Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic 9781429969130, 9780374106751, 2011046068

For five weeks—from April 14 to May 21, 1927—the world held its breath while fourteen aviators took to the air to captur

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Atlantic Fever: Lindbergh, His Competitors, and the Race to Cross the Atlantic
9781429969130, 9780374106751, 2011046068

While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race,

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"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril," wrote Winston Churchill i

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In an increasingly multicultural world, the relationship between language and identity remains a complicated and often f

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Established by the American Colonization Society in the early nineteenth century as a settlement for free people of colo

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Despite shifting trends in the study of Oceanic Atlantic history, the colonial Atlantic world as it is described by hist

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Not only were more African slaves transported to South America than to North, but overlapping imperialisms and shared re

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Aisha Khan examines two cultural phenomena of colonized laborers in the West Indies: the “African” supernatural practice

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The 1866 transatlantic yacht race was a match that saw three yachts battle their way across the Atlantic in the dead of

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Featuring contributions by authors from across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom, The Loyal Atlantic bri

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