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New Democracy: The Creation of the Modern American StateThe activist state of the New Deal started forming decades before the FDR administration, demonstrating the deep roots of energetic government in America. In the period between the Civil War and the New Deal, American governance was transformed, with momentous implications for social and...
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Every Citizen a Statesman: The Dream of a Democratic Foreign Policy in the American CenturyThe surprising story of the movement to create a truly democratic foreign policy by engaging ordinary Americans in world affairs. No major arena of US governance is more elitist than foreign policy. International relations barely surface in election campaigns, and policymakers take little input...
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Making a Modern U.S. West: The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest story of its history, and the imagined blank slate on which the country's future would be written. From the Spanish-American War in 1898...
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Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color LineVirginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924 recodified the state's long-standing racial hierarchy as a more rigid Black-white binary. Then, Virginia officials asserted that no Virginia Indians could be other than legally Black, given centuries of love and marriage across color lines. How indigenous peoples...
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The Stations of the Cross in Colonial Mexico: The Via Crucis En Mexicano by Fray Agustin de Vetancurt and the Spread of a DevotionWalking the Stations of the Cross, the Christian faithful re-create the Passion, following the sorrowful path of Jesus Christ from condemnation to crucifixion. While this devotion, now so popular in the Catholic Church and many Protestant denominations, first emerged in Jerusalem and began spreading...
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An American MarriageAbraham Lincoln was apparently one of those men who regarded "connubial bliss" as an untenable fantasy. During the Civil War, he pardoned a Union soldier who had deserted the army to return home to wed his sweetheart. As the president signed a document sparing...
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Segregation in the New South: Birmingham, Alabama, 1871-1901Carl V. Harris's Segregation in the New South, completed and edited by W. Elliot Brownlee, explores the rise of racial exclusion in late nineteenth-century Birmingham, Alabama. In the 1870s, African Americans in this crucial southern industrial city were eager to exploit the disarray of...
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Sources of Japanese Tradition, Abridged: 1600 to 2000; Part 2: 1868 to 2000For almost fifty years, Sources of Japanese Tradition has been the single most valuable collection of English-language readings on Japan. Unrivalled in its wide selection of source materials on history, society, politics, education, philosophy, and religion, the two-volume textbook is a crucial resource for...
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Warrior Women and Trans Warriors: Performing Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Latin American LiteratureLatin American literature has depicted warrior woman and trans warrior characters in armed conflicts, but literary critics have not paid much attention to their empowerment. They also have critiqued these characters using traditional gender binary concepts or have viewed their access to power as...
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A Lynching in the Heartland: Race and Memory in AmericaOn a hot summer night in 1930, three black teenagers accused of murdering a young white man and raping his girlfriend waited for justice in an Indiana jail. A mob dragged them from the jail and lynched two of them. No one in Marion,...
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America's First Wartime Election: James Madison, DeWitt Clinton, and the War of 1812As the heir apparent to the presidency in 1808, James Madison had a substantial reputation and an impressive list of credentials, including having cofounded the Democratic-Republican party with Thomas Jefferson and serving as Jefferson's secretary of state. Despite this, Madison's presidential victory in 1808...
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Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith: The Dynamic Duo That Desegregated American SportsThis dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players.Author: Wayne DawkinsPublisher: RoutledgePublished: 07/31/2024Pages: 204Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x...
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A New Deal for Blacks: The Emergence of Civil Rights as a National Issue: The Depression DecadeA watershed decade in U.S. history, the 1930s witnessed a struggle on various fronts--fought by many different Americans--that raised the country's awareness of the inequalities and injustices suffered by African Americans. Featuring a new preface and an expansive, up-to-date bibliography, this 30th Anniversary Edition...
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The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of GlobalizationChallenging the standard narrative of Interwar International History, this account establishes the causal relationship between the global political and economic crises of the period, and offers a radically new look at the role of ideology, racism and the leading liberal powers in the events...
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A Genealogy of the Gentleman: Women Writers and Masculinity in the Eighteenth CenturyA Genealogy of the Gentleman argues that eighteenth-century women writers made key interventions in modern ideals of masculinity and authorship through their narrative constructions of the gentleman. It challenges two latent critical assumptions: first, that the gentleman's masculinity is normative, private, and therefore oppositional...
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British Romanticism and Prison ReformIn eighteenth-century Britain, criminals were routinely whipped, branded, hanged, or transported to America. Only in the last quarter of the century--with the War of American Independence and legal and sociopolitical challenges to capital punishment--did the criminal justice system change, resulting in the reformed prison,...
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Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945-1960Demonstrates how policymakers influenced environmental science during the early nuclear age In Atomic Environments: Nuclear Technologies, the Natural World, and Policymaking, 1945-1960, Neil S. Oatsvall examines how top officials in the Truman and Eisenhower administrations used environmental science to develop nuclear strategy at the...
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Spaniards in Mauthausen: Representations of a Nazi Concentration Camp, 1940-2015Spaniards in Mauthausen is the first study of the cultural legacy of Spaniards imprisoned and killed during the Second World War in the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. By examining narratives about Spanish Mauthausen victims over the past seventy years, author Sara J. Brenneis provides...
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The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and ProtestsExamines the domestic and international use of phenoxy herbicides by the United States in the mid-twentieth century In The Defoliation of America: Agent Orange Chemicals, Citizens, and Protests, Amy M. Hay profiles the attitudes, understandings, and motivations of grassroots activists who rose to fight...
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Free to Work: Labor Law, Emancipation, and Reconstruction, 1815-1880In this intriguing and innovative work, James D. Schmidt examines federal efforts to establish "free labor" in the South during and after the Civil War by exploring labor law in the antebellum North and South and its role in the development of a capitalist...
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