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A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural GlobalizationAn examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "the free flow of information" into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the world's...
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Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art ShayWhat does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? Troublemakers fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In dialogue with 275 of Art...
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Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-18902021 Nebraska Book Award Never Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four plains groups--American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers--Matthew S. Luckett...
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Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American ConservatismAuthor: Samuel FrancisPublisher: University of Missouri PressPublished: 08/01/1994Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780826260550This title is only available via back order
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in VirginiaThat the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia's racial purity campaign from...
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The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern PortugalAn expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active, consequential decades of European overseas expansion. Blackmore understands "literary"...
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Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day (D-Day June 6, 1944), a Bridge Too Far (Loa #318)For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a deluxe collector's edition gathering two gripping masterpieces of military history. Library of America presents two of the best books ever written about World War II in a deluxe collector's edition featuring 88 pages of photographs, full-color endpaper...
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be ToldWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association True West Magazine Editors' and Readers' Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is one of the most legendary figures of the nineteenth-century American West,...
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Trail of Hope: The Anders Army, an Odyssey Across Three Continents"Davies draws from years of ... research to recount the ... story of this unit, the Polish II Corps or 'Anders Army,' and their exceptional journey from the Gulag of Siberia through Iran, the Middle East, and North Africa to the battlefields of Italy...
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Common Sense and a Little Fire: Women and Working-Class Politics in the United States, 1900-1965Over twenty years after its initial publication, Annelise Orleck's Common Sense and a Little Fire continues to resonate with its harrowing story of activism, labor, and women's history. Orleck traces the personal and public lives of four immigrant women activists who left a lasting...
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Smugglers, Pirates, and Patriots: Free Trade in the Age of RevolutionAfter emerging victorious from their revolution against the British Empire, many North Americans associated commercial freedom with independence and republicanism. Optimistic about the liberation movements sweeping Latin America, they were particularly eager to disrupt the Portuguese Empire. Anticipating the establishment of a Brazilian republic...
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Abandoned Tracks: The Underground Railroad in Washington County, PennsylvaniaIn Abandoned Tracks, W. Thomas Mainwaring bridges the gap between scholarly and popular perceptions of the Underground Railroad. Historians have long recognized that many aspects of the Underground Railroad have been mythologized by emotion, memory, time, and wishful thinking. Mainwaring's book is a rich,...
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Das KZ-Außenlager GenshagenRichard von Weizs cker behauptet bis in die Gegenwart, von Auschwitz erst im Fr hjahr 1945 geh rt zu haben. Diese Aussage impliziert eine in der ffentlichkeit immer noch verbreitete Vorstellung, dass das System der Konzentrationslager fernab von der Alltagswelt der Deutschen funktionierte. Die...
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Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All MankindIn the years between the historic first moon landing by Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969, and his death at age 82 on August 25, 2012, Neil Armstrong received hundreds of thousands of cards and letters from all over the world, congratulating him, praising...
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Astoria: John Jacob Astor and Thomas Jefferson's Lost Pacific Empire: A Story of Wealth, Ambition, and SurvivalIn 1810, John Jacob Astor sent out two advance parties to settle the wild, unclaimed western coast of North America. More than half of his men died violent deaths. The others survived starvation, madness, and greed to shape the destiny of a continent.At a...
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Die Kreisleiter der NSDAP im Gau Weser-EmsDie Kreisleiter der NSDAP waren nach den Gauleitern die wichtigsten Repr sentanten des NS-Regimes auf regionaler Ebene. Trotzdem wurde den Vertretern dieser Gruppe, die im Stab des "Stellvertreters des F hrers" sogar als "die entscheidenden Schl sselstellen der Partei" galten, bisher in der Forschung...
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The American Western in Canadian LiteratureThe Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the...
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Hurricanes of Color: Iconic Rock Photography from the Beatles to Woodstock and BeyondIn 1964, fifteen-year-old Mike Frankel found himself among professional photojournalists covering a Beatles concert during the band's first tour in the United States. A few years later, he was a regular photographer at the Fillmore East, a storied venue in classic rock. And in...
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Sir John Moore: The Making of a Controversial HeroSir John Moore is perhaps the second most famous British soldier of the Napoleonic Wars after the Duke of Wellington, yet his remarkable career has been neglected in comparison to his celebrated contemporary. His death in battle at Corunna overshadows the wide range of...
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Exposing Slavery: Photography, Human Bondage, and the Birth of Modern Visual Politics in AmericaWithin a few years of the introduction of photography into the United States in 1839, slaveholders had already begun commissioning photographic portraits of their slaves. Ex-slaves-turned-abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass had come to see how sitting for a portrait could help them project humanity...
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