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Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow Era2020 Miriam Matthews Ethnic History Award from the Los Angeles City Historical Society As Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working to make that leisure an open, inclusive reality. By occupying...
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Radical Reform: Interracial Politics in Post-Emancipation North CarolinaRadical Reform describes a remarkable chapter in the American pro-democracy movement. It portrays the largely unknown leaders of the interracial Republican Party who struggled for political, civil, and labor rights in North Carolina after the Civil War. In so doing, they paved the way...
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Martin R. Delany: A Documentary ReaderMartin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the "Father of Black Nationalism," but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence...
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Writing History with Lightning: Cinematic Representations of Nineteenth-Century AmericaFilms possess virtually unlimited power for crafting broad interpretations of American history. Nineteenth-century America has proven especially conducive to Hollywood imaginations, producing indelible images like the plight of Davy Crockett and the defenders of the Alamo, Pickett's doomed charge at Gettysburg, the proliferation and...
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Roots of Violent Crime in America: From the Gilded Age through the Great DepressionThe Roots of Violent Crime in America is criminologist Barry Latzer's comprehensive analysis of crimes of violence--including murder, assault, and rape--in the United States from the 1880s through the 1930s. Combining the theoretical perspectives and methodological rigor of criminology with a synthesis of historical...
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The CIO, 1935-1955The Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) encompassed the largest sustained surge of worker organization in American history. Robert Zieger charts the rise of this industrial union movement, from the founding of the CIO by John L. Lewis in 1935 to its merger under Walter...
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On the Trail of the Yellow Tiger: War, Trauma, and Social Dislocation in Southwest China During the Ming-Qing TransitionThe Manchu Qing victory over the Chinese Ming Dynasty in the mid-seventeenth century was one of the most surprising and traumatic developments in China's long history. In the last year of the Ming, the southwest region of China became the base of operations for...
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Women and Musical Salons in the EnlightenmentA study of musical salons in Europe and North America between 1760 and 1800 and the salon hostesses who shaped their musical worlds. In eighteenth-century Europe and America, musical salons--and the women who hosted and made music in them--played a crucial role in shaping...
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Gay Rights and Moral Panic: The Origins of America's Debate on HomosexualityUsing the 1977 campaign against the Dade County Florida gay rights ordinance as a focal point, this book provides an examination of the emergence of the modern lesbian and gay American movement, the challenges it posed to the accepted American notions of sexuality, and...
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Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early RepublicThis book explores the rise of manufacturing through the beliefs and practices of key industrialists and their families, exploring how they represented the diverse possibilities for the organization of a new industrial society.Author: B. TuckerPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 10/14/2008Pages: 262Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.70h x...
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold WarWith 50 maps and easily accessible text, the newest title in the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas series presents the Cold War in a form which is both useful and understandable. Covering popular issues such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Blockade, and the...
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Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to Dna, 1945-2000Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and...
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Inventing the American AstronautWho were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization...
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Aesthetics, Poetics and Phenomenology in Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThis book re-evaluates the philosophical status of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by providing an extended comparison between his work and the phenomenological theory of Edmund Husserl. Examining Coleridge's accounts of the imagination, perception, poetic creativity and literary criticism, it draws a systematic and coherent structure...
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The Social Life of Poetry: Appalachia, Race, and Radical ModernismFrom Jewish publishers to Appalachian poets, Green s cultural study reveals the role of Mountain Whites in American racial history. Part One (1880-1935) explores the networks that created American pluralism, revealing Appalachia s essential role in shaping America s understanding of African Americans, Anglos,...
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Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic of TasteOver the last twenty years, critics and historians of the late Eighteenth-century have developed a multidisciplinary approach to the history of culture. This dialogue between literary critics and theorists, art historians and social historians is remapping the relations between culture and society, politics and...
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Imperial Childhoods and Christian Mission: Education and Emotions in South India and DenmarkMaking an important addition to the highly Britain-dominated field of imperial studies, this book shows that, like numerous other evangelicals operating throughout the colonized world at this time, Danish missionaries invested remarkable resources in the education of different categories children in both India and...
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Contemporary Asylum Narratives: Representing Refugees in the Twenty-First CenturyContemporary Asylum Narratives marks a transition from traditional modes of diasporic belonging to the need for identifications that encompass the statelessness of refugees and asylum seekers. This book explores representations of asylum seekers and refugees in twenty-first century literature, film and theatre.Author: A. WoolleyPublisher:...
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Sustained Dialogue in Conflicts: Transformation and ChangeCitizens in our deeply, angrily divided world desperately need peaceful and productive ways of relating to each other. Rooted in four decades of intense experience in deep-seated human conflicts, Saunders presents a peaceful way of transforming destructive relationships and designing change.Author: H. SaundersPublisher: Palgrave...
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Voices from This Long Brown Land: Oral Recollections of Owens Valley Lives and Manzanar PastsIn this engaging oral history, residents of California's scenic, sparsely-populated Owens Valley reflect on their varied experiences with the region's turbulent past. Contested themes of Native American removal, water transfers, and wartime internment are interwoven with remembrances of the valley's multicultural communities, its cattle...
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