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Nurses and Disasters: Global, Historical Case StudiesThis timely volume describes and analyzes the nursing response to a variety of historic and recent global disasters that occurred between 1885 and 2012, including Hurricane Sandy. The book is unique in its discussion of cooperation and conflict in the disaster responses regarding the...
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Surveillance Capitalism in AmericaSurveillance Capitalism in America offers a crucial historical perspective on the intimate relationship between surveillance and capitalism. While surveillance is often associated with governments, today the role of the private sector in the spread of everyday surveillance is the subject of growing public debate....
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The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment ThoughtThe Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common...
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Slavery's Capitalism: A New History of American Economic DevelopmentDuring the nineteenth century, the United States entered the ranks of the world's most advanced and dynamic economies. At the same time, the nation sustained an expansive and brutal system of human bondage. This was no mere coincidence. Slavery's Capitalism argues for slavery's centrality...
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Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial LiberalismAt first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology,...
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Death and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century NovelDeath and the Body in the Eighteenth-Century Novel demonstrates that archives continually speak to the period's rising funeral and mourning culture, as well as the increasing commodification of death and mourning typically associated with nineteenth-century practices. Drawing on a variety of historical discourses--such as...
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Cradle to Grave: Life, Work, and Death at the Lake Superior Copper MinesConcentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the mining communities on...
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To Her Credit: Women, Finance, and the Law in Eighteenth-Century New England CitiesA transformative look at colonial women's pivotal roles as lenders and debtors in shaping the economic and legal systems of Newport and Boston.Winner of the Berkshire Women Historians Book Prize by the Berkshire Conference of Women HistoriansIn colonial Boston and Newport, personal credit relationships...
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Satanic Feminism: Lucifer as the Liberator of Woman in Nineteenth-Century CultureAccording to the Bible, Eve was the first to heed Satan's advice to eat the forbidden fruit and thus responsible for all of humanity's subsequent miseries. The notion of woman as the Devil's accomplice is prominent throughout Christian history and has been used to...
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The European ReformationSince its first appearance in 1991, The European Reformation has offered a clear, integrated, and coherent analysis and explanation of how Christianity in Western and Central Europe from Iceland to Hungary, from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into separate Protestant and Catholic identities...
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The Young Turks' Crime Against Humanity: The Armenian Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing in the Ottoman EmpireIntroducing new evidence from more than 600 secret Ottoman documents, this book demonstrates in unprecedented detail that the Armenian Genocide and the expulsion of Greeks from the late Ottoman Empire resulted from an official effort to rid the empire of its Christian subjects. Presenting...
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A Veil of Silence: Women and Sound in Renaissance ItalyAn illuminating study of early modern efforts to regulate sound in women's residential institutions, and how the noises of city life--both within and beyond their walls--defied such regulation. Amid the Catholic reforms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the number of women and girls...
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Architects of Annihilation: Auschwitz and the Logic of DestructionTwo of Germany's most provocative investigative historians examine the frightening role of young educated careerists in building the Holocaust's ideological and material infrastructure. Moving from the waning Weimar Republic to Auschwitz's fully operating gas chambers, Architects of Annihilation shows how the unthinkable technocratic "solutions"...
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The Mountain Men and the Fur Trade of the Far West, Volume 1: Biographical Sketches of the Participants by Scholars on the Subjects and with IntroductMountain men were the principal figures of the fur trade era, one of the most interesting, dramatic, and truly significant phases of the history of the American trans-Mississippi West during the first half of the 19th century. These men were of all types--some were...
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Settling Ohio: First Peoples and BeyondScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio Valley possesses some of the most resource-rich terrain in the world. Its settlement by...
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Peace, War, and Partnership: Congress and the Military Since World War IICovering the period from World War II through the Trump presidency, Peace, War, and Partnership: Congress and the Military since World War II unpacks the vital and dynamic relationship between Congress and the military, two entities that have worked together, at times with different...
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Wind Energy Revolution: How the 1970s Energy Crisis Fostered Renewed Interest in Electric-Generating Technology Volume 30It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating electricity. Not so. Most of these attempts fail, even with the availability of...
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Margins of Late Medieval London, 1430-1540A powerful study of medieval London's urban fringe. The Margins of Late Medieval London seeks to unpack the complexity of urban life in the medieval age, offering a detailed and novel approach to understanding London beyond its grand institutions and social bodies. Using a...
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The Trail of Tears and Indian RemovalIn 1838, the U.S. Government began to forcibly relocate thousands of Cherokees from their homelands in Georgia to the Western territories. The event the Cherokees called The Trail Where They Cried meant their own loss of life, sovereignty, and property. Moreover, it allowed visions...
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George Hearst: Silver King of the Gilded AgeRising from a Missouri boyhood and meager prospecting success to owning the most productive copper, silver, and gold mines in the world and being elected a United States senator, George Hearst (1820-91) spent decades veering between the heights of prosperity and the depths of...
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