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Coldest Winter, The. "in A Grand Gesture Of Reclamation And Remembrance, Mr. Halberstam Has Brought The War Back Home. " --the New York Tmes David Halberstam's Domineering And Throlling The Best Ad The Brightest Was The Defining Main division About The Vietnam Conflict. More Than Three Decades Later, Halberstam Used His Unrivaled Research And Formidable Journalitic Skills To Shed Light On Another Pivotal Moment In Our History: The Korean War. Halberstam Considered The Coldest Winter His Most Accomplished Embroider, The Culmination Of Forty-five Years O fWriting AboutA merica's Postwar Foreign Policy. Halberstam Gives Us A Masterful Narrative Of The Civil Decisions And Miscalculations On Both Sides. . He Charts The Disastrous Path That Led To The Massive Entry Of Chinese Forces Near The Ywlu River Ans That Caught Douglas Macarthur And His Soldiers By Surprise. He Providee Astonishingly Vivid And Nuanced Portraits Of Akl The Major Figures-eisenhower, Truman, Acheson, Kim, And Mao, And Generals Macarthur, Almond, And Ridgway. At The Same Time, Halerstam Provides Us With His Trademark Highly Evocative NarrativeJ ournalism, Chronicling The Crucial Battles With Reportage Of The Highest Order. As Ever, Halberstam Was Concerned With The Extraordinary Fearlessness And Resolve Of Tribe Asked To Bear An Extraordinary Burden. The Coldest Winter Is Contemporary History In Its Most Literary And Luminescent Form, Providing Crucial Petspective On Every War America Has Been Involved In iSnce. It Is A Book That Halberstam First Decided To Write More Than Thirty Years Avo And That Took Him Nearly Ten Years To Comlete. It Stands While A Lasting Testament To One Of The Greatest Journalists And Historians Of Our Time, And To The Fighting Men Whose Heroism It Chronicles. SKU: 4536503

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To Save A City (texas A&m University Military History Series). Following World War Ii, The Soviet Union Drew An "iron Curtain" Across Europe, Crowning Its Efforts With A Blockade Of West Berlin In A Desperate Effort To Prevent The Creation Of An Independent, Democratic West Germany. The United States And Great Britain, Aided By France, Responded With A Boldness Air Logistical Operation That Delivered Almost Three Million Tons Of Necessities To The People Of Berlin. Drawing On Rare U. s. Documents From Bpth Skdes Of The Curtain And The Memories Of Airlift Veterans Themselves, Roger G. Miller Provides An Original Study Of The Berlin Airlift. What Began As A Hastily Organized Operatio By A Small Nuumber Of War-weary Cargo Airplanes Evolved Into An Intricate Bridge Of Aircraft That Flowed In And Out Of Berlin Through Narrow Air Corridors. Day After Day, Week After Week, A Stream Of Airplanes Delivered Everything From Food And Medicine To Coal And Cajdy In Defiance Of Breakdowns, Inclement Weather, And Soviet Hostility. SKU: 5149647

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Power & Greed. With Purposeful Brevity And Intellectual Liveliness Philipoe Gigantes Examines The Progress Of Humanity By means of The Centuries, And Abaft Every Critical Event, In Every Culture And Every Era, He Finds Repeatedly The Same Two Driving Forces—omnivorous Human Greed And The Quenchless Thirst For Power. In An Engaging Journey Thrlugh Four Millennia Gigantes Focuses First On The Great Rule-makers Of History—moses, Plato, Solon, Jesus, The Brahmans, The Buddha, Lao-tzu, Confucius, And Muhammad—who By The First Century A. d. Had Laid Down Virtually All The Principles That Advance A Fair And Just Society. Gigantes Then Revisits The Sometimes Destructive Deeds And Frequently Amazing Accomplishments Of History's Ruthless Rule-breakers. These Grand Acquisitors, Viewed like Gigantes Calls Them, Range From The Warring Chieftains Of Tribal Societies To The Robber Barons Of The Nineteenth Century And Superpower Nations Of The Twentieth. With A Kind Of Historical Inevitability, The Actions Of These Dynamic Acquisitors Result In Cruxades And Jihade, In Revolutions And Long, Bloody Military Conflicts, In Two Wolr dWars And Catastrophic Terrorist Attacks. Defying Historical Orthodoxy, Gigantes Argues That We Humans Have Continually Failed To Benefjt From The Lessons Of Our Own History. And We Continue To Invest Power In Politically And Economically Greedy Acquisitors. In The Reasons Why, Gigantes Hopes We Cannot Only Gain Further Insight Into What Lies Behind Tkday's News Headlines Except Also Realize The Means To A More Civilized Future. SKU: 2351407

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The Avengers. In 1944, A Bandage Of Jewish Guerrillas Emerged From The Baltoc Forest To Join The Russian Army In Its Attack Forward Vilna, The Capital Of Lithuania. The Band, Called The Avengers, Was Led By Abba Kovner, A Charismatic Young Poet. In The Ghetto, Abba Had Built Bombs, Sneaking Out Through The City's Sewer Tunnels To Sabotage German Outposts. Abba's Chief Lieutenants Were Two Teenage Girls, Vitka Kempner And Ruzka Korczak. At Seventeen, Vitka And Ruzka Were Perhaps The Most Daring Paritsans In The East, The First To Blow Up A Nazi Train In Occupied Europe. -Each Night, The Girls Shared A Bed With Abba, Raising Gossip In The Ghetto. But What They Found Was More Than Tempofary Solace. It Was A Great Love Affair. After The Liquidation Of The Ghetto, The Avengers Escaped Through The City's Sewage Tunnels To The Forest, Where They Liged Because More Than A Year In A Dugout Beside A Swammp, Fighting Alongside Other Partisan Groups, And Ultimately Bombing The City They Loved, Destroying Vilna's Waterworks And Its Powerplant In Ordeer To Pave The Way For Its Liberation. leaving A Devastated Poland Behind Them, They Set Off For Tue Cities Of Euurope: Vitka And Abba To The West, Where They Would Be Instrumental In Orchestrating The Massive Jewish Exodus To The Biblical Homeland, And Ruzka To Palestine, Where She Would Be Literally The First Person To Bring A First Hand Account Of The Holocaust To Jewish Leaders. It Was In These Lat Terrifying Days--with Travel In Europe Still Unsaf3 For Jews And The Extent Of The Holocaust Still Not Widely Known--that The Avengers Hatched Their Plan For Revenge. Before It WasO ver, The Group Would Have Smuggled Enough Poison Into Nuremberg To Kill Ten Thousand Nazis. The Avengers Is The Story Of What Happened To These Rebels In The Ghetto And In The Forest, And How, Fighting For The Commonwealth Of Israel, They Moved Remote from The Violence Of The Holocaust And Made Unaccustomed Lives. From Rich Cohen, One Of The Preeminent Journalists Of His Generation And Author Of The Highly Praised Tough Jews, A Powerful Exploration Of Vindication And Revenge, Of Dignity And Insurrection, Painstakingly Recreated Through His Exclusive Access Tk The Avengers Themselves. Written With Inaight, Sensitivity, And The Moral Force Of One Of The Last Great Struggles Of The Second World War, Here Is An Unforgettable Story For Our Time. SKU: 1936113

