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Ruramisai Charumbira
Legacies of British Colonialism in Southern Africa

From the mid-19th to the mid-20th century, British Southern Africa saw hosts of Europeans arriving in the region to transform their lives and participate in colonial life in different ways. Their narrativ…

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Mark Hearn
Late Modern Transformations

How should late modernity be defined, and its history interpreted? This book critically reflects upon the dynamics and disruptions of transformative change that occurred between the mid-20th century to th…

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Jack Rasmus
The Twilight of American Imperialism

Empires have existed for millennia, with imperialism encompassing the practices deployed in their creation, expansion and defense. The Twilight of American Imperialism describes the political, military, e…

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Gabriela Soto Laveaga
The World in a Wheat Field

In the mid-twentieth century, researchers at an experiment station in Sonora's Yaqui Valley designed high-yielding wheat seeds with the promise that increasing crop productivity would end world hunger. Th…

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Alice Mandell
The Amarna Letters and the Scribes Who Wrote Them

Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible

This Element offers readers an introduction to the Amarna letters. This group of 350 cuneiform tablets was discovered at the site of Tell el-Amarna (ancient Akhetaten) in Egypt. They date to the mid-fourt…

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Mary Celeste Kearney
Designing the Teenage Girl

Explores the forgotten first wave of American teen-girl entertainment from the late 1920s through the early 1950s.During the mid-twentieth century, American entertainment featuring teenage girls blossomed…

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Alice Mandell
The Amarna Letters and the Scribes Who Wrote Them

Elements in the Ancient Near Eastern World and the Bible

This Element offers readers an introduction to the Amarna letters. This group of 350 cuneiform tablets was discovered at the site of Tell el-Amarna (ancient Akhetaten) in Egypt. They date to the mid-fourt…

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Astronomical Observatories and Chronometry, 18th-20th Century

History of Physics

This book presents research perspectives and open questions on the intersections between astronomy and chronometry. Their study is of crucial importance to the new historiography of observatories. On the …

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Esguerra Sáenz Urdaneta Samper

Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture

The Colombian architectural firm ESUS (Esguerra, Saenz, Urdaneta y Samper) played a key role in the development of modern architecture in Colombia during the mid-20th century. Notable for their technical …

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John Clark
The Green Children of Woolpit

Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief

Shortlisted by The Folklore Society for The Katharine Briggs Award 2025. Two medieval chroniclers, William of Newburgh and Ralph of Coggeshall, reported the mysterious appearance of a pair of 'Green Child…

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Kate Rousmaniere
The Liberal Education of Lawrence Cremin

Historical Studies in Education

This book is the first biography of the life and career of Lawrence Cremin (1925-1990), a Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning historian of American education. The study examines Cremin's contributions to …

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Lombroso in the Americas

This volume explores, for the first time, the multifaceted influence and impact of Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso (1835-1909) in the Americas from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth c…

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Dragomir Dimitrov, Mahesh Deokar
Reflection on the Word and Meaning

The abdrthacint or Reflection on the Word and Meaning represents a highly intriguing treatise on Sanskrit grammar. It was composed in the mid-10th century by Ratnärjñna, a prodigious Sinhalese Buddhist sc…

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Christina G. Larocco
The Women's Rights Movement since 1945

Guides to Historic Events in America

Documenting the history of the American women's rights movement from 1945 through the 2016 election, this reference offers a crucial and objective look at the changing strategies, goals, and challenges of…

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Ira Halpern
Imagining Health

A surprising look at how American writers envision a more equitable healthcare systemIn the United States, a deep suspicion of professional medical expertise is becoming increasingly prominent. Meanwhile,…

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Stanley Cohen
I Never Made Love with James Baldwin

Enactments

One man's life unfolds into a memoir of the defining cultural figures of the mid-twentieth century and beyond.I Never Made Love with James Baldwin is a dazzling memoir told through a succession of attorne…

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Jim Stockton
The Oxford University Socratic Club, 1942-1972

Through a comprehensive account of the Socratic Club's history, Jim Stockton draws focus to the significant role that the club played in shaping mid-twentieth century philosophical and theological debate.…

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Andrew May
The Antigravity Enigma

Science and Fiction

From magic carpets to hoverboards and space drives, the human imagination has always seen antigravity as the ultimate aspirational symbol of power over nature. It featured prominently in the technological…

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Joaquin Villanueva
Making Space for Empire

In Making Space for Empire , Joaquín Villanueva documents how white elites in Puerto Rico and the United States collaborated to produce the physical and ideological landscapes of the archipelago in the mo…

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Therese Moylan
Irish Female Entrepreneurship

Routledge Studies in Entrepreneurship

This book demonstrates that women proactively established and ran businesses in Ireland in the early to mid-20th century. Their motivations were varied and they were not a homogeneous group. They operated…

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