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Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern EgyptMedia of the Masses investigates the social life of an everyday technology--the cassette tape--to offer a multisensory history of modern Egypt. Over the 1970s and 1980s, cassettes became a ubiquitous presence in Egyptian homes and stores. Audiocassette technology gave an opening to ordinary individuals,...
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Raising Freedom's Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future After SlaveryThe end of slavery in the United States inspired conflicting visions of the future for all Americans in the nineteenth century, black and white, slave and free. The black child became a figure upon which people projected their hopes and fears about slavery's abolition....
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The Third Asiatic Invasion: Empire and Migration in Filipino America, 1898-1946Winner of the 2012-2013 Asian/Pacific American Librarian's Association Book AwardWinner of the 2013 American Sociological Association's Asia and Asian America Section Distinguished Book Award The first half of the twentieth century witnessed a wave of Filipino immigration to the United States, following in the...
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Jewish Radicals: A Documentary ReaderWinner of the 2013 New York Book Show Award in Scholarly/Professional Cover Design Jewish Radicals explores the intertwined histories of Jews and the American Left through a rich variety of primary documents. Written in English and Yiddish, these documents reflect the entire spectrum of...
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Moonshiners and Prohibitionists: The Battle over Alcohol in Southern AppalachiaHomemade liquor has played a prominent role in the Appalachian economy for nearly two centuries. The region endured profound transformations during the extreme prohibition movements of the nineteenth century, when the manufacturing and sale of alcohol -- an integral part of daily life for...
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Divide and Dissent-PaFew men have been more important to the life of Kentucky than three of those who governed it between 1930 and 1963 -- Albert B. Chandler, Earle C. Clements, and Bert T. Combs. While reams of newspaper copy have been written about them, the...
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From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century AmericaFrom gentleman callers to big men on campus, from Coke dates to "parking," From Front Porch to Back Seat is the vivid history of dating in America. In chronicling a dramatic shift in patterns of courtship between the 1920s and the 1960s, Beth Bailey...
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Walt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir: Song and Counter-SongWalt Whitman and His Caribbean Interlocutors: José Martí, C.L.R. James, and Pedro Mir explores the writings of Whitman (1819-1892) and of three Caribbean authors who engaged with them. These three interlocutors--the Cuban poet, essayist and revolutionary José Martí (1853-1895); the Trinidadian activist, historian and...
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Quarantine!: East European Jewish Immigrants and the New York City Epidemics of 1892 (Updated)This riveting story of the typhus and cholera epidemics that swept through New York City in 1892 has been updated with a new preface that tackles the COVID-19 pandemic. Winner, 2003 Arthur J. Viseltear Prize for Outstanding Book in the History of Public Health,...
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A History of Jessamine County, KentuckyBy: Bennett H. Young, Pub. 1898, Reprinted 2020, 288 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-102-7. Jessamine County was created in 1798 form Fayette County. It lies in the center of the state. Most of her early settlers were from North Carolina and Virginia. These pioneers crossed...
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Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of DecolonizationHonorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationHow did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells...
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Warfare and Culture in World History, Second EditionAn expanded edition of the leading text on military history and the role of culture on the battlefield Ideas matter in warfare. Guns may kill, but ideas determine when, where, and how they are used. Traditionally, military historians attempted to explain the ideas behind...
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Neoliberal Cities: The Remaking of Postwar Urban AmericaTraces decades of troubled attempts to fund private answers to public urban problems The American city has long been a laboratory for austerity, governmental decentralization, and market-based solutions to urgent public problems such as affordable housing, criminal justice, and education. Through richly told case...
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Pol Pot's Little Red Book: The Sayings of AngkarThis handbook of slogans, interspersed with historical commentary and contextual analysis, describes the Khmer Rouge regime and exposes the horrific foundation upon which it constructed its reign of terror. On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized power in Phnom Penh. In the three...
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Banking on the State: The Financial Foundations of LebanonIn 1943, Lebanon gained its formal political independence from France; only after two more decades did the country finally establish a national central bank. Inaugurated on April 1, 1964, the Banque du Liban (BDL) was billed by Lebanese authorities as the nation's primary symbol...
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American Terror: The Feeling of Thinking in Edwards, Poe, and MelvilleIf America is a nation founded upon Enlightenment ideals, then why are so many of its most celebrated pieces of literature so dark? American Terror returns to the question of American literature's distinctive tone of terror through a close study of three authors--Jonathan Edwards,...
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Oceanographers and the Cold War: Disciples of Marine ScienceOceanographers and the Cold War is about patronage, politics, and the community of scientists. It is the first book to examine the study of the oceans during the Cold War era and explore the international focus of American oceanographers, taking into account the roles...
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The Good War in American MemoryThe "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodnar's sociocultural examination of the vast public debate that took place in the United States over the war's...
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Encountering Revolution: Haiti and the Making of the Early RepublicEncountering Revolution looks afresh at the profound impact of the Haitian Revolution on the early United States. The first book on the subject in more than two decades, it redefines our understanding of the relationship between republicanism and slavery at a foundational moment in...
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The Unknowable in Early Modern Thought: Natural Philosophy and the Poetics of the IneffableEarly modern thought was haunted by the unknowable character of the fallen world. The sometimes brilliant and sometimes baffling fusion of theological and scientific ideas in the era, as well as in some of its greatest literature, responds to this sense that humans encountered...
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