Social and cultural history

Challenging the "e;two cultures"e; debate, The Experimental Imagination tells the story of how literariness came to be distinguished from its epistemological sibling, science, as a source of truth about the natural and social worlds in the British Enlightenment.

In the spring of 1898, thousands of peasants and townspeople in western Galicia rioted against their Jewish neighbors.

Among the fiercest opponents of the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was journalist James "e;Jimmie"e; Matsumoto Omura.

In Mandarin Brazil, Ana Paulina Lee explores the centrality of Chinese exclusion to the Brazilian nation-building project, tracing the role of cultural representation in producing racialized national categories.

Birthright citizenship has a deep and contentious history in the United States, one often hard to square in a country that prides itself on being "e;a nation of immigrants.

Is religion a source of political stability and social continuity, or an agent of radical change?

A tightly written, dispassionate and unsentimental account of American Catholic political history, one backed by substantial research.

Copts and the Security State combines political, anthropological, and social history to analyze the practices of the Egyptian state and the political acts of the Egyptian Coptic minority.

From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China.

When Ridley Scott envisioned Blade Runner's set as "e;Hong Kong on a bad day,"e; he nodded to the city's overcrowding as well as its widespread use of surveillance.

In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers.

The Long Afterlife of Nikkei Wartime Incarceration reexamines the history of imprisonment of U.

The 2014 Supreme Court ruling on McCullen v.

Hmong American immigrants first came to the United States as refugees of the Vietnam War.

Over the course of the nineteenth century, some 84,500 Jews in imperial Russia converted to Christianity.

"e;Kotsko goes beyond the biography of an icon to a provocative investigation of the devil's many lives and effects in cultural and political ideologies.

Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age explores the nexus of new media and memory practices, raising questions about how advances in digital technologies continue to influence the nature of Holocaust memorialization.

The liberal arts major is often lampooned: lacking in "e;skills,"e; unqualified for a professional career, underemployed.

Stories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds.

Sao Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a massive wave of immigration transformed the cultural landscape of Argentina.

Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor.

Divine Variations offers a new account of the development of scientific ideas about race.

A transpacific history of clashing imperial ambitions, Contraceptive Diplomacy turns to the history of the birth control movement in the United States and Japan to interpret the struggle for hegemony in the Pacific through the lens of transnational feminism.

The Ottoman Empire was unprepared for the massive conflict of World War I.

After being forgotten for nearly 130 years, the ';Mother of Suffrage in Missouri' and her husband are finally taking their rightful place in history.

This book addresses the inter-linked lives and fortunes of children and women in the first two decades of the twentieth century in England.

Discover the first book in the gripping new spin-off to Tracy Wolff's instant No.

Standing Rock Sioux activist, professor, and attorney Vine Deloria, Jr.

*Updated with a new introduction* Journalist Rebecca Traister's New York Times bestselling exploration of the transformative power of female anger and its ability to transcend into a political movement is ';a hopeful, maddening compendium of righteous feminine anger, and the good it can do when wielded efficientlyand collectively' (Vanity Fair).

New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist, Nina Burleigh, explores Donald Trump's attitudes toward women by providing in-depth analysis and background on the women who have had the most profound influence on his lifethe mother and grandmother who raised him, the wives who lived with him, and the daughter who is poised to inherit it all.

';A lighthearted, entertaining trip down Memory Lane' (Kirkus Reviews), Don't Make Me Pull Over!

In this ';sharp-eyed account of a nearly forgotten African-American sports legend' (Publishers Weekly)the remarkable Major Taylor who became the world's fastest bicyclist at the height of the Jim Crow era';Kranish has done historians and fans a service by reminding us that such immortals as Joe Louis, Jesse Owens, Serena Williams and Tiger Woods all followed in Major Taylor's wake' (The Washington Post).

From one of America's smartest political writers comes a ';captivating and comprehensive journey' (#1 New York Times bestselling author David Limbaugh) of the United States' unique and enduring relationship with guns.

Its A Wonderful Life meets New Deal or Raw Deal?

An astonishing untold story from the nineteenth centurya ';rivetingengrossing';American Epic' (The Wall Street Journal) and necessary work of history that reads like Gone with the Wind for the Cherokee.

In the tradition of the popular business classics Leadership Is an Art and What They Dont Teach You at Harvard Business School, Dr.

A brilliant, lively account of the Black Renaissance that burst forth in Pittsburgh from the 1920s through the 1950s';Smoketown will appeal to anybody interested in black history and anybody who loves a good storyterrific, eminently readablefascinating' (The Washington Post).

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Jackie Robinson famously said that a life is not important except for the impact it has on other lives.

A moving and unforgettable eyewitness account of the courageous exodus of Holocaust survivors from post-World War II Europe to the Promised Land, now expanded with Stone's frontline reporting on the Arab-Israeli crises of 1948-49 and the Suez War of 1956, and with a new foreword by D.

New York Times Bestseller: The true story of twelve Jews who went underground in Nazi Berlin-and survived: "e;Consummately suspenseful"e; (Los Angeles Times).

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Non-Fiction**When the last spike was hammered into the steel track of the Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869, at Promontory Point, Utah, Western Union lines sounded the glorious news of the railroad's completion from New York to San Francisco.

The New York Times bestseller that tells the story of an overheated stock market and the financial disaster that led to the Great Depression of the 1930s.

In the 19th century, Daniel Waggoner and his son, W.

In San Francisco, CA, in 1858, a young African American man was freed from the claims of a white man who sought to return him to slavery in Mississippi.

The New Yorker contributor's fascinating account of Irish history from legendary kings to occupation, independence, and modern political strife.

This "e;important contribution to WWII history"e; reveals the trucking convoy, manned by unsung black soldiers, who helped defeat the Nazis (Publishers Weekly).

In this major work exploring the American Jewish response to the Holocaust as it occurred, by examining contemporary Jewish press accounts of such events as Kristallnacht, the refusal to allow the refugee ship St.

"e;A wondrous tale of American Judaism"e; from the Colonial Era to the twentiethcentury, by the acclaimed author of Jews, God, and History (Kirkus Reviews).