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Alain Corbin,
Fragility

The distant past is commonly characterized in terms of dominant materials of the time - the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, etc. Since the dawn of writing, however, characterizing eras in terms o…

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Conor Heffernan
When Fitness Went Global

This book provides the first detailed account of how and why fitness and physical culture underwent rapid globalization in the 19th century.

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Eran A Zelnik
American Laughter, American Fury

"This work demonstrates how so-called "comical" practices, including not only jokes but also carnivalesque misrule, playing Indian, and wearing blackface helped white men cast "America…

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Richard Anderson
African Narratives of Slavery and Abolition

This unique and rich collection of narratives, written or dictated by formerly enslaved Africans between 1820 and 1876, offers a rare snapshot of African voices in the history of slavery. Including narrat…

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Gentilly

Between 1818 and 1851, Auvignac Dorville, a Louisiana Creole, managed the day-to-day operations of the Gentilly plantation, located a few miles from New Orleans along Bayou St. John. The plantation belong…

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Venita Datta
Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

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Albert H Good
National Park Style

Containing over 1200 photographs and detailed line drawings from which one can design and build directly, National Park Style is a valuable reference for preservationists, historians, designers, and homeo…

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Venita Datta
Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

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Peter Cozzens
Deadwood

The true story of the Black Hills gold rush settlement once described as "the most diabolical town on earth" and of its most colorful cast of characters, from Wild Bill Hickok to Calamity Jane t…

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Donna Loftus,
Capital and Labour in Victorian England: Manufacturing Consensus

Despite extensive scholarship on the social and cultural history of industrial England there is little work that explores how new forms of capitalist production were understood and normalised. Capital and…

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Philip Dwyer, Barbara Alice Mann, Nigel Penn, Lyndall Ryan
Empires of Violence

Violence was a constant on all colonial frontiers, from the British expansion into the Australian and African continents, to the expansion of the United States and the Napoleonic Empire's many incursions …

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Giuliana Perrone
Nothing More than Freedom

After examining more than 700 lawsuits decided by the supreme courts of former slave states, Giuliana Perrone asserts that slavery remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. An …

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Catherine Osborne Decesare
Risk in the Anglo-Atlantic World

Using the experiences of the American ship, John Jay, and the British warship HMSDriver, this book recounts the various hazards faced by U.S. neutral trade vessels during the Napoleonic Wars.The John Jay'…

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Andrea Major,
Reimagining Empire in India

This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s an…

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W Caleb McDaniel, Alexander X Byrd
Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University

During the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, s…

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Kathryn Dyt
The Nature of Kingship

"The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the int…

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White, William Ryan Smith, Peter Bolton Mangum
Shreveport Martyr Father Jean Pierre

Father Jean Pierre, a missionary priest from Brittany, France, answered a call to serve in sparsely populated Shreveport, where he chose to remain when a yellow fever epidemic struck in 1873. From a persp…

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Mark Twain Remembered

Mark Twain's life as told by more than 200 contemporaries including Teddy Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and many more.A master storyteller, Mark Twain inspired his friends, family, fellow …

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Sandra Weber
John Brown in New York

An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favo…

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Sandra Weber
John Brown in New York

An intimate narrative of John Brown and his family in the Adirondack Mountains.With passion and sound scholarship, Sandra Weber introduces a fresh and intimate portrayal of John Brown in his time and favo…

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