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The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of KnowledgeThe Floating University sheds light on a story of optimism and imperialist ambition in the 1920s. In 1926, New York University professor James E. Lough--an educational reformer with big dreams--embarked on a bold experiment he called the Floating University. Lough believed that taking five...
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Echo and Critique: Poetry and the Clichés of Public SpeechIn Echo and Critique, Florian Gargaillo skillfully charts the ways that poets have responded to the clichés of public speech from the start of the Second World War to the present. Beginning around 1939, many public intellectuals on both sides of the Atlantic lamented...
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Half Century, Baby!: Fifty Years of the Grumman F-14 TomcatHalf Century, Baby! marks the 50th anniversary of the first two Grumman F-14A fleet squadrons (VF-1 and VF-2) receiving their first Tomcats during the summer of 1973. This lavishly illustrated volume tells the story of the aircraft from the beginning to its sunset of...
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The Wild Woman of Cincinnati: Gender and Politics on the Eve of the Civil WarPopular entertainment in antebellum Cincinnati ran the gamut from high culture to shows barely above the level of the tawdry. Among the options for those seeking entertainment in the summer of 1856 was the display of a "Wild Woman," purportedly a young woman captured...
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Vaincre Sans Gloire: Le Corps Expeditionnaire Francais En Italie (Novembre 1942-Juillet 1944)English summary: French description: En portant pour la premiere fois depuis la defaite de 1940 l'etendard tricolore sur le sol europeen, le Corps expeditionnaire francais accomplit un geste capital pour le relevement national. La force du symbole ne saurait toutefois occulter ses vicissitudes. C'est...
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Shame the Devil: How Critics Keep American Journalism HonestWhen the press loses sight of truth and falls prey to bias, American press critics push back to safeguard our free and democratic nation. Journalists are no strangers to criticism and some have even seen disagreements turn to outrage and acts of violence. There...
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Plenti and Grase: Food and Drink in a Sixteenth-Century HouseholdThis is an important study of the household affairs of the Willoughby family of Wollaton Hall in Nottingham and Middleton Hall in Warwickshire. Made wealthy by inheritance and coal mining, they built a wonder-house at Wollaton, designed by the architect Robert Smythson. The survival...
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Prelude to Pearl Harbor: Ideology and Culture in Us-Japan Relations, 1919-1941In this absorbing account of the origins of the Asia-Pacific War, historian John Gripentrog argues that competing ideologies of world order--chiefly the rift between liberal internationalism and Pan-Asian regionalism--lay at the heart of the conflict. Drawing from a rich diversity of primary and secondary...
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Southern Scoundrels: Grifters and Graft in the Nineteenth CenturyThe history of capitalist development in the United States is long, uneven, and overwhelmingly focused on the North. Macroeconomic studies of the South have primarily emphasized the role of the cotton economy in global trading networks. Until now, few in-depth scholarly works have attempted...
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Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920"[An] essential study of a previously unexplored chapter of the game's history. An important addition to baseball collections...." Library Journal, Starred Review The gripping story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history-the Black Sox scandal-continued for nearly a year following...
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The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969"Resplendent.... A masterwork of history."--Ron Jacobs, CounterpunchIn eyewitness testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs, The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Battle for People's Park. In...
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Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American ModernityMost cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of mass culture. Patrick Kindig's Fascination, however, tells a different...
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American by Birth: Wong Kim Ark and the Battle for CitizenshipAmerican by Birth explores the history and legacy of Wong Kim Ark and the 1898 Supreme Court case that bears his name, which established the automatic citizenship of individuals born within the geographic boundaries of the United States. In the late nineteenth century, much...
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Ben Fletcher: The Life and Times of a Black WobblyIn the early twentieth century, when many US unions disgracefully excluded black and Asian workers, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) warmly welcomed people of color, in keeping with their emphasis on class solidarity and their bold motto: "An Injury to One Is...
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Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero GleijesesDuring the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between the superpowers. Americans, Cubans, Soviets, and Africans fought over the future of Angola, where tens of thousands of Cuban soldiers...
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Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History since 1898Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connect the island's economic, political, cultural, and social past. Puerto Rico in the American Century explores Puerto Ricans in the diaspora as well...
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Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth CenturyThe Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other...
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Captain Kidd and the War Against the PiratesThe legends that die hardest are those of the romantic outlaw, and those of swashbuckling pirates are surely among the most durable. Swift ships, snug inns, treasures buried by torchlight, palm-fringed beaches, fabulous riches, and, most of all, freedom from the mean life of...
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Cold War and the Color Line: American Race Relations in the Global Arena (Revised)After World War II the United States faced two preeminent challenges: how to administer its responsibilities abroad as the world's strongest power, and how to manage the rising movement at home for racial justice and civil rights. The effort to contain the growing influence...
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Remembering the Troubles: Contesting the Recent Past in Northern IrelandThe historian A. T. Q. Stewart once remarked that in Ireland all history is applied history--that is, the study of the past prosecutes political conflict by other means. Indeed, nearly twenty years after the 1998 Belfast Agreement, "dealing with the past" remains near the...
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