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  • FORDHAM
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    FORDHAM
    THOMAS J. SHELLEY
    "A detailed institutional history that charts both triumphs and setbacks." — Catholic Herald   Based largely on archival sources in the United States and Rome, this book documents the evolution of Fordham from a small diocesan commuter college into a major American Jesuit and Catholic university with an enrollment of more than 15,000 students from sixty-five countries.   This i...

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  • TIME TRAVEL
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    TIME TRAVEL
    DAVID WITTENBERG
    This "stimulating contribution to literary theory" reveals the deeply philosophical concerns and developments behind popular time travel sci-fi ( London Review of Books).   In Time Travel, literary theorist David Wittenberg argues that time travel fiction is not mere escapism, but a narrative "laboratory" where theoretical questions about storytelling—and, by extension, about t...

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  • THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
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    THE PLEASURES OF MEMORY
    SARAH WINTER
    How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? "A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended." — Choice   What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing,...

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  • THE SONS OF MOLLY MAGUIRE
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    THE SONS OF MOLLY MAGUIRE
    MARK BULIK
    An "incisive and original" history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America's first labor wars in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy).   A secret society of Irish peasant assassins, the Molly Maguires reemerged in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region, organizing strikes, murdering mine bosses, and fighting the Civil War draft....

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  • THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTHER TEACHABLE MOMENTS
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    THE END OF THE WORLD AND OTHER TEACHABLE MOMENTS
    MICHAEL NAAS
    A Derrida scholar traces the evolution of the philosopher's final seminar in Paris as he contemplates the state of the world and his own mortality.   For decades, philosopher Jacques Derrida held weekly seminars in Paris, spending years at a time on a single, complex theme. From 2001 to 2003, he delivered the final work in this series, entitled "The Beast and the Sovereign." As...

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  • FROM SLAVE SHIP TO HARVARD
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    FROM SLAVE SHIP TO HARVARD
    JAMES H. JOHNSTON
    "Part historical narrative, part genealogical detective work," this is t he true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations ( Library Journal).   Using diaries, court records, legal documents, books, paintings, photographs, and oral histories, From Slave Ship to Harvard traces a family—from the colonial period and the American Revolution through the Ci...

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  • DESERTER COUNTRY
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    DESERTER COUNTRY
    ROBERT M. SANDOW
    A "balanced, compelling" study of one rural region in the North where war resistance flourished ( Civil War Times).   During the Civil War, there were explosions of resistance to the war throughout the Union—from the deadly draft riots in New York City to other, less well-known outbreaks. In Deserter Country, Robert M. Sandow explores one of these least known "inner civil wars"...

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  • THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
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    THE LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATES
    HAROLD HOLZER
    This authoritative edition of the Lincoln-Douglas debates from a leading Lincoln historian brings to life the passions that divided nineteenth-century America.   The seven debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held during the Illinois senatorial race of 1858 include some of the most important statements in American political history. Taken together, they embody th...

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  • LINCOLN REVISITED
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    LINCOLN REVISITED
    HAROLD HOLZER / DAWN VOGEL
    This essay collection "draws together some of the best and brightest Abraham Lincoln scholars around" for a fresh and enlightening view of his life ( The Journal of American History).   More than 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains the most written-about figure in American history. Lincoln Revisited is a brilliant gathering of fresh scholarship by the leading Lin...

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  • COMBAT REPORTER
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    COMBAT REPORTER
    DON WHITEHEAD
    A Pulitzer Prize–winning combat correspondent recounts his personal experience of covering World War II on the front lines.   Legendary reporter Don Whitehead covered almost every important Allied invasion and campaign in Europe—from North Africa to landings in Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and Normandy, and to the drive into Germany. His dispatches, published in Beachhead Don, are t...

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  • THE ROSE MAN OF SING SING
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    THE ROSE MAN OF SING SING
    JAMES MCGRATH MORRIS
    This biography of the early 20th-century newspaper giant who became news after killing his wife "has the pace and detail of an engrossing historical novel" ( Boston Herald).   As city editor of Joseph Pulitzer's New York Evening World, Charles E. Chapin was the quintessential newsroom tyrant: he drove reporters relentlessly, setting the pace for evening press journalism with bl...

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  • MIXING MEDICINES
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    MIXING MEDICINES
    TATIANA CHUDAKOVA
    "A graceful ethnographic account that speaks to broad concerns within medical anthropology . . . a remarkable contribution to Tibetan Studies." — Sienna R. Craig, author of  Healing Elements   Traditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in today's Russia, an appeal that has often been framed either as a holdover from pre-Soviet times or as the symptom of capitalist growing pa...

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  • CHASING GHOSTS
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    CHASING GHOSTS
    LOUISE DESALVO
    When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man—and herself—and the effect of his military service upon their family than she'd ever imagined. During his last years, as he told ...

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  • CHASING GHOSTS
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    CHASING GHOSTS
    LOUISE DESALVO
    "Both a beautifully detailed examination of wartime life and a searingly honest depiction of a fraught father-daughter relationship." —Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Missionaries When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would tak...

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  • WORDS
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    WORDS
    ERNST VAN DEN HEMEL
    It is said that words are like people: One can encounter them daily yet never come to know their true selves. This volume examines what words are—how they exist—in religious phenomena. Going beyond the common idea that language merely describes states of mind, beliefs, and intentions, the book looks at words in their performative and material specificity. The contributions in t...

