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Race and the Making of the Mormon PeopleThe nineteenth-century history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Max Perry Mueller argues, illuminates the role that religion played in forming the notion of three "original" American races--red, black, and white--for Mormons and others in the early American Republic. Recovering the...
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Factory Made: Warhol and the SixtiesFactory Made: Warhol and the Sixties is a fascinating look at the avant-garde group that came together--from 1964 to 1968--as Andy Warhol's Silver Factory, a cast that included Lou Reed, Nico, Edie Sedgwick, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Joe Dallesandro, Billy Name, Candy Darling, Baby...
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Erased: The Untold Story of the Panama CanalThe Panama Canal's untold history--from the Panamanian point of view. Sleuth and scholar Marixa Lasso recounts how the canal's American builders displaced 40,000 residents and erased entire towns in the guise of bringing modernity to the tropics. The Panama Canal set a new course...
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One Faith, One Law, One King: French Armies of the Wars of Religion 1562 - 1598This book is the only dedicated study available in English that covers all of the armed factions that took part in the Wars of Religion as well as the whole period of these conflicts.It draws on contemporary French, Spanish and English accounts, as well...
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Imperial Bayonets: Tactics of the Napoleonic Battery, Battalion and Brigade as Found in Contemporary RegulationsImperial Bayonets examines the maneuvering systems of the French, Prussians, Russians, Austrians and British from 1792 to 1815. It studies infantry maneuvers and firepower, cavalry maneuvers, and artillery. It is THE definitive work on Napoleonic tactics and a must read for anyone wanting to...
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Italian Rapier Combat: Capo Ferro's 'Grand Simulacro'Featuring more than 40 beautiful illustrations, this stunning work presents one of the world's most influential fencing treatises. Ridolfo Capo Ferro was a legend in his own lifetime. His intricate instructions were emulated throughout a Europe bewitched by this grace and style and are...
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Max Jacob: A Life in Art and LettersThough less of a household name than his contemporaries in early twentieth century Paris, Jewish homosexual poet Max Jacob was Pablo Picasso's initiator into French culture, Guillaume Apollinaire's guide out of the haze of symbolism, and Jean Cocteau's loyal friend. As Picasso reinvented painting,...
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Sheer Bliss: A Creole Journey"We all know Jean Rhys. But now, out from under the shadow of her more famous contemporary, comes Eliot Bliss. Bliss: an early twentieth century, white creole, Jamaican, lesbian writer. Bliss: whose out-of-print 1931 novel Saraband Calderaro first stumbles across in a bookshop in...
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Remodeling the Nation: The Architecture of American Identity, 1776-1858A rich analysis of how post Revolutionary Americans conceptualized the early Republic through metaphors of home buildingAuthor: FahertyPublisher: Univ of Chicago Behalf of UpnePublished: 02/01/2009Pages: 268Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781584657729About the AuthorDUNCAN FAHERTY is Assistant Professor, Department of English,...
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White Terror: The Ku Klux Klan Conspiracy and Southern ReconstructionAllen W. Trelease's White Terror, originally published in 1971, was the first scholarly history of the Ku Klux Klan in the South during Reconstruction. With its research rooted in primary sources, it remains among the most comprehensive treatments of the subject. In addition to...
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U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in NicaraguaAs President Carter's ambassador to Nicaragua from 1977-1979, Mauricio Solaún witnessed a critical moment in Central American history. In U.S. Intervention and Regime Change in Nicaragua, Solaún outlines the role of U.S. foreign policy during the Carter administration and explains how this policy with...
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Gandhi's Vision: Freedom and Beyond-Presents some glimpses from Gandhi's life: how he adopted non-violence as a potent tool in his quest for the 'truth force' and led the path to India's independence -Showcases some hand-picked photographs from the National Gandhi Museum, which portray various scenes from Gandhi's life...
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Abraham Lincoln: A LifeNow in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Named One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago TribuneNamed One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticWinner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S....
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Murder State: California's Native American Genocide, 1846-1873In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Euro-American citizenry of California carried out mass genocide against the Native population of their state, using the processes and mechanisms of democracy to secure land and resources for themselves and their private interests. The murder,...
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Season's Greetings from the White HouseAuthor: Mary Evans SeeleyPublisher: Presidential ChristmasPublished: 11/21/2018Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.50lbsSize: 11.10h x 8.80w x 1.20dISBN: 9780990956129This title is only available via back order
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The Best Ever!: Parades in New England, 1788-1940Parades tell us something important about American culture and almost every place has a parade tradition. The Best Ever! explores this tradition as enacted in the small cities and towns of New England, events that at once celebrated the skeleton of the American Story...
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Grasslands Grown: Creating Place on the U.S. Northern Plains and Canadian PrairiesIn Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American ecological region: the U.S. Great Plains and the Canadian Prairie Provinces. All or parts of modern-day Alberta, Montana, Saskatchewan, North...
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Between Containment and Rollback: The United States and the Cold War in GermanyIn the aftermath of World War II, American policymakers turned to the task of rebuilding Europe while keeping communism at bay. In Germany, formally divided since 1949, the United States prioritized the political, economic, and, eventually, military integration of the fledgling Federal Republic with...
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Abraham Lincoln: A LifeNow in paperback, this award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America's greatest presidents....
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Life and Society in the Early Spanish Caribbean: The Greater Antilles, 1493-1550The half century of European activity in the Caribbean that followed Columbus's first voyages brought enormous demographic, economic, and social change to the region as Europeans, Indigenous people, and Africans whom Spaniards imported to provide skilled and unskilled labor came into extended contact for...
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