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Staging chinese revolution
Staging Chinese Revolution surveys fifty years of theatrical propaganda performances in China, revealing a dynamic, commercial capacity in works often dismissed as artifacts of censorship.
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The forgotten borough
What sets Staten Island apart from the rest of New York City? Kenneth M. Gold argues that the lack of a subway connection has deeply shaped Staten Island’s history and identity. He chronicles decades of recurrent efforts to build a rail link, using this history to explore the borough’s fraught re...
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Frozen and forgotten conflicts in the post-soviet states
Unsettled and uncertain situations still persist in the former Soviet states of Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, posing a serious threat to the stability of civil society, democratic institutions, and the pursuit of human rights. The cry "no peace, no war" drives the consolidation of se...
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The metamorphoses of fat
Tracing the link between changing attitudes toward body size and modern conceptions of class, society, and self.
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Shanghai’s dancing world
Drawing upon a unique and untapped reservoir of newspapers, magazines, novels, government documents, photographs and illustrations, this book traces the origin, pinnacle, and ultimate demise of a commercial dance industry in Shanghai between the end of the First World War and the early years of t...
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Consumer politics in postwar japan
Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection legi...
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Art and politics in china, 1949–1984
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Futures past
Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this ...
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The machine has a soul
A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed anxieties about a decline in moral values, the erosion of families and communities, and the decay of dem...
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A velvet empire
How France's elites used soft power to pursue their imperial ambitions in the nineteenth centuryAfter Napoleon's downfall in 1815, France embraced a mostly informal style of empire, one that emphasized economic and cultural influence rather than military conquest. A Velvet Empire is a global hist...
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Britain’s empires
A history of the many different British Empires – the Old Colonial System (1600-1776), the Empire of Free Trade (1776-1870), the New Imperialism (1870-1945), Decolonisation (1945-1990) and the era of humanitarian intervention (1990-2020). Britain’s Empires aims to tell the story of the colonial p...
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Moscow monumental
An in-depth history of the Stalinist skyscraperIn the early years of the Cold War, the skyline of Moscow was forever transformed by a citywide skyscraper building project. As the steel girders of the monumental towers went up, the centuries-old metropolis was reinvented to embody the greatness of...
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Anne boleyn & elizabeth i
Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth Much of the fascination with Britain’s legendary Tudors centers around the dramas sur...
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Flight of the wasp
Fifteen families. Four hundred years. The complex saga of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite in America’s history. For decades, writers from Cleveland Amory to Joseph Alsop to the editors of Politico have proclaimed the diminishment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, who for generations w...
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In france profound
From the National Book Award-longlisted author of Finding Florida, a sparkling, sweeping chronicle of the author’s life and discoveries in an ancient town in “Deep France,” from nearby prehistoric caves to medieval dynastic struggles to the colorful characters populating the area today When T. D...
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Victory '45
On the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, two acclaimed historians chronicle the remarkable stories behind the surrenders that ended the world’s most catastrophic global conflictIn May 1945 and then again in August and early September, the seemingly endless World War II finally came to ...
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The unvanquished
From the bestselling author of The Indispensables, the unknown and dramatic story of irregular guerrilla warfare that altered the course of the Civil War and inspired the origins of America’s modern special operations forcesThe Civil War is most remembered for the grand battles that have come to ...
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The rituals of dinner
“One of the most important books ever written about food.”—Bee WilsonA New York Times Notable Book from one of our sharpest, most irresistibly witty writers, Margaret Visser’s feast of fact The Rituals of Dinner is the definitive history of one of our most primal rituals: the mealThe cult classic...
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The stolen crown
“Compelling and brilliant—don’t miss it!”—Alison WeirFrom the acclaimed royal historian, the dramatic and untold story of the lie about the controversial succession that ended the Tudor era and changed the course of British historyIn the long and dramatic annals of British history, no transition ...
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Reproducing, rethinking, resisting national narratives
This volume explores "schematic narrative templates," a concept by James V. Wertsch, examining how these templates shape national narratives and collective memory. It includes contributions from various disciplines, focusing on nationalism and memory in different cultural contexts.
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Scottish castles
Gazetteer of over 500 hundred surviving Scottish Castles.Discover the castles of Scotland, from early "motte and bailey" earthworks and impressive walled enclosures to the many tower houses that dot the landscape. Castles were built in increasing numbers from the 14th to the 17th century, as resi...
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Origins of the ottoman dynasty
Origins of the Ottoman Dynasty: A Philological Exploration of Its Earliest Account is a groundbreaking book. It is about the oldest annalistic account of Ottoman history that has come down to us. It is simply crucial for researching and teaching Ottoman history at every major university in the wo...
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The black antifascist tradition
The story of the fight against fascism across the African diaspora, revealing that Black antifascism has always been vital to global freedom struggles. At once a history for understanding fascism and a handbook for organizing against, The Black Antifascist Tradition is an essential book for unde...
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The diplomacy of independence
Presenting more than seventy documents from Spanish archives that provide a rare glimpse into Benjamin Franklin’s connection to Spain.Although Benjamin Franklin never set foot in Spain, from 1774 until his death in 1790 he maintained contact and correspondence with a wide range of Spanish officia...
