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Asia After Europe: Imagining a Continent in the Long Twentieth CenturyA concise new history of a century of struggles to define Asian identity and express alternatives to European forms of universalism. The balance of global power changed profoundly over the course of the twentieth century, above all with the economic and political rise of...
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A Marvelous Solitude: The Art of Reading in Early Modern EuropeA preeminent Renaissance scholar illuminates early modern encounters with books, in which literature became a portal to self-awareness and miraculous communion between author and reader. The experience of reading is often presented as personal and transformative--a journey of self-discovery and, perhaps, renewal. In A...
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The Liberals' Moment: The McGovern Insurgency and the Identity Crisis of the Democratic PartyWhen George McGovern lost the 1972 presidential election, Richard Nixon's landslide victory buried more than an insurgent campaign. In resurrecting the largely forgotten story of McGovern's remarkable presidential bid, Bruce Miroff reveals how his crushing defeat produced an identity crisis for liberals torn between...
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In the Shadow of Tyranny: Between Hitler & Stalin (Vol. 2)To purchase the complete book, vol. 1 and vol. 2 must be purchased individually.Although personal stories of the Second World War are numerous, timeless stories such as this are particularly apropos our present struggle over the tyranny of terrorism. Czechoslovakia during the dreadful years...
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A Secret Among the Blacks: Slave Resistance Before the Haitian RevolutionA bold rethinking of the Haitian Revolution reveals the roots of the only successful slave uprising in the modern world. Unearthing the progenitors of the Haitian Revolution has been a historical project of two hundred years. In A Secret among the Blacks, John D....
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Fascist Modernism in Italy: Arts and RegimesBetween 1917 to 1975 Germany, Italy, Portugal, the Soviet Union, and Spain shifted from liberal parliamentary democracies to authoritarian and totalitarian dictatorships, seeking total control, mass consensus, and the constitution of a 'new man/woman' as the foundation of a modern collective social identity. As...
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Free at Last to Vote: The Alabama Origins of the 1965 Voting Rights ActAlthough the heroism of last century's freedom marches will long be credited for ending racial discrimination, civil rights legislation owes much to work done more quietly in the district courtrooms of the South. This book expands our understanding of how the Voting Rights Act...
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Sources of the HolocaustThe Holocaust was the defining trauma of the 20th century. How do we begin to understand the Nazi drive to murder millions of people, or the determination of concentration camp prisoners to survive?This new and improved edition of Sources of the Holocaust brings together...
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Serpents of War: An American Officer's Story of World War I Combat and CaptivitySerpents of War, the memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander. As a mid-level officer responsible for the lives and welfare of over a thousand men, Parkin...
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Jfk, Oswald and Ruby: Politics, Prejudice and TruthIn this book, former Warren Commission lawyer Burt Griffin examines anew the Kennedy assassination, its various investigations, its effects on the Cold War and the civil rights movement, and the motives of Lee Harvey Oswald and Jack Ruby. Griffin begins with his own skeptical...
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Southern Europe in the Age of RevolutionsAn examination of revolutions in the Iberian and Italian peninsulas, Sicily and Greece in the 1820s that reveals a popular constitutional culture in the South After the turbulent years of the Napoleonic Wars and the Congress of Vienna's attempt to guarantee peace and stability...
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The United Nations in International HistoryThe United Nations in International History argues for a new way of examining the history of this central global institution by integrating more traditional diplomacy between states with new trends in transnational and cultural history to explore the organization and its role in 20th-...
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The Yanks Are Coming Over There: Anglo-Saxonism and American Involvement in the First World WarWorld War I was a global cataclysm that toppled centuries-old dynasties and launched ""the American century."" Yet at the outset few Americans saw any reason to get involved in yet another conflict among the crowned heads of Europe. Despite its declared neutrality, the U.S....
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Not White Enough: The Long, Shameful Road to Japanese American InternmentLawrence Goldstone's Not White Enough is a comprehensive examination of a century of bigotry against Chinese and Japanese Americans that culminated in the infamous Supreme Court decision Korematsu v. United States: the landmark ruling that upheld the illegal imprisonment of more than 100,000 innocent...
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The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989In the early years of the 21st century it appeared that the memory of the Holocaust was secure in Western Europe; that, in order to gain entry into the European Union, the countries of Eastern Europe would have to acknowledge their compatriots' complicity in...
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Eisenhower's Sputnik Moment: The Race for Space and World PrestigeIn a critical Cold War moment, Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency suddenly changed when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the world's first satellite. What Ike called "a small ball" became a source of Russian pride and propaganda, and it wounded him politically, as critics charged...
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Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural PoeticsThrough readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural...
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Authorship's Wake: Writing After the Death of the Author"A book about writers and thinkers who were taught that the author is dead how their work consequently negotiates what it means to be an author"--Author: Philip SayersPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPublished: 06/30/2022Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47dISBN: 9781501372186About the AuthorPhilip Sayers...
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Extreme Violence and the 'British Way': Colonial Warfare in Perak, Sierra Leone and SudanAnalysing three cases of British colonial violence that occurred in the latter half of the 19th century, this book argues that all three share commonalities, including the role of racial prejudices in justifying the perpetration of extreme colonial violence. Exploring the connections and comparisons...
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Internationalists in European History: Rethinking the Twentieth CenturyRepresenting a crucial intervention in the history of internationalism, transnationalism and global history, this edited collection examines a variety of international movements, organisations and projects developed in Europe or by Europeans over the course of the 20th century. Reacting against the old Eurocentricism, much...
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