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When the Bloomsbury critics Roger Fry and Clive Bell introduced an aesthetically conservative English public to recent Parisian avant-garde painting, they explained its disconcerting imagery by way of a late nineteenth-century metaphysical tradition which had long...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
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2020-05-22
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Visionary. Iconoclast. Political Survivor. "A powerful and entertaining look" (Governor Gavin Newsom) at the extraordinary life and political career of Governor Jerry Brown.Jerry Brown is no ordinary politician. Like his state, he is eclectic, brilliant, unpredictable...
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Little, Brown and Company
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2020-05-12
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A history of American racial exploitation and resistance, told through the turbulent past of the city of St. Louis “A magisterial book…A searing history.” —Eddie S. Glaude, author of Begin Again From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the...
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Basic Books
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2020-04-14
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Bodies That Work describes the redefinition of the invisible, fragmented, and commodified African American female body. In Progressive America, black women began to use their bodies in new ways and ventured into professions in which they had typically not been...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-04-07
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A "marvelous" (Sports Illustrated) portrait of the three men whose lives were forever changed by WWI-era Boston and the Spanish flu: baseball star Babe Ruth, symphony conductor Karl Muck, and Harvard law student Charles Whittlesey. In the fall of 1918, a...
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Basic Books
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2020-03-24
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The 100th-anniversary special edition of Jailed for Freedom, the essential history and first-person account of the courageous and militant suffragists who fought for their right to vote. First published in 1920, Jailed for Freedom is the courageous, true story of the...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2020-03-03
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Martha Graham's Cold War frames the story ofMartha Graham and her particular brand of dance modernism as pro-Western Cold War propaganda used by the United States government to promote American democracy. Representing every seated president from Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-12-20
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In 1910, Crystal Eastman was one of the most conspicuous progressive reformers in America. By the 1920s, her ardent suffragism, insistent anti-militarism, gregarious internationalism, and uncompromising feminism branded her "the most dangerous woman in America" and led...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-11-01
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This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF on the Oxford Academic platform. It is made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence.
Dancing the World Smaller examines international dance performances in New York City...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-10-23
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"On February 19, 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066-the primary action that propelled the removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans. From the last days of that month, when California's Terminal Island became the first site of forced...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-10-17
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | NOW A NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY______________________________A journalist's twenty-year obsession with the Manson murders leads to shocking new conspiracy theories about the FBI's involvement in this fascinating re-evaluation of one of the most...
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Cornerstone Digital
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2019-06-27
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When encountering unfamiliar environments in India and the Philippines, the British and the Americans wrote extensively about the first taste of mango and meat spiced with cumin, the smell of excrement and coconut oil, the feel of humidity and rough cloth against skin,...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-06-21
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A groundbreaking new history of the United States, showing how Christian faith and the pursuit of petroleum fueled America's rise to global power and shaped today's political clashesAnointed with Oil places religion and oil at the center of American history. As...
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Basic Books
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2019-06-04
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A deeply personal and never-before-told account of one of America's darkest days, from the bestselling author of The Admirals and MacArthur at War. The surprise attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 remains one of the most traumatic events in American history....
Editeur :
Little, Brown and Company
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2019-05-14
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Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a feature of the American...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-20
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Nashville, August 1920. Thirty-five states have ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, twelve have rejected or refused to vote, and one last state is needed. It all comes down to Tennessee, the moment of truth for the suffragists, after a seven-decade crusade. The opposing...
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Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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2019-03-07
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Soon after his inauguration in 1934, New York City mayor Fiorello La Guardia began appointing women into his administration. By the end of his three terms in office, he had installed almost a hundred as lawyers in his legal department, but also as board and commission...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-03-06
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The story of the creation of the Book of Mormon has been told many times, and often ridiculed. A Documentary History of the Book of Mormon presents and examines the primary sources surrounding the origin of the foundational text of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-01-02
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The year 1917 was unlike any other in American history, or in the history of American music.The United States entered World War I, jazz burst onto the national scene, and the German musicians who dominated classical music were forced from the stage. As the year...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-11-01
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Exam Board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2017First Exam: Summer 2018The recent changes in assessment for National 5 History have been fully incorporated in this new edition, as have changes in subject content which affect some but not...
Editeur :
Hodder Gibson
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2018-09-17
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