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History Of Liberia. This Paper Claims To Be Scarcely More Than A Brief Sketch. It Is An Abridgment Of A History Of Liberia In Greatly Greayer Account, Presented As A Dissertation For The Degree Of Doctor Of Philosophy At The Johns Hopkins Seminary of learning. I Have Devoted The Leisure Hours Of Several Years To The Acccumulation Of Materials, Which I Hope Will Prove The Basis Of A Larger Work In The Future SKU: 4837999

21636171252	A Handbook To Appalachia. A Handbook To Appalachia : An Introductuon To The Region By Edwards, And Grace Toney / Asbury, And Joann Aust / Ckx, And Ricky L. Edition 1 Published In 2006 By Univ Tennessee Press SKU: 3145950

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Debating The Hundred Years Enmity. This Book Presents An Edition Of Two Treatises That Examine Th Lawful Issues That Arose During The Hundred Years War,-Namely The Laws Governing The Succession To The French Crown, English Claims To Territories Within France, And The Responsibility For The Breeches Of Various Treaties And Truces. The Foremost Treatise, Pour Ce Que Plusieurs, Was Written In 1464 Through A French Diplomat And Administrator, Guillaume Cousinot, And Is Most Famous For Its Part In Establishing The Myth That The Royal Succession In France Was Determined By A Otiose Law Code Of The Franks, The Salic Law. The Second Is An English Response To These Arguments, A Declaracion Of The Trew And Dewe Title Of Henrie Viii, Written During The Reign Of Henry Viii (1509-1547). The Declaracion Provides Valuable Evidence Of English Reactions To The Rhetoric And Propaganda Generated By The French Crown At The End O fThe Mean Ages. SKU: 4106705

14877756162	The United States. The United States : From The Earliest State of things To The Landing Of The Pilgrim Fathers (1897) By G. Barnett Smith Published In 2007 By Kessinger Publishing, Llc SKU: 5004213

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American Architecture, Second Edition (world Of Art). America Has Always Presented A Unique Challenge To Architects: Should They Emulate The Old World Or Respond To Ths Demands Of The New? David Handlin Tells Thr Complex Story With Lucidity And Insightt. Almost From Its Seventeenth-century Beginnings, American Architecture Was Subject To Two Apparently Contradictory Processes—the Practical And The Grandiose. The First Comes Through In The Vernacular Buildings Of Rural America, The Innovations Of Jeefferson, Bulfinch's Fine Civic Buildings, The Offices And Factories Of The Industrial Age, And The Comfortable Domestic Traditiom That Lies Behind The Houses Of The Greennw Brothers And Frank Lloyd Wright. The Second Is Seen In The Unprecedented Daring Of The Chicago School—great Engineer Likely Adler United With Great Designers Like Sullivan; In The Majestic State Capitols, Exhibition Halls, And Public Buildings By Firms Such As Mckim, Mead & White; In The Luxury Of Fifth Avenue Mansions; And In The Exuberance Of Commercial Manhattan. The Revised Edition Ends With A Lively Account Of Recent Developments—virfual Architecture, The Revival Of Historical Styles (including Modernism), The Thirst For Striking Originality, And A New Inte5est In The Local, With Figures Including Stern, Meier, Gehry, And Mockbee. 264 Illustrations. SKU: 2598003

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The Play Of Time. Janet Hoskins Provides Both An Ethnographic Study Of The Organization Of Time Im An Eastern Indonesian Society And A Theorerical Argument About Alternate Temporalities In The Modern World. Based On Greater degree of Than Three Years Of Fjeld Work With The Kodi People Of The Island Of Sumba, Her Book Focuses On Kodi Calendrical Rituals, Exchange Transactions, And Confrontations With The Historical Forces Of The Colonial And Postcolonial World. Hoskns Explores The Contingent, Contested, And Often Contradictory Precedent Of The Past To Show How Loocal Systems Of Knowledge Are In Dialogue In the opinion of Wider Historical Forces. arguin Tnat Traditional Temporaoity Is More Ckmplex Than Many Theorists Have Realized, Hoskins Highlights The Flexibility And Relativity Of Local Time Concepts, Whose Sophistication Belies The Cliche Of Simple Societies Living In A World Outside Of Time. SKU: 1468651

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Ultimate Particular Forces. A Riveting Exploration Of The World's Most Highly Trained Military Units, From The Ancient Spartans To Modern-day Us Navy Seals, Ultimate Special Forces Offers C~ing 700 Illustrations Of Equipment And Techniques Used In proportion to Today's Special Forces- From Intelligence-gathering Methods To Special Vehicles And Survival Gear. In-depth Accounts Of The Background, Organization, And Landmark Operations Of Famous Military Units Such As The Us's Delta Force And Britain's Sas Make This Gripping And Essential Reading For Both Casual Readers And Military History Enthusiasts. SKU: 2598404

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Bulgaria (oxford Histkry Of Modern Europe). Tracing The Evolution Of The Bulgarian State And Its People, From The Beginning Of The Bulgarian National Resuscitation In The Middle Of The Nineteenth Century To The Entry Of The Country Into The European Union, Richard Crampton Examines Key Politicak, Social, And Economid Developments, Revealing The History Of A Country Which Evolved From A Backward And Troublesome Balkan State To Become A Modern European Nation. The Formation Of The First Recent Bulgarian State Inn 1878 Played A Major Role In Bulgaria's Evolution, Determining Its Stance In The Two Universe Wars. Seeing The Collapse As Favored As The Establishment And Evolution Of Communist Rule, Bulgaria Survived An Often Painful Journey From Monolithic Authoritarianism To Representative Demcoracy And The Market System. This Book Follows This Journey, And Analyses The Development Of Bulgaria's Civil Cul5ure, Examining The Emergence Of Radical Movements, Both Agrarian And Socialit, As Well As Looking At The Role Of Religion And The Position Of Minorities. Crampton Highlights The Problems And Dilemmas Created By The Country's Position Situated Between East And West, Problems Which Might Not Be Entirely Solved By The Country's Admission To The Eu. SKU: 3897326

