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Harry Truman and the Struggle for Racial JusticeWhen Harry Truman was rescued from political obscurity to become Franklin Roosevelt's running mate, black Americans were deeply troubled. Many believed that Truman, born and raised in former slave-holding Missouri, was a step back on civil rights from Henry Wallace, the liberal incumbent vice...
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The House in the Rue Saint-Fiacre: A Social History of Property in Revolutionary ParisA bold account of property reform during the French Revolution, arguing that the lofty democratic ideals enshrined by revolutionary leaders were rarely secured in practice--with lasting consequences. Property reform was at the heart of the French Revolution. As lawmakers proclaimed at the time, and...
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The Nonconformists: American and Czech Writers Across the Iron CurtainHow risky encounters between American and Czech writers behind the Iron Curtain shaped the art and politics of the Cold War and helped define an era of dissent. "In some indescribable way, we are each other's continuation," Arthur Miller wrote of the imprisoned Czech...
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The Discerning Narrator: Conrad, Aristotle, and ModernityThis book examines the letters, essays, and fiction of Joseph Conrad through an Aristotelian lens. Author: Alexia HannisPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 11/18/2022Pages: 158Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.15lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70dISBN: 9781442649071
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Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry: The Quest for SecurityFirst published in 1967, Industrial Relations in the British Printing Industry was written to provide a comprehensive picture of the development of organisations of both employers and those employed in the British printing industry.The book traces the story from the seventeenth century Craft Guilds...
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Steeped in a Culture of Violence: Murder, Racial Injustice, and Other Violent Crimes in Texas, 1965-2020The Texas shooting at Santa Fe High School on May 18, 2018, which killed ten and injured thirteen, prompted public debate over the causes and potential solutions to this type of violent episode. On May 21, 2018, National Rifle Association president Oliver North declared...
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Realigning America: McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896The presidential election of 1896 is widely acknowledged as one of only a few that brought about fundamental realignments in American politics. New voting patterns replaced old, a new majority party came to power, and national policies shifted to reflect new realities. R. Hal...
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Crude Oil, Crude Money: Aristotle Onassis, Saudi Arabia, and the CIATells the untold story of how Exxon, Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco teamed up with the CIA and Department of State to thwart the plans of Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who almost managed to reshape the Middle East. In 1954 Aristotle Onassis (long before...
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Drawing Liberalism: Herblock's Political Cartoons in Postwar AmericaAuthor: Simon ApplefordPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 02/28/2023Pages: 316Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.67w x 0.55dISBN: 9780813948881
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When Bad Men Combine: The Star Route Scandal and the Twilight of Gilded Age PoliticsThe Star Route scandal captured the nation's attention for more than a decade, with newspapers throughout the United States characterizing it as an unprecedented case of Gilded Age graft. Shawn Francis Peters's When Bad Men Combine provides a glimpse into this uniquely tumultuous period...
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A Political Nation: New Directions in Mid-Nineteenth-Century American Political HistoryThis impressive collection joins the recent outpouring of exciting new work on American politics and political actors in the mid-nineteenth century. For several generations, much of the scholarship on the political history of the period from 1840 to 1877 has carried a theme of...
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The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern SovereigntyAn intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The 1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional...
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Victorian Alchemy: Science, magic and ancient EgyptAn engaging study of how Victorian-era representations of ancient Egypt blended science and mysticism. With its material remnants paradoxically symbolizing both antiquity and modernity to Victorian audiences, ancient Egypt was at once evocative of ancient magical power and of cutting-edge science, a tension that...
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Blitzkrieg to Desert Storm: The Evolution of Operational WarfareWhen Germany launched its blitzkrieg invasion of France in 1940, it forever changed the way the world waged war. Although the Wehrmacht ultimately succumbed to superior Allied firepower in a two-front war, its stunning operational achievement left a lasting impression on military commanders throughout...
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Literary Alchemist: The Writing Life of Evan S. ConnellWinner, 2022 Society of Midland Authors award for Biography/MemoirEvan S. Connell (1924-2013) emerged from the American Midwest determined to become a writer. He eventually made his mark with attention-getting fiction and deep explorations into history. His linked novels Mrs. Bridge (1959) and Mr. Bridge...
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Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography Since 1970Tracing the impacts of militarism on the American landscape, through the lens of art, environmental studies, and politics Devour the Land considers how contemporary photographers have responded to the US military's impact on the domestic environment since the 1970s, a dynamic period for environmental...
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Emergency War Plan: The American Doomsday Machine, 1945-1960Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of nuclear strategy during this time have, for the most part, categorized American efforts as "massive retaliation" and "mutually assured destruction," blunt instruments...
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Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by DayIn May 1804, Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery set out on a journey of a lifetime to explore and interpret the American West. The Lewis and Clark Expedition Day by Day follows this exploration with a daily narrative of their...
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California Through Russian Eyes, 1806-1848In the early nineteenth century, Russia established a colony in California that lasted until the Russian-American Company sold Fort Ross and Bodega Bay to John Sutter in 1841. This annotated collection of Russian accounts of Alta California, many of them translated here into English...
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Sources of Korean Tradition: From the Sixteenth to the Twentieth CenturiesModeled after the classic Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Japanese Tradition, and Sources of Indian Tradition, this collection of seminal primary readings in the social, intellectual, and religious traditions of Korea from the sixteenth century to the present day lays the groundwork for...
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