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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV: The Great DemocraciesThis history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of...
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I: The Birth of Britain"This history will endure; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues - its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of...
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The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838The first book to outline Scotland's colonial past and Glasgow's direct links with the slave trade through sugar plantations. This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery's economic impact on British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India...
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Belle Baranceanu: Life, Art, and the New Deal RenaissanceIn this first biography of artist Belle (Goldschlager) Baranceanu, Jennifer Peoples Hernandez tells the extraordinary story of a woman who rose from humble beginnings to become the most important female muralist in San Diego during the Great Depression and a prominent California Modern artist....
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Watching the Jackals: Prague's Covert Liaisons with Cold War Terrorists and RevolutionariesThe untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold WarIn the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists and revolutionaries. They arrived here to seek refuge,...
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The Forgotten Man: Walter Hines Page, New South VisionaryThe Forgotten Man is a biography of Walter Hines Page (1855-1918), a turn of the nineteenth-century North Carolinian writer, newspaper and magazine editor, political and educational reformer, and U.S. ambassador to Britain during the first World War. Page stood up to self-serving Southern politicians,...
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Recreation Without Humiliation: Black Leisure in the Twentieth-Century SouthRecreation without Humiliation is the first comprehensive study of Black amusement venues established by Black Americans for Black Americans. Mary Stanton's extensive research on African American amusement parks in America explores not only segregation, class, and social barriers but also the notion of the...
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New Destinations of Empire: Mobilities, Racial Geographies, and Citizenship in the Transpacific United StatesIn 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenching imperial power dynamics between the two countries. The U.S.-RMI Compact at once enshrined exclusive U.S. military access to the islands...
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Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of ColonialismIn this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals--including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Immanuel Kant; and...
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Notes on Footnotes: Annotating Eighteenth-Century LiteratureThis collection presents fourteen essays on annotating eighteenth-century literature. Authored by editors and annotators of current standard editions--such as California's Works of John Dryden, the Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, and the Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson--this book...
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Violence and the Genesis of the Anatomical ImageNothing excited early modern anatomists more than touching a beating heart. In his 1543 treatise, Andreas Vesalius boasts that he was able to feel life itself through the membranes of a heart belonging to a man who had just been executed, a comment that...
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Reading Mennonite Writing: A Study in Minor TransnationalismMennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged a reconsideration of the field's past and a reconceptualization of its future. This is exactly what Reading Mennonite Writing does.Drawing on the transnational turn...
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Scented Visions: Smell in Art, 1850-1914Smell loomed large in cultural discourse in the late nineteenth century, thanks to the midcentury fear of miasma, the drive for sanitation reform, and the rise in artificial perfumery. Meanwhile, the science of olfaction remained largely mysterious, prompting an impulse to "see smell" and...
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Dynamic Matter: Transforming Renaissance ObjectsDynamic Matter investigates the life histories of Renaissance objects. Eschewing the critical tendency to study how objects relate to human needs and desires, this work foregrounds the objects themselves, demonstrating their potential to transform their environments as they travel across time and space.Integrating early...
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The Shining Path in Huancavelica, Peru: Conflict and the Legacy of ExclusionThis is the first work exploring the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and legacy of the Shining Path insurgency in the region of Huancavelica, Peru, one of Peru's most impoverished and Quechua-speaking regions. The use of terroristic violence to implement a revolutionary and exclusivist...
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Governing Migration in the Late Ottoman EmpireHow do terms used to describe migration change over time? How do those changes reflect possibilities of inclusion and exclusion? Ella Fratantuono places the governance of migrants at the centre of Ottoman state-building across a 60-year period (1850-1910) to answer these questions. She traces...
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The Alhambra at the Crossroads of History: Eastern and Western Visions in the Long Nineteenth CenturyA growing flow of visitors in the 19th century turned the Alhambra into a touristic destination and a major trope of Orientalism, created by Western authors and artists from Fran?ois-Ren? de Chateaubriand to Owen Jones and from Washington Irving to Jean-L?on G?r?me. Yet behind...
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David Foster Wallace and the Question of ScepticismDavid Foster Wallace and the Question of Scepticism examines the role of scepticism and doubt in Wallace's work, showing that they are of fundamental importance to his writing in its form and its themes. Wallace's work articulates a deep ambivalence about the value of...
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The Midcentury Minor Novel: American Fiction, 1945-1965The Midcentury Minor Novel brings to light a distinctive mode of the American novel emergent in the middle decades of the twentieth century. It explains how a group of neglected writers reimagined the novel as a minor form, defined by its constraints rather than...
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Life Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary MarketLife Writing and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Market begins from the premise that nineteenth-century life writing circulated in a market, in material and discursive forms determined substantially by the desires of publishers, readers, editors, printers, booksellers and the many other craftsmen and tradesmen who collaborated...
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