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San Francisco Ship Passenger Lists. Vol. III: November 7, 1851 to June 17, 1852Here is the third volume in Louis Rasmussen's distinguished series dealing with passenger arrivals at the port of San Francisco between 1850 and 1875. In the absence of official port records--which were destroyed by fire in 1940--this ambitious work attempts a reconstruction of passenger...
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The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New MexicoOn July 16, 1945, just weeks before the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that brought about the surrender of Japan and the end of World War II, the United States unleashed the world's first atomic bomb at the Trinity testing site located in...
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The Mobilized American West, 1940-2000In the years between 1940 and 2000, the American Far West went from being a relative backwater of the United States to a considerably more developed, modern, and prosperous region--one capable of influencing not just the nation but the world. By the dawn of...
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Patented Transition & Metallic Planes in AmericaAfter ten years of gathering information and three years of full time research and extensive traveling, Roger K. Smith has authored his second book on patented planes. Contained in this comprehensive reference book are photographs, illustrations and a wealth of information relating to all...
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The Consolidated B-24 Liberator: Volume 1: Reuben Fleet, the Factories, and the ProductIn the first of his massive two volume B-24 Liberator set, Dr. Wolf presents a meticulously researched, truly ultimate look at the B-17's stablemate from the drawing board to its emergence as America's preeminent blue-collar bomber. In addition to his personal 25,000-book library and...
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A State of Secrecy: Stasi Informers and the Culture of SurveillanceSecret police agencies such as the East German Ministry for State Security kept enormous quantities of secrets about their own citizens, relying heavily on human modes of data collection in the form of informants. To date little is known about the complicated and conflicted...
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Beyond the Great War: Making Peace in a Disordered WorldFollowing the end of the First World War, a new world order emerged from the Paris Peace Conference of 1919. It was an order riddled with contradictions and problems that were only finally resolved after the Second World War. Beyond the Great War brings...
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Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural ElectrificationThe untold story of the power industry's efforts to electrify growing numbers of farms in the years before the creation of Depression-era government programs.Even after decades of retelling, the story of rural electrification in the United States remains dramatic and affecting. As textbooks and...
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Cruft of Fiction: Mega-Novels and the Science of Paying AttentionWhat is the strange appeal of big books? The mega-novel, a genre of erudite tomes with encyclopedic scope, has attracted wildly varied responses, from fanatical devotion to trenchant criticism. Looking at intimidating mega-novel masterpieces from The Making of Americans to 2666, David Letzler explores...
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Hoods and Shirts: The Extreme Right in Pennsylvania, 1925-1950Extreme right-wing groups have always been a part of the American religious and political landscape. The era between the world wars, especially the 1930s, was a particularly volatile period, and by 1940, racist, nativist, and fascist groups had become so visible as to arouse...
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Welcome to the Oglala Nation: A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political HistoryPopular culture largely perceives the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 as the end of Native American resistance in the West, and for many years historians viewed this event as the end of Indian history altogether. The Dawes Act of 1887 and the reservation...
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The Spirit of Colonial Williamsburg: Ghosts and Interpreting the Recreated PastOn any given night, hundreds of guests walk the darkened streets of Colonial Williamsburg looking for ghosts. Since the early 2000s, both the museum and private companies have facilitated these hunts, offering year-round ghost tours. Critics have called these excursions a cash grab, but...
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Finding Judge Crater: A Life and Phenomenal Disappearance in Jazz Age New YorkOn the night of August 6, 1930, Joseph Force Crater, a newly appointed judge and prominent figure in many circles of Manhattan, hailed a taxi in the heart of Broadway and vanished into thin air. Despite a decades-long international manhunt led by the New...
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Letters from the Southern Home Front: The American South Responds to the Vietnam WarJoseph A. Fry's Letters from the Southern Home Front explores the diversity of public opinion on the Vietnam War within the American South. Fry examines correspondence sent by hundreds of individuals, of differing ages, genders, racial backgrounds, political views, and economic status, reflecting a...
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English Language Poets in University College Cork, 1970-19801. Beginnings.- 2. A Terrace of Generations.- 3. The Brindled Cats: Language and Translation.- 4. Journeys to the Past: Identities, Histories, & Myth.- 5. The Grumbling Questioning Poet: Politics & Social engagement.- 6. Conclusion.Author: Clíona Ní RíordáinPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 01/28/2021Pages: 142Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize:...
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A Breath of Freedom: The Civil Rights Struggle, African American Gis, and GermanyThis moving and beautifully illustrated book, developed from an award-winning research project, examines the experience of African-American GIs in Germany since 1945 and the unique insights they provide into the civil rights struggle at home and abroad.Author: M. Höhn, M. KlimkePublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 11/17/2010Pages:...
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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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Disruption: The Global Economic Shocks of the 1970s and the End of the Cold WarIn Disruption, Michael De Groot argues that the global economic upheaval of the 1970s was decisive in ending the Cold War. Both the West and the Soviet bloc struggled with the slowdown of economic growth; chaos in the international monetary system; inflation; shocks in...
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Land-Grant Colleges and Popular Revolt: The Origins of the Morrill ACT and the Reform of Higher EducationThe land-grant ideal at the foundation of many institutions of higher learning promotes the sharing of higher education, science, and technical knowledge with local communities. This democratic and utilitarian mission, Nathan M. Sorber shows, has always been subject to heated debate regarding the motivations...
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Eyewitness to a Genocide: The United Nations and RwandaMichael Barnett, who worked at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations from 1993 to 1994, covered Rwanda for much of the genocide. Based on his first-hand expeiences, archival work, and interviews with many key participants, he reconstructs the history of the UN's involvement...
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