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The Essential Civil War: A Handbook to the Battles, Armies, Navies and Commanders
Jayne E. Blair
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• Author(s): Jayne E. Blair • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War From 1861 through 1865, strife tore apart the United States. So divided was the country that even tod...
View full detailsJapanese Baseball: A Statistical Handbook
Daniel E. Johnson
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• Author(s): Daniel E. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - Statistics This book--the first in the English language to contain an exhaustive collection of Japanese baseball ...
View full detailsAlma Rubens, Silent Snowbird: Her Complete 1930 Memoir, with a New Biography and Filmography
Alma Rubens, Gary D. Rhodes, Alexander Webb
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• Author(s): Alma Rubens | Gary D. Rhodes | Alexander Webb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Dark-eyed and distant Alma Rubens was one of the first femal...
View full detailsThe Cinema of Mamoru Oshii: Fantasy, Technology and Politics
Dani Cavallaro
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• Author(s): Dani Cavallaro • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Today's animation is much more than kids' stuff. Increasingly complex subject matter has produce...
View full detailsThe United States Army Second Division Northwest of Chateau Thierry in World War I
John W. Thomason
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• Author(s): John W. Thomason • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I In 1927, at the request of his superiors, John W. Thomason, Jr., set out to chronicle the ...
View full detailsThe Cuban Filmography: 1897 through 2001
Alfonso J. García Osuna
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• Author(s): Alfonso J. García Osuna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Reference On January 24, 1897, an event took place that would change Cuban culture forever: the first moving pictures ...
View full detailsPlay It Again: Baseball Experts on What Might Have Been
Jim Bresnahan
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• Author(s): Jim Bresnahan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General What if Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson had stood side by side in Cleveland's outfield? What if integration ...
View full detailsArchaeology and the Emergence of Greece
Anthony M. Snodgrass
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• Author(s): Anthony M. Snodgrass • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Archaeology"The papers in this book presume to stray across the traditional boundaries with the domains of prehistorian...
View full detailsDeaf in Japan: Sinign and the Politics of Identity
Karen Nakamura
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• Author(s): Karen Nakamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialKaren Nakamura combines history, life histories, ethnographic observation, and politico-l...
View full detailsWhitey Ford: A Biography
Miles Coverdale
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• Author(s): Miles Coverdale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Called the "Chairman of the Board" because of his remarkable control in big-money games, Eddie "Whitey" Ford still hold...
View full detailsDeaf in Japan: Signing and the Politics of Identity
Karen Nakamura
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• Author(s): Karen Nakamura • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialKaren Nakamura combines history, life histories, ethnographic observation, and politico-l...
View full detailsMarie Dressler: A Biography; With a Listing of Major Stage Performances, a Filmography and a Discography
Matthew Kennedy
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• Author(s): Matthew Kennedy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General Early in the century, Marie Dressler was hailed as one of America's finest comic...
View full detailsTears of the Lotus: Accounts of Tibetan Resistance to the Chinese Invasion, 1950-1962
Roger E. McCarthy
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• Author(s): Roger E. McCarthy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - China In 1949 Mao Tse-tung first sent his People's Liberation Army into the eastern Tibetan province of Amdo; he foll...
View full detailsThe Afterlife of America's War in Vietnam: Changing Visions in Politics and on Screen
Gordon Arnold
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• Author(s): Gordon Arnold • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Asia - Southeast Asia The fall of Saigon in 1975 signaled the end of America's longest war. Yet in many ways the conflict was fa...
View full detailsContact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form
Cheryl Pallant
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• Author(s): Cheryl Pallant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Classical & Ballet In most forms of dancing, performers carry out their steps with a distance that keeps them from ...
View full detailsSustainable Energy and the States: Essays on Politics, Markets and Leadership
Dianne Rahm
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• Author(s): Dianne Rahm • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General With America's dependence on fossil fuels painfully apparent due to world events and the resultant sharply rising gas pric...
View full detailsJohn Charles Thomas: Beloved Baritone of American Opera and Popular Music
Michael J. Maher
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• Author(s): Michael J. Maher • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Composers & Musicians - General Buoyant, irrepressible and hot-tempered, John Charles Thomas captivated audiences worldwi...
View full detailsGeorge Oppen: A Critical Study
Lyn Graham Barzilai
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• Author(s): Lyn Graham Barzilai • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Jewish This book offers a detailed look into the life and works of Pulitzer Prize-winning Jewish American poet George Oppe...
View full detailsIn Defense of Christian Hungary
Paul Hanebrink
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• Author(s): Paul Hanebrink • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryIn this important historical account of the role that religion played in defining the political...
View full detailsSearching the Soul of Ally McBeal: Critical Essays
Elwood Watson
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• Author(s): Elwood Watson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Ally McBeal, the popular Fox television series (1997-2002), was both groundbreaking and con...
