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  • Ambivalent Affinities
    Jennifer Dominique Jones
    In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity—most often categorized as homosexuality—appeared in the campaigns of c...
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    126,82 €

  • Ambivalent Affinities
    Jennifer Dominique Jones
    In the early twenty-first century, comparisons between the modern civil rights movement and the movement for marriage equality reached a fever pitch. These comparisons, however, have a longer history. During the five decades after World War II, political ideas about same-sex intimacy and gender nonconformity—most often categorized as homosexuality—appeared in the campaigns of c...
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    37,97 €

  • Where the Acorn Falls
    Colin 'Rip' M. Cunningham
    There is a difference between growing up and growing older.Growing up in the suburbs in the 1950s was a completely different experience than growing up after the year 2000. Just about everything was self-created and directed. From a very early age, we left our house right after breakfast and would return in time for supper. No parent or adult told us what to do to occupy our ti...
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    18,52 €

  • Thundering Courage
    Terry C. Pierce
    'Promotions or a coffin!' To George Armstrong Custer, war is the Devil’s own fun. And his luck-'Custer Luck'-peaks during the Civil War, keeping him alive against all odds. Yet, for the first two years of the war, Custer luck has not earned him a command-until, three days before a brewing battle at Gettysburg, Captain George Custer is promoted to brigadier general. Possessed wi...
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    40,10 €

  • Declaring Amendments 11-27
    Nathan Daniel Pietsch
    We are living in unprecedented times. The rights and freedoms American citizens have enjoyed for generations are under attack. The foundation of our nation is being shaken. The U.S. Constitution has been trampled and spit upon. The blood of our forefathers who won us such privileges is being disgraced.America is at war. It is a war against light and dark, good and evil, bondage...
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    10,35 €

  • La maggioranza diseredata
    Wilmot Robertson
    L’intento di questo libro è quello di fornire ai membri di questo gruppo sconfortato e minacciato - qui provvisoriamente definito come Maggioranza americana - una diagnosi sistematica delle malattie e dei disturbi che li hanno ridotti sul lastrico e alcuni suggerimenti per la loro guarigione.Poiché molti liberali sono diventati razzisti di minoranza e molti conservatori sono di...
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    37,71 €

  • Connecticut Cryptids
    Patrick Scalisi
    Dear Curious Reader, Maybe you’ve heard of the Black Dog of the Hanging Hills or the Winsted Wildman. But did you know that these are just a few of the mythical creatures that call Connecticut home?It’s true! The Nutmeg State is full of 'cryptids' - or creatures that are believed to exist but never proven to exist. And all of these mysterious beings are documented right here, i...
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    21,69 €

  • George Washington Versus the Continental Army
    Michael S. McGurty
    The Revolutionary War was nearing its end in early 1783. In his Hudson Highlands stronghold, General Washington kept a wary eye on the British force in New York City, 60 miles away. His army, owed months of back pay, and his officers frustrated by the negotiations over their promised pension, chafed under martial authority. A nationalist faction in Congress seized upon this d...
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    58,59 €

  • Mis Mejores Consejos de Genealogia
    Robin R. Foster
    ¿Se ha preguntado alguna vez por las personas esclavizadas de su ascendencia?¿Ha preguntado al pariente vivo de más edad qué recuerda? ¿Sabe qué hacer a continuación? Pude encontrar a mi segundo bisabuelo, Beverly Vance (1832-1899), en los censos de 1880 y 1870 junto con su madre, su esposa y sus hijos. ¿Ha localizado a su antepasado anteriormente esclavizado en los censos de 1...
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    19,81 €

  • Burning Beethoven
    Erik Kirschbaum
    Before World War I, the United States were home to a flourishing German culture. German-Americans were the biggest and most successful ethnic group all over the Midwest. But this culture was wiped out forever by a fury of an anti-German hysteria after America had entered the war. Overzealous American patriots renamed Sauerkraut 'Liberty Cabbage', slaughtered dachshunds, and era...
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    17,76 €

  • Ancient Mexican History
    A.J. Kingston
    ���� Explore the Wonders of Ancient Mexican History ����Unearth the mysteries of Mexico’s ancient civilizations with our captivating book bundle, 'Ancient Mexican History: Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Zapotec, Toltec, & Aztec Civilizations.' This six-book collection will transport you to a world of enigmatic cultures, architectural marvels, and rich legacies that continue to shape...
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    50,87 €

  • Warren County, NC, Pleas & Quarter Sessions Court Minutes, 1856-1859
    John A. McGeachy
    Transcription of 1856-1859 minutes of the Warren County (NC) Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions; indexed by personal name, business name, geographic name and subject. ...
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    54,46 €

  • Custer, The Civil War Years, Volume 1
    Frederick Whittaker / Whitelaw Reid
    The ’Boy General’ for the Union who would charge at everythingThere can be little doubt that Custer’s catastrophic defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn attracted more retrospective attention to the man than if he had simply retired from his military career having served during the Civil War and upon the American Western Frontier. Certainly, there have been far fewer books wri...
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    19,14 €

  • Voices
    E.B. Love
    Poetry has been at the core of E. B. Love’s soul since childhood. She has penned hundreds of beautifully written manuscripts during her teen and early adult years. Now, decades later, she is releasing her first collection of poetry, Voices: Past and Present.   E.B. Love shares her observations, beliefs, and deepest thoughts about her family, her ethnicity, and her experiences o...
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    13,06 €

