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The Catholic Enlightenment: A Global Anthology"This book compiles a selection of writings from 15 authors representative of the Catholic Enlightenment in Europe and America. Translations are accompanied by biographical and historical introductions and scholarly notes"--Author: Ulrich L. LehnerPublisher: Catholic University of America PressPublished: 08/13/2021Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 8.90h...
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America's Other Automakers: A History of the Foreign-Owned Automotive Sector in the United StatesIn 2018 almost half of all vehicles made in North America were produced at foreign-owned plants, and the sector was on track to monopolize the market. Despite this, the industry has been overlooked compared with its domestic counterpart, both in scholarship and popular memory....
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The Men of Mobtown: Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and EmancipationWhat if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Malka raises this disturbing possibility through a gripping look at the origins of modern policing in the influential hub of Baltimore during...
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Arkansas Travelers: Geographies of Exploration and Perception, 1804-1834"I reckon stranger you have not been used much to traveling in the woods," a hunter remarked to Henry Rowe Schoolcraft as he trekked through the Ozark backcountry in late 1818. The ensuing exchange is one of many compelling encounters between Arkansas travelers and...
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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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Politics of White Rights: Race, Justice, and Integrating Alabama's SchoolsIn The Politics of White Rights, Joseph Bagley recounts the history of school desegregation litigation in Alabama, focusing on the malleability and durability of white resistance. He argues that the litigious battles of 1954-73 taught Alabama's segregationists how to fashion a more subtle defense...
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Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction: Collected Writings of LaWanda CoxLaWanda Cox is widely regarded as one of the most influential historians of Reconstruction and nineteenth-century race relations. Imaginative in conception, forcefully argued, and elegantly written, her work helped reshape historians' understanding of the age of emancipation. Freedom, Racism, and Reconstruction brings together Cox's...
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Deluxe Jim Crow: Civil Rights and American Health Policy, 1935-1954Plagued by geographic isolation, poverty, and acute shortages of health professionals and hospital beds, the South was dubbed by Surgeon General Thomas Parran "the nation's number one health problem." The improvement of southern, rural, and black health would become a top priority of the...
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From Revivals to Removal: Jeremiah Evarts, the Cherokee Nation, and the Search for the Soul of AmericaBetween the end of the Revolutionary War in 1781 and Andrew Jackson's retirement from the presidency in 1837, a generation of Americans acted out a great debate over the nature of the national character and the future political, economic, and religious course of the...
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Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Freedom MovementDeep in Our Hearts is an eloquent and powerful book that takes us into the lives of nine young women who came of age in the 1960s while committing themselves actively and passionately to the struggle for racial equality and justice. These compelling first-person...
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Spies in the Himalayas: Secret Missions and Perilous ClimbsIn the towering mountains of northern India, a chilling chapter was written in the history of international espionage. After the Chinese detonated their first nuclear test in 1964, America and India, which had just fought a border war with its northern neighbor, were both...
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Racism and the Making of Gay Rights: A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer LoveIn 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with the medical student, Li Shiu Tong. Li became Hirschfeld's assistant on a lecture tour...
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Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth CenturyThrough the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out of workplaces. In the face of worker resistance, employers and their allies collaborated to...
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Vénus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century FranceEven though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appeared repeatedly in a variety of French cultural sectors and social milieus. In Vénus Noire, Robin Mitchell shows how these literary and visual...
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Modern Cronies: Southern Industrialism from Gold Rush to Convict Labor, 1829-1894Modern Cronies traces how various industrialists, thrown together by the effects of the southern gold rush, shaped the development of the southeastern United States. Existing historical scholarship treats the gold rush as a self-contained blip that--aside from the horrors of Cherokee Removal (admittedly no...
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From Honolulu to Brooklyn: Running the American Empire's Base Paths with Buck Lai and the Travelers from Hawai'iFrom 1912 to 1916, a group of baseball players from Hawaiʻ i barnstormed the U.S. mainland. While initially all Chinese, the Travelers became more multiethnic and multiracial with ballplayers possessing Chinese, Japanese, Hawaiian, and European ancestries. As a group and as individuals the Travelers'...
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The Fighting Coast Guard: America's Maritime Guardians at War in the Twentieth Century, with Foreword by Admiral Thad Allen, USCG (Ret.)This collection of essays, written by the some of the foremost historians in the field of Coast Guard history, highlights the wartime roles played by the United States' oldest federal maritime service, from its inception through the last decade of the twentieth century. The...
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The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic ReadersWhat did Wordsworth wear, and where did he walk? Who was Byron's new mistress, and how did his marriage fare? Answers--sometimes accurate, sometimes not--were tantalizingly at the ready in the Romantic era, when confessional poetry, romans à clef, personal essays, and gossip columns offered...
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Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old SouthCracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term "Cracker" initially designated a person who boasted, but in American...
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Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court, and Buck V. BellThis updated edition includes a new afterword that identifies the role the Buck story plays in the Supreme Court's review of emerging state laws that seek to limit access to abortion."Three generations of imbeciles are enough." Few lines from U.S. Supreme Court opinions are...
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