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Imperial Endgame: Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of EmpireIn this fresh and controversial account of Britain's end of empire, Grob-Fitzgibbon reveals that the British government developed a successful strategy of decolonization following the Second World War based on devolving power to indigenous peoples within the Commonwealth.Author: B. Grob-FitzgibbonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 05/03/2011Pages: 478Binding...
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Wanted! a Nation!: Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War. Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black republic was...
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Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights EraPure Fire is a history of self-defense as it was debated and practiced during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. Moving beyond the realm of organized protests and demonstrations, Christopher B. Strain reframes self-defense as a daily concern for many African...
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking...
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But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of ReconstructionThis is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative...
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Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West VirginiaHeartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life--and strife--in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has...
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Marching in Step: Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Citadel in Post-World War II AmericaCombining the nuanced perspective of an insider with the critical distance of a historian, Alexander Macaulay examines The Citadel's reactions to major shifts in postwar life, from the rise of the counterculture to the demise of the Cold War. The Citadel is widely considered...
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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean: Irish, Africans, and the Construction of DifferenceSet along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean explores the construction of difference through the everyday life of colonial subjects. Jenny Shaw examines how marginalized...
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Toward Cherokee Removal: Land, Violence, and the White Man's ChanceCherokee Removal excited the passions of Americans across the country. Nowhere did those passions have more violent expressions than in Georgia, where white intruders sought to acquire Native land through intimidation and state policies that supported their disorderly conduct. Cherokee Removal and the Trail...
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Citizens and Rulers of the World: The American Child and the Cartographic Pedagogies of EmpireBy delving into the complex, cross-generational exchanges that characterize any political project as rampant as empire, this thought-provoking study focuses on children and their ambivalent, intimate relationships with maps and practices of mapping at the dawn of the "American Century." Considering children as students,...
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Creolization and Contraband: Curaçao in the Early Modern Atlantic WorldWhen Cura ao came under Dutch control in 1634, the small island off South America's northern coast was isolated and sleepy. The introduction of increased trade (both legal and illegal) led to a dramatic transformation, and Cura ao emerged as a major hub within...
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The Leo Frank CaseThe events surrounding the 1913 murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, were so wide ranging and tumultuous that they prompted both the founding...
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Borderless Empire: Dutch Guiana in the Atlantic World, 1750-1800Borderless Empire explores the volatile history of Dutch Guiana, in particular the forgotten colonies of Essequibo and Demerara, to provide new perspectives on European empire building in the Atlantic world. Bram Hoonhout argues that imperial expansion was a process of improvisation at the colonial...
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The Assault on Elisha Green: Race and Religion in a Kentucky CommunityOn June 8, 1883, Rev. Elisha Green was traveling by train from Maysville to Paris, Kentucky. At Millersburg, about forty students from the Millersburg Female College crowded onto the train, accompanied by their music teacher, Frank L. Bristow, and the college president, George T....
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Canaan, Dim and Far: Black Reformers and the Pursuit of Citizenship in Pittsburgh, 1915-1945Canaan, Dim and Far argues for the importance of Pittsburgh as a case study in analyzing African American civil rights and political advocacy in an urban setting. Focusing on the period from the Progressive Era to the end of World War II, this book...
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The Crisis Regime: The M. A. C., the E. F. C. B., and the Political Impact of the New York City Financial CrisisAuthor: Robert W. BaileyPublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 06/30/1985Pages: 230Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsISBN: 9780873958516About the AuthorRobert W. Bailey is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Baruch College of the City University of New York.This title is only available via back order
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Growing Up America: Youth and Politics Since 1945Growing Up America brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following the Second World War. Growing Up America places young people--and their representations--at the center of key political trends, illuminating the...
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Torches of Light: Georgia Teachers and the Coming of the Modern SouthAs turbulent social and economic changes swept the South in the first half of the twentieth century, education became the flashpoint. Ann Short Chirhart's study is the first to analyze such modernizing events in Georgia. She shows how these changes affected the creation of...
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Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West, First Paperback EditionBy early April 1914, Colorado Governor Elias Ammons thought the violence in his state's strike-bound southern coal district had eased enough that he could begin withdrawing the Colorado National Guard, deployed six months earlier as military occupiers. But Ammons misread the signals, and on...
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The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile StrikeThis book tells the story of 15,000 wool workers who went on strike for more than a year, defying police violence and hunger. The strikers were mainly immigrants and half were women. The Passaic textile strike, the first time that the Communist Party led...
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