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Boom Kids: Growing Up in the Calgary Suburbs, 1950-1970The baby boomers and postwar suburbia remain a touchstone. For many, there is a belief that it has never been as good for youngsters and their families, as it was in the postwar years. Boom Kids explores the triumphs and challenges of childhood and...
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Reinventing Human RightsA radical vision for the future of human rights as a fundamentally reconfigured framework for global justice. Reinventing Human Rights offers a bold argument: that only a radically reformulated approach to human rights will prove adequate to confront and overcome the most consequential global...
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Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century PhilosophyKant's philosophy is usually treated according to 'internalist' textual methodology rather than contextually according to 'externalist' methodology. Kant and the Naturalistic Turn of 18th Century Philosophy presents transcendental idealism, the metaphysics of morals, and other Kantian innovations in philosophy as a reaction to 18th...
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The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered AmerkaThis is the fantastical, yet real, story of the merchants of Bethlehem, the young men who traveled to every corner of the globe in the nineteenth century. These men set off on the backs of donkeys with suitcases full of crosses and rosaries, to...
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Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in ItalyThe recent vast upsurge in social science scholarship on job precarity has generally little to say about earlier forms of this phenomenon. Eloisa Betti's monograph convincingly demonstrates on the example of Italy that even in the post-war phase of Keynesian stability and welfare state,...
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Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the American DreamThe story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000--the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this growth took place...
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The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985"This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted...
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Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic BelongingIn Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's distorted capitalist values and practices at the start of the twentieth century. Employing historical research, theological analysis, and critical theory, Day demonstrates...
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The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan SalamanRedcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman...
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The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in IraqA new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in...
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The New Method of Learning and Teaching Jurisprudence According to the Principles of the Didactic Art Premised in the General Part and in the Light ofThe first complete English translation from the Latin of Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz's Nova methodus discendae docendaeque Jurisprudentiae. lxxxvii, 218 pp. Preface by William E. Butler. Better known for his contributions to philosophy, metaphysics and mathematics as co-discoverer along with Isaac Newton of calculus, Gottfried...
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The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between family structures and narrative structure in the nineteenth-century novel. Comparing Russia and England, it argues that the two nations had fundamentally different conceptions of the family and that these, in turn, shaped the way...
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Emerson's Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late StyleRalph Waldo Emerson's dementia, an ordeal that marked his final two decades, has never been a secret among those who study Emerson's life. Still, few have focused on the period of Emerson's decline. Thus, his later thinking has succumbed to a process of critical...
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Engineering European Unity: The Quest for the Right Solution Across CenturiesWhich European and non-European ideas and practices facilitated the shaping of European unity? Or rather, which pursuits led to deadlocks in the cooperation between states? The book seeks answers to these questions by surveying the historical attempts at realizing supranational patterns of governance in...
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Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918At the end of the nineteenth century, print media dominated British popular culture, produced in greater variety and on a larger scale than ever before. Within decades, new visual and auditory media had ushered in a mechanized milieu, displacing print from its position at...
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Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRural cemeteries--named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location--were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation's first such burial ground to combine the...
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Collected Epiphanies of James Joyce: A Critical EditionJoyce's early texts, which informed his later masterpieces, available for the first time in a comprehensive critical edition This book offers the first critical edition of the forty short texts James Joyce called "epiphanies." Among Joyce's earliest literary compositions, although published posthumously, the epiphanies...
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Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850In Indigenous Enlightenment Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading. Protestant expatriates who opened schools within British and U.S. colonial territories between 1790 and 1850 shared the conviction that a...
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Clément Marot's Epistles: Volume 582The first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot. Clément Marot (1496-1544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the...
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An Archaeology of Structural Violence: Life in a Twentieth-Century Coal TownDrawing on material evidence from daily life in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town, this book offers an up-close view of the political economy of the United States over the course of the twentieth century. This community's story illustrates the great ironies of this era, showing...
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