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Thunder in the East: The Nazi-Soviet War 1941-1945Thunder in the East, originally published in 2005, is widely regarded as the best short history of the entire Nazi-Soviet military conflict. It tells the story from the pre-war expectations of Hitler and Stalin, through the pivotal battles deep in Russia in 1942-43, and...
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Where the Domino Fell: America and Vietnam 1945-2010, Sixth EditionThis updated, expanded edition of Where the Domino Fell recounts the history of American involvement in Vietnam from the end of World War II, clarifying the political aims, military strategy, and social and economic factors that contributed to the participants' actions. Revised and updated...
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Novels, Rhetoric, and Criticism: A Brief History of Belles Lettres and British Literary Culture, 1680 - 1900Developing a history of the English novel requires the inclusion of a vast range of cultural, economic, religious, social, and aesthetic influences. But the role of eighteenth-century English rhetorical theory in the emergence of the novel - and the critical discourse surrounding that emergence...
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Women and Music in the Age of AustenWomen and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges...
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Asian American HistoryA comprehensive survey, Asian American History places Asian immigration to America in international and domestic contexts, and explores the significant elements that define Asian America: imperialism and global capitalist expansion, labor and capital, race and ethnicity, immigration and exclusion, family and work, community and...
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Black Woman Reformer: Ida B. Wells, Lynching, and Transatlantic ActivismDuring the early 1890s, a series of shocking lynchings brought unprecedented international attention to American mob violence. This interest created an opportunity for Ida B. Wells, an African American journalist and civil rights activist from Memphis, to travel to England to cultivate British moral...
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Annotations to James Joyce's UlyssesJames Joyce's Ulysses is filled with all sorts of references that can get in the way of many of its readers. This volume, with over 12,000 individual annotations (and more than double the word count of Ulysses itself), explains these references and allusions in...
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Our People Are Warlike: Civil War Pittsburgh and Home-Front Mobilization"Let our citizens organize and drill," urged the editor of the Pittsburgh Gazette in September 1862 as rumors of a Confederate attack on the North grew louder. Bank president John Harper, chair of the city's Committee of Home Defense, confirmed Pittsburgh was ready to...
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The Oxford Handbook of Virginia WoolfWith thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once...
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Daniel Smith Donelson: Soldier, Politician, TennesseanDaniel Smith Donelson was the grandson of two of early Middle Tennessee's most famous founders--John Donelson and Daniel Smith--and nephew of Tennessee's perhaps most famous soldier statesman, Andrew Jackson. And while Civil War historians are familiar with Donelson because he led a Confederate brigade,...
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Fly Away: The Great African American Cultural MigrationThe Great Migration--the mass exodus of blacks from the rural South to the urban North and West in the twentieth century--shaped American culture and life in ways still evident today. In Fly Away, Peter M. Rutkoff and William B. Scott trace the ideas that...
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The Oxford Handbook of Victorian MedievalismIn 1859, the historian Lord John Acton asserted: 'two great principles divide the world, and contend for the mastery, antiquity and the middle ages'. The influence on Victorian culture of the 'Middle Ages' (broadly understood then as the centuries between the Roman Empire and...
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Tolkien's Library: An Annotated Checklist: Second Edition Revised and Expanded"A combination of circumstances means that we know more about J.R.R. Tolkien than about almost any other author, from any period. Nevertheless, in spite of all the efforts, there remains a certain opacity about Tolkien, both professionally and personally.As this book shows, there is...
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Sustaining Empire: Venezuela's Trade with the United States During the Age of Revolutions, 1797-1828Why did trade with the United States prolong Spanish colonial rule during the Venezuelan independence struggles? From 1790 to 1815, much of the Atlantic World was roiled by European imperial wars. While the citizens of the United States profited from the waste of blood...
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The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational FundCo-winner, Latino Politics Best Book Award, American Political Science AssociationThe first book about the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the influential work it has done for the Latina/o community, and the issues stemming from its dependence on large philanthropic organizations. Founded in...
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1832 Gold Land Lottery of GeorgiaBy: James F. Smith, Pub. 1838, Reprinted 2016, 504 pages, maps, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-033-0.The original 1976 edition was arranged alphabetically by counties and the alphabetically by surname, making it extremely difficult to use when searching a given individual or surname. Southern Historical Press...
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The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursuing Wealth and Honor in Renaissance GermanyAs the wealthiest German merchant family of the sixteenth century, the Fuggers have attracted wide scholarly attention. In contrast to the other famous merchant family of the period, the Medici of Florence, however, no English-language work on them has been available until now. The...
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The Oxford Handbook of John BunyanThe Oxford Handbook of John Bunyan is the most extensive volume of original essays ever published on the seventeenth-century nonconformist preacher and writer, John Bunyan. Its thirty-eight chapters examine Bunyan's life and works, their religious and historical contexts, and the criticalreception of his writings,...
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The Fierce Life of Grace Holmes Carlson: Catholic, Socialist, FeministShares the story of the revolutionary Marxist and Catholic Grace Holmes Carlson and her life-long dedication to challenging social and economic inequality On December 8, 1941, Grace Holmes Carlson, the only female defendant among eighteen Trotskyists convicted under the Smith Act, was sentenced to...
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Source Records from Pike County, Mississippi, 1798-1910By: E. Russ Williams & Luke W. Conerly, Pub. 1909, New material added 1989, reprinted with 2015, 588 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-104-3. Pike County was created in 1815 from Marion County Mississippi. This old as well as new book contains a reprint of...
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