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Imagining the Fed: The Struggle for the Heart of the Federal Reserve, 1913-1970Imagining the Fed traces a six-decade struggle to shape the Federal Reserve's policymaking organs, the Washington-based Board and the Federal Open Market Committee. Conventional wisdom holds that Congress ended the system's struggle in 1935 by granting the Board a voting majority on the open...
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Thurlow Weed, Wizard of the LobbyThis 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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The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: the Cabinet and the Presidency, 1920-1933This 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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Abolishing Boundaries: Global Utopias in the Formation of Modern Chinese Political Thought, 1880-1940Honorable Mention, 2022 Sharon Harris Book Award presented by the University of Connecticut Humanities InstituteFocusing on four key Chinese intellectuals of the first half of the twentieth century, Abolishing Boundaries offers new perspectives on modern Chinese political thought. These four intellectuals--Kang Youwei, Cai Yuanpei,...
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Cornering the Market: Independent Grocers and Innovation in American Small BusinessIn popular stereotypes, local grocers were avuncular men who spent their days in pickle-barrel conversations and checkers games; they were backward small-town merchants resistant to modernizing impulses. Cornering the Market challenges these conventions to demonstrate that nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century grocers were important but unsung...
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Perfecting the Union: National and State Authority in the Us ConstitutionFor most of the twentieth century, the American founding has been presented as a struggle between social classes over issues arising primarily within, rather than outside, the United States. But in recent years, new scholarship has instead turned to the international history of the...
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Religion as Resistance: Negotiating Authority in Italian LibyaWhen Italian forces landed on the shores of Libya in 1911, many in Italy hailed it as an opportunity to embrace a Catholic national identity through imperial expansion. After decades of acrimony between an intransigent Church and the Italian state, enthusiasm for the imperial...
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A new Voyage to Italy. With Curious Observations on Several Other Countries: As Germany; Switzerland; Savoy; Geneva; Flanders, and Holland: ... In twoThe 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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The OSS and Ho Chi Minh: Unexpected Allies in the War against JapanSome will be shocked to find out that the United States and Ho Chi Minh, our nemesis for much of the Vietnam War, were once allies. Indeed, during the last year of World War II, American spies in Indochina found themselves working closely with...
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The Long Reach of the Sixties: Lbj, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme CourtThe Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the...
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Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology, and Liberal EducationLiberal democracy is today under unprecedented attack from both the left and the right. Offering a fresh and penetrating examination of how Leo Strauss understood the emergence of liberal democracy and what is necessary to sustain and elevate it, Leo Strauss on Democracy, Technology,...
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Drops of Inclusivity: Racial Formations and Meanings in Puerto Rican Society, 1898-1965Drops of Inclusivity examines race and racism on the island of Puerto Rico by combining a wide-angle historical narrative with the individual stories of Black Puerto Ricans. While some of these Afro-Boricuas, such as Roberto Clemente and Ruth Fernández, are well known, others, such...
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The Insider: How the Kiplinger Newsletter Bridged Washington and Wall StreetWhen Willard M. Kiplinger launched the groundbreaking Kiplinger Washington Letter in 1923, he left the sidelines of traditional journalism to strike out on his own. With a specialized knowledge of finance and close connections to top Washington officials, Kiplinger was uniquely positioned to tell...
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A Land Apart: The Southwest and the Nation in the Twentieth CenturyWinner, Spur Award for Best Contemporary Nonfiction (Western Writers of America) A Land Apart is not just a cultural history of the modern Southwest--it is a complete rethinking and recentering of the key players and primary events marking the Southwest in the twentieth century....
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A North-Side View of Slavery: The Refugee: Or, the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, With an Account of the History anThis 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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The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and CultureA 2018 Over the Rainbow Selection presented by the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table (GLBTRT) of the American Library AssociationLGBT Americans now enjoy the right to marry--but what will we remember about the vibrant cultural spaces that lesbian activists created in the...
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Empire Imagined: The Personality of American Power, Volume OneThe origins of the United States' distinct approach to war and military power are found in the colonial experience. Long before 1776 or 1619, Englishmen understood themselves to be a part of a larger, lost "British" empire that might disappear forever in the globe-girdling...
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Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes IndiaShortlisted for the 2022 George A. and Jeanne S. DeLong Book History Book Prize presented by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and PublishingWinner of the 2021 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize presented by the Research Society for Victorian PeriodicalsIn...
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Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of ChinaA history of how Chinese officials used statistics to define a new society in the early years of the People's Republic of China In 1949, at the end of a long period of wars, one of the biggest challenges facing leaders of the new...
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Gaither Committee: Eisenhower & Cold WarAs the United States struggled to respond to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik in 1957, President Eisenhower received a top secret report prepared by a committee of leading scientific, business, and military experts. The panel, called the Gaither Committee in recognition of its...
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