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The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots: A True Story of SlaveryLost on the other side of the world since 1855, the story of John Swanson Jacobs finally returns to America. This student edition reproduces his narrative in full and presents it on its own without any editorial or biographical apparatus. For one hundred and...
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The Translocal Island of Okinawa: Anti-Base Activism and Grassroots RegionalismThe Translocal Island of Okinawareveals the underrepresented memories, visions and actions that are involved in the making of Okinawan resistance against its subordinated status under the US-Japan security system beyond the narrowly defined political, cultural and geographical borders of locality. As Okinawa's base politics...
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The Tokyo Trial, Justice, and the Postwar International OrderFully utilizing the latest archival material, this book provides a comprehensive, multi-dimensional and nuanced understanding of the Tokyo Tribunal by delving into the temporal aspects that extended the relevance and reverberations of the Tribunal beyond its end in 1948. With this as a backdrop,...
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The Third Reich of Dreams: The Nightmares of a NationThe hidden history of a nation sleepwalking its way into evil Charlotte Beradt began having unsettling dreams after Adolf Hitler took power in 1933. She envisioned herself being shot at, tortured and scalped, surrounded by Nazis in disguise, and breathlessly fleeing across fields with...
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The Third Education RevolutionFor one thousand years the Church has sent students to the university. The Third Education Revolution will enable universities and schools to send students to local churches. Digital curriculum, prepared by the world's best experts and videographers, will also go to the Church online....
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The Taste of Place: A Cultural Journey Into Terroir Volume 20How and why do we think about food, taste it, and cook it? While much has been written about the concept of terroir as it relates to wine, in this vibrant, personal book, Amy Trubek, a pioneering voice in the new culinary revolution, expands...
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The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global PoliticsEstablished as a homeland for India's Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in...
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The Struggle for Europe: The Turbulent History of a Divided Continent 1945 to the PresentFrom the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, tolerance, democracy, and prosperity. Exploring the role of Cold War politics in Europe...
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The Story of the War in La Vendée and the Little ChouannerieThe brave French Catholics of the Vendée and neighboring provinces rose up in arms when the revolutionary government replaced their priests with clergy who had renounced the Pope. Though they lacked money and allies, and were divided by disputes, they did not cease to...
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The Spy Who Wore Petticoats: A Graphic Novel Biography of Anna StrongDuring the Revolutionary War, an unsuspecting woman named Anna Smith Strong became one of America's most wanted spies. In this action-packed graphic novel, follow Strong's brilliant plan of passing communications to George Washington's Continental Army. To keep the information secret from British soldiers, this...
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The Sources Of Swiss Anabaptism: The Grebel Letters and Related DocumentsThe dramatic story of the genesis of the Anabaptist movement, told directly through the letters of its leaders and other primary documents. The 170 letters and documents in this volume portray how Conrad Grebel, a bright young Swiss patriot, became a fervent, influential leader...
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The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New YorkAuthor: Michael J. DoumaPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/09/2025Pages: 270Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9781009441377This title is not returnable
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The SiouxIn this new and updated edition, award-winning author Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve introduces young readers to the Sioux peoples. The buffalo was the center of Sioux life. After hunting buffalo on horseback, the Sioux people would use every piece of the animal, making food,...
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The Six: The Untold Story of the Titanic's Chinese SurvivorsA moving exploration of the origins and fate of the little-known Chinese passengers aboard the Titanic--and how they survived against all odds. When Titanic sank on a cold night in 1912, barely 700 people escaped with their lives. Among them were six Chinese men....
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The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the Us Heartland, and Global Black FreedomIn The Second Battle for Africa, Erik S. McDuffie establishes the importance of the US Midwest to twentieth-century global Black history, internationalism, and radicalism. McDuffie shows how cities like Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland, as well as rural areas in the heartland, became central and...
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The Roman Provinces, 300 Bce-300 CE: Using Coins as SourcesProvincial coinage gives us a unique insight into the Roman world, reflecting the values and concerns of the elites of the many hundreds of cities in the Roman empire. Coins offer a very different perspective from written history, which usually represents the views of...
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The Red Emperor: XI Jinping and His New ChinaThe Red Emperor presents an eye-opening portrait of Xi Jinping, the man who presides over 1.4 billion people and the second largest economy on earth. Born a 'princeling' to one of Communist China's ruling families, the young Xi was exiled to the countryside during...
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The Real Boys of the Civil War (Black & White Edition)In a war in which more than 200,000 participants were underage children and youth, this book is a collection of their images and stories, sharing that history as it pertains to the boys and youth who were a significant part of the American Civil...
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The Quarry, Revised EditionThe Quarry, Revised Edition, is a work of fiction based on historical fact. Set in the 1800s in rural Newfoundland, when the safety of workers and the hardships they faced were low on the list of priorities for most employers. Dominion Limestone is no...
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The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism: Knowledge Providers and Propagandists in the 'Third Reich'The Nazi Study of India and Indian Anti-Colonialism is the first detailed and critical study of the intellectual and political connections that existed between some German scholars specializing on India, non-academic 'India experts, ' Indian anti-colonialists and various organs of the Nazi state. It...
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