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Semi-Civilized: The Moro Village at the Louisiana Purchase ExpositionSemi-Civilized offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. Michael C. Hawkins examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked...
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Power and Posterity: American Art at Philadelphia's 1876 Centennial ExhibitionA milestone in American cultural history, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was one of the most broadly shared, heavily attended, and thoroughly documented public experiences of the nineteenth century. Power and Posterity illuminates how the art featured in the celebration informed and reflected...
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On Becoming Cuban: Identity, Nationality, and CultureWith this masterful work, Louis A. Perez Jr. transforms the way we view Cuba and its relationship with the United States. On Becoming Cuban is a sweeping cultural history of the sustained encounter between the peoples of the two countries and of the ways...
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Virginia Secedes: A Documentary HistoryIn January 1861, Virginia possessed the largest population of enslaved people within the United States. The institution of slavery permeated the state's social, political, economic, and legal systems. While loyalty to the Union was strong in western Virginia as Civil War loomed, the state's...
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Remapping the World in East Asia: Toward a Global History of the "Ricci Maps"When European missionaries arrived in East Asia in the sixteenth century, they entered ongoing conversations about cosmology and world geography. Soon after, intellectuals in Ming China, Edo Japan, and Joseon Korea selectively encompassed elements of the late Renaissance worldview, leading to the creation of...
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Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American EducationThe idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely held belief is simply wrong. Upending the standard narrative of American education...
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A History of Anson County, North Carolina, 1750-1976Anson County, which at its formation in 1750 encompassed all of central and western North Carolina and portions of South Carolina, is the parent of the North Carolina counties of Mecklenburg, Montgomery, Richmond, Rowan, and Union. The work at hand, written by journalist and...
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Kentucky and the Secession Crisis: A Documentary HistoryAs the election of 1860 loomed, the United States suffered tumultuous division over the political fate of slavery in the western territories. While Northern states favored territorial sovereignty, the Deep South advocated for federal protection of slavery during the territorial period. Disagreement festered and...
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Visitors to Versailles: From Louis XIV to the French RevolutionA fascinating look at the splendor of the French court at Versailles through the eyes of its numerous visitors What was it like to visit one of the most magnificent courts of Europe? Based on a wealth of contemporary documents and surviving works of...
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Cult of the Machine: Precisionism and American ArtA fresh look at a bold and dynamic 20th-century American art style Characterized by highly structured, geometric compositions with smooth surfaces, linear qualities, and lucid forms, Precisionism fully emerged after World War I and flourished in the 1920s and 1930s. This insightful publication, featuring...
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Greenbrier [W. Va.] Pioneers and Their HomesMrs. Dayton blends genealogy with architectural history to capture the pioneer days of Lewisburg and surrounding Greenbrier County. Each chapter treats an important building over 100 years old at the time of the book's original publication in 1942 and the people who either built,...
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History of Fayette County, AlabamaBy: Herbet & Jeanie Newell, Pub. 1960, reprinted 2020, 469 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-811-0.This book should be in the library of anyone who has or is researching in the State of Alabama due to not only its scarcity but also for its...
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The Librarian's Atlas: The Shape of Knowledge in Early Modern SpainA history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge. Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old Worlds, the world...
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Damming the Reservation: Tribal Sovereignty and Activism at Fort Berthold Volume 23"The single most destructive act ever perpetrated on any tribe by the United States," Vine Deloria Jr. called it. For the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara communities living on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the construction of the Garrison Dam as part...
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Hollywood's Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic ContinuityWhen the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic legacy that had passed from one generation to the next for more...
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The Contest Over National Security: Fdr, Conservatives, and the Struggle to Claim the Most Powerful Phrase in American PoliticsA new history shows how FDR developed a vision of national security focused not just on protecting Americans against physical attack but also on ensuring their economic well-being--and how the nascent conservative movement won the battle to narrow its meaning, durably reshaping US politics....
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From Every Stormy Wind That Blows: The Idea of Howard College and the Origins of Samford UniversityFounded in 1841 in Marion, Alabama, Howard College provided a Christian liberal arts education for young men living along the old southwestern frontier. The founders named the school after eighteenth-century British reformer John Howard, whose words and deeds inspired the type of enlightened moral...
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The First Asians in the Americas: A Transpacific HistoryThe definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire--from Manila to Acapulco and beyond--and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas. Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between...
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Averting Doomsday: Arms Control During the Nixon PresidencyIn the controversial legacy of the Nixon presidency, the administration's effort to curb and control the spread of the world's weapons of mass destruction is often overlooked. And yet by the time President Nixon left office under the cloud of the Watergate scandal, his...
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Presidency of Benjamin HarrisonBenjamin Harrison was an early proponent of American expansion in the Pacific, a key figure in such landmark legislation as the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and the McKinley Tariff, and one of the Gilded Age's most eloquent speakers. Yet he remains one of our most...
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