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The Vienna Writer's CircleAuthor: J. C. MaetisPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 07/12/2023Binding Type: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.90dISBN: 9798885783668
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To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic JusticeFifty years ago, a single bullet robbed us of one of the world's most eloquent voices for human rights and justice. To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of Martin Luther King Jr. as an advocate of racial harmony to explore his...
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The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American AmusementsA generation before Walt Disney, Fred Thompson was the "boy-wonder" of American popular amusements. At the turn of the 20th century, Thompson's entrepreneurial drive made him into an entertainment mogul who helped to define the popular culture of his day.In this lively biography, Woody...
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Embracing Vocation: Cormac McCarthy's Writing Life, 1959-1974Revelations on craft from a foundational scholar of Cormac McCarthyDevotees of Cormac McCarthy's novels are legion, and deservedly so. Embracing Vocation, which tells the tale of his journey to become one of America's greatest living writers, will be invaluable to scholars and literary critics--and...
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Copper Country Journal: The Diary of Schoolmaster Henry Hobart 1863-1864Copper Country Journal brings to life a culture and community long since passed from the American landscape. It includes a wealth of information, both within the introduction and throughout the diary, about the copper industry from 1845-1865. Hobart centered his narrative on Cliff Mine,...
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Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West VirginiaBegins with about 100 pages on the county's geography and history; the bulk of the volume consists of genealogical material on the pioneer settlers and descendants.Author: William T. PricePublisher: Heritage BooksPublished: 05/01/2009Pages: 672Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 1.35dISBN: 9781556133473This title is...
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Utopian Imaginings: Saving the Future in the Present"Sometimes that's all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time." These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin's 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the...
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Four-Color Communism: Comic Books and Contested Power in the German Democratic RepublicAs with all other forms of popular culture, comics in East Germany were tightly controlled by the state. Comics were employed as extensions of the regime's educational system, delivering official ideology so as to develop the "socialist personality" of young people and generate enthusiasm...
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The Holocaust Sites of Europe: An Historical GuideThe Holocaust is the gravest crime in recorded history. In order to try and better understand the true significance of the Holocaust, as well as its scale and magnitude, millions of people each year now travel to the former camps, ghettos and other settings...
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Mapping Middle-Earth: Environmental and Political Narratives in J. R. R. Tolkien's CartographiesIn this cutting-edge study of Tolkien's most critically neglected maps, Anahit Behrooz examines how cartography has traditionally been bound up in facilitating power. Far more than just illustrations to aid understanding of the story, Tolkien's corpus of maps are crucial to understanding the broader...
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Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of CrisisThis book discusses some of the most urgent current debates over the study, commemoration, and politicization of the Holocaust through key critical perspectives. Omer Bartov adeptly assesses the tensions between Holocaust and genocide studies, which have repeatedly both enriched and clashed with each other,...
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Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler - Revised EditionFor years, the history of the anti-Nazi resistance in Germany was hidden and distorted by Cold War politics. Providing a much-needed corrective, Red Orchestra presents the dramatic story of a circle of German citizens who opposed Hitler from the start, choosing to stay in...
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The French Revolution: A History in DocumentsThe French Revolution: A History in Documents explores the rapidly evolving political culture of the French Revolution through first-hand accounts of the revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) actors themselves. It demonstrates how radical Enlightenment philosophy fused with a governmental crisis to create a moment of new...
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The Propaganda of Freedom: Jfk, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold WarThe perils of equating notions of freedom with artistic vitality Eloquently extolled by President John F. Kennedy, the idea that only artists in free societies can produce great art became a bedrock assumption of the Cold War. That this conviction defied centuries of historical...
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Axel Munthe: The Road to San MicheleAxel Munthe: The Road to San Michele' tells for the first time the riveting life-story of an extraordinary individual, who came to define the times he lived in. The precociously bright son of a Swedish pharmacist, Axel Munthe worked under Jean Martin Charcot, and...
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The Anatomy of Murder: Ethical Transgressions and Anatomical Science During the Third ReichOf the many medical specializations to transform themselves during the rise of National Socialism, anatomy has received relatively little attention from historians. While politics and racial laws drove many anatomists from the profession, most who remained joined the Nazi party, and some helped to...
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Primary Elections and American Politics: The Unintended Consequences of Progressive Era ReformArgues that Progressive Era reforms had the counterintuitive effect of weakening political parties and their role in representative government.Author: Chapman Rackaway, Joseph RomancePublisher: State University of New York PressPublished: 04/02/2023Pages: 262Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60dISBN: 9781438490588Review Citation(s): Choice 07/01/2023About the...
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The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing Us Writing in Britain, 1830-1860During the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out their own authorized and unauthorized editions of American literary works as the popularity of print exploded and literacy rates grew. Playing a formative role in the shaping of American literature, the industry championed the work...
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The Holocaust and Historical Methodology"Most of the thoughtful papers, by scholars in Britain, Germany, Canada, the US, Israel, and elsewhere, seek to put the Holocaust in a broad cultural European and even worldwide perspective. The pivotal figure is Saul Friedlander, whose acclaimed books on the Holocaust incorporated testimonies...
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Personation Plots: Identity Fraud in Victorian Sensation FictionThe first full-length study of identity fraud in literature, Personation Plots argues that concerns about identity and the body gripped the Victorian consciousness. The mid-nineteenth century was marked by extensive medico-legal efforts to understand the body as the sole signifier of identity. The sensation...
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