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Joseph Pearson
Sweet Victory

The fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen---who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin---risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.> In June of 1…

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Geoff Williams
The Summer of Death

A riveting historic narrative that tells the iconic story of the great heat wave that ravaged the continent in the last gasps of the Dust Bowl.In 1936, ironically after one of the coldest winters on recor…

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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Venezuela in Crisis

In this essential intervention, Venezuelan socialists provide an invaluable analysis of the origins and causes of their country's crisis, and offer a critique of the Maduro regime.Venezuela in Crisis brin…

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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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Michael Kimmel
Playmakers

In 1902, Morris and Rose Michtom invented the Teddy Bear in the back room of their Brooklyn sweet shop. Together, they launched the Ideal Toy Corporation into a pre-war market rife with other first-genera…

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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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Pam Inder
Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods

Tracing its development from a trade devoted to selling small needlework articles, ribbons and trimmings to one chiefly concerned with making and selling hats and bonnets, Feathers, Frills and Fancy Goods…

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Jeff Hobbs
Seeking Shelter

Named a Best Book of the Year by The New YorkerIn the tradition of Evicted and Invisible Child, a "remarkably vivid...deeply empathetic" (Los Angeles Times ) story that follows a single mother o…

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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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Ziad Abu-Rish
The State of Lebanon

Lebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed, women and men across class, sectarian, geographic, and ideological divides built, challenged, and reformed t…

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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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Robert St Clair
Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature

Counter-Modernities in Nineteenth-Century French Literature explores a counterview of modernity in late nineteenth-century French literature (1848-1891). The principal claim of this book is that what we f…

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Florian Staffel
Zwischen Konkurrenz und Kooperation

Wie reagieren Unternehmen im Zuge der Globalisierung auf neue Wettbewerber aus Asien? Welche Rolle spielen dabei Narrative, Erwartungen und Wahrnehmungen?Die Studie untersucht diese Fragen anhand der Trad…

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Transformationen

Wirtschaftlicher Wandel wirft die Frage nach dem Wert unserer industriellen Vergangenheit auf. In Sachsen-Anhalt spielt die Industriekultur eine zentrale Rolle - als Zeugnis vergangener Umbrüche und als R…

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Joanna Dee Das
Faith, Family, and Flag

Sons of Britches. *The Great American Chuckwagon Dinner Show. The *Haygoods. The Grand Jubilee.These are just a couple of the many shows performed in Branson, MO,Branson, Missouri, the Ozark Mountain mecc…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Middle Ages and Renaissance

The Middle Ages were marked by dramatic social, economic, political, and religious changes. Diverse regional and local conditions, and varied social classes - including peasant, artisan, merchant, clergy,…

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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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