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The Cambridge History of the First World War, Volume 1: Global WarThis first volume of The Cambridge History of the First World War provides a comprehensive account of the war's military history. An international team of leading historians charts how a war made possible by globalization and imperial expansion unfolded into catastrophe, growing year by...
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The Presidential Recordings: John F. Kennedy: Volumes 1-3, the Great Crises [With CD]These volumes provide a unique glimpse into the real workings of the Kennedy White House, presenting perhaps the most reliable record of the Kennedy presidency ever published. In the summer of 1962, President John F. Kennedy installed a secret taping system in the White...
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Operation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation, Volume IIAOperation Barbarossa: the Complete Organisational and Statistical Analysis, and Military Simulation includes full analyses of the Axis and Soviet armed-forces organisation, weapons, equipment, personnel, transport, logistics, war-production, mobilisation and replacements during 1941. Uniquely, the work employs a sophisticated military simulation methodology extending from the...
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Changed Men: Veterans in American Popular Culture After World War IIPostwar culture and anxiety over the reintegration of veterans into American society Millions of GIs returned from overseas in 1945. A generation of men who had left their families and had learned to kill and to quickly dispatch sexual urges were rapidly reintegrated into...
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Haunting Ecologies: Victorian Conceptions of WaterVictorians' views of water and its role in how the social fabric of Victorian Britain was imagined Water matters like few other substances in people's daily lives. In the nineteenth century, it left its traces on politics, urban reform, and societal divisions, as well...
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Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American TraditionThe vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jefferson's ideas The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, so central to conceptions of the American founding, did not emerge fully formed as a coherent set...
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Holocaust Memory in the Digital MediascapeThis is a comprehensive study of Holocaust memory in the digital age of social media and an important examination of how social technology affects the way history is made and circulated online. Social media has become a place where memories of the Holocaust take...
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Ararat in America: Armenian American Culture and Politics in the Twentieth CenturyHow has the distinctive Armenian-American community expressed its identity as an ethnic minority while 'assimilating' to life in the United States? This book examines the role of community leaders and influencers, including clergy, youth organizers, and partisan newspaper editors, in fostering not only a...
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Struggle for Change: Race and the Politics of Reconciliation in Modern RichmondA Black-majority city with a history of the most severe segregation and inequity, Richmond is still grappling with this legacy as it moves into the twenty-first century. Marvin Chiles now offers a unique take on Richmond's racial politics since the civil rights era by...
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Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule: Resettlement, Germanization and Population Policies in Comparative PerspectiveThis book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The topic of the Holocaust has thus far dominated the scholarly...
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The Soviet-Polish War and Its Legacy: Lenin's Defeat and the Rise of StalinismThis detailed study traces the history of the Soviet-Polish War (1919-20), the first major international clash between the forces of communism and anti-communism, and the impact this had on Soviet Russia in the years that followed. It reflects upon how the Bolsheviks fought not...
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Botanical Entanglements: Women, Natural Science, and the Arts in Eighteenth-Century EnglandRecognizing such literary and artistic entanglement facilitates a more profound understanding of the multifaceted relationship between women and the natural world in eighteenth-century England.Author: Anna K. SagalPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 08/18/2022Pages: 294Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.30lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.89dISBN: 9780813946955Review Citation(s): Choice...
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The Jews: A HistoryThe Jews: A History is a comprehensive and accessible text that explores the religious, cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jewish people and their faith.Placing Jewish history within its wider cultural context, the book covers a broad time span, stretching from ancient Israel...
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The Presidency and the American State: Leadership and Decision Making in the Adams, Grant, and Taft AdministrationsAuthor: Stephen J. RockwellPublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/12/2023Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94dISBN: 9780813950075
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The American Liberty Pole: Popular Politics and the Struggle for Democracy in the Early RepublicAuthor: Shira LuriePublisher: University of Virginia PressPublished: 10/09/2023Pages: 240Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9780813950105
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International Trade under President Reagan: US Trade Policy in the 1980sUnder the Reagan presidency, the United States saw a period of strong economic growth. Analyzing the evolution of US foreign trade and its impact on the economy under the Reagan administration, Giuseppe La Barca shows how their economic achievements came about in part through...
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Dueling Cultures, Damnable Legacies: Southern Violence and White Supremacy in the Civil War EraHow did white Southerners in the nineteenth century reconcile a Christian faith that instructed them to turn the other cheek with a pervasive code of honor that instructed them to do just the opposite-to demand satisfaction for perceived insults? In Edgefield, South Carolina, in...
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Intersectional Encounters in the Nineteenth-Century Archive: New Essays on Power and DiscourseRachel Bryant Davies and Erin Johnson-Williams lead a cast of renowned scholars to initiate an interdisciplinary conversation about the mechanisms of power that have shaped the nineteenth-century archive, to ask: What is a nineteenth-century archive, broadly defined? This landmark collection of essays will broach...
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Inventing the Third World: In Search of Freedom for the Postwar Global SouthThis open access book explores the ways in which the global south reimagined the future world order at the end of the Second World War, and the cultural and intellectual breakthroughs that these new narratives created. The end of the Second World War and...
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Ezra Pound and His Classical Sources: The Cantos and the Primal Matter of TroyThis book uses Ezra Pound's The Cantos as a lens to understand modernism's ambition to revolutionize literature through mythical and scientific methods. Homer's Odyssey plays a unique methodological and structural role in The Cantos. The Cantos translates, interprets, abridges, adapts, critiques, parodies, trivializes, allegorizes,...
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