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Roman History, Volume I: Books 1-11A sweeping chronicle from Aeneas to Alexander Severus. Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), circa AD 150-235, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and...
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Robert Lewis Dabney: A Southern Presbyterian LifeRobert Lewis Dabney (1820-1898) was a Presbyterian theologian and educator who served on the faculties of Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, the University of Texas, and Austin Theological Seminary. Those who knew him--both friends and foes--viewed him as larger than life, "closer to a...
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Robert E. Lee's Reluctant Warrior: The Life of Cavalry Commander and Railroad Businessman, Brigadier General Williams Carter WickhamWilliams Carter Wickham fought bravely for the south as a Confederate cavalry officer, finishing the war as a brigadier general. He also steadfastly opposed secession, believing that it was illegal. From a prominent Virginia family, he was a natural leader in the field and,...
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Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing NationBetween the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar activists saw "thumb tripping" as a...
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Ride the Jack RabbitThey never told us we lived in the most fascinating place in all of the Midwest...I grew up here. Lived my whole life here. I've ridden my bike to every corner of this place. Shoot, I even wrote a book about it. And there...
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Revolutionary Warfare: How the Algerian War Made Modern CounterinsurgencyRevolutionary Warfare investigates how efforts to counter a revolution could also be revolutionary. The Algerian War fractured the French Empire, destroyed the legitimacy of colonial rule, and helped launch the Third Worldist movement for the liberation of the Global South. By tracing how French...
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Rethinking the Ancient Druids: An Archaeological PerspectiveDispels misconceptions about the ancient Druids through a careful study of their material culture. Ancient authors have painted the Druids in a negative light, defining them as a barbaric cult that perpetrated savage and blood rites in ancient Britain and Gaul. Archaeology tells a...
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Rethinking Slave Rebellion in Cuba: La Escalera and the Insurgencies of 1841-1844Envisioning La Escalera--an underground rebel movement largely composed of Africans living on farms and plantations in rural western Cuba--in the larger context of the long emancipation struggle in Cuba, Aisha Finch demonstrates how organized slave resistance became critical to the unraveling not only of...
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Relics of War: The History of a PhotographHow a single haunting image tells a story about violence, mourning, and memory In 1865, Clara Barton traveled to the site of the notorious Confederate prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, where she endeavored to name the missing and the dead. The future founder of...
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Red Hook: Brooklyn Mafia, Ground ZeroLong before Brooklyn was known as the world's hippest neighborhood, it was the deadliest - the seedy, dangerous underbelly of New York City, where mobsters and gangs could commit murder and dump dead bodies without getting caught. For more than a hundred years, the...
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Reckoning with the Devil: Nathan Bedford Forrest in Myth and MemoryCourt Carney's Reckoning with the Devil grapples with the troubled, complex legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest--a slave trader, Confederate general, and prominent Klansman. More than a century after his death, Forrest's image continues to resonate with certain groups and bear varied interpretations, reflecting the...
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Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World, Third EditionThe third edition of Reading the Middle Ages retains the strengths of previous editions--thematic and geographical diversity, clear and informative introductions, and close integration with A Short History of the Middle Ages--and adds significant new materials, especially on the Byzantine and Islamic worlds and...
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Raw Deal: The Indians of the Midwest and the Theft of Native LandsRAW DEAL explores the theft of Native lands by squatters, speculators, unfair treaties and blatant swindles, focusing on the Indians of the Midwest and the Great Lakes.Although Indian lands were paid for with hard cash and services provided by the U.S. government, it was...
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Queer Obscenity: Erotic Archives in Dictatorial SpainUnder Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only censored, eradicated, and attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation and even restoration initiatives that have bequeathed us an extensive queer pornographic archive. Javier Fern?ndez-Galeano takes us inside the archive...
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Queen of Sorrows: Plague, Piety, and Power in Late Medieval ItalyQueen of Sorrows takes an original approach to both late-medieval Italian history and the history of Christianity, using quantitative and qualitative analyses of a remarkable archive of 1,904 testaments to determine patterns in giving to the Virgin of Loreto shrine in the late fourteenth...
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Puritan Gems: or, Wise and Holy Sayings of Thomas WatsonA collection of quotes from the Thomas Watson, one of the most readable Puritans. Arranged by topic with a table of contents.Author: John Abey, Thomas WatsonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 05/18/2013Pages: 66Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.18lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.16dISBN: 9781484846926This title is not...
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Public Benefits of ArchaeologyLittle brings together an unprecedented mix of authors from all aspects of the profession, as well as several non-archaeologists, who address the broad range of contributions that archaeology makes beyond research. Their discussion confronts the issue of exactly who the public is and why...
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Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South AsiaHow do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and...
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Proleg?menos al libro Carne"Prolegómenos al libro "Carne" - es un libro dedicado a muchos problemas: la industria para adultos, las ideas destructivas, las filosofías del Mercado, de la Libertad, de la Propiedad y del Individuo, las instituciones de la economía negra, el estatismo, la filosofía de los...
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Progressive New York: Change and Reform in the Empire State, 1900-1920: A ReaderProgressive New York provides a firsthand portrait of one of the most exciting times in New York's and the nation's history: the progressive era, 1900-1920. This was a time of vast uncertainty and change--with major social and economic developments, including large-scale immigration, industrialization, and...
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