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A history of the United States in 1898. Traxel describes the United States at the end of the 19th century as a society poised on the brink of maturity, with a nascent empire, a booming economy, and a vast influx of immigrants. AUTHOR: David Traxel
PUBLISHER: Knopf Publishing Group
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History 
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 | The Puerto Rican Nation on the Move by Jorge Duany
Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952. Jorge Duany uses previously untapped primary sources to bring new insights to questions of Puerto Rican identity, nationalism, and migration. Drawing a distinction between political and cultural nationalism, Duany argues that the Puerto Rican nation must be understood as a new kind of translocal entity with deep cultural continuities. He documents a strong sharing of culture between island and mainland, with diasporic communities tightly linked to island life by a steady circular migration. Duany explores the Puerto Rican sense of nationhood by looking at cultural representations produced by Puerto Ricans and considering how others--American anthropologists, photographers, and museum curators, for example--have represented the nation. His sources of information include ethnographic fieldwork, archival research, interviews, surveys, censuses, newspaper articles, personal documents, and literary texts. AUTHOR: Jorge Duany
PUBLISHER: The University of North Carolina Press
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Inside Delta Force by Eric Haney
This insider`s story of America`s most elite counter-terrorist team reveals the special training that members go through, and reveals what it is like to go on its covert missions. The author was a founding member of Delta Force, the existence of which is never even acknowledged by the government. AUTHOR: Eric Haney
PUBLISHER: Dell Publishing
FORMAT: Paperback
CATEGORY: History
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 | Secrets by Daniel Ellsberg
Description not available.Three decades after making history by releasing the Pentagon Papers, the former U.S. Marine and Pentagon insider reveals why he did it and discusses the consequences to his life. 75,000 first printing. AUTHOR: Daniel Ellsberg
PUBLISHER: Viking Penguin
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Spies in the Vatican by David J. Alvarez
Description not available.The Vatican's role in modern-day espionage is probed in a lively account of an often overlooked topic, ranging from Napolean through World War II. (History) AUTHOR: David J. Alvarez
PUBLISHER: University Press of Kansas
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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 | Anne Frank by Johanna Hurwitz, Vera Rosenberry
A biography of a young Jewish girl made famous after her death in the Holocaust by the publishing of her diary detailing the two years her family hid from the Nazis during World War II. AUTHOR: Johanna Hurwitz, Vera Rosenberry
PUBLISHER: Jewish Publication Society
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: History
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