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  • Men and Books and Cities Men and Books and Cities
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    Men and Books and Cities

    Men and Books and Cities, penned by Robert Cortes Holliday, offers a captivating glimpse into the literary and social landscape of the early 20th century. Through a series of insightful essays, Holliday explores the interconnectedness of literature,...
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  • Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts
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    Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts

    "Vital Records of Gardner, Massachusetts, To the End of the Year 1849" offers a meticulously compiled record of births, marriages, and deaths within the town of Gardner, Massachusetts, up to the specified year. This historical document provides...
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  • Das Neunzehnte Jahrhundert Das Neunzehnte Jahrhundert
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    Das Neunzehnte Jahrhundert

    "Das Neunzehnte Jahrhundert, Volume 1" by Gustav Adolf Zimmermann, originally published around 1900, offers a comprehensive overview of the nineteenth century. This volume delves into the key historical events, social transformations, and cultural...
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  • Practical Horsemanship and Riding for Ladies Practical Horsemanship and Riding for Ladies
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    Practical Horsemanship and Riding for Ladies

    Practical Horsemanship and Riding for Ladies, penned by William Alexander Kerr, offers a comprehensive guide to the art of horsemanship, specifically tailored for women. Originally published in 1887, this book provides invaluable insights into the...
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  • A Directory for the Village of Rochester A Directory for the Village of Rochester
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    A Directory for the Village of Rochester

    Explore the past with "A Directory for the Village of Rochester," a fascinating glimpse into life in Rochester, New York, in 1914. Compiled by Elisha Ely, this directory offers a detailed snapshot of the community, listing residents, businesses, and...
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  • Staten Island's Elliottville Staten Island's Elliottville
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    Staten Island's Elliottville

    The story of a 19th century Staten Island town that nurtured the careers of nationally significant reformers, abolitionists, and transcendentalists.This book traces five decades of community life in a nineteenth-century Staten Island neighborhood...
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  • African States African States
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    African States

    Essays on the security challenges faced by African states.The central concern that shapes this edited volume is the nature of the African state. Contributors point to an interesting intersection of domestic and external issues that is framed as a...
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  • The Politics of Not Speaking The Politics of Not Speaking
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    The Politics of Not Speaking

    In contrast to the common understanding of politics as a domain of speaking, reveals an alternative tradition where the spoken word fails, collapses, breaks (i.e., a politics of not speaking).According to a common conception, modern politics is based on...
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  • A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States
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    A History of Transgender Medicine in the United States

    The most comprehensive history of transgender medicine to date, as told by more than forty scholars, physicians, psychologists, and activists from trans, gender-diverse, and allied medical communities.Arriving at a critical moment in the struggle for...
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  • The Celluloid Atlantic The Celluloid Atlantic
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    The Celluloid Atlantic

    Offers a fresh look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period.The Celluloid Atlantic changes the way we look at American and Italian cinema in the postwar period. In the thirty years following World War II, American and Italian film industries...
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  • Cross-Cultural Heritage Cross-Cultural Heritage
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    Cross-Cultural Heritage

    The diverging forms of material and immaterial missionary heritages and legacies.For centuries, Christian missions have intervened in local religious communities, practices and ideas across the globe, generating encounters between Indigenous and Western...
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  • First in This Land First in This Land
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    First in This Land

    This collection of readings attests to the unique relationship the indigenous Snake River-Palouse and Umatilla peoples have long had with their traditional homelands in the Inland Pacific Northwest. These accounts by tribal elders and consultants reflect...
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  • Battling While Black Battling While Black
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    Battling While Black

    Imagine that you are an eighteen-year-old Black man growing up in the Jim Crow South of the 1940s. You have maybe a seventh-grade education, and you enlist in the Army, where you become trained to operate and fight from a new Sherman battle tank. But...
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  • Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917 Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917
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    Images of Otherness in Russia, 1547-1917

    Defining the Others, "them", in relation to one's own reference group, "us", has been an essential phase in the formation of collective identities. This volume examines the development and contexts of various images, perceptions and categories of the...
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  • Facts That Will Change How You See The World Facts That Will Change How You See The World
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    Facts That Will Change How You See The World

    Facts That Will Change How You See the WorldUnlock the Power of Perspective. Rethink Everything You Thought You Knew.What if the truths you take for granted are only part of the story? From the microscopic marvels inside a single cell to the staggering...
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  • Tampoy Tales Tampoy Tales
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    Tampoy Tales

    Tampoy Tales is a family's journey through childhood, war, and peace. The de Leon family came from the small town of Tampoy, Bulacan, in the Philippines, and their story is one of resilience, hope, delightful nostalgic adventures, family solidarity, and...
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  • How to Research Historic Occupations How to Research Historic Occupations
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    How to Research Historic Occupations

    Learning about our ancestors' occupations helps to give us an understanding of their daily lives. This book covers dozens of historic trades - accounting for around 90% of the Victorian population, in fact - giving succinct details about the trade, how...
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  • (Post)Colonial Ports (Post)Colonial Ports
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    (Post)Colonial Ports

    This book examines the role of (post)colonial ports in creating and shaping the ecotonal, cultural, historical, material, environmental, socio-political and economic contexts in formerly colonized regions, spanning the Caribbean, Africa, North America,...
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    Death Dealer Death Dealer
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    Death Dealer

