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Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles
Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a driving force in the global extension of United States influence shortly after the nation's founding. Nancy Shoemaker contends that what she calls extraterritorial Americans constituted the vanguard of a vast, early US global expansion. Using as her site of historical investigation nineteenth-century Fiji, the "cannibal isles" of American popular culture, she uncovers stories of Americans looking for opportunities to rise in social status and enhance their sense of self. Prior to British colonizat...
Memoirs
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Salem, Massachusetts
Including many images that have never been published, Salem, Massachusetts Volume II captures one of Americaas most historic cities from the 1870s to the third quarter of the twentieth century. The photographs, drawn mainly from private collections, document the citizens of the area, their institutions, and their celebrations, as well as the neighborhoods that make up this vibrant city. Salem, Massachusetts Volume II represents an important contribution to the recorded history of the area and is a wonderful companion to the authorsa first book. This impressive pictorial collection will surely occupy a valued place on the bookshelves of residents and area historians for many years to come.
God with the Aged
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