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{"id":7556972413017,"title":"So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03","handle":"so-conceived-and-so-dedicated-wongsrichanalai-3","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Lorien Foote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the conflict and implementing their vision of a victorious Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroadly defining \"intellectuals\" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometimes using commercial or popular venues and organizations to implement what they believed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a vast range of perspectives on how northerners thought about, experienced, and responded to the Civil War, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e is organized around three questions: To what extent did educated Americans believe that the Civil War exposed the failure of old ideas? Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life or did the war reinforce democratic individualism? How did the Civil War affect northerners' conception of nationalism and their understanding of their relationship to the state?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays explore myriad topics, including: how antebellum ideas about the environment and the body influenced conceptions of democratic health; how leaders of the Irish American community reconciled their support of the United States and the Republican Party with their allegiances to Ireland and their fellow Irish immigrants; how intellectual leaders of the northern African American community explained secession, civil war, and emancipation; the influence of southern ideals on northern intellectuals; wartime and postwar views from college and university campuses; the ideological acrobatics that professors at midwestern universities had to perform in order to keep their students from leaving the classroom; and how northern sketch artists helped influence the changing perceptions of African American soldiers over the course of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectively, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e offers relevant and fruitful answers to the nation's intellectual history and suggests that antebellum modes of thinking remained vital and tenacious well after the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2024-04-03T16:23:11-04:00","created_at":"2024-04-03T16:23:11-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":4000,"price_min":4000,"price_max":4000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":4000,"compare_at_price_min":4000,"compare_at_price_max":4000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":41099205836889,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA446-Wongsrichanalai","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":4000,"weight":454,"compare_at_price":4000,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780823264483","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba446-wongsrichanalai-so.jpg?v=1712175643"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba446-wongsrichanalai-so.jpg?v=1712175643","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":24938985095257,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba446-wongsrichanalai-so.jpg?v=1712175643"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba446-wongsrichanalai-so.jpg?v=1712175643","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Lorien Foote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War-era Union. Compiling essays from both established and young historians, this volume addresses the role intellectuals played in framing the conflict and implementing their vision of a victorious Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBroadly defining \"intellectuals\" to encompass doctors, lawyers, sketch artists, college professors, health reformers, and religious leaders, the essays address how these thinkers disseminated their ideas, sometimes using commercial or popular venues and organizations to implement what they believed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering a vast range of perspectives on how northerners thought about, experienced, and responded to the Civil War, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e is organized around three questions: To what extent did educated Americans believe that the Civil War exposed the failure of old ideas? Did the Civil War promote new strains of authoritarianism in northern intellectual life or did the war reinforce democratic individualism? How did the Civil War affect northerners' conception of nationalism and their understanding of their relationship to the state?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEssays explore myriad topics, including: how antebellum ideas about the environment and the body influenced conceptions of democratic health; how leaders of the Irish American community reconciled their support of the United States and the Republican Party with their allegiances to Ireland and their fellow Irish immigrants; how intellectual leaders of the northern African American community explained secession, civil war, and emancipation; the influence of southern ideals on northern intellectuals; wartime and postwar views from college and university campuses; the ideological acrobatics that professors at midwestern universities had to perform in order to keep their students from leaving the classroom; and how northern sketch artists helped influence the changing perceptions of African American soldiers over the course of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectively, \u003cem\u003eSo Conceived and So Dedicated\u003c\/em\u003e offers relevant and fruitful answers to the nation's intellectual history and suggests that antebellum modes of thinking remained vital and tenacious well after the Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396440932441,"title":"Transatlantic Encounters — Greet '93","handle":"transatlantic-encounters-greet-93","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBy Michele Greet, Class of 1993\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAn unprecedented and comprehensive survey of Latin American artists in interwar Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Paris was the artistic capital of the world in the 1920s and ’30s, providing a home and community for the French and international avant-garde, whose experiments laid the groundwork for artistic production throughout the rest of the century. Latin American artists contributed to and reinterpreted nearly every major modernist movement that took place in the creative center of Paris between World War I and World War II, including Cubism (Diego Rivera), Surrealism (Antonio Berni and Roberto Matta), and Constructivism (Joaquín Torres-García). Yet their participation in the Paris art scene has remained largely overlooked until now. This vibrant book examines their collective role, surveying the work of both household names and an extraordinary array of lesser-known artists.