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The 1920 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary
Bill Mallon, Anthony Th Bijkerk
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• Author(s): Bill Mallon | Anthony Th Bijkerk • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Olympics & Paralympics Until this volume was compiled, the results of the 1920 Olympics held in Antwerp, ...
View full detailsThe Life of Charlotte Bronte
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell • Publisher: Cosimo Classics • Publisher Imprint: Cosimo Classics • BISAC: WomenAs interest in 19th-century English literature by women has been reinvigorated by a resurgence in popularity of the works of J...
View full detailsCheap Scares!: Low Budget Horror Filmmakers Share Their Secrets
Gregory Lamberson
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• Author(s): Gregory Lamberson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production This is a step-by-step guide to creating and selling a horror movie, from rough outline to...
View full detailsLee's Bold Plan for Point Lookout: The Rescue of Confederate Prisoners That Never Happened
Jack E. Schairer
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• Author(s): Jack E. Schairer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) In July 1864, while hemmed in by Grant at Richmond, General Robert E. Lee concei...
View full detailsPioneer Aviators of the World: A Biographical Dictionary of the First Pilots of 100 Countries
Hart Matthews
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• Author(s): Hart Matthews • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Historical - General Most people recognize Wilbur and Orville Wright as the first in flight, in 1903, on the blustery sand dunes...
View full detailsAfrican American Mystery Writers: A Historical and Thematic Study
Frankie y. Bailey
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• Author(s): Frankie y. Bailey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The book describes the movement by African American authors from slave narratives and antebe...
View full detailsMovies at Home: How Hollywood Came to Television
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The relationship of Hollywood and television, initially turbulent, has ultimately been profitable...
View full detailsGraffiti Art Styles: A Classification System and Theoretical Analysis
Lisa Gottlieb
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• Author(s): Lisa Gottlieb • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Popular Culture - General This book presents a classification system for graffiti art styles that reflects the expertise of graf...
View full detailsSlavery in Babylonia: From Nabopolassar to Alexander the Great (626-331 Bc)
Muhammad A. Dandamaev
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• Author(s): Muhammad A. Dandamaev • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralPresents an analysis of the economics of slavery and a picture of Neo-Babylonian ...
View full detailsCaligula and the Fight for Artistic Freedom: The Making, Marketing and Impact of the Bob Guccione Film
William Hawes
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• Author(s): William Hawes • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Incest, explicit violence, homosexual rape--all presented in graphic clarity for general movie audiences. The fig...
View full detailsJohn Buchan: A Companion to the Mystery Fiction
Kate MacDonald, Elizabeth Foxwell
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• Author(s): Kate MacDonald | Elizabeth Foxwell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General The works of Scottish politician, statesman and thriller writer John Buchan examined the nature of ...
View full detailsParticipatory Sportswriting: An Anthology, 1870-1937
Zachary Michael Jack
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• Author(s): Zachary Michael Jack • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Long before journalist George Plimpton donned shoulder pads for Paper Lion, sportswriters were stepping onto the ...
View full detailsIn the Polish Secret War: Memoir of a World War II Freedom Fighter
Marian S. Mazgaj
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• Author(s): Marian S. Mazgaj • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II Born in the Polish village of Gaj in 1923, Marian Mazgaj was a teenager when Germany invaded his coun...
View full detailsCharacters and Plots in the Fiction of Ring Lardner
Robert L. Gale
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• Author(s): Robert L. Gale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This reference book acquaints and reacquaints readers with the brilliant short stories of Ring Lardner, who was the fir...
View full detailsThe Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in New York State
Kevin McGowan, Kimberley Corwin
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• Author(s): Kevin McGowan | Kimberley Corwin • Publisher: Comstock Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Comstock Publishing • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - OrnithologyBoth an indispensable scientific work and a beautiful collection of art, The Sec...
View full detailsStandards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life
Martha Lampland, Susan Leigh Star
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• Author(s): Martha Lampland | Susan Leigh Star • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Information ManagementStandardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so perv...
View full detailsCurrency and Contest in East Asia: The Great Power Politics of Financial Regionalism
William M. Grimes
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• Author(s): William M. Grimes • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Finance - GeneralSince the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997-98, East Asian economies have sought to make themselves less vul...
View full detailsReconstructing the World: Southern Fictions and U.S. Imperialisms, 1898-1976
Harilaos Stecopoulos
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• Author(s): Harilaos Stecopoulos • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - Regional"The unending tragedy of Reconstruction," wrote W. E. B. Du Bois, "is the utter inability of the Ame...
View full detailsThe Promise of Low Dose Naltrexone Therapy: Potential Benefits in Cancer, Autoimmune, Neurological and Infectious Disorders
Elaine A. Moore, Samantha Wilkinson
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• Author(s): Elaine A. Moore | Samantha Wilkinson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Pharmacology Naltrexone is an opiate antagonist drug developed in the 1970s and approved by the FDA in 19...
View full detailsMaria Gulovich, OSS Heroine of World War II: The Schoolteacher Who Saved American Lives in Slovakia
Sonya N. Jason
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• Author(s): Sonya N. Jason • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II This book tells the story of Slovak underground member Maria Gulovich's unlikely heroism, focusing on t...
