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AT THE CENTER OF THE CIRCLE: HARRIET DE BOINVILLE (1773–1847)

BARBARA DE BOINVILLE

This biography of "a vital player in Revolutionary circles . . . offers us an important role model . . . a fearless woman almost lost to the fog of history" (Charlotte Gordon, Ph.D., author of Romantic Outlaws, winner of the National Book Critics Circle award for biography). This first-ever biography of Harriet de Boinville explores her close relationships with Mary Shelley, ...

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STRANGE FRUIT

JOHN R. WENNERSTEN

From the author: "I have written this book about Somerset County and the surrounding region with a specific purpose in mind – to trace the course of racism and society in a tidewater county in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay country from 1850 to the present. Tidewater Somerset provides us with a palette for understanding racism and the evolution of racial ideas often overlooked by sc...

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AMERICA REFLECTED

PETER C. ROLLINS

Eclectic criticism and insightful observations from "one of the most respected cultural historians working today" (Ronald A. Wells, Professor of History Emeritus, Calvin College). "From cowboy philosopher Will Rogers to popular perceptions of two world wars and Vietnam, from the history of language to the language of film and television, Peter Rollins has devoted his career to ...

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THE MIDDLE EAST RIDDLE

LUIS FLEISCHMAN

A foreign policy expert provides a fresh and accessible analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, its complex obstacles, and possible solutions. Luis Fleischman is a sociologist and Middle East policy expert who has served as a senior advisor to government officials and members of congress. In The Middle East Riddle, he examines obstacles to achieving peace that transc...

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THE MAKING OF A CIVILIAN SOLDIER IN THE CIVIL WAR

DENNIS D. URBAN

This Union soldier's diary recounts his journey from enlistment to postwar life, with extensive historical and biographical context provided by the editor. When war broke out between the states, William J. McLean left his home in Fairfield, NY, and joined the 34th New York Infantry. He kept a diary that tells of his many wanderings and adventures, from his time in Washington, D...

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HOW YOUNG ARE YOU?

A. A KRONIK

"His work is truly revolutionary. He has taken the most important of existential experiences and made them transparent for self-growth and research." —Linda Berg-Cross, PhD, ABPP, Professor of Psychology, Howard University The main purpose of this research-based, self-help book is to introduce the goal-and-causal theory of "Psychological Time," and to help you calculate your "P...

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THEN AND NOW

HUSSEIN SHABKA

A sociologist examines the history of Egypt from the pharaohs to the present, shedding light on its cultural deterioration and the dilemmas it faces today. The story of Egypt's long history is one of gradual descent from a wealthy, organized, sophisticated society to its contemporary milieu of corruption and poverty. For more than four thousand years, it earned the moniker om e...

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TRAVELING BEYOND HER SPHERE

BESS BEATTY

A history of American women challenging domesticity by touring Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The nineteenth-century ideal of domesticity identified home as women's proper sphere, but the ideal was frequently challenged, profoundly so when woman left home and country to travel in foreign lands. This book explores the reasons for and ramifications of women making a...

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THE TUDOR WOLFPACK

JACK BRAY

"The gripping story of the wolves the British sent to govern the Irish . . . Miracles abound in this action-packed history." —Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, Former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland "The Irish people have suffered mercilessly at the hands of conquerors over the past thousand or so years . . . The Normans tried with only limited success to conquer the Irish in 1167, a ...

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THE EARLIEST CHURCH

WILLIAM P. SAMPSON

"Exciting reading for anyone who wants to experience the initial development of Christianity as the work of humans essentially just like us." —David Goldfrank, Professor of History, Georgetown University This book brings to life the lived experience of the disciples after Christ's death, the possibilities they faced, and the choices they made—and how these all shaped the direct...

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SEEING THINGS

JAMES P.M. WALSH

The late Jesuit theologian shares how the imagination "animates our aspirations, our service, and a deeper connection to God and to one another" (John J. DeGioia, President of Georgetown University). "This book is a pedagogical memoir enabling the reader to enter the late Jesuit Professor James Walsh's Georgetown University classroom in various moments. Rev. Walsh considered im...

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THE AMERICAN CONSUL

CHARLES STUART KENNEDY

This definitive study of the U.S. Consular Service examines its history from the Revolutionary War until its integration with the Foreign Service in 1924. As a British colony, Americans relied on the British consular system to take care of their sailors and merchants. But after the Revolution they scrambled to create an American service. While the American diplomatic establishm...

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THE RISE OF THE THERAPEUTIC SOCIETY

KATIE WRIGHT

An examination of the Western world's contemporary fascination with psychological life, and the historical developments that fostered it. In this book, sociologist Katie Wright traces the ascendancy of therapeutic culture, from nineteenth-century concerns about nervousness, to the growth of psychology, the diffusion of an analytic attitude, and the spread of therapy and counsel...

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WHAT IS GOD?

THOMAS B. SHERIDAN

An eminent psychologist and engineer presents a provocative analysis of the concept of God through the lens of scientific inquiry. This is a study of the concept of God, not from the perspective of any religious tradition, but as a pervasive social phenomenon that has prevailed through the ages. An expert in engineering and applied psychology, author Thomas B. Sheridan offers u...

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REAL AND PHANTOM PAINS

JOHN FREEDMAN

An anthology of ten plays embodying the Russian literary movement that began in the late twentieth century. The plays selected for this anthology reflect the issues and styles typical of the new wave of dramatic writing in Russia. New drama flourished (almost) exclusively in small spaces, often in dingy basements that employed and accommodated small numbers of people. The big t...

