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A New History of IowaThe state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. It's thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely...
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A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar PolandAuthor: Friedrich CainPublisher: Mohr SiebeckPublished: 04/01/2022Pages: 550Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.79lbsISBN: 9783161543159About the AuthorGeboren 1985; Studium der Geschichte und Kulturwissenschaften in Halle/Saale, Bremen und Konstanz mit Auslandsaufenthalten in Krakau und Berkeley; Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universitat Konstanz (2011-16) und am Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universitat Erfurt (seit...
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The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century SouthAs cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of...
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Dickens and the Stenographic MindInitially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens's stenographic journey from his early encounters with the...
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Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D. 990 - 1992In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at...
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Italy in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Bridging New CulturesA period of turmoil, uncertainty, and fears, the second half of the nineteenth century in Italy is also characterized by resilience, creativity, courageous discussions on the emancipation of women, and a variety of cultural products that are instrumental for the birth of a new...
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Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans WakePhilosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but it is his final novel which most...
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Running on Empty: The Rise and Fall of Southampton College, 1963-2005Southampton College, the easternmost campus of Long Island University, opened with great promise in 1963 and closed in 2005 amidst great acrimony. Located in an idyllic environmental setting on the Atlantic shore of Long Island, it had a nationally recognized marine science program that...
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Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Si�cle CultureExtraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.Author: Joseph BristowPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 04/12/2023Pages: 394Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30dISBN: 9781487546083
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The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar AmericaIn the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational...
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Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's CapitalDelhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges--mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the...
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Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett's...
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Mary Rose: Your Noblest Shippe: Anatomy of a Tudor WarshipThis volume is concerned primarily with a detailed description of the Mary Rose and how she operated as a functional warship. Commencing with a discussion of the place of the Mary Rose in the development of warships; her recovery and recording are described and...
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Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of EmpireLosing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a microhistorical study of the changing...
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How Romantics and Victorians Organized Information: Commonplace Books, Scrapbooks, and AlbumsEvery literary household in nineteenth-century Britain had a commonplace book, scrapbook, or album. Coleridge called his collection "Fly-Catchers", while George Eliot referred to one of her commonplace books as a "Quarry," and Michael Faraday kept quotations in his "Philosophical Miscellany." Nevertheless, the nineteenth-century commonplace...
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Citizens, Immigrants, and the Stateless: A Japanese American Diaspora in the PacificFrom the 1920s to the eve of the Pacific War in 1941, more than 50,000 young second-generation Japanese Americans (Nisei) embarked on transpacific journeys to the Japanese Empire, putting an ocean between themselves and pervasive anti-Asian racism in the American West. Born U.S. citizens...
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Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American HistoryWartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans--women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper"...
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Libel and Lampoon: Satire in the Courts, 1670-1792Libel and Lampoon shows how English satire and the law mutually shaped each other during the long eighteenth century. Following the lapse of prepublication licensing in 1695, the authorities quickly turned to the courts and newly repurposed libel laws in an attempt to regulate...
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Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical MediaThe history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form. In Projecting Spirits, Pasi Väliaho maps how the leading optical media of the period--the camera obscura and the magic lantern--developed in...
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Love Against Substitution: Seventeenth-Century English Literature and the Meaning of MarriageAre we unique as individuals, or are we replaceable? Seventeenth-century English literature pursues these questions through depictions of marriage. The writings studied in this book elevate a love between two individuals who deem each other to be unique to the point of being irreplaceable,...
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