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  • Beyond Norma Rae
    Aimee Loiselle
    In the late 1970s, Hollywood producers took the published biography of Crystal Lee Sutton, a white southern textile worker, and transformed it into a blockbuster 1979 film, Norma Rae, featuring Sally Field in the title role. This fascinating book reveals how the film and the popular icon it created each worked to efface the labor history that formed the foundation of the film’s...
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    126,72 €

  • This Is Our Home
    Whitney Nell Stewart
    The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US national story, however, has shifted the meaning of these sites. Plantations are no longer simply seen as places of beauty and grandiose hospitality; their reality as spaces of enslavement, exploitation, and violence is increasingly at t...
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    126,85 €

  • Our Town
    Sharilyn Grayson / Sister Cities of Franklin
    Our Town: An Insider’s Guide to Franklin, Tennessee is your passport to an enchanting journey through the heart of this charming gem of a city. Tailored for curious residents and adventurous tourists, Our Town shares secrets and stories in the context of historic landmarks that point to the soul of Franklin, Tennessee. Uncover hidden nooks, trace the footsteps of local legends,...
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    46,83 €

  • The Dialectic Is in the Sea
    Beatriz Nascimento
    Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black dias...
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    39,82 €

  • Southern Lights
    In the world of literary journals and little magazines, the Carolina Quarterly is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the South. Founded in 1948 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the magazine has published many luminaries of modern and contemporary literature, including Robert Morgan, Evie Shockley, Joyce Carol Oates, Doris Betts, and others. This anthol...
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    27,73 €

  • Gun Country
    Andrew C. McKevitt
    Just as World War II transformed the United States into a global military and economic superpower, so too did it forge the gun country America is today. After 1945, war-ravaged European nations possessed large surpluses of mass-produced weapons, and American entrepreneurs seized the opportunity to buy used munitions for pennies on the dollar and resell them stateside. A booming...
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    126,68 €

  • The Real Belle
    Doug Tattershall
    When author Margaret Mitchell needed a hardscrabble woman to serve as confidante to Rhett Butler, her husband told her about Belle Brezing, the Victorian madam of a famous brothel in Lexington, Kentucky. Brezing entered Mitchell’s novel as Belle Watling, but the real Belle’s life story is as dramatic as anything to be found in the pages of 'Gone With the Wind.' Brezing was born...
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    8,35 €

  • A History of the United States for Newcomers
    Charles Serocold
    Today, more than 50 million people living in the USA were born in another country. That is more people than the entire population of Canada, and all of them have faced or will face challenges as they adapt to their new home.Many will be nervous and apprehensive, relying on what they have read in the newspapers, seen on the television, or been told by friends. Very few studied o...
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    20,29 €

  • The Lightning Field
    Robert Eaton
    The Lightning Field is a series of portraits of people and out-of-the-way places in New Mexico and, occasionally, neighboring states. Eaton ranges throughout the region, and few of his destinations are on the standard tourist itinerary-this is not the New Mexico of Albuquerque, Santa Fe, or Taos. We spend a day at a huge work of minimalist land art near Quemado, a weekend at an...
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    11,66 €

  • Casseroles, Can Openers, and Jell-O
    Elizabeth Aldrich
    An 'all-you-can-eat' tour of American life in the postwar period, told through the foods we loved. ...
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    29,49 €

  • Black in Print
    Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar
    Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America. ...
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    44,51 €

  • 1,417 Days in Rebellion
    Allan C. Payton
    The Civil War is the greatest tragedy ever experienced by our nation. The repercussions of the war are still alive today, almost 160 years after the final shots were fired in April 1865. Many books have been written on the battles, the campaigns, and strategic troop movements. 1,417 Days in Rebellion: A History of the 19th Georgia Regiment provides a view of the war from one re...
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    13,71 €

  • African Slavery A Different Look
    Spencer Gantt
    This title follows the Atlantic Slave Trade from the deep interior of the Dark Continent to the shores of the Caribbean Islands, South America and beyond. Departure and arrival points for 12,000,000 people captured, sold and transported are noted. The slave centers of Europe and New England are described along with the businessmen and ship captains responsible for the Middle Pa...
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    6,79 €

  • Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot
    James Willard Schultz
    Rising Wolf, the White Blackfoot, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not m...
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    22,01 €

  • Memories on Main
    Amanda Gearhart / Peggy Denham
    Memories on Main: A Journey Through Stanford’s Rich History Embark on a captivating journey through the heart of Stanford in Lincoln County, Kentucky, with 'Memories on Main.' This book vividly brings to life the town’s storied past, encapsulating its rich heritage and the warmth of its hospitality. From the landmark 'Red Brick' building that stood as a testament to the town’s...
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    68,23 €

