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Explores the social and professional paradoxes facing African-American soldiers in Vietnam.

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Compared to the early decades of the 20th century, when scholarly writing on African Americans was limited to a few titles on slavery, Reconstruction, and African American migration, the last thirty years have witnessed an explosion of works on the African American experience.

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The African American Press in World War II: Toward Victory at Home and Abroad thoroughly explores the diverse nature of the wartime African American press at home and its groundbreaking international coverage. This effort enhanced the black presss influence, increased interest in the press in general, and greatly improved circulation figures.

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This study examines and analyzes the African-American experience in Connecticut as it was portrayed through primary sources. In this book we can hear, sometimes for the first time, the voices of African Americans and others commenting on the complicated and explosive racial issues of their time.

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Contemporary Africa is the product of three major influences--an indigenous heritage, Western culture, and Islamic culture. This reader, a supplement to the telecourse, provides an introduction to a variety of historical and contemporary writings on Africa.

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Contemporary Africa is the product of three major influences--an indigenous heritage, Western culture, and Islamic culture. This reader, a supplement to the telecourse, provides an introduction to a variety of historical and contemporary writings on Africa.

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Based on witness testimony and eighteen months of fieldwork, this work of disaster ethnography examines the effects of East Japans 2011 earthquake and tsunami on the fishing town of Otsuchi. It analyzes how local social systems developed to cope with the destruction and redevelopment and how residents behaved and narrated their own experiences.

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Based on witness testimony and eighteen months of fieldwork, this work of disaster ethnography examines the effects of East Japans 2011 earthquake and tsunami on the fishing town of Otsuchi. It analyzes how local social systems developed to cope with the destruction and redevelopment and how residents behaved and narrated their own experiences.

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"[A] brisk, original, and authoritative history." --New York Times Book Review

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In the hands of Pulitzer and Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ulrich, author of "A Midwife's Tale, " 14 everyday objects from early America relinquish their stories and reveal profound insights into history. Pulling these threads together, Ulrich demonstrates how early Americans made and used textiles to assert their identities, shape relationships, and create history. 165 illustrations.

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Investigates internationalism using Belgium as its focal point; historically a major hub for transnational movements -- .

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Investigates internationalism using Belgium as its focal point; historically a major hub for transnational movements -- .

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Romanticism arose as a reaction, most noticeably in the arts, to the Enlightenment's worship of Reason. This volume explores the critical aspects of the Romantic movement, including its origins as a reaction to the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment, its artistic works - and its environmentalist and nationalistic legacies.

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Presents the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world. This title tells how Norway and Sweden achieved a rare feat by realizing grand visions of societies that combine stability, prosperity, and social welfare.

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Describes a certain world: the urban bachelor life that took shape in the late nineteenth century, when a population of single men migrated to American cities.

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