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Harriet Tubman: A Life in American HistoryHarriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chronicle of her life and work with information about her life as a slave, role as conductor on the Underground Railroad,...
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Politisches ScheiternDas politische Scheitern im Europa der Vormoderne ist bis heute von der Geschichtswissenschaft mit wenigen Ausnahmen nicht als eigenes Themenfeld beforscht worden. Ausgehend von einem integrativen Politikbegriff im Sinne der Neuen Politikgeschichte widmet sich der Band solchen historischen Akteuren und Gruppen, Bestrebungen und Entwicklungen,...
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Das Öl Und Der Kampf Um Eine Neue Weltwirtschaftsordnung: Die Bedeutung Der Ölkrisen Der 1970er Jahre Für Die Nord-Süd-BeziehungenDie beiden "Ölschocks" von 1973/74 und 1979/80 waren nicht nur zentrale wirtschaftliche Ereignisse, sondern übten entscheidenden Einfluss auf die zeitgenössischen Debatten um eine grundlegende Reform, wenn nicht gar Revolution, der Weltwirtschaftsordnung aus. Das vorliegende Buch untersucht die Ölkrisen erstmals nicht allein mit Blick auf...
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Pearson Bacc Hist: Auth 2e BundleFour new and revised titles providing comprehensive coverage of the most popular history topics for the 2015 Group 3 curriculum. Each title provides coverage of the appropriate topics, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to answer essay questions on Paper One and...
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A History of the American Musical Theatre: No Business Like ItFrom the diverse proto-theatres of the mid-1800s, though the revues of the '20s, the 'true musicals' of the '40s, the politicisation of the '60s and the 'mega-musicals' of the '80s, every era in American musical theatre reflected a unique set of socio-cultural factors. Nathan...
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The SixtiesThe Sixties is a stimulating account of a turbulent age in America. Terry Anderson examines why the nation experienced a full decade of tumult and change, and he explores why most Americans felt social, political and cultural changes were not only necessary but mandatory...
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Mothers in the Fatherland: Women, the Family and Nazi PoliticsFrom extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler's Women's Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women - as followers, victims and resisters - in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution...
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Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. in Two Volumes. Volume IIIn 1752 a hurricane destroyed the courthouse containing the Onslow County records; nonetheless, all records that could be found were restored, and to them were added authorized copies of lost records. The records contained in these volumes, therefore, are abstracts of all existing records...
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Abstracts of the Records of Onslow County, North Carolina, 1734-1850. in Two Volumes. Volume IIn 1752 a hurricane destroyed the courthouse containing the Onslow County records; nonetheless, all records that could be found were restored, and to them were added authorized copies of lost records. The records contained in these volumes, therefore, are abstracts of all existing records...
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Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874). Aristocrat, Diplomat, and Patron of the ArtsThis book depicts the long rich life and wide ranging work of Count Athanasius Raczyński (1788-1874). By exploring his complex personality, his processes of thought and his accomplishments, it reveals a man at once a wealthy aristocrat, a Pole in the Prussian diplomatic service,...
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The EightiesThe Eighties pulls back the curtain on the transformative years of the 1980s, engaging readers with a thorough analysis of this pivotal decade. From the shifting American narrative to the impact of the Reagan Revolution, this textbook explores a range of important developments and...
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Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas, 1822-1874By: John Henry Brown, Orig. Pub. 1880, Reprinted 2020, 1010 pages, NEW INDEX, Hard Cover, ISBN #0-89308-120-5.This book is a MUST for the student of Texas history and especially for students of early American Indians and the wars fought between them and the white...
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The Imperial Russian Army in Peace, War, and Revolution, 1856-1917In December 1917, nine months after the disintegration of the Russian monarchy, the army officer corps, one of the dynasty's prime pillars, finally fell--a collapse that, in light of World War I and the Bolshevik Revolution, historians often treat as inevitable. The Imperial Russian...
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Harlem's Rattlers and the Great War: The Undaunted 369th Regiment and the African American Quest for EqualityWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: "I'm an American, and I never retreat." The story, even if apocryphal, captures the mythic status of the...
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The Supreme Court: An Essential History, Second EditionFor more than two centuries, the U.S. Supreme Court has provided a battleground for nearly every controversial issue in our nation's history. Now a veteran team of talented historians--including the editors of the acclaimed Landmark Law Cases and American Society series--have updated the most...
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The Presidency of Ulysses S. GrantAs controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an embattled president, enormously popular with the American people, yet the target of unrelenting censure by political enemies. For the first time in almost a century, this book by...
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Imperial Germany and War, 1871-1918An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire--and a chief architect of...
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Legislative History of American Immigration Policy, 1798-1965This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...
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Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. LiteratureAn aesthetic of unoriginality shaped literary style and reader taste for decades of the nineteenth century. While critics in the twentieth century and beyond have upheld originality and innovation as essential characteristics of literary achievement, they were not features particularly prized by earlier American...
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Early Modern Histories of Time: The Periodizations of Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century EnglandEarly Modern Histories of Time examines how a range of chronological modes intrinsic to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries shaped the thought-worlds of those living during this time and explores how these temporally indigenous models can productively influence our own working concepts of historical...
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