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Material Ambitions: Self-Help and Victorian LiteratureWhat the Victorian history of self-help reveals about the myth of individualism.Stories of hardworking characters who lift themselves from rags to riches abound in the Victorian era. From the popularity of such stories, it is clear that the Victorians valorized personal ambition in ways...
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Experimental: American Literature and the Aesthetics of KnowledgeA compelling revision of the history of experimental writing from Pound and Stein to Language poetry, disclosing its uses and its limits.In this bold new study of twentieth-century American writing and poetics, Natalia Cecire argues that experimental writing should be understood as a historical...
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Becoming T. S. Eliot: The Rhetoric of Voice and Audience in Inventions of the March HareHow did an ordinary, if intelligent, boy who wrote unremarkable poems become--with no help, and in record time--the author of one of the most significant and beloved poems of the twentieth century?T. S. Eliot's juvenilia show little inclination to question the social, cultural, religious,...
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Artifacts: How We Think and Write about Found ObjectsA literary history of the old, broken, rusty, dusty, and moldy stuff that people dug up in England during the long eighteenth century.In the eighteenth century, antiquaries--wary of the biases of philosophers, scientists, politicians, and historians--used old objects to establish what they claimed was...
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The Collectors of Lost Souls: Turning Kuru Scientists Into WhitemenThis riveting account of medical detective work traces the story of kuru, a fatal brain disease, and the pioneering scientists who spent decades searching for its cause and cure.Winner, William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of MedicineWinner, Ludwik Fleck Prize, Society...
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Gamer Nation: Video Games and American CultureExplores how games actively influence the ways people interpret and relate to American life.In 1975, design engineer Dave Nutting completed work on a new arcade machine. A version of Taito's Western Gun, a recent Japanese arcade machine, Nutting's Gun Fight depicted a classic showdown...
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A History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Third EditionRussia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed History of Modern Russia, Robert Service provides a panoramic perspective on a country whose Soviet past encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror, and two world wars. He shows how seven decades...
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Slavery and Race: Philosophical Debates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth CenturiesPhilosophers from Europe and colonial America engaged in heated debates about the morality of slavery in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and these debates provide insights into the roots of modern racism. Julia Jorati explores the philosophical ideas, theories, and arguments that are central...
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Edge of Catastrophe: Erich Fromm, Fascism, and the HolocaustErich Fromm, the prominent twentieth-century public intellectual and psychoanalyst, was recognized for his courageous stand against fascism, racism, and human destructiveness. Until now, however, little has been known about the extent to which Fromm's personal experience of Nazi Germany and the Holocaust shaped his...
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Picture Bride, War Bride: The Role of Marriage in Shaping Japanese AmericaExamines the role marriage played in the lives of Japanese women during periods of racial exclusion in the United States In 1908 the United States and Japan agreed to limit the migration of Japanese laborers to the US. The Gentlemen's Agreement of 1908 ushered...
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The Origin of Capitalism in England 1400-1600A spirited defense of Brenner's thesis about the origins of capitalism in the English countryside based on original archival research.Author: Spencer DimmockPublisher: Haymarket BooksPublished: 12/29/2015Pages: 399Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9781608464852About the AuthorSpencer Dimmock, Ph.D. (1999), University of Kent at...
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The New Suburbia: How Diversity Remade Suburban Life in Los Angeles After 1945America's suburbs have been transforming. The conventional story of suburbs as bastions of white, middle-class homeowners no longer describes the suburbs of America's cities. Today they house a more typical cross-section of the nation--rich, poor, Black American, Latino, Asian, immigrant, the unhoused, the lavishly...
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Challenging Confinement: Mass Incarceration and the Fight for Equality in Women's PrisonsExamines how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison protests, activism, and reform in women's prisons While the late twentieth century brought about greater rights for women, it also saw a rapid increase in the number of female prisoners. Before their...
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Forging Global Fordism: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Contest Over the Industrial OrderA new global history of Fordism from the Great Depression to the postwar era As the United States rose to ascendancy in the first decades of the twentieth century, observers abroad associated American economic power most directly with its burgeoning automobile industry. In the...
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The Americanization of West Virginia: Creating a Modern Industrial State, 1916-1925" Hennen explores West Virginia's integration into America's corporate political economy during and after World War I. Far from being isolated during America's transformation into a world power, West Virginia was squarely in the mainstream. The state's people and natural resources served crucial functions...
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Economists in the Cold War: How a Handful of Economists Fought the Battle of IdeasEconomists in the Cold War is an account of the economic drivers and outcomes of the Cold War, told through the stories of seven international economists, who were all closely involved in theory and policy in the period 1945-73. For them, the Cold War...
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Woman Much Missed: Thomas Hardy, Emma Hardy, and PoetryWoman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems (over 150) that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma in November of 1912. Mark Ford uses these poems to develop a narrative of their...
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Shelleyan Reimaginings and Influence: New RelationsThrough attuned close readings, this volume brings out the imaginative and formal brilliance of Percy Bysshe Shelley's writing as it explores his involvement in processes of dialogue and influence. Shelley recognizes that poetic individuality is the reward of connectedness with other writers and cultural...
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Romantic Automata: Exhibitions, Figures, OrganismsFor most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, however, they prompted a contradictory apprehension about mechanization and contrivance: such science and engineering threatened the spiritual nature of life, the source...
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The Agrarian System of Mughal India 1556-1707This book provides a comprehensive account of land revenue, administration, agrarian economy, and social structure in India during the Mughal period. It examines areas like agricultural production and technology; trade in agricultural produce, conditions of the peasantry; zamindars; revenue grants and assignments; and the...
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