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The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man's Life in a North China Village, 1857-1942This book is a study of everyday life in rural north China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century told through the story of one man's life.Author: Henrietta HarrisonPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 01/03/2005Pages: 224Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.30h x 6.36w x 0.69dISBN: 9780804750684About...
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Remains of the Jews: The Holy Land and Christian Empire in Late AntiquityRemains of the Jews studies the rise of Christian Empire in late antiquity (300-550 C.E.) through the dense and complex manner in which Christian authors wrote about Jews in the charged space of the holy land. The book employs contemporary cultural studies, particularly postcolonial...
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Modern Forests: Statemaking and Environmental Change in Colonial Eastern IndiaModern Forests is an environmental, institutional, and cultural history of forestry in colonial eastern India. By carefully examining the influence of regional political formations and biogeographic processes on land and forest management, this book offers an analysis of the interrelated social and biophysical factors...
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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its LegaciesContinuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American atomic bomb, the decision to use it against Japan, and the origins of U.S. atomic diplomacy toward the Soviet Union. In...
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'Begotten, Not Made': Conceiving Manhood in Late AntiquityThis book interprets fourth-century theological discourse as an incident in the history of masculine gender, arguing that Nicene trinitarian doctrine is a crucial site not only for theological innovation but also for reimagining and reproducing manhood in the late Roman period. When the Trinity...
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Daily Life in China on the Eve of the Mongol Invasion, 1250-1276Author: Jacques GernetPublisher: Stanford University PressPublished: 06/01/1962Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.74lbsSize: 8.49h x 5.54w x 0.73dISBN: 9780804707206
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The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own WordsThe World of Raymond Chandler shows how Chandler precariously balanced the values of a classical English education against those of a fast-evolving America during the years before the Great War; how he adopted Los Angeles as his home after WWI, with Hollywood in turn...
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If You Survive: From Normandy to the Battle of the Bulge to the End of World War II, One American Officer's Riveting True Story"If you survive your first day, I'll promote you." So promised George Wilson's World War II commanding officer in the hedgerows of Normandy -- and it was to be a promise dramatically fulfilled. From July, 1944, to the closing days of the war, from...
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Black Hills Ghost TownsThe Black Hills have been famous ever since the gold rush days of the 1870s when General George A. Custer's expedition in the summer of 1874 found and advertised placer gold in the Black Hills valleys and a rush to the Hills began. Indian...
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Challenging China: Smart Strategies for Dealing with China in the XI Jinping EraExpertly researched and thought-out, yet approachable and witty, this book will immediately draw in anyone interested in global affairs, foreign policy and the future of America's role on the world stage. This book provides a fascinating insider's look at how China is changing rapidly...
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Hands Around the Library: Protecting Egypt's Treasured BooksThe inspiring true story of demonstrators standing up for the love of a library, from a New York Times bestselling illustrator In January 2011, in a moment that captured the hearts of people all over the world, thousands of Egypt's students, library workers, and...
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Lakota SocietyAs agency physician on the Pine Ridge Reservation from 1896 to 1914, Dr. James R. Walker recorded a wealth of information on the traditional lifeways of the Oglala Sioux. Lakota Society presents the primary accounts of Walker's informants and his syntheses dealing with the...
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It is a Good Day to Die: Indian Eyewitnesses Tell the Story of the Battle of the Little BighornI am an old man, and soon my spirit must leave this earth to join the spirit of my fathers. Therefore, I shall speak only the truth in telling what I know of the fight on the Little Bighorn River where General Custer was...
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They Cleared the Lane: The NBA's Black PioneersToday, black players compose more than eighty percent of the National Basketball Association's rosters, providing a strong and valued contribution to professional basketball. In the first half of the twentieth century, however, pro basketball was tainted by racism, as gifted African Americans were denied...
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A Lie and a Libel: The History of the Protocols of the Elders of ZionA strange and repugnant mystery of the twentieth century is the durability of the Protocols, despite repeated exposure as a forgery. Binjamin W. Segel's work was the first full explanation of the shadowy sources for this virulent group libel. Richard S. Levy now adds...
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Outpost of the Sioux Wars: A History of Fort RobinsonIn 1874, Fort Robinson was founded amid the piney ridges of northwest Nebraska to stem the attacks of the Sioux, angered by settlers encroaching on the High Plains and by gold prospectors invading their sacred Black Hills. Fort Robinson's residents--including black troops, members of...
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A Cowboy DetectiveAfter years of cowboying, Charles A. Siringo had settled down to store-keeping in Caldwell, Kansas, when a blind phrenologist, traveling through, took the measure of his "mule head" and told him that he was "cut out" for detective work. Thereupon, Siringo joined the Pinkerton...
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These Were the Sioux"The Sioux Indians came into my life before I had any preconceived notions about them," writes Mari Sandoz about the visitors to her family homestead in the Sandhills of Nebraska when she was a child. These Were the Sioux, written in her last decade,...
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Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (Revised)No American president has been closer to the working life of the West than Theodore Roosevelt. From 1884 to 1886 he built up his ranch on the Little Missouri in Dakota Territory, accepting the inevitable toil and hardships. He met the unique characters of...
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An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua IndiansOriginally published in 1941, An Apache Life-Way remains one of the most important and innovative studies of southwestern Native Americans, drawing upon a rich and invaluable body of data gathered by the ethnographer Morris Edward Opler during the 1930s. Blending the analysis of individual...
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