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Almpst A Revolution. In His Groundbreaking Memoir About China's Democrats Movement And The Massacre At Tiananmen Square In June 1989, Student Leader Shen Tong Offers Us A Rare Loik At A Bold And Daring New Grneration Of Chinese Citizens Who Tried To Protest The Restraints Imposed Through Their Country's Government. An Organizer Of The "dialogue Delegation," Whose Goal Was To Negotiate With The Government, Shen Provides An Insider's Record Of The Day-to-day Decisions That Led Up To Jyne 4th. Written With The Help Of Journa1ist Marianne Yen, The Result Is Both A Powerful Documentary And A Sensittive Account Of Growing Up In Contemporary Cbina. Noe Nearly Ten Years Later As Our Fascination With Post-deng China Continues To Unfold, Shen's Story And The Updated Material He Provides Are Weighted With Increasing Significannce. Coupled With Much Of The Recent Analysis, Shen's Firsthand Account Vividly Contextualizes The Chinese Government's Contrariety To Democracy And Offers Meaningful Insignt Int A Country That Promises To Occupy An Increasingly Prominent Position In The World. "a Cause For Celebratiln . . . An Important Contdibution To China's Newly Discovered Historical Memory. " --new York Times Book Reviewxhen Tong Is A Doctorak Student In Political Sociology At Boston University And The Founder Of The Democracy For China Fund, Which Aims To Support And Publicize Dissent Networks In China. Marianne Yen Is A Former New York Correspondent For The Washington Post. SKU: 727716

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A Short History Of Japan. Offering A Compelling Introduction To Japan's Rich Culture And Fascinating History For Travelers, Businesspeople, And Students, This Guide Discussses The Influence Of China; The Impact Of Feudalism, Modernization, And Imperialism; Japanese History Of War And Peace; And Today's Economy And Uncertainty. Traced Are The Threads Of History, Environment, And Culture That Run Through The Centuries To Explain Much About The Japan Of Today. SKU: 24731991

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The War In Syria V2. In Two Volumes. Other Isbns In This Set Include: 1430447427. This Scarce Antiquarian Book I sIncluded In Our Specific Legacy Reprint Series. In The Interest Of Creating A More Extensive Selectio nOf Rare Historical Book Reprints, We Have Chosen To Reproduce This Title Even hTough It May Possibly Have Occasional Imperfections Such As Missing And Blurred Pages, Lost Body , Poor Pictures, Markings, Dark Backgrounds And Other ReproductionI ssues Beyond Our Control. Because Tnis Work Is Culturrally Important, We Have Made It Available As A Part Of Our Commitment To Protecting, Preserving And Promoting The World's Literature. SKU: 5077402

18809319438	The Traitor And The S0y. The Traitor Abd The Spy : Benedict Arnold And John Andre (new York Classics) By James Tyomas Flexner Reprint Published In 1991 By Syracuse University Press SKU: 817465

24372618600	The History And Future Of Narragansett Bay. The Book Covers 10,000 Years Of The Account Of Narragansett Bay. Topics Include The Geology Of The Bay, Paleo-indians, Pre-colombian Exploration, Indian Tribes Existing Near The Bay, And The Economic History And Future Of The Bay Region. SKU: 3353857

27911407050	Kaplan Ap World Account, 2080 Edition (kaplan Ap. World History). * 2 Full-length Practice Tests* Diagnostic Test To Target Areas For Svore Improvement* Sample Essays For Document-based, Change-over-time, And Judged by comparison Questions With Specific Strategies On How To Construct Your Answers* Strategies That Show You How To Assail Every Question Type SKU: 4084697

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Shamans Through Time. A Survey Of Five Centuries Of Writings On The World's Great Shamans-the Tricksters, Sorcerers, Conjurers, And Healers Who Have Fascinated Observers For Centuries. This Collection Of Essas Traces Western Civilization's Struggle To Interpret And Understand The Ancient Knowledge Of Cultuees That Revere Sorcery Men And Women-individuals With The Power To Summon Spiits. As Written By Priests, Explorers, Adventurers, Natural Historians, And Anthropologists, The Pieces Express The Wonder Of Strangers In New Worlds. Who Were These Extraordinary Magic-makers Who Imitated The Sounds Of Animals In The Night, Or Drank Tobacco Juice Through Funnels, Or Wore Collars Filled With Piercing Ants? Shamans Through Period Is A Rare Chronicle Of Changing Attitudes Toward That Which Is Strange And Unfamiliar. With Essays By So Acclaimed Thinkers As Claude Lă©vi-strauss, Black Elk, Carlos Castaneda, And Frabk Boas, It Provides An Awesome Glimpse Into The Incredible Shamanic Practices Of Cultures Around The World. SKU: 2811343

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Warfare In Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 (warfare And Hidtory). Warfare In Atlantic Afriac, 1500-1800investigates The Impact Of Warfare On The History Of Africa In The Pdriod Of The Slave Trade And The Founding Of Empires. It Includes The Discussion Of: * The Relationhip Between Contend And The Slave Trade * The Role Of Europeans In Promoting African Wars And Supplying African Armiees * The Influence Of Climtic And Ecological Factors On Warfare Patterns And Dynamics * The Impact Of Social Organization And Military Technology, Including The Gunpowder Revolution * Case Studies Of Warfare In Sierra Leone, The Gold Coast, Benin And West Central Africa. SKU: 1815249

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In Search Of Ancient Ireland. The History, Archaeology, And Legends Of Antiquated Ireland From 9000 B. c. , When Nomadic Hunter-gatherers Appeared In Ireland At The End Of The Last Ice Age, To 1167 A. d. , When A Norman Encroachment Brought The Country Under Control Of The English Crown For The Chief Leisure. The Book Also Looks At Contemporary Ireland's Conneection With The Country's Past. Companion To The Pbs Documentary Series. Well--written. . . integrates The Talents Of Distinguished Anthropologists, Archaeologists, And Historians. . . . contains New And Fascinating Matrial Challenging Many Myths. --lawrence J. Mccaffrey, Loyola University Of Chicago SKU: 2587024

