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Miners and the State in the Ottoman Empire: The Zonguldak Coalfield, 1822-1920The story of the miners of Zonguldak presents a particularly graphic local lens through which to examine questions that have been of major concern to historians--most prominently, the development of the state, the emergence of capitalism, and the role of the working classes in...
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Eastern Europe Unmapped: Beyond Borders and PeripheriesArguably more than any other region, the area known as Eastern Europe has been defined by its location on the map. Yet its inhabitants, from statesmen to literati and from cultural-economic elites to the poorest emigrants, have consistently forged or fathomed links to distant...
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Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War WorldIn keeping with the tenets of socialist internationalism, the political culture of the German Democratic Republic strongly emphasized solidarity with the non-white world: children sent telegrams to Angela Davis in prison, workers made contributions from their wages to relief efforts in Vietnam and Angola,...
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Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the 'Long 1960s' in GreecePutting Greece back on the cultural and political map of the "Long 1960s," this book traces the dissent and activism of anti-regime students during the dictatorship of the Colonels (1967-74). It explores the cultural as well as ideological protest of Greek student activists, illustrating...
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The Third World in the Global 1960sDecades after the massive student protest movements that consumed much of the world, the 1960s remain a significant subject of scholarly inquiry. While important work has been done regarding radical activism in the United States and Western Europe, events in what is today known...
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A Compilation of Spanish and Mexican LawWith a New Introduction by Peter L. Reich Professor of Law and Sumner Scholar, Director, Mexico City Program, Whittier Law School Rockwell's Compilation addressed the needs of miners and other individuals who needed to reconcile Mexican land titles with the new U.S. laws that...
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The New South Comes to Wiregrass Georgia, 1860-1910Author: Mark V. WetheringtonPublisher: University of Tennessee PressPublished: 05/01/2002Pages: 420Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 8.86h x 5.96w x 1.03dISBN: 9781572331686
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In God's Name: Genocide and Religion in the Twentieth CenturyDespite the widespread trends of secularization in the 20th century, religion has played an important role in several outbreaks of genocide since the First World War. And yet, not many scholars have looked either at the religious aspects of modern genocide, or at the...
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The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second EditionFor more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians--including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series--have updated the most...
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African American Religious History: Documentary WitnessThis widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents-many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to find-include...
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Making Maine: Statehood and the War of 1812After the Revolutionary War ended, the new American nation grappled with a question about its identity: Were the states sovereign entities or subordinates to a powerful federal government? The War of 1812 brought this vexing issue into sharp relief, as a national government intent...
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Religion and Empire in Portuguese India: Conversion, Resistance, and the Making of GoaHow did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism? In Religion and Empire in Portuguese India, ngela Barreto Xavier examines these questions through a...
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Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of NaturalizationAn ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal allegiance and integrate new subjects...
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Comics and Nation: Power, Pop Culture, and Political Transformation in PolandComics and Nation offers a fresh perspective on the role of popular culture in the one-hundred-year history of the Polish state, from its foundation in 1918 to the present. Drawing on dozens of press articles, interviews, and readers' letters, Ewa Stańczyk discusses how journalists,...
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What Is History For?: Johann Gustav Droysen and the Functions of HistoriographyA scholar of Hellenistic and Prussian history, Droysen developed a historical theory that at the time was unprecedented in range and depth, and which remains to the present day a valuable key for understanding history as both an idea and a professional practice. Arthur...
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Religion of a Different Color: Race and the Mormon Struggle for WhitenessMormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteenth century. Yet, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have struggled for status and recognition. In this...
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Becoming East German: Socialist Structures and Sensibilities After HitlerFor roughly the first decade after the demise of the GDR, professional and popular interpretations of East German history concentrated primarily on forms of power and repression, as well as on dissent and resistance to communist rule. Socio-cultural approaches have increasingly shown that a...
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That Damned Fence: The Literature of the Japanese American Prison CampsUntil the late twentieth century, relatively few Americans knew that the United States government forcibly detained nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. At war's end, the nation, including many of those who were confined to the ten Relocation Centers--which PresidentRoosevelt initially referred...
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Design History Beyond the CanonDesign History Beyond the Canon subverts hierarchies of taste which have dominated traditional narratives of design history. This book explores a diverse selection of objects, spaces and media, ranging from high design to mass-produced and mass-marketed objects, as well as counter-cultural and sub-cultural material....
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Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx LiteraturesIn Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary...
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