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The Indispensable Enemy

Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California

By: Alexander Saxton

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The Indispensable Enemy

Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California

By: Alexander Saxton

Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William DeverellThe Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majority. Focusing on the Democratic party and the labor movement of California through the forty-year period after the Civil War, Alexander Saxton explores aspects of the Jacksonian background which proves crucial to an understanding of what occurred in California. The Indispensable Enemy looks beyond the turn of the 19th century to trace results of the sequence of events in the West for the labor movement as a whole, influencing events that led to the crystallization of an American concept of national identity. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1996. Winner, Silver Medal, California Book Awards—Commonwealth Club of California With a foreword by William DeverellThe Indispensable Enemy examines the anti-Chinese confrontation on the Pacific Coast as it was experienced and rationalized by the white majori

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0520340833

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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic

Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-century America

By: Alexander Saxton

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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic

Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-century America

By: Alexander Saxton

Saxton asks why white racism remained an ideological force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared.

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1859844677

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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic

Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-century America

By: Alexander Saxton

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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic

Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-century America

By: Alexander Saxton

Saxton asks why white racism remained an ideological force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared.

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The Indispensable Enemy

Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California

By: Alexander Saxton

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Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California

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Dawn of Victory

Breakthrough at Petersburg, March 25 - April 2, 1865

By: Edward S. Alexander

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Dawn of Victory

Breakthrough at Petersburg, March 25 - April 2, 1865

By: Edward S. Alexander

After the unprecedented violence of the 1864 Overland Campaign, Union Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant turned his gaze south of Richmond to Petersburg, and the key railroad junction that supplied the Confederate capital and its defenders. Nine grueling months of constant maneuver and combat around the Cockade City followed. As massive fortifications soon dominated the landscape, both armies frequently pushed each other to the brink of disaster. As March 1865 drew to a close, Grant planned one more charge against Confederate lines. Despite recent successes, many viewed this latest task as an impossibilityand their trepidation had merit. These lines might well have been looked upon by the enemy as impregnable, admitted Union Maj. Gen. Horatio G. Wright, and nothing but the most resolute bravery could have overcome them. Grant ordered the attack for April 2, 1865, setting the stage for a dramatic early morning bayonet charge by his VI Corps across half a mile of open ground into the strongest line of works ever constructed in America. Dawn of Victory: Breakthrough at Petersburg by Edward S. Alexander tells the story of the men who fought and died in the decisive battle of the Petersburg campaign. Readers can follow the footsteps of the resolute Union attackers and stand in the shoes of the obstinate Confederate defenders as their actions decided the fate of the nation.

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Savas Beatie

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1611212804

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Peter Stent, London Printseller

By: Alexander V. Globe

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Peter Stent, London Printseller

By: Alexander V. Globe

From the 15th century on, engravings influenced European culture almost as profoundly as books. Like stained glass windows in the Middle Ages or television today, popular prints were designed to reach even the lowest orders of society. In the 17th century, Peter Stent, whose shop stood outside Newgate, was England's most prolific seller of popular prints, maps, and copybooks to the working and rising middle classes. His inventory of copper plates reflected the shifts of popular tastes during this period and commented directly on the turbulent events of the day. In documenting Stent's output, Alexander Globe studied the printsellers' advertising catalogues as external controls for reconstructing inventories as well as indices to contemporary tastes. From these and other contemporary sources, Globe cites every engraving and book attributable to Stent, breaking down the material into types: portraits, maps, miscellaneous sheets, and books (including works on handwriting, politics, natural history, anatomy, costume, and architecture). References and additions are made to the catalogues of Donald Wing and A.M. Hind. Globe takes the history of engraving beyond Hind by including prints from the Commonwealth, Protectorate, and early Restoration periods. Eight appendices supplement the catalogue information. They provide evidence for print identificiation, discuss paper sizes, and list Stent's artists, suppliers, and business associates. All the collectiions in which Stent items may be found are named. The volume concludes with a bibliography and indices of subject as well as post-17th century authors. Globe's introduction to Stent's work is concerned with the social, political, and economic conditions leading to the emergence of a popular printseller who catered to a different clientele from that usually studied by art historians. Stent's career illustrates the mid-17th century commercial revolution which saw the artisan's customers change from the wealthy leisure class to the worker who wanted mass-produced cheap goods. Drawing on material in a hundred libraries and museums around the world, the catalogue describes over fifteen hundred engravings, including 319 sheets and five books of portraits, 42 maps, 102 miscellaneous prints and sets (with religious, classical, heeraldic, and satirical subjects), and 86 books (on handwriting, politics, military training, natural history, figure sketches, costume, architecture, and ornament). Richly illustrated with 319 plates, Peter Stent will prove valuable not only to print dealers, art historians, museums, and libraries, but also to social, cultural, and political historians.

