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Rethinking Racial Capitalism: Questions of Reproduction and Survival
Gargi Bhattacharyya
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• Author(s): Gargi Bhattacharyya • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - African American StudiesA reappraisal of the history of capitalism that places te...
View full detailsThe Titanic on Film: Myth versus Truth
Linda Maria Koldau
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• Author(s): Linda Maria Koldau • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism The narrative surrounding the Titanic's voyage, collision, and sinking in April 1912 seems t...
View full detailsChristian Fundamentalism in America: A Cultural History
David S. New
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• Author(s): David S. New • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Christianity - History - General Today the United States is plagued with cultural and political polarization--the Reds and the Bl...
View full detailsShapers of Early Christianity: 52 Biographies, A.D. 100-400
Roland H. Worth
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• Author(s): Roland H. Worth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious In 100 A.D., Christianity was practiced only by a small, oppressed minority. Three hundred years later, Christianity...
View full detailsFictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice
Susan Sniader Lanser
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• Author(s): Susan Sniader Lanser • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsDrawing on narratological and feminist theory, Susan Sniader Lanser explores patterns of narration in a wi...
View full detailsThe Ethics of Criticism
Tobin Siebers
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• Author(s): Tobin Siebers • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Business EthicsTobin Siebers asserts that literary criticism is essentially a form of ethics. The Ethics of Criticism investig...
View full detailsDecadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to d'Annunzio
Barbara Spackman
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• Author(s): Barbara Spackman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: LGBTBarbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alt...
View full detailsThe Challenge of Bewilderment: Understanding and Representation in James, Conrad, and Ford
Paul B. Armstrong
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• Author(s): Paul B. Armstrong • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyThe Challenge of Bewilderment treats the epistemology of representation in major works by Henry James...
View full detailsEcocritical Theology: Neo-Pastoral Themes in American Fiction from 1960 to the Present
Joan Anderson Ashford
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• Author(s): Joan Anderson Ashford • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Books & Reading The literary field of ecocriticism appraises texts from the perspective of the natural world, its bi...
View full detailsHigher Calling: The Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia
Scott C. Beardsley
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• Author(s): Scott C. Beardsley • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: LeadershipA revolution has been taking place in the ranks of higher education. University and college presidents-...
View full detailsModern Age RPG Basic Rulebook
Malcolm Sheppard
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• Author(s): Malcolm Sheppard • Publisher: Green Ronin Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Green Ronin Publishing • BISAC: Role Playing & FantasyModern AGE roleplaying game allows you to shape the setting to suit your stylewhether its gritty acti...
View full detailsSpace Patrol: Missions of Daring in the Name of Early Television
Jean-Noel Bassior
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• Author(s): Jean-Noel Bassior • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism Before Star Trek, there was Space Patrol. Science fiction television has its roots in t...
View full detailsTextual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities
Wesley A. Kort
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• Author(s): Wesley A. Kort • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: PhilosophyGiven its affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between a...
View full detailsSherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series
Louisa Ellen Stein, Kristina Busse
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• Author(s): Louisa Ellen Stein | Kristina Busse • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - History & Criticism The critically-acclaimed BBC television series Sherlock (2010- ) re-e...
View full detailsSteve Carlton and the 1972 Phillies
Bruce Morgan
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• Author(s): Bruce Morgan • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - History In 1972, the Philadelphia Phillies experienced one of their worst seasons in franchise history, finishing with...
View full detailsDe la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834: The Eighty-Five Games of Their Six Chess Matches, with Excerpts from Additional Games Against Other Opponent
Cary Utterberg
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• Author(s): Cary Utterberg • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess The meeting of Louis Charles Mahe de la Bourdonnais and Alexander McDonnell at London's Westminster Chess Club in 1834 wa...
View full detailsThe Tap Dance Dictionary
Mark Knowles
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• Author(s): Mark Knowles • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Dance - Tap The language of tap dancing is as rich and varied as that of any art, and different choreographers, teachers and perf...
View full detailsBurning Books
Haig Bosmajian
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• Author(s): Haig Bosmajian • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General For over 2000 years, book burners have laid their torches to millions of books condemned as heretical, blasphemous, imm...
View full detailsAtari Age: The Emergence of Video Games in America
Michael Z. Newman
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• Author(s): Michael Z. Newman • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Video & ElectronicThe cultural contradictions of early video games: a medium for family fun (but mainly for middle-class boys), an improvement over ...
View full detailsRay Arcel: A Boxing Biography
Donald Dewey
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• Author(s): Donald Dewey • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing Without Ray Arcel (1899-1994), the 20th century world of boxing would have been markedly different. The credibility of it ...
View full detailsEnviro-Toons: Green Themes in Animated Cinema and Television
Deidre M. Pike
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• Author(s): Deidre M. Pike • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This book takes an ecrocritical approach to analytical readings of animated feature films, short subjects and te...