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Author Michele Greet illuminates the significant ways in which Latin American expatriates helped establish modernism and, conversely, how a Parisian environment influenced the development of Latin American artistic identity. These artists, hailing from former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, encountered expectations of primitivism from their European audiences, and their diverse responses to such biased perceptions—ranging from rejection to embrace to selective reinterpretation of European tendencies—yielded a rich variety of formal innovation. 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Latin American artists contributed to and reinterpreted nearly every major modernist movement that took place in the creative center of Paris between World War I and World War II, including Cubism (Diego Rivera), Surrealism (Antonio Berni and Roberto Matta), and Constructivism (Joaquín Torres-García). Yet their participation in the Paris art scene has remained largely overlooked until now. This vibrant book examines their collective role, surveying the work of both household names and an extraordinary array of lesser-known artists.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e  \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Author Michele Greet illuminates the significant ways in which Latin American expatriates helped establish modernism and, conversely, how a Parisian environment influenced the development of Latin American artistic identity. These artists, hailing from former Spanish and Portuguese colonies, encountered expectations of primitivism from their European audiences, and their diverse responses to such biased perceptions—ranging from rejection to embrace to selective reinterpretation of European tendencies—yielded a rich variety of formal innovation. Magnificently illustrated and conveying with clarity a nuanced portrait of modernism, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTransatlantic Encounters\u003c\/em\u003e also engages in a wider discussion of the relationship between displacement, identity formation, and artistic production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7396438212697,"title":"Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98","handle":"seen-and-heard-in-mexico-albarran-98","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Elena Jackson Albarrán, Class of 1998\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile most historical accounts of postrevolutionary Mexico omit discussion of how children themselves experienced and perceived the sudden onslaught of resources and attention, Elena Jackson Albarrán, in \u003cem\u003eSeen and Heard in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e, places children’s voices at the center of her analysis. Albarrán draws on archived records of children’s experiences in the form of letters, stories, scripts, drawings, interviews, presentations, and homework assignments to explore how Mexican childhood, despite the hopeful visions of revolutionary ideologues, was not a uniform experience set against the monolithic backdrop of cultural nationalism, but rather was varied and uneven. Moving children from the aesthetic to the political realm, Albarrán situates them in their rightful place at the center of Mexico’s revolutionary narrative by examining the avenues through which children contributed to ideas about citizenship and nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-09-13T13:17:29-04:00","created_at":"2023-09-13T13:17:29-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Books","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History","Non-Fiction"],"price":3500,"price_min":3500,"price_max":3500,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":3500,"compare_at_price_min":3500,"compare_at_price_max":3500,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40590091944025,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA430-Albarran","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Seen and Heard in Mexico — Albarrán '98","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":3500,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":3500,"inventory_quantity":2,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780803265349","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Cover of Seen and Heard in Mexico by Elena Albarran","id":24333117718617,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/files\/wba430-seen-albarran.jpg?v=1694625451","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Elena Jackson Albarrán, Class of 1998\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were also the beneficiaries of the largest percentage of the national budget.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile most historical accounts of postrevolutionary Mexico omit discussion of how children themselves experienced and perceived the sudden onslaught of resources and attention, Elena Jackson Albarrán, in \u003cem\u003eSeen and Heard in Mexico\u003c\/em\u003e, places children’s voices at the center of her analysis. Albarrán draws on archived records of children’s experiences in the form of letters, stories, scripts, drawings, interviews, presentations, and homework assignments to explore how Mexican childhood, despite the hopeful visions of revolutionary ideologues, was not a uniform experience set against the monolithic backdrop of cultural nationalism, but rather was varied and uneven. Moving children from the aesthetic to the political realm, Albarrán situates them in their rightful place at the center of Mexico’s revolutionary narrative by examining the avenues through which children contributed to ideas about citizenship and nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7248725016665,"title":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","handle":"the-tin-ticket-swiss-75","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe convict women who built a continent...\"A moving and fascinating story.