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The Irish-American Dynamite Campaign: A History, 1881-1896
Joseph McKenna
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• Author(s): Joseph McKenna • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: World - General In the 1880s, Clan-na-Gael, an extremist Irish-American organization that succeeded the Fenian Brotherhood, ini...
View full detailsThey Sing the Wedding of God: An Ethnomusicological Study of the Mahadevji ka byavala as Performed by the Nath-Jogis of Alwar
John Napier
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• Author(s): John Napier • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Religious - General In Rajasthan, India, a caste of musicians and mendicants, the Nath-Jogis, sing stories of kings who renounce t...
View full detailsMexico, NAFTA and the Hardships of Progress: Historical Patterns and Shifting Methods of Oppression
Richard Krooth
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• Author(s): Richard Krooth • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Latin America - Mexico Since the 16th century, Mexico has in many ways been held captive by outsiders. In the modern era, outsi...
View full detailsFood Co-ops in America
Anne Meis Knupfer
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• Author(s): Anne Meis Knupfer • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyIn recent years, American shoppers have become more conscious of their food choices and have i...
View full detailsThe Civil War: A New One Volume History
Harry Hansen
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• Author(s): Harry Hansen • Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLC • Publisher Imprint: Literary Licensing, LLC • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Visconti and the German Dream: Romanticism, Wagner and the Nazi Catastrophe in Film
David Huckvale
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• Author(s): David Huckvale • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Luchino Visconti's trilogy of films Ludwig, Death in Venice and The Damned explore the comple...
View full detailsLupe Velez: The Life and Career of Hollywood's "Mexican Spitfire"
Michelle Vogel
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• Author(s): Michelle Vogel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - Direction & Production Here is the first extensive, full-length biography and career record on the life and work of ...
View full detailsOf Bread, Blood and The Hunger Games: Critical Essays on the Suzanne Collins Trilogy
Mary F. Pharr, Leisa A. Clark, Donald E. Palumbo
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• Author(s): Mary F. Pharr | Leisa A. Clark | Donald E. Palumbo • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Children's & Young Adult Literature This collection of fresh essays on Suzanne Collins'...
View full detailsA Voyage to Virginia in 1609: Two Narratives: Strachey's True Reportory and Jourdain's Discovery of the Bermudas
William Strachey, Silvester Jourdain, Louis B. Wright
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• Author(s): William Strachey | Silvester Jourdain | Louis B. Wright • Publisher: University of Virginia Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Virginia Press • BISAC: United States - Colonial PeriodTo celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the Un...
View full detailsOut of the News: Former Journalists Discuss a Profession in Crisis
Celia Viggo Wexler
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• Author(s): Celia Viggo Wexler • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Journalism This is a work of media history and media criticism with a human face. It presents profiles of 11 journalists wh...
View full detailsApproaching the Hunger Games Trilogy: A Literary and Cultural Analysis
Tom Henthorne
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• Author(s): Tom Henthorne • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy This book addresses Suzanne Collins's work from a number of literary and cultural perspectives in ...
View full detailsMike and Psmith
P. G. Wodehouse, 1st World Publishing
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• Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse | 1st World Publishing • Publisher: 1st World Library • Publisher Imprint: 1st World Library • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralIf Mike had been in time for breakfast that fatal Easter morning he might have gathered from the ...
View full detailsGod of Liberty: A Religious History of the American Revolution
Thomas S. Kidd
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• Author(s): Thomas S. Kidd • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)A "thought-provoking, meticulously researched" testament to evangelical Christians' crucial contributio...
View full detailsThe New American Poetry of Engagement: A 21st Century Anthology
Ann Keniston, Jeffrey Gray
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• Author(s): Ann Keniston | Jeffrey Gray • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This anthology of poetry collects 21st century American works by both established and emerging poets that ...
