Life (2019)--have been heralded for their artistry and lauded...
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The Natural Laws of Plot: How Things Happen in Realist NovelsIs plot a line, an arc, or a shape? None of these. Rather than thinking of plot as a sequence of events or actions put into place solely through human agency against the backdrop of setting, this book questions why we should distinguish between...
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Charles Owen O'Conor, "The O'Conor Don": Landlordism, Liberal Catholicism and Unionism in Nineteenth-Century IrelandThis book uncovers the world of Charles Owen O'Conor, the O'Conor Don (1838-1906), a Catholic landlord and MP from County Roscommon. The scion of the last high king of Ireland and one of a long line of politically active O'Conors, he was destined for...
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Surveillance Capitalism in AmericaSurveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing public debate....
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The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment ThoughtThe Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common...
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic DevelopmentDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality...
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Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial LiberalismAt first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology,...
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Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper MinesConcentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on...
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To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England CitiesA transformative look at colonial women's pivotal roles as lenders and debtors in shaping the economic and legal systems of Newport and Boston.Winner of the Berkshire Women Historians Book Prize by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansIn colonial Boston and Newport, personal credit relationships...
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