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Richard M. Mills - As Moscow Sees Us, American Pol itics and Society in the Soviet Mindset (1990).jpg

This work explores how Soviet analysts interpret American domestic politics and social movements by examining their answers to such questions as: "Who rules America?" "How do these rulers stay in power?" and "How do the major classes interact in the American social and political arenas?" Mills demonstrates that, despite growing Soviet understanding of the American political system and their increasing interpretive emphasis on elites rather than classes, Soviet analysis continues to be constrained by an intricate "mindset" that resists modification. An intimate look at Soviet political thinking, this study also considers recent changes, and the prospects for the evolution of a more refined framework under perestroika.

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Richard M. Mills - As Moscow Sees Us, American Pol itics and Society in the Soviet Mindset (1990).pdf

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W.C. Jameson - Buried Treasures of the Civil War ( 2000).jpg

W.C. Jameson tells the secrets of lost army payrolls and smuggled gold scattered about the countryside, nearly forgotten but awaiting discovery. Jameson, a folklorist, musician, and environmentalist, has been on close to 200 expeditions for lost stashes of gold, silver, or other treasures. You'll hear: "Lost Yankee Gold", "Treasure in the Well", "The Lost Confederate Payroll", "The Wandering Confederate Treasury", and "General Morgan's Buried Treasure".

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Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, Carol V. Petr ie - Firearms and Violence, A Critical Review (200 4).jpg

For years proposals for gun control and the ownership of firearms have been among the most contentious issues in American politics. For public authorities to make reasonable decisions on these matters, they must take into account facts about the relationship between guns and violence as well as conflicting constitutional claims and divided public opinion. In performing these tasks, legislators need adequate data and research to judge both the effects of firearms on violence and the effects of different violence control policies. Readers of the research literature on firearms may sometimes find themselves unable to distinguish scholarship from advocacy.

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Charles F. Wellford, John V. Pepper, Carol V. Petr ie - Firearms and Violence, A Critical Review (200 4).pdf

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Colin Kidd - British Identities before Nationalism , Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 (2006).jpg

01 - USA - Colin Kidd - British Identities before Nationalism, Eth...y and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800 2006.jpg

This book examines the status and uses of ethnicity in political debate during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that immediately preceded the onset of modern racialist and nationalist thinking. Ranging widely across the political cultures of England, Scotland, Ireland and revolutionary America, it also considers European influences and comparisons as well as engaging historically with current debates over nationalism and identity.

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Joel Williamson - A Rage for Order, Black-White Re lations in the American South Since Emancipation ( 1986).jpg

The Crucible of Race, a major reinterpretation of black-white relations in the South, was widely acclaimed on publication and compared favorably to two of the seminal books on Southern history: Wilbur J. Cash's The Mind of Jim Crow. Representing 20 years of research and writing on the history of the South, The Crucible of Race explores the large topic of Southern race relations for a span of a century and a half. Oxford is pleased to make available an abridgement of this parent volume: A Rage for Order preserves all the theme lines that were advanced in the original volume and many of the individual stories. As in Crucible of Race, Williamson here confronts the awful irony that the war to free blacks from slavery also freed racism. He examines the shift in the power base of Southern white leadership after 1850 and recounts the terrible violence done to blacks in the name of self-protection. This condensation of one of the most important interpretations of Southern history is offered as a means by which a large audience can grasp the essentials of black-white relations--a problem that persists to this day and one with which we all must contend--North and South, black and white.

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Joel Williamson - A Rage for Order, Black-White Re lations in the American South Since Emancipation ( 1986).pdf

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Ronald J. Zboray - A Fictive People, Antebellum Ec onomic Development and the American Reading Public (1993).jpg

This book explores an important boundary between history and literature: the antebellum reading public for books written by Americans. Zboray describes how fiction took root in the United States and what literature contributed to the readers' sense of themselves. He traces the rise of fiction as a social history centered on the book trade and chronicles the large societal changes shaping, circumscribing, and sometimes defining the limits of the antebellum reading public. A Fictive People explodes two notions that are commonplace in cultural histories of the nineteenth century: first, that the spread of literature was a simple force for the democratization of taste, and, second, that there was a body of nineteenth-century literature that reflected a "nation of readers." Zboray shows that the output of the press was so diverse and the public so indiscriminate in what it would read that we must rethink these conclusions. The essential elements for the rise of publishing turn out not to be the usual suspects of rising literacy and increased schooling. Zboray turns our attention to the railroad as well as private letter writing to see the creation of a national taste for literature. He points out the ambiguous role of the nineteenth-century school in encouraging reading and convincingly demonstrates that we must look more deeply to see why the nation turned to literature. He uses such data as sales figures and library borrowing to reveal that women read as widely as men and that the regional breakdown of sales focused the power of print.

