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Selling the Sights

Will B. Mackintosh

Selling the Sights

A fascinating journey through the origins of American tourism In the early nineteenth century, thanks to a booming transportation industry, Americans began to journey away from home simply for the sake of traveling, giving rise to a new cultural phenomenon —the tourist. In Selling the Sights, Will B. Mackintosh describes the origins and cultural significance of this new type of traveler and the moment in time when the emerging American market economy began to reshape the availability of...

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Will B. Mackintosh

Racial Reconstruction

Edlie L. Wong

Racial Reconstruction

The end of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade triggered wide-scale labor shortages across the U.S. and Caribbean. Planters looked to China as a source for labor replenishment, importing indentured laborers in what became known as “coolieism.” From heated Senate floor debates to Supreme Court test cases brought by Chinese activists, public anxieties over major shifts in the U.S. industrial landscape and class relations became displaced onto the figure of the Chinese labor...

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Edlie L. Wong

Inn Civility

Vaughn Scribner

Inn Civility

Examines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive “city taverns” to seedy “disorderly houses,” urban taverns were wholly engrained in the diverse web of British American life. By the mid-eighteenth century, urban taverns emerged as the most popular, numerous, and accessible public spaces in British America. These shared spaces, which hosted individuals from a broad swath of...

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Vaughn Scribner

Colonial Phantoms

Dixa Ramírez

Colonial Phantoms

Winner, 2019 Isis Duarte Book Prize, given by the Haiti/Dominican Republic Section of the Latin American Studies Association Winner, 2019 Barbara Christian Literary Award, given by the Caribbean Studies Association [/b] Highlights the histories and cultural expressions of the Dominican people [b] Using a blend of historical and literary analysis, Colonial Phantoms reveals how Western discourses have ghosted—miscategorized or erased—the Dominican Republic since the nineteenth century...

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Dixa Ramírez

Black in Latin America

Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Black in Latin America

Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries 12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest—over ten and a half million—were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western...

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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

That Pride of Race and Character

Caroline E. Light

That Pride of Race and Character

“Ithas ever been the boast of the Jewish people, that they support their own poor,”declared Kentucky attorney Benjamin Franklin Jonas in 1856. “Their reasons arepartly founded in religious necessity, and partly in that pride of race andcharacter which has supported them through so many ages of trial andvicissitude.” In That Pride of Race andCharacter, Caroline E. Light examines the American Jewish tradition ofbenevolence and charity and explores its...

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Caroline E. Light

Long Overdue

Charles P. Henry

Long Overdue

An investigation of America’s failure to atone for the wrongs of slavery Ever since the unfulfilled promise of “forty acres and a mule” after the Civil War, America has consistently failed to compensate Black Americans for the wrongs of slavery. Exploring why America has struggled to confront the issue of racial injustice, Long Overdue provides a history of the racial reparations movement and shows why it is more relevant now than ever.Through an examination of Americans’ unwillingness to...

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Charles P. Henry

New World A-Coming

Judith Weisenfeld

New World A-Coming

Winner of the 2017 Albert J. Raboteau Book Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions Shows how early 20th-century resistance to conventional racial categorization contributed to broader discussions in black America that still resonate today When Joseph Nathaniel Beckles registered for the draft in the 1942, he rejected the racial categories presented to him and persuaded the registrar to cross out the check mark she had placed next to Negro and substitute “Ethiopian Hebrew.” “God did not...

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Judith Weisenfeld

American Women and the Repeal of Pr...

Kenneth D. Rose

American Women and the Repeal of Prohibition

In 1933 Americans did something they had never done before: they voted to repeal an amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Eighteenth Amendment, which for 13 years had prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages, was nullified by the passage of another amendment, the Twenty-First. Many factors helped create this remarkable turn of events. One factor that was essential, Kenneth D. Rose here argues, was the presence of a large number of well-organized women promoting repeal. Even...

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Kenneth D. Rose

Zapantera Negra

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Zapantera Negra

What is the role of revolutionary art in times of distress? When Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party, accepted an invitation from the art collective EDELO and the Rigo 23 to meet with autonomous Indigenous and Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico, they addressed just this question. Zapantera Negra is the result of their encounter. It unites the bold aesthetics, revolutionary dreams, and dignified declarations of two leading movements that redefine...

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American Collegiate Populations

Colin Burke

American Collegiate Populations

American Collegiate Populations is an exhaustive and definitive study of the membership of American colleges and universities in the nineteenth century. Colin B. Burke explores the questions of who went, who stayed and where they came from, presenting as answers to these questions a mass of new data put together in an original and interpretive manner.The author offers a devastating critique of the two reference works which until now have commanded scholars' attention. Burke examines...

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Colin Burke

One Nation Underground

Kenneth D. Rose

One Nation Underground

For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy"to dig or not to dig," as Business Week put it at the timeforced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted...

