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  • The First Film Makers
    Richard Dyer MacCann
    Features Thomas Ince, William S. Hart, D.W. Griffith, and Erich von Stroheim. ...
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    107,95 €

  • The Economics of Emancipation
    Kathleen Mary Butler
    The British Slavery Abolition Act of 1834 provided a grant of u20 million to compensate the owners of West Indian slaves for the loss of their human ’property.’ In this first comparative analysis of the impact of the award on the colonies, Mary Butler focuses on Jamaica and Barbados, two of Britain’s premier sugar islands. The Economics of Emancipation examines the effect ...
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    61,24 €

  • Power and Violence in the Colonial City
    Cornblit Oscar / Oscar Cornbilt / Oscar Cornblit
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    151,85 €

  • Return to Paradise
    Wayne Wooden
    What are the dimensions and patterns emerging in the culture of Hawaii today? Return to Paradise uses a sociological analysis to examine the structural, historical, interpersonal, and contemporary patterns present in the Hawaiian Islands. By focusing on both third and fourth generation Japanese-Americans, Wooden provides insight into the dimensions of 'local' culture. ...
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    86,47 €

  • Brokenburn
    This journal records the Civil War experiences of a sensitive, well-educated, young southern woman. Kate Stone was twenty when the war began, living with her widowed mother, five brothers, and younger sister at Brokenburn, their plantation home in northeastern Louisiana. When Grant moved against Vicksburg, the family fled before the invading armies, eventually found refuge in T...
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    21,88 €

  • A Time for Building, Volume 3
    Gerald Sorin / TBD
    Volume III: A Time for Building. The years between 1880 and 1920 marked the third great migration of Jews tothe U.S.--including more than two million from the Russian empire, Austria-Hungary, and Rumania. A Time for Building describes the experiences of Jews who stayed in the large cities of the Northeast and Midwest as well as those who moved to smaller towns in the deep South...
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    35,21 €

  • A Time for Searching
    Henry L. Feingold
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    40,30 €

  • A Time for Healing
    Edward S. Shapiro
    Volume V: A Time for Healing. A Time for Healing chronicles a time of rapid economic and social progress. Yet this phenomenal success, explains Edward S. Shapiro, came at a cost. Shapiro takes seriously the potential threat to Jewish culture posed by assimilation and intermarriage-asking if the Jewish people, having already endured so much, will survive America’s freedom and af...
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    35,18 €

  • A Woman of Valor
    Stephen B. Oates / Stephen BOates
    When the Civil War broke out, Clara Barton wanted more than anything to be a Union soldier, an impossible dream for a thirty-nine-year-old woman, who stood a slender five feet tall. Determined to serve, she became a veritable soldier, a nurse, and a one-woman relief agency operating in the heart of the conflict. Now, award-winning author Stephen B. Oates, drawing on archival ma...
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    25,37 €

  • Northern Lights
    Charles K. Hyde / Charles KHyde
    Symbols of safety, reassurance, and guidance, lighthouses hold a special fascination for many people. On the Great Lakes, lighthouses-"northern lights"-helped to open the region to settlement and supported the growth of commercial trade. To this day, the continue to light the way for thousands of recreational boaters.In this definitive guide to the lighthouses of the Great Lake...
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    54,32 €

  • Certain Trumpets
    Garry Wills
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    16,18 €

  • American Labor in the Era of World War II
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    57,71 €

  • Blacks in Black and White
    Henry T Sampson / Henry T. Sampson / Henry TSampson
    Traces the history of the black film industry from its beginnings around 1910 to its demise in 1950, chronicling the activities of pioneer black filmmakers and performers who had been virtually ignored by film historians. ...
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    118,28 €

  • Iron and Steel
    Henry M. McKiven Jr. / Henry MMcKiven Jr.
    In this study of Birmingham’s iron and steel workers, Henry McKiven unravels the complex connections between race relations and class struggle that shaped the city’s social and economic order. He also traces the links between the process of class formation and the practice of community building and neighborhood politics. According to McKiven, the white men who moved to Bir...
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    54,60 €

