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Man-Hunters of the Old WestSettlers in the frontier West were often easy prey for criminals. Policing efforts were scattered at best and often amounted to vigilante retaliation. To create a semblance of order, freelance enforcers of the law known as man-hunters undertook the search for fugitives. These pursuers...
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Morning Star Dawn, 2: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876From a recognized authority on the High Plains Indians wars comes this narrative history blending both American Indian and U.S. Army perspectives on the attack that destroyed the village of Northern Cheyenne chief Morning Star. Of momentous significance for the Cheyennes as well as...
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Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International AmbitionOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that cause the great powers of the industrial era to pursue aggressive foreign policies? Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they...
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Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics (Loa #263): Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic / Moral Man and Immoral Society / The ChiA definitive collection of writings by the theologian and public intellectual who was the conscience of the American Century "One of my favorite philosophers," remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American...
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The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary HistoryOn the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history--depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent...
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Cathal Brugha: "An Indomitable Spirit"Cathal Brugha's life was extraordinary: member of the Gaelic League, Irish Republican Brotherhood and Irish Volunteers; celebrated survivor of the 1916 Rising despite multiple gunshot wounds; crucial figure in the post-Rising reorganization of the Volunteers; speaker at the first sitting of Dáil Éireann; minister...
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The Turn to Process: American Legal, Political, and Economic Thought, 1870-1970In The Turn to Process, Kunal M. Parker explores the massive reorientation of American legal, political, and economic thinking between 1870 and 1970. Over this period, American conceptions of law, democracy, and markets went from being oriented around truths, ends, and foundations to being...
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Visions of Victory: The Hopes of Eight World War II LeadersVisions of Victory explores the views of eight war leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt - and compares their visions of the future assuming their side had emerged victorious....
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The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human RightsAuthor: Lea DavidPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/16/2022Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54dISBN: 9781108817103This title is not returnable
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Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that international 'relief' and 'development' were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations...
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Nature at War: American Environments and World War IIThis anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex,...
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Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic FantasiesExploring how medicine and psychiatry are portrayed in gothic literature, this engaging book illustrates how Stoker's famous work was influenced by nineteenth-century attitudes to disease and medicine and reveals many previously unknown links. Extracts from many sensational stories of the time are presented, and...
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The Indian War of 1864: Being a Fragment of the Early History of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming (Hardcover)The Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States, and the Native American tribes. A shocking account of the bloodshed and damage wrought as white settlers moved relentlessly westward during the...
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The World Health Organization: A HistoryAccording to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and...
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Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi ValleyAuthor: John C. RodriguePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/26/2023Pages: 534Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19dISBN: 9781108439343
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The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World WarThis is a definitive account of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how Austria-Hungary entered the war woefully unprepared for the ordeal it would endure. When the war commenced, the Habsburg Army proved grossly under...
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The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic ImaginationBeyond her most famous creation--the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's Creature--Mary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last...
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Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American CapitalismAt the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other...
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Ambushes and Armour: The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921The recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused public attention on ambushes, but this is not a new problem. The Irish Revolution (1916-1923) was a war of 'firsts': the first British counter-insurgency after World War I; the first mass use of motorized vehicles...
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The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945: Rescue and DestructionList of Figures.- List of Tables.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: From the Opera to the Streets.- Chapter 2: The Anschluss Pogrom: Panic, Chaos, and Confusion for Vienna's Jews in March 1938.- Chapter 3: The IKG: Co-opted by the New Masters.- Chapter 4: Turning Point: Vienna...
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