View full detailsThe Battle of Olustee, 1864: The Final Union Attempt to Seize Florida
Robert P. Broadwater
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• Author(s): Robert P. Broadwater • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War When the Civil War began in 1861, Florida--although the third state to secede from the Union--w...
View full detailsPractical Car Restoration: A Guidebook with Lessons from a 1930 Franklin Rebuild
Charles R. Wilmarth
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• Author(s): Charles R. Wilmarth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - Repair & Maintenance "The graveyard is full of people that were going to do something, but never got arou...
View full detailsClaude Rains: A Comprehensive Illustrated Reference to His Work in Film, Stage, Radio, Television and Recordings
John T. Soister, Joanna Wioskowski
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• Author(s): John T. Soister | Joanna Wioskowski • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts The career of Claude Rains is often, and unfairly, overshadowed by the...
View full detailsJoe E. Brown: Film Comedian and Baseball Buffoon
Wes D. Gehring
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• Author(s): Wes D. Gehring • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts As a young boy in the depths of the 1890s depression, Joe E. Brown had a job: making faces ...
View full detailsWest Virginia Baseball: A History, 1865-2000
William E. Akin
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• Author(s): William E. Akin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History West Virginia sprang into existence as a state in the midst of the Civil War, and "base ball," as it was ca...
View full detailsPresidential Facts: Topical Lists, Comparisons and Statistics
Edward S. Skinner
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• Author(s): Edward S. Skinner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General At 6'4", Abraham Lincoln was our tallest president. James Buchanan was the only president who never ...
View full detailsClaude McKay: The Literary Identity from Jamaica to Harlem and Beyond
Kotti Sree Ramesh, Kandula Nirupa Rani
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• Author(s): Kotti Sree Ramesh | Kandula Nirupa Rani • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Literary The gifted and rebellious writer Claude McKay grew up in the British West Indies and then mov...
View full detailsHistoric Gravestone Art of Charleston, South Carolina, 1695-1802
David R. Mould, Missy Loewe
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• Author(s): David R. Mould | Missy Loewe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: American - General "Here lyes Buried the Body of MARTHA PERONNEAU...Departed This Life December Ye 14th 1746 Aged...
View full detailsChess Results, 1921-1930: A Comprehensive Record with 940 Tournament Crosstables and 210 Match Scores
Gino Di Felice
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• Author(s): Gino Di Felice • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess This comprehensive chronological reference lists the results of men's chess competitions all over the world. From the fam...
View full detailsDeath Sentences in Missouri, 1803-2005: A History and Comprehensive Registry of Legal Executions, Pardons, and Commutations
Harriet C. Frazier
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• Author(s): Harriet C. Frazier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Penology This chronological discussion of the death penalty in Missouri covers those executed from 1803 through 2005. Sourc...
View full detailsThe New Environmental Regulation
Daniel J. Fiorino
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• Author(s): Daniel J. Fiorino • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Environmental PolicyEnvironmental regulation in the United States has succeeded, to a certain extent, in solving the problems it was des...
View full detailsBrain Fiction: Self-Deception and the Riddle of Confabulation
William Hirstein
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• Author(s): William Hirstein • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: NeuropsychologySome neurological patients exhibit a striking tendency to confabulate--to construct false answers to a question while genuinely be...
View full detailsA Hammer in Their Hands: A Documentary History of Technology and the African-American Experience
Carroll Pursell
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• Author(s): Carroll Pursell • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryScholars working at the intersection of African-American history and the history of technology are redefining the idea of technology to include the...
View full detailsTechnology and the African-American Experience: Needs and Opportunities for Study
Bruce Sinclair
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• Author(s): Bruce Sinclair • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History
The Deceivers: Art Forgery and Identity in the Nineteenth Century
Aviva Briefel
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• Author(s): Aviva Briefel • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Movements - RomanticismThe nineteenth century witnessed an unprecedented increase in art forgery, caused both by the advent of...
View full detailsEisenhower Republicanism
Steven Wagner
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• Author(s): Steven Wagner • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyDwight D. Eisenhower' election to the presidency in 1952 brought an end to two...
View full detailsWomen of the Western Frontier in Fact, Fiction and Film
Ron Lackmann
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• Author(s): Ron Lackmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Women's Studies - General This work provides factual accounts of women of the Old West in contrast to their depictions on film an...
View full detailsConjoined Twins: An Historical, Biological and Ethical Issues Encyclopedia
Christine Quigley
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• Author(s): Christine Quigley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: History When two human ova fail to fully separate during pregnancy, the result is conjoined twins. The twins may be connecte...
