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The Cigarette: A Political HistoryFinalist for the Hagley Prize in Business HistoryA Smithsonian Book of the Year "Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov's thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse."--New York Times Book Review Tobacco is the...
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The Typewriter Is Holy: The Complete, Uncensored History of the Beat Generation2014 ACKER AWARD WINNER Anyone who cares to understand the literary and cultural ferment of America in the later twentieth century must be familiar with the writings and lives of those scruffy bohemians known as the Beat Generation. In this highly entertaining work, Bill...
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Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern AsiaA landmark, magisterial history of the trial of Japan's leaders as war criminals--the largely overlooked Asian counterpart to Nuremberg In the weeks after Japan finally surrendered to the Allies to end World War II, the world turned to the question of how to move...
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Marriages of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1783-1868This volume contains abstracts of all 5,000 marriage bonds issued in Mecklenburg County between 1783 and 1868. The data are arranged throughout in alphabetical order by the surname of the groom, and each entry supplies the name of the bride-to-be, the date of the...
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Wyatt Earp: The Life Behind the Legend"Quite impressive. I doubt if there has been or will be a moredeeply researched and convincing account." --Evan Connell, authorSon of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn "The book to end all Earp books--the most complete, and mostmeticulously researched." --Jack Burrows, author...
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Iconic Eats of Wichita: Surprising History, People and RecipesLocated a long way from any ports of call, Wichita is perhaps the last place where you'd expect to find a diverse culinary scene. From its early days as a rough-and-tumble cow town on the Chisholm Trail, the city first achieved dining sophistication through...
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American Conquistador: An action-adventure that is more Robin Hood than Robin Hood. And the story is TRUE!AMERICAN CONQUISTADOR is a historical thriller . . .an action-adventure that is more Robin Hood than Robin Hood. This story has never been told before. The author makes you one guarantee. You will never forget this saga. . . for one reason.The story is...
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The Troubles: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for Peace: Ireland's Ordeal and the Search for PeaceTim Pat Coogan covers the tortured history of Ireland from the beginning of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, through the long years of violence, up to the present attempts to find peace. His access to many of the principals gives this book...
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Vintage Tennessee SignsMany people have never stopped to realize how many of their fond memories involve advertising signs. Although these neon spectaculars, billboards and even signs painted directly onto brick walls were created expressly to persuade customers or tourists to patronize businesses, many such signs remained...
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Postcards to Hitler: A German Jew's Defiance in a Time of TerrorAn intimate history of the Holocaust, drawn from the final days of a Jewish family in Munich Postcards to Hitler tells the story of a Jewish family in Munich living as close neighbors to the demagogue who becomes the Nazi Führer--Adolf Hitler. In a...
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Dawn's Early LightThe heart-pounding tale of the events leading up to and including the Battle of Baltimore and the defense of Fort McHenry.In the summer of 1814, enemy naval and ground forces made a coordinated assault on Washington, DC, capital of the new republic, and then...
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Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of SinologyHow the Jesuit accomodation to internal events in China laid the foundation for modern study of China in the West. First published as Studia Leibnitiana, Supplementa 25 (1985) by Fritz Steiner Verlag. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.Author: D. E. MungelloPublisher: University of...
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Beyond the Bonus March and GI Bill: How Veteran Politics Shaped the New Deal EraThe period between World Wars I and II was a time of turbulent political change, with suffragists, labor radicals, demagogues, and other voices clamoring to be heard. One group of activists that has yet to be closely examined by historians is World War I...
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Manhattan '45In 1945, New York City stood at the pinnacle of its cultural and economic power. Never again would the city possess the unique mixture of innocence and sophistication, romance and formality, generosity and confidence which characterized it in this moment of triumph. In Manhattan...
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American Anti-Communism: Combating the Enemy Within, 1830-1970This succinct and sensible history shows how fear of 'Reds' was linked in the nineteenth century to the destabilizing impact of industrialization and in the twentieth century to perceptions of global insecurity. An excellent concluding chapter explains the fading of anticommunism since the days...
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabamaas Black BeltWinner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationA remarkable story of the people of rural Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who in 1966 organized a radical experiment in democratic politics Early...
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Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American RaceAn essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans--the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The...
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Delta of Power: The Military-Industrial ComplexDoes the Military-Industrial Complex as we understand it still exist? If so, how has it changed since the end of the Cold War? First named by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in his farewell address, the Military-Industrial Complex, originally an exclusively American phenomenon of the...
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Spiritual Criminals: How the Camden 28 Put the Vietnam War on TrialA surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971--and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty-eight people in connection to a break-in at a Camden, New Jersey, draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated. The case...
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Pulp Empire: The Secret History of Comic Book ImperialismWinner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and '50s, comic books were some of the most popular--and most unfiltered--entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of...
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