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Beauty and Business

Commerce, Gender, and Culture in Modern America

Edited by Philip Scranton

Leading historians explore how our ideas of what is attractive are influenced by a broad range of social and economic factors. They force us to…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92667-6 (Routledge)

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Pamphlets of Protest

An Anthology of Early African-American Protest Literature, 1790-1860

Edited by Richard Newman, Patrick Rael, Phillip Lapsansky

Between the Revolution and the Civil War, African-American writing became a prominent feature of both black protest culture and American public life. Although denied a…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92444-3 (Routledge)

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An American Health Dilemma

A Medical History of African Americans and the Problem of Race: Beginnings to 1900

By W. Michael Byrd, Linda A. Clayton

2000 | Hardback: 978-0-415-92449-8 (Routledge)

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US Foreign Policy in World History

By David Ryan

US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-12345-7 (Routledge)

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Historical Roots of the Urban Crisis

Blacks in the Industrial City, 1900-1950

By Henry L. Taylor Jr., Walter Hill

This collection of 12 new essays will tell the story of how the gradual transformation of industrial society into service-driven postindustrial society affected black life…

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2000 | Hardback: 978-0-8153-2749-3 (Routledge)

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Black Civil Rights in America

By Kevern Verney

This book is the authoritative introduction to the history of black civil rights in the USA. It provides a clear and useful guide to the…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-23888-5 (Routledge)

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Blind Memory

Visual Representations of Slavery in England and America

By Marcus Wood

Throughout this important volume, the author underscores two vital themes: one, that visual presentation of slavery in England and America has been utterly dishonest to…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92698-0 (Routledge)

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Wake Up Little Susie

Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade

By Rickie Solinger

"Rickie Solinger's passionate and powerful history serves to remind us of the importance of the feminist efforts that led to Roe v. Wade and the…

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2000 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92676-8 (Routledge)

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Upon these Shores

Themes in the African-American Experience 1600 to the Present

Edited by William R. Scott, William G. Shade

This one-volume, comprehensive overview of African American history brings together original essays by some of the foremost authorities in the field. Arranged both thematically and…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92407-8 (Routledge)

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Shifting the Blame

Literature, Law, and the Theory of Accidents in Nineteenth Century America

By Nan Goodman

When someone gets hurt in an accident we reflexively ask a set of questions which ultimately comes down to "who was blameworthy?" Yet early nineteenth-century…

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1999 | Paperback: 978-0-415-92684-3 (Routledge)

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Forthcoming Titles:

The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947–2007
By Paul Silverstone
To be published December 9th 2008

Antebellum Slave Narratives: Cultural and Political Expressions of Africa
By Jermaine O. Archer
To be published December 17th 2008

Welfare in the United States: A History with Documents, 1935-1996
Edited by Premilla Nadasen, Jennifer Mittelstadt, Marisa Chappell
To be published February 23rd 2009

Aspects of American History
By Simon Henderson
To be published February 27th 2009

Fictions of Female Education in the Nineteenth Century
By Jaime Osterman Alves
To be published March 4th 2009

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