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  • The Progressive Era’s Health Reform Movement
    Ruth Engs
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    120,71 €

  • Window on Freedom
    Brenda Gayle Plummer
    The civil rights movement in the United States drew strength from supporters of human rights worldwide. Once U.S. policy makers--influenced by international pressure, the courage of ordinary American citizens, and a desire for global leadership--had signed such documents as the United Nations charter, domestic calls for change could be based squarely on the moral authority of d...
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    54,50 €

  • Martin R. Delany
    Martin R. Delany (1812-85) has been called the 'Father of Black Nationalism,' but his extraordinary career also encompassed the roles of abolitionist, physician, editor, explorer, politician, army officer, novelist, and political theorist. Despite his enormous influence in the nineteenth century, and his continuing influence on black nationalist thought in the twentieth century...
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    69,76 €

  • Humanism and America
    Andrew Fitzmaurice
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    118,24 €

  • Theme Town
    Thomas W. Paradis
    This book changes the way we view our everyday human landscapes by taking us on a 22-stop adventure through the heart of Flagstaff, Arizona. In Flagstaff’s America Tour, the reader encounters four distinct though interacting landscape scenes: a themed historic business district, a pre-War multi-ethnic neighborhood, an expanding university campus, and a dynamic automobile commer...
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    27,50 €

  • The Imagined Civil War
    Alice Fahs
    In this groundbreaking work of cultural history, Alice Fahs explores a little-known and fascinating side of the Civil War--the outpouring of popular literature inspired by the conflict. From 1861 to 1865, authors and publishers in both the North and the South produced a remarkable variety of war-related compositions, including poems, songs, children’s stories, romances, novels,...
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    53,84 €

  • Conflicting Missions
    Piero Gleijeses
    This is a compelling and dramatic account of Cuban policy in Africa from 1959 to 1976 and of its escalating clash with U.S. policy toward the continent. Piero Gleijeses’s fast-paced narrative takes the reader from Cuba’s first steps to assist Algerian rebels fighting France in 1961, to the secret war between Havana and Washington in Zaire in 1964-65--where 100 Cubans led by Che...
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    63,02 €

  • Pickett’s Charge in History and Memory
    Carol Reardon
    If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the climax, the central moment of our history, must be Pickett’s Charge. But as Carol Reardon notes, the Civil War saw many other daring assaults and stout defenses. Why, then, is it Pickett’s Charge at Gettysburg--and not, for example, Ric...
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    35,43 €

  • Memory in Black and White
    Dwight TPitcaithley / Paul a Shackel / Paul A. Shackel / Paul AShackel
    Paul Shackel uses four well-known Civil War-era National Park sites to illustrate the evolution of commemorative expression at sites of controversy. He shows how interpretation may change dramatically from one generation to another as interpreters try to accommodate, or ignore, certain memories. Memory in Black and White is important reading for all who are interested in histor...
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    61,03 €

  • Storm on the Horizon
    Justus D Doenecke / Justus D. Doenecke / Justus DDoenecke
    Prominent historian Justus Doenecke analyzes the personalities, leading action groups, and major congressional debates surrounding the U.S. decision to participate in World War II. ...
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    72,40 €

  • The Piggy Bank Murder
    Tom Walsh
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    24,13 €

  • SEXUAL BORDERLANDS
    KATHLEEN KENNEDY
    Since the 1980s, research in the history of sexuality has grown exponentially. Not surprisingly, this new research has made its way into the classroom. Professors across the country have struggled to integrate this often theoretically difficult and eclectic material into a coherent whole. Sexual Borderlands offers students accessible yet challenging essays that cover the subjec...
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    48,25 €

  • Memories of Madison Run
    Gary Hogsten
    With charm and warmth, Gary Hogsten captures in words Virginia’s fading rural heritage, telling us what life was like growing up in a 20th century American village. 3 ...
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    15,28 €

  • Knowledge and Belief in America
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    37,85 €

  • River Towns in the Great West
    Timothy R. Mahoney / Timothy RMahoney
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    28,18 €

  • Possessing Albany, 1630 1710
    Donna Merwick
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    38,05 €

  • Labor’s Struggles, 1945 1950
    Irving Richter / Richter Irving
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    28,83 €

  • Three Cheers for the Unemployed
    Udo Sautter
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    52,42 €

  • Funding the Modern American State, 1941 1995
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    42,34 €

  • Making Music Modern
    Carol J. Oja
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    39,73 €

  • Bootlegger
    Ed Taggert
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    18,36 €

  • Ambivalent Conquests
    Inga Clendinnen
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    124,27 €

  • Ambivalent Conquests
    Inga Clendinnen
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    33,39 €

  • The Humours of Black Life
    et al Rasheed Lumumba Jones
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    29,48 €

  • Essays on Latin American Security
    PH. D. D. Min Ramsey / PHDDMin Ramsey / Russell W. Ramsey / Russell WRamsey
    Russell W. Ramsey, Ph.D., D. Min., is the nation’s longest standing scholar who writes about the Latin American military and security forces. He offers here a compilation of his best published work on this admittedly controversial topic, dating from 1963 to 2002.' ...
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    26,42 €

  • Essays on Latin American Security
    PH. D. D. Min Ramsey / PHDDMin Ramsey / Russell W. Ramsey / Russell WRamsey
    Russell W. Ramsey, Ph.D., D. Min., is the nation’s longest standing scholar who writes about the Latin American military and security forces. He offers here a compilation of his best published work on this admittedly controversial topic, dating from 1963 to 2002.' ...
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    34,63 €

  • Twentieth Century, The
    Howard Zinn
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    13,60 €

  • Salem Witchcraft in Outline
    Caroline E. Upham / Caroline EUpham
    Salem Witchcraft in Outline is a book written by Caroline E. Upham that provides a comprehensive overview of the infamous Salem witch trials that occurred in Massachusetts in the late 17th century. The book covers the events leading up to the trials, including the religious and social tensions of the time, as well as the actual trials themselves and their aftermath. Upham explo...
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    29,99 €

  • The Creole Mutiny
    George Hendrick / Willene Hendrick
    On the night of November 7,1841, the Creole was transporting slaves from Richmond, Virginia, to the auction block at New Orleans. A band of slaves led by Marion Washington seized the crew and its captain. Over the next several days they forced the Creole to sail into Nassua harbor, where the British authorities offered freedom to the slaves aboard, touching off a diplomatic squ...
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    30,07 €

  • The Papers of James Monroe
    James Monroe / Osaak A. Olumwullah / Osaak AOlumwullah
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    128,22 €