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The Great Depression on FilmThe Great Depression on Film is a unique guide to how the Great Depression was represented and is remembered, making it an excellent resource for students or anyone interested in film history or U.S. history. Each film is set in a different sector of...
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Pregnancy in the Victorian NovelIn Pregnancy in the Victorian Novel--the first book-length study of the topic--Livia Arndal Woods traces the connections between literary treatments of pregnancy and the medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth occurring over the long nineteenth century. Woods uses the problem of pregnancy in the Victorian...
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Asian American Players: Masculinity, Literature, and the Anxieties of WarThe player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler--but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity...
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The Feeling of Letting Die: Necroeconomics and Victorian FictionIn The Feeling of Letting Die, Jennifer MacLure explores how Victorian novels depict the feelings that both fuel and are produced by an economic system that lets some people die in service of the free market. MacLure argues that Victorian authors present capitalism's death...
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Digital Pedagogy in Early Modern Studies: Method and Praxis Volume 10A collection of essays on early modern digital humanities by leading scholars in the field. This collection of essays focuses on teaching at the intersection of early modern literature, book history, and digital media. It considers how teaching different fields and methods of study...
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Serbia's Great War: 1914-1918Mitrovic's volume fills the gap in Balkan history by presenting an in-depth look at Serbia and its role in WWI. The Serbian experience was in fact of major significance in this war. In the interlocking development of the wartime continent, Serbia's plight is part...
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International History of the Twentieth Century and Beyond: Third EditionThis hugely successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent international historians for first-year undergraduate level and upward.Using their thematic and regional expertise, the authors have produced an authoritative yet accessible and seamless account of the history of international relations...
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Narrating Trauma: Victorian Novels and Modern Stress DisordersNeurasthenia, rail shock, hysteria. In Narrating Trauma, Gretchen Braun traces the nineteenth-century prehistory of those mental and physical responses that we now classify as post-traumatic stress and explores their influence on the Victorian novel. Engaging dialogues between both present-day and nineteenth-century mental science and...
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Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian LiteratureIn nineteenth-century Britain, the word queer was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms of financial association and trust. Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature centers this forgotten facet of queer by recovering an alternative economic narrative of the Victorian...
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A True Account of My Life and Selected Meditations: Volume 87The autobiographical narrative of Anne, Lady Halkett. Born in the early 1620s, Anne, Lady Halkett (née Murray) grew up on the fringes of the English court during a period of increasing political tension. From 1644 to 1699, Halkett recorded her personal and political experiences...
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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III: Volume 9These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth of digital projects: unlike traditional scholarship, digital...
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America: A Narrative HistoryAmerica: A Narrative History puts narrative front and center with David Shi's rich storytelling style, colorful biographical sketches, and vivid first-person quotations. The new editions further reflect our society and our students today by continuing to incorporate diverse voices into the narrative with new...
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The Reconstructed 1810 Census of TennesseeSubstitute for the lost 1810 Tennessee Census, abstracted from a wide range of records from 1809-1811. Many entries include extra information about women, children, free blacks/slaves. Cites name, county and original source record, and any notes. 33,000 Long-Lost Records from Tax Lists, Court Minutes,...
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Gentlemen Bankers: The World of J. P. MorganGentlemen Bankers investigates the social and economic circles of one of America's most renowned and influential financiers to uncover how the Morgan family's power and prestige stemmed from its unique position within a network of local and international relationships. At the turn of the...
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Cautious Crusade: Franklin D. Roosevelt, American Public Opinion, and the War Against Nazi GermanyAmerica's struggle against Nazism is one of the few aspects of World War II that has escaped controversy. Historians agree that it was a widely popular war, different from the subsequent conflicts in Korea and Vietnam because of the absence of partisan sniping, ebbing...
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New Nuns: Racial Justice and Religious Reform in the 1960sIn the 1960s, a number of Catholic women religious in the United States abandoned traditional apostolic works to experiment with new and often unprecedented forms of service among non-Catholics. Amy Koehlinger explores the phenomenon of the "new nun" through close examination of one of...
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The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the WorldComputers dominate the world we live in, and this book describes how we got here. The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World covers topics from early efforts at mathematical computation back in ancient times, such as the abacus and...
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The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, RepressionAlready famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is...
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Harriet Tubman: A Life in American HistoryHarriet Tubman served a pivotal role in leading slaves to freedom in the decade before the Civil War. This biography offers a demythologized chronicle of her life and work with information about her life as a slave, role as conductor on the Underground Railroad,...
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Politisches ScheiternDas politische Scheitern im Europa der Vormoderne ist bis heute von der Geschichtswissenschaft mit wenigen Ausnahmen nicht als eigenes Themenfeld beforscht worden. Ausgehend von einem integrativen Politikbegriff im Sinne der Neuen Politikgeschichte widmet sich der Band solchen historischen Akteuren und Gruppen, Bestrebungen und Entwicklungen,...
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