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  • Trade Unionists Against Terror
    Deborah Levenson-Estrada
    Deborah Levenson-Estrada provides the first comprehensive analysis of how urban labor unions took shape in Guatemala under conditions of state terrorism. In Trade Unionists against Terror, she explores how workers made sense of their struggle for rights in the face of death squads and other forms of violent opposition from the state. Levenson-Estrada focuses especially on...
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    70,66 €

  • Learning to Behave
    Sarah E. Newton / Sarah ENewton
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    88,98 €

  • The Seneca and Tuscarora Indians
    Marilyn L Haas / Marilyn L. Haas / Marilyn LHaas
    Haas’s annotated bibliography on both tribes includes citations to journal articles, books, theses, and government documents published up to 1992. The bibliography’s full annotations make it possible for researchers to zero in on material on their subject of interest. ...
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    168,32 €

  • Southern Agriculture During the Civil War Era, 1860-1880
    John S. Otto / John SOtto
    This book fills a crucial gap in our knowledge about the History of the Civil War and Reconstruction period. ...
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    121,93 €

  • General Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964
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    88,98 €

  • Political Stability and Democracy in Mexico
    Dan A. Cothran / Dan ACothran
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    121,72 €

  • Along Freedom Road
    David S. Cecelski / David SCecelski
    David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county’s black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Par...
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    54,58 €

  • The State and Labor in Modern America
    Melvyn Dubofsky
    In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the ’labor question’ as a lens through which to view more clearly the basic political, economic, and social forces that have divided citizens throughout the industrial e...
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    60,69 €

  • Revolution in the Countryside
    Jim Handy
    Although most discussions of the Guatemalan 'revolution' of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a decisive impact on the nature of change in Guatemala. He looks at the ways in which ethnic ...
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    60,94 €

  • The New Dealers
    Jordan A. Schwarz / Jordan ASchwarz
    With scholarly depth and perception this engrossing narrative of 20th-century history sheds new light on both the New Deal and current debate of American industrial policy. Out of portraits of Brandeis, Corcoran, Lilienthal and others comes a book that conveys the true scope of Roosevelt’s experiment. ...
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    17,26 €

  • Wilderness at Dawn
    Ted Morgan
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    29,14 €

  • The Devil’s Dominion
    Richard Godbeer
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    23,77 €

  • My Remembers
    Eddie Stimpson
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    16,73 €

  • Yankee Stepfather
    William S McFeely
    Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into President Andrew Johnson’s policy of returning such lands to former white owners. Soon Howard and his agents were under pressure not to ass...
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    19,72 €

  • Cuba and the Future
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    121,97 €

  • Dreaming with the Wheel
    Don Bell / Sun Bear
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    18,99 €

  • Gringo Justice
    Alfredo Mirandé
    Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas-displacement from the land, vigilantes and social bandits, the border, the police, gangs, and prisons. A...
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    41,09 €

  • The Hidden-Hand Presidency
    Fred I. Greenstein
    With a new Foreword that examines the continuing significance of the Eisenhower presidency, this title reveals that there was great political activity beneath the placid surface of the executive office under Eisenhower. 'To read (this book) is to discover . . . that everything you ever believed about Dwight Eisenhower as president of the United States is wrong'.--'Economist'. ...
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    47,11 €

  • From the Ashes
    James R Lewis / James R. Lewis / James RLewis
    ’Designed for the general reader, the essays on the religion of the Davidians are especially helpful....’-CHOICE ...
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    61,07 €

  • Northern Labor and Antislavery
    Philip Sheldon Foner
    This volume calls up the voices of the antebellum labor movement and abolitionists, enabling the reader to understand more clearly the process that led Northern workers to support Lincoln in waging war against slaveholders. ...
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    121,22 €

  • Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism
    Cary Fraser
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    121,80 €

  • The Newton Boys
    Joe Newton / Willis Newton
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    16,99 €

  • The North Fights the Civil War
    James Matthew Gallman / JMatthew Gallman / Matthew J. Gallman / Matthew JGallman
    A fresh look at how Northern society mobilized to fight the first great modern war. From Gallman’s analysis of continuity and change, it seems clear that the conflict was not the great watershed in political, economic, and social development that is often supposed. 'A concise, readable account....Gallman challenges some conventional wisdom while telling an important and dramati...
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    22,51 €

  • City of Eros
    Timothy J. Gilfoyle / Timothy JGilfoyle
    In the 19th century, New York saw the development of a sex industry at the heart of a consumer world of entertainment, goods, newspapers and advertising. In this book, Gilfoyle blends first-hand experience with demographic research to present a study of the politics and economics of sex. ...
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    23,93 €

  • Under an Open Sky
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    19,69 €

  • John C. Calhoun
    Irving H. Bartlett / Irving HBartlett
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    21,35 €

  • South Florida Folklife
    Peggy A. Bulger / Stetson Kennedy / Tina Bucuvalas
    South Florida summons tropical vacationland images—gleaming beaches, exotic foods, colorful costumes, and grand hotels. Yet beyond this facade teems a rich folklife that is the subject of this alluring book.The three collaborating authors present south Florida folklife from the 1930s to the present in four parts: the Everglades and Gulf Coast, the Miami megalopolis, the Keys, a...
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    54,20 €

  • American Political Trials
    An updated, expanded revision, American Political Trials examines the role of politicized criminal trials and impeachments from the early colonial era to the late twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on a trial representative of a particular era in U.S. history. New chapters on the trials of Anne Hutchinson and Lt. Col. Oliver North are included. ...
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    121,14 €

  • The Masterless
    Wilfred M. McClay / Wilfred MMcClay
    In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly domin...
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    70,34 €

  • Colombia before Independence
    Anthony McFarlane
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    206,02 €


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