HOTCUS 2024

Historians of the Twentieth Century United States Annual Conference

19 – 21 June 2024

Combined Academic Publishers Virtual book Exhibit

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Stolen Fragments

Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts

£25.00

Hardcover

Stanford University Press

24 September 2024

Nelson Rockefeller's Dilemma

The Fight to Save Moderate Republicanism

£28.99

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Cornell University Press

15 August 2024

Enemies among Us

The Relocation, Internment, and Repatriation of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during the Second World War

£27.99

Paperback

Nebraska

1 August 2024

America's Cold Warrior

Paul Nitze and National Security from Roosevelt to Reagan

£25.99

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Cornell University Press

15 July 2024

Compliments of Hamilton and Sargent

A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Gilded Age Frontier

£23.99

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Bison Books

1 July 2024

F*ck The Army!

How Soldiers and Civilians Staged the GI Movement to End the Vietnam War

£23.99

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NYU Press

18 June 2024

Microbial Resolution

Visualization and Security in the War against Emerging Microbes

£21.99

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University of Minnesota Press

18 June 2024

Mission Manifest

American Evangelicals and Iran in the Twentieth Century

£45.00

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Cornell University Press

15 June 2024

Meltdown Expected

Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s

£21.99

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Rutgers University Press

17 May 2024

The Threshold of Dissent

A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism

£23.99

Hardcover

NYU Press

7 May 2024

Predicting the Winner

The Untold Story of Election Night 1952 and the Dawn of Computer Forecasting

£31.00

Hardcover

Potomac Books

1 May 2024

The Green Space

The Transformation of the Irish Image

£27.99

Hardcover

NYU Press

23 April 2024

Organizing Your Own

The White Fight for Black Power in Detroit

£27.99

Hardcover

NYU Press

16 April 2024

Eisenhower for Our Time

£19.99

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Cornell University Press

15 April 2024

Dream Car

Malcolm Bricklin's Fantastic SV1 and the End of Industrial Modernity

£25.99

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University of Toronto Press

5 April 2024

A Ministry of Risk

Writings on Peace and Nonviolence

£19.99

Paperback

Fordham University Press

2 April 2024

Cold War Deceptions

The Asia Foundation and the CIA

£27.99

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University of Washington Press

