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by Annie Jacobsen (Author)The INSTANT New York Times bestseller Instant Los Angeles Times bestseller "In Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen gives us a vivid picture of what could happen if our nuclear guardians fail...Terrifying."--Wall Street Journal There is only one scenario other than an asteroid strike that could end the world as we know it in a matter of hours: nuclear war. And one of the triggers for that war would be a nuclear missile inbound toward the United States. Every gen...

Constitution of the State of Alabama: August 2d, 1819 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Alabama (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enou...

Hidden History: The Untold Story of the Democratic Party - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Swarbrick (Author)The History of the Democratic Party examined from the perspective of biblical Christianity --Learn the Truth about the Democratic Party! This book reveals historical facts that most Democrats know nothing of and would find shocking - an incredible yet fully documented tale of larceny, murder, slavery, and corruption. 200 pages of documented facts! Learn what the Democrats don't want you to find out. See the evidence of what the Democratic...

A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Andrew F. Lang (Author)Most mid-nineteenth-century Americans regarded the United States as an exceptional democratic republic that stood apart from a world seemingly riddled with revolutionary turmoil and aristocratic consolidation. Viewing themselves as distinct from and even superior to other societies, Americans considered their nation an unprecedented experiment in political moderation and constitutional democracy. But as abolitionism in England, economic u...

The Strikers of Coachella: A Rank-And-File History of the Ufw Movement - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Christian O. Paiz (Author)The past decades have borne witness to the United Farm Workers' (UFW) tenacious hold on the country's imagination. Since 2008, the UFW has lent its rallying cry to a presidential campaign and been the subject of no less than nine books, two documentaries, and one motion picture. Yet the full story of the women, men, and children who powered this social movement has not yet been told.Based on more than 200 hours of original oral history...

Capital's Terrorists: Klansmen, Lawmen, and Employers in the Long Nineteenth Century - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Chad E. Pearson (Author)Through the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, employers and powerful individuals deployed a variety of tactics to control ordinary people as they sought to secure power in and out of workplaces. In the face of worker resistance, employers and their allies collaborated to use a variety of extralegal repressive techniques, including whippings, kidnappings, drive-out campaigns, incarcerations, arsons, hangings, and shootings, a...

The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Lauren N. Haumesser (Author)This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Whereas the cultural politics of gender had bolstered Democratic unity through the 1850s, the Lecompton crisis and John Brown's raid revealed that white manhood and its association with familial and national protection me...

A New Kind of Youth: Historically Black High Schools and Southern Student Activism, 1920-1975 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jon N. Hale (Author)The story of activist youth in America is usually framed around the Vietnam War, the counterculture, and college campuses, focusing primarily on college students in the 1960s and 1970s. But a remarkably effective tradition of Black high school student activism in the civil rights era has gone understudied. In 1951, students at R. R. Moton High School in rural Virginia led a student walkout and contacted the law firm of Hill, Martin, and Robi...

Free Joan Little: The Politics of Race, Sexual Violence, and Imprisonment - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Christina Greene (Author)Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the women's section of a rural North Carolina jail. Fleeing the scene was Joan Little, twenty years old, poor, Black, and in trouble. After turning herself in, Little faced a possible death sentence in the state's gas chamber. At her trial, which was followed around the world, Little claimed that she had killed Alligood in...

The Vietnam War in the Pacific World - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Brian Cuddy (Editor), Fredrik Logevall (Editor)Fifty years since the signing of the Paris Peace Accords signaled the final withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam, the war's mark on the Pacific world remains. The essays gathered here offer an essential, postcolonial interpretation of a struggle rooted not only in Indochinese history but also in the wider Asia Pacific region. Extending the Vietnam War's historiography away from a singular focus on American polici...

