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Out of Left Field: Jews and Black BaseballHere is an eye-opening look at one of baseball's most intriguing and little known stories: the many-faceted relationship between Jews and black baseball in Jim Crow America. In Out of Left Field, Rebecca Alpert explores how Jewish sports entrepreneurs, political radicals, and a team...
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Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of Countercultural EnvironmentalismThe emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and tactics--around the world. And yet there has been no comprehensive objective history of Greenpeace's origins-until now. Make It...
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Weight of Vengeance: The United States, the British Empire, and the War of 1812In early 1815, Secretary of State James Monroe reviewed the treaty with Britain that would end the War of 1812. The United States Navy was blockaded in port; much of the army had not been paid for nearly a year; the capital had been...
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Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National ParksNational parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Glacier preserve some of this country's most cherished wilderness landscapes. While visions of pristine, uninhabited nature led to the creation of these parks, they also inspired policies of Indian removal. By contrasting the native histories of these places...
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Resurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet RussiaResurrection: Comics in Post-Soviet Russia traces the "kopecks to rubles" journey of Russian comics at the turn of the century. As the follow-up to José Alaniz's groundbreaking Komiks: Comic Art in Russia (2010), Resurrection authoritatively and exhaustively details the Russian comic landscape of the...
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Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and CultureDuring the prosperous, forward-thinking era after the Second World War, a growing number of men, women, and children across the United States were wearing fashions that evoked the Old West. Westernwear: Postwar American Fashion and Culture examines why a sartorial style with origins in...
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Shaping Femininity: Foundation Garments, the Body and Women in Early Modern EnglandIn sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, the female silhouette underwent a dramatic change. This very structured form, created using garments called bodies and farthingales, existed in various extremes in Western Europe and beyond, in the form of stays, corsets, hoop petticoats and crinolines, right up...
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Siam and World War 1: An International History- A study on the part Thailand, then 'Siam', played in WW1, told through personal stories100 years ago Siam declared war on Germany. In the early morning hours of 22 July 1917, army units and gendarmerie called the roughly 200 completely unsuspecting German and...
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Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic LifeReads canonical works of modern drama in relation to the economic ideas of their era Emerging amid the turbulent rise of market finance and wider socioeconomic changes, modern drama enacted vital critiques of art and life under capitalism. Alisa Zhulina shows how fin-de-siècle playwrights...
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Errand Into the Wilderness of Mirrors: Religion and the History of the CIAReveals the previous underexplored influence of religious thought in building the foundations of the CIA. Michael Graziano's intriguing book fuses two landmark titles in American history: Perry Miller's Errand into the Wilderness (1956), about the religious worldview of the early Massachusetts colonists, and David...
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The History of the Holocaust in RomaniaDrawing from an exhaustive collection of original Jewish accounts and sources not available until the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu in the late 1980s, Jean Ancel provides a detailed analysis of the path of antisemitism that led to the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust in...
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Heydrich: Dark Shadow of the SSThe holocaust will remain a stain on the history of mankind in perpetuity, long after the recollection of many of the perpetrators has faded. Some names will remain, however, indelibly printed in the records and the memories of future generations. Adolf Hitler's political protestations...
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The Price of Misfortune: Rights and Wrongs in Indebted AmericaA history of the struggle for debtors' rights from the Civil War to the Great Depression What can be taken from someone who has borrowed money and cannot repay? What do the victims of misfortune owe to their lenders, and what can they keep...
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Independent Mexico: The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821-1858In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d'état, these pronunciamientos were...
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The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of KnowledgeThe Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough--an educational reformer with big dreams--embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating University. Lough believed that taking five...
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Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public SpeechIn Echo and Critique, Florian Gargaillo skillfully charts the ways that poets have responded to the clichés of public speech from the start of the Second World War to the present. Beginning around 1939, many public intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic lamented...
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Half Century, Baby!: Fifty Years of the Grumman F-14 TomcatHalf Century, Baby! marks the 50th anniversary of the first two Grumman F-14A fleet squadrons (VF-1 and VF-2) receiving their first Tomcats during the summer of 1973. This lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of the aircraft from the beginning to its sunset of...
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The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil WarPopular entertainment in antebellum Cincinnati ran the gamut from high culture to shows barely above the level of the tawdry. Among the options for those seeking entertainment in the summer of 1856 was the display of a "Wild Woman," purportedly a young woman captured...
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Vaincre Sans Gloire: Le Corps Expeditionnaire Francais En Italie (Novembre 1942-Juillet 1944)English summary: French description: En portant pour la premiere fois depuis la defaite de 1940 l'etendard tricolore sur le sol europeen, le Corps expeditionnaire francais accomplit un geste capital pour le relevement national. La force du symbole ne saurait toutefois occulter ses vicissitudes. C'est...
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Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism HonestWhen the press loses sight of truth and falls prey to bias, American press critics push back to safeguard our free and democratic nation. Journalists are no strangers to criticism and some have even seen disagreements turn to outrage and acts of violence. There...
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