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  • DISEASE AND DISCOVERY
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    DISEASE AND DISCOVERY
    ELIZABETH FEE
    The story of a world-renowned institution and “a broad investigation of early twentieth-century public health ideology in America” (Journal of the American Medical Association). At the end of the nineteenth century, public health was the province of part-time political appointees and volunteer groups of every variety. Public health officers were usually physicians, but they cou...

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  • THE 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN CITY
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    THE 20TH-CENTURY AMERICAN CITY
    JON C. TEAFORD
    An updated edition of the essential text from “a respected urban historian” (Annals of Iowa). Throughout the twentieth century, the city was deemed a problematic space, one that Americans urgently needed to improve. Although cities from New York to Los Angeles served as grand monuments to wealth and enterprise, they also reflected the social and economic fragmentation of the na...

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  • MAD-DOCTORS IN THE DOCK
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    MAD-DOCTORS IN THE DOCK
    JOEL PETER EIGEN
    “Detailed courtroom narratives . . . give us a colorful and gripping sense of the life-and-death maneuvers involved in mounting an insanity defense.” —Andrew Scull, author of Madness in Civilization Shortly before she pushed her infant daughter headfirst into a bucket of water and fastened the lid, Annie Cherry warmed the pail because, as she later explained to a police officer...

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  • TRANSATLANTIC ALIENS
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    TRANSATLANTIC ALIENS
    WILL NORMAN
    “A cogent and innovative account of the politics of literary and artistic modernism in the early years of the Cold War . . . an exceptional book.” —Transatlantica In Transatlantic Aliens, Will Norman reorients our understanding of midcentury American culture by thinking dialectically about the interfusion of aesthetic and intellectual practices across both the cultural hierarch...

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  • ATHENS BURNING
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    ATHENS BURNING
    ROBERT GARLAND
    “A fresh approach to the Greco-Persian wars focusing on Athens’s evacuation, Persian occupation, and rebuilding . . . [a] compelling book.” —John O. Hyland, Christopher Newport University Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Title Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Aband...

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  • SWITCHING SIDES
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    SWITCHING SIDES
    TONY FELS
    Tony Fels traces a remarkable shift in scholarly interpretations of the Salem witch hunt from the post-World War II era up through the present. In Switching Sides, Tony Fels explains that for a new generation of historians influenced by the radicalism of the New Left in the 1960s and early 1970s, the Salem panic acquired a startlingly different meaning. Determined to champion t...

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  • CHARGING UP SAN JUAN HILL
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    CHARGING UP SAN JUAN HILL
    JOHN R. VAN ATTA
    “Sheds new light on the history of Theodore Roosevelt and the legendary exploits of his illustrious ‘cowboy’ regiment?the Rough Riders.” —Bonnie M. Miller, author of From Liberation to Conquest At the turn of the twentieth century, Theodore Roosevelt personified American confidence. A New York City native and recovered asthmatic who spent his twenties in the wilds of the Dakota...

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  • THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
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    THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
    LORRAINE SMITH PANGLE
    “One of the very finest introductions to this remarkable American’s thought.” —Ralph Ketcham, Claremont Review of Books He invented the wood-burning stove and the lightning rod, he wrote Poor Richard’s Almanac and The Way to Wealth, and he traveled the world as a diplomat. But it was in politics that Benjamin Franklin made his greatest impact. Franklin’s political writings are ...

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  • THE GAMES PRESIDENTS PLAY
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    THE GAMES PRESIDENTS PLAY
    JOHN SAYLE WATTERSON
    This look at the connections between sportsmanship and statesmanship “introduces an intriguing way of evaluating presidential fitness for office” (Richmond Times-Dispatch). Whether throwing out the first pitch of the baseball season, fishing for trout, or cheating at golf, American presidents through history have had connections to the world of sports in many ways. This book ex...

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  • PRESIDENTIAL SECRECY AND THE LAW
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    PRESIDENTIAL SECRECY AND THE LAW
    ROBERT M. PALLITTO / WILLIAM G. WEAVER
    A look at how U.S. presidents from Truman to George W. Bush employed secrecy and how it has affected the presidency and the American government. State secrets, warrantless investigations and wiretaps, signing statements, executive privilege?the executive branch wields many tools for secrecy. Since the middle of the twentieth century, presidents have used myriad tactics to expan...

