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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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The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country...
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The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country...
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Approaches to Teaching Dostoevsky's Crime and PunishmentRecounting the murder of an elderly woman by a student expelled from university, Crime and Punishment is a psychological and political novel that portrays the strains on Russian society in the middle of the nineteenth century. Its protagonist, Raskolnikov, moves in a world of...
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Mistress of Riversdale: The Plantation Letters of Rosalie Stier Calvert, 1795-1821 (Revised)A richer reflection of life in early 19th-century Maryland and the Washington environs cannot be found. -- Washington Post Book WorldAuthor: Margaret Law CallcottPublisher: Johns Hopkins University PressPublished: 02/01/1992Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.23h x 6.03w x 1.06dISBN: 9780801843990Audience: Young AdultThis title is not...
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For My LegionariesFor My Legionaries is the passionate autobiography of Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, a Romanian patriot from the early 20th Century who founded the Legion of Michael the Archangel, also known as The Iron Guard. This unprecedented movement saw itself as a crusade in the modern...
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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore CooperEssays for teaching the iconic American themes of James Fenimore Cooper.A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Cooper was also deeply concerned with the America of his...
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Approaches to Teaching the Plum in the Golden Vase (the Golden Lotus)The Plum in the Golden Vase (also known as The Golden Lotus) was published in the early seventeenth century and may be the first long work of Chinese fiction written by a single (though anonymous) author. Featuring both complex structural elements and psychological and...
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The Paris AgentAuthor: Kelly RimmerPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 10/25/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 8.72h x 5.58w x 0.86dISBN: 9798885785877
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