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The Arthurdale School Cultural Intervention Through Rural Folklife Education in a Progressive New Deal Setting
This book chronicles the school envisioned by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1933 to serve Arthurdale, the New Deal government-created community in...
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Resource Devastation on Native American Lands Toxic Earth, Poisoned People
This book focuses on the toxic legacy of Native North America, which is pervasive but largely invisible to most non-Native peoples. Many toxic sites...
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The Palgrave Handbook of Global Slavery throughout History
This open access handbook takes a comparative and global approach to analyse the practice of slavery throughout history. To understand slavery - why...
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Liberalism and Socialism since the Nineteenth Century Tensions, Exchanges, and Convergences
This book aims to re-evaluate the relations between two major ideologies that have been increasingly contested in recent years, yet continue to be...
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Alain Locke on the Theoretical Foundations for a Just and Successful Peace
Alain Locke is most known for his involvement in the Harlem Renaissance. However, he received his PhD in philosophy from Harvard University in 1918,...
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Ma(r)king the Difference Multiculturalism and the Politics of Translation
This research delivers a conceptual reconstruction of the trajectory of concepts used to mark qualitative differences among identities from the 16th...
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Historical Ecology and Landscape Archaeology in Lowland South America
This edited volume scrutinizes how pre-Columbian human societies have shaped and transformed lowland South America – contributing to biological and...
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Realizing Value in Mesoamerica The Dynamics of Desire and Demand in Ancient Economies
This edited collection addresses concepts of value and its impact on economies and economic decision-making in Mesoamerica. It brings together...
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Civic Continuities in an Age of Revolutionary Change, c.1750–1850 Europe and the Americas
This open access book explores the role of continuity in political processes and practices during the Age of Revolutions. It argues that the changes...
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Public Theatre and the Enslaved People of Colonial Saint-Domingue
The French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) was home to one of the richest public theatre traditions of the colonial-era Caribbean. This book...
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Petitioning in the Atlantic World, c. 1500–1840 Empires, Revolutions and Social Movements
This book deals with one of the most pervasive ways by which people have addressed authority throughout history: petitioning. Based on a Congress...
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The Battle over America's Origin Story Legends, Amateurs, and Professional Historiographers
This book examines the legends of who ‘really’ discovered America. It argues that histories of America's origins were always based less on empirical...
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Populism and Populist Discourse in North America
This book examines the origins of populism in Canada and the United States and its development into a powerful and at times disturbing political...
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Alexander von Humboldt: Tagebücher der Amerikanischen Reise: Von Spanien nach Cumaná (1799/1800)
Der erste Tagebuchband der amerikanischen Reise Alexander von Humboldts gibt Einblicke in die Überfahrt von Europa nach Amerika, den Aufenthalt auf...
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Anti-Catholicism and British Identities in Britain, Canada and Australia, 1880s-1920s
Recent debates about the definition of national identities in Britain, along with discussions on the secularisation of Western societies, have...
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A Transnational History of the Modern Caribbean Popular Resistance across Borders
This book examines Caribbean people resisting racial, political, and social oppression from the eve of the 1790s Haitian Revolution to the...
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The History and Evolution of the North American Wildlife Conservation Model
This book explains how six policies collectively called the North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAWCM), put in place around the turn of the...
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Natives, Iberians, and Imperial Loyalties in the South American Borderlands, 1750–1800
This book examines the efforts of Spaniards and Portuguese to attract Native peoples and other settlers to the villages, missions, and fortifications...
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French Missionaries in Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1654-1755 On a Risky Edge
This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives...
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Agreeable News from Persia Iran in the Colonial and Early Republican American Press, 1712-1848
Eighteenth and nineteenth century European, British and American newspapers constitute a rich and largely untapped source of contemporary, often...
