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Topographia Hibernica, Or the Topography of Ireland, Ancient and Modern: Giving a Complete View of the Civil and Ecclesiastical State of That KingdomThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire: Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical WorldEcology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical...
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Tragedy and Hope: A History of the World in Our TimeUNCENSORED! Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley is the ultimate insider admission of a secret global elite that has impacted nearly every modern historical event. Learn how the Anglo-American banking elite were able to secretly establish...
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Engaging Italy: American Women's Utopian Visions and Transnational NetworksEngaging Italy charts the intertwined lives and writings of three American women in Italy in the 1860s and '70s--journalist Anne Hampton Brewster (1818-92), orphanage and industrial school founder Emily Bliss Gould (1825-75), and translator Caroline Crane Marsh (1816-1901). Brewster, Gould, and Marsh did not...
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Resist, Organize, Build: Feminist and Queer Activism in Britain and the United States During the Long 1980sThe 1980s was a period of political and social tumult in Britain and the United States. Facing resurgent conservative forces, feminist and queer activists organized in ways that not only resisted conservative hegemony but also helped to forge new communities, communications, and futures. Resist,...
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The Humanistic Background of SciencePhilipp Frank (1884-1966) was an influential philosopher of science, public intellectual, and Harvard educator whose last book, The Humanistic Background of Science, is finally available. Never published in his lifetime, this original manuscript has been edited and introduced to highlight Frank's remarkable but little-known...
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The Atlantic and Africa: The Second Slavery and BeyondThe Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one another. On the one hand, the "second slavery" perspective that has reinterpreted the relation of Atlantic slavery and capitalism by emphasizing the...
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Sunshine and Shade: A Diplomatic and Political MemoirThis book is a political and personal memoir. In the book David Miles Connolly has drawn on family and historical influences which affected his trajectory in life. His early years were in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka. During World War Two he was evacuated with...
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Queen of the West: A Documentary History of San Antonio, 1718-1900By 1850, the frontier settlement of San Antonio had seen more than its share of hardships, Indians attacks, rebellions, and repeated military occupations. These events all marked the towns recent past. In 1854, though, the editor of the Alamo Star felt confident enough in...
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Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish MuseumHomes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a...
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From Slavery to the Stars: A Personal JourneyThis story is a tapestry woven with threads of resilience, love, and adventure. It's about more than working on the original Star Trek or her slave ancestor's love story; it's a journey through history, loss, and triumph.Andreea has walked alongside giants, and mourned the...
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How Novels Think: The Limits of Individualism from 1719-1900Nancy Armstrong argues that the history of the novel and the history of the modern individual are, quite literally, one and the same. She suggests that certain works of fiction created a subject, one displaying wit, will, or energy capable of shifting the social...
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Colonialism and the JewsThe lively essays collected here explore colonial history, culture, and thought as it intersects with Jewish studies. Connecting the Jewish experience with colonialism to mobility and exchange, diaspora, internationalism, racial discrimination, and Zionism, the volume presents the work of Jewish historians who recognize the...
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Who Will Write Our History?: Emanuel Ringelblum, the Warsaw Ghetto, and the Oyneg Shabes ArchiveIn 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final...
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Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public HousingBlueprint for Disaster traces public housing's history in Chicago from its New Deal roots through current mayor Richard M. Daley's Plan for Transformation. In the process, D. Bradford Hunt chronicles the Chicago Housing Authority's own transformation from the city's most progressive government agency to...
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Moments for Nothing: Samuel Beckett and the End TimesSamuel Beckett's work has entranced generations of readers with its portrayal of the end times. Beckett's characters are preoccupied with death, and the specters of cataclysm and extinction overshadow their barren, bleak worlds. Yet somehow, they endure, experiencing surreal and often comic repetitions that...
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The Sit-Ins: Protest and Legal Change in the Civil Rights EraOn February 1, 1960, four African American college students entered the Woolworth department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sat down at the lunch counter. This lunch counter, like most in the American South, refused to serve black customers. The four students remained in...
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Revolution in Texas: How a Forgotten Rebellion and Its Bloody Suppression Turned Mexicans Into AmericansA gripping narrative about a dramatic episode in the history of the American West--and a major contribution to our understanding of the origins of Mexican American identity In Revolution in Texas Benjamin Johnson tells the little-known story of one of the most intense and...
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Loring's DivisionA thorough history of Loring's Division could cover hundreds of pages. The battles alone could have been covered in greater detail. The purpose here is to give a good overview of the actions of Loring and his unit commanders, in order to appreciate the...
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The Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald SchoolThe remarkable story of The Historic Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School: Our Story, This Place brings to life the ongoing history of one of the few remaining Rosenwald school buildings in North Carolina. More than 5,000 of these rural schools were built through a...
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