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The Enlightenment: A GenealogyWhat was the Enlightenment? Though many scholars have attempted to solve this riddle, none has made as much use of contemporary answers as Dan Edelstein does here. In seeking to recover where, when, and how the concept of "the Enlightenment" first emerged, Edelstein departs...
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The Specter of Salem: Remembering the Witch Trials in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn The Specter of Salem, Gretchen A. Adams reveals the many ways that the Salem witch trials loomed over the American collective memory from the Revolution to the Civil War and beyond. Schoolbooks in the 1790s, for example, evoked the episode to demonstrate the...
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The Bosses' Union: How Employers Organized to Fight Labor Before the New DealAt the opening of the twentieth century, labor strife repeatedly racked the nation. Union organization and collective bargaining briefly looked like a promising avenue to stability. But both employers and many middle-class observers remained wary of unions exercising independent power. Vilja Hulden reveals how...
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Fraying Fabric: How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed AmericaThe decline of the U.S. textile and apparel industries between the 1940s and 1970s helped lay the groundwork for the twenty-first century's potent economic populism in America. James C. Benton looks at how shortsighted trade and economic policy by labor, business, and government undermined...
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Salo Baron: The Past and Future of Jewish Studies in AmericaIn 1930, Columbia University appointed Salo Baron to be the Nathan L. Miller Professor of Jewish History, Literature, and Institutions--marking a turning point in the history of Jewish studies in America. Baron not only became perhaps the most accomplished scholar of Jewish history in...
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China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People's Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted...
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More Than Ordinary: Early St. Louis Artist Anna Maria Von PhulThe first complete catalog of work by Missouri's earliest female artist provides a singular look at territorial life in the early nineteenth century. Anna Maria von Phul (1786-1823) was the earliest-known female artist working in what was then called the Missouri Territory. Born in...
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The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian RealismThe Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the...
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At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to TrumpPolling shows that since the 1950s Americans' trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government, the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply...
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The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York CityIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a...
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My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-19132022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence--Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock and Soul Music Ten songs, from "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" (1902) to "You Made Me Love You" (1913), ignited the...
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Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932In Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932, author Mark A. Johnson examines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics: the 1885-1898 local-option prohibition contests of Atlanta and Macon, Georgia; the United Confederate Veterans conflict with the Musicians' Union...
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The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global StageThe 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an outspoken master...
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Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family PapersCarolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family collects the papers of Elihu Spencer, a fourth-generation New Englander, and his family and Southern descendants, to form a history of the American nation from the point of view of planters and those they held...
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Volume II, Part IIEmbracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the state, this newly republished double volume collection provides a record of the lives of many of the most worthy and illustrious families and individuals of Mississippi. Part 2, containing...
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Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco SchoolsA compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is remarkably wide ranging. Class Action tells the story...
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Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black ActWith Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of the time. The subject...
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Sharon: The Last 100 YearsSharon, Tennessee, is small-town America at its best. Roots there? You must flip through the pages to see just how deep they go. Martha Jim Roberts spent countless hours compiling old photographs, newspaper articles, and otherwise lost vignettes of Sharon history. Not from Sharon,...
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for JusticeThe Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson...
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The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South KoreaIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung...
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