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From Mark Twain to the movement against the war in Vietnam, this is the story of ordinary Americans challenging empire.

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From Jones' Woods, America's first amusement resort, to Coney Island during the golden age of the mid-1900s, and well beyond into the twenty-first century, the thrills of the amusement park have been a treasured part of childhood for Americans from coast to coast. This title captures the sights, smells, and vitality of a grand American tradition.

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"A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature"--

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"A groundbreaking synthesis of food studies, archival theory, and early American literature"--

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An imaginative means of looking at the city of Barcelona and its modern history from a new perspective; a series of drawings injected within the text, illustrating growth and change in the city fabric over almost two hundred years.

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The people of Australia and Ireland have much in common based on genealogy and a shared heritage. The connections forged between Anzacs and the Irish in World War I have been little known. The author tells the story of Australian and Irish soldiers who fought alongside each other at Gallipoli, in France and Belgium and in Palestine.

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Offering a portrait of everyday life in the medieval Arab world, this book draws on thirteenth-century miniatures from collections as far afield as St Petersburg and Istanbul. The his book covers various aspects of contemporary society in the Abbasid period.

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With the help of the Bodleian Libraries' magnificent collection of Armenian manuscripts and early printed books, this volume tells the story of the region through the medium of its cultural output.

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Behind the enduring popularity of beach huts lies a story of classic British eccentricity. This work offers a view of the classic British seaside holiday through the history of beach huts and bathing machines, revealing how the changing fashions in society shaped their design and development.

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Beastly London explores the complex and changing relationship between Londoners of all classes and their animal neighbours: from a mainly exploitative relationship, to London becoming the birthplace of animal welfare societies and animal rights' campaigns.

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Burlesque was one of America's most popular forms of live entertainment in the first half of the twentieth century. Gaudy, bawdy, and spectacular, the shows entertained thousands of paying customers seven days a week, week after week. This title reveals the true story of burlesque, even as it experiences a new renaissance.

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Offers a fresh and original approach to the masculinities, subjectivities and emotions of working-class young men, and makes a distinctive contribution to the history of leisure and interwar youth. -- .

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Brimming with lessons still relevant for today's activists, Berkeley: The Student Revolt is a classic of on-the-ground historical reportage.

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The most comprehensive photographic study of an extraordinary metropolis offers some 560 pages of aerial views, street scenes, portraits, and more to trace its history as political and cultural capital. Quotes from famed Berlin icons and connoisseurs, from Marlene Dietrich to John F. Kennedy and David Bowie, accompany the images.

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A groundbreaking volume offering the most comprehensive overview of GDR visual culture. From fashion photography to secret police surveillance equipment, this unrivaled catalogue features more than 2,500 artifacts, design pieces, and everyday objects, gathered from the extraordinary collections of the Wende Museum, Los Angeles. Never before has...

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Copyright 1930 by James Weldon Johnson. Copyright renewed 1958 by Mrs. James Weldon Johnson.

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Blood and Money tells the story of money as a history of violence and human bondage.