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The Past Can't Heal Us: The Dangers of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human RightsAuthor: Lea DavidPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 06/16/2022Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.54dISBN: 9781108817103This title is not returnable
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Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that international 'relief' and 'development' were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations...
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Nature at War: American Environments and World War IIThis anthology is the first sustained examination of American involvement in World War II through an environmental lens. World War II was a total and global war that involved the extraction, processing, and use of vast quantities of natural resources. The wartime military-industrial complex,...
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Dracula for Doctors: Medical Facts and Gothic FantasiesExploring how medicine and psychiatry are portrayed in gothic literature, this engaging book illustrates how Stoker's famous work was influenced by nineteenth-century attitudes to disease and medicine and reveals many previously unknown links. Extracts from many sensational stories of the time are presented, and...
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The Indian War of 1864: Being a Fragment of the Early History of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming (Hardcover)The Indian War of 1864 chronicles one of the bloodiest conflicts between the European settlers and military forces of the United States, and the Native American tribes. A shocking account of the bloodshed and damage wrought as white settlers moved relentlessly westward during the...
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The World Health Organization: A HistoryAccording to its Constitution, the mission of the World Health Organization (WHO) was nothing less than the 'attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of health' without distinction of race, religion, political belief, economic status, or social condition. But how consistently and...
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Freedom's Crescent: The Civil War and the Destruction of Slavery in the Lower Mississippi ValleyAuthor: John C. RodriguePublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 01/26/2023Pages: 534Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19dISBN: 9781108439343
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The Austro-Hungarian Army and the First World WarThis is a definitive account of the Austro-Hungarian Royal and Imperial Army during the First World War. Graydon A. Tunstall shows how Austria-Hungary entered the war woefully unprepared for the ordeal it would endure. When the war commenced, the Habsburg Army proved grossly under...
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The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel WebsterContains selected famous speeches and orations of Daniel Webster, to illustrate his genius and character as a lawyer, statesman, Senator, negotiator, patriot, and citizen. An introcustory essay describes and explains the man as a master of English style.Author: Edwin Percy WhipplePublisher: Beard BooksPublished: 06/01/2001Pages:...
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The First Last Man: Mary Shelley and the Postapocalyptic ImaginationBeyond her most famous creation--the nightmarish vision of Frankenstein's Creature--Mary Shelley's most enduring influence on politics, literature, and art perhaps stems from the legacy of her lesser-known novel about the near-extinction of the human species through war, disease, and corruption. This novel, The Last...
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Risk and Ruin: Enron and the Culture of American CapitalismAt the time of its collapse in 2001, Enron was one of the largest companies in the world, boasting revenue of over $100 billion. During the 1990s economic boom, the Houston, Texas-based energy company had diversified into commodities and derivatives trading and many other...
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Ambushes and Armour: The Irish Rebellion 1919-1921The recent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have focused public attention on ambushes, but this is not a new problem. The Irish Revolution (1916-1923) was a war of 'firsts': the first British counter-insurgency after World War I; the first mass use of motorized vehicles...
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The Jews of Nazi Vienna, 1938-1945: Rescue and DestructionList of Figures.- List of Tables.- Introduction.- Chapter 1: From the Opera to the Streets.- Chapter 2: The Anschluss Pogrom: Panic, Chaos, and Confusion for Vienna's Jews in March 1938.- Chapter 3: The IKG: Co-opted by the New Masters.- Chapter 4: Turning Point: Vienna...
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Wheeling's Polonia: Reconstructing Polish Community in a West Virginia Steel Town"William Hal Gorby's study of Wheeling's Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish-American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the Upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in...
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Imperial Endgame: Britain's Dirty Wars and the End of EmpireIn this fresh and controversial account of Britain's end of empire, Grob-Fitzgibbon reveals that the British government developed a successful strategy of decolonization following the Second World War based on devolving power to indigenous peoples within the Commonwealth.Author: B. Grob-FitzgibbonPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 05/03/2011Pages: 478Binding...
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Wanted! a Nation!: Black Americans and Haiti, 1804-1893Covering the whole of the nineteenth century, Wanted! A Nation! reveals how Haiti remained a focus of attention for white as well as Black Americans before, during, and even after the Civil War. Before the Civil War, Claire Bourhis-Mariotti argues, the Black republic was...
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Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights EraPure Fire is a history of self-defense as it was debated and practiced during the civil rights era of the 1950s and 1960s. Moving beyond the realm of organized protests and demonstrations, Christopher B. Strain reframes self-defense as a daily concern for many African...
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Striking Beauties: Women Apparel Workers in the U.S. South, 1930-2000Apparel manufacturing in the American South, by virtue of its size, its reliance upon female labor, and its broad geographic scope, is an important but often overlooked industry that connects the disparate concerns of women's history, southern cultural history, and labor history. In Striking...
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But There Was No Peace: The Role of Violence in the Politics of ReconstructionThis is a comprehensive examination of the use of violence by conservative southerners in the post-Civil War South to subvert Federal Reconstruction policies, overthrow Republican state governments, restore Democratic power, and reestablish white racial hegemony. Historians have often stressed the limited and even conservative...
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Heartsick and Astonished: Divorce in Civil War-Era West VirginiaHeartsick and Astonished features twenty-seven divorce cases from mid-nineteenth century America. More than dry legal documents, these cases provide a captivating window into marital life--and strife--in the border South during the tumultuous years before, during, and after the Civil War. Allison Dorothy Fredette has...
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