19 March 2024

Engaging the Evil Empire

Washington, Moscow, and the Beginning of the End of the Cold War

£23.99

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Cornell University Press

15 March 2024

Holding Their Breath

How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II

£23.99

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Cornell University Press

15 March 2024

People's Diplomacy

How Americans and Chinese Transformed US-China Relations during the Cold War

£24.99

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Cornell University Press

15 March 2024

Public Faces, Secret Lives

A Queer History of the Women's Suffrage Movement

£15.99

Paperback

NYU Press

1 March 2024

A Home Away from Home

Mutual Aid, Political Activism, and Caribbean American Identity

£35.00

Hardcover

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

13 February 2024

Free Time

The History of an Elusive Ideal

£27.99

Hardcover

NYU Press

13 February 2024

Chicagoland Dream Houses

How a Mid-Century Architecture Competition Reimagined the American Home

£19.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

23 January 2024

Chicago’s Modern Mayors

From Harold Washington to Lori Lightfoot

£19.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

23 January 2024

Happy Days

Images of the Pre-Sixties Past in Seventies America

£25.99

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Rutgers University Press

12 January 2024

American Patriots

A Short History of Dissent

£23.99

Hardcover

NYU Press

9 January 2024

The Long War on Drugs

£20.99

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Duke University Press Books

15 December 2023

Branding Trust

Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America

£39.00

Hardcover

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

5 December 2023

Of Love and War

Pacific Brides of World War II

£45.00

Hardcover

Nebraska

1 December 2023

The Political Lives of Infrastructure

£10.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

24 November 2023

The Great Kosher Meat War of 1902

Immigrant Housewives and the Riots That Shook New York City

£20.99

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Potomac Books

1 November 2023

The Propaganda of Freedom

JFK, Shostakovich, Stravinsky, and the Cultural Cold War

£27.99

Hardcover

University of Illinois Press

26 September 2023

Walkers in the City

Jewish Street Photographers of Midcentury New York

£28.99

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 September 2023

The Wrong War

American Policy and the Dimensions of the Korean Conflict, 1950–1953

£23.99

Paperback

Cornell University Press

15 September 2023

Richard Nixon

California's Native Son

£28.99

Hardcover

Potomac Books

1 September 2023

Portrait of a City

Lincoln, Nebraska, at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

£23.99

Paperback

Bison Books

1 September 2023

Forgotten Casualties

Downed American Airmen and Axis Violence in World War II

£19.99

Paperback

Fordham University Press

1 August 2023

Transpacific Reform and Revolution

The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918

£58.00

Hardcover

Stanford University Press

25 July 2023

Mr. Associated Press

Kent Cooper and the Twentieth-Century World of News

£23.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

20 June 2023

Rockin' in the Ivory Tower

Rock Music on Campus in the Sixties

£27.99

Paperback

Rutgers University Press

16 June 2023

Race and Role

The Mixed-Race Asian Experience in American Drama

£25.99

Paperback

Rutgers University Press

16 June 2023

The First Atomic Bomb

The Trinity Site in New Mexico

£50.00

Hardcover

Nebraska

1 June 2023

Vanishing Point

The Search for a B-24 Bomber Crew Lost on the World War II Home Front

£23.99

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 May 2023

Unguarded Border

American Émigrés in Canada during the Vietnam War

£25.99

Paperback

Rutgers University Press

12 May 2023

Reporting World War II

£27.99

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Fordham University Press

25 April 2023

Dreams for a Decade

International Nuclear Abolitionism and the End of the Cold War

£35.00

Hardcover

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

18 April 2023

Charles Austin Beard

The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism

£24.99

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Cornell University Press

15 April 2023

The Price of Truth

The Journalist Who Defied Military Censors to Report the Fall of Nazi Germany

£24.99

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 April 2023

The Synchronized Society

Time and Control From Broadcasting to the Internet

£29.99

Paperback

Rutgers University Press

17 March 2023

Speaking Yiddish to Chickens

Holocaust Survivors on South Jersey Poultry Farms

£25.99

Paperback

Rutgers University Press

17 March 2023

Holding Their Breath

How the Allies Confronted the Threat of Chemical Warfare in World War II

£108.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 March 2023

Judgment and Mercy

The Turbulent Life and Times of the Judge Who Condemned the Rosenbergs

£27.99

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 March 2023

The Jews of Summer

Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America

£21.99

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Stanford University Press

21 February 2023

The Olympics that Never Happened

Denver '76 and the Politics of Growth

£32.00

Hardcover

University of Texas Press

14 February 2023

The Silver Women

How Black Women’s Labor Made the Panama Canal

£31.00

Hardcover

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

31 January 2023

The Bosses' Union

How Employers Organized to Fight Labor before the New Deal

£23.99

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University of Illinois Press

24 January 2023

Dangerous Intercourse

Gender and Interracial Relations in the American Colonial Philippines, 1898–1946

£48.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 January 2023

The Politics of Trash

How Governments Used Corruption to Clean Cities, 1890–1929

£32.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 January 2023

Breaking Point

The Ironic Evolution of Psychiatry in World War II

£23.99

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Fordham University Press

3 January 2023

The Foundations of Glen Canyon Dam

Infrastructures of Dispossession on the Colorado Plateau

£35.00

Hardcover

University of Texas Press

2 January 2023

Troublemakers

Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long 1960s

£19.99

Paperback

NYU Press

16 December 2022

Auden and the Muse of History

£23.99

Paperback

Stanford University Press

13 December 2022

The Dakota Way of Life

£28.99

Hardcover

Bison Books

1 December 2022

The Camp Fire Girls

Gender, Race, and American Girlhood, 1910–1980

£23.99

Paperback

Nebraska

1 December 2022

Fraying Fabric

How Trade Policy and Industrial Decline Transformed America

£23.99

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University of Illinois Press

