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Dazed and Confused: America Confronts the 1970sWhile historians have revisited every aspect of America history in the tumultuous 1960s, coverage of the following decade is sparse. As America reflects on the 50th anniversary of the 1970s, Blaine Browne reexamines the decade's major international, political, social, cultural, economic, and intellectual developments,...
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Tragedy and HopeUNCENSORED! Tragedy & Hope: A History of the World in Our Time by Carroll Quigley is the ultimate insider admission of a secret global elite that has impacted nearly every modern historical event. Learn how the Anglo-American banking elite were able to secretly establish...
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The White Image in the Black Mind: African-American Ideas about White People, 1830-1925How did African-American slaves view their white masters? As demons, deities or another race entirely? When nineteenth-century white Americans proclaimed their innate superiority, did blacks agree? If not, why not? How did blacks assess the status of the white race? Mia Bay traces African-American...
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How Sweet It Is: The Timeless Service and Sisterhood of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated Delta Rho Omega Chapter Brooklyn, NewHow Sweet It Is provides a loving and comprehensive rendering of the impressive and compelling 66-year history of Delta Rho Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. The rich legacy of the sorority's oldest and largest graduate chapter in Brooklyn, New York is...
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With and Without Galton: Vasilii Florinskii and the Fate of Eugenics in RussiaIn 1865, British polymath Francis Galton published his initial thoughts about the scientific field that would become 'eugenics.' The same year, Russian physician Vasilii Florinskii addressed similar issues in a sizeable treatise, entitled Human Perfection and Degeneration. Initially unheralded, Florinskii's book would go on...
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Plague and Fire: Battling Black Death and the 1900 Burning of Honolulu's ChinatownA little over a century ago, bubonic plague--the same Black Death that decimated medieval Europe--arrived on the shores of Hawaii just as the islands were about to become a U.S. territory. In this absorbing narrative, James Mohr tells the story of that fearful visitation...
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Making Sense of the Molly MaguiresTwenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did,...
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Red Gentlemen and White Savages: Indians, Federalists, and the Search for Order on the American FrontierRed Gentlemen and White Savages argues that after the devastation of the American Revolutionary War, the main concern of Federalist and Indian leaders was not the transfer of land, but the restoration of social order on the frontier. Nichols focuses on the "middle ground"...
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The Witch in the Western ImaginationIn an exciting new approach to witchcraft studies, The Witch in the Western Imagination examines the visual representation of witches in early modern Europe. With vibrant and lucid prose, Lyndal Roper moves away from the typical witchcraft studies on trials, beliefs, and communal dynamics...
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Portuguese Fighter Colours 1919-1956: Piston-Engine FightersThe newest volume in MMP's "Rainbow Series" covers the colors and markings of all the piston-engine fighters that served with the Portuguese military from the end of WW1 to the 1960s. A small nation with modest-sized air arms, Portugal nonetheless used a wide variety...
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Thailand's Secret War: Oss, SOE and the Free Thai Underground During World War IIDespite its 1941 alliance with Japan, Thai leaders managed to establish clandestine relations with China, Britain and the United States, each of which had ambitions for postwar influence in Bangkok. Based largely on recently declassified intelligence records, this narrative history thoroughly explores these relations,...
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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean TragedyThe Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy presents fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by...
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Elusive Utopia: The Struggle for Racial Equality in Oberlin, OhioBefore the Civil War, Oberlin, Ohio, stood in the vanguard of the abolition and black freedom movements. The community, including co-founded Oberlin College, strove to end slavery and establish full equality for all. Yet, in the half-century after the Union victory, Oberlin's resolute stand...
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Resisting Equality: The Citizens' Council, 1954-1989In Resisting Equality Stephanie R. Rolph examines the history of the Citizens' Council, an organization committed to coordinating opposition to desegregation and black voting rights. In the first comprehensive study of this racist group, Rolph follows the Citizens' Council from its establishment in the...
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Farmers Helping Farmers: The Rise of the Farm and Home Bureaus, 1914-1935One of the largest volunteer movements in the twentieth century, local farm and home bureau organizations have been woefully underrepresented in socio-political studies of the American Farm Bureau Federation. Nancy K. Berlage addresses this omission with an insightful look at how bureau members put...
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Invisible Hands: Self-Organization and the Eighteenth CenturyA synthesis of eighteenth-century intellectual and cultural developments that offers an original explanation of how Enlightenment thought grappled with the problem of divine agency. Why is the world orderly, and how does this order come to be? Human beings inhabit a multitude of apparently...
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Memorial Book of Biala PodlaskaAn epic record of the rise and eventual ruin of the Jewish Community of Biala Podlaska, this sweeping Yizkor Memorial Book traces the town's chaotic journey through history. Founded at the end of the 15th century in the Lithuanian state, it subsequently moved between...
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Pennsylvania: A History of the CommonwealthThe Keystone State, so nicknamed because it was geographically situated in the middle of the thirteen original colonies and played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, has remained at the heart of American history. Created partly as a safe haven...
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Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern CityGround-breaking when first published in 1945, Black Metropolis remains a landmark study of race and urban life. Few studies since have been able to match its scope and magnitude, offering one of the most comprehensive looks at black life in America. Based on research...
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Bonnie and Clyde: A BiographyMotivated by greed and sadism--or perhaps by poverty and boredom--star-crossed lovers Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow set out on a series of robberies throughout the American Southwest, many of which ended in murder. Frustrated by the suffocating poverty of the Great Depression, they were...
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