View full detailsPerfect Game USA and the Future of Baseball: How the Remaking of Youth Scouting Affects the National Pastime
Les Edgerton
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• Author(s): Les Edgerton • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General For decades baseball scouts have beat the bushes for talent, wandering throughout the United States in search ...
View full detailsBuffy Goes Dark: Essays on the Final Two Seasons of Buffy the Vampire Slayer on Television
Lynne Y. Edwards, Elizabeth L. Rambo, James B. South
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• Author(s): Lynne Y. Edwards | Elizabeth L. Rambo | James B. South • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Buffy the Vampire Slayer earned critical acclaim f...
View full detailsCapital Sporting Grounds: A History of Stadium and Ballpark Construction in Washington, D.C.
Brett L. Abrams
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• Author(s): Brett L. Abrams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Politics is nothing new to Washington, D.C., even in the arena marked with base paths and outfield grass. The stadium ...
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Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: An Insider's View of the Birth of a Pop Culture Phenomenon
Astro Boy and Anime Come to the Americas: An Insider's View of the Birth of a Pop Culture Phenomenon
Fred Ladd, Harvey Deneroff
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• Author(s): Fred Ladd | Harvey Deneroff • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General The first generation of American television programmers had few choices of Saturday morning childre...
View full detailsThe Scarlet Letter: Special Student Edition with Special Note Margins
Nathaniel Hawthorne
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• Author(s): Nathaniel Hawthorne • Publisher: Tark Classic Fiction • Publisher Imprint: Tark Classic Fiction • BISAC: ClassicsThe great classic created and priced especially for students. Each page has a special margin for students to take notes ...
View full detailsPistols, Politics and the Press: Dueling in 19th Century American Journalism
Ryan Chamberlain
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• Author(s): Ryan Chamberlain • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - 19th Century This book argues that dueling should be looked at as a fundamental part of the history of journa...
View full detailsA Pictorial History of the Confederacy
John Chandler Griffin
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• Author(s): John Chandler Griffin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War The fascination with the Confederacy and its heroes seems to grow ever stronger. Arranged chro...
View full detailsConfederate Correspondent: The Civil War Reports of Jacob Nathaniel Raymer, Fourth North Carolina
Jacob Nathaniel Raymer
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• Author(s): Jacob Nathaniel Raymer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Soon after North Carolina seceded from the Union in May 1861, Jacob Nathaniel Raymer enlisted in the...
View full detailsCase Studies in Food Policy for Developing Countries: Policies for Health, Nutrition, Food Consumption, and Poverty
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Fuzhi Cheng
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• Author(s): Per Pinstrup-Andersen | Fuzhi Cheng • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Developing & Emerging CountriesThe food problems now facing the world--scarcity and starvation, cont...
View full detailsMovie and Television Locations: 113 Famous Filming Sites in Los Angeles and San Diego
Leon Smith
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• Author(s): Leon Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Telecommunications It is often said that the greater Los Angeles area is the largest movie set in the world, and if a person lives ...
View full detailsEdgar G. Ulmer: Essays on the King of the B's
Bernd Herzogenrath
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• Author(s): Bernd Herzogenrath • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This collection of 20 essays pays homage to a filmmaker who had a reputation for delivering the most movie f...
View full detailsLa Fontaine's Complete Tales in Verse: An Illustrated and Annotated Translation
Jean de La Fontaine, Randolph Paul Runyon
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• Author(s): Jean de La Fontaine | Randolph Paul Runyon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Though they were first written over 300 years ago, this is the first complete English trans...
View full detailsHitler Youth, 1922-1945: An Illustrated History
Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage
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• Author(s): Jean-Denis G. G. Lepage • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II During the Nazi regime's swift rise to power, no single target of nazification took higher pri...
View full detailsMurder 101: Essays on the Teaching of Detective Fiction
Edward J. Rielly
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• Author(s): Edward J. Rielly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This collection of essays examines how college professors teach the genre of detective fiction and provides insight i...
View full detailsThe Value of Sacred Music: An Anthology of Essential Writings, 1801-1918
Jonathan L. Friedmann
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• Author(s): Jonathan L. Friedmann • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious - Christian This collection of historically significant essays focuses on the purpose and function of sacred m...
View full detailsProsperity for All: Consumer Activism in an Era of Globalization
Matthew Hilton
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• Author(s): Matthew Hilton • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Economic HistoryThe history of consumerism is about much more than just shopping. Ever since the eighteenth century, citizen-...
View full detailsThe Golden Triangle: Inside Southeast Asia's Drug Trade
Ko-Lin Chin
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• Author(s): Ko-Lin Chin • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: CriminologyThe Golden Triangle region that joins Burma, Thailand, and Laos is one of the global centers of opiate and methamphet...
View full detailsThinking Through the Mothers: Reimagining Women's Biographies
Janet Beizer
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• Author(s): Janet Beizer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women's Studies - GeneralIf questions of subjectivity and identification are at stake in all biographical writing, they are par...
View full detailsAntiques: The History of an Idea
Leon Rosenstein
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• Author(s): Leon Rosenstein • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Reference - GeneralThe notion of retrieving a bit of the past-by owning a material piece of it-has always appealed to humans...
