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At Sword's Point, Part I: A Documentary History of the Utah War to 1858The Utah War of 1857-58, the unprecedented armed confrontation between Mormon Utah Territory and the U.S. government, was the most extensive American military action between the Mexican and Civil wars. At Sword's Point presents in two volumes the first in-depth narrative and documentary history...
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Public Vows: Fictions of Marriage in the English EnlightenmentIn eighteenth-century England, the institution of marriage became the subject of heated debates, as clerics, jurists, legislators, philosophers, and social observers began rethinking its contractual foundation. Public Vows argues that these debates shaped English fiction in crucial and previously unrecognized ways and that novels,...
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A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962, 34The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during...
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When Law Was in the Holster: The Frontier Life of Bob PaulOne of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830-1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the...
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The Age of Catastrophe: A History of the West 1914-1945One of Germany's leading historians presents an ambitious and masterful account of the years encompassing the two world wars Characterized by global war, political revolution and national crises, the period between 1914 and 1945 was one of the most horrifying eras in the history...
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America's Information Wars: The Untold Story of Information Systems in America's Conflicts and Politics from World War II to the Internet AgeThis book narrates the development of science, sci/tech, and intelligence information systems and technologies in the United States from the beginning of World War II to the second decade of our century. The story ranges from a description of the information systems and machines...
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The Making of the Midwest: Essays on the Formation of Midwestern Identity, 1787-1900During the American colonial period, what would become the Midwest was the "backcountry," or the area behind the coastal population centers. It was rural and rough, the sort of place that fueled populist resistance to the federal taxation of whiskey. At the time of...
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Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares: The American Civil War as an Apocalyptic ConflictIn Millenarian Dreams and Racial Nightmares, John H. Matsui argues that the political ideology and racial views of American Protestants during the Civil War mirrored their religious optimism or pessimism regarding human nature, perfectibility, and the millennium. While previous historians have commented on the...
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Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold WarAfter World War II, the escalating tensions of the Cold War shaped the international system. Fearing the Worst explains how the Korean War fundamentally changed postwar competition between the United States and the Soviet Union into a militarized confrontation that would last decades.Samuel F....
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The Historian's Passing: Reading Nella Larsen's Classic Novel as Social and Cultural HistoryNella Larsen's Passing is widely regarded as a classic novel of African American literature--a groundbreaking work in which the author keenly depicted an under-acknowledged element of early 20th-century American life: crossing the color line in the hopes of living a more privileged life. Now,...
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Making Aztlán: Ideology and Culture of the Chicana and Chicano Movement, 1966-1977This book provides a long-needed overview of the Chicana and Chicano movement's social history as it grew, flourished, and then slowly fragmented. The authors examine the movement's origins in the 1960s and 1970s, showing how it evolved from a variety of organizations and activities...
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The Uplift Generation: Cooperation Across the Color Line in Early Twentieth-Century VirginiaOffering a fresh look at interracial cooperation in the formative years of Jim Crow, The Uplift Generation examines how segregation was molded, not by Virginia's white political power structure alone but rather through the work of a generation of Virginian reformers across the color...
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Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680-1720Online supplement, "Mulsow: Additions to Notes drawn from the 2002 edition of Moderne aus dem Untergrund" full versions of nearly 300 notes that were truncated in the print edition. Hosted on H. C. Erik Midelfort's website. Martin Mulsow's seismic reinterpretation of the origins of...
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DignityDignity is Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's compelling story of his three years of exile, from the coup that deposed him (September 30, 1991) to the U.N. Security Council vote in favor of military intervention (July 31, 1994). He offers an intensely personal journal of...
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Pueblo Sovereignty: Indian Land and Water in New Mexico and TexasOver five centuries of foreign rule--by Spain, Mexico, and the United States--Native American pueblos have confronted attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights. How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times, forms the...
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Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523-1700What happened to indigenous life after contact with the Spanish? In the complex interaction of cultures, how and to what degree did traditional ways persist? What role did religion play? Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan addresses these and other questions by focusing on...
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Wanderer on the American Frontier: The Travels of John Maley, 1808-1813For nearly two hundred years, a fragment of the journal of John Maley, an obscure explorer on the American frontier, resided at Yale University and was treated with some skepticism by historians. It was only in 2012, when the first half of the manuscript...
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Picturing Migrants: The Grapes of Wrath and New Deal Documentary Photographyvolume 18As time passes, personal memories of the Great Depression die with those who lived through the desperate 1930s. In the absence of firsthand knowledge, John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and the photographs produced for the New Deal's Farm Security Administration (FSA) now provide...
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How to Reach Japan by Subway: America's Fascination with Japanese Culture, 1945-1965Japan's official surrender to the United States in 1945 brought to an end one of the most bitter and brutal military conflicts of the twentieth century. U.S. government officials then faced the task of transforming Japan from enemy to ally, not only in top-level...
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Borderland of Fear: Vincennes, Prophetstown, and the Invasion of the Miami HomelandThe Ohio River Valley was a place of violence in the nineteenth century, something witnessed on multiple stages ranging from local conflicts between indigenous and Euro-American communities to the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812. To describe these events as simply the...
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