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Slavery and War in the Americas

Race, Citizenship, and State Building in the United States and Brazil, 1861-1870

by Vitor Izecksohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014

In this pathbreaking new work, Vitor Izecksohn attempts to shed new light on the American Civil War by comparing it to a strikingly similar campaign in South America--the War of the Triple Alliance of 1864–70, which galvanized four countries and became the longest large-scale international conflict...
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Humboldt and Jefferson

A Transatlantic Friendship of the Enlightenment

by Sandra Rebok
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014

Humboldt and Jefferson explores the relationship between two fascinating personalities: the Prussian explorer, scientist, and geographer Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) and the American statesman, architect, and naturalist Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826). In the wake of his famous expedition through...
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Bewildered Travel

The Sacred Quest for Confusion

by Frederick J. Ruf
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

Why do we travel? Ostensibly an act of leisure, travel finds us thrusting ourselves into jets flying miles above the earth, only to endure dislocations of time and space, foods and languages foreign to our body and mind, and encounters with strangers on whom we must suddenly depend. Travel is not...
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Religious Freedom

Jefferson’s Legacy, America's Creed

by John A. Ragosta
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013

For over one hundred years, Thomas Jefferson and his Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom have stood at the center of our understanding of religious liberty and the First Amendment. Jefferson’s expansive vision—including his insistence that political freedom and free thought would be at...
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by Friedrich Spee
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

In 1631, at the epicenter of the worst excesses of the European witch-hunts, Friedrich Spee, a Jesuit priest, published the Cautio Criminalis, a book speaking out against the trials that were sending thousands of innocent people to gruesome deaths. Spee, who had himself ministered to women accused...
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Mathilde Blind

Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters

by James Diedrick, Andrew Stauffer, Herbert F. Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

With Mathilde Blind: Late-Victorian Culture and the Woman of Letters, James Diedrick offers a groundbreaking critical biography of the German-born British poet Mathilde Blind (1841–1896), a freethinking radical feminist. Born to politically radical parents, Blind had, by the time she was...
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by Elliot A. Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

Historians have often speculated on the alternative paths the United Stages might have taken during the Great Depression: What if Franklin D. Roosevelt had been killed by one of Giuseppe Zangara’s bullets in Miami on February 17, 1933? Would there have been a New Deal under an administration led...
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The Last Afrikaner Leaders

A Supreme Test of Power

by Hermann Giliomee
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013

Finalist for the Alan Paton Award In his latest book, renowned historian Hermann Giliomee challenges the conventional wisdom on the downfall of white rule and the end of apartheid. Instead of impersonal forces, or the resourcefulness of an indomitable resistance movement, he emphasizes the...
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Reconstructing the Campus

Higher Education and the American Civil War

by Michael David Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012

The Civil War transformed American life. Not only did thousands of men die on battlefields and millions of slaves become free; cultural institutions reshaped themselves in the context of the war and its aftermath. The first book to examine the Civil War’s immediate and long-term impact on higher...
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To Pass On a Good Earth

The Life and Work of Carl O. Sauer

by Michael Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014

To Pass On a Good Earth is the candid and compelling new biography of one of the twentieth century’s most distinctive and influential scholars. The legendary "Great God beyond the Sierras," Carl Ortwin Sauer is America’s most famed geographer, an inspiration to both academics and poets,...
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Intelligent Infrastructure

Zip Cars, Invisible Networks, and Urban Transformation

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Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2017

While many of its traditional elements, such as roads and utilities, do not change, urban infrastructure is undergoing a fascinating and necessary transformation in the wake of new information and communication technologies. This volume brings together many of the most important new voices in the...
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Polygraphies

Francophone Women Writing Algeria

by Alison Rice
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2012

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of Algeria's independence, Polygraphies is significant and timely in its focus on autobiographical writings by seven of the most prominent francophone women writers from Algeria today, including Maïssa Bey, Hélène Cixous, Assia Djebar, and Malika Mokeddem....
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A Separate Civil War

Communities in Conflict in the Mountain South

by Jonathan Dean Sarris
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

Most Americans think of the Civil War as a series of dramatic clashes between massive armies led by romantic-seeming leaders. But in the Appalachian communities of North Georgia, things were very different. Focusing on Fannin and Lumpkin counties in the Blue Ridge Mountains along Georgia’s northern...
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Sites of Southern Memory

The Autobiographies of Katharine Du Pre Lumpkin, Lillian Smith, and Pauli Murray

by Darlene O'Dell
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2001

In southern graveyards through the first decades of the twentieth century, the Confederate South was commemorated by tombstones and memorials, in Confederate flags, and in Memorial Day speeches and burial rituals. Cemeteries spoke the language of southern memory, and identity was displayed in ritualistic...
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