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  • JUST AND LASTING CHANGE
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    JUST AND LASTING CHANGE
    DANIEL C. TAYLOR / CARL E. TAYLOR
    This revised and updated guide presents a proven method for policy and health professionals to promote community-based progress in developing nations. Daniel C. and Carl E. Taylor built their decades-long careers by partnering with key thinkers to combat inequity, environmental degradation, and globalization. Their innovative SEED-SCALE model enables people to transform their c...

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  • OUR PRESENT COMPLAINT
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    OUR PRESENT COMPLAINT
    CHARLES E. ROSENBERG
    The renowned medical historian examines the current tensions in American healthcare in this “cogently written and well documented” book (Choice). In Our Present Complaint, Charles E. Rosenberg examines today’s dilemmas in American medicine within their historical and social contexts. He begins with an insightful look at the fundamental characteristics of medicine: how we think ...

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  • MIDNIGHT RIDE INDUSTRIAL DAWN
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    MIDNIGHT RIDE INDUSTRIAL DAWN
    ROBERT MARTELLO
    An in-depth look at Revere’s great contribution to American history: his work in helping the nation develop from a craft to an industrial economy. Paul Revere’s ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn reveals another side of this American hero’s life: t...

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  • BEYOND SACRED VIOLENCE
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    BEYOND SACRED VIOLENCE
    KATHRYN MCCLYMOND
    This award-winning study presents “a thought-provoking examination of sacrifice” that significantly extends our understanding of the practice (James Getz, Journal of Religion). For many Westerners, the term sacrifice suggests ancient and primitive ritual practices. It conjures the notion of slaying an animal victim, usually with the aim of atoning for human guilt. In Beyond Sac...

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  • ROME AND THE BARBARIANS, 100 B.C.–A.D. 400
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    ROME AND THE BARBARIANS, 100 B.C.–A.D. 400
    THOMAS S. BURNS
    This historical analysis of Roman-Barbarian relations from the Republic into late antiquity offers a striking new perspective on the fall of the Empire. The barbarians of antiquity, often portrayed simply as the savages who destroyed Rome, emerge in this colorful, richly textured history as a much more complex factor in the expansion, and eventual unmaking, of the Roman Empire....

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  • CONDOM NATION
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    CONDOM NATION
    ALEXANDRA M. LORD
    An award-winning history of the U.S. Public Health Service’s haphazard efforts to educate Americans about sex for more than a century. Since launching its first sex ed program during World War I, the Public Health Service has dominated federal sex education efforts. Alexandra M. Lord draws on medical research, news reports, the expansive records of the Public Health Service, an...

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  • MIXING RACES
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    MIXING RACES
    PAUL LAWRENCE FARBER
    “Traces both historically and sociologically the changing attitudes on race-mixing (miscegenation) in western culture . . . clear, well written and useful.” —Journal of the History of Biology This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on ...

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  • THE LONG BABY BOOM
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    THE LONG BABY BOOM
    JEFF GOLDSMITH
    “Important, timely . . . should be the basis for a national debate about how we each want to grow older and what kind of society we want to do it in.” —John Rother, Group Executive Officer of Policy and Strategy, AARP The aging of the boomer generation has unleashed a veritable tidal wave of gloomy punditry, advertising for financial services, and forecasts of impending nationa...

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  • RAKES, HIGHWAYMEN, AND PIRATES
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    RAKES, HIGHWAYMEN, AND PIRATES
    ERIN MACKIE
    A study of the depiction and development of masculine figures in eighteenth-century British literature. Erin Mackie explores the shared histories of the modern polite English gentleman and other less respectable but no less celebrated eighteenth-century masculine types: the rake, the highwayman, and the pirate. Mackie traces the emergence of these character types to the sevente...

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  • INVESTING IN LIFE
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    INVESTING IN LIFE
    SHARON ANN MURPHY
    A study of the early years of the life insurance industry in 19th century America. Investing in Life considers the creation and expansion of the American life insurance industry from its early origins in the 1810s through the 1860s and examines how its growth paralleled and influenced the emergence of the middle class. Using the economic instability of the period as her backdro...

