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  • ...onflict between hopes for freedom among those enslaved, demands of liberty from those colonized, and the fears of those grasping at post revolutionary calm ...rts of the majority of every age.” Using archival sources and interviews from survivors, James provides a case study of the Haitian Revolution. Black Jac
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  • ...000 in 1901 to 900,000 in 1912). Moreover, the S.P. tripled its membership from 41,751 in 1908 to 117,984 in 1912. The Socialist Party heightened class-con ...f and the mythology surrounding it faded as historians released themselves from “popular historical memory.” While newer histories provide a more compl
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  • ...pirate goods is also a sort of noise in the total system of communication from the perspective of Western media corporations, who would rather see the lea ...e are not being with each other when we talk; we are sending things to and from each other.
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  • ...role has the public sphere played for Americans? How has the role changed from the nineteenth through the twentieth century and how did it contribute to t ...irst had to attain a space within it since “women were patently excluded from the bourgeois public sphere …. [placed in] a separate realm called the pr
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  • ...Herman, and Noam Chomsky explore this tension in numerous ways and venues from the post war mass media to contemporary Asian American literature. Ultimate ...ll economic and social citizenship.” Moreover, fewer individuals climbed from the working class to the middle class via the bill. Instead, the bill tende
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  • ...ure in the Age of White Flight|Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles]] (2004). * Beth Bailey. [[From Front Porch to Back Seat|From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America]] (1989).
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  • *Hofstadter, Richard. The Age of Reform: From Bryan to F.D.R. *Kennedy, David M., Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945.
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  • * Kennedy, David. Freedom From Fear. * Katz, Michael, The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare
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  • ...and Leisure in Turn of the Century New York'' all explored women’s lives from the vantage point of their own agency. Though each work acknowledged the in .... While patriotism remained one, others such as economic necessity, escape from the home, desire for social independence, and preventing loneliness or anxi
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  • ...s absorbed “a steady drumbeat of racist remarks, insults, and slights” from white shipyard workers. Moreover, Naval Intelligence regarded blacks as sub ...on on the street selling or posing or hawking wares and services to haoles from the mainland was of pure or mixed, Japanese, Puerto Rican, Hawaiian, Portug
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  • ...nations, and the dichotomy served well when the opponent became communism. Freedom came to represent the free choices conferred by capitalism and democracy: ...ure of both parties’ platform rhetoric by the early 1950s… The term ‘freedom of choice’ with which the jugglery was done was accordingly fuzzy and ind
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  • ...and Choosers begins with the following quote from a Kenneth Cole shoes ad from 1996: ...my choice" rhetoric of the abortion rights movement comes from, not purely from consumerism per se.
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  • ...hs to illustrate the complexities of developments that did not stem wholly from the antipathy that some men held toward women. Instead, Plant traces the de ...rs to what effect the role of women in the 1930s affected Wylie’s views. From the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, women exerted a distinct i
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  • * Foner, Eric. [[The Story of American Freedom]]. New York: Norton, 1999. ...ndians' New World | The Indians’ New World: Catawbas and Their Neighbors From European Contact to the Era of Removal]]. Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 1989.
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  • ...Tone, Elizabeth Watkins, and Lara Marks, to trace the history of the pill from its development and approval in the 1950s and 60s to its use today, explori ...oided pregnancy, she risked a tarnished reputation,” whereas male sexual freedom was always considered natural (58).
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  • | name = Early Years of the American Republic: From the End of the Revolution to the First Administration of Washington (1783-1 ...r, a Marxist historian, takes a look at the American Republic in the years from the Articles of Confederation to the first administration of Washington in
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  • ...us life of these women. She highlighted a considerable number of sisters, from those who had decided to work in circuses to those who lived in monasteries ...lin says, “Tucked into the album are congratulatory cards, including one from the abbess, Sister Rucia. In closing, her message says, ‘I look forward
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  • ...gai reveals that the fear of Chinese laborers crossing physical boundaries from Canada and Mexico were misplaced, instead many of the immigrants posed as p ...gal aliens that remapped territorial boundaries through travel were barred from national membership.
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  • ...us life of these women. She highlighted a considerable number of sisters, from those who had decided to work in circuses to those who lived in monasteries ...lin says, “Tucked into the album are congratulatory cards, including one from the abbess, Sister Rucia. In closing, her message says, ‘I look forward
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  • ...us life of these women. She highlighted a considerable number of sisters, from those who had decided to work in circuses to those who lived in monasteries ...lin says, “Tucked into the album are congratulatory cards, including one from the abbess, Sister Rucia. In closing, her message says, ‘I look forward
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