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UBC Press

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0774841419

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Patrol to the Golden Horn

By: Alexander Fullerton

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Patrol to the Golden Horn

By: Alexander Fullerton

Nicholas Everard is ready to run the gauntlet in his most dangerous mission yet... The menacing bulk of the German battlecruiser Goeben lurks in the Golden Horn of Constantinople. It is vital that she is destroyed, and the plan is to send an E-class submarine in through the Dardanelles to sink her unawares. But it has been two years since an Allied submarine passed through the narrow straits successfully, littered as they are with minefields, nets and depth charges dropped by the gunboats endlessly patrolling above. To send a crew in now would be a death sentence, but sparing the Goeben is unthinkable. Enter Nick Everard. An unputdownable story of the final days of WWI, perfect for fans of Douglas Reeman and Patrick O’Brian. Praise for Alexander Fullerton ‘The most meticulously researched war novels that I have ever read' Len Deighton

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Canelo

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1911591525

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Up from Harlem

A Pictorial Autobiography

By: R. Alexander Brown

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Up from Harlem

A Pictorial Autobiography

By: R. Alexander Brown

Up From Harlem is an pictorial autobiography of the life and times of Roland Alexander Brown. This book is dedicated to his family and friends who have made his life wonderful and worth living. It is a homage to the people who have influence his life over the last fifty years, and made him the person he is today. This Biography includes awards, people, education and other interesting facts pertaining to his life he wanted to share with friends, family and aquaintances.

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1438981287

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Rough Magic

A Biography Of Sylvia Path

By: Paul Alexander

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Rough Magic

A Biography Of Sylvia Path

By: Paul Alexander

Since her suicide at age thirty, Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) has been celebrated for her impeccable and ruthless poetry, which excels at describing the most extreme reaches of Plath's consciousness and passions. Her work includes the autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, and such collections as The Collosus, Ariel, and the Pulitzer Prize -- winning Collected Poems. Based on exclusive interviews and extensive archival research, Rough Magic probes the events of Plath's life -- including her turbulent marriage to the English poet Ted Hughes -- in a biography that stands alone in its compassionate view of this fiercely talented, deeply troubled artist.

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Da Capo Press

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0786730250

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9780786730254

The Civil War Series (Vol.1-8)

By: Joseph Alexander Altsheler

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The Civil War Series (Vol.1-8)

By: Joseph Alexander Altsheler

This carefully crafted ebook: "The Civil War Series" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve The Guns of Shiloh: A Story of the Great Western Campaign The Scouts of Stonewall: The Story of the Great Valley Campaign The Sword of Antietam: A Story of the Nation's Crisis The Star of Gettysburg: A Story of Southern High Tide The Rock of Chickamauga: A Story of the Western Crisis The Shades of the Wilderness: A Story of Lee's Great Stand The Tree of Appomattox: A Story of the Civil War's Close

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8027303265

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J.A. ALTSHELER Ultimate Collection: 35 Novels in One Volume

The Young Trailers Series, The French and Indian War Series, The Texan Series, The Civil War Series, The World War Series …

By: Joseph Alexander Altsheler

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J.A. ALTSHELER Ultimate Collection: 35 Novels in One Volume

The Young Trailers Series, The French and Indian War Series, The Texan Series, The Civil War Series, The World War Series …

By: Joseph Alexander Altsheler

This carefully crafted Joseph Alexander Altsheler collection includes 35 of his most famous novels of juvenile historical fiction divided into several series: The Young Trailers Series, The French and Indian War Series, The Texan Series, The Civil War Series and The World War Series. Contents: The Young Trailers Series The Young Trailers The Forest Runners The Keepers of the Trail The Eyes of the Woods The Free Rangers The Riflemen of the Ohio The Scouts of the Valley The Border Watch The French and Indian War Series The Hunters of the Hills The Shadow of the North The Rulers of the Lakes The Masters of the Peaks The Lords of the Wild The Sun of Quebec The Texan Series The Texan Star The Texan Scouts The Civil War Series The Guns of Bull Run The Guns of Shiloh The Scouts of Stonewall The Sword of Antietam The Star of Gettysburg The Rock of Chickamauga The Shades of the Wilderness The Tree of Appomattox The World War Series The Guns of Europe The Forest of Swords The Hosts of the Air Other Novels The Great Sioux Trail In Hostile Red The Last Rebel Before the Dawn The Candidate The Last of the Chiefs The Quest of the Four Apache Gold

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8027303222

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Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem

Graveyard of Algorithms

By: Alexander H. Barnett,Charles L. Epstein,Leslie Greengard,Jeremy Magland

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Geometry of the Phase Retrieval Problem

