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Exposition Park

Roberto Tejada

Exposition Park

Imagine a walking tour of stanzas and prose poems that give lyric voice to sight, public speech, and spectacle. In Exhibition Park, Roberto Tejada delivers a command performance in mixed genres that compel an array of literary styles. His poetry undertakes a wide range of subjects motivated by artworks from Latin America and the United States covering the colonial period to the present day. In serial poems, short sketches, guidebook parodies,...

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Roberto Tejada

Women Rapping Revolution

Rebekah Farrugia

Women Rapping Revolution

Detroit, MIchigan, has long been recognized as a center of musical innovation and social change. Rebekah Farrugia and Kellie D. Hay draw on seven years of fieldwork to illuminate the important role that women have played in mobilizing a grassroots response to political and social pressures at the heart of Detroit’s ongoing renewal and development project. Focusing on the Foundation, a women-centered hip hop collective, Women Rapping...

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Rebekah Farrugia

In Camps

Jana K. Lipman

In Camps

After the US war in Vietnam, close to 800,000 Vietnamese left the country by boat, survived, and sought refuge throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific. This is the story of what happened in the camps. In Camps raises key questions that remain all too relevant today: Who is a refugee? Who determines this status? And how does it change over time? From Guam to Malaysia and the Philippines to Hong Kong, In Camps is the first major work on Vietnamese refugee policy to pay...

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Jana K. Lipman

Slavery's Reach

Christopher Lehman

Slavery's Reach

From the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and their wealth into the free territory and free state of Minnesota, enriching the area's communities and residents. Dozens of southern slaveholders and people raised in slaveholding families purchased land and backed Minnesota businesses. Slaveholders' wealth was invested in some of the state's most significant institutions and provided a financial foundation for several towns and...

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Christopher Lehman

Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary

A. Naomi Paik

Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary

Days after taking the White House, Donald Trump signed three executive orders—these authorized the Muslim Ban, the border wall, and ICE raids. These orders would define his administration’s approach toward noncitizens. An essential primer on how we got here, Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary shows that such barriers to immigration are embedded in the very foundation of the United States. A. Naomi Paik reveals that the forty-fifth president’s xenophobic, racist, ableist,...

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A. Naomi Paik

Water for Hartford

Kevin Murphy

Water for Hartford

As good health is inextricably wedded to pure drinking water—and this particular concern looms larger every day—understanding delivery systems is almost as important as the water itself. Water for Hartford chronicles the century-long effort, beginning in the 1850s, to construct a viable, efficient water system. The story of Hartford's water works is a fascinating one, for it recalls the hard work, great sacrifice, and extraordinary engineering feats necessary to deliver...

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Kevin Murphy

Connecticut in the American Civil W...

Matthew Warshauer

Connecticut in the American Civil War

Connecticut in the American Civil War offers readers a remarkable window into the state's involvement in a conflict that challenged and defined the unity of a nation. The arc of the war is traced through the many facets and stories of battlefield, home front, and factory. Matthew Warshauer masterfully reveals the varied attitudes toward slavery and race before, during, and after the war; Connecticut's reaction to the firing on Fort Sumter; the dissent in the state over...

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Matthew Warshauer

Heroes for All Time

Dione Longley

Heroes for All Time

Winner of the Bruce Fraser Award (2016)Voices of Civil War soldiers rise from the pages of Heroes for All Time. This book presents the war straight from the minds and pens of its participants; rich passages from soldiers' letters and diaries complement hundreds of outstanding period photographs, most previously unpublished. The soldiers' moving experiences, thoughts, and images animate each chapter....

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Dione Longley

Homegrown Terror

Eric D. Lehman

Homegrown Terror

On September 6, 1781, Connecticut native Benedict Arnold and a force of 1,700 British soldiers and loyalists took Fort Griswold and burnt New London to the ground. The brutality of the invasion galvanized the new nation, and «Remember New London!» would become a rallying cry for troops under General Lafayette. In Homegrown Terror, Eric D. Lehman chronicles the events leading up to the attack and highlights this key transformation in Arnold—the point where he went from betraying...

