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The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a GenerationIn a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George...
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Fan in Chief: Richard Nixon and American Sports, 1969-1974Some presidents throw out baseball's first pitch of the season. Some post picks for college basketball's March Madness. One might tweet about a football player kneeling. President Richard M. Nixon phoned Miami Dolphins coach Don Shula to suggest plays for the Super Bowl. He...
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The Spirit and the Shotgun: Armed Resistance and the Struggle for Civil RightsThe Spirit and the Shotgun explores the role of armed self-defense in tandem with nonviolent protests in the African American freedom struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Confronted with violent attacks by the Ku Klux Klan and other racist terrorists, southern blacks adopted Martin...
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In Her Hands: Women's Fight Against AIDS in the United StatesIn Her Hands examines the various strategies women have utilized to fight for recognition as individuals vulnerable to and living with HIV/AIDS across multiple settings since the 1980s. Taking a new chronological and thematic approach to the study of the US epidemic, it explores...
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From Label to Table: Regulating Food in America in the Information Age Volume 82How did the Nutrition Facts label come to appear on millions of everyday American household food products? As Xaq Frohlich reveals, this legal, scientific, and seemingly innocuous strip of information can be a prism through which to view the high-stakes political battles and development...
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Grounding Global Justice: Race, Class, and Grassroots Globalism in the United States and MexicoThe rise of Trumpism and the Covid-19 pandemic have galvanized debates about globalization. Eric D. Larson presents a timely look at the last time the concept spurred unruly agitation: the late twentieth century. Offering a transnational history of the emergence of the global justice...
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West of Harlem: African American Writers and the BorderlandsLuminaries of the Harlem Renaissance--Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, Wallace Thurman, and Arna Bontemps, among others--are associated with, well . . . Harlem. But the story of these New York writers unexpectedly extends to the American West. Hughes, for instance, grew up in Kansas, Thurman...
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Indian Wars Everywhere: Colonial Violence and the Shadow Doctrines of Empire Volume 71References to the Indian Wars, those conflicts that accompanied US continental expansion, suffuse American military history. From Black Hawk helicopters to the exclamation "Geronimo" used by paratroopers jumping from airplanes, words and images referring to Indians have been indelibly linked with warfare. In Indian...
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Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's WestA major goal of the New Western History is to chronicle the vast diversity of western experience. In this pathbreaking anthology, coeditors Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage-who brought us The Women's West in 1987-meet that challenge by bringing together twenty-nine essays that present women...
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Jacqueline Kennedy: First Lady of the New FrontierIn a mere one thousand days, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy created an entrancing public persona that has remained intact for more than a half-century. Even now, long after her death in 1994, she remains a figure of enduring--and endearing--interest. Yet, while innumerable books have focused...
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Raza Schools: The Fight for Latino Educational Autonomy in a West Texas Borderlands Town Volume 4In 1929, a Latino community in the borderlands city of Del Rio, Texas, established the first and perhaps only autonomous Mexican American school district in Texas history. How it did so--against a background of institutional racism, poverty, and segregation--is the story Jesús Jesse Esparza...
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The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance During World War II Volume 24Flamboyant zoot suit culture, with its ties to fashion, jazz and swing music, jitterbug and Lindy Hop dancing, unique patterns of speech, and even risqu experimentation with gender and sexuality, captivated the country's youth in the 1940s. The Power of the Zoot is the...
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Pesticides, a Love Story: America's Enduring Embrace of Dangerous Chemicals"Presto! No More Pests!" proclaimed a 1955 article introducing two new pesticides, "miracle-workers for the housewife and back-yard farmer." Easy to use, effective, and safe: who wouldn't love synthetic pesticides? Apparently most Americans did--and apparently still do. Why--in the face of dire warnings, rising...
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A Wider Type of Freedom: How Struggles for Racial Justice Liberate EveryoneA sweeping history of transformative, radical, and abolitionist movements in the United States that places the struggle for racial justice at the center of universal liberation. In Where Do We Go From Here? (1967), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., described racism as "a philosophy...
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American Default: The Untold Story of FDR, the Supreme Court, and the Battle Over GoldThe untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy The American economy is strong in large part because nobody believes that America would ever default on its debt. Yet in 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt did just that, when in...
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Religion Around Walter BenjaminExamines the historical, cultural, and religious context of the life and work of German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940).Author: Brian BrittPublisher: Penn State University PressPublished: 09/27/2022Pages: 254Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.30w x 0.60dISBN: 9780271094502About the Author Brian Britt is Professor of Religion...
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Bandung 1955, 69: Little HistoriesThe Bandung Conference, held in Bandung, Indonesia, was one of the great political events of the 1950s. Its glittering array of international stars - including Sukarno, Nehru, and Zhou Enlai - ensured headlines in newspapers around the world. More than half a century after...
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Voices and Views: A History of the HolocaustIn Voices and Views Deb rah Dwork has brought together many of the most important figures in Jewish scholarship to produce a definitive collection of essays, documents, and images on the Holocaust. Beginning with a brief survey of historical anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism, the volume...
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In War's Dark ShadowIn the quarter century before World War I, change came to Russia at a dizzying pace. The industrial revolution, the building of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, the disastrous Russo-Japanese War, and the Revolution of 1905 drastically reshaped the lives of both the ruling classes and...
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The Dakota War: The United States Army Versus the Sioux, 1862-1865As the United States fought the Civil War in the early 1860s, the country's western frontier was simultaneously the site of significant military campaigns that took the lives of both American and Sioux. The Dakota campaign, led by Commander Henry Hastings Sibley and Brigadier...
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