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Heroes, Martyrs, and Political Messiahs in Revolutionary Cuba, 1946-1958

Guerra Lillian

ISBN: HB: 9780300175530, Yale University Press, April 2018
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 48 black&white illus.

The newest volume in the acclaimed Clark Studies in the Visual Arts series, this collection of essays explores the intrinsic connection between art and the environment. The romance and rejection of "nature" have always occupied places at the heart of...

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Cherokee Diaspora An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity

Smithers Gregory D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234671, ISBN: HB: 9780300169607, Yale University Press, April 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally professing to have at least one...

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Sea Is My Country The Maritime World of the Makahs

Reid Joshua L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300234640, Yale University Press, April 2018
416 pp., 22.7x14.8 cm, 36 black&white illus.

For the Makahs, a tribal nation at the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States, a deep relationship with the sea is the locus of personal and group identity. Unlike most other indigenous tribes whose lives are tied to lands, the Makah...

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Military

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Generals of Shiloh Character in Leadership, April 6-7, 1862

Tagg Larry

ISBN: HB: 9781611213690, Casemate, Savas Beatie, April 2018
312 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 58 images

"Character is destiny" wrote Greek Philosopher Heraclitus more than twenty-five centuries ago. Douglas Southall Freeman, the Army of Northern Virginia's preeminent historian, echoed that view when he wrote, "Further study... may prove both more profi...

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America

Executing Freedom The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States

LaChance Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226583181, ISBN: HB: 9780226066691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 1 line drawing

In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why did people who didn't trust government to regulate the economy or provide daily services nonetheless...

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Earth Sciences

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Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane

Aviles Lourdes B.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones

On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...

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America

Tanana Chiefs Native Rights and Western Law

Schneider William

ISBN: PB: 9781602233447, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2018
160 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 14 halftones

At the turn of the twentieth century, life was changing drastically in Alaska. The gold rush brought an onslaught of white settlers to the area, railroad companies were pushing into the territory, and telegraph lines opened up new lines of communicat...

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Christianity

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American Catholics and the Church of Tomorrow Building Churches for the Future, 1925-1975

Osborne Catherine R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226561028, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 68 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American Catholic churches began to shed the ubiquitous spires, stained glass, and gargoyles of their European forebears, turning instead toward startling and more angular structures of steel, plate glass, and concrete....

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Travel

White Fox and Icy Seas in the Western Arctic The Fur Trade, Transportation, and Change in the Early Twentieth Century

Bockstoce John R., Barr William

ISBN: HB: 9780300221794, Yale University Press, March 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 73 black&white illus.

In the early twentieth century, northerners lived and trapped in one of the world's harshest environments. At a time when government services and social support were minimal or nonexistent, they thrived on the fox fur trade, relying on their energy,...

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Burning House Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America

Walker Anders

ISBN: HB: 9780300223989, Yale University Press, March 2018
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this dramatic reexamination of the Jim Crow South, Anders Walker demonstrates that racial segregation fostered not simply terror and violence, but also diversity, one of our most celebrated ideals. He investigates how prominent intellectuals like...

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