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America's Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security StateIn T. E. Lawrence's classic memoir Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence of Arabia claimed that he inspired a "dream palace" of Arab nationalism. What he really inspired, however, was an American idea of the area now called the Middle East that has shaped U.S....
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The Cold World They MadeIn the heady days of the Cold War, when the Bomb loomed large in the ruminations of Washington's wise men, policy intellectuals flocked to the home of Albert and Roberta Wohlstetter to discuss deterrence and doomsday. The Cold World They Made takes a fresh...
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Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the PacificWho gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all things Chinese, a circle of writers sparked an unprecedented public conversation about American-Chinese relations. Hua Hsu tells the story of how they...
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Policing SexualityAmerica's first anti-sex trafficking law, the 1910 Mann Act, made it illegal to transport women over state lines for prostitution "or any other immoral purpose." It was meant to protect women and girls from being seduced or sold into sexual slavery. But, as Jessica...
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Slavery Defended: The Views Of The Old SouthSlavery Defended: The Views Of The Old South is a book written by Eric L. McKitrick that explores the viewpoints of the Southern states of the United States during the time of slavery. The book delves into the arguments and justifications made by Southern...
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The Trail Drivers of Texas Part TwoThis scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief History with DocumentsConservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989 explores the successes and limitations of the so-called Reagan Revolution, chronicling its legacy through subsequent presidencies.Author: Meg Jacobs, Julian E. ZelizerPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 09/17/2010Pages: 258Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.40dISBN: 9780312488314About the AuthorMEG JACOBS(Ph.D.,...
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The American Women's Movement: A Brief History with DocumentsWith a collection of primary sources featuring the most up-to-date scholarship in U.S. women's history, American Women's Movement includes the voices of women of all ages, classes, and ethnicities, dispelling the misconception that the movement was solely a white, middle-class causeAuthor: Nancy MacLeanPublisher: Bedford...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s: A Brief History with DocumentsThe civil rights movement's most prominent leaders, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) and Malcolm X (1925-1965), represent two wings of the revolt against racism: nonviolent resistance and revolution "by any means necessary." This volume presents the two leaders' relationship to the civil rights movement...
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Voices of Decolonization: A Brief History with DocumentsExploring decolonization as both a historical era and an aspirational movement, Voices of Decolonization shows how and why mid-twentieth-century decolonization transformed societies and cultures and continues to shape the world today.Author: Todd ShepardPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 07/18/2014Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x...
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The Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945: A Brief History with DocumentsThe 45 primary sources found in Era of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 provide you with a rich context to understand the multifaceted role FDR had as president, reformer, policymaker, and commander-in-chief.Author: Richard D. PolenbergPublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 01/21/2000Pages: 251Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.66lbsSize: 8.24h x 5.56w...
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The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics: A Brief History with DocumentsWith primary sources never before translated into English, Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics connects this debate, which profoundly shaped the economic, social, and cultural contours of the Cold War era, to consumer society, gender ideologies, and geopolitics.Author: Sarah T. Phillips, Shane HamiltonPublisher:...
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The Rise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000: A Brief History with DocumentsRise of Conservatism in America, 1945-2000 utilizes speeches, cartoons, party platforms, and editorials to trace the remarkable impact of the conservative movement in the last half of the twentieth century.Author: Ronald Story, Bruce LauriePublisher: Bedford BooksPublished: 03/01/2007Pages: 208Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.47lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.51w...
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Reading Character After Calvin: Secularization, Empire, and the Eighteenth-Century NovelHow Calvinist theology helps us read characters in the early British novel, shedding new light on the origins of modern secularism The strangeness of fictional characters in the eighteenth-century novel has been well documented. They are two-dimensional yet complex; they suggest unstable correspondences between...
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Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American TraditionThe vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so central to conceptions of the American founding, did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set...
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Grace Coolidge: The People's Lady in Silent Cal's White HouseWhen Grace Anna Goodhue wed Calvin Coolidge in 1905, she thought then that marriage "has seldom united two people of more vastly different temperaments and tastes." Warm and vivacious to her husband's dour and taciturn, Grace was to be a contrast to Calvin for...
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Rosalynn Carter: Equal Partner in the White HouseBefore Hillary, there was Rosalynn. Rosalynn Carter--the most politically active first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt--was sometimes called the second most powerful person in the United States. Even when her husband Jimmy Carter's approval ratings sank to record lows, she still tied with Mother Teresa...
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Uncommon Sense: Jeremy Bentham, Queer Aesthetics, and the Politics of TasteInfamous for authoring two concepts since favored by government powers seeking license for ruthlessness--the utilitarian notion of privileging the greatest happiness for the most people and the panopticon--Jeremy Bentham is not commonly associated with political emancipation. But perhaps he should be. In his private...
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Space and Time Under Persecution: The German-Jewish Experience in the Third ReichA new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron. In Space and Time under Persecution, Guy Miron considers how social exclusion, economic decline, physical relocation, and, later, forced evictions, labor, and deportation under...
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The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early RepublicAuthor: Shira LuriePublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/09/2023Pages: 240Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9780813950112
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