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Kathryn Dyt
The Nature of Kingship

The Nature of Kingship is an innovative exploration of dynastic power and the environment in nineteenth-century Vietnam. It offers important insights into Vietnamese kingship by delving into the intricate…

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Empire

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6 A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKFew major European writers of the nineteenth centur…

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Ellen Gardner Nakamura,
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice . In this …

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Aaron M Treadwell
Tongues of Fire

Tongues of Fire is a collection of sermons and other writings by Black preachers that speak directly to lynching in the Jim Crow era. The collection, expertly edited and annotated by Aaron M. Treadwell, f…

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Lee Alan Dugatkin
Nary a Horse Left Standing

How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt---but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation. From a veteran science writer, evolutionary bio…

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W Caleb McDaniel, Alexander X Byrd
Slavery, Segregation, and the Second Founding of Rice University

During the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, s…

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White, William Ryan Smith, Peter Bolton Mangum
Shreveport Martyr Father Jean Pierre

Father Jean Pierre, a missionary priest from Brittany, France, answered a call to serve in sparsely populated Shreveport, where he chose to remain when a yellow fever epidemic struck in 1873. From a persp…

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Dane Huckelbridge
Queen of All Mayhem

A riveting, deeply researched, blood-on-the-spurs biography of Belle Starr, the most legendary female outlaw of the American West.

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Jeremy D Popkin
The First Emancipation

A new history of slavery and the French RevolutionThe First Emancipation is a dramatic account of how slavery and race profoundly influenced the course of the French Revolution and had a central impact on…

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Darcy Ingram
The Second Greatest Show on Earth

In 1865 wealthy American expatriate Henry Bergh (1813--1888) chose suddenly to abandon a life of leisure in Europe. Returning to his home city of New York, he set to work on what soon proved a remarkable …

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Eduardo Obregón Pagán
Tumbleweed Underworld

Georgie Clifford appears briefly in the annals of American history as an 1894 inmate of the Yuma Territorial Prison, one of two female prisoners among hundreds of hardened, violent men. A denizen of an Ol…

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Milos Jovanovic
Cities of Dust and Mud

This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ott…

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Milos Jovanovic
Cities of Dust and Mud

This book explores the social costs of urban change and the limits of modernity through a comparative study of two Balkan cities, Belgrade and Sofia. Between 1820 and 1920, both cities grew from small Ott…

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The Prendergast Letters

The Prendergast Letters Collection, one of the noteworthy manuscript collections at Boston College's John J. Burns Library, provides an account of the experiences of an ordinary family in County Kerry, Ir…

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James M O'Toole
For I Have Sinned

The history of US Catholicism is the history of confession. For I Have Sinned charts the rise of confession as the defining ritual of American Catholic piety and identity-and its fall, as clergy sex-abuse…

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Michelle Henning
A Dirty History of Photography

An environmental history of chemical photography through the lens of its deep connections to empire and industry.Dependent on the extractive practices of fossil-fueled industrial capitalism, chemical phot…

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Rhian E Jones
Rebecca's Country

In nineteenth-century Wales, a protest took place like no other. Burdened by punishing tolls and desperate for their livelihoods, protestors dramatically cross-dressed in carnivalesque costumes to attack …

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Bruno Dotto,
Decision in Lombardy: The Battle of Solferino, June 24 1859

Before dawn on June 24, 1859, near the small northern Italian town of Solferino, the largest battle on the European continent since the Napoleonic Wars was fought. The crucial encounter of the Second War …

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Michael Newton
Modern Architecture of Curaçao

Modernism is an important architectural style in which technological innovations are used for social purposes. The Curaçao chapter of the nonprofit organization DoCoMoMo (Documentation and Conservation of…

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Shane White
A Moment in the Sun

More than a century before the Harlem Renaissance, a wave of Black artistic and intellectual activity swept through Manhattan. Ordinary Black men and women, now free, "stood a brief moment in the sun…

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