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Eric D. Lehman

The German Conception of History

Georg G. Iggers

The German Conception of History

This is the first comprehensive critical examination in any language of the German national tradition of historiography. It analyzes the basic theoretical assumptions of the German historians of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and relates these assumptions to political thought and action. The German national tradition of historiography had its beginnings in the reaction against the Enlightenment and the French Revolution of 1789. This historiography...

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Georg G. Iggers

They Know Us Better Than We Know Ou...

Bridget Brown

They Know Us Better Than We Know Ourselves

Since its emergence in the 1960s, belief in alien abduction has saturated popular culture, with the ubiquitous image of the almond-eyed alien appearing on everything from bumper stickers to bars of soap. Drawing on interviews with alleged abductees from the New York area, Bridget Brown suggests a new way for people to think about the alien phenomenon, one that is concerned not with establishing whether aliens actually exist, but with understanding what belief in aliens in America may tell us...

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Bridget Brown

Insatiable Appetites

Kelly L. Watson

Insatiable Appetites

A comparative history of cross-cultural encounters and the critical role of cannibalism in the early modernperiod Cannibalism, for medieval and early modern Europeans, was synonymous with savagery. Humans who ate other humans, they believed, were little better than animals. The European colonizers who encountered Native Americans described them as cannibals as a matter of course, and they wrote extensively about the lurid cannibal rituals they claim to have witnessed. In this definitive...

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Kelly L. Watson

The Common Wind

Julius S. Scott

The Common Wind

A remarkable intellectual history of the slave revolts that made the modern revolutionary era Out of the grey expanse of official records in Spanish, English and French, The Common Wind provides a gripping and colorful account of inter-continental communication networks that tied together the free and enslaved masses of the new world. A powerful «history from below,» this book follows those «rumors of emancipation» and the people who spread them, bringing to life the protagonists in the...

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Julius S. Scott

Vexed with Devils

Erika Gasser

Vexed with Devils

Stories of witchcraft and demonic possession from early modern England through the last official trials in colonial New England. [/b][b] Those possessed by the devil in early modern England usually exhibited a common set of symptoms: fits, vomiting, visions, contortions, speaking in tongues, and an antipathy to prayer. However, it was a matter of interpretation, and sometimes public opinion, if these symptoms were visited upon the victim, or if they came from within. Both early modern England...

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Erika Gasser

Voices of British Columbia

Robert Budd

Voices of British Columbia

Between 1959 and 1966, the late CBC Radio journalist Imbert Orchard travelled across British Columbia with recording engineer Ian Stephen interviewing nearly a thousand of the province’s pioneers. The resulting collection  2,700 hours of audiotapes describing both extraordinary events and everyday experiences  is considered by historians to be one of the best sources of primary information about the province. To the general public, however, the tales in these tapes...

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Robert Budd

Chronicles Of The Crusades: Contemp...

Lord John De Joinville

Chronicles Of The Crusades: Contemporary narratives of the Crusade of Richard Couer De Lion and of the Crusade of Saint Louis

Originally published in 1908. Author: Lord John De Joinville Language: English Keywords: History / Crusades Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Lord John De Joinville

Córka fałszerza. Tom 2

Joanna Jax

Córka fałszerza. Tom 2

Opowieść o grupie ludzi, których młodość przypada na burzliwe czasy schyłku Republiki Weimarskiej i początku istnienia III Rzeszy. Młoda Żydówka o niezwykłym talencie malarskim, policjant usiłujący zachować prawość w okrutnych czasach, majętny mężczyzna zarażony ideą nazizmu i człowiek ogarnięty ezoterycznym szaleństwem to bohaterowie powieści, którzy próbują odnaleźć się w nowej rzeczywistości. Kiedy nadchodzą rządy Hitlera, żadne z nich nie spodziewa się, że właśnie narodziło się czyste zło....

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Joanna Jax

Je Suis L'Empereur

Stefano Conti

Je Suis L'Empereur

Thriller historique-archéologique Un secret caché par des siècles, lieux chargés de magie, une histoire d’amour troublée, une secte occulte : voici les ingrédients d’un roman où histoire et ironie, archéologie et mystère sont mélangés pour créer un intrigue captivant. Un voyage passionnant dans l’espace et le temps, des anciens Romains aux Croises du Moyen Age, de l'empire Byzantin aux Médicis de la Renaissance, jusqu'à aujourd’hui. Tarse (Turquie), 8 Juillet 2010. Un professeur universitaire...