\" -Adam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","published_at":"2023-03-01T12:34:56-05:00","created_at":"2023-03-01T12:34:56-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":1700,"price_min":1700,"price_max":1700,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1700,"compare_at_price_min":1700,"compare_at_price_max":1700,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40424604270681,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"422-Swiss","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Tin Ticket — Swiss '74","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1700,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1700,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780425243077","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":null,"id":23807993020505,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba422-swiss-tin.jpg?v=1677692098","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Deborah J. Swiss, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThe convict women who built a continent...\"A moving and fascinating story.\" -Adam Hochschild, author of \u003ci\u003eKing Leopold's Ghost\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tin Ticket\u003c\/i\u003e takes readers to the dawn of the nineteenth century and into the lives of three women arrested and sent into suffering and slavery in Australia and Tasmania-where they overcame their fates unlike any women in the world. It also tells the tale of Elizabeth Gurney Fry, a Quaker reformer who touched all their lives. Ultimately, this is a story of women who, by sheer force of will, became the heart and soul of a new nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e"}

{"id":7248717938777,"title":"The Woman's Right — Gould '37","handle":"the-womans-right-gould-37","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of Tom, a husband who is obviously more interested in satisfying his needs than in protecting her health. Lizzie's brother arrives and provides her with a much-needed escape route-or what she wryly calls \"the underground railway out of her slavery.\" She quickly and courageously departs with her two youngest children, leaving her oldest daughter, Mary Emma, in charge of her other five siblings. Moving in with her father, Lizzie discovers that it is unheard of for a woman to divorce for freedom. But C. V. Emerson, a friendly attorney, assures Lizzie that separating from her husband will be much easier than she suspects.With excerpts from letters, diaries, and newspapers, author Frank Gould tells the true story of his grandmother's flight from oppression and her new destiny, asserting it is the Woman's Right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2023-03-01T12:19:39-05:00","created_at":"2023-03-01T12:19:40-05:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Biography","Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":1495,"price_min":1495,"price_max":1495,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":1495,"compare_at_price_min":1495,"compare_at_price_max":1495,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":40424598339673,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA240-Gould","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Woman's Right — Gould '37","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":1495,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":1495,"inventory_quantity":1,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9780595342860","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Book cover of The Woman's Right: A story of my Maine grandmother 1848-1927 by Franklin F. Gould Jr.","id":23807951241305,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"width":1500,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":1500,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba420-gould-womans.jpg?v=1677691181","width":1500}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Franklin F. Gould, Jr., Class of 1937\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTom Gould was a prosperous farmer and a Civil War hero when Lizzie Foster married him in 1869. But life with a frugal, verbally-abusive husband proved to be more difficult than Lizzie could have ever imagined.After giving birth to eight children in sixteen years, Lizzie Gould decides she's had enough of Tom, a husband who is obviously more interested in satisfying his needs than in protecting her health. Lizzie's brother arrives and provides her with a much-needed escape route-or what she wryly calls \"the underground railway out of her slavery.\" She quickly and courageously departs with her two youngest children, leaving her oldest daughter, Mary Emma, in charge of her other five siblings. Moving in with her father, Lizzie discovers that it is unheard of for a woman to divorce for freedom. But C. V. Emerson, a friendly attorney, assures Lizzie that separating from her husband will be much easier than she suspects.With excerpts from letters, diaries, and newspapers, author Frank Gould tells the true story of his grandmother's flight from oppression and her new destiny, asserting it is the Woman's Right.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the back cover.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":7234178220121,"title":"Driving the Green Book — Hall '74","handle":"driving-the-green-book-hall-74","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Alvin Hall, Class of 1974\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-description_wrapper active\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"hc-product-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJoin award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America’s haunted racial past, with the legendary \u003cstrong\u003eGreen Book\u003c\/strong\u003e as your guide.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk. In the era of Jim Crow, Black travelers encountered locked doors, hostile police, and potentially violent encounters almost everywhere, in both the South and the North. 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{"id":6557363470425,"title":"A Path to Peace — Mitchell '54","handle":"a-path-to-peace-mitchell-54","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy George Mitchell, Class of 1954\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “illuminating” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) answer to why Israel and Palestine’s attempts at negotiation have failed and a practical, “admirably measured” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) roadmap for bringing peace to the Middle East—by an impartial American diplomat experienced in solving international conflicts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Mitchell knows how to bring peace to troubled regions. He was the primary architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland. But when he served as US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009 to 2011—working to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—diplomacy did not prevail. Now, for the first