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Post Wall, Post Square: How Bush, Gorbachev, Kohl, and Deng Shaped the World After 1989A landmark global history that makes us rethink how the Cold War ended and our present era was born This book offers a bold new interpretation of the revolutions of 1989, showing how a new world order was forged--without major conflict. Based on extensive...
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The Rumble in the Jungle: Muhammad Ali and George Foreman on the Global StageThe 1974 fight between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, staged in the young nation of Zaire and dubbed the Rumble in the Jungle, was arguably the biggest sporting event of the twentieth century. The bout between an ascendant undefeated champ and an outspoken master...
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The Ukrainian Intelligentsia and Genocide: The Struggle for History, Language, and Culture in the 1920s and 1930sThis study focuses on the first group targeted in the genocide known as the Holodomor: Ukrainian intelligentsia, the "brain of the nation," using the words of Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term genocide and enshrined it in international law. The study's author examines complex...
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The History of Modern Korean Fiction (1890-1945): The Topography of Literary Systems and FormThis book explores the history of modern Korean literature from a sociocultural perspective. Rather than focusing solely on specific authors and their works, Young Min Kim argues that the development of modern media, shifting conceptualizations of the author, and a growing mass readership fundamentally...
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Hitler's Refugees and the French Response, 1933-1938Julius Fein examines the French response to the large number of German refugees between 1933 and 1938. Fein demonstrates how the Quai d'Orsay sought a compromise between the Republican canon, which said France must help the persecuted, and the factors that limited its willingness...
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United States Foreign Policy 1945-1968: The Bomb, Spies, Stories, and LiesBetween 1945 and 1968, the possibility of Mutual Assured Destruction led to a host of odd realities, including the creation of an affable cartoon turtle named Bert who taught millions of school children that nuclear war was survivable if they simply learned how to...
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Soviet Policy in Xinjiang: Stalin and the National Movement in Eastern TurkistanUsing recently declassified Soviet documents, Jamil Hasanli examines Soviet involvement in the anti-China rebellion in East Turkistan. Hasanli takes readers back to the early 1930s when the Turkic national movement was suppressed by the Soviet government and the USSR. Hasanli deftly illustrates how Stalin's...
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Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo ZongtangStruggle for Empire provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and military commander, Zuo Zongtang (1812-1885). A national hero in China, Zuo's remarkable story remains understudied in the West. Author Kenneth Swope traces Zuo's unlikely rise from...
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The 254: How Texas Counties Got Their NamesFirst published in book form in 1915 under the title 'The history and geography of Texas as told in county names. New material copyrighted 2012.Author: Zachary Taylor FulmorePublisher: Copano Bay PressPublished: 09/28/2012Pages: 364Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94dISBN: 9780984737284
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Friends or Foes?: The United States and Soviet Russia, 1921-1941With Friends or Foes? Norman Saul continues his monumental multivolume magnum opus on U.S.-Russian relations over the course of 200 years. This fourth volume provides the first comprehensive study in any language of an era that shaped the rest of the century and captures...
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The Art of Editing: Raymond Carver and David Foster WallaceThe place of the editor in literary production is an ambiguous and often invisible one, requiring close attention to publishing history and (often inaccessible) archival resources to bring it into focus. In The Art of Editing, Tim Groenland shows that the critical tendency to...
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Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945Rethinking the American Environmental Movement post-1945 turns a fresh interpretive lens on the past, drawing on a wide range of new histories of environmental activism to analyze the actions of those who created the movement and those who tried to thwart them. Concentrating on...
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Stephen King and American HistoryThis book surveys the labyrinthine relationship between Stephen King and American History. By depicting American History as a doomed cycle of greed and violence, King poses a number of important questions: who gets to make history, what gets left out, how one understands one's...
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The Greek Civil War: Strategy, Counterinsurgency and the MonarchyThe Greek Civil War (1946-1949) was one of the few instances in the post-World War II era of a clear-cut and permanent victory by right-wing government forces over an insurgent communist movement. Spyridon Plakoudas here explores the factors which ultimately caused the downfall of...
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Gendering European History: 1780- 1920Gendering European History covers the period from the French Revolution to the end of the First World War. Organised both chronologically and thematically, its central theme is the issue of gender and citizenship. The book encompasses the late eighteenth-century revolutionary period, nineteenth-century developments concerning...
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Gender in Early Modern EnglandThis concise and stimulating book explores the history of gender in England between 1500 and 1700. The second edition has been thoroughly revised to include new material on global connections, masculinity and recent historiography. Amid the upheavals of the Reformation and Civil Wars, gender...
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Renaissance Medicine: A Short History of European Medicine in the Sixteenth CenturyThis volume offers a comprehensive historical survey of medicine in sixteenth-century Europe and examines both medical theories and practices within their intellectual and social context. Nutton investigates the changes brought about in medicine by the opening-up of the European world to new drugs and...
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Russian Imperialism and Naval Power: Military Strategy and the Build-Up to the Russo-Japanese WarFrom 1904-1905, Russia and Japan were locked in conflict arising from rival imperial ambitions in the Far East. Nicholas Papastratigakis offers an integrated analysis of Russian naval strategy in the decade before this Russo-Japanese War, in which the Russians suffered catastrophic defeat. He seeks...
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Diane Di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden ReligionsDiane di Prima: Visionary Poetics and the Hidden Religions reveals how central di Prima was in the discovery, articulation and dissemination of the major themes of the Beat and hippie countercultures from the fifties to the present. Di Prima (1934--) was at the center...
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Experiencing Architecture in the Nineteenth Century: Buildings and Society in the Modern AgeBringing together fourteen original essays, this collection opens up new perspectives on the architectural history of the nineteenth century by examining the buildings of the period through the lens of 'experience'. With a focus on the experience of the ordinary building user - rather...
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