View full detailsThe Company Town: The Industrial Eden's and Satanic Mills That Shaped the American Economy
Hardy Green
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• Author(s): Hardy Green • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Modern - 20th CenturyCompany town: The very phrase sounds un-American. Yet company towns are the essence of America. Hershey bars, Corning glassware, Kohl...
View full detailsThe Trojan War: Literature and Legends from the Bronze Age to the Present, 2D Ed.
Diane P. Thompson
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• Author(s): Diane P. Thompson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Ancient - Greece The Trojan War occurred more than 3,000 years ago. Since then, starting with Homer's epics, people have bee...
View full detailsGraphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom: Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art
Carrye Kay Syma, Robert G. Weiner
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• Author(s): Carrye Kay Syma | Robert G. Weiner • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Comics & Graphic Novels Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have...
View full detailsReligious Allusion in the Poetry of Gwendolyn Brooks
Margot Harper Banks
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• Author(s): Margot Harper Banks • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This book examines how Gwendolyn Brooks, a self-proclaimed nonreligious person, advocates adherence to Christian i...
View full detailsTimothy Matlack, Scribe of the Declaration of Independence
Chris Coelho
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• Author(s): Chris Coelho • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Revolutionary War On July 4, 1776, the Declaration of Independence was read aloud to a crowd gathered outside the...
View full detailsContent Matters: Social Studies in the Elementary and Middle School
Leif Fearn, Eric Fearn
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• Author(s): Leif Fearn | Eric Fearn • Publisher: R & L Education • Publisher Imprint: R & L Education • BISAC: Teaching Methods & Materials - Social ScienceThis book explains the content of nine areas in social studies. If teachers k...
View full detailsEmil Kemeny: A Life in Chess
John S. Hilbert
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• Author(s): John S. Hilbert • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Chess Emil Kemeny appeared on the American chess scene in 1890, a Hungarian chess player on the Lower East Side who had diffic...
View full detailsThomas J. Wood: A Biography of the Union General in the Civil War
Dan Lee
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• Author(s): Dan Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Thomas J. Wood, Kentuckian, graduated fifth in his West Point class in 1846 and joined the staff of General Zachary Taylor. T...
View full detailsHood's Texas Brigade in the Civil War
Edward B. Williams
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• Author(s): Edward B. Williams • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) Of the many infantry brigades in Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, Jo...
View full detailsThe Haves and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global Inequality
Branko Milanovic
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• Author(s): Branko Milanovic • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Economic HistoryWho is the richest person in the world, ever? Does where you were born affect how much money you'll earn over a lifetime? How would w...
View full detailsNot by Chance Alone: My Life as a Social Psychologist
Elliot Aronson
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• Author(s): Elliot Aronson • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Social Scientists & PsychologistsHow does a boy from a financially and intellectually impoverished background grow up to become a Harvard researche...
View full detailsTangled Titans: The United States and China
David Shambaugh
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• Author(s): David Shambaugh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsTangled Titans offers the most current and comprehensive assessment available of U...
View full detailsTangled Titans: The United States and China
David Shambaugh
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• Author(s): David Shambaugh • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsTangled Titans offers the most current and comprehensive assessment available of U...
View full detailsSherlock Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Adaptations
Lynnette Porter
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• Author(s): Lynnette Porter • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Mystery & Detective Fiction The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the Guy Ritchie films, with...
View full detailsReasoning with Sabermetrics: Applying Statistical Science to Baseball's Tough Questions
Gabriel B. Costa, Michael R. Huber, John T. Saccoman
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• Author(s): Gabriel B. Costa | Michael R. Huber | John T. Saccoman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Baseball - General Sabermetrics, the specialized analysis of baseball through empirical...
View full detailsPublic Executions in Richmond, Virginia: A History, 1782-1907
Harry M. Ward
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• Author(s): Harry M. Ward • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Criminology Virginia's capital city knew poverty, injustice, slavery, vagrancy, substandard working conditions, street crimes, b...
