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The Power and Politics of Art in Postrevolutionary MexicoStephanie J. Smith brings Mexican politics and art together, chronicling the turbulent relations between radical artists and the postrevolutionary Mexican state. The revolution opened space for new political ideas, but by the late 1920s many government officials argued that consolidating the nation required coercive...
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The F Street Mess: How Southern Senators Rewrote the Kansas-Nebraska ActPushing back against the idea that the Slave Power conspiracy was merely an ideological construction, Alice Elizabeth Malavasic argues that some southern politicians in the 1850s did indeed hold an inordinate amount of power in the antebellum Congress and used it to foster the...
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Defining Duty in the Civil War: Personal Choice, Popular Culture, and the Union Home FrontThe Civil War thrust Americans onto unfamiliar terrain, as two competing societies mobilized for four years of bloody conflict. Concerned Northerners turned to the print media for guidance on how to be good citizens in a war that hit close to home but was...
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Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War IIIn this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively...
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The Ashley Cooper Plan: The Founding of Carolina and the Origins of Southern Political CultureIn this highly original work, Thomas D. Wilson offers surprising new insights into the origins of the political storms we witness today. Wilson connects the Ashley Cooper Plan--a seventeenth-century model for a well-ordered society imagined by Anthony Ashley Cooper (1st Earl of Shaftesbury) and...
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Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in TexasBetween 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims...
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Transgender Family Law: A Guide to Effective AdvocacyTransgender people have unique needs and vulnerabilities in the family law context. Any family law attorney engaged in representing transgender clients must know the ins and outs of this rapidly developing area of law. Transgender Family Law: A Guide to Effective Advocacy is the...
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Whiteshift: Populism, Immigration, and the Future of White MajoritiesWhiteshift: the turbulent journey from a world of racially homogeneous white majorities to one of racially hybrid majorities This is the century of whiteshift. As Western societies are becoming increasingly mixed-race, demographic change is transforming politics. Over half of American babies are non-white, and...
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Queen of Spies: Daphne Park, Britain's Cold War Spy MasterFrom living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to attaining the British Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank, Daphne Park led a highly unusual life. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of...
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With Stalin: Memoirs from My Meetings with StalinEnver Halil Hoxha (1908 - 1985) was the leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Party of Labour of Albania. He also served as Prime Minister of Albania from 1944...
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The Selected Works of Lavrentiy BeriaLavrentiy Pavlovich Beria (1899 - 1953) was a Georgian Soviet politician and state security administrator, chief of the Soviet security and secret police apparatus (NKVD) under Joseph Stalin during World War II, and Deputy Premier in the postwar years (1946Author: Lavrentiy BeriaPublisher: Createspace Independent...
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Beyond Democracy: Why Democracy Does Not Lead to Solidarity, Prosperity and Liberty But to Social Conflict, Runaway Spending and a Tyran"Just finished reading the thing. Fantastic. Great work. Congratulations." Hans-Hermann Hoppe, author of 'Democracy: The God That Failed' "This book has massive explanatory power. It can liberate your mind." Jeffrey Tucker, executive editor of Laissez Faire Books Democracy is widely considered to be the...
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The Rise and Fall of the Ku Klux Klan in New JerseyAuthors Joseph Bilby and Harry Ziegler chart the brief rise of the Ku Klux Klan and how New Jersey collectively stood up to bigotry.The state, though, was not immune to the reemergence of the Ku Klux Klan in the first half of the twentieth...
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Pittsburgh and the Great Steel Strike of 1919Author Ryan C. Brown details the harrowing days of the Great Steel Strike of 1919 that rocked Pittsburgh and its seemingly impregnable principality of steel.In 1919, the steel industry of Pittsburgh was on the brink of war. Years of labor strife broke out into...
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The Girl Guards of Wyoming: The Lost Women's MilitiaIn the summer of 1890, an army of teenage women with swords drawn and rifles at the ready marched resolutely toward the state capitol to deliver a message to Governor Francis E. Warren and the nation: women want equal rights. As Company K walked...
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Chicago Shakedown: The Ogden Gas ScandalThe Ogden Gas Affair represented the biggest political scandal of Chicago's first sixty years. Mayor John P. Hopkins and Democratic Party boss Roger Sullivan conspired with ten other insiders to form a dummy corporation to blackmail Peoples Gas Company. The scam poured money into...
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The Baloch and Balochistan: A Historical Account from the Beginning to the Fall of the Baloch StateThree thousand years ago, a group of Indo-Iranic tribes (called Balaschik at that time) settled in the northwestern Caspian region of Balashagan. Circumstances forced them to disperse and migrate towards south and eastern parts of Iranian plateau. In medieval times, they finally settled in...
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Crime Scene Investigation Procedural GuideThose tasked with investigating crime scenes come from a variety of backgrounds and varying levels of experience. Crime Scene Investigation Procedural Guide gives the novice investigator the procedures for almost any crime scene imaginable while providing the seasoned pro a ready reference for crimes...
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Antiterrorism and Threat Response: Planning and ImplementationOne of the single greatest challenges to security professionals in the 21st century is terrorism. In the last several years, we have heard a lot about the importance of preparing for terrorist attacks. This book offers a way to prevent terrorist attacks. Providing security...
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The Selected Works of Lin BiaoLin Yurong, better known by the nom de guerre Lin Biao (1907Author: Lin BiaoPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublished: 10/28/2011Pages: 132Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.51w x 0.28dISBN: 9781466481619This title is not returnable
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