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Renaissance Papers 2022Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the Southeastern Renaissance Conference. The theme of this year's volume is "sacred places, secular spaces." It begins with a "who is it" mystery, examining two portraits by Raphael that embody the sacred and...
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States of Cultivation: Imperial Transition and Scientific Agriculture in the Eastern MediterraneanThe final decades of the Ottoman Empire and the period of the French mandate in Syria and Lebanon coincided with a critical period of transformation in agricultural technologies and administration. Chemical fertilizers and mechanized equipment inspired model farms while government officials and technocratic elites...
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Colonizing Palestine: The Zionist Left and the Making of the Palestinian NakbaAmong the most progressive of Zionist settlement movements, Hashomer Hatzair proclaimed a brotherly stance on Zionist-Palestinian relations. Until the tumultuous end of the British Mandate, movement settlers voiced support for a binational Jewish-Arab state and officially opposed mass displacement of Palestinians. But, Hashomer Hatzair...
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Social Change, Industrialization, and the Service Economy in São Paulo, 1950-2020In the 1950s-80s, Brazil built one of the most advanced industrial networks among the developing countries, initially concentrated in the state of São Paulo. But from the 1980s, decentralization of industry spread to other states reducing São Paulo's relative importance in the country's industrial...
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Southwest Louisiana Biographical and Historical.By: William Henry Perrin, Pub. 1891, Reprinted 2018, 802 pages, Index, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-764-5.This book is a MUST for persons doing research in the state of Louisiana (with particular interest in the Southern Half of the state). Parish that are cover: Acadia, Calcasieu,...
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From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in AmericaPeer through history at Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet, whose steady nature and dominating figure earned him the nicknames "War Horse," "Bulldog," and "Bull of the Woods." Years after the war, Longstreet's reputation swung between Confederate hero and brutish scoundrel. A dutiful soldier with...
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Renaissance Papers 2021Essays on a wide range of topics including the role of early modern chess in upholding Aristotelian virtue; readings of Sidney, Wroth, Spenser, and Shakespeare; and several topics involving the New World. Renaissance Papers collects the best scholarly essays submitted each year to the...
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Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. in Five Volumes. Volume V: Randolph - ZouchThis is the fifth and final volume of a multi-volume work consisting of Virginia genealogies from the "Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," a notable periodical that contained a large number of genealogies that will be of help to the researcher. This volume consists...
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Across the Years in Prince George's County. a Genealogical and Biographical History of Some Prince George's County, Maryland and Allied FamiliesPart One of this landmark work is a personal history of Prince George's County, based on reminiscences, and was the inspiration for the important section following. The genealogical section designated Part Two deals with the following county families, many of them allied in one...
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History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Second (Augmented) Edition [1969]The author traces the origin and development of the county, describing its formation and settlement (probably three-quarters of its early settlers were of German extraction), its subsequent growth, the citizens, towns and villages, churches, schools, landmarks, businesses and industries. Much genealogical information is included....
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Some Prominent Virginia Families. Four Volumes in Two. Volumes I-IIOf all the compilations of Virginia genealogies this is undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive. In the preparation of the work the author drew on letters, diaries, manuscripts, books, newspapers, reminiscences, and original records. Intended at first as a history of the descendants of...
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Families of Early Milford, ConnecticutThis monumental compilation contains the genealogical records of approximately 300 families of early Milford, Connecticut. The genealogies range from a single paragraph to a dozen pages or more, enumerating descents through several generations, and are arranged alphabetically by family name, under which may also...
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Genealogies of Virginia Families from the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. in Five Volumes. Volume I: Adams - ChilesThis is the first volume of a five-volume work consisting of Virginia genealogies that appeared in the "Virginia Magazine of History and Biography," a notable periodical that contained a large number of genealogies that will be of help to the researcher. This volume contains...
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Early Families of Eastern and Southeastern Kentucky and Their DescendantsThis massive compilation contains genealogies of the early families of eastern and southeastern Kentucky, the section originally comprised of the counties of Floyd, Knox, Greenup, and Clay. The genealogies refer to approximately 12,000 individuals, many of them worked through seven generations. The main families,...
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Norway to Washougal: An Unusual History Book Inspired by Washington Homesteaders Anna and Engel EngelsenWhere are we from? From our parents, certainly, and their parents. As we go further back, we come from cities, states, countries, and geographic areas. Going back even further, we come from modern humans and the planet Earth. This book begins in Norway, briefly...
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The Business of Bobbysoxers: Cultural Production in 1940s Frank Sinatra FandomThe Business of Bobbysoxers reconsiders the story of American popular music, celebrity following, and fan behavior during World War II through close examination of "bobbysoxers." Preserved in popular memory as primarily white, hysterical, teen girl devotees of Frank Sinatra clad in bobby socks and...
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Hessians: German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary WarBetween 1776 and 1783, Britain hired an estimated 30,000 German soldiers to fight in its war against the Americans. Collectively known as Hessians, they actually came from six German territories within the Holy Roman Empire. Over the course of the war, members of the...
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Building the Population BombAcross the twentieth century, Earth's human population increased undeniably quickly, rising from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to 6.1 billion in 2000. As population grew, it also began to take the blame for some of the world's most serious problems, from global poverty to...
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The Sobibor Death Camp: History, Biographies, RemembranceThe Sobibor Death Camp was the second extermination camp built by the Nazis as part of the secretive Operation Reinhardt--with intent to carry out the mass murder of Polish Jewry. This account of the Nazis' remorseless and relentless production line of killing at the...
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Agriculture in the Midwest, 1815-1900After the War of 1812 and the removal of the region's Indigenous peoples, the American Midwest became a paradoxical land for settlers. Even as many settlers found that the region provided the bountiful life of their dreams, others found disappointment, even failure--and still others...
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![History of Shenandoah County, Virginia. Second (Augmented) Edition [1969] by Wayland, John W.](http://booksdeli.com/cdn/shop/products/img_56c25563-35b8-4b9b-bc61-45440066b7cd_533x.jpg?v=1679786361)
