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Newshawks in Berlin: The Associated Press and Nazi GermanyAfter the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America's most important source for foreign news, but to continue reporting under...
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Nazi ConscienceThe Nazi conscience is not an oxymoron. In fact, the perpetrators of genocide had a powerful sense of right and wrong, based on civic values that exalted the moral righteousness of the ethnic community and denounced outsiders. Claudia Koonz's latest work reveals how racial...
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Under Swiss Protection: Jewish Eyewitness Accounts from Wartime BudapestThis volume retraces Carl Lutz's diplomatic wartime rescue efforts in Budapest, Hungary, through the lens of Jewish eyewitness testimonies. Together with his wife, Gertrud Lutz-Fankhauser, the director of the Palestine Office in Budapest, Moshe Krausz, fellow Swiss citizens Harald Feller, Ernst Vonrufs, Peter Zürcher,...
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The Second World War: An Illustrated HistoryThe Second World War is brought to life with captivating color and detail in this illustrated history from renowned historian James Holland and award-winning artist Keith Burns From the internationally acclaimed historian James Holland comes an enthralling and illuminating account of the key battles...
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We Ain't What We Ought to Be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to ObamaIn this exciting revisionist history, Stephen Tuck traces the black freedom struggle in all its diversity, from the first years of freedom during the Civil War to President Obama's inauguration. As it moves from popular culture to high politics, from the Deep South to...
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Max Hoffman: Million Dollar MiddlemanThis fascinating story charts the career of Max Hoffman, the US car dealer who represented Jaguar, Porsche, Mercedes, Volkswagen, Fiat, Lancia, BMW, and many other European car brands during the decades following WWII. He pushed for distinguished now-classics like the Mercedes 300 SL Gullwing,...
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Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of BlacknessContributions by Cynthia Baron, Elizabeth Binggeli, Kimberly Nichele Brown, Priscilla Layne, Eric Pierson, Charlene Regester, Ellen C. Scott, Tanya L. Shields, and Judith E. Smith Intersecting Aesthetics: Literary Adaptations and Cinematic Representations of Blackness illuminates cultural and material trends that shaped Black film adaptations...
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Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain SightFrom award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman comes a collection of photographs documenting America's history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in plain sight, accompanied by hard-hitting personal essays from University of Virginia professor of sociology and Black culture B. Brian Foster and with a...
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Volcanic: Vesuvius in the Age of RevolutionsA vibrant, diverse history of Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples in the age of Romanticism Vesuvius is best known for its disastrous eruption of 79CE. But only after 1738, in the age of Enlightenment, did the excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii reveal its...
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11:40: Analysis of Evasive Manoeuvres & Damage Assessment on RMS TitanicA new in-depth study into those pivotal moments, both leading up to the striking of the iceberg, and across those crucial minutes afterwards, during which the fate of Titanic, and the 2,208 souls aboard, was realized At 11:40pm on April 14, 1912, Titanic collided...
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Democracy in Darkness: Secrecy and Transparency in the Age of RevolutionsHow debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy Does democracy die in darkness, as the saying suggests? This book reveals that modern democracy was born in secrecy, despite the widespread conviction that transparency was its very essence....
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Big Fiction: How Conglomeration Changed the Publishing Industry and American LiteratureIn the late 1950s, Random House editor Jason Epstein would talk jazz with Ralph Ellison or chat with Andy Warhol while pouring drinks in his office. By the 1970s, editors were poring over profit-and-loss statements. The electronics company RCA bought Random House in 1965,...
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Faulkner's FamiliesContributions by Josephine Adams, Jeff Allred, Garry Bertholf, Maxwell Cassity, John N. Duvall, Katherine Henninger, Maude Hines, Robert Jackson, Julie Beth Napolin, Rebecca Nisetich, George Porter Thomas, Jay Watson, and Yuko Yamamoto If it seems outrageous to suggest that one of the twentieth century's...
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Athens on the Frontier: Grecian-Style Architecture in the Splendid Valley of the West, 1820-1860Author: Patrick Lee LucasPublisher: University Press of KentuckyPublished: 03/28/2023Pages: 250Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.94dISBN: 9780813196886This title is only available via back order
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A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetic Education at Tibet's Mindröling MonasteryFounded in 1676 during a cosmopolitan early modern period, Mindröling monastery became a key site for Buddhist education and a Tibetan civilizational center. Its founders sought to systematize and institutionalize a worldview rooted in Buddhist philosophy, engaging with contemporaries from across Tibetan Buddhist schools...
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Babyn Yar: Past, Present, FutureA multidisciplinary history of Ukraine's "Holocaust by bullets," with new research, archival materials and responses by artistsThis substantial volume provides an overview of the efforts made by the Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center since its founding in 2016 to document, study, disseminate, commemorate and...
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Barnave: The Revolutionary Who Lost His Head for Marie AntoinetteA major new biography of Antoine Barnave--the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in the early French Revolution. He was a didactic man of austere morals and vaulting ambition...
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In Her Own Name: The Politics of Women's Rights Before SuffrageLong before American women had the right to vote, states dramatically transformed their status as economic citizens. In the early nineteenth century, a married woman had hardly any legal existence apart from her husband. By the twentieth, state-level statutes, constitutional provisions, and court rulings...
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On This Modern Highway, Lost in the Jungle: Tropics, Travel, and Colonialism in Czech PoetryPostcolonial reflections on Indonesia's influence upon the avant-garde poetry of a non-colonial European. In 1926, the Communist avant-garde poet Konstantin Biebl (1898-1951) traveled from Czechoslovakia to the Dutch East Indies. In the writings from his journal--texts simultaneously poetic and comic--both landlocked Bohemia and the...
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Start a Riot!: Civil Unrest in Black Arts Movement Drama, Fiction, and PoetryWhile the legacy of Black urban rebellions during the turbulent 1960s continues to permeate throughout US histories and discourses, scholars seldom explore within scholarship examining Black Cultural Production, artist-writers of the Black Arts Movement (BAM) that addressed civil unrest, specifically riots, in their artistic...
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