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Black Vienna: The Radical Right in the Red City, 1918-1938Interwar Vienna was considered a bastion of radical socialist thought, and its reputation as "Red Vienna" has loomed large in both the popular imagination and the historiography of Central Europe. However, as Janek Wasserman shows in this book, a "Black Vienna" existed as well;...
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Habits of Devotion: Catholic Religious Practice in Twentieth-Century America"For generations, American Catholics... lived out their faith through countless unremarkable routines. Deep questions of theology usually meant little to them, but parishioners clung to deeply ingrained habits of devotion, both public and private. Particular devotions changed over time, waxing or waning in popularity,...
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Cross & Scepter: The Rise of the Scandinavian Kingdoms from the Vikings to the ReformationA concise history of medieval Scandinavia Christianity and European-style monarchy--the cross and the scepter--were introduced to Scandinavia in the tenth century, a development that was to have profound implications for all of Europe. Cross and Scepter is a concise history of the Scandinavian kingdoms...
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Fascist Spectacle: The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy Volume 28This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking Mussolini's...
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Havana USA: Cuban Exiles and Cuban Americans in South Florida, 1959-1994In the years since Fidel Castro came to power, the migration of close to one million Cubans to the United States continues to remain one of the most fascinating, unusual, and controversial movements in American history. María Cristina García--a Cuban refugee raised in Miami--has...
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Exploring Desert Stone: John N. Macomb's 1859 Expedition to the Canyonlands of the ColoradoThe confluence of the Green and Colorado Rivers, now in Canyonlands National Park, near popular tourist destination Moab, still cannot be reached or viewed easily. Much of the surrounding region remained remote and rarely visited for decades after settlement of other parts of the...
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Doctor Mom Chung of the Fair-Haired Bastards: The Life of a Wartime CelebrityDuring World War II, Mom Chung's was the place to be in San Francisco. Soldiers, movie stars, and politicians gathered at her home to socialize, to show their dedication to the Allied cause, and to express their affection for Dr. Margaret Chung (1889-1959). The...
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Deep Politics and the Death of JFKPeter Dale Scott's meticulously documented investigation uncovers the secrets surrounding John F. Kennedy's assassination. Offering a wholly new perspective--that JFK's death was not just an isolated case, but rather a symptom of hidden processes--Scott examines the deep politics of early 1960s American international and...
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Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American SuperpowerA thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing...
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Light of Battle: Eisenhower, D-Day, and the Birth of the American SuperpowerA thrilling new biography of Dwight Eisenhower set in the months leading up to D-Day, when he grew from a well-liked general into one of the singular figures of American history.On June 6, 1944, General Dwight Eisenhower addressed the thousands of American troops preparing...
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The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789When a Parisian crowd stormed the Bastille in July 1789, it triggered an event of global consequence: the overthrow of the monarchy and the birth of a new society. Most historians account for the French Revolution by viewing it in retrospect as the outcome...
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The Football 100From The Athletic, powerhouse of sports reporting, comes the definitive story of the greatest football players of all time.It is a question that has bedeviled football fans for generations: Who's the best? Of the more than 25,000 men who have suited up during the...
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Life on the MississippiAuthor: Mark TwainPublisher: Mission AudioPublished: 02/28/2015Binding Type: CDWeight: 0.74lbsISBN: 9798200521814About the AuthorField, Robin: - Robin Field is the AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator of numerous audiobooks, as well as an award-winning actor, singer, writer, and lyricist whose career has spanned six decades. He has starred...
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Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium DisastersAuthor: Kate BrownPublisher: Tantor AudioPublished: 12/19/2017Binding Type: CDWeight: 0.74lbsISBN: 9781665238595About the AuthorBrown, Kate: - Kate Brown is an award-winning historian of environmental and nuclear history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her book Plutopia won seven academic prizes, and Manual for Survival was a...
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Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo's Philadelphia and Populist PoliticsThe postwar United States has experienced many forms of populist politics, none more consequential than that of the blue-collar white ethnics who brought figures like Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump to the White House. Blue-Collar Conservatism traces the rise of this little-understood, easily caricatured...
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Intrepid's Last Secrets: Then and Now: History, Spies and LiesIn this engrossing follow-up to The True Intrepid, author Bill Macdonald explores secrets only hinted at in that book. The WWII Canadian spymaster William Stephenson - known widely as "Intrepid" was not only tasked to get help for anti-Nazi Europe and assist setting up...
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Godly Origins: Worldviews Collide: How Evidence-Based Science Supports the Biblical WorldviewThere is no conflict between the Bible and science that is evidence-based. The conflict is between belief in the Biblical Worldview and belief in a non-biblical worldview. If a claim about nature is not testable or observable and then confirmable, it is not science....
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The History and Archeology of the Iroquois Du NordIn the mid-to late 1660s and early 1670s, the Haudenosaunee established a series of settlements at strategic locations along the trade routes inland at short distances from the north shore of Lake Ontario. From east to west, these communities consisted of Ganneious, on Napanee...
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British Battleships 1919-1945Offering an unprecedented range of descriptive and illustrative detail, the author describes the evolution of the battleship classes through all their modifications and refits. As well as dealing with design features, armor, machinery and power plants and weaponry, he also examines the performance of...
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The Grandest Larceny: The Foundation of IsraelJ.E. Thomas challenges the common assumption that Israel was founded to right a historical wrong.A unique event--the handing over of an entire country by another that did not own it, to a people who simply laid claim to it by virtue of their myths...
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