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  • THE WORLD MAP, 1300–1492
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    THE WORLD MAP, 1300–1492
    EVELYN EDSON
    A history of the development of world maps during the later medieval period in the centuries leading up to Columbus’s journey. In the two centuries before Columbus, mapmaking was transformed. The World Map, 1300–1492 investigates this important, transitional period of mapmaking. Beginning with a 1436 atlas of ten maps produced by Venetian Andrea Bianco, Evelyn Edson uses maps o...

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  • HYSTERECTOMY
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    HYSTERECTOMY
    EDWARD E. WALLACH / ESTHER EISENBERG / ISABEL GREEN / SCHEIB A STACEY
    “An excellent reference not only for patients but also for nurses, medical assistants, and clerical staff who work in a busy gynecologist’s office.” —Wanda Ronner, MD, Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System Hysterectomy is the second most common major surgical procedure performed on women in the United States. For some women, the decision to have ...

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  • A TOUR OF THE SENSES
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    A TOUR OF THE SENSES
    JOHN M. HENSHAW
    “A blend of research findings and real-world anecdotes about people’s sensory experiences enlivens this historical view of the science behind perception.” —Science News Ever wonder why some people have difficulty recognizing faces or why food found delicious in one culture is reviled in another? John M. Henshaw ponders these and other surprising facts in this fascinating and fa...

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  • TRUE YANKEES
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    TRUE YANKEES
    DANE A. MORRISON
    “[A] fascinating perspective on how America’s early voyages of commerce and discovery to the exotic South Seas helped the new nation forge its identity.” —Eric Jay Dolan, bestselling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters  Drawing on private journals, letters, ships’ logs, memoirs, and newspaper accounts, True Yankees traces America’s earliest encounters on a global stage through t...

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  • SOD BUSTING
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    SOD BUSTING
    DAVID B. DANBOM
    “An excellent introduction to the challenges and opportunities of agricultural life in a difficult region for farming . . . elegantly written.” —Jeff Bremer, The Annals of Iowa Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom challenges students to thi...

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  • RAILROADS IN THE OLD SOUTH
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    RAILROADS IN THE OLD SOUTH
    AARON W. MARRS
    An original history of the railroad in the Old South that challenges the accepted understanding of economic and industrial growth in antebellum America. Drawing from both familiar and overlooked sources, such as the personal diaries of Southern travelers, papers and letters from civil engineers, corporate records, and contemporary newspaper accounts, Aaron W. Marrs skillfully e...

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  • DUAL TRANSITIONS FROM AUTHORITARIAN RULE
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    DUAL TRANSITIONS FROM AUTHORITARIAN RULE
    FRANCISCO E. GONZLEZ
    An “analytically sophisticated and heavily documented” study of two Latin American countries in their economic and political move toward democracy (Choice). In 1982, Latin America experienced a region-wide economic collapse that had a drastic effect on governments throughout Central and South America. Many were pushed to the verge of failure, while several of the most authorita...

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  • A TROUBLED PEACE
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    A TROUBLED PEACE
    CHAE-JIN LEE
    This “excellent study of foreign policy-making” explores the changing nature of US-Korea relations since 1948 (David Hundt, Political Studies Review). In A Troubled Peace, Professor Chae-Jin Lee examines the evolution of U.S. policy toward South and North Korea beginning in the mid-twentieth century, when rival regimes were installed on the Korean peninsula. He presents an enli...

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  • THE REVOLT OF 1916 IN RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA
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    THE REVOLT OF 1916 IN RUSSIAN CENTRAL ASIA
    EDWARD DENNIS SOKOL
    The classic study of resistance to Tsarist Russian colonialism, the genocide that followed, and its connection to the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1916, Tzar Nicholas II began drafting Russian subjects across Central Asia to fight in World War I. By summer, the widespread resistance of Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Tajiks, Turkmen, and Uzbeks turned into an outright revolt. The Russian Imperial...

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  • FACES OF THE CIVIL WAR NAVIES
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    FACES OF THE CIVIL WAR NAVIES
    RONALD S. CODDINGTON
    Explore the human side of the Civil War through archival images and biographical sketches of Confederate and Union sailors. During the American Civil War, more than one hundred thousand men fought on ships at sea or on one of America’s great inland rivers. There were no large-scale fleet engagements, yet the navies, particularly the Union Navy, did much to define the character ...

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