View full detailsPhilosophy of Communication
Briankle G. Chang, Garnet C. Butchart
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• Author(s): Briankle G. Chang | Garnet C. Butchart • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesClassical, modern, and contemporary philosophical writings that address the fundamental concepts of communicat...
View full detailsThe 36th Infantry United States Colored Troops in the Civil War: A History and Roster
James K. Bryant
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• Author(s): James K. Bryant • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War During the Civil War, African American war correspondent Thomas Morris Chester was so inspired by th...
View full detailsOnly Muslim: Embodying Islam in Twentieth-Century France
Naomi Davidson
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• Author(s): Naomi Davidson • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceThe French state has long had a troubled relationship with its diverse Muslim populations. In Only Muslim, Nao...
View full detailsWhen Small States Make Big Leaps
Darius Ornston
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• Author(s): Darius Ornston • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Political EconomyAt the close of the twentieth century, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland emerged as unlikely centers for high-te...
View full detailsHermione Granger Saves the World: Essays on the Feminist Heroine of Hogwarts
Christopher E. Bell
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• Author(s): Christopher E. Bell • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Science Fiction & Fantasy The new essays in this book make two central claims. First, for some people, the word "femin...
View full detailsGabriela Mistral's Struggle with God and Man: A Biographical and Critical Study of the Chilean Poet
Martin C. Taylor
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• Author(s): Martin C. Taylor • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the...
View full detailsRelationscapes: Movement, Art, Philosophy
Erin Manning
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• Author(s): Erin Manning • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralA new philosophy of movement that explores the active relation between sensation and thought through the prisms of dance, c...
View full detailsWithout Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics
Steven Shaviro
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• Author(s): Steven Shaviro • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: CriticismA Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture.In Wi...
View full detailsMilitary Comedy Films: A Critical Survey and Filmography of Hollywood Releases Since 1918
Hal Erickson
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• Author(s): Hal Erickson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Beginning with Charlie Chaplin's Shoulder Arms, released in America near the end of World War I, the military come...
View full detailsDrive-in Dream Girls: A Galaxy of B-Movie Starlets of the Sixties
Tom Lisanti
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• Author(s): Tom Lisanti • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General During the 1960s, a bushel of B-movies were produced and aimed at the predominantly ...
View full detailsThe Architectural Ideology of Thomas Jefferson
Ralph G. Giordano
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• Author(s): Ralph G. Giordano • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General In contrast to his enormous political influence, Thomas Jefferson's vast cultural contributions, especially in the r...
View full detailsThe 11th Alabama Volunteer Regiment in the Civil War
Ronald G. Griffin
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• Author(s): Ronald G. Griffin • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War From inception to the final roll call, this regimental history traces the 11th Regiment of Alabama...
View full detailsMaximizing Your Potential (Spanish) = Maximizing Your Potential
Myles Munroe
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• Author(s): Myles Munroe • Publisher: Destiny Image Incorporated • Publisher Imprint: Destiny Image Incorporated • BISAC: Christian Life - Spiritual GrowthAre you bored with your latest success? Maybe you're frustrated at the prospect of retirem...
View full detailsFundamentals of Occupational Safety and Health
Mark A. Friend, James P. Kohn
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• Author(s): Mark A. Friend | James P. Kohn • Publisher: Bernan Press • Publisher Imprint: Bernan Press • BISAC: Industrial Health & SafetyThe seventh edition of this popular handbook provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of the occupat...
View full detailsJoyce: The Return of the Repressed
Susan Stanford Friedman
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• Author(s): Susan Stanford Friedman • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshDid James Joyce, that icon of modernity, spearhead the dismantling of the Cartesian s...
View full detailsPsychanalyse Et Hybridité: Genre, Colonialité, Subjectivations
Thamy Ayouch
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• Author(s): Thamy Ayouch • Publisher: Leuven University Press • Publisher Imprint: Leuven University Press • BISAC: Movements - PsychoanalysisPsychanalyse et hybridit� analyses the motive of hybridity within psychoanalysis, and how it functions ...