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THE GREAT WAR AND THE DEATH OF GOD

CHARLES A. O'CONNOR

A compelling analysis of how World War I spurred the rise of atheism and the subsequent effect on Western theology, philosophy, literature, and art. The catastrophic Great War left humanity in a world no longer trustworthy and reassuring but seemingly meaningless and indifferent. Instead of redressing humanity's cosmic alienation, postwar Western culture abandoned its concern f...

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CODED LETTERS, CONCEALED LOVE

SARA DAY

A historian uncovers the long-running affair between a famous 19th century author and a female conservationist—through love letters written in code. The Unitarian minister, author, and peace activist Edward Everett Hale was one of the most respected moral leaders of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. Yet, for twenty-five years, he lived a double life. Harriet Freeman worked fo...

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EXITS AND ENTRANCES

FRANK MANCHEL

"A worthy successor to Every Step a Struggle . . . the contributions to American cinema of these determined and courageous rebels will never be forgotten." —Denise Youngblood, author of Cinematic Cold War While Every Step a Struggle recalled the performers who fought to give black artists a voice and a presence in film and on stage, this new ground-breaking book focuses on the ...

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SUSTAINING THE LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS IN AMERICA

MARIA HOYT CASHIN

A look at the decline of civic engagement, and how nonpartisan organizations like the League of Women Voters can help save and promote democracy. Throughout our history, civic associations have enabled democracy through citizen training, education, and responsible advocacy. But Americans have increasingly withdrawn from such civic activity, and most associations that remain lac...

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IN THE SHADOW OF THE UNITED STATES CAPITOL

ABBY ARTHUR JOHNSON / RONALD M. JOHNSON

A fascinating study of America's first national burial ground, with photos: "It's stunning to realize what a who's who exists in that space." —Howard Gillette, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University at Camden This study explores the multiple ways in which Congressional Cemetery has been positioned for some two hundred years in "the shadow" of the U.S. Capitol. The narrative pro...

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RUDE AWAKENINGS

CAROL SICHERMAN

The story of a man navigating an era of upheaval, persecution, and suspicion: "A must read for students of 20th-century political and intellectual history." —Robert Cohen, Professor of History and Social Studies Education, New York University Drawing on family papers, wide-ranging interviews, FBI files, American and German newspapers, a wide array of published sources, and her ...

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SOCIAL DRAMAS

DAVID A. POSTLES

How the repeated social tropes and paradigms of the City comedies give us an in-depth look into everyday London society in the early 17th-century. Although literature is often assumed to belong to the sphere of representation rather than constituting an accurate reflection of social reality, early-modern English drama can tell us much about social attitudes in the early sevente...

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BEFORE THE FALL

ANNA LAWTON

An expanded edition of Kinoglasnost that examines the fascinating world of Soviet cinema during the yeas of glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. In Before the Fall, Anna Lawton shows how the reforms that shook the foundations of the Bolshevik state and affected economic and social structures have been reflected in the film industry. A new added chapter provides a commentary o...

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REMEMBERING UTOPIA

BREDA LUTHAR AND MARUŠA PUŠNIK

Essays and photos that reveal and reflect on everyday life in socialist Yugoslavia, from tourism to television. Research about socialism and communism tends to focus on official aspects of power and dissent and on state politics, and presuppose a powerful state and a party with its official ideology on one side and repressed, manipulated, or collaborating citizens on the other ...

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FREE PEOPLE, FREE MARKETS

RALPH L. BAYRER

The author of Eternal Vigilance presents " a compelling, new perspective on economic, political and cultural history" (Phillip Scribner, Associate Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, American University). Adam Smith, the 18th century father of modern economics, once posed a provocative question: Why do some nations prosper while others do not? In Free People, Free Markets, auth...

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DOOMED TO REPEAT?

SEAN BRAWLEY

This collection of scholarly essays explores the role of history in terrorism studies and today's counterterrorism initiatives. In Doomed to Repeat?, scholars, policy makers, and other practitioners explore how a better understanding of the past can help us combat terrorism in the future. The first section establishes a broader context for discussion by examining the connection...

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PIER PAOLO PASOLINI

BEN LAWTON AND MAURA BERGONZONI

A collection of essays discussing the famed Italian film director, writer, and intellectual. More than thirty years after the tragic death of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this volume is intended to acknowledge the significance of his living memory. His artistic and cultural production continues to be a fundamental reference point in any discourse on the state of the arts, and on contem...

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RED ADVANCE, WHITE DEFEAT

PETER KENEZ

The second of a two-volume history and analysis of the Russian Civil War, this volume covers events spanning 1919 to 1920. "The republication of Professor Kenez's classic volumes is to be warmly welcomed. Based on copious archival research and a close reading of published memoirs and mixing careful narrative with judicious analysis, they still provide the definitive history of ...

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THE SOVIETIZATION OF EASTERN EUROPE

BALZS APOR

This essay anthology offers enlightening perspectives on how East-Central Europe was transformed into the "other" Europe during the Cold War era. When the Second World War ended, a new conflict arose between world powers jockeying for supremacy. The Soviet Union pursued a policy of exporting its system of government in a process known as sovietization. But there were also gover...

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RED ATTACK, WHITE RESISTANCE

PETER KENEZ

The first of a two-volume history and analysis of the Russian Civil War, this volume covers events in 1918. "The republication of Professor Kenez's classic volumes is to be warmly welcomed. Based on copious archival research and a close reading of published memoirs and mixing careful narrative with judicious analysis, they still provide the definitive history of the anti-Bolshe...

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