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John Raeburn
ISBN:9780252030840
During the 1930s, the world of photography was unsettled, exciting, and boisterous. John Raeburn's A Staggering Revolution recreates the energy of the era by surveying photography's rich variety of innovation...more details Format:Hardback Pages:370
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Gregory Butler
ISBN:9780252030420
As the official publication of the American Bach Society, Bach Perspectives has pioneered new areas of research in the life, times, and music of Bach since its first appearance in 1995. In a series long known for its major essays by leading Bach scholars and performers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:176
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Julie Malnig
ISBN:9780252075650
This dynamic collection documents the rich and varied history of social dance and the multiple styles it has generated, while drawing on some of the most current forms of critical and theoretical inquiry. The essays cover different historical periods and styles; encompass regional influences from North and South America...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:377
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Lois Presser
ISBN:9780252075582
In this groundbreaking work, Lois Presser investigates the life stories of men who have perpetrated violence. She applies insights from across the academy to in-depth interviews with men who shared their accounts of how they became the people we most fear--those who rape...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:183
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Joe William Trotter Jr
ISBN:9780252074103
Other historians have tended to treat black urban life mainly in relation to the ghetto experience, but in Black Milwaukee, Joe William Trotter Jr...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:432
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Ramla M Bandele
ISBN:9780252033391
This book describes how the first African American mass political organization was able to gain support from throughout the African diaspora to finance the Black Star Line...more details Format:Hardback Pages:230
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Carolyn E Ware
ISBN:9780252073779
Cajun Women and Mardi Gras is the first book to explore the importance of women's contributions to the country Cajun Mardi Gras tradition, or Mardi Gras "run." Most Mardi Gras runs--masked begging processions through the countryside...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:233
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Hazel Petrie
ISBN:9781869403768
Drawing on a wide range of sources in both English and Maori, this study explores the entrepreneurial activity of New Zealand's indigenous Maori in the early colonial period. Focusing on the two industries--coastal shipping and flourmilling--where Maori were spectacularly successful in the 1840s and 1850s...more details Format:Paperback Pages:336
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Loyal Jones
ISBN:9780252033698
This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer...more details Format:Hardback Pages:427
Revelatory insights into the early life and thought of the preeminent French feminist philosopher Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne...more details Format:Hardback Pages:374
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Alice Kessler-Harris
ISBN:9780252073939
This collection represents the thirty-year intellectual trajectory of one of today's leading historians of gender and labor in the United States. The seventeen essays included in Alice Kessler-Harris's Gendering Labor History are divided into 4 sections...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:374
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Lucinda McCray Beier
ISBN:9780252075544
This history of health, illness, and medical care in one downstate Illinois county offers a richly detailed account, spanning more than a century of health care...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:242
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Dan Schiller
ISBN:9780252031328
It's common wisdom that the U.S. economy has continued to thrive despite the loss of industry because of the booming information sector, with high-paying jobs for everything from wireless networks to video games. We are told we live in the Information Age...more details Format:Hardback Pages:267
Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was a dancer, singer, actress, author, politician, militant, and philanthropist, whose images and cultural legacy have survived beyond the hundredth anniversary of her birth. Neither an exercise in postmodern deconstruction nor simple biography...more details Format:Hardback Pages:304
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W Paul Reeve
ISBN:9780252031267
When Mormon ranchers and Anglo-American miners moved into centuries-old Southern Paiute space during the last half of the nineteenth century...more details Format:Hardback Pages:231
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Thomas S Henricks
ISBN:9780252030789
Within the social sciences, few matters are as significant as the study of human play--or as neglected. In Play Reconsidered, rather than viewing play simply as a preoccupation of the young and a vehicle for skill development...more details Format:Hardback Pages:239
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Cheryl Ganz
ISBN:9780252033575
Chicago's 1933 world's fair set a new direction for international expositions. Earlier fairs had exhibited technological advances, but Chicago's fair organizers used the very idea of progress to buoy national optimism during the Depression's darkest years. Orchestrated by business leaders and engineers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:272
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Len Roberts
ISBN:9780252031281
In The Disappearing Trick, Len Roberts wrestles with the loss of loved ones--whether that loss be through death, a son moving away to college...more details Format:Hardback Pages:91
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Maree Livermore
ISBN:9780947205881
A practical guide for people involved in or contemplating separation or divorce. Written in plain English, it explains the workings of the Australian system of family law including the major changes implemented in 2006 and guides the reader through both the choices and the practical tasks facing a separating couple. The book contains samples of court forms...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:451
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Charles K Wolfe
ISBN:9780252031212
Spanning over 1,000 separate performances, The Music of Bill Monroe presents a complete chronological list of all of Bill Monroe's commercially released sound and visual recordings. Each chapter begins with a narrative describing Monroe's life and career at that point...more details Format:Hardback Pages:347
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Eugene H Berwanger
ISBN:9780252031229
This is the first single-volume history of the Colorado territory, encompassing the entire territorial period from the beginning of the Civil War to 1876...more details Format:Hardback Pages:205
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Margaret Sanger
ISBN:9780252031373
The birth control crusader, feminist, and reformer Margaret Sanger was one of the most controversial and compelling figures in the twentieth century. This first volume of The Selected Papers of Margaret Sanger documents the critical phases and influences of an American feminist icon and offers rare glimpses into her working-class childhood...more details Format:Hardback Pages:528
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Harry Jamieson
ISBN:9781841501413
Whether we're driving on the interstate highway or trying to find a new restaurant in the city, posted signs are our primary tools for navigating the world. In "Visual Communication...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:132
In an innovative blend of environmental and labor history, Workers and the Wild examines the changing terms on which battles over the proper use of nature were fought in the early twentieth century. Focusing on Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:248
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I Talbot
ISBN:9781850653851
This book fills the need for a broad, historically sophisticated understanding of Pakistan, a country which is understood by many in the West only in terms of stereotypesthe fanatical...more details Format:Paperback Pages:420