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Confronting the American Dream: Nicaragua under U.S. Imperial RuleMichel Gobat deftly interweaves political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic history to analyze the reactions of Nicaraguans to U.S. intervention in their country from the heyday of Manifest Destiny in the mid-nineteenth century through the U.S. occupation of 1912-33. Drawing on extensive research in Nicaraguan...
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Born Along the Color Line: The 1933 Amenia Conference and the Rise of a National Civil Rights MovementIn August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization. In Amenia, such...
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A Gentleman of Color: The Life of James FortenWinch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a teenager. By...
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Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaIn the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of...
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Point of Reckoning: The Fight for Racial Justice at Duke UniversityTheodore D. Segal narrates the fraught and contested fight for racial justice at Duke University--which accepted its first black undergraduates in 1963--to tell both a local and national story about the challenges that historically white colleges and universities throughout the country continue to face.Author:...
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Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century AbortionAntebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became increasingly visible in the popular culture and literature of the era, appearing openly in advertisements, popular fiction, and newspaper reports. One figure...
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Service Denied: Marginalized Veterans in Modern American HistoryWartime military service is held up as a marker of civic duty and patriotism, yet the rewards of veteran status have never been equally distributed. Certain groups of military veterans--women, people of color, LGBTQ people, and former service members with stigmatizing conditions, "bad paper"...
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No Mexicans, Women, or Dogs Allowed: The Rise of the Mexican American Civil Rights MovementFounded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has usually been judged according to Chicano nationalist standards of the late 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on extensive archival research, including the personal papers of Alonso S. Perales and Adela...
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On the Dirty Plate Trail: Remembering the Dust Bowl Refugee CampsRunner-up, National Council on Public History Book Award, 2008The 1930s exodus of "Okies" dispossessed by repeated droughts and failed crop prices was a relatively brief interlude in the history of migrant agricultural labor. Yet it attracted wide attention through the publication of John Steinbeck's...
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Nuevo South: Latinas/Os, Asians, and the Remaking of PlaceLatinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequently defined the region since before the Civil War. Arriving in southern communities as migrants or refugees, Latinas/os and Asians have experienced...
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Quixote's Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981Winner, NACCS-Tejas Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Tejas Foco, 2011 NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2012In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The...
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Reading, Writing, and Revolution: Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in TexasRunner-up, Ramirez Family Award for Most Significant Scholarly Book, 2021The first book on the history of escuelitas, Reading, Writing, and Revolution examines the integral role these grassroots community schools played in shaping Mexican American identity. Language has long functioned as a signifier of power...
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Conflict on Mount Lebanon: The Druze, the Maronites and Collective MemoryThe Druze and the Maronites, arguably the two founding communities of modern Lebanon, have the reputation of being primordial enemies. Makram Rabah attempts to gauge the impact of collective memory on determining the course and the nature of the conflict between these communities in...
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Charcoal and Blood: Italian Immigrants in Eureka, Nevada, and the Fish Creek MassacreCharcoal and Blood is a detailed account of a heinous crime perpetrated on Italian immigrants engaged in the production of charcoal on Nevada's mining frontier at the close of the nineteenth century. On August 18, 1879, in a canyon near Fish Creek, outside Eureka,...
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Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book, International Latino Book AwardsWinner of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book AwardUnraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into...
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Grandma's Wartime Baking Book: World War II and the Way We BakedLearn to Make Classic American Pies, Cakes and Tarts It is dawn of the 1940s and America is in the midst of a difficult war. The women of the Home Front are dealing with shortages of sugar, butter, canned goods and a host of...
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The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E AhmadIn this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation...
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American Indian Mafia: An FBI Agent's True Story about Wounded Knee, Leonard Peltier, and the American Indian Movement (Aim)The book the AIM leadership does not want you to read For the first time, the true history of AIM is revealed through the eyes of an FBI Agent who was there. And for the first time, the AIM leadership's dirty little secrets are...
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Frontier Narratives: Liminal Lives in the Early Modern MediterraneanThis book explores how human interaction in the frontier zones of the early modern Mediterranean was represented during the period, across genres and languages. The Muslim-Christian divide in the region produced an unusual kind of slavery, fostered a surge in conversion to Islam and...
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The Libyan Novel: Humans, Animals and the Poetics of VulnerabilityAnalysing prominent novelists such as Ibrahim al-Kuni and Hisham Matar, alongside lesser-known and emerging voices, this book introduces the themes and genres of the Libyan novel during the al-Qadhafi era. Exploring latent political protest and environmental lament in the writing of novelists in exile...
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