View full detailsDegsy Hay The Hay Patrollers: Every Community Should 'Ave'em
Brian S. Montgomery
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• Author(s): Brian S. Montgomery • Publisher: Brian Montgomery • Publisher Imprint: Brian Montgomery • BISAC: Action & Adventure - GeneralDegsy Hay may have put his violent childhood behind him and fought his way out of a life on the streets ...
View full detailsAmerican Attack Aircraft Since 1926
E. R. Johnson
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• Author(s): E. R. Johnson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Aviation - General This book provides a concise historical survey of the various types of aircraft used by the United States Arm...
View full detailsMusicmakers of Network Radio: 24 Entertainers, 1926-1962
Jim Cox
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• Author(s): Jim Cox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Radio - General Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launc...
View full detailsIf God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right
Christopher Douglas
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• Author(s): Christopher Douglas • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligionThe rise of the Christian Right took many writers and literary critics by surprise, trai...
View full detailsFinal Battles of Patton's Vanguard: The United States Army Fourth Armored Division, 1945-1946
Don M. Fox
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• Author(s): Don M. Fox • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - World War II By January 1945, Nazi Germany's defeat seemed inevitable yet much fighting remained. The shortest way home ...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of Capital Punishment in the United States, 2d ed.
Louis J. Palmer
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• Author(s): Louis J. Palmer • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Encyclopedias This updated encyclopedia provides ready information on all aspects of capital punishment in America. It...
View full detailsThe War of 1812: A Complete Chronology with Biographies of 63 General Officers
Bud Hannings
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• Author(s): Bud Hannings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General Although the American Revolution ended in 1783, tensions between the United States and Britain over disruption...
View full detailsEncyclopedia of American Short Films, 1926-1959
Graham Webb
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• Author(s): Graham Webb • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: Film - ReferenceShort subject films have a long history in American cinemas. These could be anywhere from 2 to 40 minutes ...
View full detailsThe Nelson-Wolgast Fight and the San Francisco Boxing Scene, 1900-1914
Arne K. Lang
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• Author(s): Arne K. Lang • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Boxing During the early years of the 20th century, San Francisco promoters served up boxing's grandest spectacles. On February 22...
View full detailsRainy Brain, Sunny Brain: How to Retrain Your Brain to Overcome Pessimism and Achieve a More Positive Outlook
Elaine Fox
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• Author(s): Elaine Fox • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: PersonalityA leading experimental neuroscientist shows how we can brighten our outlooks on life by rewiring our brains.
The Joseph Paradox: A Radical Reading of Genesis 37-50
Hillel I. Millgram
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• Author(s): Hillel I. Millgram • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - General This book is a reader-friendly treatment of the Joseph story--one of the most po...
View full detailsWars of Law: Unintended Consequences in the Regulation of Armed Conflict
Tanisha M. Fazal
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• Author(s): Tanisha M. Fazal • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Security (National & International)In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the prolife...
View full detailsThe White House: An Illustrated Architectural History
Patrick Phillips-Schrock
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• Author(s): Patrick Phillips-Schrock • Publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. • Publisher Imprint: McFarland and Company, Inc. • BISAC: United States - General Formerly known as the President's House, then the Executive Mansion, and now for a lo...
View full detailsThe Evolution of Organ Music in the 17th Century: A Study of European Styles
John R. Shannon
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• Author(s): John R. Shannon • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Musical Instruments - Piano The 17th century was the century of the organ in much the same way the 19th century was the centur...
View full detailsNeumann, Hirschfeld and Suhle: 19th Century Berlin Chess Biographies with 711 Games
Hans Renette, Fabrizio Zavatarelli
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• Author(s): Hans Renette | Fabrizio Zavatarelli • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Around 1860 a wave of talented youth intensified the Berlin chess scene. Within a short time Bertho...
View full detailsChronology of the American Revolution: Military and Political Actions Day by Day
Bud Hannings
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• Author(s): Bud Hannings • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) From the Battle of Lexington and Concord on 19 April, 1775, up through the reduc...
View full detailsSam the Sudden
P. G. Wodehouse
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• Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse • Publisher: Wilder Publications • Publisher Imprint: Wilder Publications • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralHaving failed miserably while working for his uncle, Sam finds himself shipped off to America. He would much rather ...
View full detailsTake Control of Your Drinking: A Practical Guide to Alcohol Moderation, Sobriety, and When to Get Professional Help
Michael S. Levy
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• Author(s): Michael S. Levy • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: Psychopathology - AddictionAccepting that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to controlling drinking, the la...
View full detailsTwenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Pablo Neruda, Leslie G. Nuñez
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• Author(s): Pablo Neruda | Leslie G. Nuñez • Publisher: Entangled Publishing • Publisher Imprint: Entangled Publishing • BISAC: Caribbean & Latin AmericanDiscover the poetry that ignites Grace and Hudson's love story!Body of my woman, persis...
View full detailsLegends of Vietnam: An Analysis and Retelling of 88 Tales
Nghia M. Vo
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• Author(s): Nghia M. Vo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Folklore & Mythology Legends are a mirror of the culture that creates them, a revealing lens through which to observe society,...
