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Connecticut's Indigenous Peoples What Archaeology, History, and Oral Traditions Teach Us About Their Communities and Cultures

Lavin Lucianne, Grant-Costa Paul, Volpe Rosemary

ISBN: PB: 9780300212587, ISBN: HB: 9780300186642, Yale University Press, April 2015
528 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 37 colour illus., 235 black&white illus.

A groundbreaking volume on the rich 13,000-plus-year history and culture of Connecticut's indigenous peoples More than 13,000 years ago, people settled on lands that now lie within the boundaries of the state of Connecticut. Leaving no written record...

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Amistad's Orphans An Atlantic Story of Children, Slavery, and Smuggling

Lawrance Benjamin Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780300198454, Yale University Press, March 2015
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

The lives of six African children, ages nine to sixteen, were forever altered by the revolt aboard the Cuban schooner La Amistad in 1839. Like their adult companions, all were captured in Africa and illegally sold as slaves. In this fascinating revis...

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America

Gathering Together The Shawnee People Through Diaspora and Nationhood, 1600-1870

Lakomaki Sami

ISBN: HB: 9780300180619, Yale University Press, August 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Weaving Indian and Euro-American histories together in this groundbreaking book, Sami Lakomaki places the Shawnee people, and Native peoples in general, firmly at the centre of American history. The book spans nearly three centuries, from the years l...

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America

War's Waste Rehabilitation in World War I America

Linker Beth

ISBN: PB: 9780226143354, ISBN: HB: 9780226482538, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
304 pp., 23.4x16 cm, 20 halftones

With U. S. soldiers stationed around the world and engaged in multiple conflicts, Americans will be forced for the foreseeable future to come to terms with those permanently disabled in battle. At the moment, we accept rehabilitation as the proper so...

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Christianity

Image of God Catholics and American Eugenics

Leon Sharon M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226038988, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
240 pp., 23x15 cm

During the first half of the twentieth century, supporters of the eugenics movement offered an image of a racially transformed America by curtailing the reproduction of "unfit" members of society. Through institutionalization, compulsory sterilizatio...

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America

John Brown's Spy The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook

Lubet Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780300180497, Yale University Press, January 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

John Brown's "Spy" tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person John Brown trusted most with the details of his plans to capture the Harper's Ferry armoury in 1859. Cook was a poet, a marksman, a boaster, a dandy, a fighter, and a woman...

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America

Political Science

Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Landis Dauber Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226923499, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
378 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 23 halftones, 1 line illus.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to...

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Business & Economics

America

Trams or Tailfins? Public and Private Prosperity in Postwar West Germany and the United States

Logemann Jan L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226491493, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 figure, 8 tables, 12 halftones

In the years that followed World War II, both the United States and the newly formed West German republic had an opportunity to remake their economies. Since then, much has been made of a supposed "Americanization" of European consumer societies – in...

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Military

America

Unwarranted Influence Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Military Industrial Complex

Ledbetter James

ISBN: PB: 9780300177626, Yale University Press, October 2011
280 pp., 21x14 cm

In "Dwight" D. Eisenhower's last speech as president, on January 17, 1961, he warned America about the "military-industrial complex", a mutual dependency between the nation's industrial base and its military structure that had developed during World...

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Of War and Men World War II in the Lives of Fathers and Their Families

LaRossa Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226467436, ISBN: HB: 9780226467429, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
328 pp., 25x15 cm

Fathers in the fifties tend to be portrayed as wise and genial pipe-smokers or distant, emotionless patriarchs. This common but limited stereotype obscures the remarkable diversity of their experiences and those of their children. To uncover the real...

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