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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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Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How Do We Know What We Know?A diverse collection of essays and interviews on reading, teaching, and writing poetry from a preeminent critic and scholar Jed Rasula is a distinguished scholar of avant-garde poetics, noted for his erudition, intellectual range, and critical independence. Wreading: A Poetics of Awareness, or How...
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Annotations to Finnegans WakeThe essential guide to Joyce's famously difficult book.Roland McHugh's classic Annotations to Finnegans Wake provides both novice readers and seasoned Joyceans with a wealth of information in an easy-to-use format uniquely suited to this densely layered text. Each page of the Annotations corresponds directly...
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Best-Laid Plans: The Promises and Pitfalls of the New Deal's Greenbelt TownsA history of the New Deal program intended to improve the living conditions of America's underclass. In 1935, under the direction of the Resettlement Administration, the United States government embarked on a New Deal program to construct new suburban towns for the working class....
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Limits of Constraint: The Originalist Jurisprudence of Hugo Black, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence ThomasAdherents of originalism often present it as a theory that constrains legal decision-making in a clear and objective manner that is based on the text and original meaning of the Constitution, in contrast to the supposedly subjective and "activist" jurisprudence of those who promote...
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Revolutionary Worlds: Local Perspectives and Dynamics During the Indonesian Independence War, 1945-1949Revolutionary Worlds looks at the Indonesian revolution (1945-1949) from a local and regional perspective. With seventeen contributions, Indonesian and Dutch researchers bring to life the revolutionary world from widely differing perspectives. The authors explain how Indonesian, Chinese, Indian and Eurasian civilians, fighters, farmers and...
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Civilization: From Enlightenment Philosophy to Canadian HistoryColonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a check...
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Hemispheric Alliances: Liberal Democrats and Cold War Latin AmericaHemispheric foreign policy has waxed and waned since the Mexican War, and the Cold War presented both extraordinary promises and dangerous threats to U.S.-Latin American cooperation. In Hemispheric Alliances, Andrew J. Kirkendall examines the strengths and weaknesses of new models for U.S.-Latin American relations...
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Luxurious Citizens: The Politics of Consumption in Nineteenth-Century AmericaAfter the Revolution, Americans abandoned the political economy of self-denial and sacrifice that had secured their independence. In its place, they created one that empowered the modern citizen-consumer. This profound transformation was the uncoordinated and self-serving work of merchants, manufacturers, advertisers, auctioneers, politicians, and...
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History of Maysville and Mason County, KentuckyBy: G. Glenn Clift, Pub. 1936, Reprinted 2019, 470 pages, Index, soft cover, ISBN #0-89308-572-3. Mason County was created in 1788 as one of the nine counties from the Kentucky District. It was taken from Bourbon County in 1788 and lies in the northeastern...
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Dangerous Neighbors: Making the Haitian Revolution in Early AmericaDangerous Neighbors shows how the Haitian Revolution permeated early American print culture and had a profound impact on the young nation's domestic politics. Focusing on Philadelphia as both a representative and an influential vantage point, it follows contemporary American reactions to the events through...
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Inventing the Egghead: The Battle Over Brainpower in American CultureThroughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In Inventing the Egghead, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of these sources to reveal how Americans who...
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Titanic Collections Volume 1: Fragments of History: The Ship Volume 1A beautifully designed book showcasing important collections of Titanic-related memorabilia This is the first in a two-part series showcasing rare and important artifacts relating to the history of RMS Titanic. Many collectors prefer to hide their treasures away, but the items presented in these...
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The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in PhiladelphiaContesting claims that postwar American liberalism retreated from fights against unemployment and economic inequality, The Problem of Jobs reveals that such efforts did not collapse after the New Deal but instead began to flourish at the local, rather than the national, level. With a...
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Antisemitism and the Politics of HistoryThis groundbreaking anthology addresses the history and challenges of using "antisemitism" and related terms as tools for historical analysis and public discourse. Drawing together seventeen chapters by prominent scholars from Europe, Israel, and the United States, the volume encourages readers to rethink assumptions regarding...
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Fresh Kills: A History of Consuming and Discarding in New York CityFresh Kills--a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island--was once the world's largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City's refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin...
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In the Shadow of the Big Top: The Life of Ringling's Unlikely Circus SaviorA thrilling behind-the-scenes biography of the Ringling brothers' chief henchman. Art Concello wasn't born into the circus. But he was in the right place at the right time, becoming one of the world's best trapeze artists before transforming himself into a shrewd circus businessman....
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Stalin's Russia: And the Crisis in SocialismFirst published in 1940, Stalin's Russia is a close study of the development of the Stalinist regime and the flaws in socialist doctrine that made it possible. The book examines the contrasts between the "free and equal" society heralded by the Marxist-Leninist programme and...
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Old Southwest to Old South: Mississippi, 1798-1840Mississippi's foundational epoch--in which the state literally took shape--has for too long remained overlooked and shrouded in misunderstanding. Yet the years between 1798, when the Mississippi Territory was created, and 1840, when the maturing state came into its own as arguably the heart of...
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First Impressions: Sefer Hasidim and Early Modern Hebrew PrintingUncovers the history of creative adaptation and transformation through a close analysis of the creation of the Sefer Hasidim book. In 1538, a partnership of Jewish silk makers in the city of Bologna published a book entitled Sefer Hasidim, a compendium of rituals, stories,...
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