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Tracing the religious history of Siler City, North Carolina, Chad E. Seales argues that southern whites cultivated their own regional brand of American secularism and employed it, alongside public religious performances, to claim and regulate public spaces. Over the...
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Oxford University Press
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2013-11-13
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What did Lee Harvey Oswald do in the 48 hours after he shot President John F. Kennedy? This riveting companion to the upcoming History Channel documentary follows Oswald in the immediate aftermath of the assassination, searching for the answers to the questions that...
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Union Square & Co.
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2013-11-05
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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...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Mountain of Paradise challenges conventional taxonomies of world civilizations by introducing a new and formidable candidate: the civilization of Greater California presently incubating as the evolution of California into a veritable «nation-state» or «world...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2013-11-04
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What role should the United Nations play in a globalising world? How can it support and embody international democracy? The decline of state sovereignty, an effect of globalisation, is bringing about a crisis both in politics, as a tool to pursue the common good, and in...
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
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2013-11-04
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Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit der nuklearen Komponente der Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik der Ära Adenauer. Auf breiter Quellenbasis und unter Einbeziehung bisher unbenutzter Dokumente werden deutsche Bemühungen geschildert, unterschiedliche Zugänge zu nuklearer...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2013-11-04
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Born in Guadeloupe in 1897, Stephanie St. Clair entered the United States thirteen years later. By 1923 at the age of twenty-six she would create and manage a highly lucrative policy bank in Harlem – earning a quarter of a million dollars a year. To this day, she...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2013-11-01
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Assassination? Conspiracy? Evidence of the shocking truth is finally revealed.'Shocking new details' - Herald SunOn 22nd November 1963, the 35th president of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and his wife Jackie were taking part in a presidential motorcade...
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Hachette Australia
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2013-10-23
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It might not be in your lifetime', said the Chief Justice of the United States when asked whether the files on the assassination of President Kennedy would be made public. If the President was killed by a lone gunman, as the first official enquiry claimed, why can we...
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Headline
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2013-10-10
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Americans have never been more concerned about their food's purity. The organic trade association claims that three-quarters of all consumers buy organic foods each year, spending billions of dollars
"Dairy farm families, health officials, and food manufacturers have...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-08
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In Young Mr. Roosevelt Stanley Weintraub evokes Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political and wartime beginnings. An unpromising patrician playboy appointed assistant secretary of the Navy in 1913, Roosevelt learned quickly and rose to national visibility in World War...
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Grand Central Publishing
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2013-10-08
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America is Elsewhere provides a rigorous and creative reconsideration of hard-boiled crime fiction and the film noir tradition within three related postwar contexts: 1) the rise of the consumer republic in the United States after World War II 2) the challenge to...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Winner of the Mormon History Association Best Book Award
What do Americans really think about Mormons, and why? Through a fascinating survey of Mormon encounters with the media, including such personalities and events as the Osmonds, the Olympics, the Tabernacle Choir,...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-10-01
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Part of a series of biographies of statesmen and women who have shaped the modern world, this book concerns Martin Luther King, who from both the pulpit and from jail, inspired black Americans to defy white supremacy and in so doing, re-invigorated American democracy.
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Abacus
Parution :
2013-09-26
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In summer 1927, America had a booming stock market, a president who worked just four hours a day (and slept much of the rest), a devastating flood of the Mississippi, a sensational murder trial, and an unknown aviator named Charles Lindbergh who became the most famous...
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Transworld Digital
Parution :
2013-09-26
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A Short History of the Modern Media presents a concise history of the major media of the last 150 years, including print, stage, film, radio, television, sound recording, and the Internet. Offers a compact, teaching-friendly presentation of the history of mass media...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2013-09-25
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Twenty-five years after its original publication, Oxford has released a new edition of Sterling Stuckey's ground-breaking study, Slave Culture. A leading cultural historian and authority on slavery, Stuckey explains how different African peoples interacted on the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-25
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From famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation, comes Command and Control a ground-breaking account of the management of nuclear weaponsA groundbreaking account of accidents, near-misses, extraordinary heroism and technological...
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Penguin
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2013-09-17
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They had 99 problems but Mitt Romney wasn't one. At the start of an epic election, the team trying to reelect President Obama faced a mountain of challenges: a dismal economy, the faded hopes of the first campaign, and a struggle to raise enough cash to compete. No...
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Twelve
Parution :
2013-09-17
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Winner, Library of Virginia Literary Award for Nonfiction
Winner, Eugene Feit Award in Civil War Studies, New York Military Affairs Symposium
Winner of the Dan and Marilyn Laney Prize of the Austin Civil War Round Table
Finalist, Jefferson Davis Award of the Museum of...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2013-09-06
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