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Literacy in American Lives
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Looks at the the role of literacy learning over the past century and the impact it has had on people born between 1895 and 1985.Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics ...
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This 2003 book discusses how new ways of thinking about language have uncovered previously 'legitimated' linguistic and social inequalities.The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the ...
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The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth begin in Northwest Europe, despite surprising similarities between advanced areas of Europe and East Asia?New world coming: the 1920s and the making of modern America
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A history of the 1920s documents such events as voting rights for women, the Jazz Age, the release of the Model T Ford, and Lindberg's flight over the Atlantic, noting its most significant contributors, its social movements, and the terms ...The Fated Sky: Astrology in History
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An exploration of astrology's impact on history considers such topics as the fervent observance of astrology by notable Greeks and Romans, St. Thomas Aquinas's belief that astrology was compatible with Christianity, and the astrological ...Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of ...
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This book represents social history on a grand scale, imaginatively conceived and massively researched. Norton brilliantly portrays a dramatic transformation of women's private lives in the wake of the Revolution.Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
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This book sets out to defend the claim that politics is a linguistically constituted activity, and to show that the concepts that inform political beliefs and behavior have historically mutable meanings that have undergone changes related ...The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology
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The Oxford Handbook of Maritime Archaeology is a comprehensive survey of the field at a time when maritime archaeology has established itself as a mature branch of archaeology.Tales of the Barbarians: Ethnography and Empire in the ...
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Providing a fresh perspective on the topic by examining passages from ancient writers in a new light, Woolf explores how ancient geography, local histories and the stories of wandering heroes were woven together by Greek scholars and local ...The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop?
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Details the story of a group of engaging and courageous young people known as Los Intocables and their fight for justice, in an account of the murder of Guatemalan bishop Juan Gerardi, the country's leading human rights activist.