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The Great Medicine Road, Part 2, 24: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1849During the early weeks of 1848, as U.S. congressmen debated the territorial status of California, a Swiss immigrant and an itinerant millwright forever altered the future state's fate. Building a sawmill for Johann August Sutter, James Wilson Marshall struck gold. The rest may be...
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The Great Medicine Road, Part 1, 24: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, 1840-1848Between 1841 and 1866, more than 500,000 people followed trails to Oregon, California, and the Salt Lake Valley in one of the greatest mass migrations in American history. This collection of travelers' accounts of their journeys in the 1840s, the first volume in a...
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This Far-Off Wild Land: The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew DawsonIn the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being...
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Powder River Odyssey: Nelson Cole's Western Campaign of 1865, the Journals of Lyman G. Bennett and Other Eyewitness AccountsThe entry for September 8, 1865, is terse: "We marched and fought over 15 miles today." With these few words civilian military engineer Lyman G. Bennett characterized the experience of the 1,400 men of the Powder River Expedition's Eastern Division as they trudged through...
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The Erosion of Tribal Power: The Supreme Court's Silent RevolutionFor the past 180 years, the inherent power of indigenous tribes to govern themselves has been a central tenet of federal Indian law. Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's repeated confirmation of Native sovereignty since the early 1830s, it has, in the past half-century, incrementally...
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Moroni and the Swastika: Mormons in Nazi GermanyWhile Adolf Hitler's National Socialist government was persecuting Jews and Jehovah's Witnesses and driving forty-two small German religious sects underground, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints continued to practice unhindered. How some fourteen thousand Mormons not only survived but thrived in Nazi...
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The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan AgeJoseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited...
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The Hippies: A 1960s HistoryAmong the most significant subcultures in modern U.S. history, the hippies had a far-reaching impact. Their influence essentially defined the 1960s--hippie antifashion, divergent music, dropout politics and ""make love not war"" philosophy extended to virtually every corner of the world and remains influential. The...
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Terrorists, Anarchists, and Republicans: The Genevans and the Irish in Time of RevolutionA bloody episode that epitomised the political dilemmas of the eighteenth century In 1798, members of the United Irishmen were massacred by the British amid the crumbling walls of a half-built town near Waterford in Ireland. Many of the Irish were republicans inspired by...
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The Quakers, 1656-1723: The Evolution of an Alternative CommunityThis landmark volume is the first in a century to examine the "Second Period" of Quakerism, a time when the Religious Society of Friends experienced upheavals in theology, authority and institutional structures, and political trajectories as a result of the persecution Quakers faced in...
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Gunfighter Nation: Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth-Century America, theGunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of the American frontier. Slotkin examines an impressive array of sources - fiction, Hollywood westerns, and the writings of Hollywood figures and Washington leaders -...
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Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological RestorationAn environmental historian delves into the history, science, and philosophy of a paradoxical pursuit: the century-old quest to design natural places and create wild species. Environmental restoration is a global pursuit and a major political concern. Governments, nonprofits, private corporations, and other institutions spend...
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The Roots of American Individualism: Political Myth in the Age of JacksonA panoramic history of American individualism from its nineteenth-century origins to today's bitterly divided politics Individualism is a defining feature of American public life. Its influence is pervasive today, with liberals and conservatives alike promising to expand personal freedom and defend individual rights against...
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Nehru's India: A History in Seven MythsAn iconoclastic history of the first two decades after independence in India Nehru's India brings a provocative but nuanced set of new interpretations to the history of early independent India. Drawing from her extensive research over the past two decades, Taylor Sherman reevaluates the...
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While Waiting for Rain: Community, Economy, and Law in a Time of ChangeWhat might a sensible community choose to do if its economy has fallen apart and becoming a ghost town is not an acceptable option? Unfortunately, answers to this question have long been measured against an implicit standard: the postwar economy of the 1950s. After...
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Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra, 1955-1964Author: Paul Genoni, Tanya DalziellPublisher: Monash University PublishingPublished: 11/05/2018Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.60w x 1.00dISBN: 9781925523096About the AuthorPaul Genoni works with the School of Media, Culture, and Creative Arts at Curtin University. Tanya Dalziell works in English and Cultural Studies at...
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Black France, White Europe: Youth, Race, and Belonging in the Postwar EraBlack France, White Europe illuminates the deeply entangled history of European integration and African decolonization. Emily Marker maps the horizons of belonging in postwar France as leaders contemplated the inclusion of France's old African empire in the new Europe-in-the-making. European integration intensified longstanding structural...
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Television and the Making of Richard NixonWhile Richard Nixon's accomplishments and shortcomings are well-documented, one often ignored aspect of his career is his influence on the media conduct of politicians. Nixon pioneered the use of visual media in politics, beginning in the 1940s during his Congressional service. His historic "Checkers"...
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Bound by Bondage: Slavery and the Creation of a Northern GentryDuring the first generations of European settlement in North America, a number of interconnected Northeastern families carved out private empires. In Bound by Bondage, Nicole Saffold Maskiell argues that slavery was a crucial component to the rise and enduring influence of this emergent aristocracy....
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We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold RushA Financial Times Best History Book of the Year A surprising account of frontier law that challenges the image of the Wild West. In the absence of state authority, Gold Rush miners crafted effective government by the people--but not for all the people. Gold...
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