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A History of Modern Linguistics: From the Beginnings to World War IIIn this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures...
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Borderland on the Isthmus: Race, Culture, and the Struggle for the Canal ZoneThe construction, maintenance, and defense of the Panama Canal brought Panamanians, U.S. soldiers and civilians, West Indians, Asians, and Latin Americans into close, even intimate, contact. In this lively and provocative social history, Michael E. Donoghue positions the Panama Canal Zone as an imperial...
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Do Not Forget Me: Three Jewish Mothers Write to Their Sons from the Thessaloniki GhettoFollowing the Axis invasion of Greece, the Nazis began persecuting the country's Jews much as they had across the rest of occupied Europe, beginning with small indignities and culminating in mass imprisonment and deportations. Among the many Jews confined to the Thessaloniki ghetto during...
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The Ends of Knowledge: Outcomes and Endpoints Across the Arts and SciencesBringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is "the last or furthest end of knowledge"? It is a book about why we do what we do, and...
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Beatlemania in America: Fan Culture from BelowWhen The Beatles arrived in postwar America, Beatlemania swept the nation as hysterical girls flocked to the band and young men grew out their hair. In this book Andrew Hunt explores this wildly enthusiastic fandom from the bottom-up. Showcasing oral histories, fan magazines, club...
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The Shah's Imperial Celebrations of 1971: Nationalism, Culture and Politics in Late Pahlavi IranIn October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great. Dozens of heads of state descended on Persepolis for these Celebrations, where they were regaled to...
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A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth CenturyHow France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a...
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Making the Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a NationReleased in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an immediate success. Life magazine called it "the first big, good movie of the post-war era" to tackle the "veterans problem." Today we call that problem PTSD, but in the initial aftermath of World...
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The Naval War of 1812This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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American Culture in the 1930'sA clear overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and case studies of influential texts and practitioners of the decade.Author: David EldridgePublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 10/08/2008Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize:...
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A Voyage to the South Seas, in the Years 1740-1. Containing a Faithful Narrative of the Loss of His Majesty's Ship the the [sic] Wager on a Desolate IThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India Awadh and Punjab, 1707-1748The period following the death of Aurangzeb has been viewed as the beginning of the decline and decay of the Mughal empire. Examining two contrasting regions of north India-Awadh and Punjab-this pioneering work shows how the period 1707-48 saw the emergence of a new...
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A Voice in Their Own Destiny: Reagan, Thatcher, and Public Diplomacy in the Nuclear 1980sOn June 8, 1982, Ronald Reagan delivered a historic address to the British Parliament, promising that the United States would give people around the world "a voice in their own destiny" in the struggle against Soviet totalitarianism. While British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher celebrated...
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Dissent After Disruption: Church and State in Scotland, 1843-63The Disruption of the Church of Scotland was one of the most important events in Victorian Britain and had a profound and lasting impact on Scottish religion, politics and society. This book provides the first detailed account of the two major non-established Presbyterian denominations...
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Staged News: The Federal Theatre Project's Living Newspapers in New YorkIn 1935, a group of journalists and theater artists embarked on an unusual collaboration. With funds from the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a Depression-era employment initiative established by President Roosevelt's New Deal, they set out to produce news for the theatrical stage. Over the...
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The Long Nineteenth Century: A History of Germany, 1780-1918In the late eighteenth century, German-speaking Europe was a patchwork of principalities and lordships. Most people lived in the countryside, and just half survived until their late twenties. By the beginning of our own century, unified Germany was the most powerful state in Europe....
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A Compendium of the Travels of Frederick Lewis Norden Through Egypt and NubiaThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and the Faerie QueeneThis is the first full-length study to be devoted to the humour of The Faerie Queene. Once a byword for Protestant sobriety and moral idealism, Spenser is now better known for his irony and elusiveness. But Victoria Coldham-Fussell argues that his sense of humour...
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For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American DemocracyHow did the global Cold War influence American politics at home? For Might and Right traces the story of how Cold War defense spending remade participatory politics, producing a powerful and dynamic political coalition that reached across party lines. This "Cold War coalition" favored...
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To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World HistoryThe samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around...
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