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Lost Treasures & Old Mines: A New Mexico Federal Writers' Project BookBetween 1850 and 1912, Territorial New Mexico was home to a diverse mix of peoples. Contesting with those who had lived in the region for thousands of years, an array of newcomers arrived: Hispanic settlers, Anglo homesteaders, ranchers, cowboys, sheepherders, merchants, railroad men and-perhaps...
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The Coup: 1953, the Cia, and the Roots of Modern U.S.-Iranian RelationsAn "absorbing" account of the CIA's 1953 coup in Iran--essential reading for anyone concerned about Iran's role in the world today (Harper's Magazine). In August 1953, the Central Intelligence Agency orchestrated the swift overthrow of Iran's democratically elected leader and installed Muhammad Reza Shah...
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Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870sIn the 1870s, approximately 18,000 Mennonites migrated from the southern steppes of Imperial Russia (present-day Ukraine) to the North American grasslands. They brought with them an array of cultural and institutional features that indicated they were a "transplanted" people. What is less frequently noted,...
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Fast Tanks and Heavy BombersThe U.S. Army entered World War II unprepared. In addition, lacking Germany's blitzkrieg approach of coordinated armor and air power, the army was organized to fight two wars: one on the ground and one in the air. Previous commentators have blamed Congressional funding and...
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With Napoleon's Guard in Russia: The Memoirs of Major Vionnet, 1812Major Louis Joseph Vionnet's memoirs of Napoleon's disastrous 1812 campaign in Russia are readable, detailed, and full of personal anecdotes and vivid glimpses into the life of the nineteenth-century soldier. His account concentrates in particular on the retreat from Moscow, but he was present...
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Carleton Watkins: Making the West American" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2019 California Book Awards Carleton Watkins (1829-1916) is widely considered the greatest American photographer of the nineteenth century and arguably the most influential...
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Doc Shores: An Authorized Reprint of Memoirs of a LawmanThe name Cyrus W. "Doc" Shores may not be found on the list of larger-than-life lawmen whose legends and lore give them top billing in the taming of America's "wild and wooly West;" yet, in the late 1800s, Doc Shores became known to law...
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The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap LivesCaptivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [The Hamlet Fire] will provide readers with insights into our current national politics.--The Washington Post A gifted writer (Chicago Tribune) uses a long forgotten factory fire in small-town North Carolina to show how cut-rate food and labor have...
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More Ghost Towns of TexasThere is something romantic yet harshly concrete about an abandoned town. Dreams, conflicts, and losses still haunt what remains, so it's no wonder we call these locales "ghost towns." A companion volume to his Ghost Towns of Texas, T. Lindsay Baker's More Ghost Towns...
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The Long DeathThis compelling narrative explains how Native Americans found themselves time and again betrayed by the ever-expanding white nation of the East, fighting for lands on the edge of the shrinking frontier. Long considered a classic, this edition features an introduction by Dee Brown, author...
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Culture as History: The Transformation of American Society in the Twentieth CenturyWith amazing creativity, clarity, and wit, Warren Susman (1927-1985) takes us on a provocative tour of the highlights of American culture. By looking at all types of 20th-century culture--highbrow, lowbrow, and middlebrow--Susman shows how culture itself has become a battleground for competing visions of...
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Liberate Hawai'i!It has been said that history is written by the victors, but that is no criterion for its truth Liberate Hawai'i boldly challenges the prevailing narrative that the country of Hawai'i was "annexed" in 1898, converted to a "territory" until 1959, and then converted...
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Fascism: 100 Questions Asked and AnsweredAfter World War Two, 'fascist' became the F word of political debate to be applied liberally against anyone who left-wing polemicists disliked. But what did it really mean and what did its British supporters really stand for? In this pre-War book written in convenient...
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Sod and Stubble: The Unabridged and Annotated Edition"A few years ago, as I listened one night to my mother telling incidents of her life pioneering in the semi-arid region of Western Kansas, it occurred to me that the picture of that early time was worth drawing and preserving for the future,...
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Harriet Tubman, the Moses of Her PeopleAfter reaching Philadelphia, Tubman began thinking of her family. "I was a stranger in a strange land," she said later. "My father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were in Maryland. But I was free, and they should be free." For 11...
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Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, Volumes 1 & 2Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, close friend to Napoleon Bonaparte, covers in his first two volumes of his Memoirs the life of the great general from his childhood to the French invasion of Egypt at the end of the 18th century.Author: Louis-Antoine Fauvelet De...
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The Fourth of June'Brilliantly clever . . . mercilessly funny.' - Kenneth Allsop, Daily Mail 'One of the most brilliantly written books since the war.' - Ian Fleming, Sunday Times ' A] clever and pitiless novel.' - Neil Ascherson, Observer ' An] extremely promising and funny first...
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No Middle Path: The Civil War in KerryThe violence and divisions caused by the Civil War in County Kerry in 1922-23 were more vicious, bitter, and protracted than anywhere else in Ireland. For generations, the fratricide, murder, and executions in Kerry have been synonymous with the worst excesses of the brutality...
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But Now I SeeFollowing the tumultuous course of American history in the mid-nineteenth century, here is the story of Nathan Butterfield-a preacher's son whose faith in God is all but destroyed as he experiences the loss of loved ones and friends and witnesses his country being torn...
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Fortress America: How We Embraced Fear and Abandoned DemocracyAn award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (Mary L. Dudziak, author of War Time). For the last sixty years, fear has seeped into every area of American life: Americans own more guns...
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