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Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New AgeCaspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) is renowned as the Romantic painter par excellence, his works icons of an age of major social upheaval. His landscape paintings and drawings broke with traditional patterns of representation and paved new ways of both experiencing and reflecting on the...
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Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth CenturyJewish masculinity as a diverse set of adaptive reactions to masculine hegemony and the political, religious, and social realities of American Jews throughout the twentieth century. For twentieth-century Jewish immigrants and their children attempting to gain full access to American society, performative masculinity was...
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Can't You Hear the Whistle Blowin': Logs, Lignite, and Locomotives in Coos County, OregonA one-of-a-kind readable history of the railroads that helped develop the timber and coal resources of Coos County, Oregon from 1850 to 1930.During the second half of the nineteenth century, the towns of Coos Bay, Oregon, grew from a few scattered homesteads to a...
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Bureau of Indian AffairsFrom 19th-century trade agreements and treatments to 21st-century reparations, this volume tells the story of the federal agency that shapes and enforces U.S. policy toward Native Americans.Bureau of Indian Affairs tells the fascinating and important story of an agency that currently oversees U.S. policies...
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Building a Ruin: The Cold War Politics of Soviet Economic ReformA masterful account of the global Cold War's decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed. What brought down the Soviet Union? From some perspectives the answers seem obvious, even teleological--communism was simply destined to fail. When Yakov Feygin studied...
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British Fiji Class Cruisers and Their DerivativesThe Fiji-class, often called the "Colony" class, cruisers were a class of eleven light cruisers of the Royal Navy that saw extensive service throughout World War II. They were an attempt to incorporate the characteristics of the preceding "Town" class within the reduced 8,000-ton...
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Brand Jesus: Christianity in a Consumerist AgeIn this provocative book, the author argues that American Christianity, especially evangelicalism, has been corrupted by the dominance of consumerism in modern life. The church's mostly uncritical adoption of this secular condition has resulted in an idolatrous morphing of the message of Christ into...
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Bounds of Blackness: African Americans, Sudan, and the Politics of SolidarityBounds of Blackness explores the history of Black America's intellectual and cultural engagement with the modern state of Sudan. Ancient Sudan occupies a central place in the Black American imaginary as an exemplar of Black glory, pride, and civilization, while contemporary Sudan, often categorized...
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Blueprints for Battle: Planning for War in Central Europe, 1948-1968While scholarship abounds on the diplomatic and security aspects of the Cold War, very little attention has been paid to military planning at the operational level. In Blueprints for Battle, experts from Russia, the United States, and Europe address this dearth by closely examining...
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Black History Treasure Chest: With the Sarah Mae Flemming's StoryThe phrase treasure chest is a stimulus to the brain that it contains something of value. A bounty sought after by pirates is not what Black History Treasure Chest holds for the young reader. Relationships held between young and older generations can be very...
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Birkenhead Park: The People's Garden and an English MasterpieceWhen it was officially opened on Easter Monday, 5 April 1847, Birkenhead Park became the first municipally funded park in Britain. It was a pioneer in the development of urban public parks, designed for use by everyone, irrespective of social class, ethnicity or age....
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Between Prophecy and Apocalypse: The Burden of Sacred Time and the Making of History in Early Medieval EuropeThe tenth and eleventh centuries in medieval Europe are commonly seen as a time of uncertainty and loss: an age of lawless aristocrats, of weak political authority, of cultural decline and dissolute monks, and of rampant superstition. It is a period often judged from...
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Best of the Rust BeltThe best personal essays from a contested region, from Belt Publishing's ten years as a press.Many have an opinion on what the Rust Belt is. It's the "blue wall," "Trump country," the "flyover states," or the "real America." Or maybe, as our own president...
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Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White HouseThis collection chronicles the fiction and non fiction classics by the greatest writers the world has ever known. The inclusion of both popular as well as overlooked pieces is pivotal to providing a broad and representative collection of classic works.Author: Elizabeth KeckleyPublisher: Createspace Independent...
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Beaver CreekSince 1883, Beaver Creek has attracted adventurous individuals. The allure of precious minerals brought miners to the valley, and many stayed after the illusion of striking it rich began to fade. Those folks homesteaded and farmed or ranched. Ranching flourished for a few families...
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Battling for a New Nation at Lexington and Concord: A History-Seeking AdventureYOU are living under British rule in the Massachusetts colony in the 1770s. You're sick and tired of Britain's unfair laws and high taxes. You and your fellow colonists long for independence. When British redcoats march on Lexington and Concord, will you join the...
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Band of GiantsA fast-paced military history of the Revolutionary War focusing on the lesser known founding generals who helped win the warAuthor: Jack KellyPublisher: GriffinPublished: 01/26/2016Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.70dISBN: 9781466893283About the AuthorJack Kelly is a journalist, novelist, and historian. He...
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Auroville ReflectedOn 28 February 1968, on an impoverished plateau on the Coromandel Coast of south India, about 4,000 people from around the world gathered for a most unusual inauguration. Handfuls of soil from the countries of the world were mixed together as a symbol of...
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Audrey Hepburn: Icons of Style, for Fans of Megan Hess, the Little Booksof Fashion and the Complete Catwalk CollectionsLife advice from a screen legend Arguably one of the most recognisable actresses of all time, this unauthorised collection of inspirational quotes demonstrates the spirit of a true style icon, and reflects on charity, fashion, elegance, humanity, beauty and beyond.-'Every day, you should have...
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A Trip to Pike's Peak & Notes by the WayThe presence of gold in the Rocky Mountains had been rumored in the United States since the Mexican-American War and the gold rush to California. But, when gold nuggets were found in Clear Creek in 1859, the cry Pike's Peak or Bust swept the...
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