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Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction AmericaEach year nearly four million people visit Yellowstone National Park -- one of the most popular of all national parks -- but few know the fascinating and complex historical context in which it was established. In late July 1871, the geologist-explorer Ferdinand Hayden led...
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Dying to Forget: Oil, Power, Palestine, and the Foundations of U.S. Policy in the Middle EastIrene L. Gendzier presents incontrovertible evidence that oil politics played a significant role in the founding of Israel, the policy then adopted by the United States toward Palestinians, and subsequent U.S. involvement in the region. Consulting declassified U.S. government sources, as well as papers...
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Beyond Redemption: Race, Violence, and the American South After the Civil WarIn the months after the end of the Civil War, there was one word on everyone's lips: redemption. From the fiery language of Radical Republicans calling for a reconstruction of the former Confederacy to the petitions of those individuals who had worked the land...
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Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American PowerInderjeet Parmar reveals the complex interrelations, shared mindsets, and collaborative efforts of influential public and private organizations in the building of American hegemony. Focusing on the involvement of the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations in U.S. foreign affairs, Parmar traces the transformation of America...
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Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban ReformerFrom his role as Franklin Roosevelt's "negro advisor" to his appointment under Lyndon Johnson as the first secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Robert Clifton Weaver was one of the most influential domestic policy makers and civil rights advocates of the twentieth century. This...
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The James and Younger Brothers: the Story of One the Most Notorious and Legendary Outlaw Gangs of the American WestFast guns and hold-ups--the story of the James and Younger boysThe Wild West frontier of the United States of America is the place of modern legends, though their origins mostly come from a comparatively short period of time following the American Civil War during...
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A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South FloridaMany people characterize urban renewal projects and the power of eminent domain as two of the most widely despised and often racist tools for reshaping American cities in the postwar period. In A World More Concrete, N. D. B. Connolly uses the history of...
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The Fate of the Corps: What Became of the Lewis and Clark Explorers After the ExpeditionThe first book to trace the fascinating histories of the remarkable men--and one woman--who were members of the Lewis and Clark expedition The story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition has been told many times. But what became of the thirty-three members of the...
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The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity After World War IIVider uncovers how LGBTQ people reshaped domestic life in the postwar United States. From the Stonewall riots to the protests of ACT UP, histories of queer and trans politics have almost exclusively centered on public activism. In The Queerness of Home, Stephen Vider turns...
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The First World War: A Concise Global HistoryIn a compact but comprehensive and clear narrative, this book explores the First World War from a genuinely global perspective. Putting a human face on the war, William Kelleher Storey takes into account individual decisions and experiences as well as environmental and technological factors,...
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The Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810: A Short History with DocumentsThe Golden Age of Piracy in China, 1520-1810 exposes readers to the little-known history of Chinese piracy in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries through a short narrative and selection of documentary evidence. In this three-hundred-year period, Chinese piracy was unsurpassed in size and scope...
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Tough Enough: Arbus, Arendt, Didion, McCarthy, Sontag, WeilThis book focuses on six brilliant women who are often seen as particularly tough-minded: Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Diane Arbus, and Joan Didion. Aligned with no single tradition, they escape straightforward categories. Yet their work evinces an affinity of style...
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Philosophy of Democratic GovernmentThis complete treatise of political philosophy demonstrates Yves R. Simon's belief that, even in the best conceivable circumstances, government is needed to determine direction toward the common good and to provide the means for united action.Author: Yves R. SimonPublisher: University of Notre Dame PressPublished:...
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Engaging Ambience: Visual and Multisensory Methodologies and Rhetorical TheoryEngaging Ambience is an in-depth exploration of contemporary rhetorical theory, drawing from rich traditions of visual and sensory research. It is the first book to develop comprehensive empirical approaches to ambient rhetoric and the first to offer systematic approaches to visual research in studies...
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Lala's Story: A Memoir of the HolocaustWinner of 1998 Carl Sandburg Award Born into a middle-class Jewish family in 1932, Lala Weintraub grew up in Lvov, Poland. When the Nazis came, Lala--who had blond hair and blue eyes--survived by convincing them she was a Christian. This book tells her remarkable...
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Settling Ohio: First Peoples and BeyondScholars working in archaeology, education, history, geography, and politics tell a nuanced story about the people and dynamics that reshaped this region and determined who would control it. The Ohio Valley possesses some of the most resource-rich terrain in the world. Its settlement by...
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Americans in the Treasure House: Travel to Porfirian Mexico and the Cultural Politics of EmpireWhen railroads connected the United States and Mexico in 1884 and overland travel between the two countries became easier and cheaper, Americans developed an intense curiosity about Mexico, its people, and its opportunities for business and pleasure. Indeed, so many Americans visited Mexico during...
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The Battle of Beecher Island and the Indian War of 1867-1869: Second EditionDuring the morning hours of September 17, 1868, on a sandbar in the middle of the Arikaree Fork of the Republican River in eastern Colorado, a large group of Cheyenne Dog Men, Arapaho, and Sioux attacked about fifty civilian scouts under the command of...
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Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French RevolutionIn this provocative interdisciplinary essay, Joan B. Landes examines the impact on women of the emergence of a new, bourgeois organization of public life in the eighteenth century. She focuses on France, contrasting the role and representation of women under the Old Regime with...
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Race Against EmpireDuring World War II, African American activists, journalists, and intellectuals forcefully argued that independence movements in Africa and Asia were inextricably linkep to political, economic, and civil rights struggles in the United States. Marshaling evidence from a wide array of international sources, including the...
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