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Tea culture and the British Empire, 1600-1900
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Author
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Ashby, Brittany
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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At the end of the fifteenth century, the consumption of tea remained predominantly in the East, and only a few wealthy western aristocrats knew of the tea plant. Only one hundred years later, tea sparked the interests of many nations and consumpti...
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NORTH CAROLINA PROTESTANT THEOLOGIANS AND THE IDEA OF DEATH DURING THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
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Author
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Baisley, Richard
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, History
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Description
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The Civil War challenged almost every aspect of life for Confederate North Carolinians. Daily necessities became impossible to find or were outrageously priced, roles within households changed, and Americans died in record numbers. This work revea...
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ADVERTISING THE OLD NORTH STATE: 1945-1955
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Author
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Barnes, Emma
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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The Division of State Advertising was created during the midst of the Great Depression to help bring revenue into North Carolina. During the 1940s, the Division expanded, creating and publishing pamphlets, brochures and articles appealing to touri...
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The City of KIngs Mountain: The Historical City with a Misplaced Identity
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Author
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Barnett, Melissa
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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Fought on October 7th, 1780, on a ridgetop in the backcountry of South Carolina, the battle of Kings Mountain turned the tide of the Revolutionary War. A century later, the City of Kings Mountain was founded along the Charlotte-Atlanta Railroad, n...
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THE CASE FOR PROSTITUTION IN EL PASO, TEXAS, 1910-1929
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Author
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Battista, Nancy
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Women's studies, Sex, History
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Description
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Turn of the century El Paso had it all: wealth, poverty, and an infamous red-light district. After the city shuttered the vice district in 1917, many of El Paso’s men and women continued to champion regulated prostitution to curtail streetwalkers ...
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Calcutta and J.Z. Holwell, a man on the periphery
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Author
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Branch, William
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Date Created
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2016
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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WILLIAM ARMSTRONG BRANCH. J. Z. Holwell, a peripheral man. (Under the direction of Dr. David Johnson) In the middle of the eighteenth century the trading city of Calcutta flourished by exporting three categories of goods; textiles, opium, and salt...
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Man's Best Friend: Britain, the Great War, and the Making of the Modern Dog
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Author
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Brotze, Blake
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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History
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Description
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The long nineteenth century and World War I greatly changed people's lives across Europe. The birth and subsequent rise of the middle class in industrialized nations significantly altered societies and cultures. In countries such as the British Em...
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War in the Shadows: IRA Intimidation and Assassination, 1919-1921
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Author
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Cannady, Michael
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Military history, History
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Description
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This work addresses a gap in the historiography of the Irish revolution: the use of intimidation and assassination by the IRA. Although some studies have focused on whether IRA assassinations were justified, little scholarship exists about their e...
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“Live by the Spirit:” Institutional Discipline for Crimes Against Order and Morals, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, 1767 - 1839
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Author
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Carpenter, Layne
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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History--Religious aspects, Law, History
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Description
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Mecklenburg County, North Carolina was located in the Carolina backcountry—an area frequently viewed as immoral, disorganized, and barbaric by contemporaries. However, this study demonstrates that institutions of authority—both legal and ecclesias...