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Roy Reuther and the UAW: Fighting for Workers and Civil RightsThis biography of Roy Reuther examines his tumultuous life, including the triumphs and tragedies in the labor and civil rights movements. It also serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers activists may face as they confront entrenched societal powers. As the brother of...
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Royal Navy Versus the Slave Traders: Enforcing Abolition at Sea 1808-1898On 16 March 1807, the British Parliament passed The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. In the following year the Royal Navy's African Squadron was formed, its mission to stop and search ships at sea suspected of carrying slaves from Africa to the Americas...
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Rohstoffmacht Russland: Eine Globale EnergiegeschichteBereits in der spaten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland durch den Aufbau einer modernen Erdolindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit fuhrenden Erdolproduzenten und baute diese Position in der Sowjetzeit weiter aus. Die Industrialisierung und der Aufstieg zur Weltmacht waren eng mit der Fahigkeit verbunden,...
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Rise of a Dynasty: Rise of a Dynasty: The '57 Celtics, the First Banner, and the Dawning of a New AmericaOn a fateful day in 1957, the country saw the Boston Celtics and the St. Louis Hawks face off in one of the most dramatic NBA games in history. But the score at the final buzzer told only part of the story. Celtics rookie...
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Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern WorldOn a sunny Friday morning in August 1945, a handful of people raised a homemade cotton flag and, on behalf of 68 million compatriots, announced the birth of a new nation. With the fourth largest population in the world, inhabiting islands that span an...
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Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709: A New Perspective on the Scottish Highlands Before CullodenThis book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller and minister. It examines Fraser's self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a...
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Render Unto Caesar: Ecclesiastical Politics in the Reign of Queen AnneBefore Queen Anne's reign had even begun, rival factions in both Church and State were jostling for position in her court. Attempting to follow a moderate course, the new monarch and her advisors had to be constantly wary of the attempts of extremists on...
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Renaissance Scholasticisms: Fighting BackThis volume sheds new light on the intellectual history of the Renaissance by focusing on the neglected paradigm of scholasticism. Its chapters aim to recast our present understanding of familiar features of Renaissance thought by showing that many of the assumed innovations of the...
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Reluctant Race Men: Black Challenges to the Practice of Race in Nineteenth-Century AmericaActivists in the earliest Black antebellum reform endeavors contested and deprecated the concept of race. Attacks on the logic and ethics of dividing, grouping, and ranking humans into races became commonplace facets of activism in anti-colonization and emigration campaigns, suffrage and civil rights initiatives,...
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Religiose Bildungsprozesse in Den Taufkatechesen Kyrills Von JerusalemWas mussten Menschen in der Mitte des 4. Jahrhunderts auf sich nehmen, um durch die Taufe Teil der christlichen Gemeinschaft zu werden? Die Taufkatechesen des Bischofs Kyrill von Jerusalem ( 387) zeigen, dass sie vor allem ein intensives Bildungsprogramm durchliefen, das anhand des Jerusalemer...
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Religion Et Alimentation Dans l'Egypte Et l'Orient AnciensReligion and food are intrinsically linked. Religion, especially in Antiquity, requires food to form the rite: food as offerings permits the circulation between this world and hereafter, from the living making offerings to the gods and the dead and then in return, the gods...
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Relieve Us of This Burthen: American Prisoners of War in the Revolutionary South, 1780-1782A revealing study of the experiences of prisoners of war during the American RevolutionRelieve Us of This Burthen is the first book-length study of Continental soldiers, officers, and militiamen held as prisoners of war by the British in the South during the American Revolution....
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Reinventing Alexander: Myth, Legend, History in Renaissance Italian ArtIn this book Claudia Daniotti provides the first comprehensive study of the representation of Alexander the Great in Renaissance Italian art, exploring a fundamental turning point in the tradition: the transition from the medieval imagery of Alexander as a legendary, fairy-tale hero to the...
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Reel Freedom: Black Film Culture in Early Twentieth-Century New York CityReel Freedom intimately captures the relationship between Black film culture and space in New York City. Alyssa Lopez argues that Black film culture, from its origins in the early twentieth century to its firm establishment in the 1930s, was necessarily both entertainment and resistance,...
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Rebels for the Cause: The Alternative History of Arsenal Football ClubArsenal's on-field success has been well documented. But what has never been written before is the equally remarkable history of Arsenal's rebels, both on and off the pitch. Spanning almost 120 years, and set against a backdrop of turbulent social and political change, Rebels...
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Rebellion in Medieval Europe, C.1000-C.1500Essays exploring the dynamics of rebellion across Europe - from Sweden and Slovakia to the Iberian Peninsula and Hungary - over five centuries. Rebellion was a fundamental part of the political ecosystem of the Middle Ages. Medieval Europe witnessed numerous instances of noble rebellion,...
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Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not TextualismNew York Times Bestseller In a provocative and brilliant analysis, retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a more pragmatic approach of the Constitution. "You will not read a more...
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Read Between the Lines: The story of a Kindertransport survivorThe Kindertransport project brought 10,000 unaccompanied German and Austrian children to Great Britain in 1939. Recent research has uncovered an inconvenient truth: many children suffered abuse, obstacles to integration when their stay became permanent, social estrangement, and forced conversions to Christianity.One of those children,...
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Raphael: The Power of Renaissance Images: The Dresden Tapestries and Their ImpactFrom 1515, Raphael was commissioned by Pope Leo X to create ten large-format cartoons, which were used as design to weave the tapestries for the Sistine Chapel. They show scenes from the lives of the Princes of the Apostles, Peter and Paul. In the...
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Raising Jesus: The Skeptic's Guide to Faith in the ResurrectionLife is hard . . . then you die. It's as simple as that. Dead bodies stay dead. So in this modern, scientific age, how can any reasonable person possibly believe that Jesus actually rose from the dead? Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy...
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