  • The Impact of Coincidence in Modern American, British, and Asian History
    Bruce A. Elleman
    In 21 case studies, this short book examines the distinctive coincidental history of America, Britain, and various Asian countries during the twentieth century. ...
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    36,02 €

  • Coyote Stories
    Mourning Dove
    'We who lived the days of tribal life before our destruction began to remember with gratefulness our storytellers and the delight and joy and richness which they imparted to our lives. We never tired of their tales, though told countless times. They will, forsooth, never grow old, for they have within them the essence of things that cannot grow old. These legends are of America...
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    17,04 €

  • Voices of Freedom
    Elise Baker
    Women have been at the forefront of significant positive change for generations, and yet they still struggle to have their voices heard.There is no more obvious example of this than when learning about modern history, where little acknowledgment is given to women’s incredible feats and sacrifices during major world events.However, there are hundreds of true stories of brave wom...
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    8,89 €

  • Glen White, PA
    Kevin Stiver
    Ever Go to the Horseshoe Curve?How about through the tunnel at said Curve?On the other side of that tunnel, the current woodland of the Allegheny Mountains once was inhabited by a mining town for nearly eight decades, and the name of the town was Glen White, Pennsylvania.This is an informational book of stories, photos, maps, and more of the town and company at Glen White. ...
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    22,98 €

  • The American Liberty Pole
    Shira Lurie
    During the American Revolution and into the early republic, Americans fought with one another over the kinds of political expression and activity that independence legitimized. Liberty poles-tall wooden poles bearing political flags and signs-were a central fixture of the popular debates of the late eighteenth century. Revolutionary patriots had raised liberty poles to symboliz...
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    46,54 €

  • História Concisa Do Ceará
    Nonato Nogueira
    Neste volume de História do Ceará, pretendemos descrever e analisar de forma crítica os principais tópicos da história da sociedade cearense, desde os tempos pré-históricos até os dias de hoje. Desse modo, abordaremos de forma concisa os fatores econômicos, sociais, políticos e culturais que marcaram e que marcam os principais fatos históricos que influenciaram de certo modo os...
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    10,97 €

  • Exile From Argentina
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time whe...
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    72,06 €

  • Exile From Argentina
    Eduardo D. Faingold
    Eduardo Faingold chronicles his family’s experiences before, during, and after the military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). He uses his diaries, interviews in Latin America and Israel, documents and pictures given to him by his family and friends and studies the works of political scientists, historians and journalists. He begins with his family history from the time whe...
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    128,33 €

  • Scamps Scoundrels & Heroes
    Jim Douglas
    Discover the incredible stories of twenty-nine Civil War soldiers from Washington County, Pennsylvania, as told by best-selling author Jim Douglas. With meticulous research, Jim has uncovered the complete story of the soldiers from this county who marched off to war, answering the call of patriotism.Through his book, Jim takes us on a fascinating journey, sharing the lives of t...
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    26,46 €

  • Doodlebugs and Dowsers
    Dan Plazak
    What lies beneath the ground? Our poor eyesight cannot penetrate even an inch into the soil, so for centuries, fortune-seekers have tried every way imaginable to see below the surface. Whether searching for mineral veins, groundwater, or buried treasure, people have looked for ways to avoid the plodding and backbreaking process of digging. They have followed dreams, seers, dows...
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    24,55 €

  • A House of Her Own
    Beth Luey
    Since the founding of the United States, women have picked up their pens to write and express their ideas, affording them independence and self-sufficiency in days when they had little. By way of their poetry, essays, advice columns, investigative journalism and more, women like Helen Keller, Louisa May Alcott, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Shirley Jackson wrote not only to ente...
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    57,41 €

  • The Global Remapping of American Literature
    Giles Paul / Poley Olga
    ENG: This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1...
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    62,17 €

  • Confederates from Canada
    Ralph Lindeman
    Unable to achieve sustained military success in the Civil War, the Confederacy tried a daring strategy in 1864--commando-style raids into northern states from Canada. Taking advantage of the undefended border, rebels hit targets along the Great Lakes, where growing antiwar sentiment was an election-year problem for the Lincoln administration. Revisiting one of the forgotten c...
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    58,59 €

  • Teaching in the Rain
    Miles C. John
    In the early 1980s, five young men who loved teaching, the natural world, and the North Cascades dreamed of creating a field school to teach about the place and its many histories-natural and cultural. The North Cascades Institute emerged from that dream in 1986 with the help of North Cascades National Park. This is the story of how the Institute grew from humble beginnings to ...
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    18,23 €

  • Terminus
    Stuart Rollo
    A sweeping narrative of America’s imperial history and its long entanglement with China.In Terminus, Stuart Rollo examines the origins and trajectory of American empire in the Asia-Pacific region, focusing on its westward expansion and historic entanglement with China. American foreign and strategic policy in this region, Rollo argues, has always been shaped by broader economic...
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    68,21 €

  • Salt in the Veins
    Mary E. McDermott
    Journey to the past and immerse yourself in charming tales of Cape Cod yesterdays with this enchanting collection by the beloved author of Old Orleans: Memories of a Cape Cod Town. In Salt in the Veins Mary E. McDermott invites you on a nostalgic trip through her memories of the rich moments and sometimes amusing, always fascinating history that has shaped thisenchanted seaside...
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    23,34 €


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