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Texas Courthouses - Good Bad and Beautiful"Texas Courthouses - Good Bad and Beautiful" showcases all 254 Texas county courthouses. Some are good, a few are bad but most are beautiful. Covering all 266,807 square miles of Texas, reading about the history of each town square and its courthouse is an...
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Harry Byrd of VirginiaThis is the first full-scale biography of Harry Byrd Sr., one of the most influential politicians of this century. His fascinating career as Virginia governor, U.S. senator, and leader of the Virginia Democratic Party enabled him to touch every important event and meet every...
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Dare to Know: Prints and Drawings in the Age of EnlightenmentA New York Times best art book of 2022 An A to Z exploration of the Enlightenment's quest for understanding and change, as revealed in the era's prints and drawings Are volcanoes punishment from God? What do a fly and a mulberry have in...
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Assembling the Tropics: Science and Medicine in Portugal's Empire, 1450-1700From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative study, Hugh Cagle shows how such a vision was created. Along the way, he challenges...
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Shot All to Hell: Bad Ass Outlaws, Gunfighters, and Lawmen of the Old WestBat Masterson knew better than most of his contemporaries that the majority of what was written about the old west was little more than rattlesnake piss and bat guano. He said, "nerve was the quality that marked the great gunfighters." Perhaps more telling is...
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The New Atlantic Order: The Transformation of International Politics, 1860-1933Author: Patrick O. CohrsPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 05/12/2022Pages: 550Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.65lbsSize: 9.13h x 5.98w x 2.68dISBN: 9781107117976About the AuthorCohrs, Patrick O.: - Patrick O. Cohrs is Professor of International History at the University of Florence. He was associate professor of history at Yale...
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The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790-1860The Root and the Branch examines the relationship between the early labor movement and the crusade to abolish slavery between the early national period and the Civil War. Tracing the parallel rise of antislavery movements with working-class demands for economic equality, access to the...
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Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn the early nineteenth century, the American commercial marketplace was a chaotic, unregulated environment in which knock-offs and outright frauds thrived. Appearances could be deceiving, and entrepreneurs often relied on their personal reputations to close deals and make sales. Rapid industrialization and expanding trade...
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Only a Few Blocks to Cuba: Cold War Refugee Policy, the Cuban Diaspora, and the Transformations of MiamiIn Only a Few Blocks to Cuba, Mauricio Castro shows how the U.S. government came to view Cuban migration to Miami as a strategic asset during the Cold War, in the process investing heavily in the city's development and shaping its future as a...
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Freedom Betrayed: Herbert Hoover's Secret History of the Second World War and Its AftermathHerbert Hoover's "magnum opus"--at last published nearly fifty years after its completion--offers a revisionist reexamination of World War II and its cold war aftermath and a sweeping indictment of the "lost statesmanship" of Franklin Roosevelt. Hoover offers his frank evaluation of Roosevelt's foreign policies...
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Bootlegged Aliens: Immigration Politics on America's Northern BorderIn contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson Bavery considers the North as a borderlands region, demonstrating how this often-overlooked border influenced government policies toward illegal immigration, business and labor union...
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Beyond the Politics of the Closet: Gay Rights and the American State Since the 1970sA collection of essays that demonstrate how LGBT people played critical roles in local, state, and national politics In the 1970s, queer Americans demanded access not only to health and social services but also to mainstream Democratic and Republican Party politics. The AIDS crisis...
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Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli RelationsWeaving together the stories of activists, American Jewish leaders, and Israeli officials in the wake of the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948, Covenant Brothers portrays the dramatic rise of evangelical Christian Zionism as it gained prominence in American politics, Israeli diplomacy,...
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Beyond the New Deal Order: U.S. Politics from the Great Depression to the Great RecessionEver since introducing the concept in the late 1980s, historians have been debating the origins, nature, scope, and limitations of the New Deal order--the combination of ideas, electoral and governing strategies, redistributive social policies, and full employment economics that became the standard-bearer for political...
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Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American LeftRefuting the common perception that the American left has a religion problem, Vaneesa Cook highlights an important but overlooked intellectual and political tradition that she calls spiritual socialism. Spiritual socialists emphasized the social side of socialism and believed the most basic expression of religious...
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Adobe Walls: The History and Archeology of the 1874 Trading PostIn the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south to follow the herds, they intended to establish a trading post to serve the hunter,...
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Governing Bodies: American Politics and the Shaping of the Modern PhysiqueAmericans are generally apprehensive about what they perceive as big government--especially when it comes to measures that target their bodies. Soda taxes, trans fat bans, and calorie counts on menus have all proven deeply controversial. Such interventions, Rachel Louise Moran argues, are merely the...
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Book Traces: Nineteenth-Century Readers and the Future of the LibraryIn most college and university libraries, materials published before 1800 have been moved into special collections, while the post-1923 books remain in general circulation. But books published between these dates are vulnerable to deaccessioning, as libraries increasingly reconfigure access to public-domain texts via digital...
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A History of Florence, 1200 - 1575In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Captures Florence's transformation from a medieval commune into an aristocratic republic, territorial state, and monarchy Weaves together intellectual, cultural, social, economic, religious, and...
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The Voyage of the Beagle, with eBook Lib/EAuthor: Charles DarwinPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 11/17/2008Binding Type: CDISBN: 9798200130269About the AuthorDarwin, Charles: - Charles Darwin, a British naturalist, geologist, biologist, and author, revolutionized the science of biology by developing the theory of evolution by natural selection. Among his important works are On the Origin...
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