  • New England Frontier, 3rd Edition
    Alden T. Vaughan
    In contrast to most accounts of Puritan-Indian relations, New England Frontier argues that the first two generations of Puritan settlers were neither generally hostile toward their Indian neighbors nor indifferent to their territorial rights. Rather, American Puritans-especially their political and religious leaders-sought peaceful and equitable relations as the first step in m...
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    34,38 €

  • Power and Peace
    Frederik Marks
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    57,45 €

  • Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians
    John Waugh
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    10,58 €

  • The Saltville Massacre
    Thomas D. Mays / Thomas DMays
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    10,45 €

  • Battle of the Crater
    Jeff Kinard
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    10,58 €

  • The Buffalo Hunters
    Charles M. III Robinson
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    18,45 €

  • Defending Mexican Valor in Texas
    Jose A. Navarro / Jose ANavarro
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    16,98 €

  • The First Texans
    Carolyn Burnett Burnett
    'The First Texans: Sixteen Tribes of Natives Peoples and How They Lived' profiles the earliest Texans from the Alabama-Coushatta to the Wichitas. Included are each tribe’s food, clothing, shelter, weapons, tools, customs, religion and family structure. Included in the book by Carolyn Mitchell Burnett are 13 major tribes and three minor tribes who lived in Texas centuries befor...
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    16,52 €

  • Texas Cowboys
    'The stories these cowboys tell are exciting and lively. Reading the book is like meeting them face to face and sharing in the active lives they led.' --Plano Profile'The illustrations in this fascinating book are outstanding. The Lannings have given us a well-edited book that can be a greatly-appreciated gift.' --The Pacific Historian'For all the insights into the lives and at...
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    23,71 €

  • José Donoso's House of Fiction
    Flora Gonzalez Mandri
    In this critical volume Flora Gonzalez Mandri provides a comprehensive reading of the narrative works of Jose Donoso, Chile's most prominent novelist. A respected member of the Latin American Boom, his international reputation was established in 1970 with publication of The Obscene Bird of Night. While Donoso has long been canonized as one of the preeminent Latin American n...
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    58,15 €

  • The Eagle and the Peacock
    M. Srinivas Chary / MSrinivas Chary / Srinivas M. Chary / Srinivas MChary
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    121,97 €

  • War and Responsibility
    John Hart Ely
    Twenty years after the signing of the Paris Accords, the constitutional ambiguities of American involvement in the Vietnam War remain unresolved. John Hart Ely examines the overall constitutionality of America’s role in Vietnam; and shows that Congress authorized each new phase of American involvement without committing itself to the stated aims of intervention. ...
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    72,16 €

  • Molding the Good Citizen
    Althea K. Nagai / Althea KNagai / Robert Lerner / Stanley Rothman
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    95,72 €

  • Americans of Italian Heritage
    Margherita Marchione
    This volume memorializes the accomplishments of key figures among the Italian-Americans of the twentieth century. They are the descendants of Italian immigrants and, through their achievements, bear witness to the sacrifice and valor of their forefathers. The men and women featured are different from one another in personality and profession. They are contemporary people, highl...
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    94,47 €

  • Public Values, Private Lands
    Tim Lehman
    Tim Lehman examines the political battles over public policies to protect farmland from urban sprawl. His detailed account clarifies three larger themes: the ongoing struggle over land use planning in this country, the emerging environmental critique of modern agriculture, and the use of social science expertise in policymaking. Federal efforts to preserve private farmlan...
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    64,32 €

  • U.S. History As Women’s History
    This outstanding collection of fifteen original essays represents innovative work by some of the most influential scholars in the field of women’s history. Covering a broad sweep of history from colonial to contemporary times and ranging over the fields of legal, social, political, and cultural history, this book, according to its editors, ’intrudes into regions of the American...
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    53,58 €


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