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  • WHAT'S THESE WORLDS COMING TO?
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    WHAT'S THESE WORLDS COMING TO?
    JEAN-LUC NANCY / AURÉLIEN BARRAU
    Our contemporary challenge, according to Jean-Luc Nancy and Aurelien Barrau, is that a new world has stolen up on us. We no longer live in a world, but in worlds. We do not live in a universe anymore, but rather in a multiverse. We no longer create; we appropriate and montage. And we no longer build sovereign, hierarchical political institutions; we form local assemblies and ne...

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  • GETTYSBURG RELIGION
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    GETTYSBURG RELIGION
    STEVE LONGENECKER
    In the borderland between freedom and slavery, Gettysburg remains among the most legendary Civil War landmarks. A century and a half after the great battle, Cemetery Hill, the Seminary and its ridge, and the Peach Orchard remain powerful memories for their embodiment of the small-town North and their ability to touch themes vital to nineteenth-century religion. During this peri...

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  • EARTH, LIFE, AND SYSTEM
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    EARTH, LIFE, AND SYSTEM
    BRUCE CLARKE
    "A strikingly original . . . collection of essays, which places the work and broad intellectual interests of Lynne Margulis in a variety of contexts." —Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across a range ...

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  • EARTH, LIFE, AND SYSTEM
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    EARTH, LIFE, AND SYSTEM
    BRUCE CLARKE
    Exploring the broad implications of evolutionary theorist Lynn Margulis's work, this collection brings together specialists across a range of disciplines, from paleontology, molecular biology, evolutionary theory, and geobiology to developmental systems theory, archaeology, history of science, cultural science studies, and literature and science. Addressing the multiple themes ...

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  • NAPOLI/NEW YORK/HOLLYWOOD
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    NAPOLI/NEW YORK/HOLLYWOOD
    GIULIANA MUSCIO
    Napoli/New York/Hollywood is an absorbing investigation of the significant impact that Italian immigrant actors, musicians, and directors—and the southern Italian stage traditions they embodied—have had on the history of Hollywood cinema and American media, from 1895 to the present day. In a unique exploration of the transnational communication between American and Italian film...

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  • 'WHOM WE SHALL WELCOME'
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    'WHOM WE SHALL WELCOME'
    DANIELLE BATTISTI
    Whom We Shall Welcome examines World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian immigration along with the lobbying efforts of Italian Americans to change the quota laws. While Italian Americans (and other white ethnics) had at...

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  • 'WHOM WE SHALL WELCOME'
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    'WHOM WE SHALL WELCOME'
    DANIELLE BATTISTI
    A history of the Italians who came to the United States after World War II, and how American immigration policy was transformed. Whom We Shall Welcome examines post-World War II immigration of Italians to the United States, an under-studied period in Italian immigration history. Danielle Battisti looks at efforts by Italian American organizations to foster Italian immigration a...

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  • IN DEFENSE OF SECRETS
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    IN DEFENSE OF SECRETS
    ANNE DUFOURMANTELLE
    "This urgent book" by the renowned French philosopher "will open new perspectives on a world marked by the rise of Wikileaks, Big Data, and social media" (Michael Moon, Emory University). In an age that prizes political and personal transparency, psychoanalyst and philosopher Anne Dufourmantelle champions the value of what remains hidden, private, veiled, or just out of sight. ...

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  • RATIONALIST EMPIRICISM
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    RATIONALIST EMPIRICISM
    NATHAN BROWN
    Twenty-first-century philosophy has been drawn into a false opposition between speculation and critique. Nathan Brown shows that the key to overcoming this antinomy is a re-engagement with the relation between rationalism and empiricism. If Kant's transcendental philosophy attempted to displace the opposing priorities of those orientations, any speculative critique of Kant will...

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  • SEND LAZARUS
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    SEND LAZARUS
    MATTHEW T. EGGEMEIER / PETER JOSEPH FRITZ
    Today's regnant global economic and cultural system, neoliberal capitalism, demands that life be led as a series of sacrifices to the market. Send Lazarus's theological critique wends its way through four neoliberal crises: environmental destruction, slum proliferation, mass incarceration, and mass deportation, all while plumbing the sacrificial and racist depths of neoliberali...

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  • REMAKING NORTH AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
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    REMAKING NORTH AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
    North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three nation-states of modern North America from a patchwork of contested polities. Remaking Nor...

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  • REMAKING NORTH AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
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    REMAKING NORTH AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY
    JEWEL L. SPANGLER AND FRANK TOWERS
    This essay collection presents a transnational history of mid-nineteenth century North America, a time of crisis that forged the continent's political dynamics. North America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the US Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between thes...

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  • OSNABRÜCK STATION TO JERUSALEM
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    OSNABRÜCK STATION TO JERUSALEM
    HÉLÈNE CIXOUS
    An inventive literary account of Cixous's remarkable journey to her mother's birthplace Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation For about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of Lower Saxony. After the war, Osnabrück counted not a single Jew. Most had been deported a...

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  • OSNABRÜCK STATION TO JERUSALEM
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    OSNABRÜCK STATION TO JERUSALEM
    HÉLÈNE CIXOUS
    An inventive blend of memoir and family history that ponders those who didn't flee their German town in time: "Powerfully reclaimed—and imagined—reality." — The Jewish Chronicle Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and Translation For about eighty years, the Jonas family of Osnabrück were part of a small but vibrant Jewish community in this mid-size city of...

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  • RADICAL BOTANY
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    RADICAL BOTANY
    NATANIA MEEKER / ANTÓNIA SZABARI
    "Succeeds beautifully in discovering and entwining an entire tradition of speculative botany that will reshape plant studies and posthumanist theory." —Stacy Alaimo, author of Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times Science Fiction & Technoculture Studies Book Prize Winner Radical Botany excavates a tradition in which plants participate in the effort to...

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