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Peacemakers: American Leadership and the End of Genocide in the BalkansThe wars that accompanied the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s were the deadliest European conflicts since World War II. The violence escalated to the point of genocide when, over the course of ten days in July 1995, Serbian troops under the command of...
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Democratic Beginnings: Founding the Western StatesState constitutions are blueprints for government institutions, declarations of collective identity, statements of principle, values, and goals. It naturally follows, and this book demonstrates, that the founding documents and the conventions that produced them reflect the emerging dynamics of American democracy in the nineteenth...
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The Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal LeftHow Red Scare politics undermined the reform potential of the New Deal In the name of protecting Americans from Soviet espionage, the post-1945 Red Scare curtailed the reform agenda of the New Deal. The crisis of the Great Depression had brought into government a...
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Vagabond Fictions: Gender and Experiment in British Women's Writing, 1945-1970Examines British women's experimental writing in historical contexts, 1945-1970 The first detailed literary history of women's experimental writing in post-war Britain Provides a detailed historical overview combined with close critical readings and complemented by an extensive bibliography of primary and secondary sources Considers literature...
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Cross-Channel ModernismsExplores modernist aesthetics and cultural exchange in Britain, France and beyond Offers cutting-edge explorations of different aspects of artistic exchange between Britain and France, written by experts on both sides of the Channel Provides original close readings of canonical and marginalised modernist texts Opens...
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Engine of Modernity: The Omnibus and Urban Culture in Nineteenth-Century ParisEngine of modernity examines the connection between public transportation and popular culture in nineteenth-century Paris through a focus on the omnibus - a horse-drawn vehicle of urban transport. The omnibus generated innovations in social practices by compelling passengers of diverse backgrounds to interact within...
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The Age of Capitalism and Bureaucracy: Perspectives on the Political Sociology of Max WeberThe historian Wolfgang Mommsen was one of the foremost experts on Max Weber as well as an insightful and accessible interpreter of his work. Mommsen's classic book, first published in 1974 under the title The Age of Bureaucracy, not only concisely explains the basic...
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Black Power and the American People: The Cultural Legacy of Black RadicalismWhile the history of the non-violent Civil Rights Movement, from Rosa Parks to Martin Luther King, is one of the great American stories of the twentieth century, the related Black Power movement has taken a more complex path through the nation's history. Formed by...
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Medal Winners: How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel CareersAs the ground war in Vietnam escalated in the late 1960s, the US government leveraged the so-called doctor draft to secure adequate numbers of medical personnel in the armed forces. Among newly minted physicians' few alternatives to military service was the Clinical Associate Training...
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The Design and Construction of the NautilusIs there anyone, of any age, who has read Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and not sketched their vision of the Nautilus in their imagination or down on paper? For 150 years, the submarine created by Jules Verne has captivated readers and inspired...
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Forbidden Citizens: Chinese Exclusion and the U.S. Congress: A Legislative History" A]n exemplary subject reference." -- Library Journal "Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates though faculty." -- CHOICE A whole class of people, forbidden from ever becoming citizens . . . forbidden from even entering the country-their rights torn up and trampled on, left with no...
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The Modern Short Story and Magazine Culture, 1880-1950This collection of original essays highlights the intertwined fates of the modern short story and periodical culture in the period 1880-1950, the heyday of magazine short fiction in Britain. Through case studies that focus on particular magazines, short stories and authors, chapters investigate the...
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American Snobs: Transatlantic Novelists, Liberal Culture and the Genteel TraditionReassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated their political thought in response to the liberalism that reigned in Boston and, more specifically, at Harvard University, this book shows how each...
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Violence in Islamic Thought from European Imperialism to the Post-Colonial EraThis volume shows the diversity of approaches to violence in Islamic thought between the 19th century and the present day, avoiding the limiting characterisations of Islam being inherently 'violent' or 'peaceful'. It shows how ideas of 'justified violence' - grounded in Islamic theological and...
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History of the Insurrection in the Four Western Counties of Pennsylvania: In the Year M.DCC.XCIV. With a Recital of the Circumstances Specially ConnecThe 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 History of the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, Styled Afterwards, the Knights of Rhodes, and at Present, the Knights of Malta. TranThe 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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A new, Short, and Easy Method of Fencing: Or, the art of the Broad and Small-sword Rectified and Compendized. ... By Sir William Hope, Baronet. The ThThe 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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Character Building: Being Addresses Delivered on Sunday Evenings to the Students of Tuskegee InstituteThis 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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...
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The Lincoln And Douglas Debates: In The Senatorial Campaign Of 1858 In Illinois, Between Abraham Lincoln And Stephen Arnold DouglasThis 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 Roar and the Silence: A History of Virginia City and the Comstock LodeNevada's Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West's quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the...
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