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Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the PresentThis volume considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing on the so-called Darwinian Revolution. The very idea of the Darwinian Revolution is a historical construct devised to help explain the changing scientific and cultural landscape that was...
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The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and WarIn The Lion's Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. vividly portrays the grand idealism, heroic bravery, and reckless abandon that Theodore Roosevelt both embodied and bequeathed to his children and the tragic fulfillment of that legacy on the battlefields of World War I. Drawing upon...
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Cinema's Original Sin: D.W. Griffith, American Racism, and the Rise of Film CultureFor over a century, cinephiles and film scholars have had to grapple with an ugly artifact that sits at the beginnings of film history. D. W. Griffith's profoundly racist epic, The Birth of a Nation, inspired controversy and protest at its 1915 release and...
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Rebels, Believers, Survivors: Studies in the History of the AlbaniansThanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have been a...
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Movements After Revolution: A History of People's Struggles in MexicoThe end of three decades of dictatorship, a decade of war and revolution, and the establishment of a constitutional republic hardly quelled political dissent among the Mexican population. To the contrary, the first decade after the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920 saw the rise of...
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Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern LiberalismA comprehensive history of Henry George and the single tax movement.In 1912, Sun Yat-sen announced the birth of the Chinese Republic and promised that it would be devoted to the economic welfare of all its people. In shaping his plans for wealth redistribution, he...
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Challenge of Congressional RepresentationAt a moment when Congress is widely viewed as hyper-partisan and dysfunctional, Richard Fenno provides a variegated picture of American representational politics. The Challenge of Congressional Representation offers an up-close-and-personal look at the complex relationship between members of Congress and their constituents back home.When...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol.IX (in 10 Volumes)Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln of its time, this portrait of the man and his administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest upheaval is both intimate and scholarly. Written by two private secretaries...
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Abraham Lincoln: A History, Vol.I (in 10 Volumes)Considered one of the best treatments of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln of its time, this portrait of the man and his administration of the United States at the moment of its greatest upheaval is both intimate and scholarly. Written by two private secretaries...
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Swansea's Royal Institution and Wales's First MuseumAn attractive volume featuring almost three hundred illustrations including photos and maps from the Royal Institution of South Wales. The Royal Institution of South Wales (RISW) is a very special organization. It was Wales's first-ever museum from 1841-1990, and one of the few such...
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Joseph Conrad, Cosmopolitanism and TransnationalismIn 1908, Joseph Conrad was criticised by a reviewer for being a man 'without either country or language': even his shipboard communities were the product of a 'cosmopolitan' vision. This book takes off from that criticism and begins by exploring the history and meanings...
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Digitizing Diagnosis: Medicine, Minds, and Machines in Twentieth-Century AmericaA fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.Beginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, engineers, mathematicians, and philosophers began to explore the possible application of a new digital technology to one of the most central, and vexed, tasks of medicine:...
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Cures for Chance: Adoptive Relations in Shakespeare and MiddletonAdoption allows families to modify, either overtly or covertly, what is considered to be the natural order. Cures for Chance explores how early modern English theatre questioned the inevitability of the biological family and proposed new models of familial structure, financial inheritance, and gendered...
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Decadence in the Age of ModernismThe first holistic reappraisal of the significance of the decadent movement, from the 1900s through the 1930s.Decadence in the Age of Modernism begins where the history of the decadent movement all too often ends: in 1895. It argues that the decadent principles and aesthetics...
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Settling Down and Settling Up: The Second Generation in Black Canadian and Black British Women's WritingComparing second generation children of immigrants in black Canadian and black British women's writing, Settling Down and Settling Up extends discourses of diaspora and postcolonialism by expanding recent theory on movement and border crossing. While these concepts have recently gained theoretical currency, this book...
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The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law: Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960sThe Emergency Detention Act, Title II of the Internal Security Act of 1950, is the only law in American history to legalize preventive detention. It restricted the freedom of a certain individual or a group of individuals based on actions that may be taken...
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A World Connecting: 1870-1945Between 1870 and 1945, advances in communication and transportation simultaneously expanded and shrank the world. New technologies erased distance and accelerated the global exchange of people, products, and ideas on an unprecedented scale. A World Connecting focuses on an era when growing global interconnectedness...
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The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and CommunismIn this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from...
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The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America, Second EditionThe United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad...
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The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a TextThrough the careful analysis of historical figures and empirical policy successes, The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text reveals how strategic communication silences make the tragedy of genocide probable and how a greater social ethic for communication openness repels and ends this great...
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