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The Union-Castle Line: Sailing Like ClockworkThe Union-Castle Line's heritage spans over a century. It provided the mail service to South Africa for 120 years and established an unrivalled reputation for punctual schedules. From the middle of the nineteenth century it ran 'like clockwork' until its demise in 1977, a...
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Desert Armour: Tank Warfare in North Africa: Gazala to Tunisia, 1942-43Robert Forczyk covers the development of armoured warfare in North Africa from Rommel's Gazala offensive in 1942 through to the end of war in the desert in Tunisia in 1943. The war in the North African desert was pure mechanized warfare, and in many...
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome...
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Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold WarAuthor: Jessica M. ChapmanPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 07/25/2023Pages: 316Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 8.70h x 6.20w x 1.30dISBN: 9780813197623
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The 'Blue Squadrons': The Spanish in the Luftwaffe, 1941-1944When on June 22, 1941, the news of the attack that the Third Reich had initiated against the Soviet Union reached Spain, it was received with great satisfaction, since it was not in vain that they had just come out of a civil war...
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The Lost Apple the Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan, Cuban Children in the U.S., and the Promise of a Better FutureFrom 1960 to 1962, 14,048 Cuban minors arrived in Miami. Mar a de los Angeles Torres was six years old when she took part in this massive airlift-now known as Operation Pedro Pan-in which parents, terrified that the new communist government would ship their...
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The Legacy of J. William Fulbright: Policy, Power, and IdeologyThis insightful collection of essays details the political life of one of the most prominent and gifted American statesmen of the twentieth century. From his early training in international law to his five terms in the US Senate, J. William Fulbright (1905--1995) had a...
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The Grid and the Park: Public Space and Urban Culture in Buenos Aires, 1887-1936Since its publication in Spanish in 1998, The Grid and the Park not only revitalized studies on the history of Buenos Aires, but also laid the foundation for a specific type of cultural work on the city -an urban perspective for cultural history, as...
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Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, OhioBefore the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin's resolute stand...
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Living the California Dream: African American Leisure Sites During the Jim Crow EraAs Southern California was reimagining leisure and positioning it at the center of the American Dream, African American Californians were working to make that leisure an open, inclusive reality. By occupying recreational sites and public spaces, African Americans challenged racial hierarchies and marked a...
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The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903The United States Army and the Making of America: From Confederation to Empire, 1775-1903 is the story of how the American military--and more particularly the regular army--has played a vital role in the late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States that extended beyond the battlefield....
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Displaced: Manzanar 1942-1945: The Incarceration of Japanese AmericansThis sorry episode has been illuminated in books and documentaries. But I've never felt its emotional texture--the unexpected mix of dereliction and upstanding hopefulness--so vividly as in this set of photographs taken by Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange and five others, among them an...
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Race and Real Estate: Conflict and Cooperation in Harlem, 1890-1920Through the lens of real estate transactions from 1890 to 1920, Kevin McGruder offers an innovative perspective on Harlem's history and reveals the complex interactions between whites and African Americans at a critical time of migration and development. During these decades Harlem saw a...
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Neruda: De 1904 a 1936Mas que una mirada literaria sobre la obra de Pablo Neruda, este libro del critico e investigador Jaime Concha analiza la produccion del Premio Nobel en funcion de sus relaciones con el proceso historico de la sociedad chilena.En esta nueva vision, que continua y...
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The Turkish Arms Embargo: Drugs, Ethnic Lobbies, and Us Domestic PoliticsThis timely study will not only change how this period is understood, but it will provide valuable insights into the future of international relations in the Middle East and beyond.Author: James F. GoodePublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 08/30/2022Pages: 206Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.00h x...
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Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific2018 Sally and Ken Owens Award from the Western History Association Twelve companies of American missionaries were sent to the Hawaiian Islands between 1819 and 1848 with the goal of spreading American Christianity and New England values. By the 1850s American missionary families in...
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The Last Fire-Eater: Roger A. Pryor and the Search for a Southern IdentityIn The Last Fire-Eater, renowned historian of the American South William A. Link examines the life of Roger A. Pryor, a Virginia secessionist, Confederate general, and earnest proponent of postwar sectional reconciliation whose life involved a series of remarkable transformations. Pryor's journey, Link reveals,...
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Louis Armstrong: The Soundtrack of the American ExperienceIn the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's popular culture. Vast numbers of black American musicians deserve credit for this remarkable...
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The Works of John Whitehurst, F.R.S. with Memoirs of His Life and Writings.The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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Law at Little Big Horn: Due Process DeniedIn 1876, the United States launched the Great Sioux War without a formal declaration of war by Congress. During the nineteenth century, the rights of American Indians were frequently violated by the president and ignored or denied enforcement by federal courts. However, Congress generally...
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