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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $22.95
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Manufacturer: Catholic University of America Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lawrence J. McCaffrey
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Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
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Edition: Rev Upd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.049162
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Publication Date: 1998-03
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Reading Level: 253
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Description: The author's work traces the experience of Irish-American Catholics from their beginnings as detested, unskilled pioneers of the urban ghetto to their rise as an essentially affluent, powerful, middle-class suburban community. Blending his work and the contributions of other scholars, McCaffrey here adds fresh interpretations to the history of Irish American Catholics. He focuses on a number of topics, including the significance of Catholicism as the core of Irish ethnicity and the source of nativist attacks on their presence in the United States; the impact of Irish America on the course of Irish nationalism; the psychological struggle to reconcile Irish loyalties to an authoritarian religion and a liberal-democratic politics; and, more recently, the fading of the Catholic dimension of Irish identity.
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Price: $22.95
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Sale: $18.98
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1993-09-20
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: Americans have long been fascinated with European views of the United States. The many Chinese commentaries on America, however, have remained largely unavailable to the English reader. Land without Ghosts presents for the first time selections on America from Chinese writings over the last 150 years. Included are extracts from the travel diaries of nineteenth-century diplomats, a first-hand account of blacks in 1930s Alabama and of the young white Communists working to organize them.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $21.55
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Manufacturer: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: A. G. Roeber
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Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973
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Publication Date: 1998-04-07
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: In Palatines, Liberty, and Property A. G. Roeber explains why so many Germans, when they faced critical choices in 1776, became active supporters of the patriot cause. Employing a variety of German-language sources and and following all the major German migration streams, Roeber explores German conceptions of personal and public property in the context of cultural and religious beliefs, village life, and family concerns. Co-winner of the John H. Dunning Prize from the American Historical Association, Roeber's study of German-American settlements and their ideas about liberty and property provides an unprecedented view of how non-English culture and beliefs made their way from Europe to America. "The most thoughtful and comprehensive study ever attempted of the German migration to eighteenth-century America and how it affected and was affected by the Revolution. Roeber's research on German law and patterns of landholding has no parallel in English-language scholarship. This is the one book that everyone should read who wishes to understand the scope and significance of the first massive voluntary migration of non-English speaking settlers to British North America." -- John M. Murrin, Princeton University
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $1.94
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Manufacturer: University Press of Kentucky
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Juliet E.K. Walker
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Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
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Dewey Decimal Number: 976.9004960730924
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Publication Date: 1995-01-18
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Reading Level: 240
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $11.94
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Manufacturer: Barricade Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Robert Zweig
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Publisher: Barricade Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 914.57310492092
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Publication Date: 2008-10-25
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: As a boy in the 1960s, Robert Zweig had a rare opportunity: Every summer, he would leave his home in America and make extended visits to his mother's birthplace-Naples, Italy. During each visit, he'd uncover new mysteries about the parents he thought he knew. There, he learned how his German father survived Auschwitz, came to Italy, and met his mother, and how the pair managed to survive the ravages of Fascism and Nazism during World War II.