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Magdalena coline
The courtroom drama that denied the legitimacy of slavery in late medieval EuropeIn 1387, a young Muslim woman from North Africa was captured on a galley in the Bay of Naples and brought to Marseille as a slave. For more than ten years, she was held in bondage to a shipwright and privateer named ...
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All our trials
A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles. This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed scholar-activist Sarah Haley and an afterword by Thuma. ...
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The book of the deeds of the good knight jacques de lalaing
Contains detailed, eyewitness accounts of the most memorable exploits of a man fit to be memorialised as a model of ideal knighthood.'My honoured lord, I am sending you certain recollections of the high and admirable deeds of arms performed in the lists by your late son Jacques de Lalaing... But ...
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Benjamin franklin in american thought and culture, 1790-1990
How Benjamin Franklin’s life and legacy have been used, misused, interpreted, and reinterpreted throughout American history and popular cultureA teenage runaway whose face later appeared on the one-hundred-dollar bill, as well as the man who penned Poor Richard’s Almanac and later helped shape th...
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Water from the rock
A multifaceted history of Black resistance during the War of IndependenceThe American Revolution brought about violent and unpredictable social changes throughout the new nation, particularly in the South. Sylvia Frey reveals how slave resistance gave rise to a Black liberation movement that was ...
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Tom paine's iron bridge
In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having “a better hand at pulling down than building.” Adams’s dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing view of Tom Paine ever since. But, as Edward G. Gray shows in this fresh, illuminating work, Paine was ...
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Women in the factory, 1880-1930
A rich and detailed picture, across Britain and many other European countries, of the nature of women's factory work, the problems which arose and how women factory inspectors understood and reacted to the problems.Based on extensive original archival research both in Britain and in many European...
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Hollywood or history?
This book addresses the impact of traumagenic events on K-12 students and the social studies curriculum. It offers 20 lessons using film to explore themes like political trauma, war, and genocide. Each lesson includes film clips, strategies, and sources, helping teachers acknowledge trauma in the...
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The american revolution considered as a social movement
A centennial edition of the classic work that instilled a liberal spirit into the study of American historyJ. Franklin Jameson’s The American Revolution Considered as a Social Movement was among the first books to look at American history through the lens of social change. This pioneering work ar...
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What is history for?
“History”, suggests Robert Gildea, “is a battlefield.” Questions of power, rights, identity and nationhood always have an ancient and modern historical dimension and countries still go to war over their interpretation of history. Yet accounts of history are just as prone to fabrication as fake ne...
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People of the watershed
"John Macfie’s vivid and stirring photographs show a way of life on full display—the world my ancestors inhabited and that my mom fondly described to me. It is a world that, shortly after these pictures were taken, ended. So distant and yet achingly familiar, these pictures feel like a visit home...
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The great leveler
How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequalit...
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History education and historical inquiry
This volume explores the role of historical inquiry in history education, addressing its meaning, forms, and effectiveness in classrooms. It presents seventeen papers from eight countries, offering insights into teachers' inquiry practices and the impact on students' historical learning.
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The other presidency
In The Other Presidency, Patrick Spero resurrects an overlooked but essential part of Thomas Jefferson’s life. For nearly seventeen years, Jefferson served as President of the American Philosophical Society (APS), the nation’s first learned society and one dedicated to promoting new research in t...
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Europe without borders
The contested creation of free movement—for people and goods—in the Schengen area of EuropeEurope is a place of free movement among nations—or is it? The Schengen area, established in 1985 and today encompassing twenty-nine European countries, allows people, goods, and capital to cross borders wi...
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Co-operativism and local development in cuba
A series of pathbreaking essays on the role of co-operativism, and the new co-operatives, in the democratic transformation of Cuba.
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Perestroika and the party
While studies of the impact of Gorbachev-era reforms have overwhelmingly focused on the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc nations, this ambitious collection assesses their historical trajectories on both sides of the Iron Curtain. It moves beyond domestic politics and narrowly defined foreign relat...
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In the matter of nat turner
A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children. After more than two months in hiding, Turner was captured, a...
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Catholic england
Aims to assess the spiritual state of England under Catholicism, before the onslaught of the Reformation. It covers the Latin and the Wycliffite bibles, the way Catholicism was disseminated, the mass, parish celebrations, pilgrimage, indulgences, security for the dead and more.
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Remaking the republic
Citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States was an ever-moving target. The Constitution did not specify its exact meaning, leaving lawmakers and other Americans to struggle over the fundamental questions of who could be a citizen, how a person attained the status, and the particular privi...
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The holocaust in bohemia and moravia
This book is the only recent account on the Holocaust in Bohemia Moravia (Last in English 15 years ago) Study is based on tons of new and unknown material , including weekly Jewish community reports to Eichmann, For the first time includes emphasis on individual and collective respon...
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The lives and extraordinary adventures of fifteen tramp writers from the golden age of vagabondage
Discover the stories of the famous and infamous tramps who criss-crossed the United States and England in this riveting history of tramp literature.
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A brotherhood of liberty
Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory of civil rights in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuryIn A Brotherhood of Liberty, Dennis Patrick Halpin shifts the focus of the black freedom struggle from the Deep South to argue that Baltimore is key to understanding the trajectory o...
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Revolution and the state
Rank-and-file anarchists during the Spanish Revolution found themselves pitted against their own comrades who were participating in the coalition government.
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