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  • Live from the Underground
    Katherine Rye Jewell
    Bands like R.E.M., U2, Public Enemy, and Nirvana found success as darlings of college radio, but the extraordinary influence of these stations and their DJs on musical culture since the 1970s was anything but inevitable. As media deregulation and political conflict over obscenity and censorship transformed the business and politics of culture, students and community DJs turned ...
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    126,10 €

  • Accommodating the Republic
    Kirsten E. Wood
    People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial...
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    126,60 €

  • Accommodating the Republic
    Kirsten E. Wood
    People have gathered in public drinking places to drink, relax, socialize, and do business for hundreds of years. For just as long, critics have described taverns and similar drinking establishments as sources of individual ruin and public disorder. Examining these dynamics as Americans surged westward in the early nineteenth century, Kirsten E. Wood argues that entrepreneurial...
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    41,66 €

  • Precision
    James Patton Rogers
    A ground-breaking study on the concept of precision warfare and how it has shaped our view of armed conflict ...
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    157,50 €

  • Ellas, en la otra parte de la historia hondureña (1824-1956)
    Patricia E. Castillo Canelas
    Cuarenta y ocho mujeres, esposas de destacados personajes de la historia de Honduras, son rescatadas del olvido en este libro de la escritora Patricia E. Castillo Canales.¿Habría sido asesinado el presidente Santos Guardiola si le hubiera hecho caso a la advertencia de su esposa Ana Arbizú de no abrir la puerta aquel sábado 11 de enero de 1816?Una obra que recoge datos interesa...
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    6,36 €

  • Ellas, en la otra parte de la historia hondureña (1824-1956)
    Patricia E. Castillo Canelas
    Cuarenta y ocho mujeres, esposas de destacados personajes de la historia de Honduras, son rescatadas del olvido en este libro de la escritora Patricia E. Castillo Canales.¿Habría sido asesinado el presidente Santos Guardiola si le hubiera hecho caso a la advertencia de su esposa Ana Arbizú de no abrir la puerta aquel sábado 11 de enero de 1816?Una obra que recoge datos interesa...
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    14,23 €

  • Tourists and Trade
    Bruce A. Austin
    How two roadside craft shops in upstate New York transformed American crafts into a fine art. ...
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    29,40 €

  • Scott Brown Cartoonist
    Christopher A. Kuntz
    Scott Brown Cartoonist is about Scott Brown who was a nationally known cartoonist and proprietor of Brown’s Drugstore and Soda Shop in Mansfield, Ohio, which served up 'the largest, coldest and best chocolate sodas on route 30' along with chuckles, gags, and checkers. Brown’s cartoons appeared in Colliers, The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and other magazines and newsp...
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    32,73 €

  • Colouring the Caribbean
    Mia L. Bagneris
    The first monographic study of the painter Agostino Brunias, this book offers a compelling, original analysis of his representation of race in the British colonial West Indies, reconsidering the way in which the artist’s oeuvre has previously been understood. ...
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    56,32 €

  • The Spartan Chronicles
    Thomas Frood
    The Spartan Chronicles is a collection of stories about places, people, and events which occurred in the late 1950’s while Thomas Frood, retired mathematics professor, was working for Spartan Air Services in the Canadian North as a radio operator and weather observer. ...
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    8,43 €

  • Prison Capital
    Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
    Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana’s carceral infrastructures with new pr...
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    126,43 €

  • Prison Capital
    Lydia Pelot-Hobbs
    Every year between 1998 to 2020 except one, Louisiana had the highest per capita rate of incarceration in the nation and thus the world. This is the first detailed account of Louisiana’s unprecedented turn to mass incarceration from 1970 to 2020. Through extensive research, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs illuminates how policy makers enlarged Louisiana’s carceral infrastructures with new pr...
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    37,58 €

  • Magic City
    Burgin Mathews
    Magic City is the story of one of American music’s essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. In a telling replete with colorful characters, iconic artists, and unheralded masters, Burgin Mathews reveals how Birmingham was the cradle and training ground for such luminaries as big band leader Erskine Hawkins, cosmic o...
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    126,60 €

  • Magic City
    Burgin Mathews
    Magic City is the story of one of American music’s essential unsung places: Birmingham, Alabama, birthplace of a distinctive and influential jazz heritage. In a telling replete with colorful characters, iconic artists, and unheralded masters, Burgin Mathews reveals how Birmingham was the cradle and training ground for such luminaries as big band leader Erskine Hawkins, cosmic o...
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    37,75 €

  • Battles of the Ages
    Marcus Caldwell
    In the annals of American history, few years have been as transformative and tumultuous as 1861. It was a year that saw the nation split at its seams, brother set against brother, and the beginning of a war that would forever change the course of the United States. 'Battles of the Ages: The American Civil War 1861' is a riveting exploration of this critical year, capturing the ...
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    15,42 €

  • Disappearng New Mexico
    Mac Read / Manfred Laendle
    This book brings New Mexico’s rich history of ghost towns forward into the twenty-first century. Over a eleven-year period, the authors traveled to and photographed all of these towns. Since then, some have already changed or have become completely inaccessible. If you wish to visit them, go now.Ghost towns are not necessarily deserted. However, all have lost the main economic ...
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    17,52 €

