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British Criminal and Legal History Top Ten Booklist
...ions to the contrary, legal history can extraordinarily fascinating. Legal history explores the conflicts that arise from civilization. A deft legal historian If you're even remotely familiar with the field of British criminal and legal history, no doubt you've seen John Beattie’s [https://www.amazon.com/gp/produc

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Hollywood and Communism: How Did ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' Support Marxist Ideology
...ston and his cast, we will discover that the message addresses significant political and economic issues. ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' supports Marxist ...ach other) are destitute members of the labor class who no longer fit into American society. They struggle daily to exist without purpose or intention until th

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Civil War Battles Top Ten Booklist
...ere are more self-published books on the American Civil War than any other American historical topic. ...nly looks at the military aspects of the conflict, but also the social and political aspects that influenced and shaped the battle. This is the best book to sta

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Privateering during the War of 1812: Interview with Faye M. Kert
...h the United States and Great Britain that normalized piracy. Canadian and American ship owners and investors took advantage of it and funded privateering outf ...Hopkins University Press] "highlights the economic, strategic, social and political impact of privateering" and explains why the dangers of piracy ultimately c

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How did modern boxing emerge
...Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative Analysis of Policies among American States. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, pg. 23.</ref> ...the rise of boxing in Europe, see: Boddy, Kasia. 2009. Boxing: A Cultural History. First paperback pr. London: Reaktion.</ref> In particular, swords became l

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Reserve Police Battalion 101: How Did Ordinary Citizens Become Killers Under the Third Reich
...faced with a moral dilemma. Executing civilians, regardless of ethnicity, political agenda, or religion, did not coincide with the humane composition of certai ...men of the 101st were in fact ordinary and common to us all. For example, American veterans of the Vietnam “conflict” still exhibit symptoms of PTSD more

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American Surveillance: Interview with Anthony Gregory
...08804&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=88f43e98245c09932f516c1eb8248040 American Surveillance] by Anthony Gregory]] ...://uwpress.wisc.edu/index.html University of Wisconsin Press] examines the history of surveillance in the United States and grapples with these problems. He e

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How Did Slavery Develop
...as been used as a form of punishment or to deal with prisoners of war. The history of this institution has, however, evolved over the millennia. ...he origins of slavery, see: Heuman, G. J. (Ed.). (2012). The Routledge History of Slavery (1. publ. in paperback). London: Routledge.</ref>. Initially

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Why are there so many Monuments to the Confederacy across the United States
.../</ref> While in recent years these monuments have become a new source of political conversation their very erection was a movement by Confederate women. ...ef>Mills, Monuments, 141.</ref> These actions epitomize the postwar political climate during which Confederate Veterans and their children dominated the

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Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara
...t famous and infamous security guard and detective agency in United States history. Pinkerton originally created the agency to help railroad companies investi ...capitalists used the Pinkertons to enforce new structures of economic and political order." Professor Maury Klein had said that the book not only explains how

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How Historically Accurate is season 1 of Victoria
The show focuses on political rivalries that were occurring at the time in the late 1830s between the Tor ...nce Albert, see: James, R.R. (1984) Prince Albert: a biography. 1st American ed. New York, Knopf : Distributed by Random House.</ref>

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What Mistakes did the Allies make during Operation Overlord on D-Day
...rmor and killing squads sent east to execute and imprison Russian Jews and political prisoners. The Western front Stalin had been insisting upon was finally com The American Airborne transported its paratroopers via C-47 transport planes, which were

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How did Father's Day develop
...ditions and roots, although most modern celebrations are influenced by the American-style celebration. Nevertheless, Fatherhood has been celebrated for centuri ====Early History====

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What textiles were British women bringing with them to India
...teractions between the British and the native Indians changed to match the political situation. Where before the Europeans living in India had embraced Indian c ...hin the ruling core of the Raj. From there it descended through the Indian Political Service, Indian Medical Service, the Public Works Department, and the Europ

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Why Did Helen Keller Become a Socialist
...ame, however, not many know that Keller was also a prominent figure in the American socialist movement: a champion of the working class against industrial oppr ..., silence, and darkness that many marginalized groups were experiencing in American society during the 1910s, the period just after Keller graduated from Radcl

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What Were the Circumstances Surrounding the Battle of the Washita River
...After the four years of the “brothers’ war,” the cultural, economic, political, social, and regional fabric of the United States was drastically altered u ...d the western U.S. as hunters and settlers encroached on designated Native American lands. Many of the tribes of the Plains were nomadic and relied on the buff

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Scratching the Surface of “Everyday Forms of State Formation”
...(374) and, ultimately, whether hegemony is a “problematic, contested, political process of domination and struggle” (358) that is inherently fragile and ...ate with local experiences, values and practices in order to maintain both political equilibrium and a degree of popular consent? None of the articles claim to

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A Study of Subaltern Studies
...ot backward and ‘pre-political’, but instead active agent in their own political destiny, experiencing “dominance without hegemony” (Chakrabarty 21) and ...icle "Situating and Rethinking Subaltern Studies for Writing Working Class History" that point out the archival limitations mentioned above, as well as many o

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Jochen Hellbeck’s Revolution on My Mind, Writing a Diary under Stalin
...his thesis, while also providing a solid historical background of social, political, and cultural factors that shaped the lives and perspectives of the people *[[American Revolution Top Ten Booklist]]

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The Power of Women and Peru's Shining Path
...ian women through their inclusion in the Revolution, nor neutralized their political agency through their co-optation into a patriarchal organization, but rathe Several scholars have studied the political, economic, and social context of the rise of the Shining Path, and a brief

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