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The Frontier in American CultureLog cabins and wagon trains, cowboys and Indians, Buffalo Bill and General Custer. These and other frontier images pervade our lives, from fiction to films to advertising, where they attach themselves to products from pancake syrup to cologne, blue jeans to banks. Richard White...
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Peace for Our Tine - large format: single volume editionAt the Munich Conference of 1938, Chamberlain presented Hitler with an agreement that Germany and Great Britain promised to work together to solve all disputes in Central and Eastern Europe peacefully. When Chamberlain asked Hitler to sign it, Hitler did so enthusiastically. But Hitler...
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Moderatism, Pietism, and AwakeningThe Reading and Preaching of the Scriptures in the Worship of the Christian Church is a multivolume study by Hughes Oliphant Old that explores the history of preaching from the words of Moses at Mount Sinai through modern times. In Volume 5, Moderatism, Pietism,...
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Not a Gentleman's War: An Inside View of Junior Officers in the Vietnam WarWars are not fought by politicians and generals--they are fought by soldiers. Written by a combat veteran of the Vietnam War, Not a Gentleman's War is about such soldiers--a gritty, against-the-grain defense of the much-maligned junior officer. Conventional wisdom holds that the junior officer...
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Beyond the Alamo: Forging Mexican Ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican...
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Theresienstadt: Hitler's Gift to the JewsTheresienstadt: Hitler's Gift to the Jews is a gripping account of one man's experiences in the most deceptive of all the places in which the Nazis incarcerated the Jews during the Holocaust: Hitler's "model" ghetto, Theresienstadt.Norbert Troller's memoir recounts his two years in Theresienstadt...
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The Cursillo Movement in America: Catholics, Protestants, and Fourth-Day SpiritualityThe internationally growing Cursillo movement, or "short course in Christianity," founded in 1944 by Spanish Catholic lay practitioners, has become popular among American Catholics and Protestants alike. This lay-led weekend experience helps participants recommit to and live their faith. Emphasizing how American Christians have...
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All for the Regiment: The Army of the Ohio, 1861-1862Despite its important role in the early years of the Civil War, the Army of the Ohio remains one of the least studied of all Union commands. With All for the Regiment, Gerald Prokopowicz deftly fills this surprising gap. He offers an engaging history...
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Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a DemocracyIn this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast array of new American and Korean sources, he explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid...
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On Strike and on Film: Mexican American Families and Blacklisted Filmmakers in Cold War AmericaIn 1950, Mexican American miners went on strike for fair working conditions in Hanover, New Mexico. When an injunction prohibited miners from picketing, their wives took over the picket lines--an unprecedented act that disrupted mining families but ultimately ensured the strikers' victory in 1952....
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American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist, as they should, seemingly clear and comforting proof that human genius means the present will always be better than the...
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Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865-1914Exploring the history of Civil War commemorations from both sides of the color line, William Blair places the development of memorial holidays, Emancipation Day celebrations, and other remembrances in the context of Reconstruction politics and race relations in the South. His grassroots examination of...
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Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost CauseImmediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these Ladies' Memorial Associations (LMAs) relocated and reinterred the remains of more than 72,000 soldiers. Challenging the notion that southern white women were...
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Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim CrowCuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a unique relationship between Afro-descended populations in the two countries. In Forging Diaspora, Frank Andre Guridy shows that the cross-national...
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The Elusive Republic: Political Economy in Jeffersonian AmericaBy investigating eighteenth-century social and economic thought--an intellectual world with its own vocabulary, concepts, and assumptions--Drew McCoy smoothly integrates the history of ideas and the history of public policy in the Jeffersonian era. The book was originally published by UNC Press in 1980. Author:...
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Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of CapitalIn this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the British Empire and Black emancipation in the United States. In this age of global capital, U.S. slavery exploded to a vastness hitherto...
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Allende's Chile and the Inter-American Cold WarFidel Castro described Salvador Allende's democratic election as president of Chile in 1970 as the most important revolutionary triumph in Latin America after the Cuban revolution. Yet celebrations were short lived. In Washington, the Nixon administration vowed to destroy Allende's left-wing government while Chilean...
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An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C.An Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation and the Civil War. In this panoramic study, Kate Masur provides a nuanced account of African Americans' grassroots activism, municipal politics, and the U.S....
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife: New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ahab Had a Wife, Lisa Norling taps a rich vein of sources--including...
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The New York Intellectuals: The Rise and Decline of the Anti-Stalinist Left from the 1930s to the 1980sFor a generation, Alan M. Wald's The New York Intellectuals has stood as the authoritative account of an often misunderstood chapter in the history of a celebrated tradition among literary radicals in the United States. His passionate investigation of over half a century of...
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