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Making Men Moral: Social Engineering During the Great WarOn May 29, 1917, Mrs. E. M. Craise, citizen of Denver, Colorado, penned a letter to President Woodrow Wilson, which concluded, We have surrendered to your absolute control our hearts' dearest treasures--our sons. If their precious bodies that have cost us so dear should...
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Losing Istanbul: Arab-Ottoman Imperialists and the End of EmpireLosing Istanbul offers an intimate history of empire, following the rise and fall of a generation of Arab-Ottoman imperialists living in Istanbul. Mostafa Minawi shows how these men and women negotiated their loyalties and guarded their privileges through a microhistorical study of the changing...
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The Garden Politic: Global Plants and Botanical Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century AmericaHow worldwide plant circulation and new botanical ideas enabled Americans to radically re-envision politics and society The Garden Politic argues that botanical practices and discourses helped nineteenth-century Americans engage pressing questions of race, gender, settler colonialism, and liberal subjectivity. In the early republic, ideas...
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Fayette County, Alabama Index to Marriage Records, 1850-1970By: Herbet & Jeanie Newell, Pub. 1970, reprinted 2022, 260 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-059-6.Fayette county was created in 1824 from Tuscaloosa County. This book is in alphabetical order by groom. It lists the brides and grooms names along with the book number...
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Projecting Spirits: Speculation, Providence, and Early Modern Optical MediaThe history of projected images at the turn of the seventeenth century reveals a changing perception of chance and order, contingency and form. In Projecting Spirits, Pasi Väliaho maps how the leading optical media of the period--the camera obscura and the magic lantern--developed in...
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Racial Indigestion: Eating Bodies in the 19th CenturyWinner of the 2013 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2013 Association for the Study of Food and Society Book Award The act of eating is both erotic and violent, as one wholly consumes the...
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The Young Lords: A ReaderThe Young Lords, who originated as a Chicago street gang fighting gentrification and unfair evictions in Puerto Rican neighborhoods, burgeoned into a national political movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s, with headquarters in New York City and other centers in Philadelphia, Boston,...
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American Grit: A Woman's Letters from the Ohio FrontierIn 1826 thirty-year-old Anna Briggs Bentley, her husband, and their six children left their close Quaker community and the worn-out tobacco farms of Sandy Spring, Maryland, for frontier Ohio. Along the way, Anna sent back home the first of scores of letters she wrote...
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In Confidence: Moscow's Ambassador to Six Cold War PresidentsAnatoly Dobrynin arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1962 -- at 43 the youngest man ever to serve as Soviet Ambassador to the United States -- and remained through the presidencies of Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, and Reagan. Dobrynin became the main channel for...
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A True American: William Walcutt, Nativism, and Nineteenth-Century ArtThis book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism's erection of barriers...
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Oaxaca Resurgent: Indigeneity, Development, and Inequality in Twentieth-Century MexicoOaxaca Resurgent examines how Indigenous people in one of Mexico's most rebellious states shaped local and national politics during the twentieth century. Drawing on declassified surveillance documents and original ethnographic research, A. S. Dillingham traces the contested history of indigenous development and the trajectory...
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Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before NationalismFor centuries, Persian was the language of power and learning across Central, South, and West Asia, and Persians received a particular basic education through which they understood and engaged with the world. Not everyone who lived in the land of Iran was Persian, and...
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Records of Clarke County, Georgia, 1801-1819.By: Robert Davis, Jr., Pub. 2019, 264 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-485-9.This book contains the names of approximately 21,000 individuals found in these records. This book is divided into four (4) major sections as follows: PART 1 - which contains Loose Original Records:...
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History of Pulaski County, KentuckyBy: Alma O. Tibbals, Pub. 1952, Reprinted 2016, 292 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-889-7.Pulaski County was formed in 1798 from Lincoln and Green Counties, KY. History books of this era provide clues via local customs and traditions of the residents. The usual topics are discussed,...
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Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in the Jim Crow EraManning the Race explores how African American men have been marketed, embodied, and imaged for the purposes of racial advancement during the early decades of the twentieth century. Marlon Ross provides an intellectual history of both famous and lesser-known men who have served--controversially--as models...
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The Deepest South: The United States, Brazil, and the African Slave TradeDuring its heyday in the nineteenth century, the African slave trade was fueled by the close relationship of the United States and Brazil. The Deepest South tells the disturbing story of how U.S. nationals - before and after Emancipation -- continued to actively participate...
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Blockbusting in BaltimoreThis innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting" -- a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a...
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Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration CampsPresents a documented account of WWII Japanese American internment. This work tells the story of administrative callousness and bungling, of damage to the human soul, confusion, and terror.Author: Michi Nishiura WeglynPublisher: University of Washington PressPublished: 04/01/1996Pages: 352Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.28h x 6.03w x...
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Smell Detectives: An Olfactory History of Nineteenth-Century Urban AmericaWhat did nineteenth-century cities smell like? And how did odors matter in the formation of a modern environmental consciousness? Smell Detectives follows the nineteenth-century Americans who used their noses to make sense of the sanitary challenges caused by rapid urban and industrial growth. Melanie...
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Topophrenia: Place, Narrative, and the Spatial ImaginationWhat is our place in the world, and how do we inhabit, understand, and represent this place to others? Topophrenia gathers essays by Robert Tally that explore the relationship between space, place, and mapping, on the one hand, and literary criticism, history, and theory...
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