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Long Night’s Journey into Day

Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945

By: Charles G. Roland

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Long Night’s Journey into Day

Prisoners of War in Hong Kong and Japan, 1941-1945

By: Charles G. Roland

Sickness, starvation, brutality, and forced labour plagued the existence of tens of thousands of Allied POWs in World War II. More than a quarter of these POWs died in captivity. Long Night’s Journey into Day centres on the lives of Canadian, British, Indian, and Hong Kong POWs captured at Hong Kong in December 1941 and incarcerated in camps in Hong Kong and the Japanese Home Islands. Experiences of American POWs in the Philippines, and British and Australians POWs in Singapore, are interwoven throughout the book. Starvation and diseases such as diphtheria, beriberi, dysentery, and tuberculosis afflicted all these unfortunate men, affecting their lives not only in the camps during the war but after they returned home. Yet despite the dispiriting circumstances of their captivity, these men found ways to improve their existence, keeping up their morale with such events as musical concerts and entertainments created entirely within the various camps. Based largely on hundreds of interviews with former POWs, as well as material culled from archives around the world, Professor Roland details the extremes the prisoners endured — from having to eat fattened maggots in order to live to choosing starvation by trading away their skimpy rations for cigarettes. No previous book has shown the essential relationship between almost universal ill health and POW life and death, or provides such a complete and unbiased account of POW life in the Far East in the 1940s.

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450

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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155458776X

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9781554587766

The Origins of Informality

Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and why it Matters

By: Charles B. Roger

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The Origins of Informality

Why the Legal Foundations of Global Governance are Shifting, and why it Matters

By: Charles B. Roger

This ground-breaking book explores the phenomenon of informal international organizations--weakly-legalized bodies that differ significantly from the formal institutions traditionally relied upon by the global community. It advances a new way of thinking about these organizations, presents new data revealing their extraordinary growth over time and across regions, and offers a novel account explaining why states have embraced them. Roger locates the origins of informality in major shifts occurring within the domestic political arenas of powerful states, explaining how these have projected outwards and reshaped the legal foundations of global governance. The book systematically tests this theory, presents detailed accounts of the forces behind some of the most important institutions governing the global economy, and draws out the policy implications of this account. While informality has allowed the number of multilateral institutions to grow, Roger argues, it has coincided with a decline in their quality, leaving us less prepared for the next global crisis.

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289

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0190947969

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9780190947965

Unspoiled Heart

The Journal of Charles Mattocks of the 17th Maine

By: Charles Mattocks

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Unspoiled Heart

The Journal of Charles Mattocks of the 17th Maine

By: Charles Mattocks

After nine months in different Confederate prisons, Mattocks was exchanged in time to participate in the Battle of Sayler's Creek, in which his bravery earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor.

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492

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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0870498347

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9780870498343

Willie's Time

Baseball's Golden Age

By: Charles Einstein

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Willie's Time

Baseball's Golden Age

By: Charles Einstein

To a generation of fans, Willie Mays was the greatest ballplayer they had ever seen. The prowess and speed of the Say Hey Kid were unmatched on the diamond before his time, prompting Joe DiMaggio to label him, “the closest you can come to perfection.” He was the first player to hit fifty home runs and steal twenty bases in a single season. Mays played for the New York Giants (1951–1957), San Francisco Giants (1958–1972), and New York Mets (1972–1973), and in his glory days with the Giants he not only set the major league mark for consecutive seasons by appearing in 150 games or more but by winning his two MVP awards a record twelve seasons apart. When Mays retired, he ranked third in career home runs (behind Aaron and Ruth), a record of 660 soon to be surpassed by Mays’s godson, Barry Bonds. This twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the only ballplayer biography ever named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Willie’s Time: Baseball’s Golden Age, restores to print Charles Einstein’s vivid biography of one of the game’s foremost legends. With a new preface from the author, this volume replays the most dramatic moments of the Say Hey Kid’s career—from the 1951 Miracle Giants to the Amazing Mets of 1973—and takes us inside the lives of Ruth, DiMaggio, Aaron, Durocher, and others along the way. Einstein offers a compelling and complete look at Mays: as a youth in racist Birmingham, a triumphant symbol of African American success, a sports hero lionized by fans, and yet all the while, still a very human figure destined to play for two decades amid baseball’s Golden Age.