Detention Empire: Reagan's War on Immigrants and the Seeds of Resistance - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Kristina Shull (Author)The early 1980s marked a critical turning point for the rise of modern mass incarceration in the United States. The Mariel Cuban migration of 1980, alongside increasing arrivals of Haitian and Central American asylum-seekers, galvanized new modes of covert warfare in the Reagan administration's globalized War on Drugs. Using newly available government documents, Shull demonstrates how migrant detention operates as a form of counterinsurge...

The Constitutional Convention of 1787: Constructing the American Republic - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John Patrick Coby (Author)The Constitutional Convention of 1787 brings to life the debates that most profoundly shaped American government. As representatives to the convention, students must investigate the ideological arguments behind possible structures for a new government and create a new constitution. Number of Pages: 206 Dimensions: 0.44 x 10 x 8 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: July 01, 2022 ...

Insurgent Terrorism: Intergroup Relationships and the Killing of Civilians - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Victor Asal (Author), Brian J. Phillips (Author), R. Karl Rethemeyer (Author)Insurgent groups consist of individuals willing to organize and commit acts of terror to achieve their goals. By nature, they depend on public support, yet they sometimes target private civilians in addition to military personnel and government officials. This book examines insurgent embeddedness--the extent to which an insurgent group is enmeshed in relationships with the state, other...

A Troubled Sleep: Risk and Resilience in Contemporary Northern Ireland - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby James Waller (Author)In contemporary Northern Ireland, more than two decades after the peace agreement that ended the thirty-year sectarian violence known as "the Troubles" the risk of a return to violent conflict is not only present but growing. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, comparative research, and over 110 hours of face-to-face interviews with a diverse range of political, academic, civil society, and community actors across Northern Ireland, A Trouble...

The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby P. Gabrielle Foreman (Editor), Jim Casey (Editor), Sarah Lynn Patterson (Editor)This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. Well before the founding of the NAACP and other twentieth-century pillars of the civil rights movement, tens of thousands of Black leaders organized state and national conventions across North America. Over seven decades, they advocated f...

Harnessing Harmony: Music, Power, and Politics in the United States, 1788-1865 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Billy Coleman (Author)Following the creation of the United States, profound disagreements remained over how to secure the survival of the republic and unite its diverse population. In this pathbreaking account, Billy Coleman uses the history of American music to illuminate the relationship between elite power and the people from the early national period to the Civil War. Based on deep archival research in sources such as music periodicals, songbooks, and manua...

Undelivered: From the Great Postal Strike of 1970 to the Manufactured Crisis of the U.S. Postal Service - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Philip F. Rubio (Author)For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal "wildcat" strike--the largest in United States history--for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers r...

Poor Man's Fortune: White Working-Class Conservatism in American Metal Mining, 1850-1950 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jarod Roll (Author)White working-class conservatives have played a decisive role in American history, particularly in their opposition to social justice movements, radical critiques of capitalism, and government help for the poor and sick. While this pattern is largely seen as a post-1960s development, Poor Man's Fortune tells a different story, excavating the long history of white working-class conservatism in the century from the Civil War to World War II. Wi...

Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Edward Onaci (Author)On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concluded that Black Americans' best remaining hope for liberation was the creation of a sovereign nation-state, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). New Afrikan citizens traced boundaries that encompassed a large portion of the South--including South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisian...

Early American Rebels: Pursuing Democracy from Maryland to Carolina, 1640-1700 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Noeleen McIlvenna (Author)During the half century after 1650 that saw the gradual imposition of a slave society in England's North American colonies, poor white settlers in the Chesapeake sought a republic of equals. Demanding a say in their own destinies, rebels moved around the region looking for a place to build a democratic political system. This book crosses colonial boundaries to show how Ingle's Rebellion, Fendall's Rebellion, Bacon's Rebellion, Culpeper...

With Masses and Arms: Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Miguel La Serna (Author)Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and the link between political violence and the culture of communications in Latin America. Smaller than the well-known Shining Path but just as remarkable, the MRTA emerged in the early 1980s at the beginning of a long and bloody civil war. Taking a close look at the daily experiences of women a...

