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    A new history of the Age of Revolutions, from a Caribbean perspective.The Other French Revolution uncovers the Caribbean uprising that shocked the world before vanishing from memory. This revolution initially drew the attention of every major imperial power. Then, for centuries, only fragmented accounts of events in Grenada, Saint Vincent, Guadeloupe, and Saint Lucia persisted, while the full ... Read more

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    “A monumental piece of work . . . an amazing accomplishment and a pleasure to read.”—David Michaelis, author of Eleanor, the bestselling biography of Eleanor RooseveltOne of the most notorious German spies of the twentieth century, Lothar Witzke lived a life that reads like a thriller. Convicted of espionage in 1918, he was the only German spy sentenced to death by the United States during World ... Read more

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  • Rock And Roll

    A Social History

    Now updated with two new chapters and an extraordinary collection of photographs, this second edition of Paul Friedlander's Rock and Roll: A Social History is a smash hit. The social force of rock and roll music leaps off the page as Paul Friedlander provides impressive insights based on hits from Johnny B. Goode to Smells Like Teen Spirit and beyond. In this musical journey, Friedlander offers ... Read more

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    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    "What have I in common with Jews? I hardly have anything in common with myself!"--Franz KafkaKafka's quip--paradoxical, self-questioning, ironic--highlights vividly some of the key issues of identity and self-representation for Jewish writers in the 20th century. No group of writers better represents the problems of Jewish identity than Jewish poets writing in the American modernist tradition- ... Read more

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