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Julia Wedgwood, the Unexpected Victorian: The Life and Writing of a Remarkable Female IntellectualJulia Wedgwood (1833-1913) was a leading Victorian female non-fiction writer who ventured fearlessly into the reserved territory of the Victorian "man of letters", writing about the Classical world, Darwinism, German Biblical criticism, moral philosophy, theology and science as well as literature and history. Her...
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Diverging Space for Deviants: The Politics of Atlanta's Public HousingThis book explores the often-overlooked positive role of public housing in facilitating social movements and activism. Taking a political, social, and spatial perspective, the author offers Atlanta as a case study. Akira Drake Rodriguez shows that the decline in support for public housing, often...
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Capitalist Peace: A History of American Free-Trade InternationalismA wide-ranging history of modern America that argues that free trade has been an engine of US foreign policy and the key to global prosperity. Surprisingly, exports and imports, tariffs and quotas, and trade deficits and surpluses are central to American foreign relations. Ever...
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Thunder of Freedom: Black Leadership and the Transformation of 1960s MississippiThe world's eyes were on Mississippi during the summer of 1964, when civil rights activists launched an ambitious African American voter registration project and were met with violent resistance from white supremacists. Sue Sojourner and her husband arrived in Holmes County, Mississippi, in the...
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The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce StoryAuthor: Elliott WestPublisher: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 04/21/2009Pages: 432Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40dISBN: 9780195136753Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2009Publishers Weekly 02/16/2009 pg. 121Library Journal 02/15/2009 pg. 120Booklist 03/15/2009 pg. 39Chronicle of Higher Education 05/08/2009 pg. 20Multicultural Review 10/01/2009 pg. 66Choice 02/01/2010About...
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The Devil from Over the Sea: Remembering and Forgetting Oliver Cromwell in IrelandIn Ireland, few figures have generated more hatred than Oliver Cromwell, whose seventeenth-century conquest, massacres, and dispossessions would endure in the social memory for ages to come. The Devil from over the Sea explores the many ways in which Cromwell was remembered and sometimes...
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Hollywood Sports Movies and the American DreamThrough the heart of Hollywood cinema runs an unexpected current of progressive politics. Sports movies, a genre that has flourished since the mid-seventies, evoke the American dream and therefore represent the nation to itself in idealized form. Once considered mere credos for Reaganism'sfantasies of...
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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights EraIn this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass incarceration. Throughout the civil rights era, black activists thrust the prison into public view, turning prisoners into symbols of racial oppression...
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The Allegheny Frontier: West Virginia Beginnings, 1730-1830The Allegheny frontier, comprising the mountainous area of present-day West Virginia and bordering states, is studied here in a broad context of frontier history and national development. The region was significant in the great American westward movement, but Otis K. Rice seeks also to...
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Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian BacklandsFrom 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the Brazilian backlands, elite vassals, soldiers,...
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Thomas Holcroft's Revolutionary Drama: Reception and AfterlivesA key figure in British literary circles following the French Revolution, novelist and playwright Thomas Holcroft promoted ideas of reform and equality informed by the philosophy of his close friend William Godwin. Arrested for treason in 1794 and released without trial, Holcroft was notorious...
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Selling the Sights: The Invention of the Tourist in American CultureA fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon --the tourist. In Selling...
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Erie Water West: A History of the Erie Canal, 1792-1854The construction of the Erie Canal may truly be described as a major event in the growth of the young United States. At a time when the internal links among the states were scanty, the canal's planners boldly projected a system of transportation that...
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Trauma, Memory, and the Art of Survival: A Holocaust MemoirIn this memoir, Gabriella Karin tells her incredible story of survival through the Holocaust. A Jewish girl in Bratislava, she and her family were forced into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia. Gabriella, only 14 years old, and her family spent nine long...
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White House by the Sea: A Century of the Kennedys at Hyannis PortThe intimate, multi-generational story of the Kennedy family as seen through their Hyannis Port compound on Cape Cod--the iconic place where they've celebrated, mourned, and forged the closest of bonds--based on more than a hundred in-depth interviews by a Rolling Stone editor whose pieces...
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The Keeper of Hidden BooksA heartwarming story about the power of books to bring us together, inspired by the true story of the underground library in WWII Warsaw, by the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Bookshop In London. "All her life, Zofia has found comfort...
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Good Night, IreneThis "powerful, uplifting, and deeply personal novel" (Kristin Hannah, #1 NYT bestselling author of The Four Winds), at once "a heart-wrenching wartime drama" (Christina Baker Kline, #1 NYT bestselling author of Orphan Train) and "a moving and graceful tribute to heroic women" (Publishers Weekly,...
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The Circus TrainInternational Bestseller and #1 LibraryReads Pick for December 2022 Water for Elephants meets The Night Circus in this World War II debut about a magnificent travelling circus, a star-crossed romance, and one girl's coming-of-age during the darkest of times. "A powerful reminder that to...
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The Lipstick Bureau1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotná is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale...
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The Three Lives of Alix St. PierreAn unforgettable and "fascinating tale" of an orphan turned WWII spy turned fashion icon in Paris (Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye). Alix St. Pierre. An unforgettable name for an unforgettable woman. She grew up surrounded by Hollywood glamor,...
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