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Matthew P Fitzpatrick
A Pacific Power

A Pacific Power brings to light an often-overlooked history of German imperialism in the Pacific. Focusing on Samoa, it shows the tension between German rulers and Samoan subjects, as well as the variety …

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Joseph Sassoon
The Sassoons

A spectacular generational saga of the making (and undoing) of a family dynasty: the riveting untold story of the gilded Jewish Bagdadi Sassoons, who built a vast empire through global finance and trade--…

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Mark J Crowley
Post Office Women at War, 1939-45

The Post Office was central to Britain's effort to win the Second World War. From sending mail to connecting telephone calls and processing war savings certificates, its functions united a nation in a sen…

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Lauren Downing Peters,
Fashion Before Plus-Size

In the first in-depth historical survey of the plus-size fashion industry, Lauren Downing Peters reveals how the fashion industry perpetuates and materializes fat stigma through design discourse.

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Anti-Asian Racism in Transatlantic Perspectives

Postcolonial Studies - Band 52

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Sinophobia and anti-Asian hate made media headlines. The contributors to this volume discuss how anti-Asian projections and colonial-racist narratives have shaped modernity a…

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Kulturgeschichten der Aufklärung

Mainzer Historische Kulturwissenschaften - Band 43

The anthology offers a carefully edited and commented selection of largely unknown cultural-historical texts from the 18th and early 19th centuries.

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Dennis Mcnally
The Last Great Dream

"McNally masterfully combines many disparate lineages of political, social, art, and pop history into one singular, sweeping portrait. The result is a stunning vision of a broad and powerful idealism…

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Nigel Nicholson
Victory and Celebration

Victory and Celebration traces how athletic success was transformed into broader social and political capital in ancient Greece in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE--how being a good boxer or wrestler, or…

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Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Kate Strasdin
Dressing the Queen

A revealing history that explores the artistry, craftmanship, and traditions behind the royal wardrobe.From tours and walkabouts to the dazzling spectacle of a wedding or Coronation, the clothes worn by r…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Enlightenment

The 18th century saw the height of court culture in Europe as well as the beginnings of its demise with conflicts such as the American and French Revolutions. The Scientific Revolution, which had begun in…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Modern Age

Furniture is a unique witness to the transformations of private and public experience amidst the upheavals of the 20th century: how we work, rest, and play are determined by the embodied encounter with fu…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry

The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial development produced a growing middle class as well as efficiency, convenience, and innovation across a range o…

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Ross Haynes
American Wealth Builders

The American Wealth Builders is a story of a finance, wealth, grit and powerful leadership in American Black History. It's a reminder of what truly makes America great: our potential to live up to our cre…

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Martin Luther King
The Other America

A beautiful commemorative edition of Dr. Martin Luther King's speech "The Other America," part of Dr. King's archives published exclusively by HarperCollins.In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s…

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Peter Laufer
We Are All Americans

In the days after September 11, 2001, journalist Peter Laufer set out on a cross-country journey to capture America at its most vulnerable and united. Traveling from Washington, DC, to California, he docu…

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Neil W Bernstein
Poppaea Sabina

Like many famous figures from antiquity, we must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). In this book, Neil Bernstein critically examines these sources…

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Amin Samman
Currency of Nihilism

What happens to economic life when meaning and value come apart? Drawing on Friedrich Nietzsche, E.M. Cioran, and Jean Baudrillard, this book shows how the latest trends in digital finance restage the dil…

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Michael Kremer, Cheryl Misak
Margaret MacDonald and Analytic Philosophy in the 1930s

This volume examines the important but, until recently, largely forgotten work of the British analytic philosopher Margaret Macdonald. Cheryl Misak and Michael Kremer provide essays on Macdonald's life an…

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Nadine Attewell
Archives of Intimacy

This book offers a rich and innovative study of multiracial social worlds in early-twentieth-century London, Liverpool, and Hong Kong -- three port cities linked by their importance to global British ship…

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