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Black Women Writers of Louisiana: Telling Their StoriesLouisiana has been home, by birth or adoption, to numerous literary greats. But among that talent, there's an under-celebrated cohort: Black women. Due to lack of education and opportunity, their record is fairly brief, but over the past century they have been responsible for...
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St. Cyril of Jerusalem's Lectures on the Christian Sacraments: the Procatechesis and the Five Mystagogical CatechesesThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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Padre Pio: the Priest Who Bears the Wounds of ChristThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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David Cusick's Sketches of Ancient History of the Six Nations [microform]: Comprising First-a Tale of the Great Island, (now North America, ), the TwoThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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The Rebel Scribe: Carleton Beals and the Progressive Challenge to U.S. Policy in Latin AmericaCarleton Beals was among America's most distinctive foreign correspondents. His colorful, combatively critical reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America had a fearless energy and authority that won him millions of readers. He interviewed the Nicaraguan rebel leader Sandino in the camp from which...
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The Little Book of WicklowThe Little Book of Wicklow is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining facts about County Wicklow, the last Irish county to be created and one of the most beautiful, the 'Garden of Ireland'. From the stark grandeur of the Wicklow Mountains to...
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Germany to Georgia: Ten Generations of an American FamilyTen Generations of an American Family Germany to Georgia is told from the perspective of its 8th generation author. The book travels with the Summerour family from their origin in Germany, their arrival in the British colony of Pennsylvania in 1748, then the pioneer...
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Becoming Guanyin: Artistic Devotion of Buddhist Women in Late Imperial ChinaPublisher: Columbia University PressPublished: 05/03/2022Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 8.82h x 5.75w x 0.79dISBN: 9780231190138
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Patterns of Plague: Changing Ideas about Plague in England and France, 1348-1750For centuries, recurrent plague outbreaks took a grim toll on populations across Europe and Asia. While medical interventions and treatments did not change significantly from the fourteenth century to the eighteenth century, understandings of where and how plague originated did. Through an innovative reading...
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The Second Dedalus Book of Decadence: Black FeastThe Decadence Movement which flourished in the 1890s produced some of Europe's most striking and exotic works of literature The Decadents, convinced that civilization was in a state of terminal decline, refused to rebel as the Romantics had, but set forth instead to cultivate...
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Spectres of John Ball: The Peasants' Revolt in English Political History, 1381-2020For centuries, the priest John Ball was one of the most famous - or infamous - figures in the history of English rebels. Ball was one of the central figures of the Peasants' Revolt of 1381 and was soon vilified, receiving a hostile press...
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Critical Theory and Early ChristianityThis volume aims to create--in Walter Benjamin's terms--dialectical images from early Christian texts and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It blasts the past and the present into one another, creating new constellations of thought, ones connected with tensions and mediated by theory (mediation being...
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Pearl Harbor's Final WarningOn 7 December 1941, Washington sent a message to its Pacific outposts about a potential Japanese attack. All but Pearl Harbor received it in time to prepare. New Information from the archives of George Street, District Manager of RCA-Honolulu, exposes the fatal flaws that...
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The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces: From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and NagasakiWhile scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raids. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted "Dutch" Van Kirk...
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St. Johns Streetcars: The Streetcars of North PortlandStreetcars were both early and late arrivals in North Portland. The first electric streetcars in the state of Oregon began rolling across the original Steel Bridge into the city of Albina in November 1889. Within a few months, these pioneering trolleys were connecting with...
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Something Like Treason: Disloyal American Soldiers & the Plot to Bring World War II HomeNot everyone in the U.S. military was rooting for America.In 1942, in its rush to assemble a force of seven million to take on the Axis powers, the Army discovered it had inducted some seemingly iffy patriots. They had FBI files, German-sounding names, records...
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The Tennessee Copper Company: 1899-1970In 1899, the Tennessee Copper Company lifted its first shovelful of red clay dirt from what would become the new Burra Burra Mine shaft overlooking the tiny East Tennessee village of Ducktown. At its peak, the company would employ more than 3,000 workers, drawing...
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State and Family in ChinaIn Imperial China, the idea of filial piety not only shaped family relations but was also the official ideology by which Qing China was governed. In State and Family in China, Yue Du examines the relationship between politics and intergenerational family relations in China...
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The Rise and Decline of England's Watchmaking Industry, 1550-1930This survey of the rise and decline of English watchmaking fills a gap in the historiography of British industry. Clerkenwell in London was supplied with 'rough movements' from Prescot, 200 miles away in Lancashire. Smaller watchmaking hubs later emerged in Coventry, Liverpool, and Birmingham....
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Notes From the GallowsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...
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