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The Oxford Handbook of Samuel JohnsonNo major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries....
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In the Shadow of Auschwitz: German Massacres Against Polish Civilians, 1939-1945The Nazi invasion of Poland was the first step in an unremittingly brutal occupation, one most infamously represented by the network of death camps constructed on Polish soil. The systematic murder of Jews in the camps has understandably been the focus of much historical...
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Rethinking Social Movements After '68: Selves and Solidarities in West Germany and BeyondThe year 1968 has widely been viewed as the only major watershed moment during the latter half of the twentieth century. Rethinking Social Movements after '68 takes on this conventional approach, exploring the spaces, practices, organization, ideas and agendas of numerous activists and movements...
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Making Sense of Dictatorship: Domination and Everyday Life in East Central Europe After 1945How did political power function in the communist regimes of East Central Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their...
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Designs on Empire: America's Rise to Power in the Age of European ImperialismIn the eyes of both contemporaries and historians, the United States became an empire in 1898. By taking possession of Cuba and the Philippines, the nation seemed to have reached a watershed moment in its rise to power--spurring arguments over whether it should be...
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Unfree Markets: The Slaves' Economy and the Rise of Capitalism in South CarolinaThe everyday lives of enslaved people were filled with the backbreaking tasks that their enslavers forced them to complete. But in spare moments, they found time in which to earn money and obtain goods for themselves. Enslaved people led vibrant economic lives, cultivating produce...
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1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era (Volume 29) Volume 29Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650-1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies of emerging topics to unveil a vivid rendering of a dynamic period, simultaneously committed...
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Westphalia: The Last Christian PeaceThe Peace of Westphalia, which brought to a close the Thirty Years War, is arguably the most important treaty signed before the twentieth century. It was a signal event of the early modern era, thoroughly of its time even as it prefigured the radical...
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Encountering the Global in Early Modern Germany: Microhistories of Mobility, Materiality, and BelongingGlobal history has come of age but has had little impact on the historiography of early modern Germany. This volume seeks to bring a global perspective to the history of Central Europe by addressing understudied global and colonial entanglements. Exploring the impact of these...
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Lessons of History: The Holocaust and Soviet Terror as Borderline EventsCan lessons of history develop our orientation in time? Few scholars have responded positively to this challenge. In this theoretically innovative book, prominent scholarly works on the Holocaust and Soviet terror from the 1960s to the present are analyzed to demonstrate the qualities of...
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The Cambridge History of the Vietnam WarAuthor: Lien-Hang T. NguyenPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 648Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.60lbsSize: 9.11h x 6.33w x 1.67dISBN: 9781107105126
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The Cambridge History of the Vietnam WarAuthor: Lien-Hang T. NguyenPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 712Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.75lbsSize: 8.80h x 6.00w x 1.80dISBN: 9781107105102
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The Cambridge History of the Vietnam WarAuthor: Lien-Hang T. NguyenPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 02/06/2025Pages: 512Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.14lbsSize: 9.07h x 6.37w x 1.33dISBN: 9781107105089
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British Romanticism and Prison ReformIn eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century--with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment--did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison,...
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Comrade Whitman: From Russian to Internationalist IconThe reception of Walt Whitman has been a global phenomenon. This book focuses on the Russian and Soviet uses of the poet and shows their central role in the construction of a revolutionary and internationalist icon. Author: Delphine RumeauPublisher: Academic Studies PressPublished: 06/18/2024Pages: 376Binding...
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Operation Barbarossa and Its Aftermath: New Approaches to a Complex CampaignThe 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, codenamed Operation Barbarossa, remains one of Nazi Germany's most significant military campaigns. Executed by Hitler's Wehrmacht army, this event saw troops from all over Europe defeat the Red Army and temporarily colonize large swathes of Eastern Europe,...
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The Global Pontificate of Pius XII: War and Genocide, Reconstruction and Change, 1939-1958In 2020, the Vatican opened its archives for the pontificate of Pius XII (1939-1958), the pope that led the Catholic Church during WWII, the Holocaust, and the beginning of the Cold War. The Global Pontificate of Pius XII brings together historians who were among...
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The Trial of a Nazi Doctor: Franz Lucas as Defendant, Opportunist, and DeceiverThe Trial of a Nazi Doctor examines the life of Franz Bernhard Lucas (1911-1994), an SS camp doctor with assignments in Auschwitz, Mauthausen, Stutthof, Ravensbrück, and Sachsenhausen. Covering his career during the Third Reich and then his prosecution after 1945, especially in the Frankfurt...
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The Part and the Whole in Early American Literature, Print Culture, and ArtThe essays in this pathbreaking collection consider the significance of varied early American fragmentary genres and practices--from diaries and poetry, to almanacs and commonplace books, to sermons and lists, to Indigenous ruins and other material shards and fragments--often overlooked by critics in a scholarly...
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Louis Sébastien Mercier: Revolution and Reform in Eighteenth-Century ParisFrench playwright, novelist, activist, and journalist Louis Sébastien Mercier (1740-1814) passionately captured scenes of social injustice in pre-Revolutionary Paris in his prolific oeuvre but today remains an understudied writer. In this penetrating study--the first in English devoted to Mercier in decades--Michael Mulryan explores his...
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