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The War on Drugs: A HistoryA revealing look at the history and legacy of the War on Drugs Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million...
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Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American RaceAn essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans-the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The...
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The Political Thought of America's Founding FeministsRecovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation's formative yearsThe Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimk , Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political...
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Business in Black and White: American Presidents & Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth CenturyBusiness in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon's establishment of the Office...
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black BeltWinner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationA remarkable story of the people of rural Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who in 1966 organized a radical experiment in democratic politics Early...
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African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and MemoryStarting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in...
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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday LifeThe fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during...
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A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar PolandAuthor: Friedrich CainPublisher: Mohr SiebeckPublished: 04/01/2022Pages: 550Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.79lbsISBN: 9783161543159About the AuthorGeboren 1985; Studium der Geschichte und Kulturwissenschaften in Halle/Saale, Bremen und Konstanz mit Auslandsaufenthalten in Krakau und Berkeley; Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universitat Konstanz (2011-16) und am Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universitat Erfurt (seit...
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The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century SouthAs cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of...
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Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D. 990 - 1992In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at...
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Italy in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Bridging New CulturesA period of turmoil, uncertainty, and fears, the second half of the nineteenth century in Italy is also characterized by resilience, creativity, courageous discussions on the emancipation of women, and a variety of cultural products that are instrumental for the birth of a new...
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Mid-Century Romance: Modernism, Socialist Culture, and the Historical NovelMid-Century Romance chronicles a revival of the historical novel in thehe middle decades of the twentieth century in the cultures of British modernism and international communism. Born of a national turn in world politics, these novels met the turbulence of mid-century history with narratives...
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Relational Responses to Trauma in Twenty-First-Century French and Spanish Women's WritingAuthor: Hannie LawlorPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 11/27/2024Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.18lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.47w x 0.80dISBN: 9780198916734
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National Review's Literary Network: Conservative CircuitsNational Review's Literary Network traces the careers of novelists, journalists, and literary critics who wrote for William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review. In the 1950s, the magazine sought to establish itself as a conservative alternative to liberal journals like Partisan Review. To do so,...
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Geopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold WarGeopolitical Shakespeare: Western Entanglements from Internationalism to Cold War examines the entanglement of Shakespearean culture in the geopolitical dynamics of the post-war West. Taking its cue from a speech given by Albert Einstein in London in 1933, in which Shakespeare is cited as an...
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Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans WakePhilosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but it is his final novel which most...
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Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Si�cle CultureExtraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.Author: Joseph BristowPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 04/12/2023Pages: 394Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30dISBN: 9781487546083
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The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar AmericaIn the decades directly following the Holocaust, American Jewish leaders anxiously debated how to preserve and produce what they considered authentic Jewish culture, fearful that growing affluence and suburbanization threatened the future of Jewish life. Many communal educators and rabbis contended that without educational...
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Delhi Reborn: Partition and Nation Building in India's CapitalDelhi, one of the world's largest cities, has faced momentous challenges--mass migration, competing governing authorities, controversies over citizenship, and communal violence. To understand the contemporary plight of India's capital city, this book revisits one of the most dramatic episodes in its history, telling the...
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Our Kind of Historian: The Work and Activism of Lerone Bennett Jr.Journalist, activist, popular historian, and public intellectual, Lerone Bennett Jr. left an indelible mark on twentieth-century American history and culture. Rooted in his role as senior editor of Ebony magazine, but stretching far beyond the boundaries of the Johnson Publishing headquarters in Chicago, Bennett's...
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