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Airlines & Air MailConventional wisdom credits only entrepreneurs with the vision to create America's commercial airline industry and contends that it was not until Roosevelt's Civil Aeronautics Act of 1938 that federal airline regulation began. In Airlines and Air Mail, F. Robert van der Linden persuasively argues...
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The Cadillac Story: The Postwar YearsThe Cadillac story is more than the story of a car company. It is, in many ways, the story of the American automobile industry itself-- which, as much as any industry, drove America's growth in the twentieth century and defined who we are as...
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Making the Best Years of Our Lives: The Hollywood Classic That Inspired a NationReleased in 1946, The Best Years of Our Lives became an immediate success. Life magazine called it "the first big, good movie of the post-war era" to tackle the "veterans problem." Today we call that problem PTSD, but in the initial aftermath of World...
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George Platt Lynes: The Daring EyeGeorge Platt Lynes: The Daring Eye is a life of the gregarious American portrait, dance, fashion, and male nude photographer whose career spanned the late 1920s to 1955. From age 18, Lynes entered the cosmopolitan world of the American expatriate community in Paris when...
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Prisoners of War: Europe: 1939-1955The Second World War between the European Axis powers and the Allies saw more than twenty million soldiers taken as prisoners of war. While this total is inflated by the unconditional surrender of all German forces in Europe on 8 May 1945, it nonetheless...
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Understanding the New Proxy Wars: Battlegrounds and Strategies Reshaping the Greater Middle EastProxy warfare will shape the conflicts of the twenty-first century for the foreseeable future. Yet the popular understanding of proxy wars remains largely shaped by the experience of the Cold War. In reality, in the Greater Middle East and its periphery today, the growing...
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Reverberations of Racial Violence: Critical Reflections on the History of the BorderBetween 1910 and 1920, thousands of Mexican Americans and Mexican nationals were killed along the Texas border. The killers included strangers and neighbors, vigilantes and law enforcement officers--in particular, Texas Rangers. Despite a 1919 investigation of the state-sanctioned violence, no one in authority was...
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Apostles of Change: Latino Radical Politics, Church Occupations, and the Fight to Save the Barrio2021 Finalist Raul Yzaguirre Best Political/Current Affairs Book, International Latino Book AwardsWinner of the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education Inaugural Book AwardUnraveling the intertwined histories of Latino radicalism and religion in urban America, this book examines how Latino activists transformed churches into...
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Banking on Beauty: Millard Sheets and Midcentury Commercial Architecture in CaliforniaWinner, Docomomo US Modernism in America Citation of Merit, 2018 PROSE Award, Architecture and Urban Planning, Association of American Publishers (AAP), 2019"I want buildings that will be exciting seventy-five years from now," financier Howard Ahmanson told visual artist Millard Sheets, offering him complete control...
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Writing the Great War: The Historiography of World War I from 1918 to the PresentFrom the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, studied and contested, producing a rich historiography shaped by the social and cultural circumstances of its creation. Writing the Great...
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The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam: Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado PlateauThe second highest concrete-arch dam in the United States, Glen Canyon Dam was built to control the flow of the Colorado River throughout the Western United States. Completed in 1966, the dam continues to serve as a water storage facility for residents, industries, and...
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The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman: The Life and Times of Redcliffe Nathan SalamanRedcliffe Salaman (1874-1955) was an English Jew of many facets: a country gentleman, a physician, a biologist who pioneered the breeding of blight-free strains of potatoes, a Jewish nationalist, and a race scientist. A well-known figure in his own time, The Last Anglo-Jewish Gentleman...
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The Burden of the Past: History, Memory, and Identity in Contemporary UkraineIn a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in...
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The History of the Standard Oil Company, Vol. II (in Two Volumes)IDA MINERVA TARBELL (1857-1944) is remembered today as a muckraking journalist, thanks to this 1904 blockbuster expos . Originally published as a series of articles in *McClure's* magazine, this groundbreaking work highlighted the dangers of business monopolies and contributed to the eventual breakup of...
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The History of the Standard Oil Company, Vol. I (in Two Volumes)"In this era of financial crisis compounded, and even perhaps enabled, by a dearth of investigative reporting, it is valuable to go back in time to learn from the work of great journalists with the courage to have taken on avaricious corporations and irresponsible...
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Saving the World from Nuclear War: The June 12, 1982, Disarmament Rally and BeyondExamines how the June 12, 1982, rally for nuclear disarmament paved the way for a new generation of activists.On June 12, 1982, one million people filled the streets of New York City and rallied in Central Park to show support for the United Nations'...
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The Edinburgh Companion to Atlantic Literary StudiesThis Companion offers a critical overview of the diverse and dynamic field of Atlantic literary studies, with contributions by distinguished scholars on a series of topics that define the area.Author: Leslie Eckel, Clare ElliottPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPublished: 08/31/2022Pages: 432Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.61h x...
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Humboldt and the Modern German University: An Intellectual HistoryWhen the Berlin Universität opened in October 1810, it inaugurated a new era in the history of education. The man behind it was the Prussian official, linguist, and educational reformer Wilhelm von Humboldt. In a famous manifesto, he drew up the guidelines for the...
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With Stars in Their Eyes: The Extraordinary Lives and Enduring Genius of Aden and Marjorie MeinelThis book details the lives of two married geniuses, Aden and Marjorie Meinel, who helped to pioneer modern optics and solar energy in the U.S. Aden B. Meinel and Marjorie P. Meinel stood at the confluence of several overarching technological developments during their lifetimes,...
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An A-Z of Jane AustenJane Austen's richly textured worlds have enchanted readers for centuries and this neatly organised, playful book provides Austen enthusiasts and students alike with a unique insight into the much-loved writer's way with words. Using a lively A-Z structure, Greaney provides fresh angles on familiar...
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