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From Garum to Mole

The sauces we eat evoke emotions, define our meals, direct our conversations over those meals, and influence the way we think about ourselves and each other. Sauces, through their consumption and rejectio…

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Mason B Williams
City of Fortune

Postwar New York City famously expired in a 1970s tableau of burning Bronx tenements, subway graffiti, crushing debt, and the tabloid headline "Ford to City: Drop Dead." From its ashes the city …

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William D Hartung, Ben Freeman
The Trillion Dollar War Machine

A hard-hitting investigation into how the Pentagon's runaway spending embroils America in foreign wars, squanders its wealth, and enriches a privileged elite"A damning indictment of the conflicts of …

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Robert F Schwarzwalder
American Evangelical Leaders and U.S. Foreign Policy, 1919-1941

This book argues that while the interwar period is generally seen as a period of Evangelical withdrawal from American public life, Evangelical leaders of varying sub-groups remained acutely aware of forei…

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Cotten Seiler
White Care

Framing infrastructure as the expression of a state's care for its population, White Care explores the crucial role of race in the building, maintenance, scope, and quality of US infrastructure.Infrastruc…

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Andreas Kossert,
The Uprooted

In his new book, Andreas Kossert---the renowned expert on emigration and expulsion in the twentieth century and author of the bestselling Cold Home ---places the early twenty-first-century refugee movemen…

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Douglass K Daniel
Kill-Do Not Release

"Fighter-Writer" reports from major battles in the Pacific highlight what America's Marines endured in World War IIDouglass K. Daniel presents a fascinating trove of previously classified materi…

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Huseyn Aliyev
Who Fights for Governments?

Exploring why, when and under which circumstances individuals decide to take up arms mobilizing for pro-government militias, Huseyn Aliyev draws on insights from long-standing ethnographic fieldwork among…

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Towns Between Empires

Towns between Empires contains contributions regarding urban administration and governance in the historical regions that are now in Romania, and that fall under the early modern concept of good governanc…

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Patrick Mulford O'Connor
The Political Reconstruction of American Tobacco, 1862-1933

A deeply researched and clearly argued account of the mutual growth of the federal government and the modern tobacco Nearly everything about the United States tobacco economy changed in the generation fol…

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Robert Love
Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Horn of Africa

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the social, economic, and political drivers of slavery and human trafficking within the Horn of Africa in order to show how different development policies coul…

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Kate Brown
Tiny Gardens Everywhere

Nurturing health, hope, and community, gardeners in cities and suburbs are reclaiming lost commons, transforming vacant lots into vibrant plots, turning waste into compost, and recreating what was once th…

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David Skeel
Promise Land

The herculean struggle to restore stability in Puerto Rico and a grave warning for America"I could not put down David Skeel's new book. It is at once an engrossing and personal narrative, an illumina…

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Tristan G Brown
Laws of the Land

"A groundbreaking history of Fengshui's roles in public life and law during China's last imperial dynastyToday the term Fengshui, which literally means "wind and water," is recognized aroun…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while p…

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Neil S Forkey
Defending a Borderland

Tracing grassroots activism in response to a devastating transnational oil spillOn the morning of June 23, 1976, the NEPCO 140barge, carrying 8.7 million gallons of thick crude oil, ruptured twice while p…

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Bench Ansfield
Born in Flames

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Bronx is burning!" That legendary and apocryphal phrase, allegedly uttered by announcers during the 1977 World Series as flames rose above Yankee Stadium, seemed to en…

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Declaration House

During the drafting of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, Thomas Jefferson and enslaved valet Robert Hemmings spent several months at 700 Market Street in Philadelphia. The editors and contributors …

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Bonnie A Lucero
The Land of the Skinny Cow

Beef looms large in Cuban history. Today, it is one of the most coveted food items, and so scarce that most ordinary Cubans cannot hope to consume it without a doctor's prescription. In this book, Bonnie …

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Bonnie A Lucero
The Land of the Skinny Cow

Beef looms large in Cuban history. Today, it is one of the most coveted food items, and so scarce that most ordinary Cubans cannot hope to consume it without a doctor's prescription. In this book, Bonnie …

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