Graveyard of Algorithms

By: Alexander H. Barnett,Charles L. Epstein,Leslie Greengard,Jeremy Magland

This book provides a theoretical foundation and conceptual framework for the problem of recovering the phase of the Fourier transform.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316518876

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Men of War

The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima

By: Alexander Rose

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Men of War

The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima

By: Alexander Rose

In the grand tradition of John Keegan’s enduring classic The Face of Battle comes a searing, unforgettable chronicle of war through the eyes of the American soldiers who fought in three of our most iconic battles: Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima. This is not a book about how great generals won their battles, nor is it a study in grand strategy. Men of War is instead a riveting, visceral, and astonishingly original look at ordinary soldiers under fire. Drawing on an immense range of firsthand sources from the battlefield, Alexander Rose begins by re-creating the lost and alien world of eighteenth-century warfare at Bunker Hill, the bloodiest clash of the War of Independence—and reveals why the American militiamen were so lethally effective against the oncoming waves of British troops. Then, focusing on Gettysburg, Rose describes a typical Civil War infantry action, vividly explaining what Union and Confederate soldiers experienced before, during, and after combat. Finally, he shows how in 1945 the Marine Corps hurled itself with the greatest possible violence at the island of Iwo Jima, where nearly a third of all Marines killed in World War II would die. As Rose demonstrates, the most important factor in any battle is the human one: At Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima, the American soldier, as much as any general, proved decisive. To an unprecedented degree, Men of War brings home the reality of combat and, just as important, its aftermath in the form of the psychological and medical effects on veterans. As such, the book makes a critical contribution to military history by narrowing the colossal gulf between the popular understanding of wars and the experiences of the soldiers who fight them. Praise for Men of War “A tour de force . . . strikingly vivid, well-observed, and compulsively readable.”—The Daily Beast “Military history at its best . . . This is indeed war up-close, as those who fought it lived it—and survived it if they could. Men of War is deeply researched, beautifully written.”—The Wall Street Journal “A brilliant, riveting, unique book . . . Men of War will be a classic.”—General David H. Petraeus, U.S. Army (Retired) “The fact is that Men of War moves and educates, with the reader finding something interesting and intriguing on virtually every page.”—National Review “This is a book that has broad value to a wide audience. Whether the reader aims to learn what actually happens in battle, draw on the military lessons within, or wrestle with what actually defines combat, Men of War is a valuable addition to our understanding of this all-too-human experience.”—The New Criterion “A highly recommended addition to the literature of military history . . . [Rose] writes vividly and memorably, with a good eye for the telling detail or anecdote.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Using the firsthand accounts of brave soldiers who fought for freedom, Rose sheds new light on viewpoints we haven’t heard as widely before. It’s a welcome perspective in an era where most people have no military experience to speak of.”—The Washington Times “Rose poignantly captures the terror and confusion of hand-to-hand combat during the battle.”—The Dallas Morning News “If you want to know the meaning of war at the sharp end, this is the book to read.”—James McPherson, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The War That Forged a Nation

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Random House Trade Paperbacks

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0553384392

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9780553384390

An Introduction to Infinite-Dimensional Differential Geometry

By: Alexander Schmeding

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An Introduction to Infinite-Dimensional Differential Geometry

By: Alexander Schmeding

Introduces foundational concepts in infinite-dimensional differential geometry beyond Banach manifolds, showcasing its modern applications.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316514889

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Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

By: Alexander Clark,Shalom Lappin

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Linguistic Nativism and the Poverty of the Stimulus

By: Alexander Clark,Shalom Lappin

This unique contribution to the ongoing discussion of language acquisition considers the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus in language learning in the context of the wider debate over cognitive, computational, and linguistic issues. Critically examines the Argument from the Poverty of the Stimulus - the theory that the linguistic input which children receive is insufficient to explain the rich and rapid development of their knowledge of their first language(s) through general learning mechanisms Focuses on formal learnability properties of the class of natural languages, considered from the perspective of several learning theoretic models The only current book length study of arguments for the poverty of the stimulus which focuses on the computational learning theoretic aspects of the problem

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444390554

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9781444390551

Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of Error and Appeal

Vol. II

By: Alexander Grant

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Reports of Cases adjudged in the Court of Error and Appeal

Vol. II

By: Alexander Grant

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752555297

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9783752555295

The Right to Vote

The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

By: Alexander Keyssar

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The Right to Vote

The Contested History of Democracy in the United States

By: Alexander Keyssar

Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolution to the end of the twentieth century. In this revised and updated edition, Keyssar carries the story forward, from the disputed presidential contest of 2000 through the 2008 campaign and the election of Barack Obama. The Right to Vote is a sweeping reinterpretation of American political history as well as a meditation on the meaning of democracy in contemporary American life.

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Basic Books

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0465010148

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9780465010141

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