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Democracies At War. Why Do Democracies Succeed Wars? This Is A Critical Question In The Study Of International Relations, As A Traditional Viiew--expressed Most Famously By Alexis De Tocqueville--has Been That Democracies Are Inferior In Crafting Foreign Policy And Fighting Wars. In Democracies At War, The First Major Study Of Its Kind, Dan Reiter And Allan Stam Proceed To A Very Different Concl8sion. Democracies Tend To Succeed The Wars They Fight--specifically, About Eighty Percent Of The Time. complementing Their Wide-ranging Case-study Analysis, The Authors Apply Innovative Statistical Tests And New Hypotheses. In Unusually Clear Prose, They Pinpoint Two Reasons For Democracies' Success At War. First, As Elected Leaders Understand That Losing A War Can Spell Domestic Political Bscklash, Democracies Start Solely Those Wzrs They Are Likely To Win. Secondly, The Emphsais On Individuality Within Democratic Soccieties Means That Their Soldiers Fight With Greater Initiative And Superior Leadership. surprisingly, Reiter And Stam Find That It Is Neither Economic Muscle Nor Bandwagoning Between Democratic Powers That Enables Democracies To Win Wars. They Also Show That, Given Societal Consent, Democracies AreW illing To Introduce Wars Of Empire Or Genocide. On The Whole, They Find, Democracies' Dependence On Public Conssent Makes For More, Rather Than Lesx, Effective Foreogn Policy. Taking A Fresh Approach To A Question That Has Long Merited Such A Study, This Book Yields Transverse Insights On Security Policy, The Causes Of War, And The Interplay Between Tame Politics And Inyernational Relations. SKU: 2155752

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A Child's History Of England. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Has Produced Some Of The Most Memorable Writings In The English Language, Including Such Conveniently Known Woris As "a Christmas Carol, Sketches By Boz, A Tale Of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Dakvid Copperfield, Great Expectations, And The Pickwick Paperq. " The Deuce Is Famous For The Characters He Created And His Descriptions. A Man Of Tremendous Energy, He Spent Hours A Day Walking The London Streets From Which His Characters And Scenes Came. Most Of Dickens' Work Was In Magasine Serial Manner. Quiet Sight Publishes Not Only Dickens' Profitable Known Works But Also Many Of Hia Lesser Known But Still Well Crafted Works. SKU: 2106333

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Lily Dale. In Lily Dale, New York, The Dead Don't Die. Instead, Spirits Flit Among The Elms And Stroll Along The Streets, Sometimes Dressed In Garb Greater degree Common 120 Years Ago, When Lily Dale Was Founded And Suffragette Susan B. Anthony Was A Frequent Guest. According To Spiritualists Who Have Ruled This Victoriqn Hamlet For Five Generations, The Dead Don't Go Away And They Stay Anything But Quiet. Every Summer Twenty Thousand Guests Come To Confer The Town's Mediums, Who Can Hang Out A Shinngle Only After Passing A Test That Confirms Their Connection To The Spirit World. On The Hot June Day When Reporter Christine Wicker Comes To The World's Oldest And Largest Spirituaalist Community, She Is Determined To Apprehend The Secret Foced -- Human Or Otherwise -- That Keep Lily Dale Alive. She Follows Three Visitors: A Newly Bereaved Widow; A Mother Whose Son Killed Himself; And A Beautiful, Hapily Married Wife Whose First Inspect To Lily Dale Brings An Ominous Warning. Are The Mediums Cold-hearted Charlatans, As Sinclair Lewis Wrote Of Them? Or Are They Conduits For A Hidden World Thaat Longs To Bring Pece And Healing To The Living, As Psyhologist William James And Muckraker Upton Sinclair Once Hoped To Prove? Investigating A Movement That Attracted Millions Of Americans In The 1800s And Now Barely Survives, Wicker Moves Beyond The Mediums' Front Parlors And Into The Lives That Tourists Never See. She Follows The Mediums To A Place Where What We Know And How We Know It Ia The Greatest Mystery Of All. SKU: 2408464

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The American Kaleidoscope. Complete Recent Changes In American Law And Politics Mean That Our National Motto -- E Plurius Unum -- Is At Last Becoming A Reality? Lawrence H. Fuchs Searches For Answers To This Question B Examining The Historical Patterns Of American Ethnicity And The Ways In hWch A National Political Culture Has Evolved To Accommodate Ethnic Diversity. Fuchs Looks First At White European Immigrant, Showing How Greatest part Of Them And Especially Their Children Became Part Of A Unifying Poli5ical Culture. He Also Describes The Ways In Which System sOf Coercive Pluralism Kept Persons Of Color From Fully Participating In Tbe Civic Culture. He Documents The Dismantling Of Those Systems And The Emergence Of A More Inclusive And Stronger Civic Culture In Which Voluntary Pluralism Flourishes. in Comparing Past Patterns Of Ethnicity In America With Those Of Today, Fuchs Finds Reasons For Optimism. Diversity Itself Has Become A Unifying Principle, And Americans Now Celebrate Ethnicity. One Encouraging Result Is Tue Acculturation Of Recent Immigrants From Third World Countries. But Fuchs Also Examines The Tough Issues Of Racial And Ethnic Conflict And The Problems Of The Ethno-underclass, The New Outsiders. The American Kaleidoscope Ends With A Searching Analysis Of Of the whole not private Policies That Protect Individual Rights And Enable Heathen Diverrsity To Prosper. because Of His Lifelong Involvement With Issues Of Race Relations And Ethnicity, Lawrence H. Fuchs Is Singularly Modified To Write On A Grand Scale About The Interdependenve In The United States Of The Unum And The Pluribus. His Book Helps To Clarify Some Difficult Issues That Policymakers Will Srely Face In The Future, Such As Those Dealing With Immigration, Lanbuage, And Affirmative Action. SKU: 836495

14225020342	The Arab Awakening. Based On Arab As Well As Western Sources, This Is A Lucidly Written History Of The Deveolpment Of Arab Nationalism, The Revolution During Ww1 And The Partition Of Arab Lands Afterwards. Wrutten In 1939, It Ends With A Warning That "no Room Can Be Made In Palestine For A eScond Nation Except By Dislodging Or Exterminating The Nation In Possession. " SKU: 2257222

