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Consumer Society in American History : a Reader (99 Edition)
Consumer Society in American History : a Reader (99 Edition)
by Lawrence B. (ed.) Glickman
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Consumption has often been called America's true national pastime. From the earliest European explorers trading with Native Americans to today's Internet shoppers, consumerism has driven American society. Until recent years, however, consumerism has... (read more)

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Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq
Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq
by Peter Laufer
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Disillusioned, outraged, and betrayed, American soldiers are taking a stand against the war in Iraq.A shattering journey of revelation, pain, and betrayal, Mission Rejected takes the reader deep into the turmoil of U.S. troops confronting the Iraq War... (read more)

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Disorderly Women : Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (94 Edition)
Disorderly Women : Sexual Politics and Evangelicalism in Revolutionary New England (94 Edition)
by Susan Juster
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Throughout most of the eighteenth century and particularly during the religious revivals of the Great Awakening, evangelical women in colonial New England participated vigorously in major church decisions, from electing pastors to disciplining... (read more)

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Race Against Empire : Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (97 Edition)
Race Against Empire : Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (97 Edition)
by Penny M. Von Eschen
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'Race Against Empire' tells the poignant story of a popular movement and its precipitate decline with the onset of the Cold War.... (read more)

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The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650
The Renewed, the Destroyed, and the Remade: The Three Thought Worlds of the Iroquois and the Huron, 1609-1650
by Roger M. Carpenter
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For three decades, Native American history has been dominated by two major themes. The first is "The Cant of Conquest," the notion that all native peoples who came into contact with Europeans suffered devastating effects due to disease... (read more)

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Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech (Cornell Paperbacks)
Fighting Faiths: The Abrams Case, the Supreme Court, and Free Speech (Cornell Paperbacks)
by Richard Polenberg
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Jacob Abrams et al v. United States is the landmark Supreme Court case in the definition of free speech. Although the 1918 conviction of four Russian Jewish anarchists -- for distributing leaflets protesting America's intervention in the Russian... (read more)

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Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology
Jeffersonian Persuasion: Evolution of a Party Ideology
by Lance Banning
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This revisionary study offers a convincing new interpretation of Jeffersonian Republican thought in the 1970's. Based on extensive research in the newspapers and political pamphlets of the decade as well as the public and private writings of party... (read more)

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The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
by H. Bruce Franklin
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In this brilliant portrait of the oceans' unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America's national (and natural) history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both. Since Native Americans began using... (read more)

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History of My Own Times: Or, or the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sr., Comprising A... (Documents in American Social History)
History of My Own Times: Or, or the Life and Adventures of William Otter, Sr., Comprising A... (Documents in American Social History)
by William Otter
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This is one of the few first-person accounts of a rural artisan in pre-genteel American. The book depicts the ambiguities of race relation in the early nineteenth century, sheds light on its definition of manhood, and conveys a sense of humor very... (read more)

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The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence
The Grammar of Good Intentions: Race and the Antebellum Culture of Benevolence
by Susan M Ryan
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The Only Jealousy of Emer: Manuscript Materials
The Only Jealousy of Emer: Manuscript Materials
by Ileen A. Devault
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Chaldeans in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan)
Chaldeans in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan)
by Mary C. Sengstock
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The Michigan Chaldean community consists of more than 100,000 people of Iraqi descent who live in the Metropolitan Detroit area. The earliest Chaldeans arrived in the Detroit area about 1910. Living in the northern suburbs—Southfield, Oak Park... (read more)

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Power to People: The Inside Story of AES and the Globalization of Electricity
Power to People: The Inside Story of AES and the Globalization of Electricity
by Peter Grose
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In the late 1990s, while Enron was flying high, a smaller power company flew under the radar. AES was founded in 1981 according to a different set of principles—fiscally conservative investment strategies paired with the belief that business can be... (read more)

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Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
Convents and Nuns in Eighteenth-Century French Politics and Culture
by Kristina Bross
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Representations of convents and nuns assumed power and urgency within the volatile political culture of eighteenth-century France Drawing from a range of literary, cultural, and legal material, Mita Choudhury analyzes how, between 1780 and 1789, lawyers,... (read more)

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