View full detailsBeyond the Screenplay: A Dialectical Approach to Dramaturgy
Zachariah Rush
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• Author(s): Zachariah Rush • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This work analyzes dramatic structures, from Sophocles to Orson Welles and the 21st century cinema, all from the viewpo...
View full detailsChasing Jeb Stuart and John Mosby: The Union Cavalry in Northern Virginia from Second Manassas to Gettysburg
Robert F. O'Neill
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• Author(s): Robert F. O'Neill • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) This book is an operational and tactical study of cavalry operations in Norther...
View full detailsThe Iconic Obama, 2007-2009: Essays on Media Representations of the Candidate and New President
Nicholas A. Yanes, Derrais Carter
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• Author(s): Nicholas A. Yanes | Derrais Carter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Presidents & Heads of State How is Barack Obama represented in popular culture? More than the United St...
View full detailsRedcoats on the Cape Fear: The Revolutionary War in Southeastern North Carolina, revised edition
Robert M. Dunkerly
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• Author(s): Robert M. Dunkerly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary War Nestled on the banks of the Cape Fear River, Wilmington, North Carolina, remains famous a...
View full detailsMasters of the Humdrum Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920-1961
Curtis Evans
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• Author(s): Curtis Evans • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction In 1972, in an attempt to elevate the stature of the "crime novel," influential crime writer and ...
View full detailsRace, Rights, and Recognition
Dean Franco
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• Author(s): Dean Franco • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn Race, Rights, and Recognition, Dean J. Franco explores the work of recent Jewish American writers, many of ...
View full detailsLegitimating the Law
John Phillip Reid
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• Author(s): John Phillip Reid • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Civil ProcedureJohn Phillip Reid is one of the most highly regarded historians of law as it was practi...
View full detailsThree Russian Tales of the Eighteenth Century: The Comely Cook, Vanka Kain, and Poor Liza
Mikhail Chulkov, Matvei Komarov, Nikolai Karamzin
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• Author(s): Mikhail Chulkov | Matvei Komarov | Nikolai Karamzin • Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press • Publisher Imprint: Northern Illinois University Press • BISAC: Russian & SovietFor those who cannot read the language of the or...
View full detailsFeminist Rhetorical Resilience
Elizabeth a. Flynn
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• Author(s): Elizabeth a. Flynn • Publisher: Utah State University Press • Publisher Imprint: Utah State University Press • BISAC: Composition & Creative Writing - GeneralAlthough it is well known in other fields, the concept of "resilience" ...
View full detailsBuck Ewing: A Baseball Biography
Roy Kerr
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• Author(s): Roy Kerr • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Sports Buck Ewing (1859-1906) was regarded by contemporaries as the greatest catcher and all-around player of his era. A lifetime .30...
View full detailsGeorge Washington and the Final British Campaign for the Hudson River, 1779
Michael Schellhammer
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• Author(s): Michael Schellhammer • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary War In the summer of 1779, British general Sir Henry Clinton launched one last attempt to g...
View full detailsCharacter Actors in Horror and Science Fiction Films, 1930-1960
Laurence Raw
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• Author(s): Laurence Raw • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism This biographical dictionary presents a stellar lineup of talented, versatile character actors who...
View full detailsClosing the Asylums: Causes and Consequences of the Deinstitutionalization Movement
George Paulson
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• Author(s): George Paulson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General One of the most significant medical and social initiatives of the twentieth century was the demolition of the tradition...
View full detailsThe Tenth Minnesota Volunteers, 1862-1865: A History of Action in the Sioux Uprising and the Civil War, with a Regimental Roster
Michael A. Eggleston
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• Author(s): Michael A. Eggleston • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The Civil War experience of the 10th Minnesota Volunteer Regiment resembles ...
View full detailsMathematical Expeditions: Exploring Word Problems Across the Ages
Frank J. Swetz
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• Author(s): Frank J. Swetz • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: History & PhilosophyA little bucket, one-third full, is 8 inches deep, and its upper and lower diameters are ...
View full detailsImmersive Gameplay: Essays on Participatory Media and Role-Playing
Evan Torner, William J. White
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• Author(s): Evan Torner | William J. White • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Role Playing & Fantasy This collection of all-new essays approaches the topic of immersion as a product of ...
View full detailsJames Solomon Russell: Former Slave, Pioneering Educator and Episcopal Evangelist
Worth Earlwood Norman
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• Author(s): Worth Earlwood Norman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Cultural & Regional Born into slavery on a Virginia plantation in 1857, James Solomon Russell (1857-1935) rose to be...
View full detailsParking Cars in America, 1910-1945: A History
Kerry Segrave
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• Author(s): Kerry Segrave • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Automotive - History With its decentralized urban areas, pollution, and mostly inadequate public transit systems, America pays a...
View full detailsThe View We're Granted
Peter Filkins
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• Author(s): Peter Filkins • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralIn the pivotal poem "Marking Time," which appears almost exactly halfway through Peter Filkins's...
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