Before the Flood: Destruction, Community, and Survival in the Drowned Towns of the Quabbin 9781643136455, 9781643136448, 1643136453

Lost Towns of the Swift River Valley: Drowned by the Quabbin 9781467147972, 9781439676998, 2022939452

In April 1938, Swift River Valley residents held a farewell ball to mark the demise of the quintessential New England to

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Before the Flood: The Itaipu Dam and the Visibility of Rural Brazil 9781478005322

Jacob Blanc examines the creation of the Itaipu Dam—the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world—on the Braz

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The 1,000-year flood : destruction, loss, rescue, and redemption along the Mississippi River 9780762766468, 0762766468

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The Johnstown Flood of 1889: The Story of the Deadliest Flood in American History

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the flood written by survivors *Includes a bibliography for further reading *In

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The Conflagration of Community: Fiction before and after Auschwitz 9780226527239

“After Auschwitz to write even a single poem is barbaric.” The Conflagration of Community challenges Theodor Adorno’s fa

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Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan 9780822384908

Shows how a modern nationalism was constructed in Japan from existing notions of community, at a time before the idea of

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Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan 0822331837, 0822331721, 2003010583

Exploring the emergence and evolution of theories of nationhood that continue to be evoked in present-day Japan, Susan L

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Neighbors: the destruction of the Jewish community in Jedwabne, Poland 9780691086675, 9781400843251

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Company Towns: Corporate Order and Community 9781442695764

Neil White challenges the common interpretation of company towns as powerless, dependant communities by exploring how th

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Law and Community in Three American Towns 9781501725012

Carol J. Greenhouse, Barbara Yngvesson, and David M. Engel analyze attitudes toward the law as a way of commentating on

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