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Allrightniks Row: “Haunch Paunch and Jowl”
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Ornitz, Samuel (introduction by Gabriel Miller)
Subject: World Literature, US History, World History
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This turn-of-the-century novel portrays people born in the tenements around Hester Street who fight their way out of the slums to make it to the fashionable Allrightniks Row. Its colorful characters include the narrator of the story, a corrupt judge …
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Colonialism (Updated and Expanded Edition)
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Osterhammel, Jürgen
Subject: World History
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“Osterhammel (History, U. of Constance) argues that the global mercantile expansion of the European powers of the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries bears a marked resemblance to the political imperialism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Further, although there are …
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