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African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek NationAmong the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste-black people-and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spoke the same language as the Creeks, ate the same foods, and shared kinship ties. Their only difference was the color...
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Borderlander: The Life of James Kirker, 1793-1852James Kirker, Indian fighter, is among the most infamous characters of the American West. In his exhaustively researched biography, Ralph Adam Smith explores the controversy surrounding the life of this frontier figure. Kirker emigrated from Ireland to New York City in 1810. In the...
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The Beautiful Soul: Aesthetic Morality in the Eighteenth CenturyFor many eighteenth-century European philosophers and writers, the beautiful soul was a symbol of enlightened humanity, carrying with it the possibility that aesthetic beauty and moral goodness would be fused in a new, indivisible unity. In the first book in English on the subject,...
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Books Against Tyranny: Catalan Publishers Under FrancoCatalan-language publishers were under constant threat during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco (1939-75). Both the Catalan language and the introduction of foreign ideas were banned by the regime, preoccupied as it was with creating a "one, great, and free Spain." Books against Tyranny compiles,...
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Borges: An IntroductionThis book, available for the first time in English, offers a thorough introductory reading of Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most remarkable and influential writers of the twentieth century. Julio Premat, a specialist in the field of Borges studies, presents the main questions...
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Medicine in First World War Europe: Soldiers, Medics, PacifistsThe casualty rates of the First World War were unprecedented: approximately 10 million combatants were wounded from Britain, France and Germany alone. In consequence, military-medical services expanded and the war ensured that medical professionals became firmly embedded within the armed services. In a situation...
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Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansasvolume 11Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and "Redeemer" governments sought to reestablish the constraints of slavery, thousands of African Americans migrated west in search of better opportunities. As the first well-known all-black community on the plains, Nicodemus,...
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Sameness in Diversity: Food and Globalization in Modern America Volume 72Americans of the 1960s would have trouble navigating the grocery aisles and restaurant menus of today. Once-exotic ingredients--like mangoes, hot sauces, kale, kimchi, and coconut milk--have become standard in the contemporary American diet. Laresh Jayasanker explains how food choices have expanded since the 1960s:...
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Westward Expansion: A History of the American FrontierWhen it appeared in 1949, the first edition of Ray Allen Billington's Westward Expansion set a new standard for scholarship in western American history, and the book's reputation among historians, scholars, and students grew through four subsequent editions. This abridgment and revision of Billington...
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Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon YearsIn July 1973, for the first time in its history, the New York Times Magazine devoted a full issue to a single article: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist J. Anthony Lukas's account of the Watergate story to date. Six months later, a second installment ran in...
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The Greatest Show in the Arctic, Volume 82: The American Exploration of Franz Josef Land, 1898-1905In Gilded Age America, Arctic explorers were fabulous celebrities--assured of riches and near-immortality so long as they reached the North Pole first. Of the many attempts to meet that goal, three American expeditions, launched from the Russian archipelago of Franz Josef Land, ended in...
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Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to...
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A Decent, Orderly Lynching: The Montana VigilantesThe deadliest campaign of vigilante justice in American history erupted in the Rocky Mountains during the Civil War when a private army hanged twenty-one troublemakers. Hailed as great heroes at the time, the Montana vigilantes are still revered as founding fathers.Combing through original sources,...
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Betraying the Omaha Nation, 1790-1916Betraying the Omaha Nation is the first comprehensive history during the years of 1790-1916. Tracing events from the Omahas' glory days under Chief Black Bird through the loss of most of their land during the World War I era. Judith A. Boughter brings to...
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Liberal Peace, Liberal WarLiberal democracies very rarely fight wars against each other, even though they go to war just as often as other types of states do. John M. Owen IV attributes this peculiar restraint to a synergy between liberal ideology and the institutions that exist within...
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Nuclear Rites: A Weapons Laboratory at the End of the Cold WarBased on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--Nuclear Rites takes the reader deep inside the top-secret culture of a nuclear weapons lab. Exploring the scientists' world of dark humor, ritualized...
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John Finerty Reports the Sioux WarIn War-Path and Bivouac, published in 1890, John Finerty (1846-1908) recalled the summer he spent following George Crook's infamous campaign against the Sioux in 1876. Historians have long surmised that Finerty's correspondence covering the campaign for the Chicago Times reappeared in its entirety in...
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Imperial Identity in the Mughal Empire: Memory and Dynastic Politics in Early Modern South and Central AsiaHaving monopolized Central Asian politics and culture for over a century, the Timurid ruling elite was forced from its ancestral homeland in Transoxiana at the turn of the sixteenth century by an invading Uzbek tribal confederation. The Timurids travelled south: establishing themselves as the...
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The Politics of Ethnic Survival: Germans in Prague, 1861-1914This book examines how one of Imperial Austria's principal ethnic conflicts, that between Czechs and Germans, developed in one of the major cities during the era of industrialization and urban growth. It shows how the inhabitants of Prague, the capital of Bohemia, constructed and...
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Writing Revolution in Latin America: From Martí to García Márquez to BolañoPROSE Awards Literature Subject Category Winner, 2020 In the politically volatile period from the 1960s through the end of the twentieth century, Latin American authors were in direct dialogue with the violent realities of their time and place. Writing Revolution in Latin America is...
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