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A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives
"Captivating and brilliantly conceived. . . [The Hamlet Fire] will provide readers with insights into our current national politics." —The Washingto...
Politics and Violence in the Appalachian South
This book uses the history of Breathitt County, Kentucky, to examine political violence in the United States and its interpretation in media and memor...
With more than 60 essays, A Companion to American MilitaryHistory presents a comprehensive analysis of the historiographyof United States military his...
The Hidden History of the American Revolution
A “deeply researched and bracing retelling” (Annette Gordon-Reed, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian) of the American Revolution, showing how the ...
Community Control, Affirmative Action, and the Construction Industry
Black Power at Work chronicles the history of direct action campaigns to open up the construction industry to black workers in the 1960s and 1970s. Th...
How Corporations Shaped Conservative Christianity
The Book of Matthew cautions readers that "Ye cannot serve God and mammon." But for at least a century conservative American Protestants have been try...
The Transappalachian Migration and the Making of a White Working Class
The largely untold story of the great migration of white southerners to the industrial Midwest and its profound and enduring political and social cons...
Postcolonial Politics in a Neoliberal World
What happens to marginalized groups from Africa when they ally with the indigenous peoples' movement? Who claims to be indigenous and why? Dorothy L. ...
Their Histories, Their Lives
Some of the women are well known, others were prominent in their time but have since faded into obscurity, and a few have never received the attention...
Knowledge, Power, and the Making of Colonial Northern Uganda, 1850–1960
Patrick William Otim argues that the Acholi people of northern Uganda, who helped Europeans spread colonial rule and Christianity, were far more polit...
International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century
America's empire expanded dramatically following the Spanish-American War of 1898. The United States quickly annexed the Philippines and Puerto Rico, ...
The United States in El Salvador, 1977–1992
El Salvador's civil war between the Salvadoran government and Marxist guerrillas erupted into full force in early 1981 and endured for eleven bloody y...
Indigenous Rights, Markets, and Sovereignties
Confronting a debt crisis, the Belizean government has strategized to maximize revenues from lands designated as state property, privatizing lands for...
Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies
This book offers a critical look at Mexican activism that expands our understanding of social movements during the Global 1960s--Provided by publisher...
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The Constitution of Human Genomics
Ira Carmen seeks a fusion of experimental biological research and political science research as he explores the important and controversial realm of h...
A Dictionary of Universal Biography
Barbadian Migration to Liberia, Blackness, and the Making of an African Republic
Offers a thorough examination of Afro-Barbadian migration to Liberia during the mid- to late nineteenth century....
Technology, Colonial Development, and the Cold War Order
Weaving together chapters on imperial Japan's wartime mobilization, Asia's first wave of postwar decolonization, and Cold War geopolitical conflict in...
A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
The life and accomplishments of an influential leader in the desegregated South This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Be...
The Waning Influence of Social Science on National Security
How professionalization and scholarly “rigor” made social scientists increasingly irrelevant to US national security policy To mobilize America’...
Transnational and Comparative Histories
Despite a shared interest in using borders to explore the paradoxes of state-making and national histories, historians of the U.S.-Canada border regio...
A Biographical Dictionary of Noteworthy Men and Women of the Pacific Coast and the Western States
London Literary and Critical Journal
The Shaping of an American Town
J. Irwin Miller and The Shaping of An American Town tells the life story of this remarkable man who led Cummins Engine Company from its roots as a sma...
Fifth ed.- published in 7 vols.: Who's who in biotechnology; Who's who in chemistry & plastics; Who's who in civil engineering, earth sciences & energ...
Includes names from the States of Alabama, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Okl...
Journal of Literature, Science, the Fine Arts, Music and the Drama
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