    By his own admission, SS Kommandant Rudolf Höss was history's greatest mass murderer, having personally supervised the extermination of approximately two million people, mostly Jews, at the death camp in Auschwitz, Poland. Death Dealer is the first...
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    Spaces of Anticolonialism

    Spaces of Anticolonialism is the first book-length account of anticolonialism in Delhi, as the capital of Britain's empire in India. It pioneers a spatial governmentality analysis of the networks, mobilizations, and hidden spaces of anticolonial...
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    Digital Genealogy as Second-Wave Digital Humanities

    In the first major engagement with Aberdeenshire's rural society since Carter's The Poor Man's Country of 1979, Riddell's study of Northeast Scotland encourages readers to consider the vast potential held by Digital Genealogy for second-wave Digital...
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    Walrus With A Gold Tooth

    In the two decades between the Second World War and the Great Alaska Earthquake, Anchorage grew by a factor of 10. Money was, quite literally, washing down the street. The economic boom was so great that all you needed to make a million dollars was a...
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    Cowboys of the Sky

    For more than 80 years, bush pilots have carried supplies, delivered mail, and transported emergency personnel over Alaska's rugged terrain. They've flown with felons handcuffed to the seat, with corpses strapped to the wing, and with drugged polar bears...
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    Bible Records of Washington County, Maryland

    These Bible records have been taken from copies, notes, and in some cases, the Bibles themselves, on file at the Washington County Historical Society. Washington County was often a stopping point for families heading west to Ohio, Illinois and beyond...
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    The War of Confederate Captain Henry T. Owen

    Henry Thweatt Owen fought the War of 1861-1865 on many fronts. As a commander of Company C, 18th Virginia Infantry Regiment, Army of Northern Virginia, Confederate States of America, he fought against the Union Army. He also fought on a second front in...
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  • Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970 Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970
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    Kent State Murder Day - May 4, 1970

    On May 4, 1970 the Ohio National Guard fired bullets into college students in a non-violent demonstration at Kent State University.  They were protesting the Vietnam War and Cambodia Campaign of illegal bombing by the United States Government and...
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  • Towards Emancipation Towards Emancipation
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    Towards Emancipation

    No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements...
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  • An Earth-colored Sea An Earth-colored Sea
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    An Earth-colored Sea

    Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in...
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  • Symbiosis and Ambivalence Symbiosis and Ambivalence
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    Symbiosis and Ambivalence

    In Poland and elsewhere there has been a noticeable increase of interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual need to explore the "blank spots" of Poland's national...
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  • Shedding Light on the Darkness Shedding Light on the Darkness
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    Shedding Light on the Darkness

    Increasingly, German Studies programs include courses on the Holocaust, but suitable course materials are often difficult to find. Teachers in higher education will therefore very much welcome this volume that examines and reflects both the practical and...
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  • Slavery in the Islamic Middle East Slavery in the Islamic Middle East
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    Slavery in the Islamic Middle East

    Slavery, recognized and regulated by Islamic law, was an integral part of Muslim societies in the Middle East well into modern times. Recruited from the “Abode of War” by means of trade or warfare, slaves began their lives in the Islamic world as...
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  • America in the Eyes of the Germans America in the Eyes of the Germans
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    America in the Eyes of the Germans

    The author presents a short history of a rather complex idea that began around the year 1800. Though the United States was often viewed by the people of Germany as a land of opportunity, a portion of the intelligentsia, with which this book is...
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  • Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800 Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800
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    Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800

    This volume contains abstracts of all the extant wills found in the original (loose) probate papers and the recorded volumes as of 1911. Many of the earliest wills were not recorded in the probate volumes, and some original papers had disappeared by that...
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  • 1798 Direct Tax New Hampshire District #13, Consisting of the Towns of Alton, Brookfield, Effingham, Middleton, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro 1798 Direct Tax New Hampshire District #13, Consisting of the Towns of Alton, Brookfield, Effingham, Middleton, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro
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    1798 Direct Tax New Hampshire District #13, Consisting of the Towns of Alton, Brookfield, Effingham, Middleton, New Durham, Ossipee, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, and Wolfeboro

    This transcription of a portion of the 1798 Direct Tax lists is of special importance because it covers the towns in southeastern New Hampshire for which the 1800 federal census schedules are missing. Thus it provides an essential adjunct to the...
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  • Who Moved West? Who Moved West?
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    Who Moved West?

    There has been extensive damage after the Civil War so the challenge for the next government was on reconstruction. In this book, you will read about the plans for reconstruction and where the westward expansion came into play. Examine the details of the...
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  • Slavery & Freedom Cannot Exist Together! Slavery & Freedom Cannot Exist Together!
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    Slavery & Freedom Cannot Exist Together!

    Not all African-Americans in the 1790 were slaves. There were also "free blacks." This book examines the lives of the free blacks during a time when slavery was allowed in the country. What were the rules that they had to follow? How did the white...
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  • The Road to the 13th Amendment! The Road to the 13th Amendment!
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    The Road to the 13th Amendment!

    Slavery in the United States was abolished in 1865 through the passing of the 13th Amendment. This book will describe how the anti-slavery movement gained its momentum. Who were the people who contributed significantly to end it? You will read about the...
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