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Black Lives Under Nazism: Making History Visible in Literature and ArtIn a little-known chapter of World War II, Black people living in Nazi Germany and occupied Europe were subjected to ostracization, forced sterilization, and incarceration in internment and concentration camps. In the absence of public commemoration, African diaspora writers and artists have preserved the...
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Slaves of the Emperor: Service, Privilege, and Status in the Qing Eight BannersChina's last imperial dynasty governed a vast and culturally diverse territory, encompassing a wide range of local political systems and regional elites. But the Qing empire was built and held together by a single imperial elite: the more than two million members of the...
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Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in the Early American RepublicIn the first half of the nineteenth century, the United States saw both a series of Protestant religious revivals and the dramatic expansion of the marketplace. Although today conservative Protestantism is associated with laissez-faire capitalism, many of the nineteenth-century believers who experienced these transformations...
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Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi AllianceSince the mid-twentieth century, the United States and Saudi Arabia have built a close but often troubled alliance. In this critical history, Victor McFarland reveals the deep ties binding the leaders of the two nations. Connecting foreign relations and domestic politics, McFarland challenges the...
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The Rise of Corporate Feminism: Women in the American Office, 1960-1990From the 1960s through the 1990s, the most common job for women in the United States was clerical work. Even as college-educated women obtained greater opportunities for career advancement, occupational segregation by gender remained entrenched. How did feminism in corporate America come to represent...
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The Paris Peace Conference of 1919: The Challenge of a New World OrderFor more than a century, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 has remained an object of historical scrutiny. As an attempt to consolidate peace in the wake of World War I and to prevent future conflict, it was instrumental in shaping political and social...
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William Morris: Selected WritingsThis newly selected edition of William Morris's works brings together poetry and prose, lectures, articles, and letters from his life, ordered chronologically, with an introduction highlighting his pressing and prescient writing on matters of the natural and built environment, human and non-human relations, internationalism,...
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Intimate Histories: African Americans and Germany Since 1933Transnational connections between African American and German histories in the "century of extremes" are often misunderstood or overlooked. Intimate Histories uncovers important links and sites of struggle in the history of race, the Nazi period, and the fight for civil rights in both East...
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Centennial Fever: Transnational Hispanic Commemorations and Spanish NationalismCommemorations that shaped major elements of Spanish identity at the beginning of the 20th century are full of centennials and anniversaries that elaborate and renew the Spanish national mythology. In Centennial Fever Javier Moreno-Luzón, one of the most prominent Spanish historians of his generation,...
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Microhistories of Memory: Remediating the Holocaust by Bullets in Postwar West GermanyThe West German novel, radio play, and television series Through the Night (Am grünen Strand der Spree, 1955-1960), which depicts the mass shootings of Jews in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II, has gradually regained popularity in recent years. Originally circulated in...
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Audiences of Nazism: Using Media in the Third ReichThrough its focus on audiences and their reception of media in Nazi Germany, Audiences of Nazism inverts the typical top-down perspective employed in studies that concentrate on the regime's regulation of media and propaganda. It thereby sheds new light on the complex character of...
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Indentured Migration and the Servant Trade from London to America, 1618-1718: 'There Is Great Want of Servants'The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonization has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in...
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The Oxford Handbook of Virginia WoolfWith thirty-nine original chapters from internationally prominent scholars, The Oxford Handbook of Virginia Woolf is designed for scholars and graduate students. Feminist to the core, each chapter examines an aspect of Woolf's achievement and legacy. Each contribution offers an overview that is at once...
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After Auschwitz: The Difficult Legacies of the GdrFrom the moment of its inception, the East German state sought to cast itself as a clean break from the horrors of National Socialism. Nonetheless, the precipitous rise of xenophobic, far-right parties across the present-day German East is only the latest evidence that the...
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The Oxford Handbook of Emily DickinsonThe Oxford Handbook of Emily Dickinson is designed to engage, inform, interest, and delight students and scholars of Emily Dickinson, of nineteenth-century US literature and cultural studies, of American poetry, and of the lyric. It also establishes potential agendas for future work in thefield...
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Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas: A Shared Political Tradition?Too often, scholarship on Anglo-American political relations has focused on mutual social and economic interests between Britain and the United States as the basis for cooperation. Breaking new ground, Anglo-American Relations and the Transmission of Ideas instead explores how ideas, on either side of...
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Precarious Workers: History of Debates, Political Mobilization, and Labor Reforms in ItalyThe recent vast upsurge in social science scholarship on job precarity has generally little to say about earlier forms of this phenomenon. Eloisa Betti's monograph convincingly demonstrates on the example of Italy that even in the post-war phase of Keynesian stability and welfare state,...
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Abraham Lincoln: A LifeThis award-winning biography has been hailed as the definitive portrait of Lincoln.Named One of the 5 Best Books of 2009 by The AtlanticNamed One of the 10 Top Lincoln Books by Chicago Tribune Winner, 2008 PROSE Award for Best Book in U.S. History and...
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The Eco-Self in Early Modern English LiteratureAuthor: Elizabeth GruberPublisher: Amsterdam University PressPublished: 03/07/2023Binding Type: HardcoverISBN: 9789463728881This title is only available via back order
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Keeping the Ancient Way: Aspects of the Life and Work of Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)Written by one of the editors of the new complete works of Henry Vaughan, Keeping the Ancient Way is the first book-length study of the poet by a single author for twenty years. It deals with a number of key topics that are central...
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