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Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the WorldFreedom Time reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aim C saire (Martinique) and L opold S dar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation,...
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The Puritan Cosmopolis: The Law of Nations and the Early American ImaginationThe Puritan Cosmopolis traces a sense of kinship that emerged from within the larger realm of Puritan law and literature in late seventeenth-century New England. Nan Goodman argues that these early modern Puritans-connected to the cosmopolis in part through travel, trade, and politics-were also...
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Segregating Sound: Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim CrowIn Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth,...
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Mormon Envoy: The Diplomatic Legacy of Dr. John Milton BernhiselFor more than twenty years, John Milton Bernhisel negotiated with the federal government on behalf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Bruce W. Worthen illuminates the life and work of the man whose diplomacy steered the Church's relationship with Washington, D.C....
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Reading Machines in the Modernist Transatlantic: Avant-Gardes, Technology and the EverydayA revisionist account of technology's role in the aesthetics, spaces and politics of transatlantic avant-gardes Explores of a range of key avant-garde formations in the modernist transatlantic period, from the Italian futurists and English Vorticists to the Dada-surrealist and post-Harlem Renaissance African American experimentalists...
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Sex and the Nazi Soldier: Violent, Commercial and Consensual Encounters During the War in the Soviet Union, 1941-45Sexual violence was a widespread reality during the war and the occupation in the Soviet Union: Wehrmacht soldiers and SS men made women and girls victims of sexual torture, committed rape and sexual enslavement. They also visited both 'secret' prostitutes and official military brothels,...
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Dostoevsky's Incarnational RealismIn this book Paul Contino offers a theological study of Dostoevsky's final novel, The Brothers Karamazov. He argues that incarnational realism animates the vision of the novel, and the decisions and actions of its hero, Alyosha Fyodorovich Karamazov. The book takes a close look...
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Come Fly with Us: Nasa's Payload Specialist Program2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space History Come Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia in 2003....
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The Jekyll Island Cottage ColonyDuring the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and inaccessible social club in America, a group whose members included Rockefellers, Pulitzers, Vanderbilts, Goulds, and Morgans, this quiet refuge...
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Seneca Ray Stoddard: An Intimate Portrait of an Adirondack LegendThis is the story of a remarkable American from upstate New York who emerged from humble beginnings during the post-Civil War era to become a renowned artist, author, photographer, explorer, surveyor, cartographer, traveler, inventor, lecturer and Adirondack environmentalist over a six-decade career. In doing...
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The Medical Revolution of Messenger RNATo the casual observer, it took just 10 months to develop a vaccine against the virus responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic. That extraordinary success was made possible by the use of messenger RNA (mRNA), the molecule that instructs cells to make a virus surface...
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THE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE Lee Kreindler and LockerbieThis gripping account of the civil litigation regarding theLockerbie terrorist bombing of Pam Am Flight 103 - the most significant air disaster case of the 20th century - features conspiracies, surprising discoveries, intense negotiations, and riveting courtroom drama. Along the way, it commemorates Lee...
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Someone Would Have TalkedHancock reveals startling discoveries about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the conspiracy to mislead history.Author: Larry HancockPublisher: JFK Lancer ProductionPublished: 11/01/2006Pages: 620Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.65lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.40w x 2.00dISBN: 9780977465712
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Remembering to Forget: Holocaust Memory Through the Camera's EyeBarbie Zelizer reveals the unique significance of the photographs taken at the liberation of the concentration camps in Germany after World War II. She shows how the photographs have become the basis of our memory of the Holocaust and how they have affected our...
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From New York to San Francisco: Travel Sketches from the Year 1869Welcome to an America you've never seen. Where anyone can drop by the White House and visit the President between 10 a.m. and noon; where cowcatchers are bloodied daily on train tracks between New York and Boston; where spent bullets are strewn across Civil...
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History of Greenville County, South CarolinaBy: James Richardson, Pub. 1930, Reprinted 2018, 342 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-504-9.The narrative history of Greenville County is an excellent companion volume to Landrum's History of Spartanburg County, SC and Chapman's History of Edgefield County, SC, both neighboring counties of Greenville with much...
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The LOOSE Land Lottery Papers of Georgia, 1805-1914By: Silas Emmett Lucas, Jr., & Robert S. Davis, Jr. Editors, Pub. 1979, Reprinted 2014, 366 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-156-6.This book is a compilation of the loose petitions, oaths, letters, and other papers of the winners in Georgia's seven Land Lotteries. These winners and/or...
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The AntiquarianThe pages of this diary belonged to a young British archeologist, Nicholas Ainsworth, known for his odd curiosity for the morbid and macabre. His expedition for deviant burials and historical artifacts in the Transylvanian Alps abruptly ruined with the approaching Nazi occupation, he seeks...
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In Pursuit of Privilege: A History of New York City's Upper Class and the Making of a MetropolisA history that extends from the 1750s to the present, In Pursuit of Privilege recounts upper-class New Yorkers' struggle to create a distinct world guarded against outsiders, even as economic growth and democratic opportunity enabled aspirants to gain entrance. Despite their efforts, New York...
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Disruption in Detroit: Autoworkers and the Elusive Postwar BoomIt is a bedrock American belief: the 1950s were a golden age of prosperity for autoworkers. Flush with high wages and enjoying the benefits of generous union contracts, these workers became the backbone of a thriving blue-collar middle class. It is also a myth....
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