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In 1871-1882 fifty Americans, along with other foreign experts, were employed by the Japanese government to develop Japan's northern frontier, Hokkaido.

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In the summer of 1968 as killing and starvation escalated in Biafra in a war that used famine as a weapon, the West African conflict attracted media attention and U.S. officials felt strong domestic pressure to expand American involvement in Nigeria's civil war.

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This work examines the role - both governmental and that of Irish-Americans - in attempting to bring a resolution to the strife in Northern Ireland. It concentrates on the efforts since 1967, particularly the American efforts to become the central humanitarian player in the peace process.

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This book is the first account of the personal lives of the nearly 1,000 long-term political prisoners arrested under various sedition laws for their opposition to World War I, their trade union activities, or their unpopular political or religious beliefs.

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This dictionary offers the only comprehensive collection of profiles of American political scientists, each of whom contributed significantly to the intellectual development of American political science from its beginnings in the late-19th century to the present.

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"Dunn . . . has admirably fulfilled his modest and useful intention to provide in textbook fashion a dispassionate exposition of how, why, and when' politics and religion intersect.'" Chronicles

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Bringing together the most popular genres of the 21st century, this book argues that Americans have entered a new era of narrative dominated by the fear-and wish fulfillment-of the breakdown of authority and terror itself.

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The book that established Noam Chomsky's reputation as a leading critic of US foreign policy, this statement against the American war in Vietnam critiques the contradictions of the war, indicting the mainstream, liberal intellectuals - the "new mandarins" - who gave ideological cover for the war.

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During World War II, thousands of American servicemen were taken prisoner by the Axis powers.

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This book studies the views from countries in Asia, Europe, and Latin American of the United States and the 2016 presidential election. Twelve researchers of American politics evaluate how these perspectives were modified or reinforced as a result of the campaign and election of Donald Trump.

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A groundbreaking inside reckoning with the nexus of prison and profit in America

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This book is a treatise on the history of American psychology's role in nuclear war prevention.

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This book explores new media and new stories in Holocaust public memory as powerful agents against a rising tide of global intolerance. Arguing that gender is often absent in traditional medial forms of public memory, Costello illustrates how new forms of memorialization shift our orientation toward others and our engagement with the past.

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This book explores new media and new stories in Holocaust public memory as powerful agents against a rising tide of global intolerance. Arguing that gender is often absent in traditional medial forms of public memory, Costello illustrates how new forms of memorialization shift our orientation toward others and our engagement with the past.

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Against the Tide is a collection of in-depth biographical essays on the most important women reformers in American history. This reader will be useful in any history course that deals with the important contributions made by women to the development of our government and society from the early republic to today.

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An easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography.

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The most significant, public religious issue confronting America is the relationship between Church and State. Secular opinion holds that the rise of religion in the public square is a threat to our democracy that must be resisted. This book argues that this position, although understandable, is misguided.

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Argues that the most salient feature of the American Revolution had not been the war for independence from Great Britain; it was, rather, the struggle between aristocratic values and those of the common people who tended toward a leveling democracy.

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Gustainis analyzes several important aspects of Vietnam era rhetoric: presidential rhetoric, protest rhetoric, and the war as portrayed in popular culture.

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This book explores the representation of American Roma from the nineteenth-century to today by examining portrayals in newsprint, television, movies, and social media.

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Berube analyzes the three great educational reform movements in the United States. He shows how they have been shaped by outside societal forces: Progressive Education was an offshoot of the Progressive Movement; Equity Reform sought to complete the unfinished agenda of Progressive Education in educating the poor.