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The Lives and Deaths of Jubrail Dabdoub: Or, How the Bethlehemites Discovered AmerkaThis is the fantastical, yet real, story of the merchants of Bethlehem, the young men who traveled to every corner of the globe in the nineteenth century. These men set off on the backs of donkeys with suitcases full of crosses and rosaries, to...
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Koreatown, Los Angeles: Immigration, Race, and the American DreamThe story of how one ethnic neighborhood came to signify a shared Korean American identity. At the turn of the twenty-first century, Los Angeles County's Korean population stood at about 186,000--the largest concentration of Koreans outside of Asia. Most of this growth took place...
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The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985"This meticulously researched book gives a detailed and authoritative history of agricultural change in the second half of the twentieth century. The book skilfully weaves together the hitherto underexplored individual returns of the Farm Management Survey with oral histories of the farmers who enacted...
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Azusa Reimagined: A Radical Vision of Religious and Democratic BelongingIn Azusa Reimagined, Keri Day explores how the Azusa Street Revival of 1906, out of which U.S. Pentecostalism emerged, directly critiqued America's distorted capitalist values and practices at the start of the twentieth century. Employing historical research, theological analysis, and critical theory, Day demonstrates...
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The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan SalamanRedcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman...
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The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in IraqA new history of Middle East oil and the deep roots of American violence in Iraq. Iraq has been the site of some of the United States' longest and most sustained military campaigns since the Vietnam War. Yet the origins of US involvement in...
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The New Method of Learning and Teaching Jurisprudence According to the Principles of the Didactic Art Premised in the General Part and in the Light ofThe first complete English translation from the Latin of Gottfried Wilhelm Liebniz's Nova methodus discendae docendaeque Jurisprudentiae. lxxxvii, 218 pp. Preface by William E. Butler. Better known for his contributions to philosophy, metaphysics and mathematics as co-discoverer along with Isaac Newton of calculus, Gottfried...
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The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880This book offers a new understanding of the relationship between family structures and narrative structure in the nineteenth-century novel. Comparing Russia and England, it argues that the two nations had fundamentally different conceptions of the family and that these, in turn, shaped the way...
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Emerson's Memory Loss: Originality, Communality, and the Late StyleRalph Waldo Emerson's dementia, an ordeal that marked his final two decades, has never been a secret among those who study Emerson's life. Still, few have focused on the period of Emerson's decline. Thus, his later thinking has succumbed to a process of critical...
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These Vivid American Documents: Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and FSA PhotobooksThe story behind the most iconic American photobooks of the twentieth century. In the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Farm Security Administration (FSA) funded a now-famous photography project to document and highlight American rural life and its economic challenges. In time, the project...
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Making Pictorial Print: Media Literacy and Mass Culture in British Magazines, 1885-1918At the end of the nineteenth century, print media dominated British popular culture, produced in greater variety and on a larger scale than ever before. Within decades, new visual and auditory media had ushered in a mechanized milieu, displacing print from its position at...
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Pleasure Grounds of Death: The Rural Cemetery in Nineteenth-Century AmericaRural cemeteries--named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location--were established during the middle decades of the nineteenth century in the United States. An instant cultural phenomenon, Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, was the nation's first such burial ground to combine the...
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Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850In Indigenous Enlightenment Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading. Protestant expatriates who opened schools within British and U.S. colonial territories between 1790 and 1850 shared the conviction that a...
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Clément Marot's Epistles: Volume 582The first complete, versified English-language translation of the epistles of Renaissance poet Clément Marot. Clément Marot (1496-1544), a royal poet in Renaissance France who ushered in new verse forms and renewed existing ones, stands as one of the most important literary voices of the...
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J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the PerplexedWith his richly detailed world of Middle Earth and the epic tales he told around it, J.R.R. Tolkien invented the modern fantasy novel. For readers and students getting to grips with this world for the first time, J.R.R. Tolkien: A Guide for the Perplexed...
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Holocaust Encyclopedia, 3rd ed. (full color): Uncensored and UnconstrainedWe all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...
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Holocaust Encyclopedia: uncensored and unconstrained (full-color edition)We all have learned it: The Holocaust lasted four years (1941-1945), took place in thousands of locations across an entire continent (Europe), and involved thousands of perpetrators and millions of victims. But when it comes to details, most of us flounder. Many websites can...
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Genealogies of Kentucky Families, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Volume O - Y (Owens - Young)The publication of "Genealogies of Kentucky Families" offers researchers an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a complete collection of the two-hundred family history articles published originally in "The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" and "The Filson Club History Quarterly." With the cooperation of both...
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Genealogies of Kentucky Families, from the Register of the Kentucky Historical Society. Voume a - M (Allen - Moss)The publication of "Genealogies of Kentucky Families" offers researchers an unprecedented opportunity to acquire a complete collection of the two-hundred family history articles published originally in "The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society" and "The Filson Club History Quarterly." With the cooperation of both...
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Rescue and Remembrance: Imagining the German Collective After NazismIn Rescue and Remembrance, Kobi Kabalek examines how the rescue of Jews during the Holocaust has been understood and represented in Germany from the Nazi period to the present. In many regions outside Germany, a small number of known Holocaust rescuers are often held...
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