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Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"The Second Mexican Empire has often been dismissed as a mere parenthesis in the history of the Americas. Here, Raymond Jonas shows how important it is in understanding the globally destabilizing effect of the expanded US republic. Habsburgs on the Rio Grande is a rich narrative history story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising American colossus by establishing...
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Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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"In March 2020, when most of the world stayed locked inside their homes, the environmental benefits were substantial and drove an environmental change that put society on a much more sustainable trajectory. Rapid change in policies and behaviors are in stark contrast to the slow and ineffective ways that the world has responded to the climate crisis before and after the spring of 2020. When world leaders finally met at the COP-26 climate negotiations...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"At the start of the 1860 presidential campaign, a handful of fired-up young Northerners appeared as bodyguards to defend anti-slavery stump speakers from frequent attacks. The group called themselves the Wide Awakes. Soon, hundreds of thousands of young White and Black men, and a number of women, were organizing boisterous, uniformed, torch-bearing brigades of their own. These Wide Awakes--mostly working-class Americans in their twenties--became...
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Reflections from the red kayak volume 4
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Mary Anne Smrz
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
With The Lucretian Renaissance, Gerard Passannante offers a radical rethinking of a familiar narrative: the rise of materialism in early modern Europe. Passannante begins by taking up the ancient philosophical notion that the world is composed of two fundamental opposites: atoms, as the philosopher Epicurus theorized, intrinsically unchangeable and moving about the void; and the void itself, or nothingness. Passannante considers the fact that this...
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Media Education Foundation
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Television Event is an archive-based feature documentary that views the dramatic climax of the Cold War through the lens of a commercial television network, as it narrowly succeeds in producing the most watched, most controversial made-for-TV movie, The Day After (1983). With irreverent humor and sobering apocalyptic vision, this film reveals how a commercial broadcaster seized a moment of unprecedented television viewership, made an emotional connection...
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"What did Darwin's work change about the world? Understanding Charles Darwin explodes five misconceptions about Darwin's work and theories, including how ''Darwinism'' has been made to stand for things Darwin never stood for. Concise and accessible, this is the myth-busting look at the Darwin you never knew"--
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Beckett and Buddhism undertakes a twenty-first-century reassessment of the Buddhist resonances in Samuel Beckett's writing. These reverberations, as Angela Moorjani demonstrates, originated in his early reading of Schopenhauer. Drawing on letters and archives along with recent studies of Buddhist thought and Schopenhauer's knowledge of it, the book charts the Buddhist concepts circling through Beckett's visions of the 'human predicament' in a blend...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"Austerity became the predominant fiscal policy response to the Great Recession in Europe. After a brief period of 'emergency Keynesianism' from 2008 to 2010, even the centre-left abandoned plans for deficit spending and accepted austerity as the dogma of the day. In this book, Björn Bremer explains how this came about and explores its political consequences, combining qualitative and quantitative methods and drawing on a wide range of empirical...
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Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"This book describes the formation, operation, and reception of the Bethlehem Steel company's baseball leagues. It introduces the choices faced by baseball players in response to the Work or Fight order during World War I. It explores the intersections between baseball and the US War efforts at home and abroad"--
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University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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"The emergence of Haiti as a sovereign Black nation lit a beacon of hope for Black people throughout the African diaspora. Leslie M. Alexander's study reveals the untold story of how free and enslaved Black people in the United States defended the young Caribbean nation from forces intent on maintaining slavery and white supremacy. Concentrating on Haiti's place in the history of Black internationalism, Alexander illuminates the ways Haitian independence...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed and ongoing importance in American life, argues Gary Dorrien in his groundbreaking trilogy on the history of Black social Christianity. This concluding volume, an interpretation of the tradition since the early 1970s, follows Dorrien's award-winning The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel and Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel....
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