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372

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SIU Press

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080932573X

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9780809325733

Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960

Presidential and Judicial Politics

By: Charles M. Lamb

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Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960

Presidential and Judicial Politics

By: Charles M. Lamb

This book examines national fair housing policy from 1960 through 2000 in the context of the American presidency and the country's segregated suburban housing market. It argues that a principal reason for suburban housing segregation lies in Richard Nixon's 1971 fair housing policy, which directed Federal agencies not to place pressure on suburbs to accept low-income housing. After exploring the role played by Lyndon Johnson in the initiation and passage of the Fair Housing Act of 1968, Nixon's politics of suburban segregation is contrasted to the politics of suburban integration espoused by his HUD secretary, George Romney. Nixon's fair housing legacy is then traced through each presidential administration from Gerald Ford to Bill Clinton and detected in the decisions of Nixon's Federal Court appointees.

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326

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Cambridge University Press

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1139444182

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9781139444187

Moving Pictures

American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910

By: Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser

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Moving Pictures

American Art and Early Film, 1880-1910

By: Nancy Mowll Mathews,Charles Musser

Explores the complex relationship between American art and the new medium of film.

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212

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Hudson Hills

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1555952283

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9781555952280

The French in Love and War

Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars

By: Charles Rearick

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The French in Love and War

Popular Culture in the Era of the World Wars

By: Charles Rearick

Describes developments in French popular culture between 1914 and 1945, and argues that the harsh times led to the emergence of images glorifying the common Frenchman in songs, film, and popular literature

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350

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Yale University Press

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0300064330

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9780300064339

Republican Populist

Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America

By: Charles J. Holden,Zach Messitte,Jerald Podair

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Republican Populist

Spiro Agnew and the Origins of Donald Trump's America

By: Charles J. Holden,Zach Messitte,Jerald Podair

Typically a maligned figure in American political history, former vice president Spiro T. Agnew is often overlooked. Although he is largely remembered for his alliterative speeches, attacks on the media and East Coast intellectuals, and his resignation from office in 1973 in the wake of tax evasion charges, Agnew had a significant impact on the modern Republican Party that is underappreciated. It is impossible, in fact, to understand the current internal struggles of the Republican Party without understanding this populist "everyman" and prototypical middle-class striver who was one of the first proponents of what would become the ideology of Donald Trump’s GOP. Republican Populist examines Agnew’s efforts to make the Republican Party representative of the "silent majority." Under the tutelage of a group of talented speechwriters assigned to Agnew by President Richard Nixon including Pat Buchanan and William Safire, Agnew crafted the populist-tinged, anti-establishment rhetoric that helped turn the Republican Party into a powerful national electoral force that has come to define American politics into the current era. A fascinating political portrait of Agnew from his pre–vice presidential career through his scandal-driven fall from office and beyond, this book is a revelatory examination of Agnew’s role as one of the founding fathers of the modern Republican Party and of the link between Agnew’s "people’s party" and the fraught party of populists and businessmen today.

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315

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University of Virginia Press

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0813943272

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9780813943275

The Handy Horse Book. A Manual for Every American Horse-Owner

By: Charles Embree Thorne,Alfred Tinkler Wilson

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The Handy Horse Book. A Manual for Every American Horse-Owner

By: Charles Embree Thorne,Alfred Tinkler Wilson

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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185

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385349621

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9783385349629

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Long Night’s Journey into Day

Long Night’s Journey into Day

The Origins of Informality

The Origins of Informality

Unspoiled Heart

Unspoiled Heart

Willie's Time

Willie's Time

Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960

Housing Segregation in Suburban America since 1960

Moving Pictures

Moving Pictures

The French in Love and War

The French in Love and War

Republican Populist

Republican Populist

The Handy Horse Book. A Manual for Every American Horse-Owner

The Handy Horse Book. A Manual for Every American Horse-Owner

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