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The French Revolution in Global PerspectiveSituating the French Revolution in the context of early modern globalization for the first time, this book offers a new approach to understanding its international origins and worldwide effects. A distinguished group of contributors shows that the political culture of the Revolution emerged out...
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Education for Empire: American Schools, Race, and the Paths of Good CitizenshipEducation for Empire brings together topics in American history often treated separately: schools, race, immigration, and empire building. During the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, American imperial ambitions abroad expanded as the country's public school system grew. How did this imperialism affect public education?...
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Soldiering Through Empire: Race and the Making of the Decolonizing Pacific Volume 48In the decades after World War II, tens of thousands of soldiers and civilian contractors across Asia and the Pacific found work through the U.S. military. Recently liberated from colonial rule, these workers were drawn to the opportunities the military offered and became active...
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Dangerous Pregnancies: Mothers, Disabilities, and Abortion in Modern AmericaDangerous Pregnancies tells the largely forgotten story of the German measles epidemic of the early 1960s and how it created national anxiety about dying, disabled, and "dangerous" babies. This epidemic would ultimately transform abortion politics, produce new science, and help build two of the...
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Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California Volume 30This book looks beyond the headlines to uncover the controversial history of California's ballot measures over the past fifty years. As the rest of the U.S. watched, California voters banned public services for undocumented immigrants, repealed public affirmative action programs, and outlawed bilingual education,...
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A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962: Volume 34The Cold War did not culminate in World War III as so many in the 1950s and 1960s feared, yet it spawned a host of military engagements that affected millions of lives. This book is the first comprehensive, multinational overview of military affairs during...
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The Pro-War Movement: Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American ConservatismIn the vast literature on the Vietnam War, much has been written about the antiwar movement and its influence on U.S. policy and politics. In this book, Sandra Scanlon shifts attention to those Americans who supported the war and explores the war's impact on...
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A Lynching in Little Dixie: The Life and Death of James T. Scott, ca. 1885-1923James T. Scott's 1923 lynching in the college town of Columbia, Missouri, was precipitated by a case of mistaken identity. Falsely accused of rape, the World War I veteran was dragged from jail by a mob and hanged from a bridge before 1000 onlookers....
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The Bisbee Massacre: Robbery, Murder and Retribution in the Arizona Territory, 1883-1884In December 1883, five outlaws attempted to rob the A.A. Castaneda Mercantile establishment in the fledgling mining town of Bisbee in the Arizona Territory. The robbery was a disaster: four citizens shot dead, one a pregnant woman. The failed heist was national news, with...
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The Albanian Operation of the CIA and Mi6, 1949-1953: Conversations with Participants in a Venture BetrayedThe Albanian Operation, carried out by British and American secret services from 1949 to 1953, was one of the first Western attempts to subvert a country behind the Iron Curtain. The British liaison officer for the project in Washington was Kim Philby, a Soviet...
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Fort Huachuca: The Story of a Frontier PostAuthor: Cornelius C. Smith Jr.Publisher: University Press of the PacificPublished: 04/01/2000Pages: 440Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.48lbsSize: 9.02h x 6.04w x 1.08dISBN: 9780898750638This title is not returnable
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Kennedy V. Nixon: The Presidential Election of 1960"For almost half a century The Making of the President, 1960 has stood as the standard work on this topic. Kallina has exposed the mythology of Theodore White's description of Camelot. For the first time we have an unbiased portrayal of what happened before,...
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Arizona's Deadliest Gunfight: Draft Resistance and Tragedy at the Power Cabin, 1918On a cold winter morning, Jeff Power was lighting a fire in his remote Arizona cabin when he heard a noise, grabbed his rifle, and walked out the front door. Someone in the dark shouted, "Throw up your hands " Shots rang out from...
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Fort BASCOM: Soldiers, Comancheros, and Indians in the Canadian River ValleyMotorists traveling along State Highway 104 north of Tucumcari, New Mexico, may notice a sign indicating the location of Fort Bascom. The post itself is long gone, its adobe walls washed away. In 1863, the United States, fearing a second Confederate invasion of New...
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Ernest L. Blumenschein, 28: The Life of an American ArtistFew who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and...
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Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering AnthropologistA woman in a man's world among the Pueblos of the Southwest The first woman anthropologist to work in the Southwest, Matilda Coxe Stevenson (1849-1915) helped define the contours of anthropological research at the turn of the twentieth century. In this first book-length biography...
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In the Shadow of FDR: From Harry Truman to Barack ObamaA ghost has inhabited the Oval Office since 1945--the ghost of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. FDR's formidable presence has cast a large shadow on the occupants of that office in the years since his death, and an appreciation of his continuing influence remains essential to...
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The Underground Railroad in Western IllinoisFugitives fleeing from slavery in Kentucky, Missouri, and points farther south traversed the entire state of Illinois while moving northward. But they were most likely to receive help from Underground railroad operators if they passed through western Illinois, where a good number of Underground...
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Asphalt and Politics: A History of the American Highway SystemFrom animal paths to superhighways, transportation has been the backbone of American expansion and growth. This examination of the interstate highway system in the United States, and the forces that shaped it, includes the introduction of the automobile, the Good Roads Movement, and the...
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As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay SermonHow an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630....
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