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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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Imagining the Darwinian Revolution: Historical Narratives of Evolution from the Nineteenth Century to the PresentThis volume considers the relationship between the development of evolution and its historical representations by focusing on the so-called Darwinian Revolution. The very idea of the Darwinian Revolution is a historical construct devised to help explain the changing scientific and cultural landscape that was...
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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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Industrializing Antebellum America: The Rise of Manufacturing Entrepreneurs in the Early RepublicThis book explores the rise of manufacturing through the beliefs and practices of key industrialists and their families, exploring how they represented the diverse possibilities for the organization of a new industrial society.Author: B. TuckerPublisher: Palgrave MacMillanPublished: 10/14/2008Pages: 262Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.70h x...
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The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold WarWith 50 maps and easily accessible text, the newest title in the Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas series presents the Cold War in a form which is both useful and understandable. Covering popular issues such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Berlin Blockade, and the...
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Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing: From Proteins to Dna, 1945-2000Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information management. The book uncovers this history, qualifying the hype and...
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Inventing the American AstronautWho were the men who led America's first expeditions into space? Soldiers? Daredevils? The public sometimes imagined them that way: heroic military men and hot-shot pilots without the capacity for doubt, fear, or worry. However, early astronauts were hard-working and determined professionals - 'organization...
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John F. Kennedy and the Race to the MoonWhile there are many biographies of JFK and accounts of the early years of US space efforts, this book uses primary source material and interviews with key participants to provide a comprehensive account of how the actions taken by JFK's administration have shaped the...
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Churchill, America and Vietnam, 1941-45Put in the wider context of British imperial and diplomatic aims in 1941-1945, the book clarifies the importance of Vietnam to Britain's regional objectives in Southeast Asia; concluding that Churchill was willing to sacrifice French colonial interests in Vietnam for his all-important 'special relationship'...
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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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American Adventurism Abroad ReNow in its second edition, American Adventurism Abroad traces US foreign policy from the late 1940s through the past six years of America's 'war on terror, ' and examines the impact of its repeated militaristic meddling into developing nations. Examines 34 cases of overseas...
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