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Stefano Conti

Hannibal Se Olifantmeisie

Charley Brindley

Hannibal Se Olifantmeisie

Hannibal moet sestig oorlog olifante van Karthago af in Noord-Afrika, oor die Middel van die See na Iberia vervoer. Hy moet sy mense op lei om hierdie moeilike taak uit gerig te kry. Die eerste deel van hierdie projek is om een olifant op 'n skip te laai en na die ooste te vaar op die agtien-dag reis. Hy het sy grootste olifant gekies, Obolus, om te gebruik in die opleiding van sy manne. Hannibal moet sestig oorlog olifante van Karthago af in Noord-Afrika, oor die Middel van die See na Iberia...

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Charley Brindley

Los Secretos Del Rubicón

Ivo Ragazzini

Los Secretos Del Rubicón

Hubo un tiempo en el que el Rubicón no era solo un río y a la Romaña se la llamaba Flaminia debido a una vía que llevaba a Roma. Y cuando en el año 49 a.C. Julio César llegó delante se encontró con que lo esperaba una empalizada de madera pintada de «rúbico», es decir, rojo púrpura, el color oficial de Roma, que el impedía el paso hacia Roma. ¿Pero por qué motivo se había construido, incluso antes de que naciera César, una línea roja defensiva que llegaba hasta el mar para cerrar el paso a los...

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Ivo Ragazzini

The British Prime Minister in an Ag...

Mark Garnett

The British Prime Minister in an Age of Upheaval

In this timely book, Mark Garnett provides a bracing reassessment of the role of the British Prime Minister, from Margaret Thatcher’s controversial tenure to Boris Johnson’s attempt to confront a pandemic with a ministerial team created to face the very different challenge of Brexit. Taking a thematic approach, Garnett explores the impact of major political developments and personalities on key aspects of prime ministerial functions as party leader, Cabinet-maker, chief diplomat and electoral...

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Mark Garnett

Po cudze pieniądze

Hanna Cygler

Po cudze pieniądze

Co mają wspólnego ze sobą zabójstwo w Nowym Jorku i skandal obyczajowy w niemieckiej Armii? Rodzina Szuszkinów po przymusowym wyjeździe z kraju próbuje odnaleźć się w nowej rzeczywistości Stanów Zjednoczonych końca drugiej rewolucji przemysłowej. Maksymilian Kwilecki wyjeżdża do Afryki w poszukiwaniu nowego życia i bogactwa. Hannelore Hallman natomiast próbuje się dowiedzieć, czy w życiu jej prawdziwego ojca jest dla niej miejsce. Hanna Cygler świetnie żongluje słowem i emocjami, a przy tym...

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Hanna Cygler

Nowoczesna komedia. Część 2. Milczą...

John Galsworthy

Nowoczesna komedia. Część 2. Milczące zaloty. Srebrna łyżka

Pasjonujący cykl powieściowy, który przyniósł Johnowi Galsworthy’emu literacką Nagrodę Nobla! „Nowoczesna komedia” to kolejna trylogia powieściowa poświęcona rodzinie Forsyte'ów. W jej skład wchodzą „Biała małpa” (1924), „Milczące zaloty. Srebrna łyżka” (1926) i „Mijający się w mroku. Łabędzi śpiew” (1928). Następuje tu metamorfoza głównego bohatera, Soamesa, który z egoisty i dorobkiewicza przeistacza się w dostojnego, uduchowionego dżentelmena. Pokolenie, które Galsworthy wcześniej...

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John Galsworthy

Secrets Of The Rubicon

Ivo Ragazzini

Secrets Of The Rubicon

Once there was a time when Romagna was named Flaminia and the Rubicon was not only a river. When in 49 BCE Julius Caesar arrived he found waiting for him a wooden palisade coloured ruby red where he deployed his legions for several months on that border defended by the legionaries of Pompeo. But who and for what reason was it built, even before Caesar was born, a red line of defence built even to the sea and what would Caesar and his legions do to breach it? Born out of the historical...

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Ivo Ragazzini

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