The American Far West in the twentieth century / Earl Pomeroy ; edited by Richard W. Etulain ; foreword by Howard R. Lamar. by Pomeroy, Earl S. (Earl Spencer), 1915-2005

Table of Contents: “…The West in 1901 -- Agricultural frontiers : new farms and family farmers -- Agricultural frontiers : farming on new scales -- New forms of economic growth -- Economic growth from the 1940s -- The urban occupation of the West : rails, roads, and cities -- Rails, roads, and cities from the Second World War -- Social relations and social attitudes : cultural bases -- Social relations and social attitudes : putting down roots : agencies of acculturation -- Western politics -- Expanding electorates -- Frontiers of land and opportunity : the variously Far West.…”
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Discovering the Dutch : On Culture and Society of the Netherlands / edited by Emmeline Besamusca, Jaap Verheul.

Table of Contents: “…Citizens, Coalitions and the Crown -- The Economy of the Polder -- Dilemmas of the Welfare State -- Randstad Holland -- Idealism and Self-Interest in World Politics -- From the Periphery to the Center -- The Golden Age -- A Tradition of Tolerance -- Politics between Accommodation and Commotion -- The Second World War: Dilemmas of Occupation -- The Making of Rembrandt and Van Gogh -- Style and Lifestyle in Architecture -- Literature, Authors and Public Debate -- Three Feminist Waves -- Excellence and Egalitarianism in Higher Education -- Religious Diversification or Secularization? …”
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Defending whose country? : Indigenous soldiers in the Pacific war / Noah Riseman. by Riseman, Noah J.

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction: Reading Colonialism and Indigenous Involvement in the Second World War; 1. An Exception in the Equation? Donald Thomson and the NTSRU; 2. …”
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The return of the epic film : genre, aesthetics and history in the twenty-first century / edited by Andrew B.R. Elliot.

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Epics and Ancient History; 2 Sir Ridley Scott and the Rebirth of the Historical Epic; 3 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and America since the Second World War: Some Cinematic Parallels; 4 'There's Nothing So Wrong with a Hollywood Script That a Bunch of Giant CGI Scorpions Can't Solve': Politics, Computer Generated Images and Camp in the Critical Reception of the Post-Gladiator Historical Epics; 5 Popcorn and Circus: An Audience Expects; Part II Epic Aesthetics and Genre.…”
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D-Day remembered : the Normandy landings in American collective memory / Michael R. Dolski. by Dolski, Michael, 1978-

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A German catastrophe? : German historians and the Allied bombings, 1945-2010 / Bas von Benda-Beckmann. by Benda-Beckmann, Bastiaan Robert von

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Modern music and after / Paul Griffiths. by Griffiths, Paul, 1947 November 24-

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Modern literature and the tragic / K.M. Newton. by Newton, K. M.

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The origins of the grand alliance : Anglo-American military collaboration from the Panay incident to Pearl Harbor / William T. Johnsen. by Johnsen, William Thomas, 1952-

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Recoding gender : women's changing participation in computing / Janet Abbate. by Abbate, Janet

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