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Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Tells the fascinating stories of the myriad women who shaped the early modern North American world from the colonial era through the first years of the RepublicWomen in Early America, edited by Thomas A. Foster, goes beyond the familiar stories of Pocahontas or Abigail Adams, recovering the lives and experiences of lesser-known women --both ordinary and elite, enslaved and free, Indigenous and immigrant --who lived and worked in not only British mainland...
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Publisher
Independent Institute
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"This book could not be timelier. Benjamin Ginsberg uses his deep knowledge of Jewish history to show that Jews, long identified with leftwing causes, in many ways, are not natural allies of the left. A culture of separateness and high achievement make the Jews vulnerable to political pathologies from wherever they come--and two of the most destructive, anti-Zionism and wokeism, come from the left. With the help of fascinating detail, this book shows...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabeth Camarillo Gutierrez reveals her experience as the U.S. born daughter of immigrants and what happened when, at fifteen, her parents were forced back to Mexico in this galvanizing yet tender memoir. Born to Mexican immigrants south of the Rillito River in Tucson, Arizona, Elizabeth had the world at her fingertips as she entered her freshman year of high school as the number one student. But suddenly, Elizabeth's own country took away the...
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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Nestled in the Golden Triangle of China, Burma, and Nepal, the Wa nation has existed and thrived for over five decades. Like mountain peoples from Chechnya to the Ozarks, the Wa like to do things their own way. A tribal authority called the United Wa State Army (or UWSA) controls their native terrain. The UWSA makes laws, defends the motherland, and builds roads and schools. It even issues driver's licenses. In every sense, it is a government. And...
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words--and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa--Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...
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