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Georg Forster: German CosmopolitanGeorg Forster (1754-1794) was famous during his lifetime, notorious after his death, and largely forgotten by the later nineteenth century. Remembered today as the young man who sailed around the world with Captain Cook and as one of the leading figures in the revolutionary...
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Global Royal Families: Cultures of Transnational Monarchy in the Nineteenth and Twentieth CenturiesAuthor: Robert AldrichPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 12/02/2024Pages: 410Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.52lbsSize: 8.60h x 5.66w x 1.16dISBN: 9780198931744About the AuthorRobert Aldrich, University of Sydney, Cindy McCreery, University of Sydney, Falko Schnicke, Johannes Kepler University Linz This title is not returnable
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Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920: 'The Indispensable East'Decadence and Orientalism in England and Germany, 1880-1920 examines the Orientalist portrayal of Middle Eastern cultures in Decadent Literatures in England and Germany at the turn of the century. This book argues that the role of Orientalism in literary Decadence uniquely exposes its paradoxical...
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Civil Rights in Black and Brown: Histories of Resistance and Struggle in Texas2022 Best Book Award, Oral History Association Hundreds of stories of activists at the front lines of the intersecting African American and Mexican American liberation struggle Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation...
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Red Road to Freedom: A History of the South African Communist Party 1921 - 2021Longlisted for South Africa's 2022 Sunday Times Non-fiction Award Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa. Renowned historian Tom Lodge has written an immensely readable and compelling sweep of history, spanning continents and the last hundred years, producing the...
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The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious TurnIn The Ontological Roots of Phenomenology: Rethinking the History of Phenomenology and Its Religious Turn, Anna Jani examines the common methodological background of phenomenology. Through attention to the phenomenon of being, the existential experience of religiosity can be phenomenologically described by the ontological difference...
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Adrift on an Inland Sea: Misinformation and the Limits of Empire in the Brazilian BacklandsFrom 1750 until Brazil won its independence in 1822, the Portuguese crown sought to extend imperial control over the colony's immense, sea-like interior and exploit its gold and diamond deposits using enslaved labor. Carrying orders from Lisbon into the Brazilian backlands, elite vassals, soldiers,...
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A True American: William Walcutt, Nativism, and Nineteenth-Century ArtThis book argues that nativism, the hostility especially to Catholic immigrants that led to the organization of political parties like the Know-Nothings, affected the meaning of nineteenthcentury American art in ways that have gone unrecognized. In an era of industrialization, nativism's erection of barriers...
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Cold War Reckonings: Authoritarianism and the Genres of DecolonizationHonorable Mention, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language AssociationHonorable Mention, René Wellek Prize, American Comparative Literature AssociationHow did the Cold War shape culture and political power in decolonizing countries and give rise to authoritarian regimes in the so-called free world? Cold War Reckonings tells...
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María de Zayas and Her Tales of Desire, Death and DisillusionWho doubts, my reader, that you will be amazed that a woman has the audacity not only to write a book, but to send it for printing, which is the crucible in which the purity of genius is tested'? Who doubts, my reader, that...
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Bracero Railroaders: The Forgotten World War II Story of Mexican Workers in the U.S. WestDesperate for laborers to keep the trains moving during World War II, the U.S. and Mexican governments created a now mostly forgotten bracero railroad program that sent a hundred thousand Mexican workers across the border to build and maintain railroad lines throughout the United...
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Holocaust Memory and the Cold War: Remembering Across the Iron CurtainEven before World War II had ended, survivors, historians, writers, and artists tried to make sense of the Holocaust. To do so, they relied on belief systems and narratives that, as the bloc confrontation intensified, were increasingly shaped by Cold War thinking. Foregrounding the...
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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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Bad Medicine: Settler Colonialism and the Institutionalization of American IndiansIn Bad Medicine, Sarah A. Whitt exposes how Native American boarding schools and other settler institutions like asylums, factories, and hospitals during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries worked together as a part of an interconnected system of settler domination. In so doing,...
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Second World, Second Sex: Socialist Women's Activism and Global Solidarity During the Cold WarWomen from the state socialist countries in Eastern Europe--what used to be called the Second World--once dominated women's activism at the United Nations, but their contributions have been largely forgotten or deemed insignificant in comparison with those of Western feminists. In Second World, Second...
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Sinclair Stories: Pioneers of Virginia, Arkansas Territory, and CaliforniaSinclair Stories uses genealogical research as a springboard to uncover the lives and historical context of Charles Sinclair of Sinclair Bottom, Virginia (abt. 1717?-1766) and some of his descendants, in particular through the line of his son John Sinclair who was married to Rebecca...
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The Breach: Iran-Contra and the Assault on American DemocracyA president defying Congress. Disrespect for the law. Attacks on the press. Evasion in the courts. The privatization of war. Quid pro quos with foreign nations. The mounting dangers to American democracy have long been with us. But all these perils first emerged together...
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A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, LouisianaA Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana reveals a community where free people of color lived harmoniously with white people even as slavery persisted. Author Evelyn L. Wilson documents the presence, land ownership, business development, and...
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A Carpetbagger in Reverse: Arthur W. Mitchell, America's First Black Democratic CongressmanA long overdue account of the pioneering life and work of controversial African American Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell of ChicagoAuthor: John Morris KnappPublisher: University Alabama PressPublished: 12/10/2024Pages: 318Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.22w x 1.10dISBN: 9780817322151This title is only available via back order
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Soul of the Court: The Trailblazing Life of Judge William Benson Bryant Sr.Legal legend Judge Louis F. Oberdorfer once stated that there were "only two people in the world who really understood the Constitution" and its impact on American lives. One was Hugo Black, deceased Supreme Court justice. The other was William Benson Bryant Sr. (1911-2005),...
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