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Manufacturing Truth - The Documentary Moment In Early Soviet Culture

de Elizabeth Astrid Papazian

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 Focusing on the years 1921-1934, this book explores the great upsurge in documentary methods and approaches in the arts and reveals how the documentary impulse influenced the development of Stalinist culture. It is suitable for readers of Russian history, cultural history, literature, and film studies.
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Imperial Saint - The Cult Of St. Catherine And The Dawn Of Female Rule In Russia

de Gary Marker

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 Traces the Russian veneration of St Catherine of Alexandria from its beginnings in Kievan times through the onset of female rulership in the 18th century. This book offers insights for readers interested in saints' cults, the ritualization of power, and the relationship between gender and religion.
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War And Society In The American Revolution - Mobilization And Home Fronts

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 The War for Independence promised liberty, the opportunity for a better life, and the excitement of the battlefield. It also brought disappointment, misery, and mourning. This book presents essays that investigate the diverse experiences of Americans from North to South, coast to backcountry, and white townsfolk to African American slaves.
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The Once And Future Budapest

de Robert Nemes

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 This book traces the complex process by which Budapest became a Hungarian city. Few cities grew as rapidly, and in none was nationalism woven so tightly into the urban fabric. Nemes views modern nationalism as expressed in daily events and maps its inroads into every corner of urban life.
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The Chicago & Alton Railroad - The Only Way

de Gene Glendinning

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 From its beginnings in 1847, the Chicago and Alton Railroad set the standard of luxurious passenger travel and efficient service to the farms and factories of America's heartland. This is a complete history of the railroad well-illustrated with over 100 photographs.
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Louisiana And Arkansas Railway - The Story Of A Regional Line

de James R. Fair

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 The story of the Louisiana and Arkansas Railway, largely a biography of William Edenborn, William Buchanan, and Harvey Couch - the men who built and extended it by shrewd acquisitions. It traces the L&A's development from the early boom days of railroading to its dissolution.
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Coming To Terms With The Soviet Regime - The "Changing Signposts" Movement Among Russian Emigres In The Early 1920s

de Hilde Hardeman

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Guns For The Tsar - American Technology And The Small Arms Industry In Nineteenth-Century Russia

de Joseph Bradley

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The Moscow Business Elite - A Social And Cultural Portrait Of Two Generations, 1840â€“1905

de Jo Ann Ruckman

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Heartland Serial Killers - Belle Gunness, Johann Hoch, And Murder For Profit In Gaslight Era Chicago

de Richard Lindberg

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 Lindberg, an accomplished local historian and true crime writer, presents a fascinating story of two contemporaneous serial killers, both weaving marriage and murder in and around Chicago during the 1890s and 1900s. Johann Hoch was a debonair bigamist and wife killer who boasted of having perfected a \u201cscientific technique\u201d to romance...
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The Brilliant Bandit Of The Wabash - The Life Of The Notorious Outlaw Frank Rande

de Anna Vasconcelles e Mark Dugan

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John Paul Stevens - An Independent Life

de Bill Barnhart e Gene Schlickman

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 A biography of the second longest serving Supreme Court Justice. It paints a portrait of Justice John Paul Stevens' remarkable life and tenure on the Court.
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To Bring Law Home - The Federal Judiciary In Early National Rhode Island

de D. Kurt Graham

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 Highlights the role of district and circuit courts in establishing and maintaining national supremacy. This title focuses on both an understudied institution and an underappreciated period in our nation's judicial history with an examination of the federal judiciary - the district and circuit courts - during the early national period.
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Conflict On The Michigan Frontier - Yankee And Borderland Cultures, 1815â€“1840

de James Schwartz

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 Using Michigan as a case study, this book explains how settlers employed both legal tactics and moral suasion to impose their vision of a civilized society. It sheds light on how settlers transplanted eastern culture not just to the Midwest, but to the entire American frontier.
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Industrializing The Corn Belt - Agriculture, Technology, And Environment, 1945â€“1972

de J. L. Anderson

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 Presents the history of industrializing agriculture from the perspective of the Corn Belt farmer. This book examines the changes in Iowa, a representative state of the Corn Belt, in order to explore why farmers adopted particular technologies and how, over time, they integrated new tools and techniques.
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Sal Maglie - Baseball'S Demon Barber

de Judith Testa

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 To the batters who faced him, pitcher Sal Maglie looked like the hurler from hell. Tall and sinister in appearance, with dark eyes and a formidable five-o'clock shadow, the famed righthander earned the nickname "Sal the Barber" for his high-inside fastball that cut dangerously close to the batter's chin. This is a biography of Sal Maglie.
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Young Activists - American High School Students In The Age Of Protest

de D. Kurt Graham

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 Draws upon the memories of students and teachers as well as education journals, court cases, and news magazines. This book demonstrates that, although teenagers were indisputably influenced by the events reshaping the wider world, they were neither pawns nor mere mimics of their elders.
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The Male Body At War - American Masculinity During World War Ii

de Christina Jarvis

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 Fearless, youthful, athletic - the soldier embodies masculine ideals and, since World War II when the nation came of age as a world superpower, has represented the manhood of the United States. This title examines the creation of this national symbol, from military recruitment posters, to Hollywood war films, to the iconic flag-raisers at Iwo Jima.
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Before The World Series - Pride, Profits, And Baseball'S First Championships

de Larry G. Bowman

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 During the 1880s, baseball's popularity swelled, basic rules such as balls and strikes were being refined and entire leagues came and went. Bowman illustrates the growing pains of the sport, casting baseball's early championships as a lens through which to view late 19th century America.
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Thackeray And Women

de Micael Clarke

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Southern Railroad Man - Conductor N. J. Bell'S Recollections Of The Civil War Era

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The Fictive World Of Conrad Aiken - A Celebration Of Consciousness

de Catharine Seigel

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Describing Early America - Bartram, Jefferson, Crevecoeur, And The Rhetoric Of Natural History

de Pamela Regis

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Why Me? - A Philosophical Inquiry Into Fate

de Michael Gelven

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