22 November 2022

This Is My Jail

Local Politics and the Rise of Mass Incarceration

£31.00

Hardcover

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

15 November 2022

The "Puerto Rican Problem" in Postwar New York City

£27.99

Paperback

Rutgers University Press

11 November 2022

Conservatism in a Divided America

The Right and Identity Politics

£35.00

Hardcover

University of Notre Dame Press

1 November 2022

A Good Place to Do Business

The Politics of Downtown Renewal since 1945

£31.00

Paperback

Temple University Press

28 October 2022

Lured by the American Dream

Filipino Servants in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, 1952-1970

£19.99

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University of Illinois Press

25 October 2022

The Presidents and the Constitution, Volume Two

From World War I to the Trump Era

£16.99

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NYU Press

25 October 2022

Agents of Subversion

The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA's Covert War in China

£27.99

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 October 2022

1980

America's Pivotal Year

£23.99

Hardcover

Rutgers University Press

14 October 2022

The Rise and Fall of America's Concentration Camp Law

Civil Liberties Debates from the Internment to McCarthyism and the Radical 1960s

£23.99

Paperback

Temple University Press

14 October 2022

Memory Passages

Holocaust Memorials in the United States and Germany

£19.99

Paperback

Temple University Press

14 October 2022

The Glory and the Burden

The American Presidency from the New Deal to the Present, Expanded Edition

£16.99

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University of Notre Dame Press

1 October 2022

Antiquity in Gotham

The Ancient Architecture of New York City

£17.99

Paperback

Fordham University Press

20 September 2022

Photographs from Detroit, 1975–2019

£23.99

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Ohio University Press

20 September 2022

Freedom on the Offensive

Human Rights, Democracy Promotion, and US Interventionism in the Late Cold War

£39.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 September 2022

Labor's Outcasts

Migrant Farmworkers and Unions in North America, 1934-1966

£21.99

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University of Illinois Press

13 September 2022

Designing Pan-America

U.S. Architectural Visions for the Western Hemisphere

£35.00

Paperback

University of Texas Press

13 September 2022

The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume VI

The Struggle to Pass the 1960 Civil Rights Act, 1959–1960

£66.00

Hardcover

Ohio University Press

16 August 2022

The Ethics of Narrative

Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998–2007

£23.99

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Cornell University Press

15 August 2022

Three Midwestern Playwrights

How Floyd Dell, George Cram Cook, and Susan Glaspell Transformed American Theatre

£18.99

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Indiana University Press

2 August 2022

The Papers of Clarence Mitchell Jr., Volume V

The Struggle to Pass the 1957 Civil Rights Act, 1955–1958

£66.00

Hardcover

Ohio University Press

2 August 2022

Nannie Helen Burroughs

A Documentary Portrait of an Early Civil Rights Pioneer, 1900–1959

£27.99

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University of Notre Dame Press

15 July 2022

Paradoxes of Nostalgia

Cold War Triumphalism and Global Disorder since 1989

£23.99

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Duke University Press Books

15 July 2022

The Hegemon's Tool Kit

US Leadership and the Politics of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

£44.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 July 2022

If There Is No Struggle There Is No Progress

Black Politics in Twentieth-Century Philadelphia

£27.99

Paperback

Temple University Press

8 July 2022

Working in the Magic City

Moral Economy in Early Twentieth-Century Miami

£21.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

28 June 2022

Where Are the Workers?

