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Merging Lines: American Railoads, 1900-1970Why did American railroads decline from the glory days of the early twentieth century? Why did so many railroad mergers in the 1950s and 1960s, intended as a panacea for the ills of an outdated system, go sour and, in fact, make a bad...
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Eisenhower RepublicanismDwight D. Eisenhower' election to the presidency in 1952 brought an end to two decades of Democratic rule in the White House. His landslide victory, however, masked intense factionalism within the Republican Party. Whereas conservatives were eager to reverse the domestic and foreign policies...
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Envisioning Freedom: Cinema and the Building of Modern Black LifeViewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film exhibition during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at the turn of the twentieth...
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Fascism in Greece: The Metaxas Dictatorship 1936-1941From 1936 to 1941 Greece was ruled dictatorially by a duumvirate of King George II and General Metaxas. In the scholarly literature the regime of 4th August, as it called itself, is described as a royal dictatorship. Its characterization as fascist is rejected by...
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Politics as UsualThe presidential election of 1944, which unfolded against the backdrop of the World War II, was the first since 1864--and one of only a few in all of US history--to take place while the nation was at war. After a brief primary season, the...
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The Days I Loved You MostAuthor: Amy NeffPublisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintPublished: 08/28/2024Binding Type: Library BindingISBN: 9781420514384
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The World Since 1945: An International HistoryA masterly synthesis of the history of the contemporary world, The World Since 1945 offers the ideal introduction to the events of the period between the end of the Second World War and the present day. P. M. H. Bell and Mark Gilbert balance...
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Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century: A Comparative SurveyFocusing on events in Rwanda, Armenia, and the former Yugoslavia as well as the Holocaust, Genocide and Gender in the Twentieth Century investigates how historically- and culturally-specific ideas led to genocidal sexual violence. Expert contributors also consider how these ideas, in conjunction with issues...
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The Production of Difference: Race and the Management of Labor in U.S. HistoryIn 1907, pioneering labor historian and economist John Commons argued that U.S. management had shown just one "symptom of originality," namely "playing one race against the other." In this eye-opening book, David Roediger and Elizabeth Esch offer a radically new way of understanding the...
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Uprising in East Germany, 1953: The Cold War, the German Question and the First Major Upheaval Behind the Iron CurtainThis volume is the second in the series Cold War Documentary Readers, a project of the US National Security Archive and the Cold War International History Project.The volume is the first documented account of this early Cold War crisis from both sides of the...
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Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the World WarsAmericans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals...
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Life on Ice: A History of New Uses for Cold BloodAfter the atomic bombing at the end of World War II, anxieties about survival in the nuclear age led scientists to begin stockpiling and freezing hundreds of thousands of blood samples from indigenous communities around the world. These samples were believed to embody potentially...
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The Experimenters: Chance and Design at Black Mountain CollegeIn the years immediately following World War II, Black Mountain College, an unaccredited school in rural Appalachia, became a vital hub of cultural innovation. Practically every major artistic figure of the mid-twentieth century spent some time there: Merce Cunningham, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Willem...
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A Thirst for Wine and War: The Intoxication of French Soldiers on the Western FrontBeginning in the fall of 1914, every French soldier on the Western Front received a daily ration of wine from the army. At first it was a modest quarter litre, but by 1917 it had increased to the equivalent of a full bottle each...
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Writing Through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century: Age, Gender, and WorkWriting through Boyhood in the Long Eighteenth Century explores how boyhood was constructed in different creative spaces that reflected the lived experience of young boys through the long eighteenth century--not simply in children's literature but in novels, poetry, medical advice, criminal broadsides, and automaton...
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Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical ImaginationBased on declassified materials from eight Ukrainian and Russian archives, Stalin's Empire of Memory, offers a complex and vivid analysis of the politics of memory under Stalinism. Using the Ukrainian republic as a case study, Serhy Yekelchyk elucidates the intricate interaction between the Kremlin,...
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Lost Worlds: How Our European Ancestors Coped with Everyday Life and Why Life Is So Hard TodayPublication of Lost Worlds introduces to English-speaking readers one of the most original and engaging historians in Germany today. Known for his work in historical demography, Arthur E. Imhof here branches out into folklore, religion, anthropology, psychology, and the history of art. Rooted in...
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No Want of Courage: The British Army in Flanders, 1793-1795The historiography of eighteenth and early nineteenth century campaigns is dominated by operational narratives and biographies of senior officers. How armies were staffed, fed and medically provisioned was critical to their successful performance in the field, yet much less is known of these key...
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The Battle of Lissa, 1866: How the Industrial Revolution Changed the Face of Naval WarfareIt has often been said that, so slow was the process of change in naval warfare, Sir Francis Drake would if he was transported to the quarterdeck of the Victory not feel out of place. Half a century on from the end of the...
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West Point History of World War II, Vol. 1, 2An outstanding new military history of the first half of World War II, featuring a rich array of images, exclusive graphics, superb new maps, and expert analysis commissioned by the United States Military Academy to teach the art of war to West Point cadets....
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