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Ronald J. Zboray - A Fictive People, Antebellum Ec onomic Development and the American Reading Public (1993).pdf

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Terry Abraham - Mountains So Sublime, Nineteenth-c entury British Travellers And the Lure of the Rock y Mountain West (2006).jpg

01 - USA - Terry Abraham - Mountains So Sublime, Nineteenth-centur...ravellers And the Lure of the Rocky Mountain West 2006.jpg

Culled from both published and unpublished accounts, these descriptions of the Rocky Mountain West by British adventurers, poets, and journalists represent a long tradition of relating to landscape and its appreciation in art.

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Terry Abraham - Mountains So Sublime, Nineteenth-c entury British Travellers And the Lure of the Rock y Mountain West (2006).pdf

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Carol Sonenklar - We Are a Strong, Articulate Voic e, A History of Women at Penn State (2006).jpg

No history of Penn State is complete without the stories of its many achieving women. From Rebecca Ewing, the first female graduate, to early pioneering faculty members like Harriet McElwain and Lucretia Van Tuyl Simmons, to latter-day standouts Pat Farrell, Nina Federoff, Cynthia Baldwin, and Connie Moore, women have been an integral part of Penn State's tradition of excellence. In We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice, Carol Sonenklar traces the collective path of female students, staff, and faculty at the University.
Women have overcome many obstacles in their march toward equal representation and professional recognition at Penn State. We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice provides a unique look at their struggle, revealing moments that have shaped the history and identity of the University. The clash between female undergrads and the housemothers charged with keeping them out of trouble, the rise of sororities, the invaluable contribution of the Curtiss-Wright Cadets during World War II, firsthand accounts of the infamous 1950s panty raids, the effect of Title IX on women's athletic programs--events big and small, solemn and silly, are all recorded here.
Sonenklar also examines recent milestones in women's progress at Penn State, including one of the most important events of the last twenty-five years: the formation in the 1980s of the Strategic Study Group on the Status of Women. She considers the gains made by women faculty, staff, and students in the years since, while looking ahead to the opportunities and challenges of the future.
Based on personal interviews and extensive research in the University Archives, We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice combines a lively narrative with dozens of striking photographs, making this book a fitting tribute to women's progress at Penn State.

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Carol Sonenklar - We Are a Strong, Articulate Voic e, A History of Women at Penn State (2006).pdf

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Curtis C. Roseman, Elizabeth Mercer Roseman - Gran d Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River, Place s, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854 (2 004).jpg

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In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists, politicians, academics, writers, artists, business and industry leaders, and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans—an area of great natural beauty that offered much promise for additional development.
One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of "excursions," the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi.
Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be appreciated by tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, and railroad and steamboat history buffs as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.

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Curtis C. Roseman, Elizabeth Mercer Roseman - Gran d Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River, Place s, Landscapes, and Regional Identity after 1854 (2 004).pdf

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Joseph Gibbs - Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh, The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment (2002).jpg

In June 1854 the Grand Excursion celebrated in festive style the completion of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the Mississippi River. Hundreds of dignitaries including newspaper editors and other journalists, politicians, academics, writers, artists, business and industry leaders, and railroad officials were among those who traveled by rail from Chicago to Rock Island, Illinois, then by steamboat to St. Paul in Minnesota Territory. The travelers were shown a region undergoing rapid settlement by Europeans—an area of great natural beauty that offered much promise for additional development.
One hundred and fifty years later, the thirteen essays in this volume examine the activities and environments of the 1854 Grand Excursion and place them in the context of an evolving regional identity for the Upper Mississippi River Valley based on the economy, culture, geography, and history of the area. In a series of "excursions," the contributors explore the building of the Chicago and Rock Island Railroad, eastern newspaper accounts of the 1854 excursion, steamboating, the area’s pictorial landscape, passenger trains along the scenic river, the genesis and features of river towns, the control of the river for navigation, the development of preserves, parks, and recreation areas, the lumber industry, and commercial fishing. The book concludes by examining the resurgence of river-oriented development, as river towns are once again embracing the Mississippi.
Generously illustrated with maps, engravings, ephemera, and historic and present-day photographs, Grand Excursions on the Upper Mississippi River will be appreciated by tourists and residents of the area, river aficionados, and railroad and steamboat history buffs as well as academics interested in the history, geography, and regional development of the area.