Labor's Stories at Museums and Historic Sites

£21.99

Paperback

University of Illinois Press

28 June 2022

Surf and Rescue

George Freeth and the Birth of California Beach Culture

£19.99

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University of Illinois Press

28 June 2022

Warring Genealogies

Race, Kinship, and the Korean War

£21.99

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Temple University Press

24 June 2022

American Crusade

Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860–1920

£42.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 June 2022

Global Inequality and American Foreign Policy in the 1970s

£44.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 June 2022

Monetary Authorities

Capitalism and Decolonization in the American Colonial Philippines

£20.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

20 May 2022

Settler Garrison

Debt Imperialism, Militarism, and Transpacific Imaginaries

£21.99

Paperback

Duke University Press Books

20 May 2022

An American Friendship

Horace Kallen, Alain Locke, and the Development of Cultural Pluralism

£44.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 May 2022

Reliability and Alliance Interdependence

The United States and Its Allies in Asia, 1949–1969

£21.99

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Cornell University Press

15 May 2022

Psychoanalysis and History

£11.99

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Duke University Press Books

9 May 2022

Fierce and Fearless

Patsy Takemoto Mink, First Woman of Color in Congress

£27.99

Hardcover

NYU Press

3 May 2022

The Middle Kingdom under the Big Sky

A History of the Chinese Experience in Montana

£45.00

Hardcover

Nebraska

1 May 2022

Cold War Paradise

Settlement, Culture, and Identity-Making among U.S. Americans in Costa Rica, 1945–1980

£23.99

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Nebraska

1 May 2022

America and the Holocaust

A Documentary History

£23.99

Paperback

The Jewish Publication Society

1 May 2022

Borderline Citizens

The United States, Puerto Rico, and the Politics of Colonial Migration

£25.99

Paperback

Cornell University Press

15 April 2022

The Pragmatic Ideal

Mary Field Parton and the Pursuit of a Progressive Society

£19.99

Paperback

Cornell University Press

15 April 2022

Chicanx Utopias

Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible

£27.99

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University of Texas Press

29 March 2022

Atomic Americans

Citizens in a Nuclear State

£44.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 March 2022

The Pecan

A History of America's Native Nut

£15.99

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University of Texas Press

15 March 2022

In Pursuit of Knowledge

Black Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

£17.99

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NYU Press

7 March 2022

Agent of Change

Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist

£23.99

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University of Texas Press

1 March 2022

Birthing the West

Mothers and Midwives in the Rockies and Plains

£19.99

Paperback

Bison Books

1 March 2022

More Precious than Peace

A New History of America in World War I

£27.99

Hardcover

University of Notre Dame Press

1 March 2022

An American Brothel

Sex and Diplomacy during the Vietnam War

£34.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 February 2022

Love Your Asian Body

AIDS Activism in Los Angeles

£23.99

Paperback

University of Washington Press

15 February 2022

The Atlantic Realists

Empireand International Political Thought Between Germany and the United States

£24.99

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Stanford University Press

8 February 2022

America's Last Great Newspaper War

The Death of Print in a Two-Tabloid Town

£16.99

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1000

1 February 2022

A "Jewish Marshall Plan"

The American Jewish Presence in Post-Holocaust France

£23.99

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Indiana University Press

1 February 2022

Freeze!

The Grassroots Movement to Halt the Arms Race and End the Cold War

£45.00

Hardcover

Cornell University Press

15 January 2022

Beyond Benevolence

The New York Charity Organization Society and the Transformation of American Social Welfare, 1882–1935

£35.00

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Indiana University Press

4 January 2022

Asylum Ways of Seeing

Psychiatric Patients, American Thought and Culture

£35.00

Hardcover

University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.

4 January 2022

Death at the Edges of Empire

Fallen Soldiers, Cultural Memory, and the Making of an American Nation, 1863–1921

£27.99

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Nebraska

1 January 2022

Making a Modern U.S. West

The Contested Terrain of a Region and Its Borders, 1898-1940

£39.00

Hardcover

Nebraska

1 January 2022

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