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Sheer Bliss: A Creole Journey"We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, white creole, Jamaican, lesbian writer. Bliss: whose out-of-print 1931 novel Saraband Calderaro first stumbles across in a bookshop in...
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Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home buildingAuthor: FahertyPublisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of UpnePublished: 02/01/2009Pages: 268Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781584657729About the AuthorDUNCAN FAHERTY is Assistant Professor, Department of English,...
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern ReconstructionAllen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. In addition to...
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U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in NicaraguaAs President Carter's ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977-1979, Mauricio Solaún witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Solaún outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with...
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Gandhi's Vision: Freedom and Beyond-Presents some glimpses from Gandhi's life: how he adopted non-violence as a potent tool in his quest for the 'truth force' and led the path to India's independence -Showcases some hand-picked photographs from the National Gandhi Museum, which portray various scenes from Gandhi's life...
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Abraham Lincoln: A LifeNow in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Named One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago TribuneNamed One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S....
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Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder,...
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Season's Greetings from the White HouseAuthor: Mary Evans SeeleyPublisher: Presidential ChristmasPublished: 11/21/2018Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 11.10h x 8.80w x 1.20dISBN: 9780990956129This title is only available via back order
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The Best Ever!: Parades in New England, 1788-1940Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skeleton of the American Story...
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Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian PrairiesIn Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. All or parts of modern-day Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, North...
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Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in GermanyIn the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949, the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with...
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Abraham Lincoln: A LifeNow in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents....
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Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, 1493-1550The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social change to the region as Europeans, Indigenous people, and Africans whom Spaniards imported to provide skilled and unskilled labor came into extended contact for...
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A Righteous Smokescreen: Postwar America and the Politics of Cultural GlobalizationAn examination of how the postwar United States twisted its ideal of "the free flow of information" into a one-sided export of values and a tool with global consequences. When the dust settled after World War II, the United States stood as the world's...
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Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles Through the Lens of Art ShayWhat does democracy look like? And when should we cause trouble to pursue it? Troublemakers fuses photography and history to demonstrate how racial and economic inequality gave rise to a decades-long struggle for justice in one American city. In dialogue with 275 of Art...
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Never Caught Twice: Horse Stealing in Western Nebraska, 1850-18902021 Nebraska Book Award Never Caught Twice presents the untold history of horse raiding and stealing on the Great Plains of western Nebraska. By investigating horse stealing by and from four plains groups--American Indians, the U.S. Army, ranchers and cowboys, and farmers--Matthew S. Luckett...
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Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American ConservatismAuthor: Samuel FrancisPublisher: University of Missouri PressPublished: 08/01/1994Pages: 256Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780826260550This title is only available via back order
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That the Blood Stay Pure: African Americans, Native Americans, and the Predicament of Race and Identity in VirginiaThat the Blood Stay Pure traces the history and legacy of the commonwealth of Virginia's effort to maintain racial purity and its impact on the relations between African Americans and Native Americans. Arica L. Coleman tells the story of Virginia's racial purity campaign from...
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The Inner Sea: Maritime Literary Culture in Early Modern PortugalAn expansive consideration of how nautical themes influenced literature in early modern Portugal. In this book, Josiah Blackmore considers how the sea and seafaring shaped literary creativity in early modern Portugal during the most active, consequential decades of European overseas expansion. Blackmore understands "literary"...
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Cornelius Ryan: The Longest Day (D-Day June 6, 1944), a Bridge Too Far (Loa #318)For the 75th anniversary of D-Day, a deluxe collector's edition gathering two gripping masterpieces of military history. Library of America presents two of the best books ever written about World War II in a deluxe collector's edition featuring 88 pages of photographs, full-color endpaper...
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