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  • The System
    Lincoln Steffens
    The 'muckraker' Lincoln Steffens dug deep into business criminality and political corruption in a powerful series of articles written for McClure's magazine. Establishment newspapers and 'System' politicians dismissed his work as just another example of the decrepit modern journalism that could never pass for genuine writing. But Steffens' dogged quest for truth and justice set...
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    23,66 €

  • A Damn Close-Run Thing (Large Print)
    Russell Phillips
    In 1982, the average Briton didn't know the Falkland Islands existed, let alone their status as a disputed British territory just off the coast of Argentina. That changed when the Argentinians invaded the islands and overwhelmed the small defending force. Both nations claimed the islands were theirs, but now Argentina thought the British would give them up without a fight.T...
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    16,43 €

  • The Vineyard We Knew
    Kevin J. Parham
    A poignant memoir about the life of an African-American boy from the city summering on Martha's Vineyard during the rustic 1950s and turbulent 1960s. It's a coming of age story that is very personal, yet universal. It opens up to a reader a world that many will not know, but one they will still recognize. The Vineyard We Knew is almost elegiac in nature in that it creates a se...
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    15,68 €

  • Ojibwe Sky Star Map - Constellation Guidebook
    Annette Sharon Lee / Carl Gawboy / William Peter Wilson
    A constellation guidebook focusing on Ojibwe Star Knowledge. Greek constellations and astronomical objects of interest are included along with the Ojibwe constellations organized by the four seasons and north circumpolar stars. Written by four native authors: Annette Lee, William Wilson, Jeff Tibbetts, Carl Gawboy. Accompanies the 'Ojibwe Giizhig Anung Masinaaigan' - Ojibwe...
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    16,74 €

  • Tula the Revolt
    Jeroen Leinders / Brian Doyle-Du Breuil
    An inspiring historical novel based on the true story of the Great Slave Revolt on Curacao in 1795.***Now a major motion picture staring Danny Glover and Jeroen Krabbé***Tula, a slave in Curacao, is convinced that God made all human beings equal. Stirred by news from abroad - that the French have abolished slavery on neighbouring Haiti and that the New Dutch Republic is now und...
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    16,55 €

  • Trench Warfare under Grant and Lee
    Earl J. Hess / Earl JHess
    Earl J.Hess’s study of armies and fortifications turns to the 1864 Overland Campaign to cover battles from the Wilderness to Cold Harbor. Drawing on meticulous research in primary sources and careful examination of battlefields at the Wilderness, Spotsylvania, North Anna, Bermuda Hundred, and Cold Harbor, , Hess analyzes Union and Confederate movements and tactics and the new w...
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    50,89 €

  • The Quotable Alexander H. Stephens
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Was Confederate Vice President Alexander H. Stephens really a 'racist' Dixiecrat who believed that slavery was the 'cornerstone' of the Confederacy, as pro-North writers assert? Was he actually guilty of 'treason' against the U.S., an 'anarchist' who should have been hanged for leading the secession of the Southern states? Of course not. And The Quotable Alexander H. Stephens: ...
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    40,87 €

  • Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era
    William J Cooper Jr.
    In his masterpiece, Jefferson Davis, American, William J. Cooper, Jr., crafted a sweeping, definitive biography and established himself as the foremost scholar on the intriguing Confederate president. Cooper narrows his focus considerably in Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era, training his expert eye specifically on Davis's participation in and influence on events centra...
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    22,67 €

  • The Taíno Settlement at Guayguata
    Kit W. Wesler / Kit WWesler / Philip Allsworth-Jones
    In 1998 the authors of this report initiated a Jamaican Taíno archaeological project as a joint program of the Department of History, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, and Murray State University, Kentucky, USA. The objectives were to conduct a systematic archaeological investigation of a Taíno community (c. 1000-1700 AD), towards understanding its chronology, subsi...
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    71,52 €

  • Pursuit of Unity
    Michael Perman
    In Pursuit of Unity, Michael Perman presents a comprehensive analysis of the South’s political history. In the 1800s, the region endured almost continuous political crisis--nullification, secession, Reconstruction, the Populist revolt, and disfranchisement. For most of the twentieth century, the region was dominated by a one-party system, the 'Solid South,' that ensured both po...
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    47,39 €

  • Terms of Inclusion
    Paulina L. Alberto / Paulina LAlberto
    In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusin...
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    57,15 €

  • Lynching and Spectacle
    Amy Louise Wood
    Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching and Spectacle, Amy Wood explains what it meant for white Americans to perform and witness these sadistic spectacles and how lynching played a role in establishing and affirming white supremacy. Lynching, Wood argues, overlapped with a...
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    47,56 €

  • Race Relations at the Margins
    Jeff Forret
    'Forret... has deepened our understanding of the complexity of relations between slaves and poor whites.' -- Georgia Historical QuarterlyCovering a broad geographic scope from Virginia to South Carolina between 1820 and 1860, Jeff Forret scrutinizes relations among rural poor whites and slaves, a subject previously unexplored and certainly under-reported. Forret's findings ...
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    29,40 €

  • Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia
    Warren M Billings
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    29,24 €

  • In the Beginning
    Michael Lienesch
    The current controversy over teaching evolution in the public schools has grabbed front-page headlines and topped news broadcasts all across the United States. In the Beginning investigates the movement that has ignited debate in state legislatures and at school board meetings. Reaching back to the origins of antievolutionism in the 1920s, and continuing to the promotion of int...
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    47,60 €

  • North Carolina Women of the Confederacy
    Lucy London Anderson
    Long out of print, this volume of recollections, stories, and verse provides a glimpse of women's lives on the home front-and sometimes in the thick of battle-during the War between the States. Nearly fifty years after the American Civil War, Lucy Worth London Anderson (Mrs. John Huske Anderson) of Fayetteville, N.C., compiled one of the first memorial collections honoring the...
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    17,20 €

