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Gettysburg Heroes

Perfect Soldiers, Hallowed Ground

by Glenn W. LaFantasie
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008

The Civil War generation saw its world in ways startlingly different from our own. In these essays, Glenn W. LaFantasie examines the lives and experiences of several key personalities who gained fame during the war and after. The battle of Gettysburg is the thread that ties these Civil War lives together....
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Hunt for the Jews

Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland

by Jan Grabowski
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013

A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews). Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death...
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Looking After Minidoka

An American Memoir

by Neil Nakadate
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013

A “clear-eyed, carefully researched but nonetheless passionate book” that is “rich with the closely observed details of internment camp life” (Lauren Kessler, author of Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family). During World War II, 110,000 Japanese...
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Tennessee Frontiers

Three Regions in Transition

by John R. Finger
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2001

This chronicle of the formation of Tennessee from indigenous settlements to the closing of the frontier in 1840 begins with an account of the prehistoric frontiers and a millennia-long habitation by Native Americans. The rest of the book deals with Tennessee’s historic period beginning with the...
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Chinese Looks

Fashion, Performance, Race

by Sean Metzger
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014

From yellow-face performance in the 19th century to Jackie Chan in the 21st, Chinese Looks examines articles of clothing and modes of adornment as a window on how American views of China have changed in the past 150 years. Sean Metzger provides a cultural history of three iconic objects in theatrical...
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Geographies of an Imperial Power

The British World, 1688–1815

by JEREMY BLACK
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017

From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2007

Lavishly illustrated and a joy to read, this authoritative reference work on the North American continent’s railroads covers the U.S., Canadian, Mexican, Central American, and Cuban systems. The encyclopedia’s over-arching theme is the evolution of the railroad industry and the historical impact...
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by H. Roger Grant
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

One of the most intriguing yet neglected pieces of American transportation history, electric interurban railroads were designed to assist shoppers, salesmen, farmers, commuters, and pleasure-seekers alike with short distance travel. At a time when most roads were unpaved and horse and buggy travel...
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Oliver Mtukudzi

Living Tuku Music in Zimbabwe

by Jennifer W. Kyker
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, a Zimbabwean guitarist, vocalist, and composer, has performed worldwide and released some 50 albums. One of a handful of artists to have a beat named after him, Mtukudzi blends Zimbabwean traditional sounds with South African township music and American gospel and soul, to...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2013

Exploring the origins, organization, subject matter, and performance contexts of singers and singing, Women's Songs from West Africa expands our understanding of the world of women in West Africa and their complex and subtle roles as verbal artists. Covering Côte d'Ivoire, the Gambia, Mali, Niger,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2012

Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume....
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by Jacqueline Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

Italian film star Bartolomeo Pagano's "Maciste" played a key role in his nation’s narratives of identity during World War I and after. Jacqueline Reich traces the racial, class, and national transformations undergone by this Italian strongman from African slave in Cabiria (1914), his first film,...
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Murder Made in Italy

Homicide, Media, and Contemporary Italian Culture

by Ellen Nerenberg
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012

Looking at media coverage of three very prominent murder cases, Murder Made in Italy explores the cultural issues raised by the murders and how they reflect developments in Italian civil society over the past 20 years. Providing detailed descriptions of each murder, investigation, and court case,...
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Long Time Passing

Vietnam and the Haunted Generation

by Myra MacPherson
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2009

This new edition of a classic book on the impact of the Vietnam War on Americans reintroduces the haunted voices of the Vietnam era to a new generation of readers. Based on more than 500 interviews, Long Time Passing is journalist Myra MacPherson’s acclaimed exploration of the wounds, pride,...
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