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The Devil’s Own Purgatory The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil War
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Read More: The Devil’s Own Purgatory The United States Mississippi River Squadron in the Civil WarThe Devil’s Own Purgatory is the first complete history of the Union navy’s Mississippi Squadron, a fleet that prowled the Mississippi River and its tributaries during the American Civil War. The squadron battered Confederate forts, participated in combined operations with the army, obliterated the Confederate fleet, protected Union supply lines, fought…
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The Women of Antioch: Gender and Political Culture, 1095–1204
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Read More: The Women of Antioch: Gender and Political Culture, 1095–1204The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four women—Constance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antioch—and an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, including eleventh-century France, Norman Italy, Antioch and Byzantium. The book’s comparative perspective facilitates…
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Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela’s Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948
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Read More: Profitable Offices: Corruption, Anticorruption, and the Formation of Venezuela’s Neopatrimonial State, 1908-1948During the crucial period of its formation, the opposing forces of corruption and anticorruption shaped Venezuela’s new national state and its relationship with society. National strongman Juan Vicente Gómez, who ruled from 1908 to 1935, fastened control over key areas of the economy, extracted wealth from the Venezuelan people, and…
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Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito
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Read More: Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis Recovering the Lost History and Culture of QuitobaquitoIn the southwestern corner of Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument, on the border between Arizona and Mexico, one finds Quitobaquito, the second-largest oasis in the Sonoran Desert. There, with some effort, one might also find remnants of once-thriving O’odham communities and their predecessors with roots reaching back at least 12,000…
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Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century Provence
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Read More: Souls under Siege: Stories of War, Plague, and Confession in Fourteenth-Century ProvenceNicole Archambeau explores how the inhabitants of southern France made sense of the ravages of successive waves of plague, the depredations of mercenary warfare, and the violence of royal succession during the fourteenth century.
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Colorado Day by Day
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Read More: Colorado Day by DayColorado Day by Day is an engaging, this-day-in-history approach to the key figures and forces that have shaped Colorado from ancient times to the present. Historian Derek R. Everett presents a vignette for each day of the calendar year, exploring Colorado’s many facets through distilled tales of people, places, events,…
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Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf South
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Read More: Dixie’s Italians: Sicilians, Race, and Citizenship in the Jim Crow Gulf SouthDixie’s Italians is the first book-length study of Sicilians and other Italians in the Jim Crow Gulf South. Through case studies involving lynchings, disenfranchisement efforts, attempts to segregate Sicilian schoolchildren, and turn-of-the-century miscegenation disputes, Jackson explores the racial mobility that Italians and Sicilians experienced. Depending on the location and circumstance,…