Whiskey, Women, and War: How the Great War Shaped Jim Crow New Orleans, Hardcover - Brian Altobello

Reducere. Entering World War I in 1917, a burst of patriotism in New Orleans collided with civil liberties. The city, due to its French heritage, shared a st...

DescriptionBourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminate...

Scholars in recent decades have begun to pay a great deal of attention to the mobilization of women in the Great War, but why so many women, civili...

Reducere. Bourbon whiskey has made a surprising contribution to American legal history. Tracking the history of bourbon and bourbon law illuminates the devel...

This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and...

Reducere. Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth -Bessie- Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphro...

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Reducere. Based on previously unused French and German sources, this challenging and controversial new analysis of the war on the Western front from 1914 to ...

Reducere. Chinese leaders once tried to suppress memories of their nation's brutal experience during World War II. Now they celebrate the "victory"--a key fo...

Reducere. At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected U.S. president was forced to confront an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Musl...

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Reducere. Shortly after graduating from the University of Glasgow in 1934, Elizabeth "Bessie" Williamson began working as a temporary secretary at the Laphro...

Reducere. On the morning of July 21, 1918--in the final year of the First World War--a new prototype of German submarine surfaced three miles off the coast o...

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Reducere. Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers...

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A brilliantly compelling new history of the 1967 Six-Day War, by the BBC's distinguished former Middle East correspondent.

From the Treaty of Versailles to the 2018 centenary and beyond, the history of the First World War has been continually written and rewritten, stud...

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Reducere. In Black Rage in New Orleans, Leonard N. Moore traces the shocking history of police corruption in the Crescent City from World War II to Hurricane...

While most people are aware of the World War II internment of thousands of Japanese citizens and residents of the US, few know that Germans, Austri...

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Reducere. The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand sc...

The First World War was fought on two fronts. In a military sense it was fought on the battlefields throughout Europe, the Gallipoli peninsular and...

The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contributio...

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DescriptionDid American racism originate in the liberal North? An inquiry into the system of institutionalized racism created by Northern Jim Crow ...

New editions of Hodder's support for National 4 and 5 across a range of subjects, staggered with summary questions to test the reader's ongoing com...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Text by (Art/Photo Books): Jim FraiserPhotographer: West FreemanThere is no place in America like New Orleans's famed French Quarte...

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Reducere. When World War I began, war reporting was a thoroughly masculine bastion of journalism. But that did not stop dozens of women reporters from steppi...

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DescriptionA stirring narrative of World War II's final major battle--the Pacific war's largest, bloodiest, most savagely fought campaign--the last...

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Changing Roles looks at some of the women who forged new identities for themselves whilst exploring how their own or their loved ones' wartime expe...

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