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We Are Worth Fighting for: A History of the Howard University Student Protest of 1989The Howard University protests from the perspective and worldview of its participants We Are Worth Fighting For is the first history of the 1989 Howard University protest. The three-day occupation of the university's Administration Building was a continuation of the student movements of the...
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One Nation Underground: The Fallout Shelter in American CultureWhy some Americans built fallout shelters--an exploration America's Cold War experience For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy--to dig or...
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Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's CapitalDelhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges--mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the...
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The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland: Memory Wars and Homeland AnxietiesIn March 1968, against the background of the Six-Day War, a campaign of antisemitism and anti-Zionism swept through Poland. The Expulsion of Jews from Communist Poland is the first full-length study of the events, their precursors, and the aftermath of this turbulent period. Plocker...
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The Houses of History: A Criticial Reader in Twentieth-Century History and TheoryA comprehensive introduction to the twelve most influential schools of thought in the study of history Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific empiricism as it is of...
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Revolutionary Teamsters: The Minneapolis Truckers' Strikes of 1934Bryan Palmer tells the compelling story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build an industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of...
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Ring Shout, Wheel about: The Racial Politics of Music and Dance in North American SlaveryIn this ambitious project, historian Katrina Thompson examines the conceptualization and staging of race through the performance, sometimes coerced, of black dance from the slave ship to the minstrel stage. Drawing on a rich variety of sources, Thompson explicates how black musical performance was...
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Blackfoot Lodge TalesHere are the stories of the Blackfoot tribe a proud and fiercely independent people. These stories distill the wisdom of an ancient and wise race."The most shameful chapter of American history is that in which is recorded the account of our dealings with the...
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Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire d'HaïtiCes M moires sont ceux de Boisrond-Tonnerre. Tir s un tr s-petit nombre d'exemplaires, ils sont devenus excessivement rares, et pour moi, ce n'a t qu'apr s beaucoup de recherches et de peine que je suis arriv m'en procurer deux vermoulus et mutil s,...
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Team 7-Eleven: How an Unsung Band of American Cyclists Took on the World and WonNEW EDITIONThe first book to tell the full story of America's first and greatest pro cycling team. Updated with new photos, facts, and information about where the famous team members are now. Forewords by Eric Heiden and Eddy Merckx.You could count America's world-class cyclists...
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Land of the Fee: Hidden Costs and the Decline of the American Middle ClassThe loans ordinary Americans take out to purchase homes and attend college often leave them in a sea of debt. As Devin Fergus explains in Land of the Fee, a not-insignificant portion of that debt comes in the form of predatory hidden fees attached...
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The Swing Era: The Development of Jazz, 1930-1945Here is the book jazz lovers have eagerly awaited, the second volume of Gunther Schuller's monumental The History of Jazz. When the first volume, Early Jazz, appeared two decades ago, it immediately established itself as one of the seminal works on American music. Nat...
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Democratizing Finance: Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions MovementDecades before Occupy Wall Street challenged the American financial system, activists began organizing alternatives to provide capital to "unbankable" communities and the poor. With roots in the civil rights, anti-poverty, and other progressive movements, they brought little training in finance. They formed nonprofit loan...
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How the Other Half LivesDuring the 1890s many people in upper- and middle-class society were unaware of the dangerous conditions in the slums among poor immigrants. Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who himself could not originally find much work, hoped to expose the squalor of the 19th-century Lower...
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Unflinching Courage: A Biographical History of Joseph City, ArizonaThis second edition of Unflinching Courage is a brief history of the community of Joseph City, Arizona, a small settlement on the Little Colorado River in northern Arizona. It was settled in 1876 by a small group of determined and hardy pioneers under the...
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Democracy In America"Nothing is more wonderful than the art of being free, but nothing is harder to learn how to use than freedom." -Alexis de TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville's four-volume Democracy in America is commonly said to be among the most comprehensive and insightful books ever written...
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Daughter of Drum Mountain: The remarkable life of Muriel Caldwell PilleyThis is the story of a brilliant woman who struggled to understand Christianity in the midst of war, loss, and depression.Author: Gail Pilley HarrisPublisher: Covenant BooksPublished: 10/13/2023Pages: 654Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.47lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.56dISBN: 9798888516348
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How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban RevolutionIn How Things Fall Apart Elizabeth Dore reveals the decay of the Cuban political system through the lives of seven ordinary Cuban citizens. Born in the 1970s and 1980s, they recount how their lives changed over a tumultuous stretch of thirty-five years: first when...
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The Rise of the Western Armenian Diaspora in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire: From Refugee Crisis to Renaissance in the 17th CenturyThis book traces how Armenian migrants changed the demographic and cultural landscape of Istanbul and Western Anatolia in the course of the seventeenth century. During the centuries that followed, Ottoman Armenian merchants, financiers (sarrafs), authors, musicians, translators, printers and bureaucrats would play key roles...
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The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity and SocietyThe Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite neoliberalism and the Cold War, this book explores the cultural and political impact of the band and offers a fascinating...
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