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The Wobblies in Their Heyday: The Rise and Destruction of the Industrial Workers of the World During the World War I EraThe Industrial Workers of the World--or Wobblies, as they were known--included legendary figures from U.S. labor history. Joe Hill, Big Bill Haywood, and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn have become a part of American popular folklore. In this book, author Eric T. Chester shows just how...
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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World: The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil.This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe's stunning biography. Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today hailed as the principal author of...
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Man-Made Disaster: The Story of St. Francis Damvolume 3On March 12, 1928, a huge dam nestled in the foothills north of Los Angeles collapsed and spread death and devastation from Newhall to the Pacific Ocean near Ventura. Some 450 lives were lost, making this disaster equivalent in its human tragedy to the...
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Staged Readings: Contesting Class in Popular American Theater and Literature, 1835-75Staged Readings studies the social consequences of 19th-century America's two most prevalent leisure forms: theater and popular literature. In the midst of watershed historical developments--including numerous waves of immigration, two financial Panics, increasing wealth disparities, and the Civil War--American theater and literature were developing...
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Owning Performance Performing Ownership: Literary Property and the Eighteenth-Century British StageIn 1710, England's first copyright law gave authors the ability to own their works, but it was not until 1833 that literary property law was extended to protect dramatic performance. Between these dates, generations of playwrights grappled for control over their intellectual property in...
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Theodore Roosevelt and His Library at Sagamore HillPresident Theodore Roosevelt called himself a "book lover" and for good reason. From his boyhood days in the 1860s to the very end of his life in 1919, Roosevelt had a deep-seated passion for reading books. Wherever he went, he brought books with him....
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Takin' It to the Streets: A Sixties ReaderThe fourth edition of Takin' it to the streets revises the comprehensive collection of primary documents from the 1960s that has become the leading reader about the era. Adopted nationwide, this anthology brings together representative writings, many of which had been unavailable for years...
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Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star StateGone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the state's successive...
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Sound an Alarm! Joseph Perl's Revealer of Secrets and Testing the RighteousRevealer of Secrets is a portrayal-both realistic and satirical-of Eastern European Jewish life in the tumultuous early years of the nineteenth century. It reflects the struggle that raged between the Haskalah and Hasidism as the Jewish people stood on the threshold of modernity. In...
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African American Artists and the New Deal Art Programs: Opportunity, Access, and CommunityThis bookexamines the involvement of African American artists in the New Deal art programs of the 1930s. Emphasizing broader issues informed by the uniqueness of Black experience rather than individual artists' works, Mary Ann Calo makes the case that the revolutionary vision of these...
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Modernist AlchemyModernist Alchemy takes a close look at the work of twentieth-century poets whose use of the occult constitutes a recovery of discarded beliefs and modes of thought: Yeats and Plath try to dismiss conventional religion, Hughes captures a sense of adventure, H.D. seeks to...
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Assassination in Vichy: Marx Dormoy and the Struggle for the Soul of FranceDuring the night of 25 July 1941, assassins planted a time bomb in the bed of former French Interior Minister Marx Dormoy. The explosion on the morning of 26 July launched a two-year investigation that traced Dormoy's murder to the highest echelons of the...
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The First British Trade Expedition to China: Captain Weddell and the Courteen Fleet in Asia and Late Ming CantonA groundbreaking study of early modern British enterprise in south China. In The First British Trade Expedition to China, Nicholas D. Jackson explores the pioneering British trade expedition to China launched in the late Ming period by Charles I and the Courteen Association. Utilizing...
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Religious Transformation in South Asia: The Meanings of Conversion in Colonial PunjabIn the last decades of the nineteenth century, urgent and unprecedented demands among oppressed peoples in colonial India drove what came to be called "mass conversion movements" towards a range of Christian denominations, launching a revolution in South Asia's two thousand-year Christian history. For...
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The Making of Modern America: The Nation from 1945 to the PresentThe third edition of Dr. Gary A. Donaldson's highly successful textbook The Making of Modern America, introduces students to the cultural, social and political paths the United States has traveled from the end of WWII to the present day.Author: Gary A. DonaldsonPublisher: Rowman &...
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Women's Roles in Nineteenth-Century AmericaThe nineteenth century has been referred to as the Woman's Century, and it was a period of amazing change and progress for American women. There were great leaps forward in women's legal status, their entrance into higher education and the professions, and their roles...
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Reforming Urban Labor: Routes to the City, Roots in the CountryReforming Urban Labor is a history of the nineteenth-century social reforms designed by middle-class progressives to domesticate the labor force. Industrial production required a concentrated labor force, but the swelling masses of workers in the capitals of Britain and Belgium, the industrial powerhouses of...
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The Idea of EpilepsyEpilepsy has a fascinating history. To the medical historian Oswei Temkin it was 'the paradigm of the suffering of both body and soul in disease'. It is justifiably considered a window on brain function. And yet its story is more than simply a medical...
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Why Mothers Died and How Their Lives Are Saved: The Story of Confidential Enquiries Into Maternal DeathsOne of the most dramatic changes to women's lives in the twentieth century was the advent of safe childbirth, reducing the maternal mortality rate from 1 in 400 births to 1 in 10,000 in just 80 years. The impetus behind this change was the...
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The Reagan Revolution and the Rise of the New Right: A Reference GuideThis book covers Ronald Reagan's long rise to the presidency and the conservative political revolution he brought about in the 1980s. Spurning the moderate values and policies Republicans had previously championed, Reagan's revolution continues to play an outsized role in America's political life. This...
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