View full detailsArmed with Expertise: The Militarization of American Social Research During the Cold War
Joy Rohde
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• Author(s): Joy Rohde • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Military PolicyDuring the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Pentagon launched a controversial counte...
View full detailsTokyo Tarareba Girls 3
Akiko Higashimura
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• Author(s): Akiko Higashimura • Publisher: Kodansha Comics • Publisher Imprint: Kodansha Comics • BISAC: East Asian Style - Manga - GeneralA sharp new comedy about female friendship from the creator of Princess Jellyfish! SEX IN THE CITY When it...
View full detailsPathfinder Campaign Setting: Sandpoint, Light of the Lost Coast
James Jacobs
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• Author(s): James Jacobs • Publisher: Paizo Inc. • Publisher Imprint: Paizo Inc. • BISAC: Role Playing & FantasyThe town of Sandpoint has been through a lot, between goblin raids and dragon attacks and crazed killers stalking the night. In P...
View full detailsThe Star Gate Archives: Reports of the United States Government Sponsored Psi Program, 1972-1995. Volume 2: Remote Viewing, 1985-1995
Edwin C. May, Sonali Bhatt Marwaha
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• Author(s): Edwin C. May | Sonali Bhatt Marwaha • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Psychic Phenomena - General Star Gate is the largest funded program in the history of psi research receivi...
View full detailsNekogahara: Stray Cat Samurai 5
Hiroyuki Takei
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• Author(s): Hiroyuki Takei • Publisher: Kodansha Comics • Publisher Imprint: Kodansha Comics • BISAC: East Asian Style - Manga - GeneralA gritty historical action story, starring samurai cats, Nekogahara will appeal to fans of everything from Ja...
View full detailsConcise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Brian A. Pavlac
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• Author(s): Brian A. Pavlac • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: CivilizationThis lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused narra...
View full detailsConcise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Brian A. Pavlac
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• Author(s): Brian A. Pavlac • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralThis lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a f...
View full detailsConcise Survey of Western Civilization: Supremacies and Diversities throughout History
Brian A. Pavlac
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• Author(s): Brian A. Pavlac • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers • BISAC: Ancient - GeneralThis lively text offers a brief history of Western civilization. Providing a focused ...
View full detailsSecurity, Loyalty, and Science
Walter Gellhorn
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• Author(s): Walter Gellhorn • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: GeneralBoth sides of a sensitive problem are assessed by Professor Gellhorn in this penetrating analysis of national securit...
View full detailsThe Fate of Freedom Elsewhere
William Michael Schmidli
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• Author(s): William Michael Schmidli • Publisher: Cornell University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cornell University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaDuring the first quarter-century of the Cold War, upholding human rights was rarely a ...
View full detailsTelevision Specials: 5,336 Entertainment Programs, 1936-2012, 2d ed.
Vincent Terrace
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• Author(s): Vincent Terrace • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Television - Guides & Reviews This is a complete revision of the author's 1993 McFarland book Television Specials that not...
View full detailsThe Fourth of July Encyclopedia
James R. Heintze
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• Author(s): James R. Heintze • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - General This is the first comprehensive reference work on America's Independence Day. Bringing attention to p...
View full detailsSinging for Equality: Hymns in the American Antislavery and Indian Rights Movements, 1640-1855
Cheryl C. Boots
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• Author(s): Cheryl C. Boots • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Before the American Civil War, men and women who imagined a multiracial American society (social visionaries) included...
View full detailsThe Confederate Surrender at Greensboro: The Final Days of the Army of Tennessee, April 1865
Robert M. Dunkerly
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• Author(s): Robert M. Dunkerly • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Drawing upon more than 200 eyewitness accounts, this work chronicles the largest troop surrender ...
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