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American Freemasons
Three Centuries of Building Communities
Published in conjunction with the National Heritage Museum, this illustrated volume offers a brief overview of Freemasonry's origins in 17th-century Scotland and England before exploring its evolving role in American history, from the Revolution through the labour and civil rights movements, and into the 21st century.
ISBN-13: 9780814782927 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Mark A. Tabbert
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AUD $109.00
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Local release date: 30/06/2005
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Freemasonry & secret societies [JFSV1]USA [1KBB]

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Bananas and Business
The United Fruit Company in Colombia, 1899-2000
For well over a century, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) has been the most vilified multinational corporation operating in Latin America. Using a previously unexplored source - the internal archives of Colombia's UFCO operation - Bucheli examines the company.
ISBN-13: 9780814799345 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Marcelo Bucheli
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AUD $141.00
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Local release date: 03/03/2005
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Agriculture & related industries [KNAC]Colombia [1KLSC]20th century [3JJ]

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Masterworks of Technology
The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Design
The continually increasing technological sophistication has led from the simple wheel, designed to make transportation of goods and people easier, all the way to space travel - with a multitude of intervening steps. This title traces these steps along the path to our modern technological sophistication.
ISBN-13: 9781591022435 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
E. E. Lewis
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Local release date: 30/11/2004
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Technology: general issues [TB]

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722 Miles
The Building of the Subways and How They Transformed New York
For the subway's centennial the author supplies a new foreward explaining that now, after a century, "we can see more clearly than ever that this rapid transit system is among the twentieth century's greatest urban achievements."
ISBN-13: 9780801880544 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Clifton Hood
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Local release date: 23/08/2004
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Trains & railways: general interest [WGF]New York [1KBBEY]

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Rebels on the Air
An Alternative History of Radio in America
A history of alternative radio.
ISBN-13: 9780814793824 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Jesse Walker
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Local release date: 01/07/2004
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Categories: Radio [APW]History: specific events & topics [HBT]USA [1KBB]

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Mental Retardation in America
A Historical Reader
A collection of essays and documents chronicilizing the history of treatment, labeling, and understanding of mental retardating in the U.S. NYUP is one the forefront of publishing in disability studies.
ISBN-13: 9780814782477 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Steven Noll, James Trent
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AUD $184.00
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Local release date: 02/03/2004
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Disability: social aspects [JFFG]USA [1KBB]

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Mental Retardation in America
A Historical Reader
A collection of essays and documents chronicilizing the history of treatment, labeling, and understanding of mental retardating in the U.S. NYUP is one the forefront of publishing in disability studies.
ISBN-13: 9780814782484 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Steven Noll, James Trent
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Local release date: 02/03/2004
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Disability: social aspects [JFFG]USA [1KBB]

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Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State
Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation Between Church and State offers an in-depth examination of the origins, controversial uses, and competing interpretations of this powerful metaphor in law and public policy.
ISBN-13: 9780814719367 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Daniel Dreisbach
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Local release date: 30/10/2003
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Christianity [HRC]Political structure & processes [JPH]USA [1KBB]

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No Escape
Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights
No Escape proves that liberal government and nationalism can mutually reinforce each other, taking as its example a preeminent and seemingly universal liberal legal right, freedom of speech, and illustrating how it can function in a way that actually reproduces nationally exclusive conditions of power.
ISBN-13: 9780814766965 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Paul Passavant
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Local release date: 30/10/2003
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Categories: History: specific events & topics [HBT]Freedom of information & freedom of speech [JPVH2]USA [1KBB]