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  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    In the annals of American history, few years have been as transformative and tumultuous as 1861. It was a year that saw the nation split at its seams, brother set against brother, and the beginning of a war that would forever change the course of the United States. 'Battles of the Ages: The American Civil War 1861' is a riveting exploration of this critical year, capturing the ...
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    15,42 €

  • Disappearng New Mexico
    Mac Read / Manfred Laendle
    This book brings New Mexico’s rich history of ghost towns forward into the twenty-first century. Over a eleven-year period, the authors traveled to and photographed all of these towns. Since then, some have already changed or have become completely inaccessible. If you wish to visit them, go now.Ghost towns are not necessarily deserted. However, all have lost the main economic ...
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    17,52 €

  • Argentinische Publikationen in deutscher Sprache. Ein Katalog Publicaciones argentinas en idioma alemán. Un catálogo 2023
    Regula Rohland de Langbehn
    Este catálogo presenta un recuento minucioso de la producción editorial impresa de la colectividadde habla alemana en Argentina. Los inmigrantes, provenientes de varios países centroeuropeos y enmuchos casos luego de pasar por otros países, formaron en Argentina una comunidad suficiente dehabla alemana como para sustentar una cultura con ribetes propios, que se manifestó en una...
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    111,14 €

  • The Tamaroa Village at Grassy Lake
    Ken Webster
    The Tamaroa Village at Grassy LakeUnknown to most of the local nearby residents, Grassy Lake Village is one of the Cahokia satellite villages located at the current site of the Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois.  Learn about Mississippian Native American culture and the Grassy Lake Village, not unlike other American Bottom Indigenous villages.  Gain insights about the Ind...
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    25,52 €

  • History of New York State
    Captivating History
    Explore the history of New York State, the Empire State!Do you know the WHOLE story of the State of New York, from the first human inhabitants to the years it was a Dutch colony? The state produced four presidents, was the first in many areas, and created its own state of mind.What made New York into the state it has become? Was there something unique about Manhattan Island? Wa...
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    17,68 €

  • The Columbian Exchange
    Captivating History
    How two worlds became one.In this book, you will understand how Christopher Columbus proposed something new: reaching the riches of the East Indies by sailing west from Europe. The rulers of Spain agreed to support his risky venture, and he sailed off in 1492. He unexpectedly ran into two continents nobody in Europe knew about. He didn’t discover the continents; that had been d...
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    17,69 €

  • Police and the Empire City
    Matthew Guariglia
    During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police Department to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the history of race, ethnicity, and whiteness in the United States. Guariglia...
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    134,69 €

  • Police and the Empire City
    Matthew Guariglia
    During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police Department to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the history of race, ethnicity, and whiteness in the United States. Guariglia...
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    24,70 €

  • The Tamaroa Village at Grassy Lake
    Ken Webster
    Unknown to most of the local nearby residents, Grassy Lake Village is one of the Cahokia satellite villages located at the current site of the Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois. Learn about Mississippian Native American culture and the Grassy Lake Village, not unlike other American Bottom Indigenous villages.  Gain insights about the Indigenous People, who lived near the ...
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    15,85 €

  • The Negro Family - The Case for National Action
    U.S. Department of Labor
    Two hundred years ago, in 1765, nine assembled colonies first joined together to demand freedom from arbitrary power.For the first century we struggled to hold together the first continental union of democracy in the history of man. One hundred years ago, in 1865, following a terrible test of blood and fire, the compact of union was finally sealed.For a second century we labore...
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    17,25 €

  • Field Trip
    Lee Glover
    Field Trip will enable readers to see crops and fresh food with significantly more appreciation. Author Lee Glover provides his audience with firsthand experiences that span decades, revealing Johns Island’s evolution from a rural agrarian setting to a rapidly changing sea island of the Lowcountry. Glover brings the reader into his circle of diverse friends and coworkers who kn...
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    15,94 €

  • Red Reckoning
    Mark Boulton
    Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the nation and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the volume’s contributors examine a...
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    30,86 €

  • LBJ’s and Nixon’s Patsy
    David B Nolan
    Lee Harvey Oswald was a $300 a month federal undercover informant. Under the name A. Hidell, he warned in writing both the Dallas Police and the FBI that the JFK murder would occur on November 22, 1963. He did not know the hour or the exact location in Dallas for the assassination. A young George H.W. Bush was photographed as a possible CIA lookout in front of the Texas Schoolb...
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    11,78 €

  • LBJ’s and Nixon’s Patsy
    David B Nolan
    Lee Harvey Oswald was a $300 a month federal undercover informant. Under the name A. Hidell, he warned in writing both the Dallas Police and the FBI that the JFK murder would occur on November 22, 1963. He did not know the hour or the exact location in Dallas for the assassination. A young George H.W. Bush was photographed as a possible CIA lookout in front of the Texas Schoolb...
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    20,27 €

  • The JFK Assassination Chokeholds
    James DiEugenio / Matt Crumpton / Paul Bleau
    In JFK Assassination Chokeholds, readers will find up to date evidence that would have compelled any jury to conclude that Oswald was not guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and that there is clear and convincing evidence of both a conspiracy and obstruction of justice to cover it up.  The approach taken by the contributors in this anthology, three of whom are attorneys complemente...
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    38,30 €

  • Courteous Capitalism
    Daniel Robert
    A provocative history of how corporate titans in the 1920s used a massive public relations campaign to transform public opinion on big business.In the early twentieth century, as Americans erupted in righteous indignation over the flagrant abuses of big business, utility executives faced an existential crisis. With calls for strict regulation or outright government ownership of...
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    82,19 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €


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