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Age of Emergency: Living with Violence at the End of the British EmpireAn eye-opening account of how violence was experienced not just on the frontlines of colonial terror but at home in imperial Britain. When uprisings against colonial rule broke out across the world after 1945, Britain responded with overwhelming and brutal force. Although this period...
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Fear of the Family: Guest Workers and Family Migration in the Federal Republic of GermanyBeginning in 1955, West Germany recruited millions of people as guest workers from Yugoslavia, Italy, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and especially Turkey. This labor force was essential to creating the postwar German economic miracle. Employers fantasized that foreign guest workers would providelabor power in their...
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Liberty Brought Us Here: The True Story of American Slaves Who Migrated to LiberiaBetween 1820 and 1913, approximately 16,000 black people left the United States to start new lives in Liberia, Africa, in what was at the time the largest out-migration in US history. When Tolbert Major, a former Kentucky slave and single father, was offered his...
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The Closet: The Eighteenth-Century Architecture of IntimacyA literary and cultural history of the intimate space of the eighteenth-century closet--and how it fired the imaginations of Pepys, Sterne, Swift, and so many other writers Long before it was a hidden storage space or a metaphor for queer and trans shame, the...
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Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's Entry Into World War IWhen war broke out in Europe in 1914, political leaders in the United States were swayed by popular opinion to remain neutral; yet less than three years later, the nation declared war on Germany. In Nothing Less Than War: A New History of America's...
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Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American WestOutstanding Title by Choice MagazineOn the banks of the Pacific Northwest's greatest river lies the Hanford nuclear reservation, an industrial site that appears to be at odds with the surrounding vineyards and desert. The 586-square-mile compound on the Columbia River is known both for...
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Crossroads of Freedom: AntietamThe Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed--four times the number lost on D-Day, and twice the number killed in the September 11th terrorist attacks. In Crossroads of Freedom,...
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In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum AmericaWinner, 2021 AERA Outstanding Book Award Winner, 2021 AERA Division F New Scholar's Book Award Winner, 2020 Mary Kelley Book Prize, given by the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic Winner, 2020 Outstanding Book Award, given by the History of Education Society...
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Rückzug: The German Retreat from France, 1944The Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, marked a critical turning point in the European theater of World War II. The massive landing on France's coast had been meticulously planned for three years, and the Allies anticipated a quick and decisive defeat...
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Citizen Soldiers in the War of 1812Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Book AwardDuring the War of 1812, state militias were intended to be the primary fighting force. Unfortunately, while militiamen showed willingness to fight, they were untrained, undisciplined, and ill-equipped. These raw volunteers had no muskets, and many did...
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Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times 1961-1973Flawed Giant--the monumental concluding volume to Robert Dallek's biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson--provides the most through, engrossing account ever published of Johnson's years in the national spotlight. Drawing on hours of newly released White House tapes and dozens of interviews with people close to...
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The Moravian Brethren in a Time of Transition: A Socio-Economic Analysis of a Religious Community in Eighteenth-Century SaxonyBased on hundreds of archival documents, Christina Petterson offers an in-depth analysis of the community building process and individual and collective subjectification practices of the Moravian Brethren in eighteenth-century Herrnhut, Eastern Germany, between 1740 and 1760.The Moravian Brethren are a Protestant group, but Petterson...
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Descendants Report for John Witt, Whitt, WhyttThis book is actually a descendant report on the Immigrant John Witt. Whytt, Whitt. He was born in Ireland 1645 and came to America in 1667.He had four sons and they have covered our land. Extensive research over 20 years. A few of the...
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Making the Empire Work: Labor and United States ImperialismMillions of laborers, from the Philippines to the Caribbean, performed the work of the United States empire. Forging a global economy connecting the tropics to the industrial center, workers harvested sugar, cleaned hotel rooms, provided sexual favors, and filled military ranks. Placing working men...
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Brown Beauty: Color, Sex, and Race from the Harlem Renaissance to World War IIExamines how the media influenced ideas of race and beauty among African American women from the Harlem Renaissance to World War II. Between the Harlem Renaissance and the end of World War II, a complicated discourse emerged surrounding considerations of appearance of African American...
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Nightmare Alley: Film Noir and the American DreamDesperate young lovers on the lam (They Live by Night), a cynical con man making a fortune as a mentalist (Nightmare Alley), a penniless pregnant girl mistaken for a wealthy heiress (No Man of Her Own), a wounded veteran who has forgotten his own...
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The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil WarIn this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumptions and providing new insights into the region, the political history of the United States, and the causes of the Civil War. Schoen takes...
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(Jefferson County, TN.) Mount Horeb Church Minute Books, 1841-1923.Jefferson County was originally part of the Washington District. It was formed in 1792 from portions of Greene and Hawkins Counties. From it several other counties were formed: Cocke, Hamblen, and Sevier. Jefferson County was settled soon after the Revolutionary War. Most of the...
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1827 Land Lottery of GeorgiaBy: Martha Lou Houston, Pub. 1928, Reprinted 2015, 326 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-015-2.This volume contains an New Full Name Index that mentions approximately 21,000 fortunate drawers who received land in this former Indian Country that became Carroll, Coweta, Troup, Muscogee, and Lee counties...
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They Saved the Crops: Labor, Landscape, and the Struggle Over Industrial Farming in Bracero-Era CaliforniaAt the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to...
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