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Lichen Tufts, from the AlleghaniesIn her 1860 book Lichen Tufts, from the Alleghanies, Elizabeth C. Wright weaves together environmental philosophy, lyrical nature writing, and social consciousness. A graduate of Alfred University, Wright was an activist for women's rights, temperance, and the abolition of slavery. She was a teacher,...
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L'Ivresse de la Liberte: La Revolution de 1908 Dans l'Empire OttomanEnglish summary: Starting with a pursuit of the origin of the Young Turks revolution, this book examines the implementation of the new regime on the governmental, administrative, and communal level. It then takes the reader into the provinces of the empire, before analyzing 1908...
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Drops of Inclusivity: Racial Formations and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1965Drops of Inclusivity examines race and racism on the island of Puerto Rico by combining a wide-angle historical narrative with the individual stories of Black Puerto Ricans. While some of these Afro-Boricuas, such as Roberto Clemente and Ruth Fernández, are well known, others, such...
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Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation FictionThe first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation...
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Before Borders: A Legal and Literary History of NaturalizationAn ambitious revisionist history of naturalization as a creative mechanism for national expansion.Before borders determined who belonged in a country and who did not, lawyers and judges devised a legal fiction called naturalization to bypass the idea of feudal allegiance and integrate new subjects...
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Uprising in East Germany, 1953: The Cold War, the German Question and the First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron CurtainThis volume is the second in the series Cold War Documentary Readers, a project of the US National Security Archive and the Cold War International History Project.The volume is the first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the...
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Situating Poetry: Covenant and Genre in American ModernismA retelling of American modernism through the lines of solidarity and division within and among ethnic and religious identities found in poetry.What happens if we approach the reading and writing of poetry not as an individual act, but as a public one? Answering this...
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Jane Austen and Lord Byron: Regency RelationsJane Austen and Lord Byron are often presented as opposites, but here they are together at last. In Regency England he was the first celebrity author while she was a parson's daughter writing anonymously. This book explores how their lives, interests, work and sense...
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Watching Women: Militant Suffragists Write the British Surveillance State, 1905-1924Historians of the early twentieth century often focus on the surveillance of anarchist, communist, and anti-colonial movements, overlooking the resource-intensive policing of the women's suffrage movement as a significant expansion of the state's surveillance activities. Bridging that gap in the historical record, Watching Women...
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The Last Transport: The Holocaust in the Eastern AegeanThe deportation of 1,755 Jews from the islands of Rhodes and Cos in July 1944, shortly after the last deportation from Hungary, was the last transport to leave Greece for Auschwitz and brought to a close the last significant phase of the genocide of...
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Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of SignsItalo Calvino (1923-85) travelled to Japan in the autumn of 1976. Thereafter, his work shows an increasing fascination with Japanese literature and Zen Buddhism, even as he adds Japanese works to the bookshelves of his library in Rome. This is the first study to...
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The Illegible Man: Disability and Masculinity in Twentieth-Century AmericaHow does the sudden onset of disability impact the sense of self in a person whose identity was, at least in part, predicated on the possession of what is culturally understood to be an "able" body? How does this experience make visible the structures...
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Regionalisms and Resistance in the Twentieth-Century Portuguese Novel: Spatialized IdeologiesOften regarded as a small and homogeneous country, modern Portugal has frequently displayed clear regional tensions, on several 'axes': between its capital, Lisbon, and more neglected cities and towns; between its developed coastline and its (noticeably declining) inland villages; between the relatively conservative small-holding...
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The Holocaust in 100 HistoriesThis chronologically-arranged collection of articles demonstrates the complex and multifaceted nature of the Holocaust. From January 1933 and the ascent to office of Hitler and the Nazi Party in Germany, through to October 1945 and the opening of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg,...
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Magnum America: The United StatesWhat is "America"? What does it look like? Where can it be found? What does "America" mean and for whom? This ambitious publication does not attempt to present a comprehensive photographic history of the United States but uses the stories and photographs in the...
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Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism: Volume 9In the half century after World War II, California's Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of fields and orchards into the nation's most consequential high-tech industrial corridor. How Santa Clara Valley became Silicon Valley and came to embody both the triumphs and...
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Henry Constable: The Complete PoemsElizabethan poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), a Protestant-born Catholic convert, is a fascinating case study in how religious and political preoccupations could drive the learned across the unstable confessional divide. He threw over an early career of government service to work towards the return of...
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The Correspondence and Unpublished Papers of Robert Persons, Sj: Volume 2: 1588-1597The rapid growth of early modern British Catholic studies, and its integration into the wider historiographical project, continues to focus attention on Robert Persons as one of the most significant public figures of the Reformation era in England. As the superior of the Jesuit...
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The Industrial Brontës: Advocates for Women's Equality in a Turbulent AgeA 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic TitleThis book addresses the ways in which Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë took advantage of the rapid change of their time unleashed by the Industrial Revolution in order to illustrate the inequalities women faced in the Victorian Age....
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Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World, 1685-1896Reimagining the Educated Citizen contends that the constructs of public education and citizenship in the struggle to constitute a U.S. national identity are inseparable from the simultaneous emergence of transatlantic constructs of an educated citizen along transnational and transracial lines. The nineteenth century is...
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