View full detailsWomen Fielding Danger: Negotiating Ethnographic Identities in Field Research
Martha K. Huggins, Marie-Louise Glebbeek
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• Author(s): Martha K. Huggins | Marie-Louise Glebbeek • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: ResearchIn a compelling exploration of an oft-hidden aspect of qualitative f...
View full detailsThe Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative Analysis of Policies Among American States
Robert G. Rodriguez
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• Author(s): Robert G. Rodriguez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing This first nationwide study of boxing regulations in the United States offers an historical overview of the subject...
View full detailsWar Memory and Popular Culture: Essays on Modes of Remembrance and Commemoration
Michael Keren, Holger H. Herwig
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• Author(s): Michael Keren | Holger H. Herwig • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Peace This collection of essays investigates such diverse vehicles for war commemoration as poems, battlefiel...
View full detailsThe Early Poetry of Charles Wright: A Companion, 1960-1990
Robert D. Denham
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• Author(s): Robert D. Denham • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This companion covers Charles Wright's first two trilogies, Country Music (1982) and The World of the Ten Thousand Th...
View full detailsTV China
Ying Zhu, Christopher Allen Berry
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• Author(s): Ying Zhu | Christopher Allen Berry • Publisher: Indiana University Press • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press • BISAC: Television - GeneralIf radio and film were the emblematic media of the Maoist era, television has rapidly...
View full detailsPaul Blaisdell, Monster Maker: A Biography of the B Movie Makeup and Special Effects Artist
Randy Palmer
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• Author(s): Randy Palmer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion o...
View full detailsInside the Dark Tower Series: Art, Evil and Intertextuality in the Stephen King Novels
Patrick McAleer
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• Author(s): Patrick McAleer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Stephen King is no stranger to the realm of literary criticism, but his most fantastic, far-reaching work has a...
View full detailsFilm Actors Organize: Union Formation Efforts in America, 1912-1937
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Labor & Industrial Relations The transition from stage to screen was not only a shift in popular entertainment, but a challe...
View full detailsThe Nature of Difference: Sciences of Race in the United States from Jefferson to Genomics
Evelynn M. Hammonds, Rebecca M. Herzig
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• Author(s): Evelynn M. Hammonds | Rebecca M. Herzig • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialA collection of wide-ranging primary source material that tracks the shifting relationships be...
View full detailsTeenager on First, Geezer at Bat, 4-F on Deck: Major League Baseball in 1945
James D. Szalontai
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• Author(s): James D. Szalontai • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History The Second World War was in the bottom of the ninth inning in Germany and Japan, but back at home the ba...
View full detailsContagion and Chaos: Disease, Ecology, and National Security in the Era of Globalization
Andrew T. Price-Smith
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• Author(s): Andrew T. Price-Smith • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryAn analysis of infectious disease as a threat to national security that examines the destabilizing effects of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, ...
View full detailsTrain Time: Railroads and the Imminent Reshaping of the United States Landscape
John R. Stilgoe
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• Author(s): John R. Stilgoe • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: Railroads - GeneralUnlike many United States industries, railroads are intrinsically linked to American soil and par...
View full detailsEpic Films: Casts, Credits and Commentary on More Than 350 Historical Spectacle Movies, 2d ed.
Gary Allen Smith
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• Author(s): Gary Allen Smith • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General "Epic" films, those concerned with monumental events and larger-than-life characters, cover the period from the Creat...
View full detailsThe Grand Inquisitor
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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• Author(s): Fyodor Dostoyevsky • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)The Grand Inquisitor is a passage taken from Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel, The Brothers Karamazov. The st...
View full detailsNations and Nationalism
Ernest Gellner, John Breuilly
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• Author(s): Ernest Gellner | John Breuilly • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Nationalism & PatriotismPeriodically, an important book emerges that makes us, thr...
View full detailsLincoln for President: An Underdog's Path to the 1860 Republican Nomination
Timothy S. Good
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• Author(s): Timothy S. Good • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War This is a narrative of Abraham Lincoln's bid for the White House from 1858 through 1860. Lincoln see...
View full detailsThe Fairmount Park Motor Races, 1908-1911
Michael J. Seneca
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• Author(s): Michael J. Seneca • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Motor Sports For four years in the early 1900s, the Fairmount Park Motor Races were run on an eight-mile course in Philadelp...
View full detailsThe Geography of Presidential Elections in the United States, 1868-2004
Albert J. Menendez
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• Author(s): Albert J. Menendez • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & Elections This work concentrates on the longstanding and significant factors of regiona...
View full detailsHenry Toole Clark: Civil War Governor of North Carolina
R. Matthew Poteat
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• Author(s): R. Matthew Poteat • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is the first in-depth, comprehensive biography of Henry Toole Clark, North Carolina's second Civil War governor...
View full detailsYankees Coming, Yankees Going: New York Yankee Player Transactions, 1903 Through 1999
Lyle Spatz
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• Author(s): Lyle Spatz • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History Trading, buying and selling players have always been key in building better baseball teams, and few things stir ...
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