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What Jane Austen's Characters Read (and Why)The first detailed account of Austen's characters' reading experience to date, this book explores both what her characters read and what their literary choices would have meant to Austen's own readership, both during her life and today.Jane Austen was a voracious and extensive reader,...
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SS Elite: The Senior Leaders of Hitler's Praetorian Guard: Volume 1 - A to JAny scholar of history will have recognized the similarities between Ancient Rome and the National Socialist movement of the 20th century. Aside from the obvious expansionist policies of empire governed by a single autocratic leader, the Nazis adopted the Roman style extended arm salute,...
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Imagining the World from Behind the Iron Curtain: Youth and the Global Sixties in PolandThe Global Sixties are well known as a period of non-conformist lifestyles, experimentation with consumer products and technology, counterculture, and leftist politics. While the period has been well studied in the West and increasingly researched for the Global South, young people in theSecond World...
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Culture on the Margins: The Black Spiritual and the Rise of American Cultural InterpretationIn Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless...
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Political Conflict in PakistanThis book is a major reinterpretation of politics in Pakistan. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country's political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem critically examines the theory surrounding the millennium-long conflictbetween Hindus and Muslims as separate nations...
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Afghanistan Rising: Islamic Law and Statecraft Between the Ottoman and British EmpiresDebunking conventional narratives of Afghanistan as a perennial war zone or marginal frontier, Faiz Ahmed presents a vibrant account of the first Muslim-majority country to gain independence from the British Empire, form a fully sovereign government, and promulgate an original constitution after the fall...
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America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960sIn America Divided, Maurice Isserman and Michael Kazin provide the definitive history of the 1960s, in a book that tells a compelling tale filled with fresh and persuasive insights. Ranging from the 1950s right up to the debacle of Watergate, Isserman (a noted historian...
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Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the PresentThis volume considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing on the so-called Darwinian Revolution. The very idea of the Darwinian Revolution is a historical construct devised to help explain the changing scientific and cultural landscape that was...
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The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and WarIn The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. vividly portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery, and reckless abandon that Theodore Roosevelt both embodied and bequeathed to his children and the tragic fulfillment of that legacy on the battlefields of World War I. Drawing upon...
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Cinema's Original Sin: D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film CultureFor over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release and...
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Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the AlbaniansThanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have been a...
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Movements After Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in MexicoThe end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled political dissent among the Mexican population. To the contrary, the first decade after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 saw the rise of...
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Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern LiberalismA comprehensive history of Henry George and the single tax movement.In 1912, Sun Yat-sen announced the birth of the Chinese Republic and promised that it would be devoted to the economic welfare of all its people. In shaping his plans for wealth redistribution, he...
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Challenge of Congressional RepresentationAt a moment when Congress is widely viewed as hyper-partisan and dysfunctional, Richard Fenno provides a variegated picture of American representational politics. The Challenge of Congressional Representation offers an up-close-and-personal look at the complex relationship between members of Congress and their constituents back home.When...
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Cocaine and Rhinestones: A History of George Jones and Tammy WynetteFrom the creator of the acclaimed country music history podcast Cocaine & Rhinestones, comes the epic American saga of country music's legendary royal couple--George Jones and Tammy Wynette.By the early 1960s nearly everybody paying attention to country music agreed that George Jones was the...
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John Lewis: A LifeA comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, "the conscience of the Congress," drawing on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.Born into poverty in...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol.IX (in 10 Volumes)Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln of its time, this portrait of the man and his administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest upheaval is both intimate and scholarly. Written by two private secretaries...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol.I (in 10 Volumes)Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln of its time, this portrait of the man and his administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest upheaval is both intimate and scholarly. Written by two private secretaries...
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Swansea's Royal Institution and Wales's First MuseumAn attractive volume featuring almost three hundred illustrations including photos and maps from the Royal Institution of South Wales. The Royal Institution of South Wales (RISW) is a very special organization. It was Wales's first-ever museum from 1841-1990, and one of the few such...
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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and TransnationalismIn 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man 'without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a 'cosmopolitan' vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings...
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