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2023.
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America’s backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington’s cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin. It is the fantastic tale of slaves that spontaneously teleported themselves here with nothing but strong backs and negro spirituals. It is a sugarcoated legend based on an almost true story. It should come...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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x, 689 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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Shortly before Easter, 1540 saw the end of almost a millennium of monastic life in England. Until then religious houses had acted as a focus for education, literary, and artistic expression and even the creation of regional and national identity. Their closure, carried out in just four years between 1536 and 1540, caused a dislocation of people and a disruption of life not seen in England since the Norman Conquest. Drawing on the records of national...
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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367 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
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"An intimate and one-of-a-kind look at the world of human smuggling in Latin America, by a MacArthur "genius" grant winner and anthropologist. Political instability, poverty, climate change, and the insatiable appetite for cheap labor all fuel clandestine movement across borders. As those borders harden, the demand for smugglers who aid migrants across them increases every year. Yet media and politicians have always characterized smugglers-or coyotes,...
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Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2023.
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xxii, 518 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map, facsimiles ; 25 cm
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For as long as we have looked to the skies, the question of whether life on Earth is the only life to exist has been at the core of the human experience, driving scientific debate and discovery, shaping spiritual belief, and prompting existential thought across borders and generations. And yet, the idea of extraterrestrial intelligence has been largely seen as a joke, banished to the realm of fantasy and conspiracy. Now, for the first time, the full...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
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xiv, 255 pages ; 25 cm
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"By the president of the prestigious Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, the life story of the most controversial, volatile, misunderstood provision of the Bill of Rights. At a time of renewed debate over guns in America, what does the Second Amendment mean? This book looks at history to provide some surprising, illuminating answers. The Amendment was written to calm public fear that the new national government would crush the state...
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1986
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xxx, 274 pages, [12] pages of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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In this book the author shows how Europeans and Americans transformed sugar from a rare foreign luxury to a commonplace necessity of modern life, and how it changed the history of capitalism and industry. He discusses the production and consumption of sugar, and reveals how closely interwoven are sugar's origins as a "slave" crop grown in Europe's tropical colonies with its use first as an extravagant luxury for the aristocracy, then as a staple of...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
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82 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
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"In this modern-day abecedarium, Jamaica Kincaid shares her deep knowledge of plant history and nomenclature while writing about the intersections of the plant world with history, race, mythology, colonial appropriation, and independence. Accompanied by vivid, powerful illustrations by Kara Walker"--
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"A Place Called America takes the long view of the land's history from its earliest formation and inhabitants up through today. Meet those indigenous to the deserts, prairies, forests, and shores of the land called Turtle Island and their relatives who contributed to World War II and whose ideas founded the basis of the Constitution. Meet immigrant communities, who came to the land from all around the world-at different times and against all odds,...
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Colección popular) volume 854
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El Colegio de México
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"En este cl̀sico de El Colegio de M̌xico est̀n registrados los acontecimientos que han dejado huella en la historia de M̌xico, desde los pasos inciertos de sus primeros pobladores, en los tiempos prehisp̀nicos, hasta los tambǐn inciertos de quienes atravesaron la crisis de los ąos ochenta del siglo XX. Entre ̌stos y aqǔllos, el lector puede seguir el curso de la era virreinal, el periodo formativo del M̌xico independiente, el tramo moderno...
14) The football 100
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiii, 656 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The definitive ranking of the greatest football players of all time"--
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Picador
Pub. Date
2015.
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xi, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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"The tiny island of Run is an insignificant speck in the Indonesian archipelago--remote, tranquil, and, these days, largely ignored. Yet 370 years ago, Run's harvest of nutmeg (yielding a 3,200% profit by the time it arrived in England) made it the most lucrative of the Spice Islands, precipitating a battle between the Dutch East India Company and the British Crown. The outcome was that Britain ceded Run to Holland but in return was given Manhattan--leading...
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"Settled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish history-but many precedents among religious communities in the United States. This book tells the story of how this group of pious, Yiddish-speaking Jews has grown to become a thriving insular enclave and a powerful local government in upstate New York. While rejecting the norms of mainstream American society, Kiryas Joel...
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PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
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303 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
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In Civil War by Other Means, Jeremi Suri, shows how the victory of the Union was never secure and the resistance to it began immediately. Key Confederate figures fled to exile in Mexico after their defeat and returned when they could safely resume their former lives once the threat of Northern domination had been quashed. Many antebellum influences and attitudes lived on secretly, and their creeping influence gradually overwhelmed Lincoln's vision...
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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xiv, 383 pages ; 24 cm
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"We are now lucky enough to be living through the era of so-called Peak TV, in which television, in its various guises and formats, has seized the entertainment mantle from movies and dominates our leisure time. How and why this happened is the subject of this book. Instead of focusing on one service, like HBO, Pandora’s Box asks, 'What did HBO do, besides give us The Sopranos?' The answer: It gave us a revolution. Biskind bites off a big...
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New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
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vii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Over one hundred years ago, women organized to fight for a federal suffrage amendment. But many suffragists were fighting for much more than the vote. The suffrage movement included individuals who represented a wide range of genders and sexualities. It also included a variety of queer relationships. But, suffrage leaders concerned with presenting a respectable public image concealed the queerness of the suffrage movement. This resulted in greater...
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