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“kylie a hulbert”

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  • The Untold War at Sea

    America’s Revolutionary Privateers

    by Kylie A. Hulbert ...
    Efforts upon the waves played a critical role in European and Anglo-American conflicts throughout the eighteenth century. Yet the oft-told narrative of the American Revolution tends to focus on battles on American soil or the debates and decisions of the Continental Congress. The Untold War at Sea is the first book to place American privateers and their experiences during the War for Independence ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Martial Culture, Silver Screen

    War Movies and the Construction of American Identity

    by Kylie A. Hulbert, Brian Matthew Jordan, Andrew Graybill, Jason Phillips, James "Trae" Welborn III, Liz Clarke, Jessica Chapman, David Kieran, Meredith Lair, Andrew C. McKevitt, Richard N. Grippaldi, Calvin Fagan ...
    Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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  • The Slave Ship

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    In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the dark depths of slave ships in the 18th century.In this widely praised history of an infamous institution, award-winning scholar Marcus Rediker shines a light into the darkest corners of the British and American slave ships of the eighteenth century. With meticulous detail, Rediker uncovers the harsh ... Read more

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  • Life: The Movie

    How Entertainment Conquered Reality

    by Neal Gabler ...
    The story of how our bottomless appetite for novelty, gossip, and melodrama has turned everything—news, politics, religion, high culture—into one vast public entertainment.Neal Gabler calls them "lifies," those blockbusters written in the medium of life that dominate the media and the national conversation for weeks, months, even years: the death of Princess Diana, the trial of O.J. Simpson, ... Read more

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  • Bury the Chains

    Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves

    by Adam Hochschild ...
    From the author of King Leopold's Ghost, a narrative history of the social justice campaign formed in the fight to free the slaves of the British Empire.In early 1787, twelve men—a printer, a lawyer, a clergyman, and others united by their hatred of slavery—came together in a London printing shop and began the world's first grass-roots movement, battling for the rights of people on another ... Read more

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  • Friendly Fire : American Images of the Vietnam War

    American Images of the Vietnam War

    by Katherine Kinney ...
    Hundreds of memoirs novels plays and movies have been devoted to the American war in Vietnam. In spite of the great variety of media political perspectives and the degrees of seriousness with which the war has been treated Katherine Kinney argues that the vast majority of these works share a single story: that of Americans killing Americans in Vietnam. Friendly Fire in this instance refers not ... Read more

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  • Hoodwinked

    How Intellectual Hucksters Have Hijacked American Culture

    by Jack Cashill ...
    For the last century, many intellectuals and activists responsible for shaping the way we think about sex, crime, government, and even our very history have been fabricating the facts. And yet they have been published, praised, promoted, and protected by a cultural establishment that has its agendas advanced by disinformation, half-truths, and lies.As a student of American intellectual history, ... Read more

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  • Love and Hate in Jamestown

    John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

    by David A. Price ...
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  • Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay

    From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars

    by Jamie L.H. Goodall ...
    "An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering." — WYPRThe story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy.From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the ... Read more

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  • The End of Victory Culture

    Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation

    by Thomas M. Engelhardt ...
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    In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty-first century. He explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden, “Wanted, Dead or Alive”); how his administration brought “victory culture” roaring back ... Read more

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  • Loyalists and Layabouts

    The Rapid Rise and Faster Fall of Shelburne, Nova Scotia, 1783-1792

    by Stephen Kimber ...
    Marking the 225th anniversary of loyalist landings in Canada, this important and comprehensive history is essential reading on the shaping of our country.The few hundred loyalists who gathered at Roubalet’s Tavern in New York on the night of Saturday, November 16, 1782, shared a vision of the future intended to sustain them through the nightmare of the present. Abandoned by the king to whom they ... Read more

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