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Combat in the Sky: Airpower and the Defense of North Vietnam, 1965-1973Fought in the skies over North Vietnam, the air war between Vietnamese People's Air Force (VNPAF) and U.S. airpower lasted nearly eight years with hundreds of thousands of combat missions carried out and nearly four hundred dogfights. Combat in the Sky: Airpower and the...
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The Voices of Women in Witchcraft Trials: Northern EuropeWomen come to the fore in witchcraft trials as accused persons or as witnesses, and this book is a study of women's voices in these trials in eight countries around the North Sea: Spanish Netherlands, Northern Germany, Denmark, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, and Finland....
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My Life: Recollections of a Nobel LaureateIn this collection of informal reminiscences, first published in 1975, Max Born has written an extraordinarily vivid account of his life and work, originally intended for his family.Ranging from his time at the University of Göttingen, where Born had his first real motivation for...
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Rediscovering the American Republic: Biographies, Primary Texts, Charts, and Study Questions- Exploring a People's Quest for Ordered Liberty; Volume 2This volume contains over 700 pages of time-tested teaching tools, including biographies and inaugural addresses of every American president from Rutherford B. Hayes to Barack Obama. As the only elected office representative of all Americans, the presidency serves as a national voice concerning America's...
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French Immigrants and Pioneers in the Making of AmericaAmericans have long had a rich if complicated relationship with France. They adore all things French, especially food and fashion. They visit the country and learn the language. Historically, Americans have also been quick to blame France at certain times of international crisis, and...
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A History of YugoslaviaWhy did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history...
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Das Besetzte Kreta 1941-45English summary: In May of 1941, the Cretan civilization offered heavy resistance against German attackers, which responded with mass-executions and the destruction of villages. There follows nearly two years of relative peace on the island, which was broken in the summer of 1942 and...
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Democratic Religion: Freedom, Authority, and Church Discipline in the Baptist South, 1785-1900No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination...
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Proust's Songbook: Songs and Their UsesIn Proust's Songbook, Jennifer Rushworth analyzes and theorizes the presence and role of songs in Marcel Proust's novel À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time). Instead of focusing on instrumental music and large-scale forms such as symphonies and opera, as...
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American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early RepublicIn the years between the independence of the colonies from Britain and the start of the Jacksonian age, American readers consumed an enormous number of literary texts called fragments. American Fragments recovers this archive of the romantic period to raise a set of pressing...
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Peopling the World: Representing Human Mobility from Milton to MalthusA compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth century In John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve are promised they will produce a race to fill the world, a thought that consoles them even after...
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Green Capitalism?: Business and the Environment in the Twentieth CenturyAt a time when the human impact on the environment is more devastating than ever, business initiatives frame the quest to green capitalism as the key to humanity's long-term survival. Indeed, even before the rise of the environmental movement in the 1970s, businesses sometimes...
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Clementi and the Woman at the Piano: Virtuosity and the Market for Music in Eighteenth-Century LondonThis book takes as its historical point of departure the radical appearance in 1779 of technically difficult keyboard music in a set of six sonatas (Op. 2) by Muzio Clementi. The difficult passages contained in this opus are unique amongst keyboard music published for...
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History of Tennessee Illustrated: The General HistoryBy: Goodspeed Publishing Company, Pub. 1887, Reprinted 2020, 870 pages, NEW FULL NAME Index, ISBN #0-89308-123-X. This is the general or historical portion of probably the Rarest and MOST VALUABLE set of books ever published on the state of Tennessee and its early families....
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The Culture of Protestantism in Early Modern ScotlandThe Protestant Reformation of the sixteenth century brought a radical shift from a profoundly sensual and ceremonial experience of religion to the dominance of the word through Book and sermon. In Scotland, the revolution assumed proportions unequalled by any other national Calvinist Reformation, with...
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Western Civilization in a Global Context: The Modern Age: Sources and DocumentsWestern Civilization in a Global Contextis a source collection that introduces a comparative element to the study of Western civilization, offering students an opportunity to explore non-Western perspectives. An interesting and provocative set of readings are included, from a range of primary sources, including...
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I Saw Water: An Occult Novel and Other Selected WritingsIthell Colquhoun (1906-1988) is remembered today as a surrealist artist, writer, and occultist. Although her paintings hang in a number of public collections and her gothic novel Goose of Hermogenes (1961) remains in print, critical responses to her work have been severely constrained by...
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The Age of Reformation: The Tudor and Stewart Realms 1485-1603The Age of Reformation charts how religion, politics and social change were always intimately interlinked in the sixteenth century, from the murderous politics of the Tudor court to the building and fragmentation of new religious and social identities in the parishes. In this book,...
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Main Lines: Rebirth of the North American Railroads, 1970-2002Rising from the corporate wreckage of the 1970s, when even the nation's largest railroad filed for bankruptcy, American railroads are once again a major part of the global economy. Richard Saunders brings to life this amazing story of revitalization, showing how a combination of...
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Tennessee's Experience During the First World War"On the day that Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne, was assassinated, Tennesseans worried about the weather," Carole Bucy writes. Indeed, the war that began in Europe in 1914 was unimaginably remote from Tennessee--until it wasn't. Drawing on a depth of research...
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