  • Argentinische Publikationen in deutscher Sprache. Ein Katalog Publicaciones argentinas en idioma alemán. Un catálogo 2023
    Regula Rohland de Langbehn
    Este catálogo presenta un recuento minucioso de la producción editorial impresa de la colectividadde habla alemana en Argentina. Los inmigrantes, provenientes de varios países centroeuropeos y enmuchos casos luego de pasar por otros países, formaron en Argentina una comunidad suficiente dehabla alemana como para sustentar una cultura con ribetes propios, que se manifestó en una...
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    111,14 €

  • The Tamaroa Village at Grassy Lake
    Ken Webster
    The Tamaroa Village at Grassy LakeUnknown to most of the local nearby residents, Grassy Lake Village is one of the Cahokia satellite villages located at the current site of the Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois.  Learn about Mississippian Native American culture and the Grassy Lake Village, not unlike other American Bottom Indigenous villages.  Gain insights about the Ind...
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    25,52 €

  • History of New York State
    Captivating History
    Explore the history of New York State, the Empire State!Do you know the WHOLE story of the State of New York, from the first human inhabitants to the years it was a Dutch colony? The state produced four presidents, was the first in many areas, and created its own state of mind.What made New York into the state it has become? Was there something unique about Manhattan Island? Wa...
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    17,68 €

  • The Columbian Exchange
    Captivating History
    How two worlds became one.In this book, you will understand how Christopher Columbus proposed something new: reaching the riches of the East Indies by sailing west from Europe. The rulers of Spain agreed to support his risky venture, and he sailed off in 1492. He unexpectedly ran into two continents nobody in Europe knew about. He didn’t discover the continents; that had been d...
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    17,69 €

  • Police and the Empire City
    Matthew Guariglia
    During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police Department to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the history of race, ethnicity, and whiteness in the United States. Guariglia...
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    134,69 €

  • Police and the Empire City
    Matthew Guariglia
    During the years between the Civil War and World War II, police in New York City struggled with how to control a diverse metropolis. In Police and the Empire City Matthew Guariglia tells the history of the New York Police Department to show how its origins were built upon and inseparably entwined with the history of race, ethnicity, and whiteness in the United States. Guariglia...
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    24,70 €

  • The Tamaroa Village at Grassy Lake
    Ken Webster
    Unknown to most of the local nearby residents, Grassy Lake Village is one of the Cahokia satellite villages located at the current site of the Wood River Refinery in Roxana, Illinois. Learn about Mississippian Native American culture and the Grassy Lake Village, not unlike other American Bottom Indigenous villages.  Gain insights about the Indigenous People, who lived near the ...
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    15,85 €

  • The Negro Family - The Case for National Action
    U.S. Department of Labor
    Two hundred years ago, in 1765, nine assembled colonies first joined together to demand freedom from arbitrary power.For the first century we struggled to hold together the first continental union of democracy in the history of man. One hundred years ago, in 1865, following a terrible test of blood and fire, the compact of union was finally sealed.For a second century we labore...
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    17,25 €

  • Field Trip
    Lee Glover
    Field Trip will enable readers to see crops and fresh food with significantly more appreciation. Author Lee Glover provides his audience with firsthand experiences that span decades, revealing Johns Island’s evolution from a rural agrarian setting to a rapidly changing sea island of the Lowcountry. Glover brings the reader into his circle of diverse friends and coworkers who kn...
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    15,94 €

  • Red Reckoning
    Mark Boulton
    Though it ended more than thirty years ago, the Cold War still casts a long shadow over American society. Red Reckoning examines how the great ideological conflict of the twentieth century transformed the nation and forced Americans to reconsider almost every aspect of their society, culture, and identity. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the volume’s contributors examine a...
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    30,86 €

  • LBJ’s and Nixon’s Patsy
    David B Nolan
    Lee Harvey Oswald was a $300 a month federal undercover informant. Under the name A. Hidell, he warned in writing both the Dallas Police and the FBI that the JFK murder would occur on November 22, 1963. He did not know the hour or the exact location in Dallas for the assassination. A young George H.W. Bush was photographed as a possible CIA lookout in front of the Texas Schoolb...
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    11,78 €

  • LBJ’s and Nixon’s Patsy
    David B Nolan
    Lee Harvey Oswald was a $300 a month federal undercover informant. Under the name A. Hidell, he warned in writing both the Dallas Police and the FBI that the JFK murder would occur on November 22, 1963. He did not know the hour or the exact location in Dallas for the assassination. A young George H.W. Bush was photographed as a possible CIA lookout in front of the Texas Schoolb...
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    20,27 €

  • The JFK Assassination Chokeholds
    James DiEugenio / Matt Crumpton / Paul Bleau
    In JFK Assassination Chokeholds, readers will find up to date evidence that would have compelled any jury to conclude that Oswald was not guilty beyond reasonable doubt, and that there is clear and convincing evidence of both a conspiracy and obstruction of justice to cover it up.  The approach taken by the contributors in this anthology, three of whom are attorneys complemente...
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    38,30 €

  • Courteous Capitalism
    Daniel Robert
    A provocative history of how corporate titans in the 1920s used a massive public relations campaign to transform public opinion on big business.In the early twentieth century, as Americans erupted in righteous indignation over the flagrant abuses of big business, utility executives faced an existential crisis. With calls for strict regulation or outright government ownership of...
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    82,19 €


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