  • A Walk Through the Past - People and Places of Florence and Lauderdale County Alabama
    William Lindsey McDonald
    Descended from early pioneers of Florence and Lauderdale County, Alabama, the author, William Lindsey McDonald began collecting historical information about the Muscle Shoals more than a half century ago. This research has involved personal interviews with Civil War veterans,former slaves, and descendants of both Native Americans and families of the frontier who were among the ...
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    33,34 €

  • Remembering Sweetwater - The Mansions, the Mills, the People
    William L. McDonald
    Remembering Sweetwater gives an historical account of the Sweetwater area of Florence, Alabama in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mr. McDonald gives detailed accounts of such notable people from the area such as Governor Robert Miller Patton, teacher and writer Maud Lindsay, Judge William B. Woods, as well as many others. He also covers the major industries and business...
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    23,86 €

  • Indians' New South
    James Axtell
    In this concise but sweeping study, James Axtell depicts the complete range of transformations in southeastern Indian cultures as a result of contact, and often conflict, with European explorers and settlers in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries. Stressing the dynamism and constant change in native cultures while showing no loss of Indian identity, Axtell effe...
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    24,01 €

  • La Révolution bilingue
    Fabrice Jaumont
    Conçu comme un guide pratique et accessible, la Révolution bilingue raconte l'histoire d'un mouvement visant à développer l’éducation bilingue dans les écoles publiques, raconté par des parents et des éducateurs qui ont fondé leurs propres filières. Ces mères, ces pères, ces enseignants et ces directeurs d’écoles sont des visionnaires qui partagent une même conviction :...
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    15,92 €

  • Canadians and War Volume 1
    Alexander Fitzgerald-Blac / Maryanne Lewell / W. A. Leavey
    Canadians and War Volume 1 brings together four diverse works of research from four Canadian scholars. Canada’s military history is a living, breathing thing, with endless perspectives and accounts to be heard, and this collection seeks to bring some of those little-known stories to light. See the effects of Canada’s proud military history throughout the world and the century. ...
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    13,41 €

  • Secrets of Catoctin Mountain
    James Rada Jr.
    Catoctin Mountain runs from northern Frederick County, Md., to northern Loudoun County, Va., crossing the Potomac River as it does. Its natural history dates back to prehistoric times. Its history during the era of man is more recent and more fascinating filled with crimes, secrets, monsters, and drama. Hunt the snallygaster and dwayyo, legendary monsters that roam the mount...
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    14,62 €

  • Ardent Spirit
    J. K. Royce
    Magdelaine Marcotte La Framboise was inducted into the Michigan Women’s Hall of Fame in 1984. Two centuries after her birth, she was recognized for her achievements in business. She is a role model, an inspiration and a woman who earned her rightful place in history.Born Magdelaine Marcotte in 1780, she was the daughter of a French fur trader and granddaughter of powerful Odawa...
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    20,26 €

  • New Bern History 101
    Edward Barnes Ellis Jr
    'Entertaining, funny, highly readable' The Essential Facts for the Native, Newcomer or Visitor to the Colonial Capital of North Carolina. Here's what you'll discover in New Bern History 101: -Why New Bern bears stick out their tongues. -Once and for all, what a Palatine is. -Where all the local Indians went. -The Richard Dobbs Spaight autopsy.  -How New Bern and sidebur...
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    13,03 €

  • Quilombo dos Palmares
    Glenn Alan Cheney
    A comprehensive history of the 17th century maroon nation, Brazil's Quilombo dos Palmares. An additional chapter discusses the myths and values emanating from Palmares. Another chapter explores the history and current problems of Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, a present-day quilombo. ...
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    29,59 €

  • Dearest Umeno
    Nancy Tamura Shikashio / Rose Tsunekawa
    Born January 8, 1895, and the third son of Katsusada and Yoshiko Ishii Tamura, Katsuchika was born into a samurai family whose ancestors were vassals of the Kujo family, Imperial court nobles. He traveled to the United States in 1920 to study. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a BA in English Literature. This book details his life and times,which i...
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    24,79 €

  • The Dirty Thirties
    Brinkley Howard / HistoryCaps
    The Dust Bowl was the largest ecological disaster in United States history, coinciding with the nation’s worst economic crisis, the Great Depression of the 1930s. Massive dust storms, combined with nearly a decade of drought, wreaked havoc on parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, and Arkansas. The storms were a relentless threat to the environment an...
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    6,64 €

  • Latinos of Boulder County, Colorado, 1900-1980
    Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
    The two volumes in this set present stories of struggle, survival, and joy in the Latino community of one Colorado county between 1900 and 1980. It is impossible to read this study without being struck by the parallels with recent events in the U.S, especially as anti-immigrant political rhetoric escalates. The history of Hispanics in Boulder County refutes that rhetoric by dem...
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    12,32 €

  • State Facts for Fun! Florida
    Wyatt Michaels
    State Facts for Fun! Florida is an educational and entertaining experience for the whole family. Kids will love the humor and pictures that are contained within this book; while parents will love that their children are learning (and enjoying every minute of it). Kids will learn fascinating facts from subjects like history and geography, and will remember them well because of t...
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    7,62 €

  • Presidential Facts for Fun! Taylor to Cleveland
    Wyatt Michaels
    In Presidential Facts for Fun! Taylor to Cleveland, you'll find a veritable library of information about numerous American presidents, all of which is presented in a fun, game-like format. The book contains numerous facts, both well-known and lesser known, and is sure to not only provide a fun way to spend time, but a great way to learn and brush up on your knowledge of preside...
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    7,59 €


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