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Making MorosMaking Moros offers a unique look at the colonization of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines. Hawkins argues that the ethnological discovery, organization, and subsequent colonial engineering of Moros was highly contingent on developing notions of time,...
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Plans UnraveledDuring the past decade, the literature on the Carter administration's foreign policy has grown rapidly, due largely to both the release of new materials at the presidential library and the attention Jimmy Carter has received since leaving the White House. While previous monographs have...
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Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, theencroachments of power...
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Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America's First Gilded AgeTracking the movement of finance capital toward far-flung investment frontiers, Noam Maggor reconceives the emergence of modern capitalism in the United States. Brahmin Capitalism reveals the decisive role of established wealth in the transformation of the American economy in the decades after the Civil...
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1898: Prelude to a CenturyThis work examines the year 1898 as the crucial precursor year to the twentieth century, The American Century. It covers the war in Spain; the acquisition of territories in the Caribbean and the Pacific; Theodore Roosevelt; and numerous other personalities who were part of...
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Worthwhile Places: Correspondence of John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Horace AlbrightWorthwhile Places is a fascinating inside look at the history of some of our most treasured national parks. The book illuminates a remarkable public-private partnership that helped to shape our national park system. The close association and warm and lasting friendship between John D....
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To Stand with the Nations of the World: Japan's Meiji Restoration in World HistoryThe samurai radicals who overthrew the last shogun in 1868 promised to restore ancient and pure Japanese ways. Foreign observers were terrified that Japan would lapse into violent xenophobia. But the new Meiji government took an opposite course. It copied best practices from around...
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Freedom Sounds: Civil Rights Call Out to Jazz and AfricaAn insightful examination of the impact of the Civil Rights Movement and African Independence on jazz in the 1950s and 60s, Freedom Sounds traces the complex relationships among music, politics, aesthetics, and activism through the lens of the hot button racial and economic issues...
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Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960sHere is the first biography of Mario Savio, the brilliant leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, the largest and most disruptive student rebellion in American history. Savio risked his life to register black voters in Mississippi in the Freedom Summer of 1964 and did...
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Life Is Unfair: The Truths And Lies About John F. KennedyJohn F. Kennedy is a name known worldwide. Libraries throughout the world are full of literature about the life of John Fitzgerald Kennedy. However, most narrations and facts presented are twisted and do not convey the true legacy of JFK. Life Is Unfair: The...
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Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican CountrysideThe 1960s represented a revolutionary moment around the globe. In rural Mexico, several guerrilla groups organized to fight against the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Specters of Revolution chronicles two peasant guerrilla organizations led by schoolteachers, the National Revolutionary Civil Association (ACNR) and the...
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The Age of the Efendiyya: Passages to Modernity in National-Colonial EgyptIn colonial-era Egypt, a new social category of "modern men" emerged, the efendiyya. Working as bureaucrats, teachers, journalists, free professionals, and public intellectuals, the efendiyya represented the new middle class elite. They were the experts who drafted and carried out the state's modernisation policies,...
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Europe's 1968: Voices of RevoltBy the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves. This new and exciting study of...
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Tocqueville's Nightmare: The Administrative State Emerges in America, 1900-1940Alexis de Tocqueville once warned that "insufferable despotism" would prevail if America ever acquired a national administrative state. Today's Tea Partiers evidently believe that Tocqueville's nightmare came true during the New Deal when radicals created vast bureaucracies that continue to trample on individual freedom....
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Cold War Friendships: Korea, Vietnam, and Asian American LiteratureCold War Friendships explores the plight of the Asian ally of the American wars in Korea and Vietnam. Enlisted into proxy warfare, this figure is not a friend but a "friendly," a wartime convenience enlisted to serve a superpower. It is through this deeply...
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Raise the Titanic - The Making of the Movie Volume 1 (hardback)"That's right sir. We can't get divers down to the Titanic. Which leaves us with only one choice. We don't go to the mountain. The mountain comes to us." Dirk Pitt (Richard Jordan) It was claimed to be the "Big One" for the 1980s;...
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Dancing Queen: Marie de Médicis' Ballets at the Court of Henri IVUnder glittering lights in the Louvre palace, the French court ballets danced by Queen Marie de M?dicis prior to Henri IV's assassination in 1610 attracted thousands of spectators ranging from pickpockets to ambassadors from across Europe. Drawing on newly discovered primary sources as well...
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Silent Spring Revolution CD: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental AwakeningNew York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and...
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Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid Lib/E: America's Original Gangster CoupleThe true Jazz Age tale of America's first gangster couple, Margaret and Richard Whittemore Before Bonnie and Clyde there were Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid. In the wake of world war, a pandemic, and an economic depression, Margaret and Richard Whittemore, two love-struck...
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Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary TimesIn Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, pianist Randy Weston and bassist Ahmed Abdul-Malik celebrated with song the revolutions spreading across Africa. In Ghana and South Africa, drummer Guy Warren and vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin fused local musical forms with the dizzying innovations of modern jazz. These four...
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