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Architecture in Uniform: Designing and Building for the Second World WarThis fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that during the years between the bombings...
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A Debt of Gratitude: How Jimmy Carter Put Vietnam Veteran's Issues on the National AgendaOn December 15, 1972, as rumors swirled of a pending peace agreement between the United States and North Vietnam, Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter issued an executive order creating the Georgia Advisory Committee on Vietnam Veterans. His reasoning was simple: "the citizens of the state...
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Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the WorldAlexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt's approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he pursued. Though remembered primarily as an environmental thinker, Humboldt's interests were vast and documented not just in his published works, but also in...
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Planting the Seeds of Hope: Indiana County Extension Agents During the Great Depression and World War IIThe Great Depression of the 1930s nearly brought the agricultural community to a standstill. As markets went into an economic freefall, farmers who had suffered through a post-World War I economic depression in the 1920s would now struggle to produce crops, livestock, and other...
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The Early American Republic, 1789-1829Synthesizing political, social, and cultural aspects of early U.S. history, The Early American Republic, 1789-1829 provides a unique and integrated overview of the era. Focusing on the politics and process of nation-making and the birth of American market society, the book addresses two main...
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World War I: A History in DocumentsOffering a comprehensive account of the war as more than a purely military phenomenon, World War I: A History in Documents, Second Edition, also addresses its profound social, cultural, and economic implications. Authors Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee and Frans Coetzee use editorials, memoirs, newspaper articles, poems,...
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The Cold War: A History in DocumentsThe cold war lasted for more than fifty years and polarized the world. Rooted in political and ideological disagreements dating back to the Russian Revolution of 1917, the war emerged from disputes that intensified in the wake of World War II. In The Cold...
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Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago: 1918-1941Between World War I and World War II, women flocked to Chicago's parks, playgrounds, and clubs, becoming enthusiastic participants, players, and fans of the games of the time. Robert Pruter's Modern Women and Sports in Interwar Chicago; 1918-1941, examines how the Windy City became...
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Thinking Otherwise: How Walter LaFeber Explained the History of Us Foreign RelationsThinking Otherwise addresses the question of what makes a great historian by exploring the teaching and scholarship of Walter LaFeber, widely acclaimed as the most distinguished historian of US foreign relations. This volume of essays, edited by Susan A. Brewer, Richard H. Immerman, and...
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Princess Victoria Ka'iulani: Last Heir of the Hawaiian KingdomThis new biography of Princess Victoria Ka'iulani goes far beyond most accounts of her life, which tend to dwell on nostalgic recollections of what could have been rather than the reality of her life. Many of the most cherished depictions of Ka'iulani originate from...
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Capitalism in the Colonies: African Merchants in Lagos, 1851-1931An account that challenges the conventional views of African merchants under colonialism, examining the emergence and changing fortunes of indigenous entrepreneurs in Lagos, Nigeria In Capitalism in the Colonies, A. G. Hopkins provides the first substantial assessment of the fortunes of African entrepreneurs under...
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American Body Snatchers: Merchandising the Dead in 19th Century New England and Washington, D.C.At the beginning of the 19th century, physicians teaching anatomy in New England medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers. As the only bodies that could be dissected legally were convicted murderers, this led to a lack of sufficient bodies for...
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Ambivalent Pleasures: Soft Drugs and Embodied Anxiety in Early Modern EuropeAmbivalent Pleasures explores how Europeans wrestled with the novel experience of consuming substances that could alter moods and become addictive. During the early modern period, psychotropic drugs like sugar, chocolate, tobacco, tea, coffee, distilled spirits like gin and rum, and opium either arrived in...
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John Quincy Adams, Reluctant AbolitionistAs a Harvard alumnus, diplomat, U.S. President, member of Congress and attorney before the Supreme Court, John Quincy Adams had a unique relationship with slavery. Prickly and curmudgeonly, he danced with abolitionists, but never became one himself. However, Adams did harbor an intense hatred...
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Title IX: The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in EducationThis book examines the history and evolution of Title IX, a landmark 1972 law prohibiting sex discrimination at educational institutions receiving federal funding. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and William Thro illuminate the ways in which the interpretation and implementation of Title IX have been transformed...
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Civil War in South Russia, 1918: The First Year of the Volunteer ArmyThe Soviet Union was created as uch by the Civil War as by the revolutions of 1917; indeed, the revolutions and hte struggle which followed them are inseparable. Perhaps communism in Russia would have evolved differently had the bitter necessities of the Civil War...
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Reliability and Alliance Interdependence: The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949-1969In Reliability and Alliance Interdependence, Iain D. Henry argues for a more sophisticated approach to alliance politics and ideas of interdependence. It is often assumed that if the United States failed to defend an ally, then this disloyalty would instantly and irrevocably damage US...
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Hitler Redux: The Incredible History of Hitler's So-Called Table TalksAfter Hitler's death, several posthumous books were published which purported to be the verbatim words of the Nazi leader - two of the most important of these documents were Hitler's Table Talk and The Testament of Adolf Hitler. This ground-breaking book provides the first...
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Reclaiming the Past: Argos and Its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern EraReclaiming the Past examines the post-antique history of Argos and how the city's archaeological remains have been perceived and experienced since the late eighteenth century by both local residents and foreign visitors to the Greek Peloponnese. The first western visitors to Argos--a city continuously...
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Greytown Is No More!: The 1854 Razing of a Central American Port, the U.S. Businesses Behind Its Demise, and the Lasting Foreign Policy LegaThe Central American port of Greytown was destroyed by the U.S. Navy in 1854- to "avenge an insult to the American Minister to Nicaragua," according to official history. Two weeks later, the New York Tribune reported the intrigues that doomed the port: Greytown had...
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