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The Empire of Necessity: Slavery, Freedom, and Deception in the New World
Greg Grandin · Holt & Company, Henry
Pages: 360
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From the acclaimed author of Fordlandia, the story of a remarkable slave rebellion that illuminates America's struggle with slavery and freedom during the Age of Revolution and beyondOne morning in 1805, off a remote island in the South Pacific, Captain Amasa Delano, a New England seal... |
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Mexicans in the Making of America
Neil Foley · Belknap Press
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According to census projections, by 2050 nearly one in three U.S. residents will be Latino, and the overwhelming majority of these will be of Mexican descent. This dramatic demographic shift is reshaping politics, culture, and fundamental ideas about American identity. Neil Foley, a leading... |
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1916: A Global History
Keith Jeffery · Bloomsbury USA
Pages: 448
Format: Hardcover |
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So much of the literature on the First World War centers on the trench warfare of the Western Front, and these were essential battlegrounds. But the war was in fact truly a global conflict, and by focusing on a sequence of events in 1916 across many continents, historian Keith Jeffery's... |
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein · Doubleday
Pages: 349
Format: Print book |
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In her groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education, Dana Goldstein finds answers in the past to the controversies that plague our public schools today.Teaching is a wildly contentious profession in America, one attacked and admired in equal measure. In The Teacher Wars, a rich,... |
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United States of Jihad: The Untold Story of Americans Fighting for Radical Islam
Peter Bergen · Crown
Pages: 400
Format: Print book |
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A riveting, panoramic look at "homegrown" Islamist terrorism from 9/11 to the present Since 9/11, more than three hundred Americans - born and raised in Minnesota, Alabama, New Jersey, and elsewhere - have been indicted or convicted of terrorism charges. Some have taken the fight... |
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
Pamela Rotner Sakamoto · Harper
Pages: 464
Format: Print book |
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Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World War II - an epic tale of family, separation, divided loyalties, love, reconciliation, loss, and redemption - this is a riveting chronicle of U.S.-Japan... |
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