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City Girls: The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950Even before wartime incarceration, Japanese Americans largely lived in separate cultural communities from their West Coast neighbors. Although the Nisei children, the American-born second generation, were U.S. citizens and were integrated in public schools, they were socially isolated in many ways from their peers....
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University, Court, and Slave: Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil WarUniversity, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of people-and profited from their labor while many slaves endured physical abuse on campuses. As Alfred L. Brophy shows, southern universities fought the...
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The Imperial Army Project: Britain and the Land Forces of the Dominions and India, 1902-1945How did British authorities manage to secure the commitment of large dominion and Indian armies that could plan, fight, shoot, communicate, and sustain themselves, in concert with the British Army and with each other, during the era of the two world wars? What did...
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U.S. HistoryU.S. History covers the breadth of the chronological history of the United States and also provides the necessary depth to ensure the course is manageable for instructors and students alike. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most courses....
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An All-Consuming Century: Why Commercialism Won in Modern AmericaThe unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States has traditionally been the home of the most aggressive and often thoughtful criticism of consumption, including Puritanism, Prohibition, the simplicity movement, the '60s hippies, and the consumer rights movement....
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Purging the Poorest: Public Housing and the Design Politics of Twice-Cleared CommunitiesThe building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In Purging the Poorest, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year struggle to house the "deserving...
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Die Araber Und Europa: 2000 Jahre Gemeinsamer GeschichteEnglish summary: At the latest since the Islamic expansion Europe and the Arabic world are close neighbours. Nonetheless European and Christian history and Arabic and Islamic history are often viewed separate from each other. Alfred Schlicht demonstrates that this perception frequently falls short. This...
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Reds at the Blackboard: Communism, Civil Rights, and the New York City Teachers UnionThe New York City Teachers Union shares a deep history with the American left, having participated in some of its most explosive battles. Established in 1916, the union maintained an early, unofficial partnership with the American Communist Party, winning key union positions and advocating...
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Curating Culture: How Twentieth-Century Magazines Influenced AmericaPrint magazines were the original niche medium, creating communities long before the internet allowed audiences to find specialized content and interact with like-minded readers. Consumer magazines provided information, inspiration, empathy and advocacy for readers with specific goals and concerns. The targeted advertising business model...
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Seven Slovak Women: Portraits of Courage, Humanism, and EnlightenmentThis engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English to portray the lives and fates of Slovak women. These seven life stories, ranging from the late nineteenth century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Slovakia through...
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Seven Czech Women: Portraits of Courage, Humanism, and EnlightenmentThis engaging and insightful book is the first historical study in English portraying the lives and fates of Czech women. The seven life stories, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day, expose the often cruel political history of Bohemia (19th century),...
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Common Bodies: Women, Touch and Power in Seventeenth-Century EnglandThis pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature, and detailed legal records from courts that were obsessively concerned with regulating morals, the book recaptures seventeenth-century...
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Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of MarxismRick Kuhn's Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism is the definitive study of the life and work of this renowned economist, activist, and intellectual. As a young man, Grossman joined the socialist movement and participated in Jewish workers' strikes and demonstrations, as well...
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Transforming America: Politics and Culture During the Reagan YearsBy the end of the 1980s, the "malaise" that had once pervaded American society was replaced by a renewed sense of confidence and national purpose. However, beneath this veneer of optimism was a nation confronting the effects of massive federal deficits, a reckless foreign...
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All the World's a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916Robert W. Rydell contends that America's early world's fairs actually served to legitimate racial exploitation at home and the creation of an empire abroad. He looks in particular to the ethnological displays of nonwhites--set up by showmen but endorsed by prominent anthropologists--which lent scientific...
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Mapping the Nation: History and Cartography in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn the nineteenth century, Americans began to use maps in radically new ways. For the first time, medical men mapped diseases to understand and prevent epidemics, natural scientists mapped climate and rainfall to uncover weather patterns, educators mapped the past to foster national loyalty...
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Fat Nation: A History of Obesity in AmericaThe diet and weight-loss industry is worth $66 billion - billion The estimated annual health care costs of obesity-related illness are 190 billion or nearly 21% of annual medical spending in the United States. But how did we get here? Is this a battle...
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Do You Believe in Magic?: Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966A unique and dynamic look at a pivotal year in American history and culture. There were seismic shifts taking place in 1966. The Supreme Court's Miranda warnings decision. A World Series upset. Jacqueline Susann's salacious best seller Valley of the Dolls. The television debut...
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Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the SeventiesIn both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy...
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Courage in a Dangerous World: The Political Writings of Eleanor RooseveltDozens of books have been written about Eleanor Roosevelt, but her own writings are largely confined to the Roosevelt archives in Hyde Park. Courage in a Dangerous World allows her own voice again to be heard. Noted Eleanor Roosevelt scholar Allida M. Black has...
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