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New Abolition W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel

Dorrien Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780300230598, Yale University Press, March 2018
672 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of...

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Empire in Retreat The Past, Present, and Future of the United States

Bulmer-Thomas Victor

ISBN: HB: 9780300210002, Yale University Press, March 2018
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.

A respected authority on international relations and foreign policy, Victor Bulmer-Thomas offers a grand survey of the United States as an empire. From its territorial expansion after independence, through hegemonic rule following World War II, to th...

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Crossing Parish Boundaries Race, Sports, and Catholic Youth in Chicago, 1914-1954

Neary Timothy B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226565989, ISBN: HB: 9780226388762, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

Controversy erupted in spring 2001 when Chicago's mostly white Southside Catholic Conference youth sports league rejected the application of the predominantly black St. Sabina grade school. Fifty years after Brown v. Board of Education, interracialis...

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Cold War Monks Buddhism and America's Secret Strategy in Southeast Asia

Ford Eugene

ISBN: HB: 9780300218565, Yale University Press, February 2018
392 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How did the U.S. government make use of a "Buddhist policy" in Southeast Asia during the Cold War despite the American principle that the state should not meddle with religion? To answer this question, Eugene Ford delved deep into an unprecedented ra...

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Victory or Death The Battles of Trenton and Princeton, December 25, 1776 - January 3, 1777

Maloy Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781611213812, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 200 images, 10 maps

December 1776: Just six months after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, George Washington and the new American Army sit on the verge of utter destruction by the banks of the Delaware River. The despondent and demoralized group of men had...

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In a Single Blow The Battles of Lexington and Concord and the Beginning of the American Revolution

Greenwalt Phillip

ISBN: PB: 9781611213799, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
192 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 150 images, 6 maps

"I have now nothing to trouble your Lordship with, but an affair that happened on the 19th instant..." General Thomas Gage penned the above line to his superiors in London, casually summing up the shots fired at Lexington and Concord on April 19, 17...

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By Fire and Bayonet Grey's West Indies Campaign of 1794

Brown Steve

ISBN: HB: 9781911512608, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
208 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus., 8 maps

There have been few books about Grey's glorious (but ultimately ill-fated) West Indies campaign in the early years of the long and terrible wars of 1793-1815, yet five of the subalterns in Grey's expeditionary force went on to command divisions in We...

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Indian Army in the First World War New Perspectives

Jeffreys Alan

ISBN: HB: 9781911512783, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 7 illus., 2 maps

The book addresses the important global role of the Indian Army during the First World War. It is an academic reassessment of the army by both established and early career scholars of the Indian Army, as well as naval historians. It looks at the hist...

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Hundred Thousand Sons of St Louis The French Campaign in Spain April to October 1823

Weaver Ralph

ISBN: HB: 9781912174096, Casemate, Helion and Company, February 2018
120 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 30 colour & 25 black&white illus., maps

This book sheds light on an almost unknown military campaign conducted by a French army, 100,000 men strong. The army was referred to by the French king as the 'Sons of St. Louis' and was pitted against parts of the regular Spanish army and a numerou...

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Death and Disease in the Civil War A Union Surgeon's Correspondence from Harpers Ferry to Richmond

Loperfido Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781611213591, Casemate, Savas Beatie, February 2018
168 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 35 images

Union surgeon James Dana Benton witnessed firsthand the suffering and death brought about by the ghastly wounds, infections, and diseases that wreaked havoc to both the Union and Confederate armies. A native of New York, Dr. Benton penned a series of...

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