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The Politics of Paradigms: Thomas S. Kuhn, James B. Conant, and the Cold War "Struggle for Men's Minds"The Politics of Paradigms shows that America's most famous and influential book about science, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions of 1962, was inspired and shaped by Thomas Kuhn's political interests, his relationship with the influential cold warrior James Bryant Conant, and America's McCarthy-era struggle...
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Why the American Century?Reinterpreting our country's rise to world power, Olivier Zunz shows how American elites appropriated the twentieth century. Policymakers, corporate managers, engineers, scientists, and social scientists promoted a social contract of abundance and a controversial theory of pluralism. Their efforts created a model of middle...
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Fighting for US: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural NationalismThe untold story of the Black nationalist group behind the growing popularity of Kwanzaa In spite of the ever-growing popularity of Kwanzaa, the story of the influential Black nationalist organization behind the holiday has never been told. Fighting for Us explores the fascinating history...
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Talking to the Girls: Intimate and Political Essays on the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory FireCandid and intimate accounts of the factory-worker tragedy that shaped American labor rights On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out on the eighth floor of the Asch Building in Greenwich Village, New York. The top three floors housed the Triangle Waist Company, a...
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The War on Drugs: A HistoryA revealing look at the history and legacy of the War on Drugs Fifty years after President Richard Nixon declared a War on Drugs, the United States government has spent over a trillion dollars fighting a losing battle. In recent years, about 1.5 million...
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Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American RaceAn essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States Manifest Destinies tells the story of the original Mexican Americans-the people living in northern Mexico in 1846 during the onset of the Mexican American War. The...
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The Political Thought of America's Founding FeministsRecovering the powerful and influential contributions of women from the nation's formative yearsThe Political Thought of America's Founding Feminists traces the significance of Frances Wright, Harriet Martineau, Angelina and Sarah Grimk , Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Sojourner Truth in shaping American political...
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Business in Black and White: American Presidents & Black Entrepreneurs in the Twentieth CenturyBusiness in Black and White provides a panoramic discussion of various initiatives that American presidents have supported to promote black business development in the United States. Many assume that U.S. government interest in promoting black entrepreneurship began with Richard Nixon's establishment of the Office...
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Bloody Lowndes: Civil Rights and Black Power in Alabama's Black BeltWinner of the 2010 Clinton Jackson Coley Award for the best book on local history from the Alabama Historical AssociationA remarkable story of the people of rural Lowndes County, a small Southern town, who in 1966 organized a radical experiment in democratic politics Early...
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African American Midwifery in the South: Dialogues of Birth, Race, and MemoryStarting at the turn of the century, most African American midwives in the South were gradually excluded from reproductive health care. Gertrude Fraser shows how physicians, public health personnel, and state legislators mounted a campaign ostensibly to improve maternal and infant health, especially in...
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Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC: Navigating the Politics of Everyday LifeThe fullest account to date of African American young people in a segregated city Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC offers a complex narrative of the everyday lives of black young people in a racially, spatially, economically, and politically restricted Washington, DC, during...
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A New History of IowaThe state of Iowa is largely unappreciated and often misunderstood. It has a small population and sits in the middle of a huge country. It's thought of as an uninspiring place full of farms and fields of corn. But Iowa represents America as surely...
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A New Organon: Science Studies in Interwar PolandAuthor: Friedrich CainPublisher: Mohr SiebeckPublished: 04/01/2022Pages: 550Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.79lbsISBN: 9783161543159About the AuthorGeboren 1985; Studium der Geschichte und Kulturwissenschaften in Halle/Saale, Bremen und Konstanz mit Auslandsaufenthalten in Krakau und Berkeley; Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universitat Konstanz (2011-16) und am Max-Weber-Kolleg der Universitat Erfurt (seit...
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The Merchants' Capital: New Orleans and the Political Economy of the Nineteenth-Century SouthAs cotton production shifted toward the southwestern states during the first half of the nineteenth century, New Orleans became increasingly important to the South's plantation economy. Handling the city's wide-ranging commerce was a globally oriented business community that represented a qualitatively unique form of...
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Dickens and the Stenographic MindInitially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens's stenographic journey from his early encounters with the...
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Coercion, Capital and European States, A.D. 990 - 1992In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at...
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Italy in the Second Half of the 19th Century: Bridging New CulturesA period of turmoil, uncertainty, and fears, the second half of the nineteenth century in Italy is also characterized by resilience, creativity, courageous discussions on the emancipation of women, and a variety of cultural products that are instrumental for the birth of a new...
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Philosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans WakePhilosophical Allusions in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake is the first study to offer complete and comprehensive explanations of the most significant philosophical references in James Joyce's avant-garde masterpiece. Philosophy is important in all of Joyce's works, but it is his final novel which most...
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Running on Empty: The Rise and Fall of Southampton College, 1963-2005Southampton College, the easternmost campus of Long Island University, opened with great promise in 1963 and closed in 2005 amidst great acrimony. Located in an idyllic environmental setting on the Atlantic shore of Long Island, it had a nationally recognized marine science program that...
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Extraordinary Aesthetes: Decadents, New Women, and Fin-de-Si�cle CultureExtraordinary Aesthetes sheds light on English, Irish, and Scottish artists whose careers thrived during the nineteenth century.Author: Joseph BristowPublisher: University of Toronto PressPublished: 04/12/2023Pages: 394Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.65lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30dISBN: 9781487546083
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