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Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century FranceEven though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual...
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Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship treats the gold rush as a self-contained blip that--aside from the horrors of Cherokee Removal (admittedly no...
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From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American Empire's Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai'iFrom 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawaiʻ i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more multiethnic and multiracial with ballplayers possessing Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and European ancestries. As a group and as individuals the Travelers'...
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The Fighting Coast Guard: America's Maritime Guardians at War in the Twentieth Century, with Foreword by Admiral Thad Allen, USCG (Ret.)This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States' oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. The...
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The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic ReadersWhat did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers--sometimes accurate, sometimes not--were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered...
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Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old SouthCracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term "Cracker" initially designated a person who boasted, but in American...
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Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. BellThis updated edition includes a new afterword that identifies the role the Buck story plays in the Supreme Court's review of emerging state laws that seek to limit access to abortion."Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Few lines from U.S. Supreme Court opinions are...
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Not Straight, Not White: Black Gay Men from the March on Washington to the AIDS CrisisThis compelling book recounts the history of black gay men from the 1950s to the 1990s, tracing how the major movements of the times--from civil rights to black power to gay liberation to AIDS activism--helped shape the cultural stigmas that surrounded race and homosexuality....
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Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the AmericasIn this groundbreaking collection, editors Daina Ramey Berry and Leslie M. Harris place sexuality at the center of slavery studies in the Americas (the United States, the Caribbean, and South America). While scholars have marginalized or simply overlooked the importance of sexual practices in...
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Bulldozer Revolutions: A Rural History of the Metropolitan SouthBy examining the metropolitan fringes of Houston in Montgomery County, Texas, and Washington, D.C., in Loudoun County, Virginia, this book combines rural, environmental, and agricultural history to disrupt our view of the southern metropolis. Andrew C. Baker examines the local boosters, gentlemen farmers, historical...
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Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800Richly researched and engagingly written, Political Affairs of the Heart traces the emergence of female sentimental travel writing in late eighteenth-century Britain, and posits its centrality to women's engagement with national and gender politics. This study examines four travel narratives written by women between...
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Useless Joyce: Textual Functions, Cultural AppropriationsTim Conley's Useless Joyce provocatively analyses Joyce's Ulysses and Finnegans Wake and takes the reader on a journey exploring the perennial question of the usefulness of literature and art. Conley argues that the works of James Joyce, often thought difficult and far from practical,...
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Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a LifewayWestern Heritage Award, Best Western Nonfiction Book, National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Nothing can change the terrible facts of the Sand Creek Massacre. The human toll of this horrific event and the ensuing loss of a way of life have never been fully...
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The Democratization of Invention: Patents and Copyrights in American Economic Development, 1790-1920An Examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century, ' this book compares the American system to developments in the more oligarchic societies of France and Britain. The United States created the first modern patent system...
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The Racketeer's Progress: Chicago and the Struggle for the Modern American Economy, 1900-1940A provocative study of law and its social context, this work explores the contingent origins of the modern American economy. It shows how craftsmen - teamsters, barbers, musicians, and others - violently governed commerce in Chicago through pickets, assaults, and bombings. These tradesmen forcefully...
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Trust and Power: Consumers, the Modern Corporation, and the Making of the United States Automobile MarketTrust and Power argues that corporations have faced conflicts with the very consumers whose loyalty they sought. The book provides novel insights into the dialogue between modern corporations and consumers by examining automobiles during the 20th century. In the new market at the turn...
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The Age of Garvey: How a Jamaican Activist Created a Mass Movement and Changed Global Black PoliticsA groundbreaking exploration of Garveyism's global influence during the interwar years and beyond Jamaican activist Marcus Garvey (1887-1940) organized the Universal Negro Improvement Association in Harlem in 1917. By the early 1920s, his program of African liberation and racial uplift had attracted millions of...
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Freedom's First Generation: Black Hampton, Virginia, 1861-1890In this age of affirmative action and increasing complexity in black-white relations, this pioneering study of Hampton, Virginia, tells the story of what race relations in postbellum America "might have been." Here, if only for a time, the promises of Emancipation and Reconstruction were...
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The Fact of Resonance: Modernist Acoustics and Narrative FormShortlisted, 2021 Memory Studies Association First Book Award The Fact of Resonance returns to the colonial and technological contexts in which theories of the novel developed, seeking in sound an alternative premise for theorizing modernist narrative form. Arguing that narrative theory has been founded...
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America in the World: A History in Documents from the War with Spain to the War on TerrorA one-of-a-kind anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations How should America wield its enormous power beyond its borders? Should it adhere to grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it partner with other nations or avoid entangling alliances? Americans have been...
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