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Carter G. Woodson: History, the Black Press, and Public RelationsThis study reveals how Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) used the black press and modern public-relations techniques to popularize black history during the first half of the twentieth century. Often overlooked is Woodson's skillful use of newspapers in developing and executing a public-education campaign built...
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Good Doctors: The Medical Committee for Human Rights and the Struggle for Social Justice in Health CareIn the summer of 1964 medical professionals, mostly white and northern, organized the Medical Committee for Human Rights (MCHR) to provide care and support for civil rights activists organizing black voters in Mississippi. They left their lives and lucrative private practices to march beside...
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Shortest Way with Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Deism, and the NovelA scholarly and imaginative reconstruction of the voyage Daniel Defoe took from the pillory to literary immortality, The Shortest Way with Defoe contends that Robinson Crusoe contains a secret satire, written against one person, that has gone undetected for 300 years. By locating Defoe's...
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Broken Lives: How Ordinary Germans Experienced the 20th CenturyThe gripping stories of ordinary Germans who lived through World War II, the Holocaust, and Cold War partition--but also recovery, reunification, and rehabilitation Broken Lives is a gripping account of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of ordinary Germans who came of...
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Accidental Republic: Crippled Workingmen, Destitute Widows, and the Remaking of American LawIn the five decades after the Civil War, the United States witnessed a profusion of legal institutions designed to cope with the nation's exceptionally acute industrial accident crisis. Jurists elaborated the common law of torts. Workingmen's organizations founded a widespread system of cooperative insurance....
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Rope & Faggot: A Biography of Judge LynchIn 1926, Walter White, then assistant secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, broke the story of an especially horrific triple lynching in Aiken, South Carolina. Aiken was White's forty-first lynching investigation in eight years. He returned to New York...
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Reforming the City: The Contested Origins of Urban Government, 1890-1930Most American cities are now administered by appointed city managers and governed by councils chosen in nonpartisan, at-large elections. In the early twentieth century, many urban reformers claimed these structures would make city government more responsive to the popular will. But on the whole,...
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Voices from Beyond: Physiology, Sentience, and the Uncanny in Eighteenth-Century French LiteratureThere was much uncertainty about how voice related to body in the early eighteenth century, and this became a major subject of scientific and cultural interest. In Voices from Beyond, Scott Sanders provides an interdisciplinary and transnational study of eighteenth-century conceptions of the human...
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The Naked Truth: Viennese Modernism and the BodyUncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West. Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siècle fascination with the psyche. But this stereotype...
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Politics and Cultural Nativism in 1970s Taiwan: Youth, Narrative, NationalismIn the aftermath of 1949, Taiwan's elites saw themselves as embodying China in exile both politically and culturally. The island--officially known as the Republic of China--was a temporary home to await the reconquest of the mainland. Taiwan, not the People's Republic, represented China internationally...
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A Troubled Birth: The 1930s and American Public OpinionPollsters and pundits armed with the best public opinion polls failed to predict the election of Donald Trump in 2016. Is this because we no longer understand what the American public is? In A Troubled Birth, Susan Herbst argues that we need to return...
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Designs on Empire: America's Rise to Power in the Age of European ImperialismIn the eyes of both contemporaries and historians, the United States became an empire in 1898. By taking possession of Cuba and the Philippines, the nation seemed to have reached a watershed moment in its rise to power--spurring arguments over whether it should be...
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Friend or Foe: Militia Intelligence and Ethnic Violence in the Lebanese Civil WarWhen civil conflicts break out in plural societies, violence often occurs along group divides--running the risk of spiraling into ethnic cleansing. Yet for militants who do not seek ethnic separation as a political goal, indiscriminate attacks are detrimental to their cause. Under what circumstances...
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Albert O. Hirschman: An Intellectual BiographyOne of the most original social scientists of the twentieth century, Albert O. Hirschman led an uncommonly dramatic life. After fleeing Nazi Germany as a youth, he fought in the Spanish Civil War, took part in antifascist activities in Italy, and organized an underground...
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Grand Strategy from Truman to TrumpAmerican foreign policy is the subject of extensive debate. Many look to domestic factors as the driving forces of bad policies. Benjamin Miller instead seeks to account for changes in US international strategy by developing a theory of grand strategy that captures the key...
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Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean HajjWith the advent of the steamship, repeated outbreaks of cholera marked oceanic pilgrimages to Mecca as a dangerous form of travel and a vehicle for the globalization of epidemic diseases. European, especially British Indian, officials also feared that lengthy sojourns in Arabia might expose...
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Empires of Vice: The Rise of Opium Prohibition Across Southeast AsiaA history of opium's dramatic fall from favor in colonial Southeast Asia During the late nineteenth century, opium was integral to European colonial rule in Southeast Asia. The taxation of opium was a major source of revenue for British and French colonizers, who also...
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Women and the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965Historians have long agreed that women--black and white--were instrumental in shaping the civil rights movement. Until recently, though, such claims have not been supported by easily accessed texts of speeches and addresses. With this first-of-its-kind anthology, Davis W. Houck and David E. Dixon present...
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Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to ProvenceMasterworks by great Romantic, Impressionist, and early modern artists are presented in relationship to the 19th-century horticultural revolution that transformed the landscape of France The spectacular transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned...
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Obituaries in American Culture"Within the short period of a year, she was a bride, a beloved wife and companion, a mother, a corpse," reported The National Intelligencer on the death of Elizabeth Buchanan in 1838. Such obituaries fascinate us. Few of us realize that, when examined historically,...
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