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Joseph Gibbs - Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh, The Campaigns of a Pennsylvania Reserves Regiment (2002).pdf

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Kevin Mattson - Intellectuals in Action, The Origi ns of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-19 70 (2002).jpg

01 - USA - Kevin Mattson - Intellectuals in Action, The Origins o...of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-1970 2002.jpg

Looking at the ideas that informed the protest, social movements and activism of the 1960s, this text combines traditional intellectual biography with social history to examine a group of intellectuals whose thinking was crucial in the formulation of New Left political theory.

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Kevin Mattson - Intellectuals in Action, The Origi ns of the New Left and Radical Liberalism, 1945-19 70 (2002).pdf

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William E. Leuchtenburg - American Places, Encount ers with History (2000).jpg

For anyone interested in history, the physical traces of the past, especially historical places, hold a special fascination. Whether it is a battlefield or the home of a notable American, there is no question that we understand the past in a different and more immediate way when we encounter it "on the ground."
In American Places, more than two dozen of America's most gifted historians write about their own encounters with historic places, bringing a personal viewpoint to bear on a wide variety of sites, ranging from Monticello to Fenway Park. Here James M. McPherson writes about the battlefied of Gettysburg, and how walking the ground of Pickett's Charge inspired one of his books. Kevin Starr visits the Musso & Frank Grill in Hollywood and finds many of the flavors of California history there. Joel Williamson takes a bemused tour of Elvis Presley's Graceland, and David Kennedy tells the story of the "Pig War" of San Juan Island, where a spat between Britain and America over a speck of land in the Pacific helped determine the shape of the U.S. and Canada. William Freehling compares two places, Charleston's Battery and New Orleans' Jackson Square, showing how each reveals the different spirit of the society that created it. And Edward Ayers talks about spending time in Cyberspace, U.S.A., a virtual place that has much in common with the America visited by Alexis de Tocqueville a century and a half ago. Other pieces include Robert Dallek on the FDR Memorial, David Hackett Fischer on the Boston Common, and William Leuchtenburg on his native borough of Queens.
American Places celebrates the career of Sheldon Meyer, who over his years at Oxford University Press has published some of our most distinguished historians, including many Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize winners, virtually all of whom have contributed to this volume.

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William E. Leuchtenburg - American Places, Encount ers with History (2000).pdf

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William R. Taylor - Cavalier and Yankee, The Old S outh and American National Character (1993).jpg

William Taylor's Cavalier and Yankee was one of the most famous works of American history written in the 1960s. The book is an intellectual history of the South before the Civil War, the perception of it in the North, and the effect it had upon the nation in the years from 1800 to 1860. First published in 1961 and out of print for several years, Taylor's classic study remains essential to the study of the pre-Civil War South.

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William R. Taylor - Cavalier and Yankee, The Old S outh and American National Character (1993).pdf

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Presidential Profiles - Burton Ira Kaufman - The C arter Years (2006).jpg

Three more volumes in the Presidential Profiles series, providing one-stop shopping for information on the key personalities surrounding each presidential administration since 1933. Entries are arranged A-Z and supported by chronologies, lists of principal government officials, and selected primary documents. Because of their biographical focus, these books complement other resources on U.S. presidents that cover events, policies, and so forth, and they are useful in particular for undergraduate libraries.

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Presidential Profiles - Burton Ira Kaufman - The C arter Years (2006).pdf

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Presidential Profiles - Shirley Anne Warshaw - The Clinton Years (2004).jpg

Bill Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, served two terms in the White House and became the first Democratic president since Franklin D. Roosevelt to be re-elected to office. Among other accomplishments, a low unemployment and inflation rate and a decrease in crime have led many influential people to declare that during his administration the U.S. enjoyed more peace and economic well-being than at any other time in its history. Comprehensive and easy to navigate, The Clinton Years gives readers a full perspective of Bill Clinton's presidency, from his successful economic policies to his relations with Monica Lewinsky. This comprehensive A-to-Z reference contains more than 250 biographical entries examining the main politicians and foreign leaders during the administration, and includes a number of primary source documents such as presidential speeches and executive decisions.

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Presidential Profiles - Shirley Anne Warshaw - The Clinton Years (2004).pdf

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Presidential Profiles - Tracy S. Uebelhor - The Tr uman Years (2005).jpg

"Presidential Profiles" is a new series that highlights the administrations of the most recent U.S. Presidents. Organized in an easy-to-use, A-to-Z format, each volume focuses on a particular administration, including an introduction, a section of biographical entries, a chronology that spans the history of the administration, and much more. Extensive appendixes contain important documents such as inaugural addresses, important presidential speeches, tables listing the members of the White House staff, cabinet members, and members of Congress and the Senate. These timely, fact-filled compendiums are written for high school and college students and serve as wonderful resources for anyone interested in American government or these select presidents.

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