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Slavery in Small Things:Slavery and Modern Cultural Habits isthe first book to explore the long-range cultural legacy of slavery through commonplace daily objects. Offers a new and original approach to the history of slavery by an acknowledged expert on the topic...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-11-16
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The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history. Their core theme is the diversity of both American intellectual life and of the frameworks that we must use to make sense of that diversity.The Worlds of American Intellectual...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-11-15
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Until relatively recently, the connection between British imperial history and the history of early America was taken for granted. In recent times, however, early American historiography has begun to suffer from a loss of coherent definition as competing manifestos...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-11-10
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From the bestselling author of The Ministry of Utmost HappinessAn extraordinary secret meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize-winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed actor...
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Penguin
Parution :
2016-10-06
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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...
Editeur :
Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-20
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Can the government seize your house to build a shopping mall?Can it determine what control you have over your own body?Can police search your cellphone? The answers to those questions come from the Supreme Court, whose rulings have shaped American life and justice and...
Editeur :
Union Square & Co.
Parution :
2016-09-13
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Between 2011 and 2015, the Opinion section of The New York Times published Disunion, a series marking the long string of anniversaries around the Civil War, the most destructive, and most defining, conflict in American history. The works were startling in their range...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-13
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2016-09-12
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In the autumn of 1777, near Saratoga, New York, an inexperienced and improvised American army led by General Horatio Gates faced off against the highly trained British and German forces led by General John Burgoyne. The British strategy in confronting the Americans in...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-09-09
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Quantifiable citizenship in the form of birth certificates, census forms, and immigration quotas is so ubiquitous that today it appears ahistorical. Yet before the modern colonial era, there was neither a word for "population" in the sense of numbers of people, nor...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-08-02
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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...
Editeur :
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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In his 1933 inaugural address, Franklin D. Roosevelt declared that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Yet even before Pearl Harbor, Americans feared foreign invasions, air attacks, biological weapons, and, conversely, the prospect of a dictatorship being...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-02
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In the decades before the Revolution, Americans and Britons shared an imperial approach to helping those in need during times of disaster and hardship. They worked together on charitable ventures designed to strengthen the British empire, and ordinary men and women made...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-01
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Finalist for the American Jewish Studies cateogry of the 2016 National Jewish Book Awards
Early in the 1800s, American Jews consciously excluded rabbinic forces from playing a role in their community's development. By the final decades of the century, ordained rabbis...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2016-06-01
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Media practices and the everyday cultures of transnational migrants are deeply interconnected. Mediating Migration narrates aspects of the migrant experience as shaped by the technologies of communication and the social, political and cultural configurations of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2016-05-27
Collection :
Global Media and Communication
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When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-26
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When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States." Fifteen years later he was both. Easily one of the most...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2016-05-26
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The third edition of author Richard O. Davies' highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of sports to the larger themes...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2016-05-23
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