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Facing the Pacific
The enduring popularity of Polynesia in western literature, art, and film attests to the pleasures that Pacific islands have, over the centuries, afforded the consuming gaze of the west—connoting solitude, release from cares, and, more recently, self-renewal away from urbanized modern life. Facing the Pacific is the first study to offer a detailed look at the United States’ intense engagement with the myth of the South Seas just after the First World War, when, at home, a popular vogue for all things Polynesian seemed to echo the expansion of U.S. imperialist activities abroad. Jeffrey Geiger looks at a variety of texts that helped to invent a vision of Polynesia for U.S. audiences, focu...
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Blue Book
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The Telegraph-herald's abridged history of the state of Iowa and directory of Fayette County, including the city of Oelwein, with a complete classified business directory
The Telegraph-herald's abridged history of the state of Iowa and directory of Fayette County, including the city of Oelwein, with a complete classified business directory
The Law Recorder
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General Register
Announcements for the following year included in some vols.
Report of Special Committee on Volunteering, Embracing a Complete Statement of Operations in Filling the Quota of the County of New York Under the Call of the President, Dated July 18, 1864, for 500,000 Men
Report includes financial statements of bounties paid to volunteers, a listing of persons who deposited money with the Committee in order to obtain substitutes for them, a listing of the substitutes for Army and Navy service by Congressional District, a listing of Army Volunteers in 1864, a listing of reenlistments, and naval recruits.
