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Twilight of the American State
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Abstract: The sudden emergence of the Trump nation surprised nearly everyone, including journalists, pundits, political consultants, and academics. When Trump won in 2016, his ascendancy was widely viewed as a fluke. Yet time showed it was instead the rise of a ...
Medicine, Science, and Making Race in Civil War America
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Abstract: This social and cultural history of Civil War medicine and science sheds important light on the question of why and how anti-Black racism survived the destruction of slavery. During the war, white Northerners promoted ideas about Black inferiority unde...
Routledge Handbook of U.S. Counterterrorism and Irregular Warfare Operations
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Abstract: This handbook comprises essays by leading scholars and practitioners on the topic of U.S. counterterrorism and irregular warfare campaigns and operations around the globe. Terrorist groups have evolved substantially since 9/11, with the Islamic State o...
In Contempt : Defending Free Speech, Defeating HUAC
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Abstract: “YOU ARE HEREBY COMMANDED to be and appear before the Committee on Un-American Activities of the House of Representatives of the United States, or a duly appointed subcommittee thereof, on February 10 (Monday), 1958, at ten o'clock a.m. at City Council...
Committed : Remembering Native Kinship in and Beyond Institutions
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Abstract: Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families exp...
Arbeit an der Kultur : Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson und die amerikanische Anthropologie, 1930-1950
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Abstract: Margaret Mead und Gregory Bateson gehörten in den 1930er und 1940er Jahren zu den führenden Vertretern der Cultural Anthropology in den USA. Die Anthropologie bot ihnen nicht nur einen Schlüssel, um das Verhältnis von »culture« und »personality« besser...
Claiming Union Widowhood : Race, Respectability, and Poverty in the Post-Emancipation South
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Abstract: In Claiming Union Widowhood, Brandi Clay Brimmer analyzes the US pension system from the perspective of poor black women during and after the Civil War. Reconstructing the grassroots pension network in New Bern, North Carolina, through a broad range of...
Amerikanische Aristokraten : Die Van Rensselaer-Familie zwischen Kolonialzeit und Früher Republik, 1630-1857
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Abstract: Gegründet als private Kolonie im niederländischen Nordamerika thronten die Van Rensselaers als »Patroons« über Tausenden von Pächtern auf ihrem riesigen Landgut Rensselaerswyck. Mehr als 200 Jahre überdauerte die Domäne der Van Rensselaers historische ...
The Cold War : Historiography, Memory, Representation
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Abstract: The traces of the Cold War are still visible in many places all around the world. It is the topic of exhibits and new museums, of memorial days and historic sites, of documentaries and movies, of arts and culture. There are historical and political con...
The Jewish Unions in America : Pages of History and Memories
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Abstract: Newly arrived in New York in 1882 from Tsarist Russia, the sixteen-year-old Bernard Weinstein discovered an America in which unionism, socialism, and anarchism were very much in the air. He found a home in the tenements of New York and for the next fif...