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Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast CapitalismNostalgia isn't what it used to be. For many of us, modern memory is shaped less by a longing for the social customs and practices of the past or for family heirlooms handed down over generations and more by childhood encounters with ephemeral commercial...
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Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Turning from more traditional modes of historical inquiry, Korea Between Empires explores the formative influence of language and social discourse on conceptions of nationalism, national identity, and the nation-state.Author: Andre SchmidPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 07/17/2002Pages: 480Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.16lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.30w x 0.97dISBN:...
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Prove It on Me: New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920sIn the wake of the Great Migration of thousands of African Americans from the scattered hamlets and farms of the rural South to the nation's burgeoning cities, a New Negro ethos of modernist cultural expression and potent self-determination arose to challenge white supremacy and...
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The Invaded: How Latin Americans and Their Allies Fought and Ended U.S. OccupationsIn 1912 the United States sent troops into a Nicaraguan civil war, solidifying a decades-long era of military occupations in Latin America driven by the desire to rewrite the political rules of the hemisphere. In this definitive account of the resistance to the three...
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Nazis and Nobles: The History of a MisallianceIn the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobility in the Nazis' rise to power. While often confidently referred to, the 'fateful' role played by the German...
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Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History of the Second World War in EuropeConventional wisdom explains German defeat during World War II as almost inevitable, primarily for reasons of Allied economic or military brute force created when Germany attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 and entered into a two-front war. Why Germany Nearly Won: A New History...
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Garden Variety: The American Tomato from Corporate to HeirloomChopped in salads, scooped up in salsa, slathered on pizza and pasta, squeezed onto burgers and fries, and filling aisles with roma, cherry, beefsteak, on-the-vine, and heirloom: where would American food, fast and slow, high and low, be without the tomato? The tomato represents...
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Jews Against Prejudice: American Jews and the Fight for Civil LibertiesThis vital contribution to the story of civil rights in modern America traces the political evolution of Jewish defense organizations from their initial incarnations as groups concerned primarily with defending American Jews against the virulent anti-Semitism of the 1920s and 1930s to their leading...
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World of Fairs: The Century-Of-Progress ExpositionsIn the depths of the Great Depression, when America's future seemed bleak, nearly one hundred million people visited expositions celebrating the century of progress. These fairs fired the national imagination and served as cultural icons on which Americans fixed their hopes for prosperity and...
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The Frontier of Leisure: Southern California and the Shaping of Modern AmericaSouthern California has long been promoted as the playground of the world, the home of resort-style living, backyard swimming pools, and year-round suntans. Tracing the history of Southern California from the late nineteenth century through the late twentieth century, The Frontier of Leisure reveals...
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Faith in Reading: Religious Publishing and the Birth of Mass Media in AmericaIn the twenty-first century, mass media corporations are often seen as profit-hungry money machines. It was a different world in the early days of mass communication in America. Faith in Reading tells the remarkable story of the noncommercial religious origins of our modern media...
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The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth CenturyWinner of the Frank S. and Elizabeth D. Brewer Best First Book Prize of the American Society of Church History Society for U. S. Intellectual History Notable Title in American Intellectual History The story of liberal religion in the twentieth century, Matthew S. Hedstrom...
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Sex in an Old Regime City: Young Workers and Intimacy in France, 1660-1789Our ideas about the long histories of young couples' relationships and women's efforts to manage their reproductive health are often premised on the notion of a powerful sexual double standard. In Sex in an Old Regime City, Julie Hardwick offers a major reframing of...
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Nostalgic Buffalo: A Pictorial View of Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Western New York, and Beyond at the Turn of the Twentieth CenturyThe United States Library of Congress (LOC) maintains an incredible collection of public domain photographs taken throughout the United States (primarily East of the Mississippi River) in the late 1800s and early 1900s by Detroit Publishing Company. This book includes the best of the...
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The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark the book's twentieth anniversary, Kern provides an illuminating new preface about the breakthrough in...
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Access to History for the Ib Diploma: Rights and ProtestA new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 4: Rights and ProtestThe renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor.An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level, helping students to develop their knowledge and analytical...
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The Gang: A Study of 1,313 Gangs in ChicagoWhile gangs and gang culture have been around for countless centuries, The Gang is one of the first academic studies of the phenomenon. Originally published in 1927, Frederic Milton Thrasher's magnum opus offers a profound and careful analysis of hundreds of gangs in Chicago...
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Diseases in the District of Maine 1772 - 1820: The Unpublished Work of Jeremiah Barker, a Rural Physician in New EnglandJeremiah Barker practiced medicine in rural Maine up until his retirement in 1818. Throughout his practice of fifty years, he documented his constant efforts to keep up with and contribute to the medical literature in a changing medical landscape, as practice and authority shifted...
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The Making of the Modern RefugeeThe Making of the Modern Refugee is a comprehensive history of global population displacement in the twentieth century. It takes a new approach to the subject, exploring its causes, consequences, and meanings. History, the author shows, provides important clues to understanding how the idea...
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Brothers, Lift Your VoicesThe year is 1944, and as the world undergoes one of modern history's most horrific eras, the Langstaff family strives to remain connected despite the oceans and battlegrounds that separate them. Brothers, Lift Your Voices is an epic compilation of letters sent between the...
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