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A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth CenturyWinner, Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction (Western Writers of America) A Land Apart is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest--it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key players and primary events marking the Southwest in the twentieth century....
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A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee: Or, the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, With an Account of the History anThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and CultureA 2018 Over the Rainbow Selection presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library AssociationLGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry--but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the...
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Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power, Volume OneThe origins of the United States' distinct approach to war and military power are found in the colonial experience. Long before 1776 or 1619, Englishmen understood themselves to be a part of a larger, lost "British" empire that might disappear forever in the globe-girdling...
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Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes IndiaShortlisted for the 2022 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Book History Book Prize presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and PublishingWinner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize presented by the Research Society for Victorian PeriodicalsIn...
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Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of ChinaA history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new...
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Gaither Committee: Eisenhower & Cold WarAs the United States struggled to respond to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, President Eisenhower received a top secret report prepared by a committee of leading scientific, business, and military experts. The panel, called the Gaither Committee in recognition of its...
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California Wagon Train Lists. Volume IMr. Rasmussen spent over 30 years preparing this book. Information was gleaned from newspapers, rare books and special collections at major California libraries. It lists the names of an estimated 15,000 people who crossed the plains by wagon train during the period from April...
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Ein Deutscher Gotteskrieger?: Der Attentäter Carl Ludwig Sand: Die Geschichte Einer RadikalisierungBlick ins BuchIm März 1819 ermordete der Theologiestudent Carl Ludwig Sand den Schriftsteller August von Kotzebue. Dieser Terrorakt sollte eine allgemeine Volksrache auslösen, wodurch alle Deutschen vom Joch der Feudalherrschaft befreit würden. Zweihundert Jahre nach der Hinrichtung Sands im Mai 1820 legt Harro Zimmermann...
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Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United StatesListen to a short interview with Stephen MihmHost: Chris Gondek - Producer: Heron & CraneFew of us question the slips of green paper that come and go in our purses, pockets, and wallets. Yet confidence in the money supply is a recent phenomenon: prior...
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Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After SlaveryAs Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedom compares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and citizenship was redefined through...
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Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century AmericaStaging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segregation and heightened racial tensions. As public entertainment expanded through vaudeville, minstrel shows, and world's fairs, black...
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Lessons of History"The vital questions which confront not only students of war but all concerned with peace and security are, why wars happen; how, if necessary, they should be fought; and above all how they can be prevented...An understanding of these issues] is impossible without some...
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The 1920sThe American 1920s had many names: the Roaring Twenties, the Jazz Age, the Dry Decade, and the Flapper generation. Whatever the moniker, these years saw the birth of modern America. This volume shows the many colorful ways the decade altered America, its people, and...
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The Technological IndianIn the late 1800s India seemed to be left behind by the Industrial Revolution. Today there are many technological Indians around the world but relatively few focus on India's problems. Ross Bassett-drawing on a database of every Indian to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute...
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Absolute Monarchy and the Stuart ConstitutionIn this ambitious reinterpretation of the early Stuart period in England, Glenn Burgess contends that the common understanding of seventeenth-century English politics is oversimplified and inaccurate. The long-accepted standard view holds that gradual polarization between the Court and Parliament during the reigns of James...
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The Old Santa Fe Trail: The Story of a Great HighwayA soldier-author's view of the American frontier The history of the expansion of the frontier of America is particularly marked by the famous-perhaps legendary-trails upon which pioneers in their 'prairie schooners' or cattlemen driving their great herds crossed the vast continental interior. All roads...
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Sexual Reckonings: Southern Girls in a Troubling AgeSexual Reckonings is the fascinating tale of adolescent girls coming of age in the South during the most explosive decades for the region. Focusing on the period from 1920 to 1960, Susan Cahn reveals how both the life of the South and the meaning...
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Shock of the Global: The 1970s in PerspectiveFrom the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic "stagflation," political scandal, and global turmoil. Yet from an international perspective it was a seminal decade, one that brought the reintegration of the world after...
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Neoconservatism: The Biography of a MovementNeoconservatism has undergone a transformation that has made a clear identity almost impossible to capture. The Republican foreign policy operatives of the George W. Bush era seem far removed from the early liberal intellectuals who focused on domestic issues. Justin Va sse offers the...
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