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Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties: Prohibition on the Michigan-Ontario WaterwayOn January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages. Yet the resulting peace and tranquility predicted never materialized. The Prohibition experiment failed dismally in the United States, and nowhere worse...
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The Tao of S: America's Chinee & the Chinese Century in Literature and FilmA study of recent shifts in the depictions of Asian cultural stereotypes The Tao of S is an engaging study of American racialization of Chinese and Asians, Asian American writing, and contemporary Chinese cultural production, stretching from the nineteenth century to the present. Sheng-mei...
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From Sleepwear to Sportswear: How Beach Pajamas Reshaped Women's FashionHow did women begin wearing pants? Prior to the 1920s it was a rarity to see women in pants in the Western world, but as the silk pajama trouser suit moved from the boudoir to the beach in the early 1920s it cemented the...
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The Light of Learning: Hasidism in Poland on the Eve of the HolocaustThe Light of Learning tells the story of an unexpected Hasidic revival in Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. In the aftermath of World War I, the Jewish mystical movement appeared to be in shambles. Hasidic leaders had dispersed, Hasidic courts lay in...
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The Greek Military Dictatorship: Revisiting a Troubled Past, 1967-1974From 1967 to 1974, the military junta ruling Greece attempted a dramatic reshaping of the nation, implementing ideas and policies that left a lasting mark on both domestic affairs and international relations. Bringing together leading scholars from a range of disciplines, The Greek Military...
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Supernatural EntertainmentsIn Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism's rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity culture...
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America in the World: A History in Documents Since 1898, Revised and UpdatedA wide-ranging anthology of primary texts in American foreign relations--now expanded to include documents from the Trump years to today How should America wield its power beyond its borders? Should it follow grand principles or act on narrow self-interest? Should it work in concert...
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Atlas Geographus: Or, a Compleat System of Geography, Ancient and Modern. Containing What is of Most use in Bleau, Verenius, Cellarius,The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions...
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The Presidency of Ulysses S. GrantChoice Outstanding Academic TitleAs controversial in politics as he was in the military, Ulysses S. Grant (1822-1885) was an embattled president, enormously popular with the American people, yet the target of unrelenting censure by political enemies. For the first time in almost a century,...
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What Nudism Exposes: An Unconventional History of Postwar CanadaA new history of Canada through the story of its nudist movement.What Nudism Exposes offers an original perspective on postwar Canada by charting the nudist movement's navigation through changing times and broader social and cultural contexts. As nudism took root after World War II,...
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The William Howard Taft PresidencyThe only president to later serve as chief justice of the United States, William Howard Taft remarked in the 1920s that "I don't remember that I ever was President." Historians have agreed, and Taft is usually portrayed, when written about at all, as nothing...
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The Reagan MomentIn The Reagan Moment, the ideas, events, strategies, trends, and movements that shaped the 1980s are revealed to have had lasting effects on international relations: The United States went from a creditor to a debtor nation; democracy crested in East Asia and returned to...
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The Age of FederalismWhen Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first...
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Gaelic in Scotland: Policies, Movements, IdeologiesIn this extensive study of the changing role of Gaelic in modern Scotland, Wilson McLeod looks at the policies of government and the work of activists and campaigners who have sought to maintain and promote Gaelic.Author: Wilson McLeodPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 05/31/2022Pages: 456Binding Type:...
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Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs: The Entring Book, 1677-1691Mark Goldie's authoritative and highly readable introduction to the political and religious landscape of Britain during the turbulent era of later Stuart rule. An exceptionally significant monograph, and without doubt one of the most important to appear in the field of Restoration history in...
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Hirohito's War: The Pacific War, 1941-1945In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis...
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Seeing Underground: Maps, Models, and Mining Engineering in AmericaDigging mineral wealth from the ground dates to prehistoric times, and Europeans pursued mining in the Americas from the earliest colonial days. Prior to the Civil War, little mining was deep enough to require maps. However, the major finds of the mid-nineteenth century, such...
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The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980The description for this book, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980, will be forthcoming.Author: Steve FraserPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 02/21/1990Pages: 344Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.08lbsSize: 9.25h x 6.14w x 0.86dISBN: 9780691006079
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What Went Wrong?: Western Impact and Middle Eastern ResponseFor many centuries, the world of Islam was in the forefront of human achievement--the foremost military and economic power in the world, the leader in the arts and sciences of civilization. Christian Europe, a remote land beyond its northwestern frontier, was seen as an...
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The Gods of Indian Country: Religion and the Struggle for the American WestDuring the nineteenth century, white Americans sought the cultural transformation and physical displacement of Native people. Though this process was certainly a clash of rival economic systems and racial ideologies, it was also a profound spiritual struggle. The fight over Indian Country sparked religious...
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