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The Road to Chinese Exclusion: The Denver Riot, 1880 Election, and Rise of the WestDenver in the Gilded Age may have been an economic boomtown, but it was also a powder keg waiting to explode. When that inevitable eruption occurred--in the Anti-Chinese Riot of 1880--it was sparked by white resentment at the growing encroachment of Chinese immigrants who...
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A Slow Reckoning: The Ussr, the Afghan Communists, and IslamA Slow Reckoning examines the Soviet Union's and the Afghan communists' views of and policies toward Islam and Islamism during the Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989). As Vassily Klimentov demonstrates, the Soviet and communist Afghan disregard for Islam was telling of the overall communist approach to...
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Herrnhut: The Formation of a Moravian Community, 1722-1732In June 1722, three families from Moravia settled on the estate of Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in Berthelsdorf, Saxony. Known as the community of Herrnhut, their settlement quickly grew to become the epicenter of a transatlantic religious movement, one that would attract thousands...
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A World of Turmoil: The United States, China, and Taiwan in the Long Cold WarThe United States, the People's Republic of China, and Taiwan have danced on the knife's edge of war for more than seventy years. A work of sweeping historical vision, A World of Turmoil offers case studies of five critical moments: the end of World...
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Dangerous Intercourse: Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898-1946In Dangerous Intercourse, Tessa Winkelmann examines interracial social and sexual contact between Americans and Filipinos in the early twentieth century via a wide range of relationships--from the casual and economic to the formal and long term. Winkelmann argues that such intercourse was foundational not...
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Diasporic Cold Warriors: Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s-1970sIn Diasporic Cold Warriors, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state.From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors...
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The Bloomsbury Handbook to Katherine MansfieldThrough her formally innovative and psychologically insightful short stories, Katherine Mansfield is increasingly recognised as one of the central figures in early 20th-century modernism. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars and covering her complete body of work, this is the most comprehensive volume to...
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Bourgeois Europe, 1850-1914Now in its second edition, Bourgeois Europe, 1850-1914 is a general history of Europe from the middle of the nineteenth century to the outbreak of the First World War, a successor to Revolutionary Europe: 1780-1850, also available from Routledge. The book offers wide geographic...
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A History of the World: From the 20th to the 21st CenturyThis second edition has been thoroughly updated and includes discussions on 9/11 and the second Gulf War, and takes into account the latest historical research. A comprehensive survey of the key events and personalities of this period throughout the world, it includes discussion on...
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General Practice Under the NHS: Past, Present and FutureThis accessible text covers the entirety of General Practice and the General Practitioner, from student to retirement and from the beginning of the NHS to the present day. It provides a comprehensive historical overview representing both academic and front-line perspectives, describing what has changed,...
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Alcohol in the Early Modern World: A Cultural HistoryThis book examines how the profound religious, political, and intellectual shifts that characterize the early modern period in Europe are inextricably linked to cultural uses of alcohol in Europe and the Atlantic world. Combining recent work on the history of drink with innovative new...
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The Ends of ModernizationThe Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to...
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General MacArthur and President Truman: The Struggle for Control of American Foreign PolicyThis book was first published in 1951 as The General and the President after President Harry S. Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur in the midst of the Korean War -a memorably explosive incident in American political history. But its significance extends far beyond a...
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Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold WarIn Inglorious, Illegal Bastards, Aaron Herald Skabelund examines how the Self-Defense Force (SDF)--the post-World War II Japanese military--and specifically the Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF), struggled for legitimacy in a society at best indifferent to them and often hostile to their very existence.From the early...
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Russia and Central Asia: Coexistence, Conquest, ConvergenceRussia and Central Asia provides an overview of the relationship between these two dynamic regions, highlighting the ways in which they have influenced and been influenced by Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. This readable synthesis, covering early coexistence in the seventeenth century to...
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Somerset's loyalties on the eve of Civil War: bishops, Ireland and Parliamentary petitionersSomerset in 1641 was a heady mix of supporters of bishops and their ancient system of governance (known as episcopacy), the King, Parliament and those who supported combinations thereof, as well as neutrally-minded people. This book examines, for the first time, the loyalties of...
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San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists. Vol. III: November 7, 1851 to June 17, 1852Here is the third volume in Louis Rasmussen's distinguished series dealing with passenger arrivals at the port of San Francisco between 1850 and 1875. In the absence of official port records--which were destroyed by fire in 1940--this ambitious work attempts a reconstruction of passenger...
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The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New MexicoOn July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in...
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The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region--one capable of influencing not just the nation but the world. By the dawn of...
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Patented Transition & Metallic Planes in AmericaAfter ten years of gathering information and three years of full time research and extensive traveling, Roger K. Smith has authored his second book on patented planes. Contained in this comprehensive reference book are photographs, illustrations and a wealth of information relating to all...
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