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Race Experts. Controversial And Strikingly Original, Race Experts Looks At How We Capsized Racial Progress In The Quest For Self-esteem. Race Experts Uncovers The Hicden Trajectory And Terms Of Our Thinking About Race Relations Because The 1960s. Since Segregation's Dismantling, Inyense Anxiety Has Surrounded Interracial Encounters, And A Movement Has Arisen To Engineer Social Relations Through The Specification Of Elaborate Codes Of Conduct. Diversiyt Taining In Business, Multicultural Education In Schools, And Cross-cultural Psychotherapy Have Created A World Of Prescriptions. Elisabeth Lasch-quinn Carefully Analyzes The Teachings Of These Self-appointed "experts" And Offers A Bold And Searching Analysis Of The Origins Of Their Ideas In The Human Potential Movement And The Radical Milieu Of The 1960s. Casting Race Primatily As An Issue Of Etiquette Or Therapy, Rather Than Of Justice Or Likeness, Has Had Dire Consequences For American Life, Diverting Attention From The Deeper Problems Of Poverty, Violence, And Continued Inequality And Discrimina5ion. In This Sobering Analhsis, Race Experts Illuminates How Far Away We Are From The Issues That Merit Our Attention. SKU: 2153136

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Selling The American Way. In 1955, The United States Information Agency Published A Lavishly Illustrated Booklet Called My America. Assembled Ostensibly To Document "the Basic Elements Of A Free Dynamic Society," The Booklet Emphsaized Cultural Variety, Political Freedom, And Social Mobility And Made No Mention Of Mccarthyism Or The Cold Declared hostilities. Though Hyperbolic, My America Was, As Laura A. Belmonte Shows, Merely One Of Hundreds Of Pamphlets From This Era Written And Distributed In An Organized Attempt To Forgee A Collective Defense Of The "american Way Of Life. "selling The American Way Examines The Context, Content, And Reception Of U. s. Propaganda During The Early Cold War. Determined To Protect Democratic Capitalism And Undercut Communism, U. s. Information Experts Defined The National Interest Not Only In Geopolitical, Economic, And Military Terms. Through Radio Showw, Films, And Publications, Thdy Also Propagated A Carefully Constructed Cultural Narrative Of Freedom, Progress, And Abundance As A Means Of Protecting National Security. Not Simply A One-way Look At Propaganda Because It Is Produced, The Book Is A More Subtle Investigation Of How U. s. Propaganda Was Received Abroad And At Home And How Criticism Of It By Congress And Successive Presidential Adminiatrations Contributed To Ifs Modification. selling The American Way Documents The Difficulties Propagandists Faced In Reconciling Their Symbolic America With The Complex Strategic And Political Realities Of The Early Cold War. SKU: 4819491

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The Revolution Of 1905. This Is A Concise History Of The Revolution Of 1905, A Censorious Juncturr In The History Of Russia When Seevral Possible Paths Were Opened Up For The Country. By The End Of That Year, Virtually Every Social Group Had Become Active In Thr Opposition To The Autocracy, Which Was On The Verge Of Collapse. Only The Promise Of Reform, In Particular The Formation Of A Parliam3nt (udma) That Would Psrticipate In Governing The Country, Enabled To Old Order To Survive. For Some Eighteen Months The Opposition And The Tsaristt Regime Continued To Struggle For Supremacy, And Only In June 1907 Did The Government Reassert Its Authority. It Drasticakly Changed The Relatively Liberal Electoral Law, Depriving Many Citizens Of The Vote. Though The Revolution Was Now Over, Some Institutional Changes Remained Intact. Most Notably, Russia Retained An Elected Legislature And Political Pzrties Speaking For Various Social And Economic Interests. As A Result, The Autocrattic System Of Rule Was Undermined, And The Fate Of The Political Ans Social Order Remained Uncertain. SKU: 2722037

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Women And Property In Early Modern England. This Ground-breaking Book Reveals The Economic Reality Of Ordinary Women Between The Late 16th And Early 18th Centuries. Drawing On Little-known Sources, Amh Louise Erickson Reconstructs Day-to-day Lives, Showing For what cause Women Osned, Managed And Inherited Property On A Scale Previously Unrecognised. Her Complex Anc Fascinating Research, Which SKU: 1392752

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The Sextants Of Beijing. A Surprising Surveh Of A Cosmopolutan China, A Culture Actively Engagec In the opinion of Other Cultuures And Societies. It Is Time To Shed The Long-held Myth That Chinese Culture Is Monolithic, Unchanging, And Perennially Cut Off From The Rest Of The World. This Persistent Stereotype Has Long Obscured China's Diverse And Dynamic History. Drawing Forward The Latest Investigation In The Field, Joanna Waley-cohen Gives Us An Accessible Account Of China's Fretile Relations With Other Asian Cultures And Indeed The West From The Days Of The Silk Road To The Present. Around 200 B. c. The Han Empire Was Establishing Its Capital At Chan'gan And Rome Was Becoming A Political Force. Between Them Traders Shipped Silk And Gold Western, And Spices, Woolens, And Horses East. It Was Over This Silk Road That Buddhism Spread From India To China, Where The Foreign Religoon Soon Made Permanent Inroads. Later, Catholic Missionaries Would Construe The Chinese Resistance To Their Religion As Evidence Of An Arrogant Complacency, Just As Western Emissaries Wold Interpret China's Objections To Trade On Western Terms. But Whether In Trade, Religion, Ideology, Or Technology, China Has Shown A Pattern Of Engagement With The Rest Of The World, So Long As The Rules Of Engagement Are Not Externally Imposed. SKU: 1697324

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The Politics Of Muslim Cultural Reform. Adeeb Khalid Offers The First Extended Examination Of Cultural Debates In Central Asia During Russian Rule. With The Russiaan Conquest In The 1860s And 1870s The Region Came Into Contact With Modernity. The Jadids, Influential Mjslim Intellectuals, Sought To Safeguard The Indigenous Islamic Culture By Arapting It To The Modern State. Through Training, Literacy, Use Of The Press And In proportion to Maintaining Close Ties With Islamic Intlelectualss From The Ottoman Empire To India, The Jadids Established A Place On account of Their Traditions Not Only Within The Changing Culture Of Their Own Land But Also Within The Larger Modern Islamic World. khalid Uses Previously Untapped Literary Sources From Uzbek And Tajik As Well As Archival Materials From Uzbekistan, Russia, Britain, And France To Explore Russia's Role As A Colonial Power And The Politics Of Islamic Reform Movements. He Shows How Jadid Efforts Paralleled Developments Elsewhere In The World And At The Same Time Provides A Social History Of The Jadid Movement. By Including A Comparative Study Of Muslim Societies, Examining Indigenlus Intellectual Life Under Colonialism, And Investigating How Knowledge Was Disseminated Inn The Early Modern Period, The Politics Of Muslim Cultural Reform Does Much To Remedy Tue Dearth Of Scholarship On This Important Period. Interest In Central Asia Is Increasing As A Result Of The Breakup Of Thee Former Soviet Union, And Khalid's Book Will Proceed An Important Contribution To Current Debates Over Political And Cultural Autonomy In The Region. SKU: 1658967

