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China's War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, 1842-1965Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People's Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted...
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More Than Ordinary: Early St. Louis Artist Anna Maria Von PhulThe first complete catalog of work by Missouri's earliest female artist provides a singular look at territorial life in the early nineteenth century. Anna Maria von Phul (1786-1823) was the earliest-known female artist working in what was then called the Missouri Territory. Born in...
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The Science of Character: Human Objecthood and the Ends of Victorian RealismThe Science of Character makes a bold new claim for the power of the literary by showing how Victorian novelists used fiction to theorize how character forms. In 1843, the Victorian philosopher John Stuart Mill called for the establishment of a new science, "the...
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At War with Government: How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to TrumpPolling shows that since the 1950s Americans' trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. In At War with Government, the political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident. Although distrust of authority is deeply...
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The Harlem Uprising: Segregation and Inequality in Postwar New York CityIn July 1964, after a white police officer shot and killed an African American teenage boy, unrest broke out in Harlem and then Bedford-Stuyvesant. Protests rose up to call for an end to police brutality and the unequal treatment of Black people in a...
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My Melancholy Baby: The First Ballads of the Great American Songbook, 1902-19132022 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence--Certificate of Merit in the category of Best Historical Research in Recorded Rock and Soul Music Ten songs, from "Bill Bailey, Won't You Please Come Home" (1902) to "You Made Me Love You" (1913), ignited the...
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Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932In Rough Tactics: Black Performance in Political Spectacles, 1877-1932, author Mark A. Johnson examines three notable cases of Black participation in the spectacles of politics: the 1885-1898 local-option prohibition contests of Atlanta and Macon, Georgia; the United Confederate Veterans conflict with the Musicians' Union...
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The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global StageThe 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an outspoken master...
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Carolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family PapersCarolina Planters on the Alabama Frontier: The Spencer-Robeson-McKenzie Family collects the papers of Elihu Spencer, a fourth-generation New Englander, and his family and Southern descendants, to form a history of the American nation from the point of view of planters and those they held...
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Mississippi: Volume II, Part IIEmbracing an authentic and comprehensive account of the chief events in the history of the state, this newly republished double volume collection provides a record of the lives of many of the most worthy and illustrious families and individuals of Mississippi. Part 2, containing...
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Class Action: Desegregation and Diversity in San Francisco SchoolsA compelling history of school desegregation and activism in San Francisco The picture of school desegregation in the United States is often painted with broad strokes of generalization and insulated anecdotes. Its true history, however, is remarkably wide ranging. Class Action tells the story...
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Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black ActWith Whigs and Hunters, the author of The Making of the English Working Class, E. P. Thompson plunged into the murky waters of the early eighteenth century to chart the violently conflicting currents that boiled beneath the apparent calm of the time. The subject...
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Sharon: The Last 100 YearsSharon, Tennessee, is small-town America at its best. Roots there? You must flip through the pages to see just how deep they go. Martha Jim Roberts spent countless hours compiling old photographs, newspaper articles, and otherwise lost vignettes of Sharon history. Not from Sharon,...
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The Voting Rights War: The NAACP and the Ongoing Struggle for JusticeThe Voting Rights War tells the story of the courageous struggle to achieve voting equality through more than one hundred years of work by the NAACP at the Supreme Court. Readers take the journey for voting rights from slavery to the Plessy v. Ferguson...
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The Park Chung Hee Era: The Transformation of South KoreaIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979 it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society in the making, which would lead to a democratic breakthrough eight years later. The transformation took place during the years of Park Chung...
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Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the SeventiesIn this fascinating new history, Judith Stein argues that in order to understand our current economic crisis we need to look back to the 1970s and the end of the age of the factory--the era of postwar liberalism, created by the New Deal, whose...
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Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical CorridorThe story of how a mixed-income minority community in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor fought Shell Oil and won.For years, the residents of Diamond, Louisiana, lived with an inescapable acrid, metallic smell--the "toxic bouquet" of pollution--and a mysterious chemical fog that seeped into their houses. They...
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Teaching with Digital Humanities: Tools and Methods for Nineteenth-Century American LiteratureJennifer Travis and Jessica DeSpain present a long-overdue collection of theoretical perspectives and case studies aimed at teaching nineteenth-century American literature using digital humanities tools and methods. Scholars foundational to the development of digital humanities join educators who have made digital methods central to...
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The Merchant's Tale: Yokohama and the Transformation of JapanIn April 1859, at age fifty, Shinohara Chūemon left his old life behind. Chūemon, a well-off farmer in his home village, departed for the new port city of Yokohama, where he remained for the next fourteen years. There, as a merchant trading with foreigners...
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Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United StatesIn the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless believe that it...
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