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For most of New York's early history, Ellis Island had been an obscure little island that barely held itself above high tide. Today the small island stands alon
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-03-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unn
Safe Passage
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Authors: Kori Schake
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-11-27 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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History records only one peaceful transition of hegemonic power: the passage from British to American dominance of the international order. To explain why this
American Passage
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Authors: Katherine Grandjean
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-05 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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New England was built on letters. Its colonists left behind thousands of them, brittle and browning and crammed with curls of purplish script. How they were del
Middle Passage
Language: en
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Authors: Charles Johnson
Categories: Fiction
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A twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Charles Johnson’s National Book Award-winning masterpiece—"a novel in the tradition of Billy Budd and Moby-Dick…hero