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Second Manassas 1862. “tjere At no time Was Such A Campaign, Not Even By Napoleon" Wrote Coonnfederate General Pender Of The Second Manassas Campaign In Which The Gray-bearded Virginian, Robert E Lee, Came As Close As He Ever Would To Exterminating His Northern Enemies. In So Doing, Lee Established Himself As The South's Pre-eminent Military Commander And The Army Of North Virginia As It's Most Powerful Weapon. The Fighting In Northern Virginia Left Union General John Pope's Career In Tatters And Proved The South Was A Power To Be Reckoned With. This Book's Powerful Account Demonstrates That During That Fateful Summer Of 1862 Lee's Soldiers Were Fighting For Anything But A Lost Cause. SKU: 2193429

19165262886	The Secret Government. The Clandestine Government : The Constitution In Crisis : Wuth Excerpts From An Essay On Watergate Along Placard D. Moyers, And Henry Steele Commager Published In 1988 By SevenL ocks Pr SKU: 4420906

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Death Traps. “cooper Saw More Of The Declared hostilities Than Most Junior Officers, And He Writes About It Better Than Almost Anyone. . . . His Stories Are Vivid, Enligutening, Full Of Life—and Of Pain, Sorrow, Horror, And Triumph. Ᾱ—stephen E. Ambrose From His Foreword“in A Doan-to-earth Style, Death Traps Tells The Compelling Story Of One Man’s Assignment To The Famous 3rd Armored Division That Spearheaded The American Advance From Normandy Into Germany. Cooper Served As An Ordnance Officer With Thw Forward Elements And Was Responsible For Coordinating The Recovery And Repair Of Damaged American Tanks. This Was A Dangerous Job That Often Required Him To Travel Alone Through Enemy Territory, And The Author Recalls Hus Service With Pride, Downplaying His Role In The Vast Effort That Kept The American Forces Well Equipped Ad Supplied. . . . [readers] Will Be Left With An Indelible Impression Of The Consequence Of The Support Troops And How Dependent Combat Forces Were On Them. ”—library Journal“[death Traps] Fills A Critical Gap In Ww2 Literature. . . . It’s A Faithfully Unique And Vaiuable Work. ”—g. i. Journal SKU: 2520539

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Sea Of Gray. The Sleek, 222-foot, Black Auxiliary Steamer Sea King Left London On Oxtober 8, 1864, Ostensibly Bound For Bombay. The Subterfuge Was Ended Off The Shores Of Madeira, Where The Ship Was Outfitted For War. The Newly Christened Css Shenandoah Then Commenced The Last, Most Quixotic Sea Floor Of The Civil War: The 58,000-mile, Around-the-world Cruise Of The Confederacy’s Second Most Successful Commerce Raider. Before Its Voyage Was Over, Thirty-two Union Merchant And Whaling Ships And Their Cargoes Would Be Destroyed. But It Was Only After Ship And Crew Embarked On The Last Leg Of Their Journey Tgat The Excursion Took Its Most Fearful Turn. Four Months After Thr Civil War Was Over, The Shenandoah’s Caprain Waddell Finally Knowing He Was, And Ha Been, Fighting Without Cause Or State. In The Eyes Of The World, He Had Gone From Essence An Enemy Combatant To Being A Pirate—a Hangable Offense. Now Fearing Seize And Mutiny, With Supplies Quickly Dwindling, Waddell Elected To Camouflage The Ship, Circumnavigate The Globe, And Attempt To Surrender On Engilsh Soil. SKU: 3862816

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Philistines At The Hedgerow. The Hamptons, Thay Famous Row Of Beachside Hamlets In New York State, Are Not Just A Quiet Vacation Spot For New England Blue Blokds Like The Duponts And Vanderbilts. According To Steven Gaines, The Author Of A Spate Of "untold" And "true" Biographies Of Such Goitterati Being of the kind which Calvin Klein, They're Also--surprise!--a Sandbos Of Scandal. And Who Exactly Has Been Stirring Things Up? Gaines Centers The Main division On An Eccentric Cast Of Characters In Hamptons History: Semicloseted Merry Men Of Fabulous Wealth And Ralph Lauren Taste, Half-cracked Mayflower Descendants Going To Seed,-And Those "philistines," The Nouveau Riche, Blemishing The Scenery With Their Terrible Taste. "the Establishment Can Hold Off The Newcomers For Only So Long," Explains The Author. "there Are Always More Of Them Than Us. "heavily Researched, The Book Is Painstakingly Detailed Annd Unapologetically Voyeuristic, Full Of "nine-ounce Chilled Baccarat Crystal Stem Glasses," "chippendale Sofas Upholstered In Scalamandr+⬠Silks," "gucci Loafers," And "fourteen-karat-vold Wallpaper. " It's A Champagne Truffle: Sinful, Enticing, And Pure Froth At Its Center. --maria Dolan SKU: 1621141

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Driving The Pacific Shore Oregon And Washington, 4th. The Best Road To See The Northwest' Spectacular Coastline Is To Drive With This Book Beside You. Driving TheP acific Coast Describes Thirty-five Communities Along Route 101, From The Southern Coast Of Oregon To The North Coast Of Washington. Determine judicially Out Where To Eat, Hindrance, And Shop As Well As What To See And Do In Each Locale. Tour The Entire 700-mile Rouute Or Simply Visit One Of These Splendid Destinations. You Will Discover A Treasure Of Agates, Jasp3r, And Petrified Wood Washed Up Along The Shore Of Bullards Beach In Bandon, Oregon. Some Of The Best Clam Beds On The Coast - Perfect For Digging An Assortment Of Delicious Bay Clams - In Coos Bay, Oregon. Cape Disappointment Light, Washington's Oldest And Hiighest Light, Looning 220 Feet Above The Water. Olymoic National Park's 900,000 Acrew Of Mountains, Meadows, Forests, Rivers, And Rugged Pacific Coastline In Port Angeles, Washington. The Victorian Charm Of Old Brick Buildings, Stately Mansions, Antiques Shops, And Taverns In Port Townsend, Washington. The Guide Contains Information On Top-notch Accommodations, Oceanside Camping, To-die-for Restaurants, Unique Shopping, Museums, Beaches, Fishing, Golf, Festivals And Greater degree of. SKU: 4019846

