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Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands: Mobilities and Migration Along the Prussian Eastern RailroadTracing multiple mobilities, entangled borderlands, microhistory and space, and human and nonhuman actors, Jan Musekamp demonstrates how an inner-Prussian railroad line turned into a transnational force, overcoming borders and connecting Europeans in a time of rising nationalism. Shifting Lines, Entangled Borderlands investigates the dichotomy...
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Shaker Made: Inside Pleasant Hill's Shaker VillageAuthor: Carol PeacheePublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 02/06/2024Pages: 228Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.30lbsSize: 8.30h x 10.90w x 1.20dISBN: 9780813198767
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Scottish FolkloreScotland has one of the richest traditions of folklore in the world, and the nation's greatest writers have been influenced by the country's abundance of customs, superstitions, ghost stories and folktales. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson all used Scottish...
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Scam ArtistsBeware of scammers in this look at people who lied their way into a fortune. Don't trust anyone in the Lies and Liars Throughout History series. Each high interest title uncovers some of the most famous fakers, schemers, and cheaters who turned the world,...
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Safe NowSome secrets can't be kept. Some people can't be protected. Some brothers can't be stopped. Growing up in a small town outside St. Louis, Missouri, Steve and Nick Cook struggle to balance their own aspirations with their strict parents' desire to mold their sons...
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Russia's AgonyA new and completely reset edition of the 1918 original, featuring all the original illustrations and maps, digitally restored to the highest possible quality. The author, a journalist working in Russia at the time of the Russian Revolution which saw the Bolshevists sweep to...
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Royal Romances: Titillating Tales of Passion and Power in the Palaces of EuropeMore breathtaking than any fairy tale, here are seven scandalous, seductive centuries of all-for-love royal desire . . . Elegant palaces, dazzling power plays, shimmering jewels, and the grandest of all-or-nothing gambles--nothing can top real-life love among the royalty. Louis XIV defied God and...
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Rowdy Boundaries: True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to NoxubeeDwelling along the Mississippi River, the Tennessee state line, the Tenn-Tom Waterway, and the Gulf of Mexico are a trove of characters with fascinating lives and histories. In Rowdy Boundaries: True Mississippi Tales from Natchez to Noxubee, author James L. Robertson weaves these stories...
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Roots of the IroquoisThis book traces the origins of the Haudenosaunee people including the story of the Great Peace that united the powerful Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca nations under the Iroquois Confederacy. Through this confederacy, the principles of democracy were engraved in the hearts of...
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River Warfare in Vietnam: A Social, Political, and Military History, 1945-1975America's entrance into the wars in Vietnam came as a result of several factors. Among them was the necessity of bolstering French influence in the area in the face of mounting communist expansion. This expansion was intensified by the outbreak of the Korean War,...
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies: The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War IIFew events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in...
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Richard Thomas Parker - the last man to be publicly hanged in NottinghamWritten by a family descendant, this is an account of the events leading up to the hanging of Richard Thomas Parker on 10th August 1864 in Nottingham, for the murder of his mother at Fiskerton, Nottinghamshire. Parker was twenty-nine years old and the last...
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Revolutionary Boston, Lexington, and ConcordThe only complete visitors' guide to the Revolutionary history and sites of Boston, Bunker Hill, the Freedom Trail, and the Battle Road, including Cambridge, Arlington, Lexington, Bedford, Concord, Lincoln, Acton, and Sudbury.Author: Joseph AndrewsPublisher: Commonwealth EditionsPublished: 05/28/2019Pages: 168Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w...
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Resistance and Liberation: France at War, 1942-1945In Resistance and Liberation, Douglas Porch continues his epic history of France at war. Emerging from the debâcle of 1940, France faced the quandary of how to rebuild military power, protect the empire, and resuscitate its global influence. While Charles de Gaulle rejected the...
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Reparations and Reparatory Justice: Past, Present, and FutureChanges at the global, federal, state, and municipal level are pushing forward the reparations movement for people of African descent. The distinguished editors of this volume have gathered works that chronicle the historical movement for reparations both in the United States and around the...
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Renaissance in the North: Holbein, Burgkmair, and the Age of the FuggersThe works of great painters centered in Ausburg during the German Renaissance. Hans Holbein the Elder and Hans Burgkmair are regarded alongside Albrecht Dürer as the forerunners of Renaissance painting in Germany. The prosperous Imperial and trading city of Augsburg was an important center...
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Reflections on Affirmative Action in ConstructionReflections is a collection of my writings through the years in defense of and support for Affirmative Action in the construction industry. It documents a struggle for economic justice that began on July 23, 1969 when Chicago community groups assembled to demand equal participation...
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Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural RevolutionAn indelible exploration of the invisible scar that runs through the heart of Chinese society and the souls of its citizens. "It is impossible to understand China today without understanding the Cultural Revolution," Tania Branigan writes. During this decade of Maoist fanaticism between 1966...
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Rebel Private: Front and Rear--Memoirs of a Confederate Soldier"Rebel Private," William A. Fletcher's account of service in all the major theaters of the Civil War, is one of the most compelling books written about service in the War Between the States. William Fletcher's recollection of life as a Confederate soldier are vivid,...
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Rarest PlacesThese places are like nowhere else on earth. What will you find? This title invites readers to explore the Everglades, peer into a Hawaiian volcano, and trek through the Petrified Forest in Arizona. Part of our 21st Century Skills Library, this series introduces concepts...
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