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From the world's most repressive state comes rare good news: the escape to freedom of a small number of its people. It is a crime to leave North Korea. Yet increasing numbers of North Koreans dare to flee. They go first to neighboring China, which rejects them as criminals, then on to Southeast Asia or Mongolia, and finally to South Korea, the United States, and other free countries. They travel along a secret route known as the new underground railroad....
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Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits.
Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation...
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2014]
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293 pages ; 25 cm
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English
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Hettie, a dance instructress at the Palais, lives at home with her mother and her brother, mute and lost after his return from the war. One night, at work, she meets a wealthy, educated man and has reason to think he is as smitten with her as she is with him. Still there is something distracted about him, something she cannot reach... Evelyn works at the Pensions Exchange through which thousands of men have claimed benefits from wounds or debilitating...
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University Press of Colorado
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xiv, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Organized around the theme of "interdisciplinary perspectives," the authors identify current and near-future trends in archaeological practice in the Southwest US and Northwestern Mexico, including repatriation, community engagement, and cross-disciplinary approaches, and focuses on Native American archaeologists and their communities, research, collaborations, and interests."
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxviii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"John E. Schmitz examines the causes, conditions, and consequences of America's selective relocation and internment of German, Italian, and Japanese Americans during World War II"--
9) Mexican workers and American dreams: immigration, repatriation, and California farm labor, 1900-1939
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Rutgers University Press
Pub. Date
1994.
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xi, 197 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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Describes the migration of over one million Mexican workers to the United States between 1900 and 1939, their influence on both Mexican and American social and economic culture, and their forced repatriation leading to one of the largest mass removal operations ever sanctioned by the U.S. government.
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