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A comprehensive history of a small, but important, comic book publisher, this work reflects the reading tastes of tens of millions of Americans during the Golden and Silver ages of comics (1934-1970).

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A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z. Foster (1881-1961) fought his way out of the slums of turn-of-the-century Philadelphia to become a professional revolutionary as well as a notorious and feared labor agitator. Drawing on private family papers, FBI files, and recently opened Russian archives, this fir

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A fascinating look at neglected figures in American history, from the pen of one of America's most popular biographers.

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This book sets out to explore the promotion of the self in the rapidly growing economy and political flux of the nineteenth century.

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This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanons work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomenology in Fanons project of decolonisation.

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This book underscores the ethical dimension of Fanons work by focusing on the interplay of language, gender and colonial politics, by discussing the implication of the medical and psychiatric establishment in the institution of colonialism and by assessing the importance of existential phenomenology in Fanons project of decolonisation.

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Political, social and racial discrimination in inter-war England explored through one case study of the corrupt antiques market. In 1922, Adolphe Shrager having made his fortune during the First World War, approached the London dealer Basil Dighton for advice on purchasing antique furniture. This title provides details on the Shrager Dighton case.

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His era should have been the 'magnificent age of British engineering' - the nineteenth century - and his heroes were the great industrial engineers of the period whose prolific innovations and dedicated work ethic inspired a national mood of optimism and captured the hearts of the British public.

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An historical account of the Non-Conformist contribution to social welfare in Britain, from 1800 to the present day.

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By investigating representations of the war years in a selection of French crime novels from the mid-1940s to the present day, this book argues for the importance of crime fiction, and popular culture more generally, as active agents of memory in the ongoing debates over the legacies of the war years in contemporary France. -- .

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A comprehensive account of American society in 1939, a year that saw both the suffering that characterized the end of the Great Depression as well as the welcome escapism of the era's music, art, and film.

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In this pioneering study, Conley examines the intersection between empire, navy, and manhood in British society from 1870 to 1918. Jack Tar to Union Jack is indispensable reading as it reminds us of the navy's long-standing influence upon British domestic and imperial culture. -- .

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How do technological and cultural developments interact to affect consumption The "economic miracle" experienced by West Germany in the 1950s and 60s had profound effects on everyday life and gender relations. This text investigates this, acknowledging the need for research on leisure.

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George Rawick's From Sundown to Sunup is by far the most successful recent book about slave culture. . . . As impressive as Rawick's analysis of slave life is his interpretation of American racism. Eric Foner, University Review

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In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In their personal stories they confront the questions that the Holocaust has raised for them and explore how these questions have been evolving.

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In the last half century, ways of thinking about the Holocaust have changed somewhat dramatically. In their personal stories they confront the questions that the Holocaust has raised for them and explore how these questions have been evolving.

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Based on little-examined printed and archival sources, this book explores the fundamental ideas behind early French thinking about Atlantic slavery, c. 1620-1750. It analyses the three central questions of what made one a slave, of what was unique about Caribbean labour, and the implications of strategic approaches in interacting with slaves.

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Fugitive Slave Advertisements in The City Gazette: Charleston, South Carolina, 1787-1797 is a collection of more than one thousand transcribed advertisements from Charlestons daily newspaper. Each advertisement portrays, in miniature, a human drama of courage and resistance to unjust authority.

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This collection examines the role of the Fulda Gaplocated at the border between East and West Germanyin Cold War politics and military strategy. The contributors analyze the strategic deliberations of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the balance of forces, and the role of the local peace movement, among other topics.