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Preserving the White Man's Republic: Jacksonian Democracy, Race, and the Transformation of American ConservatismAs Lynn's book shows, this movement sent conservatism on a new, populist trajectory, one in which democracy can be called upon to legitimize inequality and hierarchy, a uniquely American conservatism that endures in our republic today.Author: Joshua A. LynnPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 12/20/2021Pages:...
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The World Is Our Stage: The Global Rhetorical Presidency and the Cold WarA fresh account of the US presidential rhetoric embodied in Cold War international travel. Crowds swarm when US presidents travel abroad, though many never hear their voices. The presidential body, moving from one secured location to another, communicates as much or more to these...
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In the True Blue's Wake: Slavery and Freedom Among the Families of Smithfield PlantationAuthor: Daniel B. ThorpPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 02/22/2022Pages: 206Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.40w x 0.70dISBN: 9780813947235
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American Place Names of Long Ago. a Republication of the Index to Cram's Unrivaled Atlas of the World as Based on the Census of 1890George Cram's "Unrivaled Atlas of the World" contains an index of over 100,000 place names of "every county, city, town, village, and post-office in the United States [showing] the population of the same according to the Census of 1890." This index is of critical...
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Georgia Free Persons of Color, Volume IV: Chatham County, 1817-1863This is the fourth volume in a series by Michael A. Ports consisting of transcriptions of the free black registers for Chatham County, Georgia. Mr. Ports has arranged the contents in a series of tables, and chronologically thereunder, according to the dates of coverage...
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History of Caroline County, Maryland, from Its Beginning. Material Largely Contributed by the Teachers and Children of the CountyThis history begins with Caroline's founding in 1774 from Dorchester and Queen Anne's counties and treats many aspects of its historical progress to 1919. Throughout the text are many biographical sketches of leading citizens and lists of soldiers from Caroline County who served in...
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1850 Census of Georgia Slave OwnersIn 1850 and again in 1860, the U.S. government carried out a census of slave owners and their property. Transcribed by Mr. Cox, the 1850 U.S. slave census for Georgia is important for two reasons. First, some of the slave owners appearing here do...
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Cultural GenocideMost scholars of genocide focus on mass murder. Lawrence Davidson, by contrast, explores the murder of culture. He suggests that when people have limited knowledge of the culture outside of their own group, they are unable to accurately assess the alleged threat of others...
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Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold WarFreedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this cast of characters. Yet from Nicaragua to Afghanistan, Vietnam to Angola, Cuba to the Congo, the connections between these anticommunist groups have remained hazy...
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The New Winter Soldiers: GI and Veteran Dissent During the Vietnam EraRichard Moser uses interviews and personal stories of Vietnam veterans to offer a fundamentally new interpretation of the Vietnam War and the antiwar movement. Although the Vietnam War was the most important conflict of recent American history, its decisive battle was not fought in...
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Winning the Third World: Sino-American Rivalry during the Cold WarWinning the Third World examines afresh the intense and enduring rivalry between the United States and China during the Cold War. Gregg A. Brazinsky shows how both nations fought vigorously to establish their influence in newly independent African and Asian countries. By playing a...
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Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American IdealReligious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United States. That is simply not so, Tisa Wenger contends in this sweeping and brilliantly argued book. Instead, American ideas about...
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Labor Under Fire: A History of the AFL-CIO Since 1979From the Reagan years to the present, the labor movement has faced a profoundly hostile climate. As America's largest labor federation, the AFL-CIO was forced to reckon with severe political and economic headwinds. Yet the AFL-CIO survived, consistently fighting for programs that benefited millions...
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This Is Our Land: Grassroots Environmentalism in the Late Twentieth CenturyIn the last three decades of the twentieth century, the environmental movement experienced a quiet revolution. In This is Our Land, Cody Ferguson documents this little-noted change as he describes the efforts of three representative grassroots groups--in Montana, Arizona, and Tennessee--revealing how quite ordinary...
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Breeding Contempt: The History of Coerced Sterilization in the United StatesMost closely associated with the Nazis and World War II atrocities, eugenics is sometimes described as a government-orchestrated breeding program, other times as a pseudo-science, and often as the first step leading to genocide. Less frequently it is recognized as a movement having links...
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From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express: A History of Chinese Food in the United StatesReceived an Honorable Mention for the 2015-2016 Asian/Pacific American Awards for Literature, Adult Non-Fiction category Finalist in the Culinary History category of the 2016 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards From Canton Restaurant to Panda Express takes readers on a compelling journey from the California Gold...
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Holocaust: An American Understandingvolume 7Immediately after World War II, there was little discussion of the Holocaust, but today the word has grown into a potent political and moral symbol, recognized by all. In Holocaust: An American Understanding, renowned historian Deborah E. Lipstadt explores this striking evolution in Holocaust...
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The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights MovementIn 1964 a small group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization--the Deacons for Defense and Justice--to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence. With their largest...
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Cold War Liberation: The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961-1975Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies--Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau--and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the...
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Les Soldats de l'Everest: Mallory, La Grande Guerre Et La Conquete de l'HimalayaPuissant et profond, emouvant et haletant, un chef-d'oeuvre de litterature, d'histoire et d'esperance. The Times Magnifique... Impressionnant... Un recit saisissant. The ObserverLe 6 juin 1924, 7 000 m d'altitude: deux hommes quittent leur camp perche sur une vire de glace. Objectif: le sommet de...
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