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14-18: Understanding the Great War
$10.27
A bold new assessment of how the violence, racist nationalism, and grief aroused in 1914-18 changed the course of historyTo many, the years of the Great War seemed to signal Europe's collective suicide. A century later, the conflict continues to dominate the imagination of the West--not least becaus..
A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the Uni...
$10.52
Timothy J. Henderson's A Glorious Defeat provide a short, accessible account of the US-Mexican War.The war that was fought between the United States and Mexico from 1846 to 1848 was a major event in the history of both countries: it cost Mexico half of its national territory, opened western North Am..
A Very Thin Line: The Iran-Contra Affairs
$11.05
Details the origins of the Iran-Contra scandal, the roles of Reagan, Bush, CIA Director Casey, and others, and argues that President Reagan clearly set the policy then feigned ignorance to escape blame Author: Draper, Theodore Publisher: Hill and Wang Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 08..
A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-Ameri...
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It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, compelling history, the 1899 Philippine-American War was in fact all of these. Played out over three distinct conflicts--one fought between the Spanish and the allie..
A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-Ameri...
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First-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America's past, infusing it with commanding contemporary relevance.It has been termed an insurgency, a revolution, a guerrilla war, and a conventional war. As David J. Silbey demonstrates in this taut, co..
African sculpture speaks
$23.17
Historian and collector Ladislas Segy approaches African art from several different but interrelated perspectives, considering sculptures first as products of a distinct African culture, then as high-quality works of art. Seeking to bring the African carver's work within the scope of the Western obs..
All But My Life: A Memoir
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All But My Life is the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. From her comfortable home in Bielitz (present-day Bielsko) in Poland to her miraculous survival and her liberation by American troops--including the man who was to become her husband--i..
American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolution...
$12.55
The war that raged along America’s frontier during the period of the American Revolution was longer, bloodier, and arguably more revolutionary than what transpired on the Atlantic coast.Between 1763 and 1795 westerners not only participated in a War of Independence but engaged in a revolution that u..
American Reformers, 1815-1860, Revised Edition
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For this new edition of American Reformers 1815-1860, Ronald G. Walters has amplified and updated his exploration of the fervent and diverse outburst of reform energy that shaped American history in the early years of the Republic. Capturing in style and substance the vigorous and often flamboyant m..
American Slavery: 1619-1877 (10th Anniversary Edit...
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The single best short survey in America, now updated.Includes a New Preface and AfterwardIn terms of accessibility and comprehensive coverage, Kolchin's American Slavery is a singularly important achievement. Now updated to address a decade of new scholarship, the book includes a new preface, afterw..
Amusing the Million: Coney Island at the Turn of t...
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Coney Island: the name still resonates with a sense of racy Brooklyn excitement, the echo of beach-front popular entertainment before World War I. Amusing the Million examines the historical context in which Coney Island made its reputation as an amusement park and shows how America's changing socia..
Anne Frank: The Anne Frank House Authorized Graphi...
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Draws on the archives of the Anne Frank House to relate the short but inspiring life of the Jewish teen memoirist, from the lives of her parents to Anne's years keeping her private diary while hidden from the Nazis to her untimely death in a concentration camp. Author: Colón, Ernie Publisher: Hill a..
Another America: The Story of Liberia and the Form...
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The first popular history of the former American slaves who founded, ruled, and lost Africa's first republicIn 1820, a group of about eighty African Americans reversed the course of history and sailed back to Africa, to a place they would name after liberty itself. They went under the banner of the ..
Barbarian Virtues: The United States Encounters Fo...
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A brilliant examination of national identity in a crucial periodThe United States first announced its power on the international scene at the Centennial Exhibition in 1876 and first demonstrated that power during World War I. The years in between were a period of dramatic change, when the dynamics o..
Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice S...
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An impassioned argument for reproductive rightsIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, advocates of legal abortion mostly used the term rights when describing their agenda. But after Roe v. Wade, their determination to develop a respectable, nonconfrontational movement encouraged many of them to use the ..
Betrayal at the Vel D'Hiv
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Book by Levy, Claude, Tillard. Paul Author: Levy, Claude Publisher: Hill and Wang Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 0809029235 ISBN-13: 9780809029235..
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists and the Ec...
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Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeChanges in the Land offers an original and persuasive interpretation of the changing circumstances in New England's plant and animal communities that occurred with the shift from Indian to European dominance. With the tools of both historian and ecologist, Cronon c..
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the E...
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The book that launched environmental history, William Cronon's Changes in the Land, now revised and updated.Winner of the Francis Parkman PrizeIn this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of proper..
Children of Fire: A History of African Americans
$14.87
Ordinary people don’t experience history as it is taught by historians. They live across the convenient chronological divides we impose on the past. The same people who lived through the Civil War and the eradication of slavery also dealt with the hardships of Reconstruction, so why do we almost alw..
City Police
$21.10
This landmark 1973 study of city policemen portrays in detail work "on the street,"the way police regard their work, the way they deal day-by-day with suspects and criminals, with colleague and superiors, and with the general public. Jonathan Rubinstein spent over a year with the Philadelphia police..
Devices and Desires: A History of Contraceptives i...
$8.81
From the 1873 Comstock Act to the groundbreaking inventions of today, a history of contraceptives reveals how they evolved from an illicit trade located in secret places and pornography outlets to one of the most legitimate businesses in America. Author: Tone, Andrea Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub Bindi..
Dogs and Demons: Tales From the Dark Side of Moder...
$15.02
The crises--and failures--of modernization in Japan, as seen up close by a resident expertJapan is a nation in crisis, and the crisis goes far beyond its well-known economic plight. In Dogs and Demons, Alex Kerr chronicles the crisis on a broad scale, from the failure of Japan's banks and pension fu..
Duke Hamilton is Dead!: A Story of Aristocratic Li...
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Politics and society in an aristocratic world--as seen in the dramatic story of a notorious duel.On the morning of November 15, 1712, two of Britain's most important peers, the fourth Baron Mohun and the fourth Duke of Hamilton, met in Hyde Park. In a flurry of brutal swordplay that lasted perhaps t..
Elmer Rice: Three Plays: The Adding Machine, Stree...
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Elmer Rice belongs high on the roster of influential play-wrights. He has brought vitality and world attention to the American theatre. His plays have passed the test of endurance."A veteran craftsman who knows his job…Rice is a showman who writes for the theatre rather than the library."--The New Y..
Empire of Signs
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With this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography--in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies--of Japan itself. Author: Barthes, Roland Publisher: Hill and Wang Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 037..