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $11.00
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Suzanne Lebsock
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 364.152309755643
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Publication Date: 2003-03
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: It's 1895 in Virginia, and a white woman lies in her farmyard, murdered with an ax. Suspicion soon falls on a young black sawmill hand, who tries to flee the county. Captured, he implicates three women, accusing them of plotting the murder and wielding the ax. In vivid courtroom scenes, Bancroft Prize-winning historian Suzanne Lebsock recounts their dramatic trials and brings us close to women we would never otherwise know: a devout (and pregnant) mother of nine; another hard-working mother (also of nine); and her plucky, quick-tempered daughter. All claim to be innocent. With the danger of lynching high, can they get justice? Lebsock takes us deep into this contentious, often surprising world, where blacks struggle to hold on to their post -- Civil War gains against a rising tide of white privilege. A sensation in its own time, this case offers the modern reader a riveting encounter with a South in the throes of change.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $33.39
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Manufacturer: University of Missouri Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Walter Ehrlich
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Publisher: University of Missouri Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 977.866004924
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Publication Date: 2002-07
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Reading Level: 503
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Description: The second of a two-volume history of the Jewish community of St. Louis, Zion in the Valley, Volume II covers the St. Louis Jewish population during the twentieth century, continuing where Volume I concluded. Published in 1997, Volume I deals primarily with the achievements of the German Jewish immigrants who dominated the St. Louis Jewish community during the nineteenth century. In the latter part of that century, a second large wave of Jewish immigrants, this time from Eastern Europe, began to arrive in St. Louis. Because the new immigrants differed in so many ways from their German precursors, two separate and decidedly hostile Jewish communities developed: the German/Reform community and the Eastern European/Orthodox community. The most important development of the twentieth century, and the basic theme of this volume, was the effort to bridge the deep chasm between the two communities and to unify them into a new "American Jewish" community free from the earlier hostilities. This volume examines the attempts made to achieve those ends. It looks at Jewish religious and educational institutions; Jewish participation in local political, economic, and civic activities; Jewish cultural, philanthropic, and recreational life; and especially Jewish demographics within the larger St. Louis area community. Existing histories of St. Louis barely even allude to its Jewish population. This narrative is based almost entirely upon unused primary sources: archival records, newspapers, reminiscences, interviews, and organizational records. The two volumes together are not only important components of St. Louis history but also a vital part of American urban, ethnic, and immigration history.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $32.30
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Leonard Dinnerstein::Roger L. Nichols::David M. Reimers
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 4
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 2003-02-13
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: Now in its fourth edition, Natives and Strangers explores various aspects of minority group history, describing the impact America has had on minority peoples and cultures--and vice versa--and providing some understanding of the different conditions, conflicts, and contradictions that members of American minority groups experienced. Beginning with the American Indian migration throughout the United States, the book discusses the variety of Indian cultures that Europeans encountered, incorporating the most recent literature on the subject. As in earlier editions, the fourth edition integrates the experiences of racial, religious, and national minorities, explaining how their histories intertwined with the emergence of modern America. It also explores the far-reaching implications of recent immigration laws, presenting the controversy over multiculturalism in terms of understanding American history. The authors conclude with reflections on where the nation stands today as an ethnically and racially diverse society.
For the fourth edition, Dinnerstein, Nichols, and Reimers have made extensive revisions. While the previous editions used economic development to organize and tell the history of America's multicultural society, this text focuses much more on ethnic groups themselves, the roles the groups played in American social developments, and the impact of economic changes on ethnicity. In addition, the authors include more information on the post-1960 period, particularly in regard to immigration and American Indians. They have expanded the discussion of the meaning of such terms as "white" and "people of color" and have updated all content--especially information on gender, Indian-white contact, and cultural history--by incorporating new findings from recent scholarship. This new edition contains extensive statistics culled from the recently available 2000 U.S. Census report; it features an explanation of what these latest figures indicate about America's ethnic makeup and revised tables and graphs that reflect this new data. Natives and Strangers, 4/e, is ideal for undergraduate courses covering immigration, American social history, and American ethnic groups.
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $29.92
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Manufacturer: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Donald G. Dutton
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Publisher: Praeger Security International General Interest-Cloth
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 304.663
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Publication Date: 2007-05-30
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Reading Level: 216
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Description: Chronicling horrific events that brought the 20th century to witness the largest number of systematic slaughters of human beings in any century across history, this work goes beyond historic details and examines contemporary psychological means leaders use to convince individuals to commit horrific actions in the name of a political or military cause. Massacres in Nanking, Rwanda, El Salvador, Vietnam and other countries are reviewed in chilling detail. But the core issue is what psychological forces are behind large-scale killing, what psychology can be used to indoctrinate normal people with a Groupthink that moves individuals to mass murder brutally and without regret, even when the victims are innocent children. Dutton shows us how individuals are convinced to commit such sadistic acts, often preceded by torture, after being indoctrinated with beliefs that the target victims are unjust, inhuman or "viral," like a virus that must be destroyed or it will destroy society.
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Manufacturer: MacMillan Publishing Company.
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: James Paul Allen::Eugene James Turner
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Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 305.800973
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Publication Date: 1988-01
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Reading Level: 1088
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