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Utopian Universities: A Global History of the New Campuses of the 1960sIn a remarkable decade of public investment in higher education, some 200 new university campuses were established worldwide between 1961 and 1970. This volume offers a comparative and connective global history of these institutions, illustrating how their establishment, intellectual output and pedagogical experimentation sheds...
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Making Ukraine Soviet: Literature and Cultural Politics Under Lenin and Stalin**Winner of The American Association for Ukrainian Studies 2019-2020 Book Prize** While most studies of Soviet culture assume a model of diffusion, according to which Soviet republics imitated the artistic trends and innovations born in Moscow, Olena Palko adroitly challenges this centre-periphery perspective. Rather...
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The Culture of Samizdat: Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet UnionSamizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union. But as Josephine von Zitzewitz explains, while much is known about the texts themselves, little is available on the complex...
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The Deportation Express: A History of America Through Forced Removal Volume 61A history of the United States' systematic expulsion of "undesirables" and immigrants, told through the lives of the passengers who travelled from around the world, only to be locked up and forced out aboard America's first deportation trains. The United States, celebrated as a...
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A Velvet Empire: French Informal Imperialism in the Nineteenth CenturyHow France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth century After Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a...
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A Way Across the Mountain: Joseph Walker's 1833 Trans-Sierran Passage and the Myth of Yosemite's DiscoveryFrom July to November 1833, Joseph R. Walker led a brigade of fifty-eight fur trappers, with two hundred horses and a year's provisions, from the Rocky Mountains of Wyoming to the Pacific coast of central California. Toward the end of their journey the Walker...
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Photographing Custer's Battlefield: The Images of Kenneth F. RoahenIn the 140 years since the defeat of George Armstrong Custer and his troops at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, scholars and other visitors have combed the site of today's Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument for evidence that might clarify the controversial...
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Across the Wing: Stories of Navy Carrier Combat Squadrons in the Vietnam TheatreFrom March 1965-December 1972 the United States carried out the longest sustained naval aerial bombardment campaign in the history of modern warfare. By the time the conflict formally ended in January 1973 nearly 600 Navy aviators had lost their lives in Southeast Asia. Many...
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The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt SouthSuburban sprawl transformed the political culture of the American South as much as the civil rights movement did during the second half of the twentieth century. The Silent Majority provides the first regionwide account of the suburbanization of the South from the perspective of...
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T. S. Eliot's Dialectical ImaginationWhat principles connect--and what distinctions separate--"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock," The Waste Land, and Four Quartets?The thought-tormented characters in T. S. Eliot's early poetry are paralyzed by the gap between mind and body, thought and action. The need to address this impasse...
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Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930In 1904, the first Scandinavian settlers moved onto the Spirit Lake Dakota Indian Reservation. These land-hungry immigrants struggled against severe poverty, often becoming the sharecropping tenants of Dakota landowners. Yet the homesteaders' impoverishment did not impede their quest to acquire Indian land, and by...
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Mrs. Dred Scott: A Life on Slavery's FrontierAmong the most infamous U.S. Supreme Court decisions is Dred Scott v. Sandford . Despite the case's signal importance as a turning point in America's history, the lives of the slave litigants have receded to the margins of the record, as conventional accounts have...
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Penn Traffic Forever: Deluxe Hardcover EditionThe Penn Traffic Department Store is back in business in the pages of this one-of-a-kind book. Now's your chance to revisit this Johnstown, Pennsylvania landmark or experience its magic for the very first time. The whole true story of the legendary store, its employees,...
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Jumping the Abyss: Marriner S. Eccles and the New Deal, 1933-1940Mark Wayne Nelson details the efforts of one of America's most underappreciated public servants. In 1934, Franklin D. Roosevelt invited Marriner S. Eccles, a Mormon from Utah, to join his administration. As a Republican businessman, Eccles seemed an unlikely candidate for the role of...
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The Long Flight Home Lib/EAuthor: Alan HladPublisher: HighBridge AudioPublished: 06/25/2019Binding Type: CDWeight: 0.57lbsISBN: 9781665129893About the AuthorHlad, Alan: - Alan Hlad is a corporate executive turned writer. He is a member of the Historical Novel Society, Literary Cleveland, and the Akron Writers' Group. Alan lives in Ohio with his...
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The Day We Found the Universe Lib/EFrom one of our most acclaimed science writers: a dramatic narrative of the discovery of the true nature and startling size of the universe, delving back past the moment of revelation to trace the decades of work--by a select group of scientists--that made it...
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Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet Lib/E: The Favorite Founder's Divisive Death, Enduring Afterlife, and Blueprint for American ProsperityBenjamin Franklin's Last Bet has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.Author: Michael MeyerPublisher: HarperAudioPublished: 04/12/2022Binding Type: CDWeight: 0.70lbsISBN: 9798200946389This title is only available via back order
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Castle Werfenstein and the Wonder Women of Vril: Maria Orsic and the Beings of LightThe Vril Society, or Luminous Lodge, was a secret community of occultists in pre-Nazi Berlin. The Berlin Vril Society was in fact a sort of inner circle of the Thule Society, it was also in close contact with an English group known as the...
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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIPostwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into...
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Exemplary England: Historical Inquiry and Literary Recompense in Pope, Gray, and RichardsonWhat meaning does the past hold for the present? History writing often prioritizes the ethos and actions of the "great men" of the past, those connected to formal expressions of power, as models worthy of imitation. The problem with such exemplars is that they...
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