The office of bishop in the Episcopal Church in the United States has long begged attention from historians. Yankee Bishops: Apostles in the New Republic, 1783 to 1873 is the first collective examination of the American episcopate and offers critical insight into the...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2015-03-02

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"When Harry Met Sally" is only the most iconic of popular American movies, books, and articles that pose the question of whether friendships between men and women are possible. In Founding Friendships, Cassandra A. Good shows that this question was embedded in and...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2015-01-02

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In the rotunda of the nation's Capital a statue pays homage to three famous nineteenth-century American women suffragists: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Lucretia Mott. "Historically," the inscription beneath the marble statue notes, "these three stand...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-12-30

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A "masterly" account of the origins of the transcontinental railroad (Douglas Brinkley) by the author of the bestselling The Admirals. After the completion of the first transcontinental railroad in 1869, the rest of the United States was up for grabs, and the race was...

Editeur : Little, Brown and Company
Parution : 2014-11-18

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The League of Nations Health Organisation was the first international health organisation with a broad mandate and global responsibilities. It acted as a technical agency of the League of Nations, an institution designed to safeguard a new world order during the tense...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2014-09-23

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Pre-Civil War (1815-1850) (SparkNotes History Note) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes History Guides help students strengthen their grasp of history by focusing on individual eras or episodes in U.S. or world history. Breaking history up into digestible...

Editeur : Sparknotes
Parution : 2014-08-12
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Westward Expansion (1807-1912) (SparkNotes History Note) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes History Guides help students strengthen their grasp of history by focusing on individual eras or episodes in U.S. or world history. Breaking history up into...

Editeur : Sparknotes
Parution : 2014-08-12
Collection : SparkNotes History Notes
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The War of 1812 (1809-1815) (SparkNotes History Note) Making the reading experience fun! SparkNotes History Guides help students strengthen their grasp of history by focusing on individual eras or episodes in U.S. or world history. Breaking history up into digestible...

Editeur : Sparknotes
Parution : 2014-08-12
Collection : SparkNotes History Notes
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Ever since Oedipus unwittingly killed his father and married his mother in Sophocles’ play, parricide – the killing of a parent or another close relative – has been a dominant motif in works of literature, film, psychoanalytic theory, and criminology. Yet, parricide,...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2014-07-25

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Should the majority always rule? If not, how should the rights of minorities be protected? In Moral Minorities and the Making of American Democracy, Kyle G. Volk unearths the origins of modern ideas and practices of minority-rights politics. Focusing on controversies...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-06-16

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Lord Lothian (Philip Kerr, 1882-1940) was one of the leading exponents of British federalism between the Two World Wars. His federalism was linked to the tradition of Kantian and Hamiltonian thought while simultaneously going beyond this tradition. In the aftermath of...

Editeur : P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Parution : 2014-04-28

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A gripping account of the mob killing of Joseph Smith, founder of Mormonism“American Crucifixion paints a brilliant picture of religious experimentation, public intolerance, and the making of a martyr.”—Chicago Tribune On June 27, 1844, in the dusty...

Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2014-04-22

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In the 1910s, the American woman suffrage movement became a modern mass movement by using visual culture to transform consciousness and gain adherents. As part of this transformation, suffrage organizations produced several films and related cinematic projects,...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2014-04-22

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A Companion to Reconstruction Presidents presents a series of original essays that explore a variety of important issues, themes, and debates associated with the presidencies of Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes. Represents the first...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-03-24
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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Winner of the Fr. Paul J. Foik Award from the Texas Catholic Historical Society The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-03-03

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Herbert Zipper was born in 1904 in Hapsburg, Vienna. He was educated in the finest academies, studying under Richard Strauss and Maurice Ravel, among others, and became a conductor-composer in Germany in the early 1930s. When Hitler became Chancellor, he hastened back...

Editeur : Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution : 2014-01-30

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A Companion to the U.S. Civil War presents a comprehensive historiographical collection of essays covering all major military, political, social, and economic aspects of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Represents the most comprehensive coverage available relating...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-01-29
Collection : Wiley Blackwell Companions to American History
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'I could not believe that I had never heard of this book. It felt as important as Anne Frank's diary, only published nearly a hundred years before' - Steve McQueen, director of the Academy Award-winning film of Solomun Northup's powerful memoirSolomon Northup is a...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2013-12-12

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It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the great mountain. Waist deep in snow, he reluctantly turned back. But Zebulon Pike had not been defeated. His name remained on...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2013-12-01

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Die Studie erforscht die narrativen Verfahren zur Darstellung der Inhalte und Funktionsweisen von Erinnerung und Gedächtnis in den Werken jüdischer Migrationsautoren innerhalb der Quebecer écritures migrantes. Das Textkorpus umfasst Romane von bereits kanonisierten...

Editeur : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution : 2013-11-04

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