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  • Third Reich, as I See It Third Reich, as I See It
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    Third Reich, as I See It

    With the beginning of the National Socialist dictatorship, Germany not only experienced a deep political turning point but the private life of Germans also changed fundamentally. The Nazi regime had far-reaching ideas about how the individual should...
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  • Conscience and Convenience Conscience and Convenience
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    Conscience and Convenience

    Conscience and Convenience was quickly recognized for its masterly depiction and interpretation of a major period of reform history. This history begins in a social context in which treatment and rehabilitation were emerging as predominant after...
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  • The Jew as Ally of the Muslim The Jew as Ally of the Muslim
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    The Jew as Ally of the Muslim

    With exacting research and skillful analysis, the Cutlers revise the traditional explanations of the roots of anti-Semitism. They contend that the great outburst of anti-Semitism in Western Europe during the Middle Ages ... derived from primarily...
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  • Penn State Series in the History of the Book Penn State Series in the History of the Book
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    Penn State Series in the History of the Book

    Explores several classic works of social and political thought, examining how the history of their publication materially affected their meaning and reception over time. Case studies include works by Durkheim, Mead, Marx, Du Bois, and Weber.
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  • Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction
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    Aharon Appelfeld's Fiction

    How can a fictional text adequately or meaningfully represent the events of the Holocaust? Drawing on philosopher Stanley Cavell's ideas about "acknowledgment" as a respectful attentiveness to the world, Emily Miller Budick develops a penetrating...
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  • The Great War in Russian Memory The Great War in Russian Memory
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    The Great War in Russian Memory

    Karen Petrone shatters the notion that World War I was a forgotten war in the Soviet Union. Although never officially commemorated, the Great War was the subject of a lively discourse about religion, heroism, violence, and patriotism during the interwar...
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  • Exiles on Main Street Exiles on Main Street
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    Exiles on Main Street

    How have Jews reshaped their identities as Jews in the face of the radical newness called America? Julian Levinson explores the ways in which exposure to American literary culture-in particular the visionary tradition identified with Ralph Waldo Emerson...
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  • Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust
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    Antisemitism, Christian Ambivalence, and the Holocaust

    In recent years, the mask of tolerant, secular, multicultural Europe has been shattered by new forms of antisemitic crime. Though many of the perpetrators do not profess Christianity, antisemitism has flourished in Christian Europe. In this book,...
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  • The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism
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    The Jewish Origins of Cultural Pluralism

    Daniel Greene traces the emergence of the idea of cultural pluralism to the lived experiences of a group of Jewish college students and public intellectuals, including the philosopher Horace M. Kallen. These young Jews faced particular challenges as they...
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  • Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine
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    Women's Social Activism in the New Ukraine

    In postsocialist Ukraine, with privatization and the scaling back of the social safety net, it is primarily women who have been left as leaders of service-oriented NGOs and mutual aid associations, caring for the marginalized and destitute with little or...
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  • The Melodramatic Thread The Melodramatic Thread
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    The Melodramatic Thread

    In France, both political culture and theatrical performances have drawn upon melodrama. This "melodramatic thread" helped weave the country's political life as it moved from monarchy to democracy. By examining the relationship between public ceremonies...
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  • Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church
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    Wisconsin Oneidas and the Episcopal Church

    This unique collaboration by academic historians, Oneida elders, and Episcopal clergy tells the fascinating story of how the oldest Protestant mission and house of worship in the upper Midwest took root in the Oneida community. Personal bonds that...
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  • Showers Brothers Furniture Company Showers Brothers Furniture Company
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    Showers Brothers Furniture Company

    When the Showers family arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, the railroad had only recently come to town and a modest university was struggling to survive. Having spent the prior 18 years moving from place to place, the family decided to settle down and...
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  • The Lost Worlds of Earth and Mars The Lost Worlds of Earth and Mars
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    The Lost Worlds of Earth and Mars

    The original book, written long ago, existed, but its sight is hidden from the searcher and the thinker. - The Maya Popol VuhOver the last half century, an abundance of evidence has been put forward to indicate a highly advanced civilization once...
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  • Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics
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    Oxford Handbook of the History of Eugenics

    Winner of the Cantemir Prize of the Berendel FoundationEugenic thought and practice swept the world from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century in a remarkable transnational phenomenon. Eugenics informed social and scientific policy across the...
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  • Legal Histories of the British Empire Legal Histories of the British Empire
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    Legal Histories of the British Empire

    This book is a major contribution to our understanding of the role played by law(s) in the British Empire. Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, the authors provide in-depth analyses which shine new light on the role of law in creating the...
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  • A History of Global Consumption A History of Global Consumption
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    A History of Global Consumption

