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The Enlightenment That Failed: Ideas, Revolution, and Democratic Defeat, 1748-1830The Enlightenment that Failed explores the growing rift between those Enlightenment trends and initiatives that appealed exclusively to elites and those aspiring to enlighten all of society by raising mankind's awareness, freedoms, and educational level generally. Jonathan I. Israel explains why the democratic and...
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Lockheed Constellation: A HistoryClarence 'Kelly' Johnson's design for the Lockheed Constellation, known affectionately as the 'Connie', produced one of the world's most iconic airliners.Lockheed had been working on the L-044 Excalibur, a four-engine, pressurized airliner, since 1937. In 1939, Trans World Airlines, at the instigation of major...
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Waterloo: The Campaign of 1815: Volume II - From Waterloo to the Restoration of Peace in EuropeWinner of the 2019 RUSI Duke of Wellington Medal for Military HistoryWinner of the 2017 Society for Army Historical Research Templer MedalThe concluding volume of this work provides a fresh description of the climatic battle of Waterloo placed in the context of the whole...
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Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of EmancipationEstablished by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau-assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War South. Although it was called the Freedmen's Bureau, the...
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Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995Linda Dowling AlmeidaThe story of one of the most visible groups of immigrants in the major city of immigrants in the last half of the 20th century."Almeida offers a dynamic portrait of Irish New York, one that keeps...
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Die Kraft Der Deutschen Erde: Das Bier Im Nationalsozialismus Und Die Hauptvereinigung Der Deutschen Brauwirtschaft in Berlin-SchonebergHitler bedeutet Krieg" - das erkannten anfangs nur wenige, doch bald nach 1933 setzte die zunehmende Aufrustung ein. Damit ging zwar die Arbeitslosigkeit zuruck, aber das bessere Leben, das Angehorigen der "Volksgemeinschaft" versprochen wurde, blieb mit wenigen Ausnahmen wie den Freizeitangeboten von Kraft durch...
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Let Us Vote!: Youth Voting Rights and the 26th AmendmentThe fascinating tale of how a bipartisan coalition worked successfully to lower the voting age "Let Us Vote!" tells the story of the multifaceted endeavor to achieve youth voting rights in the United States. Over a thirty-year period starting during World War II, Americans,...
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The Transformation of American Sex Education: Mary Calderone and the Fight for Sexual HealthA comprehensive history of the battle over sex education in the United States Mid-century America had a problem talking about sex. Dr. Mary Calderone first diagnosed this condition and, in 1964, led the uphill battle to de-stigmatize sex education. Supporters hailed her as the...
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Inventing America's First Immigration Crisis: Political Nativism in the Antebellum WestWhy have Americans expressed concern about immigration at some times but not at others? In pursuit of an answer, this book examines America's first nativist movement, which responded to the rapid influx of 4.2 million immigrants between 1840 and 1860 and culminated in the...
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Killing the Mob: The Fight Against Organized Crime in AmericaOriginally published: New York: St. Martin's Press, 2021.Author: Bill O'Reilly, Martin DugardPublisher: Wheeler Publishing Large PrintPublished: 08/25/2021Pages: 571Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.35lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.00dISBN: 9781432889944
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Shatterzone of Empires: Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman BorderlandsShatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations encountered...
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Fighting on the Cultural Front: U.S.-China Relations in the Cold WarThe Cold War conflict between the United States and the People's Republic of China did not only encompass political, military, diplomatic, and economic clashes. The two powers also confronted each other on the cultural front. Despite a long history of extensive and mostly constructive...
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Access to History for the Ib Diploma: The Second World War and the Americas 1933-1945 Second EditionA new edition for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 13: The Second World War and the Americas 1933-1945. The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor. An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources...
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Reading It Wrong: An Alternative History of Early Eighteenth-Century LiteratureHow eighteenth-century literature depended on misinterpretation--and how this still shapes the way we read Reading It Wrong is a new history of eighteenth-century English literature that explores what has been everywhere evident but rarely talked about: the misunderstanding, muddle and confusion of readers of...
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Lust on Trial: Censorship and the Rise of American Obscenity in the Age of Anthony ComstockAnthony Comstock was America's first professional censor. From 1873 to 1915, as Secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, Comstock led a crusade against lasciviousness, salaciousness, and obscenity that resulted in the confiscation and incineration of more than three million...
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The Ecocentrists: A History of Radical EnvironmentalismDisenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tree-sits to industrial sabotage, to save a wild nature that they believed to be in a state of...
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Access to History for the Ib Diploma: Emergence of the Americas in Global Affairs 1880-1929This edition's examination guidance has recently been updated for the 2015 IB guide for HL Option 2, History of the Americas, Topic 10: Emergence of the Americas in global affairs 1880-1929 The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor. An...
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Pulitzer's Gold: A Century of Public Service JournalismThe Joseph Pulitzer Gold Medal for meritorious public service is an unparalleled American media honor, awarded to news organizations for collaborative reporting that moves readers, provokes change, and advances the journalistic profession. Updated to reflect new winners of the Pulitzer Prize for public service...
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Edmund Burke and the Invention of Modern Conservatism, 1830-1914: A British Intellectual HistoryBetween 1830 and 1914 in Britain a dramatic modification of the reputation of Edmund Burke (1730-1797) occurred. Burke, an Irishman and Whig politician, is now most commonly known as the "founder of modern conservatism" - an intellectual tradition which is also deeply connected to...
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The Dynamic Frame: Camera Movement in Classical HollywoodThe camera's movement in a film may seem straightforward or merely technical. Yet skillfully deployed pans, tilts, dollies, cranes, and zooms can express the emotions of a character, convey attitude and irony, or even challenge an ideological stance. In The Dynamic Frame, Patrick Keating...
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