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Winter in America: A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan RevolutionNeoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. Resting on the fundamental premise that the free market should be unfettered by government intrusion, neoliberal policies have primarily redirected the state's prerogatives...
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Delta: The History of An AirlineBeginning in the 1920s as a lowly crop-dusting operation in Louisiana, Delta Air Lines had, by its fiftieth anniversary, down to become one of the largest companies in the industry and one of the most consistently profitable. First published in 1979, this is a...
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British Literature and Technology, 1600-1830Enlightenment-era writers had not yet come to take technology for granted, but nonetheless were--as we are today--both attracted to and repelled by its potential. This volume registers the deep history of such ambivalence, examining technology's influence on Enlightenment British literature, as well as the...
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Finding the Weight of Things: Larry Eigner's EcrippoeticsAn innovative study of how a prescient poet imagined ecology and embodiment Larry Eigner (1927-1996) wrote thousands of poems in his lifetime, despite profound physical limitations caused by cerebral palsy. Using only the thumb and index finger of his right hand, Eigner generated a...
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Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers: How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and the Sea Changed American LifeIn this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century...
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Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. RegionThe work of considering, imagining, and theorizing the U.S. South in regional, national, and global contexts is an intellectual project that has been going on for some time. Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an ad-vanced understanding of the historical, social,...
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Parties, Slavery, and the Union in Antebellum GeorgiaAt the heart of Georgia's secession from the Union in 1861 were two ideological cornerstones--the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery--Anthony Gene Carey argues in this comprehensive, analytical narrative of the three decades leading up to the Civil War....
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The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology"This book compiles a selection of writings from 15 authors representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe and America. Translations are accompanied by biographical and historical introductions and scholarly notes"--Author: Ulrich L. LehnerPublisher: Catholic University of America PressPublished: 08/13/2021Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.90h...
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America's Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United StatesIn 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory....
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The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and EmancipationWhat if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during...
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Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834"I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods," a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and...
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Savannah's Midnight Hour: Boosterism, Growth, and Commerce in a Nineteenth-Century American CitySavannah's Midnight Hour argues that Savannah's development is best understood within the larger history of municipal finance, public policy, and judicial readjustment in an urbanizing nation. In providing such context, Lisa Denmark adds constructive complexity to the conventional Old South/New South dichotomous narrative, in...
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Politics of White Rights: Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's SchoolsIn The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense...
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Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction: Collected Writings of LaWanda CoxLaWanda Cox is widely regarded as one of the most influential historians of Reconstruction and nineteenth-century race relations. Imaginative in conception, forcefully argued, and elegantly written, her work helped reshape historians' understanding of the age of emancipation. Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction brings together Cox's...
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Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priority of the...
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From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of AmericaBetween the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 and Andrew Jackson's retirement from the presidency in 1837, a generation of Americans acted out a great debate over the nature of the national character and the future political, economic, and religious course of the...
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Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom MovementDeep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person...
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Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous ClimbsIn the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both...
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Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer LoveIn 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour...
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth CenturyThrough the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out of workplaces. In the face of worker resistance, employers and their allies collaborated to...
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