View full detailsA Christmas Carol and Its Adaptations: A Critical Examination of Dickens's Story and Its Productions on Screen and Television
Fred Guida
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• Author(s): Fred Guida • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism Over 150 years after its original composition, Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol continues to delig...
View full detailsThe Transforming Draught: Jekyll and Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Victorian Alcohol Debate
Thomas L. Reed
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• Author(s): Thomas L. Reed • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is viewed as the classic alleg...
View full detailsPolitical Emotions
Marlene K. Sokolon
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• Author(s): Marlene K. Sokolon • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: PoliticalA rioting crowd in a burning city, a lynch mob circling a battered body, a campaigning senat...
View full detailsTwo Tales of a City
Gail Satler
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• Author(s): Gail Satler • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralArchitecture creates a social world. The built environment structures and facilitates the...
View full detailsOn Politics: A Carnival of Buncombe
H. L. Mencken
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• Author(s): H. L. Mencken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: GeneralWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencke...
View full detailsThirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken, Vincent Fitzpatrick, Bradford Jacobs
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• Author(s): H. L. Mencken | Vincent Fitzpatrick | Bradford Jacobs • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: JournalismWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of ...
View full detailsHappy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892
H. L. Mencken
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• Author(s): H. L. Mencken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Hen...
View full detailsThe Great Plague: The Story of London's Most Deadly Year
A. Lloyd Moote, Dorothy C. Moote
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• Author(s): A. Lloyd Moote | Dorothy C. Moote • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralUnderscoring the human dimensions of the epidemic, Lloyd and D...
View full detailsNewspaper Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1899-1906
H. L. Mencken
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• Author(s): H. L. Mencken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry L...
View full detailsHeathen Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1890-1936
H. L. Mencken
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• Author(s): H. L. Mencken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Editors, Journalists, PublishersWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch cou...
View full detailsPrejudices: A Selection
H. L. Mencken
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• Author(s): H. L. Mencken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter...
View full detailsMinority Report
H. L. Mencken
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• Author(s): H. L. Mencken • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralWith a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry L...
View full detailsHalloween Propmaker's Handbook
Ken Pitek
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• Author(s): Ken Pitek • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Seasonal With some corn syrup, drink mix powder and water, you can make a splendid concoction of stage blood--without spending an ar...
View full detailsJames Lee Burke and the Soul of Dave Robicheaux
Barbara Bogue
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• Author(s): Barbara Bogue • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction When he created the character Dave Robicheaux, author James Lee Burke lent the New Orleans homic...
View full detailsPersonal, Portable, Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life
Mizuko Ito, Misa Matsuda, Daisuke Okabe
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• Author(s): Mizuko Ito | Misa Matsuda | Daisuke Okabe • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: TelecommunicationsHow mobile communications in Japan became a pervasively personal tool that connects families and friends, crea...
View full detailsAt a Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet
Annmarie Chandler, Norie Neumark
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• Author(s): Annmarie Chandler | Norie Neumark • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: History - Contemporary (1945- )The theory and practice of networked art and activism, including mail art, sound art, telematic art, fax ...
View full detailsChildren's Counting-Out Rhymes, Fingerplays, Jump-Rope and Bounce-Ball Chants and Other Rhythms: A Comprehensive English-Language Reference
Gloria T. Delamar
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• Author(s): Gloria T. Delamar • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Do you have a childhood memory of playing with other children and jumping rope or counting to those age-old funny rh...
View full detailsSweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
Daniel C. Dennett
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• Author(s): Daniel C. Dennett • Publisher: Bradford Book • Publisher Imprint: Bradford Book • BISAC: Cognitive Psychology & CognitionIn the years since Daniel Dennett's influential Consciousness Explained was published in 1991, scientific re...
View full detailsOrganic Agriculture: A Global Perspective
Paul Kristiansen, John Reganold, Acram Taji
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• Author(s): Paul Kristiansen | John Reganold | Acram Taji • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Agriculture - Sustainable AgricultureWith global revenue surpassing twenty-five billion dollars annually...
View full detailsLiberty Theatres of the United States Army, 1917-1919
Weldon B. Durham
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• Author(s): Weldon B. Durham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War I The winter of 1917-18 found the United States in a general upheaval. A large percentage of...
View full detailsGreasers and Gringos: The Historical Roots of Anglo-Hispanic Prejudice
Jerome R. Adams
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• Author(s): Jerome R. Adams • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - American - Hispanic American StudiesFrom early in their history, England and Spain were among the mos...
View full detailsThe Mid Tudors: Edward VI and Mary, 1547-1558
Stephen J. Lee
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• Author(s): Stephen J. Lee • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralCovering the period from 1547 to 1558, The Mid Tudors explores the reigns of Edward VI and Mary. Stephen J. Lee examines al...
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