time, Mitchell offers his insider account of how the Israelis and the Palestinians have progressed (and regressed) in their negotiations through the years and outlines the specific concessions each side must make to finally achieve lasting peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-08T15:48:24-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-08T15:43:46-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":2600,"price_min":2600,"price_max":2600,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2600,"compare_at_price_min":2600,"compare_at_price_max":2600,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39299447816281,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA351-Mitchell","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"A Path to Peace — Mitchell '54","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2600,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2600,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781501153914","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba351-mitchell-path.jpg?v=1617911028"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba351-mitchell-path.jpg?v=1617911028","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"A Path to Peace by George Mitchell, Class of 1954","id":20330880893017,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba351-mitchell-path.jpg?v=1617911028"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba351-mitchell-path.jpg?v=1617911028","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy George Mitchell, Class of 1954\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “illuminating” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) answer to why Israel and Palestine’s attempts at negotiation have failed and a practical, “admirably measured” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) roadmap for bringing peace to the Middle East—by an impartial American diplomat experienced in solving international conflicts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Mitchell knows how to bring peace to troubled regions. He was the primary architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland. But when he served as US Special Envoy for Middle East Peace from 2009 to 2011—working to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—diplomacy did not prevail. Now, for the first time, Mitchell offers his insider account of how the Israelis and the Palestinians have progressed (and regressed) in their negotiations through the years and outlines the specific concessions each side must make to finally achieve lasting peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher.\u003c\/p\u003e"}

{"id":6557358522457,"title":"The Making of Delaware — Muhammad '73","handle":"the-making-of-delaware-muhammad-73","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his book, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of Delaware: One Day at a Time\u003c\/em\u003e, Abdullah R. Muhammad provides a unique glimpse of Delaware history and the contributing role it has played in developing our nation. The author captures the historical essence of \"The First State\" in a way that should enlighten anyone who reads this important work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2021-04-08T15:30:55-04:00","created_at":"2021-04-08T15:26:48-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Bowdoin Alumni","History"],"price":2499,"price_min":2499,"price_max":2499,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":2499,"compare_at_price_min":2499,"compare_at_price_max":2499,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39299434119257,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA350-Muhammad","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"The Making of Delaware — Muhammad '73","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":2499,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":2499,"inventory_quantity":5,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781587660917","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"The Making of Delaware by Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973","id":20330862772313,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba350-muhammad-making.jpg?v=1617910010","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Abdullah R. Muhammad, Class of 1973\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn his book, \u003cem\u003eThe Making of Delaware: One Day at a Time\u003c\/em\u003e, Abdullah R. Muhammad provides a unique glimpse of Delaware history and the contributing role it has played in developing our nation. The author captures the historical essence of \"The First State\" in a way that should enlighten anyone who reads this important work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the back cover\u003c\/p\u003e"}

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{"id":6540769755225,"title":"So Conceived and So Dedicated — Wongsrichanalai '03","handle":"so-conceived-and-so-dedicated-wongsrichanalai-03","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, Class of 2003,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eand Lorien Foote\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHighlighting recent and new directions in contemporary research in the field, So Conceived and So Dedicated offers a complete and updated picture of intellectual life in the Civil War–era Union. 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Public responses to the assassination have been well chronicled, but this book is the first to delve into the personal and intimate responses of everyday people—northerners and southerners, soldiers and civilians, black people and white, men and women, rich and poor.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Through deep and thoughtful exploration of diaries, letters, and other personal writings penned during the spring and summer of 1865, Martha Hodes, one of our finest historians, captures the full range of reactions to the president’s death—far more diverse than public expressions would suggest. She tells a story of shock, glee, sorrow, anger, blame, and fear. “’Tis the saddest day in our history,” wrote a mournful man. It was “an electric shock to my soul,” wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln enemy exulted. “Old Lincoln is dead, and I will kill the goddamned Negroes now,” an angry white southerner ranted. 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It was “an electric shock to my soul,” wrote a woman who had escaped from slavery. “Glorious News!” a Lincoln enemy exulted. “Old Lincoln is dead, and I will kill the goddamned Negroes now,” an angry white southerner ranted. 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