  • Downstate New York Rock Walks
    C. Russell Dunn
    An explorer’s walking guide to downstate New York’s awesome boulders and rock formations. ...
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    25,10 €

  • Chronicling a Crisis
    A primary source collection of the local impact of the COVID pandemic on a college community which both records and reflects upon the nature of daily life during a crisis. ...
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    126,36 €

  • Damned Agitator
    Michael Gold
    The most comprehensive collection of writings by an important twentieth-century radical writer. ...
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    126,61 €

  • Chronicling a Crisis
    A primary source collection of the local impact of the COVID pandemic on a college community which both records and reflects upon the nature of daily life during a crisis. ...
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    28,50 €

  • The ritual and significance of the Winnebago medicine dance
    Paul Radin
    The ritual and significance of the Winnebago medicine dance, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and desi...
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    20,00 €

  • The Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race
    Elijah W. Smith / William Wells Moore
    The Rising Son; or, the Antecedents and Advancement of the Colored Race, a classical and rare book that has been considered essential throughout human history, so that this work is never forgotten, we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, rety...
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    31,18 €

  • The Birds of Dog
    Ann B. Parson
    The Birds of Dog opens in the early days of the Boston Society of Natural History and simmers with remarkable lost stories about America’s emerging fields of science and its first scientists. Catharine Pickering, a curator’s assistant, finds herself increasingly drawn to Nature’s treasures, especially birds, and more and more opposed to the 'kill-and-collect' methods of hunters...
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    17,90 €

  • The Early Life and Times of David Crockett in East Tennessee
    Joe Swann
    David Crockett was one of America’s first national celebrities. He carved out a name for himself from the Western frontier lands of East Tennessee to the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. He did this not only by prowess with a rifle but through humility, integrity, humor, and a personal character of undeniable authenticity. That character was forged through hardship and sel...
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    13,41 €

  • La Barbarie Represiva de la Narcodictadura de Nicolás Maduro
    Rodulfo Gonzalez
    Para la narcodictadura, todas las manifestaciones opositoras y de la sociedad social, aunque sean pacíficas, se convierten por la presencia de los colectivos que forman parte del PSUV, en violentas, ya que infiltra elementos armados de esa organización parapolicial para así justificar la acción criminal de los cuerpos de exterminio, vale decir, la Guardia Nacional, el SEBIN y o...
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    21,07 €

  • Gotham’s War within a War
    Emily Brooks
    A surprising history unfolded in New Deal– and World War II–era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city’s priorities toward liberal reform. La Gua...
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    126,97 €

  • Gotham’s War within a War
    Emily Brooks
    A surprising history unfolded in New Deal– and World War II–era New York City under Mayor Fiorello La Guardia. Throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, members of the NYPD had worked to enforce partisan political power rather than focus on crime. That changed when La Guardia took office in 1934 and shifted the city’s priorities toward liberal reform. La Gua...
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    38,13 €

  • Benjamin Franklin’s Religion
    Stephen J. Vicchio
    This book is about the religious views of the greatest statesman in the history of the United States-Benjamin Franklin. The text covers Franklin’s views from the adoption of his parents Congregationalist and Presbyterian perspectives, followed by a period of religious doubt, his comments about religion as a diplomat in Britain and France, and ironically, a return at the end of ...
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    17,18 €

  • Plague Year New York City 2020
    T.Remington
    When I wrote and published these essays starting right before and during the first months of the pandemic shut down in New York City I suspected that we weren’t going back to anything we’d come to accept as 'normal' but I sure did not expect what we wound up with. From the vantage point of three years later it’s interesting to see what I got right and what I was way off base ab...
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    16,69 €

  • Almost - The Road to the Grande
    Tom McAuliffe
    They Came.They Jammed.They Conquered at the corner of Grand River Ave. and Beverly Court! A scene that rose from School Dances and Teen Clubs from 1965 to 1972, The Grande Ballroom became the epicenter of Rock-n-Roll not only for Detroit but the world. A who’s who of the greatest bands on the planet played ’The Grande’, which was built in 1926; Led Zeppelin, The Who, Cream, CCR...
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    22,18 €

  • The Streckfus Riverboat Dynasty
    Arthur L. Smith
    In 1880 John Streckfus began a commercial packet business serving the Rock Island community that evolved to become the largest excursion riverboat operation serving the Mississippi from St. Paul to New Orleans and the Ohio from Pittsburg to St. Louis. Streckfus built the sternwheeler J.S., the first purposed sightseeing and music/dance riverboat in 1900. When the J.S. suffered ...
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    68,36 €


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