Hinterland: America's New Landscape of Class and Conflict, Hardcover

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The United States government has spent billions of dollars to prepare the nation for bioterrorism despite the extremely rare occurrence of biologic...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Mary R. JackmanNumber of pages: 450Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 31Cover type: ...

This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this ph...

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Steve Fraser is the preeminent historian of America as a capitalist civilization

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A stunning collection of stoic portraits and intimate ephemera from the lives of Black Civil War soldiers Though both the Union and Confederate arm...

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This definitive, lavishly illustrated book from National Geographic features an astonishing array of vintage and newly created maps, rare photograp...

Red Sands, the follow-up to Caroline Eden's multi-award-winning Black Sea, is a reimagining of traditional travel writing using food as the jumping...

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Reducere. Charting the Plantation Landscape from Natchez to New Orleans examines the hidden histories behind one of the nineteenth-century South's most famou...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

The MacArthur grant-winning "Erin Brockovich of Sewage" tells the riveting story of the environmental justice movement that is firing up rural Amer...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Byron TullyThe Old Money Book details how anyone from any background can adopt the values, priorities, and habits of Americ...

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Taps into the minds of today's trading superstars to reveal the secrets of their astonishing success In these absorbing interviews with star perfor...

New Histories of the Andaman Islands: Landscape, Place and Identity in the Bay of Bengal, 1790–2012 - Clare Anderson, Madhumita Mazumdar, Vishvajit Pa

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Make your decadent dreams come true with this chocolate-covered collection of more than 200 foolproof recipes that showcase the treasured dessert i...

Renowned economist Jeff Faux explains why neither party's leaders have a plan to remedy America's unemployment, inequality, or long economic slideA...

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This new anthology of Helen de Guerry Simpson's supernatural fiction selects the best of her unsettling writing, adding some little-known stories t...

Reducere. Despite decades of international diplomatic efforts, a solution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict is still as elusive as ever, forcing us to ask t...

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Colonel Geoffrey F. Weiss offers an ambitious and original survey of war's nature, character, and future. He presents a unique theoretical framewor...

Publisher: New Village PressIllustration(s): 45 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 307Publication date: 2011Dimensions: 214 x 135 x 31Co...

DescriptionA sweeping historical and political account of how our present-day policy debates around citizenship and equality came to be.The landmar...

The New Sexual Landscape and Contemporary Psychoanalysis surveys modern sex culture and suggests ways psychoanalysis can update its theories and pr...