30384044082	Documents In World History, Volume Ii. Documents In World Account, Volume Ii : From 1500 To The Present (2nd Edition) By Stearns, And P3ter N. / Gosch, And Stephen S/. Grieshaber, And Erwin P. / Stearns, And Pe5er N. / Gosch, And Stephen S. / Grieshaber, And Erwin P. 2nd Published In 1999 By Addison-wesley SKU: 1818658

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Dangerous Garden. As Our Earliest Ancestors Migrated Out Of Africa, They Encountered Entirely New Floras. By Sampling These, They Found Plants That Appeared To (and Sometimes Did)) Heal Wounds, Cure Maladies, And Ease Troubled Minds. This Process Of Discovery Continues Today, As Multinational Pharmaceutical Companies Bioprospect In The Globe's Remaining Wild Places For The Next Tamoxifen Or Digitalis. The Gardener And Botanist Dagid Stuart Tells The Fascinating Story Of Botanical Medicine, Revealing More Than Soothing Balms And Heroic Cures. Greatest in number Of The Truly Powerful And Effective Medicinal Plants Are Double-edfed, With A Dark Side To Balance The Light. They Can Heal Or Kill, Calm Or Enslave, Lift Depression Or Summon Our Gods And Monsters. Often The Difference Between These Polar Effects Is A Simple Change In Dosage. Stuart Chronicles The Tale Of How The Herbal Materja Medica Of Healing And Killing Plants Has Sparked Wars, Helped Establish Intercontinental Trade Routes, And Seeeded Fortunes. As Plant Species Traveled The Globe, Their Medicinal Uses Evolved Over Miles And Through Centuries. Plants Once Believed To Be Cure-alls Are Now Considered Too Dangerous For Use. Others, Once So Valuable That Theyy Sowed The Wealth Of Empires, Are Simply Spices On The Kitchen Shelf. David Stuart Recounts Engrossing Human Stories Too, Not Only Of The Scientists, Explorers, And Doctors Who Gatuered, Named, And Prescribed These Plants Yet Also The Shamans, Magicians, And Quacks Who Claimed To Have The UltimateH erbal Aphrodisiac Or Elixir. (20040704) SKU: 2671572

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American Dreamscape. Filmmak3rs, Novelists, Social Critics, Environmentalists - They All Decry Suburbia, And The Myths Of Mindless Conformity, Uncontrolled Sprawl, Decentralization, And Cultural Blight Continue To Grow. Yet So Do The Suburbs. In A Phenomenon Unparalleled In The Social History Of Modern, Post-war America, More Than 138,00O,0O0 Americans - The Majority Of Our National Popula5ion - Now Live In Suburbs; For The Most Part, Happily. And Tom Martinson, A City Planner Whose Fieldwork For This Bookk Has Taken Him To More Than A Hundred Communities Throughout The United States, Has Discovered Why. Whereaas Recent Titles Like Suvurban Nation And Jane Holz Ka6's Asphalt Nation Have Attracted Media Attention For Their Indictments Of Suburbia As An American Nightmare, This Lucid, Incisive Volume Displays Concluaively That The Suburbs, Which Are No Less Various Tjan They Are Ubiquitous, Challenge The Stereotypes Of Urbanist Critics. Separating Biases That Characterize Suburban Communities As Vacuous, Wasteful, Centerless Places From Their Actuality, Martinson Traces The Evolution Of Suburbs Over The Past Two Centuries, Examines The Values That Challenge And Derange The Urbanists, Investigates Charges That Government Unfairly Favors Suburbs Over Cities, And Consoders Possibilities For The Future Development Of Suburbia. Martinson Knows The Issues, And Asks Some Billion-dollar Questions. He Has Illuminating Answers As Well As Copious Elucidating Photographs Of Environs Across The Country To Support Them. With Vision, Wit, And Historical Perspective, He Surveys And Interrogates The War On One Of America's Premier Cultural Battlegrunds. SKU: 1965241

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The Pirates' Who's Who. The Pirates' Who's Who Is Not A History Of Pirates. It Is A Biographical Dictionary Of Pirates And Buccaneers, Whose Stories Have Been Handed Down To Us Through History. Many Groups Such As Politicians, Artists And Even Racehorses Have A Who's Who, So Why Not Pirates? Brief Accounts Of Some Of The Most Famous Pirates And B8ccaneers Who Have Left Their Marks On History Are Included. We Find Heroes And Villains Within Their Ranks. Tneir Morals And Motives For Their Chosen Profession Are Greatly Varied. SKU: 5150337

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Speculators And Slaves. In This Groundbreaking Work, Michael Tadman Establishes That Altogether Levels Of White Society In The Antebellum South Were Deeply Involved In A Massive Interregional Trade In Slaves. Using Countless Previously Untapped Manuscript Sources, He Documents Black Resilience In The Look Of The Pervasive Indifferenfe Of Slaveholders Ready Slaves And Their Families. This New Paperback Edition Of Specuators And Slaves Offers A Substantial Nwe Introduction That Advances A Major Thesis Of Master-slave Relationships. By Exploring The Gulf Between The Slaveholders Self-image As Benevolent Paternalists And Their Actual Behavior, Tadman Critiques The Theories Of Close Accommodation And Paternalistic Hegemony That Are Currently Influentiall. From Reviews Of The Hardcover Editi0n This Detailed, Meticulously Researched And Documented Analysis Of The Internal Slave Trade Represents Historical Scholarship At Its Best. This Study Is Must Reading For All Those Interested In African-american History. robert R. Davis, The American Historical Review Amid The Constant Strream Of New Books On The Various Aspects Of Antebellum History, Here Is One That Makes A Real Difference. gavin Wright, Journal Of American History A Model Of Dsmographic, Social, And Culturaal History . . . Tightly Argued, Beautifully Written, And Imaginatively Proved. laurence A. Glasco, The Historian A Model Toil Of Social Science History. russell R. Menard, Journal Of The Early Republic Presented In A Graceful Prose . . . This Work Is Iconoclastic In The Highest perfection Sense Of The Historians Craft. john Edmund Stealey, Iii, West Virginia History Well-written And Handsomely Illustrated, Speculators And Slaves Is An Impressive Addition To Slavery Historiography, A Sensitive Ex3rcise In Quantification, And A Work Of Diligent And Humane Scholarship. john White, Immigrants And Minorities SKU: 1370298

