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Wartime America: The World War II Home FrontDesigned to give students a concise exploration of World War II's transformative role in American life, the new edition of Wartime America retains the framework of the original edition with new important focus on topics such as other home fronts, the lives of veterans,...
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Tennessee Post Office MuralsThe united states government commissioned over 1,100 murals for the embellishment of post offices nationwide. Tennessee received 30 of these murals. After nearly 86 years, the story of their existence is elusive and often overlooked. Gates's research of the correspondence between the artists and...
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British RailThe authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organized and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________ You think you know British Rail. But you don't know the whole story. From its...
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Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of MigrationMillions of immigrants were drawn to American shores, not by the mythic streets paved with gold, but rather by its tables heaped with food. How they experienced the realities of America's abundant food--its meat and white bread, its butter and cheese, fruits and vegetables,...
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Fires of Hatred: Ethnic Cleansing in Twentieth-Century EuropeOf all the horrors of the last century--perhaps the bloodiest century of the past millennium--ethnic cleansing ranks among the worst. The term burst forth in public discourse in the spring of 1992 as a way to describe Serbian attacks on the Muslims of Bosnia-Herzegovina,...
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Origins of Order: Project and System in the American Legal ImaginationAn examination of how two fundamental concepts of order influence our ideas about sovereignty, citizenship, law, and history Western accounts of natural and political order have deployed two basic ideas: project and system. In a project, order is produced by the intentional act of...
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Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919In this second volume of interviews conducted by Nebraska judge Eli S. Ricker, he focuses on white eyewitnesses and participants in the occupying and settling of the American West in the nineteenth century. In the first decade of the twentieth century, as the Old...
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The Literary Underground of the Old RegimeRobert Darnton introduces us to the shadowy world of pirate publishers, garret scribblers, under-the-cloak book peddlers, smugglers, and police spies that composed the literary underground of the Enlightenment. Here are the ambitious writers who crowded into Paris seeking fame and fortune within the Republic...
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Furs and Frontiers in the Far North: The Contest Among Native and Foreign Nations for the Bering Strait Fur TradeWith expert scholarship and a keen eye for detail, Bockstoce provides the first analysis of the historic competition among the Russians, British, and Americans for control of Alaska. This comprehensive history of the native and maritime fur trade in Alaska during the eighteenth and...
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Parish Boundaries: The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban NorthParish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century American race relations. In vivid portraits of parish life, John...
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American Taxation, American SlaveryIn American Taxation, American Slavery, Robin Einhorn shows the deep, broad, and continuous influence of slavery on America's fear and loathing of taxes. From the earliest colonial times right up to the Civil War, slaveholding elites feared strong and democratic government as a threat...
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The Crescent Obscured: The United States and the Muslim World, 1776-1815From the beginning of the colonial period to the recent conflicts in the Middle East, encounters with the Muslim world have helped Americans define national identity and purpose. Focusing on America's encounter with the Barbary states of North Africa from 1776 to 1815, Robert...
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Country Music: An Illustrated HistoryA gorgeously illustrated and hugely entertaining story of America's most popular music and the singers and songwriters who captivated, entertained, and consoled listeners throughout the twentieth century--based on the eight-part film series. This fascinating history begins where country music itself emerged: the American South,...
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The Making of Gone with the WindGone With The Wind is one of the most popular movies of all time. To commemorate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2014, The Making of Gone With The Wind presents more than 600 items from the archives of David O. Selznick, the film's producer, and...
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Ernst Haas: The American WestThis collection of striking color images from the American West is both a moving national portrait as well as a celebration of analog color photography from an undisputed genius of the form. The photographer behind Life magazine's first ever all-color photographic essay, Ernst Haas...
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'More Furies Than Men': The Irish Brigade in the Service of France 1690-1792The history of the Irish Brigade remains fascinating more than three centuries after its creation in the late seventeenth century and is regularly revived in the English-speaking world as well as in Western Europe thanks to historians, journalists, and even politicians. The military feats...
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Black Dragon: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company in the Central PacificBlack Dragon recounts the experience of a single Marine rifle company--2-F-23, or "Fox" Company--and its drive through the central Pacific in World War II. Author Steven D. McCloud, through painstaking research of battlefield reports and extensive interviews with surviving members of Fox Company, has...
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The Lavender Scare: The Cold War Persecution of Gays and Lesbians in the Federal GovernmentThe McCarthy era is generally considered the worst period of political repression in recent American history. But while the famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" resonated in the halls of Congress, security officials were...
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Charles X's Wars: Volume 2 - The Wars in the East, 1655-1657This book describes and analyses the 'Swedish Deluge' (potop szwedski), the devastating 1655-1660 series of wars fought between Sweden, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Brandenburg-Prussia, Muscovite Russia, Transylvania, Cossack Ukraine, the Tatar Khanate of Crimea, and the Holy Roman Empire during the reign of Swedish King...
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A History of Paradise: Cache County, Utah 1860-1999From its pioneer settlers and those who came later, this history of Paradise, Cache County Utah, shares stories that resonate as true today as they did for the people who lived through them.This volume was compiled after years of studious research on the people,...
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