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Kenneth D. Rose

Of Little Comfort

Erika Kuhlman

Of Little Comfort

During and especially after World War I, the millions of black-clad widows on the streets of Europe’s cities were a constant reminder that war caused carnage on a vast scale. But widows were far more than just a reminder of the war’s fallen soldiers; they were literal and figurative actresses in how nations crafted their identities in the interwar era. In this extremely original study, Erika Kuhlman compares the ways in which German and American widows experienced their...

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Erika Kuhlman

The Courage to Care

Carol Rittner

The Courage to Care

The extraordinary story of a few non-Jews who risked their lives to rescue and protect Jews from Nazi persecution in Europe during World War II is told in The Courage to Care . It features the first person accounts of rescuers and of survivors whose stories address the basic issue of individual responsibility: the notion that one person can actand that those actions can make a difference. These rescuers are true heroes, but modest ones. They did a thousand ordinary...

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Carol Rittner

We Are the Poors

Ashwin Desai

We Are the Poors

When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination, injustice and inequality. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of life for the majority of oppressed South Africans, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of resistance have emerged in commnities that have discovered a common oppression and solidarty and forged new and dynamic political identities. Desai's...

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Ashwin Desai

That Ever Loyal Island

Phillip Papas

That Ever Loyal Island

Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas's illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War.Papas traces Staten Island's political sympathies not to strong ties with Britain, but instead to local conditions that favored the status quo...

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Phillip Papas

The Columbian Orator

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The Columbian Orator

First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it frequently, referring to it as a «gem» and his «rich treasure.» The Columbian Orator presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on...

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9_11_2001 The Day Patriotism was Hi...

D Randall Ashcraft

9_11_2001 The Day Patriotism was Hijacked

Having been taught patriotic ideas from an early age, then having served in the military and taking the oath to “protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies, foreign and domestic” several times, the author has written this book after having to redefine his beliefs regarding “patriotism” based on new evidence he has encountered. In other words, his patriotism has evolved to the point of getting “back to the basics” regarding the Constitution and Bill of Rights, the foundation of American...

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D Randall Ashcraft

Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism i...

Colin Darch

Nestor Makhno and Rural Anarchism in Ukraine, 1917-1921

Histories of the Russian Revolution often present the Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as the central event, neglecting the diverse struggles of urban and rural revolutionaries across the heartlands of the Russian Empire. This book takes as its subject one such struggle, the anarcho-communist peasant revolt led by Nestor Makhno in left-bank Ukraine, locating it in the context of the final collapse of the Empire that began in 1914. Between 1917 and 1921, the Makhnovists fought German and...

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Colin Darch

General Bramble (WWI Centenary Seri...

Andre Maurois

General Bramble (WWI Centenary Series)

This early work by André Maurois was originally published in 1921 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. 'General Bramble' is a cute comic work and a sequel to 'The Silence of Colonel Bramble'. It is translated from the original French by Jules Castier and Ronald Boswell. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating, collating and reprinting new and old works of poetry, fiction, autobiography and analysis. The series forms a...

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Andre Maurois

Same Old Bill, Eh Mable! (WWI Cente...

Streeter Edward

Same Old Bill, Eh Mable! (WWI Centenary Series)

This early work by Edward Streeter was originally published in 1919 and we are now republishing it as part of our WWI Centenary Series. '"Same old Bill, eh Mable!"' is a cute comic work that takes the form of letters sent to a lover by an American soldier in the First World War and is a follow up to 'Dere Mable: Love Letters of a Rookie'. It is illustrated with wonderful cartoon drawings by G. William Breck. This book is part of the World War One Centenary series; creating,...

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Streeter Edward

A Treasury of War Poetry: British a...

G. H. Clarke

A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917 (WWI Centenary Series)

"The present Anthology contains a number of representative poems produced by English-speaking men and women. The editorial policy has been humanly hospitable, rather than academically critical, especially in the case of some of the verses written by soldiers at the Front, which, however slight in certain instances their technical merit may be, are yet psychologically interesting as sincere transcripts of personal experience, and will, it is thought, for that very reason, peculiarly attract...

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G. H. Clarke

The Ends of Kinship

Sienna R. Craig

The Ends of Kinship

For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences for decades. Yet, more recently, permanent migrations to New York City, where many have settled, are reshaping lives and social worlds. Mustang has experienced one of the highest rates of depopulation in contemporary Nepal—a profoundly visible depopulation...

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Sienna R. Craig

The Seventeenth Highland Light Infa...

John W. Arthur

The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion) (WWI Centenary Series)

"In compiling and editing this history of the Chamber of Commerce Battalion, the aim of the editors has been to present such a narrative as will provide a detailed but not overburdened account of the Battalion's movements and operations throughout the years of its existence, and at the same time give a representative impression of the various outstanding events which have built up the character and the traditions of the unit. In accordance with the wishes of the History Committee, the...

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John W. Arthur

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