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New York: A Sketch of the City's Social, Political, and Commercial Progress from the First Dutch Settlement to Recent TimesA classic work on the history of New York City written by one of America's greatest politicians.Author: Theodore RooseveltPublisher: Excelsior Editions/State University of New YoPublished: 03/01/2023Pages: 178Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781438492391About the AuthorWilliam N. Tilchin was a full-time history...
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The Eight: The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for FreedomThe Eight tells the story of Lemmon v. New York-or, as it's more popularly known, the Lemmon Slave Case. All but forgotten today, it was one of the most momentous civil rights cases in American history. There had been cases in which the enslaved...
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Mock Ritual in the Modern EraMock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not infrequently the unofficial face of claims to rationality. McGinnis and Smyth consider how the mocking and parodying of ritual often associated with modern rationalism...
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Beckett and the Cognitive Method: Mind, Models, and Exploratory NarrativesDoes literature merely represent cognitive processes, or can it enhance, parallel, or reassess the scientific study of the mind? Beckett and the Cognitive Method argues that Samuel Beckett's narrative work, rather than just expressing or rendering mental states, inaugurates an exploratory use of narrative...
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Wordsworth, Coleridge, and 'The Language of the Heavens'Thomas Owens explores some of the exultant visions inspired by Wordsworth's and Coleridge's close scrutiny of the night sky, the natural world, and the domains of science. He examines a set of scientific patterns drawn from natural, geometric, celestial, and astronomical sources which Wordsworth...
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Blue Helmet BureaucratsAuthor: Margot TudorPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 04/14/2023Pages: 310Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.37lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81dISBN: 9781009264921This title is not returnable
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Rome, 16 October 1943: History, Memory, LiteratureRome. Saturday 16 October 1943. This is where and when the largest single round-up and deportation of Jews from Italy happened. 1259 people were arrested by the German occupiers and gathered in a temporary detention centre for two days. They were eventually deported to...
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'Greater India' and the Indian Expansionist Imagination, c. 1885-1965This book is the first systematic study of the genealogy, discursive structures, and political implications of the concept of 'Greater India', implying a Hindu colonization of Southeast Asia, and used by extension to argue for a past Indian greatness as a colonial power, reproducible...
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Missionary Men in the Early Modern World: German Jesuits and Pacific JourneysHow did gender shape the expanding Jesuit enterprise in the early modern world? What did it take to become a missionary man? And how did missionary masculinity align itself with the European colonial project? This book highlights the central importance of male affective ties...
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Sharon Tate Volume 2Sharon Tate Volume 2 is one of only a handful of presentable biographies of Sharon available to the general public. The book's theme focuses solely on this colorful and historical person of the 20th century. In the past, publications, movies, television, Internet platforms, fans,...
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The Cowboy EncyclopediaAlphabetically organized and thoroughly cross-referenced entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth in North and South America. Entries include cowboy types, equipment, dress, work, and recreation. illustrated, with informative appendixes, an index, and bibliography.Author: Richard W. SlattaPublisher: ABC-CLIOPublished: 06/30/1994Pages: 474Binding Type: HardcoverWeight:...
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British Information and Cultural Policy in Greece, 1943-1950: Exercising Public Diplomacy in the Formative Early Cold War YearsThis book sheds new and revealing light on British cultural and information policies in Greece by unearthing previously unexamined or insufficiently examined primary sources. These sources draw an intricate picture of a complex moment when, in the ruins of post-war southern Europe, British institutions,...
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The Politics of Mass Violence in the Middle EastThe Middle East today is characterized by an astonishingly bloody civil war in Syria, an ever more highly racialized and militarized approach to the concept of a Jewish state in Israel and the Palestinian territories, an Iraqi state paralyzed by the emergence of class-...
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Amos Oz: The Legacy of a Writer in Israel and BeyondThe veteran contributors to this volume take as their central drama, and their essential task for analysis, the enduring literary and political legacy of Israel Prize laureate Amos Oz (1939-2019). Born a decade prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, in what...
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Tales from Du BoisTales from Du Bois brings together critical race theory, queer studies, philosophy, and genre theory to offer an illuminating new comprehensive study of W. E. B. Du Bois's fiction from 1903-1928. Erika Renée Williams begins by revisiting Du Bois's tale of being rebuffed by...
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Contact Strategies: Histories of Native Autonomy in BrazilAround the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth...
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Engineering the Lower Danube: Technology and Territoriality in an Imperial Borderland, Late Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesThe Lower Danube--the stretch of Europe's second longest river between the Romanian-Serbian border and the confluence to the Black Sea--was effectively transformed during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In describing this lengthy undertaking, Luminita Gatejel proposes that remaking two key stretches--the Iron Gates...
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Engaging Italy: American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational NetworksEngaging Italy charts the intertwined lives and writings of three American women in Italy in the 1860s and '70s--journalist Anne Hampton Brewster (1818-92), orphanage and industrial school founder Emily Bliss Gould (1825-75), and translator Caroline Crane Marsh (1816-1901). Brewster, Gould, and Marsh did not...
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Religion and Empire in Portuguese IndiaHow did the colonization of Goa in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries take place? How was it related to projects for the conversion of Goan colonial subjects to Catholicism? In Religion and Empire in Portuguese India, ngela Barreto Xavier examines these questions through a...
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Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal EducationLiberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology,...
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