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Mario Cuomo was the most important Democratic officeholder during the Reagan era. The three-term governor of New York was also a famously eloquent defender of the Democratic Party's progressive legacy even as conservatives gained political power across the nation. As...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-10-12
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In this utterly immersive volume, Mike Wallace captures the swings of prosperity and downturn, from the 1898 skyscraper-driven boom to the Bankers' Panic of 1907, the labor upheaval, and violent repression during and after the First World War. Here is New York on a...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-09-04
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This collection puts the topic of Jewish Studies and Holocaust Studies in a new American Studies perspective.This perspective compares the similarities and differences in responses and their transatlantic interaction. As the Holocaust grew into an important factor in...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-06-15
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Exam Board: EdexcelLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: June 2016Target success in Edexcel AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation...
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Hodder Education
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2017-05-30
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Exam Board: OCRLevel: A-LevelSubject: HistoryFirst Teaching: September 2015First Exam: Summer 2016Target success in OCR A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and...
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Hodder Education
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2017-05-30
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Billy Graham stands among the most influential Christian leaders of the twentieth century. Perhaps no single doctrine, practice, political position, or preacher has united the sprawling and diverse world of evangelicalism likeBilly Graham. Throughout his six-decade...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-05-24
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This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Roots of the Civil Rights Movement identifies a network of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even in other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-05-16
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The contributions in this book focus on U.S. migration policies, receiving society, ethnic communities and return migration.The authors analyze various aspects of migratory history ranging from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. They cover such topics as the...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-04-18
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The Warren Court of the 1950s and 1960s was the most liberal in American history. Yet within a few short years, new appointments redirected the Court in a more conservative direction, a trend that continued for decades. However, even after Warren retired and the makeup...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-04-05
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A massively destructive and transformative event, the First World War left in its wake many legacies. Beyond 1917 explores both the consequences of the war for the United States (and the world) and American influence on shaping the legacies of the conflict in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-03-27
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Richard Wright's memoir of his childhood as a young black boy in the American south of the 1920s and 30s is a stark depiction of African-American life and a powerful exploration of racial tension.‘A compelling indictment of life in the Deep South between the wars’ Daily...
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Vintage Digital
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2017-02-02
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Dieses Buch untersucht den sprachlichen und textuellen Erfahrungsraum indigener Schreiber in der öffentlich-rechtlichen Sphäre während des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in Peru, der bislang von der Hispanistik und der historischen Forschung kaum beachtet worden ist. Die...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2017-01-18
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In 1912, a group of ambitious young men, including future Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurter and future journalistic giant Walter Lippmann, became disillusioned by the sluggish progress of change in the Taft Administration. The individuals started to band together...
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Oxford University Press
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2017-01-05
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Receive our Memories is a rare study of an epistolary relationship for individuals whose migration from Mexico has been looked at en masse, but not from such a personal and human angle. The heart of the book consists of eighty translated and edited versions of letters...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-12-23
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Known as "the queen of the platform," Ernestine Rose was more famous than her women's rights co-workers, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. By the 1850s, Rose had become an outstanding orator for feminism, free thought, and anti-slavery. Yet, she would...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-12-01
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The drama, expansion, mansions and wealth of New York City's transformative Gilded Age era, from 1870 to 1910, captured in a magnificently illustrated hardcover. In forty short years, New York City suddenly became a city of skyscrapers, subways, streetlights, and...
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Black Dog & Leventhal
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2016-09-27
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Who can lay claim to a legally-recognized Indian identity?Who decides whether or not an individual qualifies? The right to determine tribal citizenship is fundamental to tribal sovereignty, but deciding who belongs has a complicated history, especially in the...
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Oxford University Press
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2016-09-20
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Entführungen, Folter und grausame Morde. In den 1970er Jahren wurde die Operation Cóndor zum Inbegriff des Staatsterrorismus in Südamerika. Das Werk analysiert auf der Grundlage von Quellen aus chilenischen und amerikanischen Archiven Aufbau und Funktionsweisen des...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2016-09-12
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Most of the major black literary and cultural movements of the twentieth century have been understood and interpreted as secular, secularizing and, at times, profane. In this book, Josef Sorett demonstrates that religion was actually a formidable force within these...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-01
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A little over a century ago, the world went wireless. Cables and all their limiting inefficiencies gave way to a revolutionary means of transmitting news and information almost everywhere, instantaneously. By means of "Hertzian waves," as radio waves were initially...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-28
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