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Mining The Atom: The Cold War Comes To The Colorado Plateau, 1948-1958, Kevin Fernlund
Mining The Atom: The Cold War Comes To The Colorado Plateau, 1948-1958, Kevin Fernlund
Kevin Fernlund
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Anticipating The Atom: Popular Perceptions Of Atomic Power Before Hiroshima, Jacques D'Emal
Anticipating The Atom: Popular Perceptions Of Atomic Power Before Hiroshima, Jacques D'Emal
Jacques d'Emal
Before Hiroshima made the Bomb an object of popular concern, possible implications and applications of atomic physics had been discussed in the public forum. The new science of X-rays and radium promised the possibilities of unlimited energy and the transmutation of elements in the two decades leading up to World War I. During the twenties, as scientific method struggled to keep pace with atomic theory, discussion centered on the feasibility of atomic disintegration as an energy source and the many uses of radium. The 1927 case of the New Jersey Radium Dial Painters, who sued their employers for compensation after …
“Nationhood And The National Question In The Soviet Union And Post-Soviet Eurasia: An Institutionalist Account, Rogers Brubaker
“Nationhood And The National Question In The Soviet Union And Post-Soviet Eurasia: An Institutionalist Account, Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker
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Reading Between The Texts: Benjamin Thomas's 'Abraham Lincoln' And Stephen Oates's 'With Malice Toward None', Robert Bray
Reading Between The Texts: Benjamin Thomas's 'Abraham Lincoln' And Stephen Oates's 'With Malice Toward None', Robert Bray
Robert Bray
This essay, previously published in the 'Journal of Information Ethics' (1994) is the one that ignited the Stephen B. Oates plagiarism scandal; that story is fully told in the companion book, 'Dishonest Abe Scholarship.' 'Reading between the Texts' is an analysis of parallels between the two Lincoln biographies of the title, arguing that Oates's book was in parts written out of Thomas's, without acknowledgement of the former's work.
“Rethinking Nationhood: Nation As Institutionalized Form, Practical Category, Contingent Event, Rogers Brubaker
“Rethinking Nationhood: Nation As Institutionalized Form, Practical Category, Contingent Event, Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker
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The Forty Acres Documents: An Introduction, Amilcar Shabazz
The Forty Acres Documents: An Introduction, Amilcar Shabazz
Amilcar Shabazz
The Forty Acres Documents: What Did the United States Really Promise the People Freed from Slavery? Wrote introduction and co-edited with Imari and Johnita Scott Obadele. * A revised and expanded edition is in the works *