The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Pamela E. Pennock (Author)In this first history of Arab American activism in the 1960s, Pamela Pennock brings to the forefront one of the most overlooked minority groups in the history of American social movements. Focusing on the ideas and strategies of key Arab American organizations and examining the emerging alliances between Arab American and other anti-imperialist and antiracist movements, Pennock sheds new light on the role of Arab Americans in the socia...

Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby A. Naomi Paik (Author)In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil rights. Removed from the social and political communities that would guarantee fundamental legal protections, these detainees are effectively rightless, stripped of the right even to have rights. Rightless people thus expose an essential paradox: while the United States purports to champion ina...

Haitian Connections in the Atlantic World: Recognition after Revolution - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Julia Gaffield (Author)On January 1, 1804, Haiti shocked the world by declaring independence. Historians have long portrayed Haiti's postrevolutionary period as one during which the international community rejected Haiti's Declaration of Independence and adopted a policy of isolation designed to contain the impact of the world's only successful slave revolution. Julia Gaffield, however, anchors a fresh vision of Haiti's first tentative years of independence to ...

From South Texas to the Nation: The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby John Weber (Author)In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, selectively enforcing immigration restrictions, toppl...

Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jeremy Friedman (Author)The conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy Friedman's Shadow Cold War delves deeper into the era to examine the competition between the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China for the leadership of the world revolution. When a world of newly independent states emerged from decolonization desperately poor and politically disorganized, Mos...

Making Machu Picchu: The Politics of Tourism in Twentieth-Century Peru - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Mark Rice (Author)Speaking at a 1913 National Geographic Society gala, Hiram Bingham III, the American explorer celebrated for finding the "lost city" of the Andes two years earlier, suggested that Machu Picchu "is an awful name, but it is well worth remembering." Millions of travelers have since followed Bingham's advice. When Bingham first encountered Machu Picchu, the site was an obscure ruin. Now designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Machu Picchu is the ...

James J. Kilpatrick: Salesman for Segregation - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby William P. Hustwit (Author)James J. Kilpatrick was a nationally known television personality, journalist, and columnist whose conservative voice rang out loudly and widely through the twentieth century. As editor of the Richmond News Leader, writer for the National Review, debater in the "Point/Counterpoint" portion of CBS's 60 Minutes, and supporter of conservative political candidates like Barry Goldwater, Kilpatrick had many platforms for his race-based bran...

Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Guglielmo (Author)Italians were the largest group of immigrants to the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and hundreds of thousands led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Jennifer Guglielmo brings to life the Italian working-class women of New York and New Jersey who helped shape the vibrant radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. Tracing two generations of...

Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Louis A. Pérez Jr. (Author)For more than two hundred years, Americans have imagined and described Cuba and its relationship to the United States by conjuring up a variety of striking images--Cuba as a woman, a neighbor, a ripe fruit, a child learning to ride a bicycle. Louis A. Perez Jr. offers a revealing history of these metaphorical and depictive motifs and discovers the powerful motives behind such characterizations of the island as they have persisted and...

Fault Lines: Exploring the complicated place of Progressive American Jewish Zionism - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Amanda Berman (Editor), Marc Dollinger (Foreword by), Leah Solomon (Contribution by)It can be very lonely to stand in the world as an advocate for multiple commitments many consider incompatible. One such hybrid stance is Progressive Zionism, deemed racist by many American Progressives and considered suspect (or naïve) by many American Zionists. Those zero-sum approaches of extremist politics and "cancel culture" make even less imaginable a better day for Israe...

The Struggle for Iran: Oil, Autocracy, and the Cold War, 1951-1954 - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby David S. Painter (Author), Gregory Brew (Author)Beginning with the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry in spring 1951 and ending with its reversal following the overthrow of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq in August 1953, the Iranian oil crisis was a crucial turning point in the global Cold War. The nationalization challenged Great Britain's preeminence in the Middle East and threatened Western oil concessions everywhere. Fearing the loss of Iran and p...