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  • Providence Island, 1630 1641
    Karen Ordahl Kupperman / Ordahl Karen Kupperman
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    32,31 €

  • People in Transit
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    259,44 €

  • Fulbright
    Randall Bennett Woods
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    137,57 €

  • Blackness and Race Mixture
    Peter Wade
    Peter Wade focuses on the ’racial democracy’ of Colombia-- specifically the black population of the Choco province--to explore the significance of culture and class in a racially mixed population. ...
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    49,21 €

  • Women and Power in Native North America
    Since the colonization of indigenous peoples in North America, the roles of Native women within their societies have been concealed or, at best, misunderstood. Women and Power in Native North America removes the curtain surrounding gender status and power in native societies.Laura F. Klein is Professor of Anthropology, Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington. Lillian A....
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    30,86 €

  • Biographical Dictionary of the Union
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    103,83 €

  • Prairie Patrimony
    Sonya Salamon
    Drawing on a decade-long ethnographic study of seven Illinois farming communities, Salamon demonstrates how family land transfers serve as the mechanism fro recreating the social relations fundamental to midwestern ethnic identities. She shows how, along with the land, families pass on a cultural patrimony that shapes practices of farm management, succession, and inheritance an...
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    60,81 €

  • Producing Hegemony
    Mark Rupert
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    53,77 €

  • Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World
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    122,66 €

  • Lyndon Johnson Confronts the World
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    32,54 €

  • Ambassador Frederic Sackett and the Collapse of the Weimar Republic, 1930-1933
    Bernard V. Burke / Bernard VBurke
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    144,91 €

  • To Appomattox and Beyond
    Larry M. Logue / Larry MLogue
    Focusing on a neglected aspect of the Civil War’s social history, Mr. Logue describes the character and experience of its soldiers, North and South, and how their postwar lives affected the history of the nation. ...
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    13,07 €

  • Doing Business with the Dictators
    Paul J Dosal / Paul J. Dosal / Paul JDosal
    The United Fruit Company (UFCO) developed an unprecedented relationship with Guatemala in the first half of this century. By 1944, UFCO owned 566,000 acres, employed 20,000 people, and operated 96% of Guatemala’s 719 miles of railroad, making the multinational corporation Guatemala’s largest private landowner and biggest employer. In Doing Business with the Dictators, Paul J. D...
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    54,27 €

  • Politics of Conscience
    Patricia Ward Wallace
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    44,47 €

  • Bond of Iron
    Charles B Dew
    At Buffalo Forge, an extensive ironmaking and farming enterprise in Virginia before the Civil War, a unique treasury of materials yields an "engrossing, often surprising record of everyday life on an estate in the antebellum South" (Kirkus Reviews). ...
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    21,25 €

  • Sapelo’s People
    William S. McFeely / William SMcFeely
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    15,79 €

  • Slave Rebellion in Brazil
    João José Reis / Arthur Brakel
    The Muslim slave uprising in Bahia in 1835, though unsuccessful in winning freedom for the rebels, had national repercussions, making it the most important urban slave rebellion in the Americas and the only one in which Islam played a major role. Joao Jose Reis draws on hundreds of police and trial records in which Africans, despite obvious intimidation, spoke out about their c...
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    41,91 €

  • SUBURB IN THE CITY
    DAVID R. CONTOSTA / DAVID RCONTOSTA
    In Suburb in the City, David Contosta tells the story of how Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, once a small milling and farming town, evolved to become both a suburban enclave for wealthy Philadelphians and a part of the city itself.In 1854, the railroad connected Philadelphia and Chestnut Hill and the village was annexed by the city. Attuned to the romantic currents of the age, the...
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    45,50 €

  • Watergate
    Fred Emery
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    29,86 €

  • America’s Royalty
    Sandra L. Quinn / Sandra L. Quinn-Musgrove / Sandra LQuinn / Sandra LQuinn-Musgrove
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    105,85 €

  • Reading, Writing, and Race
    Davison M. Douglas / Davison MDouglas
    Using Charlotte, North Carolina, as a case study of the dynamics of racial change in the ’moderate’ South, Davison Douglas analyzes the desegregation of the city’s public schools from the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision through the early 1970s, when the city embarked upon the most ambitious school busing plan in the nation. In charting the path of raci...
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    60,58 €

  • Nebraska History
    Michael L. Tate / Michael LTate
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    104,77 €

  • The Debate Over Vietnam
    David W. Levy
    David Levy’s widely acclaimed Debate Over Vietnam examines the bitter national discussion that raged over the propriety, the necessity, and the morality of America’s longest war. Levy begins with a brief history of Vietnam under foreign rule and recounts the growing American military presence--and the increasing reaction it provoked. He explores the fundamental values and assum...
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    42,12 €

  • The American Revolution in Indian Country
    Calloway / Colin G. Calloway / Colin GCalloway
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    28,41 €

  • Gentle Warriors
    Barbara Stuhler
    Gentle Warriors tells the moving story of the final phase of the Minnesota women's struggle for the vote under the leadership of the remarkable Clara Ueland. Clara Ueland, socially prominent wife of a successful Minneapolis attorney and mother of seven children, became president of the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association in 1914. To that challenge she brought considerable ...
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    13,37 €

  • The United States and the Struggle for Southeast Asia
    Alan J. Levine / Alan JLevine
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    108,80 €

  • Country People in the New South
    Jeanette Keith
    Using the Tennessee antievolution ’Monkey Law,’ authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee’s hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favore...
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    54,37 €

  • Poquosin
    Jack Temple Kirby
    Jack Temple Kirby charts the history of the low country between the James River in Virginia and Albemarle Sound in North Carolina. The Algonquian word for this country, which means ’swamp-on-a-hill,’ was transliterated as ’poquosin’ by seventeenth-century English settlers. Interweaving social, political, economic, and military history with the story of the landscape, Kirby show...
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    54,30 €

  • Latin-American Women Writers
    Myriam Yvonne Jehenson
    This book describes how Latin-American women writers of all classes, from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present, ironize masculinist, classicist, and racist cliches in their narratives. ...
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    42,20 €

  • Losing Our Souls
    Edward Pessen
    The first book to sum up the consequences of the cold war for Americans. 'A searching account of the costs of the cold war ’victory’ that we are celebrating-not only the material price but the blight on our ideas, ideals, and institutions.'-James MacGregor Burns. ...
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    16,72 €


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