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Linda Gordon
Seven Social Movements That Changed America

How do social movements arise, wield power and decline? Renowned scholar Linda Gordon investigates these questions in a ground-breaking work, narrating the stories of many of America's most influential tw…

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Rhian E Jones
Rebecca's Country

In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other. Burdened by punishing tolls and desperate for their livelihoods, protestors dramatically cross-dressed in carnivalesque costumes to attack …

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Jon Meacham
The Soul of America

Random House Publishing Group

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham helps us understand the present moment in American politics and life by looking back at critical times in our history when hope ove…

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Jon Michaels, David Noll
Vigilante Nation

"For readers of How Democracies Die, two legal scholars expose the history of the GOP's hidden political strategy to rollback protected rights, from abortion and gun control to surveillance and LGBTQ…

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Thomas McStay Adams
Europe's Welfare Traditions Since 1500, Volume 2

A comprehensive examination of welfare institutions and commitments in and across Europe from 1700 to 2000.

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Kristen Alff
Violent Interests

Between the 1830s and 1930s, companies established by Beirut-based businessmen emerged among the largest shareholders in major British manufacturing and trading companies. These companies transformed from…

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Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists analyze the origins and causes of their country's crisis and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brings together a diverse array…

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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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Irina España-Eljaiek
Historic Racial Exclusion and Subnational Socio-economic Outcomes in Colombia

This book examines the geo-racialized order of the Colombian state and its consequences for Afro-descendant territories. To do so, it employs a historical institutional approach tracing racial exclusion a…

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Louise Heren,
Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes

Taking fifteen real-life criminal cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary in Scotland between 1700 and 2000, this book explores developments in social attitudes and legal responses to violence. F…

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Darcy Ingram
The Second Greatest Show on Earth

Grounded in discussions of cultural capital, dramaturgy, and modernity, The Second-Greatest Show on Earth is an in-depth exploration of the motives that guided the work of Henry Bergh (1813-1888), founder…

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Brian Groom
Made in Manchester

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made itWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER'What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.'Long…

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Vasileios Balaskas
Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s)

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres i…

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Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

"In the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, Jeff Hobbs masterfully explores America's housing crisis through the real-life story of Evelyn. This is Hobbs's first book since The Short and Tragic…

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John Parker
Great Kingdoms of Africa

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial…

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Wandlungen des Sammelns

Histoire - Band 114, Edition Kulturwissenschaft - Band 301

Das Sammeln ist als Kulturtechnik zu begreifen, die synchron verschiedene Ausprägungen kennt und diachron einem beständigen Wandel unterliegt. Sammlungen sind Resultate spezifischer Praktiken: Sie spiegel…

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Mira Ducommun
Kategorisiert, verwaltet und platziert

In der Schweiz wurden im 20. Jahrhundert über 100 000 Kinder und Jugendliche in Heimen und Pflegefamilien platziert. Damit griffen die Behörden entscheidend in die Biografien und Familienleben von Kinde…

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Angus Vine
Early Modern Merchants and Their Books

Vine provides the first dedicated account of the literary and intellectual lives of the merchants of 17th-century Britain. Drawing on methods in book history, and presenting a series of examples chosen to…

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Rebecca L Davis
Fierce Desires

Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a "tradwife" is gai…

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