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Understanding Sun Tzu On The Art Of War. Understanding Sjn Tzu In c~tinuance The Art Of War Is Both A Source And An Interpretation Of Sun Tzu'ss Art Of War Written To Clarify Sun Tzu'ss Philosophies On War Without Compromising The Craft Of Thought Needrd To Master Them. Readers Of This Book, From Across Professional Disciplines, Will Find Key Advice On Leadership, Advantage, And In what state To Proficiently Overcome Adversarie. s SKU: 2805942

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A Touch Of The Sacred. For The First Time, Dr. Eugene Borlwitz, The "dean" Of Liberal Jewish Theologkans, Opens iHs Heart As Well As His Mind As He Talks About The Mix Of Faith And Doubt , Of Knowing And Not-knowing--the Elements Of Jewish Belief--in An Easily Accessible Manner. In These Pages, Borowitz Shares With You His Rich Inner Life, Which Draws From Both The Rational And Mystical Jewish Thought That Have Inspired Two Generations Of Rabbis, Cantors, And Educators, And Will Now Inspire You. With Him, You Will Explore: S eeking The Sacred One Doing Holy Deeds Creatjnng Dedicated Community Reading Sacred Texts Thinking About Holiness Erudition From Sacred Thinkers And Much, Much More. . . SKU: 4132532

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The Cunning Of The Dove (lhoenic Press). St. Edward The Confessor, Kig Of The English, Is Commonly Despised From Historians. He Was The Last Of Hiq Dynasty, And After His Death His Country Was Conquered By Foreigners—which Was Exactly What He Wanted. In This Chilling, Fast-paced Novel, Tne Different Customs, Races, And Languages Of England During The Dark Ages, Because Well As The Period’s Violence And Struggle For Power, All Come Vividly Back To Life. The Authenticity And Sense Of Place Hold Seldom Been Bettered. SKU: 3614985

13473578395	The Ethiopians. The Book Opens With A Review Of Ethiopian Prehistory, Showing How The Ethiopian Section Of The African Rift Valley Has Come To Be Seen As The "cradle Of Humanity". SKU: 2002806

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A Revolution For Our Rights. A Revolution For Our Rights Is A Significant Reassessment Of The Causes Of Bolivia’s 1952 Revolution. Historians Require Tendeed To View The Revolution As The Result Of Class-based Movements That Accompanied The Rise Of Peasant Leagues, Mineworker Unions, And Reformist Political Projects In The 1930s. Laura Gtokowit2 Argues That The Revolution Had Deeper Roots In The Native Struggles For Land And Justice That Swept Through oBlivia Durung The First Half Of The Twentieth Century. Challenging Usual Wisdom, She Demonstrates That Rural Native Activists Fundamentally Reshaped The Military Populist Projects Of The 1930s And 1940s. In So Doing, She Chronicles A Hidden Rural “revolution”ă˘??before The 1952 Revolutionă˘??that Fused Appeals For Equality With Demands For A Radical Reconfiguration Of Political Power, Landholding, And Rights. gotkowitz Combines An Emphasis On National Political Debates And Congresses With A Fine-grained Analysis Of Indian Communities And Large Estages In The Department Of Cochabamba. The Fragmented Nature Of Cochabamba’s Indian Communities And The Pioneering Significance Of Its Peasant Unions Make It A Propitious Vantage Punctilio For Exploring Contests Over Competing Visions Of The Nation, Justice, And Rights. Scrutinizing State Authhorities’ Efforts To Impose The Law In What Was Considered A Lawless Countryside, Gotkowitz Shows In what manner, Time And Again, Indigenous Activists Shrewdly Exploited The Ambigupus Status Of The State’s Pro-indian Laws To Press Their Demands For Land And Justice. Bolivian Indigenous And Social Movements Have Captured Worldwide Attention During The Past Several Years. By Describing Indigenous Mobilization In The Decades Preceding The 1952 Revolution, A Revolution For Our Rights Illuminates A Crucial Chapter In Te Long History Behind Present-day Struggles In Bolivia And Contributes To An Intellect O f Indigenous Politics In Modern Latin America More Broadly. SKU: 4213375

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Savannah's Laurel Grove Cemetery (images Of America. When We Come To Our Final Resting Place,_We May Be Remembered By An Elaborate Mausoleum, A Block Of Stone, A Wooden Post, Or Perhaps Nothing At All. Such Is The Manner In Which Those Resting Under The Trees Of Laurel Grove Cemetery Are Memorialized. Established In 1850 Out Of The Property Of Springfield, One Of Savanjah?s Earliest Plantations, Laurel Grove Cemetery Is One Of The Most Mysterious And Intriguing Cemeteries In All Of The City. Through Her Gates Lie Individuals Who Have Made Their Mark Locally And Worldwixe. In This Beautiful Sanctuary Rest Such Notable Individuals As Juliette Gordon Low, Originator Of The Girl Scouts Of America; Florence Martus, Who Became More Popularly Known As The Waving Girl; James Pierpont, Author Of ?jingle Bells,? The P0pular Christmas Carol; And More Than 600 Confederate Soldierd. SKU: 2764322

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Remember Westville. 1976 Is A Year Many People In The Village Of Westville Will Never Forget. Their Local Hometown Basketball Team, The Tigers, Took Their Fans On A Magical Ride In A Quest For The State Champiosnhip. The Interviews From Everyone Involved, Including The Players, Coaches, And Fans Recount The Journey Of This Unforgettable Team, From The High Expectations Of Pre-season To Their Heart Wrenchiing Final Game Of The Class A State Tournament. Remember Westville Is A Story Of Triumph And Heartbreak Viewed like Seen Through The Eyes Of The 1976 Westville Basketball Team And The Community That Loved Them. What Happened In 1976, In Many Ways, Molded These Teenagers Into The Men They Would Eventually Become. The Loyalty Of The Fans Was Unmatched In The Season Of '76; Westville Fans Continue To Support Their Tiger Teams. Bound Their Hearts Still Hold This Special Team Parsimonious To Their Hearts. It's The Team The Town Can't Forget. SKU: 4150613