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Empire's Tracks: Indigenous Nations, Chinese Workers, and the Transcontinental Railroad Volume 52Empire's Tracks boldly reframes the history of the transcontinental railroad from the perspectives of the Cheyenne, Lakota, and Pawnee Native American tribes, and the Chinese migrants who toiled on its path. In this meticulously researched book, Manu Karuka situates the railroad within the violent...
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Winged Words: The Life and Work of the Poet H.D.Winged Words puts the work of H.D., including her poetry, translations, and prose, in the context of her life. Because the majority of H.D.'s oeuvre was unpublished until recently, author Donna Hollenberg, who's written three previous books about H.D., is able to account for...
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Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery MovementSince the 1990s, modern slavery has been recognized as a global problem, with campaigners around the world providing assessments of its nature and extent, its drivers, and possible solutions for ending it. However, largely absent from the global antislavery movement's discourse and policy prescriptions...
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Unfinished Journey: America Since World War IIBrilliantly written by a prize-winning historian, The Unfinished Journey, Eighth Edition, considers both the paradoxes and the possibilities of postwar America. William H. Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present, including issues of race, class,...
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Night on Earth: A History of International Humanitarianism in the Near East, 1918-1930Night on Earth is a broad-ranging account of international humanitarian programs in Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Near East from 1918 to 1930. Davide Rodogno shows that international 'relief' and 'development' were intertwined long before the birth of the United Nations...
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Emotions and Surgery in Britain, 1793-1912In this innovative analytical account of the place of emotion and embodiment in nineteenth-century British surgery, Michael Brown examines the changing emotional dynamics of surgical culture for both surgeons and patients from the pre-anaesthetic era through the introduction of anaesthesia and antisepsis techniques. Drawing...
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Diplomacy and Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S. Foreign RelationsAt the same time as modern capitalism became an engine of progress and a source of inequality, the United States rose to global power. Hence diplomacy and the forces of capitalism have continually evolved together and shaped each other at different levels of international,...
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Pedro Calderón de la Barca and the World Theatre in Early Modern Europe: The Theatrum Mundi of CelebrationRasmus Vangshardt offers an original interpretation of one of the most famous images of literary history, the theatrum mundi. By applying methods of comparative literature, hispanic studies, and theology, he reconsiders the world theatre's historical peak in early modern Europe in general and the...
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Christian IV: Rex Splendens and Rex HumilisChristian IV, king of Denmark and Norway, was a fascinating political figure of the early seventeenth century, also remembered for his cultural and entrepreneurial activity. He was a great builder, founded several new cities, and had an international reputation as a patron of the...
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Against War and Empire: Geneva, Britain, and France in the Eighteenth CenturyAs Britain and France became more powerful during the eighteenth century, small states such as Geneva could no longer stand militarily against these commercial monarchies. Furthermore, many Genevans felt that they were being drawn into a corrupt commercial world dominated by amoral aristocrats dedicated...
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Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550-1850: Towards a Global History of Coerced LabourIn der Buchreihe des "Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies" werden Monographien und Tagungsbände, die das Phänomen der Sklaverei und andere Formen asymmetrischer Abhängigkeiten in Gesellschaften untersuchen, veröffentlicht. Die Reihe folgt dabei der Forschungsagenda des BCDSS, die die vorherrschende dichotomische Vorstellung von "Sklaverei...
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An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy: Volume IXAn Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy, first published in 1865, with a second edition in the same year, and third and fourth editions in 1867 and 1872, has long been out of print. The Examination was, for his contemporaries, a most significant and...
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Approaches to Teaching Stoker's DraculaEssays on teaching the most influential vampire novel of all timeThis volume helps teachers contextualize Bram Stoker's Dracula in its historical and cultural moment, considering psychology, technology, gender roles, colonialism, and anxieties about the other. It also situates the novel among the kindred texts...
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Approaches to Teaching the Works of Jorge Luis BorgesEssays on teaching a major Latin American writerOften considered a writer who transcends national borders, Jorge Luis Borges also aimed to reinvent the history and traditions of his own country, Argentina. His unconventional works appeal to students, who nonetheless can find his richly intertextual...
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The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal: New Perspectives on the Housing Act of 1949The consequences of the federal Housing Act of 1949-which supported the clearance and redevelopment of "blighted" areas across the nation-were felt by communities of all sizes, not just large cities. The Many Geographies of Urban Renewal presents a more comprehensive view of the federal...
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The Archive of Fear: White Crisis and Black Freedom in Douglass, Stowe, and Du BoisFocusing on U.S. slavery and its aftermath in the nineteenth century, The Archive of Fear explores the traumatic force field that continued to inflect discussions of slavery and abolition both before and after the Civil War. It challenges the long-assumed distinction between psychological and...
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Jewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to NobodyJewish American Writing and World Literature: Maybe to Millions, Maybe to Nobody studies Jewish American writers' relationships with the idea of world literature. Writers such as Sholem Asch, Jacob Glatstein, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Anna Margolin, Saul Bellow, and Grace Paley all responded to a...
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Privacy in Early Modern Saxony: Perspectives on Architecture, Culture, Health, Law, and ReligionConcerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more necessary to navigate our contemporary struggles with availability and control of personal information. When we ponder what people of the past valued and aimed to protect...
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An Alchemist in Chains: The Case Against the Mystic Johann Konrad Dippel in AltonaHow could a pious, Christian mystic spread radical Enlightenment ideas and freedom of thought? Johann Konrad Dippel was a radical pietist, an alchemist, a philosopher, a medical doctor, a renegade, a firebrand. He was also one of the most-read authors of early eighteenth-century Europe....
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Dwight Eisenhower and the Holocaust: A HistoryDwight Eisenhower's encounter with the Holocaust altered how he understood the Second World War and shaped how he led the United States and the Western Alliance during the Cold War. This book is the first to blend scholarship on Eisenhower, World War II, and...
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