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Embracing America: A Cuban Exile Comes of Age

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American Selections from the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art

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The Politics of Disaster: Tracking the Impact of Hurricane Andrew

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Black Labor Migration in Caribbean Guatemala, 18821923

In the late nineteenth century, many Central American governments and countries sought to fill low-paying jobs and develop their economies by recruiting black American and West Indian laborers. Frederick Douglass Opie offers a revisionist interpretation of the lives of these workers, who were often depicted as simple victims with little, if any, enduring legacy. 

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The Circus Kings: Our Ringling Family Story

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William Bartram and the Ghost Plantations of British East Florida

William Bartram denied their existence; history buried their stories

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Opening the Gates to Canal Cuisine: Preserving the American Era

This incredible cookbook, filled with hundreds of recipes that were used by people of all nationalities during the American Era, represents the merging of all those cultures. It aims to preserve the unique cultural and historical heritage of those dedicated men and women who labored to make the Canal truly one of the World’s greatest accomplishments.

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An Incurable Past: Nasser's Egypt Then and Now

Examining history not as it was recorded, but as it is remembered, <I>An Incurable Past</I> contextualizes the classist and deeply disappointing post-Nasserist period that has inspired todays Egyptian revolutionaries.

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Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric

Drawing on archival materials, including notes, correspondence, and marginalia, W. Jason Miller provides a completely original and compelling argument that Hughes's influence on King's rhetoric was, in fact, evident in more than just the one famous speech.

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Isotope Research in Zooarchaeology: Methods, Applications, and Advances

Through case studies of faunal remains from Roman Britain, prehistoric Southeast Asia, ancient African pastoral cultures, and beyond, this volume illustrates some of the ways stable isotope analysis of ancient animals can address key questions in human prehistory.