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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights.The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-05-27
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The beating of Rodney King and the resulting riots in South Central Los Angeles.The violent clash between Hasidim and African-Americans in Crown Heights.The boats of Haitian refugees being turned away from the Land of Opportunity. These are among the many...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-05-27
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It is a truism that the administration of criminal justice consists of a series of discretionary decisions by police, prosecutors, judges, and other officials. Taming the System is a history of the forty-year effort to control the discretion.It examines the discretion...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-05-20
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Among the regional landed elites in the Western World of the mid-1800s, the two most formidable were the owners of slave plantations in the Southern states of the U.S. and the proprietors of manorial estates in the provinces of Prussian East Elbia. Masters and Lords...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-04-29
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The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history.The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-04-29
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Focusing on the Colloquy of Montbéliard, a theological debate in 1586 between Lutherans and Calvinists, Raitt explores the complex array of shifting political alliances and religious tensions which characterized the Holy Roman Empire after the Peace of Augsburg. When...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-04-08
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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched a 184-pound metal ball called Sputnik into orbit around the Earth, and America plummeted into a panic. Nuclear weapon designer Edward Teller claimed that the United States had lost "a battle more important and greater than...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-03-25
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Between 1917 and 1920--from the Bolshevik Revolution to the definitive statement of American opposition to Bolshevik Russia--Soviets and Americans searched for ways to effect meaningful interactions between their two nations in the absence of formal diplomatic...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-03-25
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This book draws on a wide range of evidence to study the history of Athens from 386 to 322 B.C. Taking a sympathetic view of the Second Athenian League, Sealey focuses on the career of Demosthenes to provide important insights into Athenian politics and policies....
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Oxford University Press
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1993-03-18
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Schoenbaum's book is a history of one of the most remarkable liaisons in international experience, a portrait of the special relationship between the last remaining superpower and the tiny Jewish state between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, and a study of how that...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-03-11
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Concentrating on technology, economics, labor, and social history, Cradle to Grave documents the full life cycle of one of America's great mineral ranges from the 1840s to the 1960s. Lankton examines the workers' world underground, but is equally concerned with the...
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Oxford University Press
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1993-02-25
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This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1993-01-28
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The eighth volume of the acclaimed annual publication of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, this volume focuses on the history and development of American Jewish life since World War II. Contributions include "A 'Golden Decade'...
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Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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1992-12-17
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As the Cold War followed on the heels of the Second World War, as the Nuremburg Trials faded in the shadow of the Iron Curtain, both the Germans and the West were quick to accept the idea that Hitler's army had been no SS, no Gestapo, that it was a professional force...
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Oxford University Press
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1992-11-26
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`My object is to have you fit to live; which, if you are not, I do not desire that you should live at all.'
So wrote Lord Chesterfield in one of the most celebrated and controversial correspondences between a father and son. Chesterfield wrote almost daily to his...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
1992-11-05
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The critical northern antebellum debate matched the rhetorical skills of Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in an historic argument over the future of slavery in a westward-expanding America. Two years later, an equally historic oratorical showdown between...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-10-29
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Though medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, they are routinely patronized as "pious fiction" by modern historiography. This book demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-10-01
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"Americans interested in history need to make the pilgrimage to Gettysburg," writes Gabor Boritt in the Acknowledgments. In this book seven historians make that journey, five of them Pulitzer laureates, looking for Lincoln. Kenneth Stampp explores the issue of national...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-10-01
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In this provocative and timely collection of essays--five published for the first time--one of the most important ethnohistorians writing today, James Axtell, explores the key role of imagination both in our perception of strangers and in the writing of history....
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-09-17
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Separation of church and state has become a veritable creed in the American Jewish community. Focusing on the way in which Jewish actions have contributed to the development of separation, this book examines how American Jews have contended with living in a...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
1992-09-03
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