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The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60One of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in History and the winner of seven awards, including the John H. Dunning Prize of the American Historical Association, the Ray A. Billington Book Award of the Organization of American Historians, and the National Historical Society...
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The Puritan ExperienceOriginally published in 1972 and based on extensive research and use of source materials including manuscripts, this book examines Puritan spiritual autobiographies written before 1725 and sets them in the context of the literary tradition out of which they grew. As well as Bunyan,...
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The Puritan Gentry: The Great Puritan Families of Early Stuart EnglandOriginally published in 1984, this was the first detailed study of the impact of Puritan influences on the wealthy county families of early Stuart England. It discusses one of the central issues in the history of the English Civil War: what motivated those men...
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Why the Jews?: How Jewish Values Transformed Twentieth Century American Pop CultureAt the beginning of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants upended Protestant control of vaudeville and the silent film industry. This book rejects the commonly held explanations for this shift: Jewish commercial acumen and their desire to assimilate. Instead, this book argues that the "pleasure...
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The Enlightened Economy: An Economic History of Britain 1700-1850This book focuses on the importance of ideological and institutional factors in the rapid development of the British economy during the years between the Glorious Revolution and the Crystal Palace Exhibition. Joel Mokyr shows that we cannot understand the Industrial Revolution without recognizing the...
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US Public Opinion since the 1930s: Galluping through HistoryThis study examines American public opinion since the 1930s. The author analyzes data from Gallup and other sources and looks at such issues as US politics, international events, race, sex, gender, economics, the environment, and more.Author: Richard SeltzerPublisher: Lexington BooksPublished: 08/22/2023Pages: 266Binding Type: PaperbackWeight:...
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From Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz": Blechhammer's Role in the HolocaustFrom Schmelt Camp to "Little Auschwitz" Blechhammer's Role in the Holocaust is the first in-depth study of the second largest Auschwitz subcamp, Blechhammer (Blachownia Śląska), and its lesser known yet significant prehistory as a so-called Schmelt camp, a forced labor camp for Jews operating...
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Until Our Time Comes: A Novel of World War II PolandAmerican horse trainer Adia Kensington is living her dream of working at the famous Janów Podlaski stables in Poland, where they breed the best Arabian horses in the world. But her plans to bring the priceless stallion Lubor to the US are derailed when...
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Foxhole Victory Tour"During World War II, Catherine Duquette and Maggie McCleod come from different worlds but are thrown together on a USO variety show touring North Africa. While they each have secret reasons for accepting the job, neither anticipates the danger and intrigue they'll encounter performing...
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Hoopla in Harlem!: The Renaissance of African American Art and CultureAfrican American artists during the Harlem Renaissance were social activists, making a significant contribution to black culture and aesthetics. This book engages the philosophical discourse of Kenneth Burke and examines these artists as activists, and their works as symbols of social protest.Author: Gregory TillmanPublisher:...
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Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic WorldThe effect of Saint Domingue's decolonization on the wider Atlantic worldThe slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the...
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Right Turn: American Life in the Reagan-Bush Era, 1980-1992An entire generation has passed since the election that installed Ronald Reagan into the White House. This brisk narrative fills a significant gap in the literature on recent U.S. history, making use of diverse memoir material, journalistic accounts, biographies, and specialized policy studies, including...
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The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963Using the Atlanta, Birmingham, and Nashville Public Libraries as case studies, The Development of Southern Public Libraries and the African American Quest for Library Access, 1898-1963 argues that public libraries played an integral role in Southern cities' economic and cultural boosterism efforts during the...
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America's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American IslamAmerica's Other Muslims: Imam W.D. Mohammed, Islamic Reform, and the Making of American Islam explores the oldest and perhaps the most important Muslim community in America, whose story has received little attention in the contemporary context. Muhammad Fraser-Rahim explores American Muslim Revivalist, Imam W.D....
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Brokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical NovelBrokering Culture in Britain's Empire and the Historical Novel examines the relationship between the historical sensibilities of nineteenth-century British and American "romancers" and the conceptual frameworks that eighteenth-century imperial interlocutors used to imagine and critique their own experiences of Britain's diffused, tenuous, and often...
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From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese HistoryA leading authority in the field of Chinese Studies, Professor Ying-shih Yü received the John W. Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity in 2006 and the inaugural Tang Prize in Sinology in 2014. These awards represent a recognition of his contributions...
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LImestone Legacies: A Collection of Articles on Granbury and Hood County HistoryLimestone Legacies is a collection of articles and photos on the local history of the town of Granbury and the surrounding Hood County in north central Texas from the 1840s to the present day. The local story has been greatly influenced by the Brazos...
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Queer Transgressions in Twentieth-Century Polish Fiction: Gender, Nation, PoliticsThroughout the twentieth century in Poland various ideologies attempted to keep queer voices silent-whether those ideologies were fascist, communist, Catholic, or neo-liberal. Despite these pressures, there existed a vibrant, transgressive trend within Polish literature that subverted such silencing. This book provides in-depth textual analyses...
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The Early American Republic: A History in DocumentsThe early years of the American republic witnessed wrenching conflict and change. Northerners created an industrial order, which brought with it troubled relationships at work and within families. White southerners extended plantation slavery while the anti-slavery movement grew above the Mason-Dixon line. In the...
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Faith and Foreign Affairs in the American CenturyThe United States has led the world in almost every way since World War I. In 1941, Life magazine publisher Henry Luce dubbed his country's preponderant power "the American Century." His editorial was a statement of fact but also an aspiration for countrymen to...
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