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As Mary Stuckey observes, presidents embrace, articulate, and reinvigorate the American sense of national identity. They define who Americans are - often by declaring who they aren't. Here, she shows how presidential speech has served to broaden the American political community over the past two centuries while at the same time excluding others.

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During the Cold War the British government oversaw the transition to independence of dozens of colonies. Often the most challenging aspect of this transition was the creation of a national army from colonial forces. Blake Whitaker examines this process in Kenya and Zambia and how it set the course for the creation of the army in Zimbabwe.

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This work locates the CIA's origins in government-wide efforts to reorganize national security during the transition from World War II to the Cold War. The author believes that the creation of the CIA was the culmination of years of negotiation among numerous policy makers.

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James W. Ely Jr, tells the history of the rail industry, showing that two institutions - the railroad and American law - had a profound effect on each other. It also documents the change and innovation the railroad brought the country.

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In the hell that was World War II, the Eastern Front was its heart of fire and ice. Gottlob Bidermann served in that lethal theatre from 1941 to 1945, and this memoir of those years recaptures his gruelling experiences with an army marching on the road to ruin.

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Superbly researched and impeccably told, Hitler's Generals on Trial addresses fundamental questions concerning the meaning of justice after atrocity and genocide, the moral imperative of punishment for these crimes, the link between justice and memory, and the relevance of the Nuremberg trials for transitional justice processes today.

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The memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, Serpents of War is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander. This is an absorbing memoir that holds the reader’s attention from beginning to end.

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Reveals the story of how road building paved the way to the modern state during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and how public works policy emerged as a third critical pillar in support of state building. This work shows that the growing transportation needs of a steadily industrializing nation reconfigured state politics.

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Though Abraham Lincoln was not a political philosopher per se, in word and in deed he did grapple with many of the most pressing and timeless questions in politics. The contributors to this volume examine Lincoln’s responses to the ultimate questions in politics. The result is a fascinating portrait of not only Abraham Lincoln but also the promises and paradoxes of liberal democracy.

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As populism presaging authoritarianism surges worldwide and political rights and civil liberties erode, pundits, politicians, and political scientists agree: democracy is in crisis. But where many blame the rise of neoliberalism, Kyong-Min Son suggests that a longer historical perspective is in order.

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If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave to Get Out, to Black Panther tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as ""black film"" per se. This book is timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new ways to understand them.

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Offers the first comprehensive study of nationwide Socialist activity at the municipal level during the Progressive Era. This is a unique study of the Socialist mayors in this period: their election, how they approached their job, and what they accomplished.

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The Soviet Union was the first nation to allow women pilots to fly combat missions. Their amazing story, fully recounted for the first time by Reina Pennington, honours a group of fearless and determined women whose exploits have not yet received the recognition they deserve.

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The American presidency is not what it once was. Nor, Stephen Knott contends, what it was meant to be. Taking on an issue as timely as Donald Trump's latest tweet and old as the American republic, Knott documents the devolution of the American presidency from the neutral, unifying office into the demagogic, partisan entity of our day.

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From the American Revolution to the war on terror, US Army doctrine has evolved to regulate the chaos of armed conflict by providing an intellectual basis for organising, training, and equipping the military. Walter Kretchik analyses the service's doctrine to reveal that its leadership is more forward thinking than has been generally believed.

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David Max Eichhorn, a Jewish chaplain in the U.S. Army's XV Corps, saw action across France and into Germany until VE-Day and beyond. His letters show us a devoutly religious man trying to cope with the perils of combat and the needs of his fellow soldiers.

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Focuses on the two-term precedent and how it came into being not by legal prescription but by the tacit influence of George Washington’s refusal to run for a third term and what it suggests about American conceptions of executive power.

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In this deeply researched, sharply reasoned work of legal myth-busting, constitutional scholar Louis Fisher explains how constitutional disputes are settled by all three branches of government, and by the general public, with the Supreme Court often playing a secondary role.

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If the sheer diversity of recent hits from Twelve Years a Slave to Get Out, to Black Panther tells us anything, it might be that there's no such thing as ""black film"" per se. This book is timely, then, in expanding our idea of what black films are and, going back to the 1960s, showing us new ways to understand them.

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Four decades after Roe v. Wade, it remains a pivot upon which much of US politics turns. N.E.H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer have taken stock of the abortion debates, controversies, and cases that have emerged during the past decade in order to update their best-selling book on this landmark case.

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Reassessing how battles and campaigns forged a decisive Northern victory, this book reevaluates the generalship of the victors, and lays bare the sometimes vicious rivalries among the Union generals and their effect on the war. The author provides fresh accounts of how the Union commanders outmaneuvered and outfought their Confederate opponents and asks why each won.

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An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire - and a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.

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Inspired by the mystique of a uniquely American tree, the pecan, John Gifford set out to explore the US pecan industry. What he discovered during his two-year immersion was a nut that's poised to become the next superfood and an industry that today finds itself in the most important juncture in its history.

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No mission too difficult, no sacrifice too great - Duty First!"" For a century, from the Western Front of World War I to the wars of the 21st century, this motto has spurred the soldiers who wear the shoulder patch bearing the Big Red One. In this comprehensive history of Americas 1st Infantry Division, James Scott Wheeler chronicles its major combat engagements and peacetime duties.

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Just what was so wild about the Wild West? Americans have had an enduring yet ambivalent obsession with the West as both a place and a state of mind. This book offers a cultural and historical analysis of how ideas of wildness have shaped the ways Euro-Americans have perceived, reacted to, and acted upon the West for nearly five hundred years.

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Looks at the politics of US national parks and what the parks can teach us about citizenship and what it means to be American. Mary Stuckey asserts that through the national parks we can hope to explain the past, clarify the present, and project the future.

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By failing to develop effective programs weapon development, Japan increased the probability that it could not triumph over its more advanced enemies. Walter Grunden underscores the dramatic scientific and technological disparities that left Japan vulnerable and ultimately led to its defeat in World War II..

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The spirit of nullification is seeing a resurgence in an ever-more politically fragmented and decentralized America. What this means is the question explored in this volume. The book offers a variety of informed perspectives “neo-nullification”, a category that extends from formal declarations on the invalidity of federal law to what might be called “uncooperative federalism”.

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Explores whether advances in technology, from the railroad and the airplane to the nuclear weapon and the computer, have altered both the critical relationship between logistics and warfare and, ultimately, geopolitical dynamics.

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Shows that postwar homesteading continued to shape the modern West in important ways. This study describes how the Bureau of Reclamation used lotteries to make available free land that had previously been part of Indian reservations, used for Japanese internment, or abandoned by unsuccessful settlers.

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