    In A History of Global Consumption: 1500 - 1800, Ina Baghdiantz McCabe examines the history of consumption throughout the early modern period using a combination of chronological and thematic discussion, taking a comprehensive and wide-reaching view of a...
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  • Doing Greek Philosophy Doing Greek Philosophy
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    Doing Greek Philosophy

    This lively and original guidebook offers an invitation to the study of Greek philosophy and signposts to lead the student deeper. The reader is drawn in to the questions the philosophers posed. Doing Greek Philosophy conveys a vital sense of the...
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  • Father of Jewish Mysticism Father of Jewish Mysticism
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    Father of Jewish Mysticism

    The Father of Jewish Mysticism offers an incisive look at the early life and writings of Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the father of modern Jewish mysticism and a major 20th-century Jewish intellectual. Daniel Weidner offers the first full-length study,...
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  • Betrayal of the Humanities Betrayal of the Humanities
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    Betrayal of the Humanities

    How did the academy react to the rise, dominance, and ultimate fall of Germany's Third Reich? Did German professors of the humanities have to tell themselves lies about their regime's activities or its victims to sleep at night? Or did they look the...
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  • Tissue Culture in Science and Society Tissue Culture in Science and Society
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    Tissue Culture in Science and Society

    This book charts the social and cultural history of the scientific technique known as "tissue culture." It shows how tissue culture was a regular public presence in twentieth-century Britain, and argues that history can contribute to current debates...
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  • Constructing Leisure Constructing Leisure
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    Constructing Leisure

    This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to write a history of leisure on its own - in fact, it is impossible without engaging in the debate about what...
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  • Bullyycee Bullyycee
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    Bullyycee

    Greetings from God to the human family. This very didactic, enlightening, philosophically sound, morally prudent and existentially critical text was born out of uniquely profound suffering, yet a divinely dynamic inspiration of wisdom, knowledge,...
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  • Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood
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    Land Shall Be Deluged in Blood

    On the evening of August 21, 1831, Nat Turner and six men launched their infamous rebellion against slaveholders. The rebels swept through Southampton County, Virginia, recruiting slaves to their ranks and killing nearly five dozen whites-more than had...
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  • "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer"
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    "I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer"

    A fascinating collection of questions and answers about courtship, marriage, love, and sex from a seventeenth-century periodicalThe Athenian Mercury a one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s London included the world's first personal advice...
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  • What Is Ancient History?
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    What Is Ancient History?

    From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history obsolete,...
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  • Arab Revolutions in Context
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    Arab Revolutions in Context

    From late 2010 a series of dramatic and unprecedented events swept across the Middle East and North Africa, toppling several autocratic regimes that had held power for decades and ushering in a new climate of dissent and democratisation. The Arab...
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  • The Arabs and the Holocaust
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    The Arabs and the Holocaust

    The Arab-Israeli conflict goes far beyond the wars waged on Middle Eastern battlefields. There is also a war of narratives revolving around the two defining traumas of the conflict: the Holocaust and the Nakba. One side is charged with Holocaust denial,...
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    A Man of Few Words

    'Nobody knows how much I owe that man', Primo Levi said of his Italian compatriot Lorenzo Perrone, who saved his life at Auschwitz. 'I could never repay him'. Each day for a period of six months, Perrone, who worked beside Auschwitz in desperate...
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    Beneath Dark Waters
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    Beneath Dark Waters

    The poignant and very human drama of a 1914 maritime disaster that claimed the lives of more passengers than the Titanic. On May 28, 1914, the RMS Empress of Ireland began her 192nd trip across the Atlantic from Quebec City, Canada, en route to...
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  • The Book of Awesome Asian Women
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    The Book of Awesome Asian Women

    Celebrating the Legacy of Strong Asian WomenThe Book of Awesome Asian Women illuminates the stories of powerful Asian women who have shaped history, providing inspiration and recognition to their incredible contributions across the globe.A Crucial...
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    Global Marxism Global Marxism
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    Global Marxism

    Arguing against the idea that Marxism is a Eurocentric theory with nothing to teach the Global South, this book explores the lives and ideas of a remarkable set of revolutionaries, from Ho Chi Minh to Ali Shariati.
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  • The Conqueror's Gift
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    The Conqueror's Gift

    The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late AntiquityEthnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors. It helps rulers articulate cultural differences, and...
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  • The Wilmot Story - The Search for Who We Are The Wilmot Story - The Search for Who We Are
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    The Wilmot Story - The Search for Who We Are

    The story of the Wilmot family begins in 1794, Cloyne, County Cork, Ireland, and follows a path of immigration in the early 19th century to Atlantic Canada and on to New York in the mid-19th century. The hardships, sickness, and poverty of early...
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