Historia regional y nacional

Humanidades / Historia / Historia regional y nacional (136962)

Humanidades / Historia / Historia regional y nacional
Libros Eliminar filtro Humanidades Eliminar filtro Historia Eliminar filtro Historia regional y nacional Eliminar filtro Quitar filtros
  • Feeble-Minded in Our Midst
    Steven Noll
    The problem of how to treat the mentally handicapped attracted much attention from American reformers in the first half of the twentieth century. In this book, Steven Noll traces the history and development of institutions for the ’feeble-minded’ in the South between 1900 and 1940. He examines the influences of gender, race, and class in the institutionalization process and rel...
    Disponible

    64,26 €

  • The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860
    John Hope Franklin
    John Hope Franklin has devoted his professional life to the study of African Americans. Originally published in 1943 by UNC Press, The Free Negro in North Carolina, 1790-1860 was his first book on the subject. As Franklin shows, freed slaves in the antebellum South did not enjoy the full rights of citizenship. Even in North Carolina, reputedly more liberal than most southern st...
    Disponible

    54,38 €

  • Women Before the Bar
    Cornelia Hughes Dayton
    Women before the Bar is the first study to investigate changing patterns of women’s participation in early American courts across a broad range of legal actions--including proceedings related to debt, divorce, illicit sex, rape, and slander. Weaving the stories of individual women together with systematic analysis of gendered litigation patterns, Cornelia Dayton argues that wom...
    Disponible

    60,48 €

  • Mexico Faces the 21st Century
    ...
    Disponible

    57,74 €

  • Mexico Faces the 21st Century
    ...
    Disponible

    95,58 €

  • Oral History for the Local Historical Society
    Willa K Baum / Willa K. Baum / Willa KBaum
    Oral History for the Local Historical Society, a classic in the field for three decades, tells you how to start an oral history program in your community, how to select the right equipment, and how to interview people whose memories are a living connection to the past. Baum goes on to demonstrate what to do when the interviews are collected and to instruct how to transcribe and...
    Disponible

    43,47 €

  • Oklahoma Justice
    Ron Owens
    This book is about Oklahoma City, its primary law enforcers and their agency. It is about the controls they have exerted, tried to exert or failed to exert over each other for the last century. It is also about the birth and growth of a town, a city and a state. It’s also about Fairlawn and how it became a cemetery...and how it became full. ...
    Disponible

    30,39 €

  • Oklahoma Justice
    Ron Owens
    This book is about Oklahoma City, its primary law enforcers and their agency. It is about the controls they have exerted, tried to exert or failed to exert over each other for the last century. It is also about the birth and growth of a town, a city and a state. It’s also about Fairlawn and how it became a cemetery...and how it became full. ...
    Disponible

    16,98 €

  • Red Scare or Red Menace?
    Haynes Publishing / John Earl Haynes
    A reappraisal of American communism and anticommunism in the cold war era, focusing on episodes, personalities, and institutions, and based upon fresh evidence that overturns a great deal of received wisdom. 'Haynes argues convincingly that after the Second World War the American Communist Party was indeed a serious danger to the American body politic....He has begun the necess...
    Disponible

    19,83 €

  • Victorian America and the Civil War
    Anne C. Rose / Anne CRose / Rose Anne C.
    ...
    Disponible

    28,23 €

  • Forming a Colonial Economy
    Noel George Butlin
    ...
    Disponible

    190,18 €

  • Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind
    Jock McCulloch / McCulloch Jock
    ...
    Disponible

    150,36 €

  • Africa in History
    Basil Davidson
    ...
    Disponible

    24,81 €

  • Rum Running and the Roaring Twenties
    Philip P. Mason / Philip PMason
    On January 17, 1920, the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in the United States, prohibiting the manufacture, sale, use, or importation of alcoholic beverages except for scientific and medicinal purposes. Church and business leaders, temperance advocates, and state and national officials predicted that a tranquil new era was about to begin-an era when prisons would be empty, pol...
    Disponible

    54,07 €

  • The Egalitarian Moment
    Donald A. Low / Donald ALow
    ...
    Disponible

    43,70 €

  • The Egalitarian Moment
    D. A. Low / DALow
    ...
    Disponible

    106,31 €

  • Appalachia in the Making
    Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and ’other’ because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation. These essays, by fourteen eminent historians and social scientists, illuminate important dimensions of early social life in ...
    Disponible

    53,93 €

  • Jonathan Edwards, Religious Tradition, and American Culture
    Joseph A. Conforti / Joseph AConforti
    As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were generally dismissed as remnants of a moribund Puritan tradition. Focusing on the publishing history and appropriation of Edwards’s...
    Disponible

    54,43 €

  • Creating the Modern South
    Douglas Flamming
    Built by local entrepreneurs during Dixie’s Cotton Mill in Dalton, Georgia, acted as a magnet for thousands of newly impoverished white farm families who moved to the factory and its company-owned village from the surrounding countryside. In Creating the Modern South, Douglas Flamming examines one hundred years in the life of the mill and the town, providing a uniquely percepti...
    Disponible

    60,20 €

  • From Slavery to Agrarian Capitalism in the Cotton Plantation South
    Joseph P. Reidy / Joseph PReidy
    Reidy has produced one of the most thoughtful treatments to date of a critical moment in southern history, placing the social transformation of the South in the context of ’the age of capital’ and the changes in the markets, ideologies, etc. of the Atlantic world system. Better than anyone perhaps, Reidy has elaborated both the large and small narratives of this development, co...
    Disponible

    60,55 €

  • Western Civilization
    Neil M. Heyman / Neil MHeyman
    ...
    Disponible

    88,91 €

  • Raramuri Souls
    William L. Merrill / William LMerrill
    ...
    Disponible

    34,73 €

  • The Eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty
    Shih-shan Henry Tsai
    This study of Chinese eunuchs illuminates the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644, and provides broad information on various aspects of pre-modern China. ...
    Disponible

    43,17 €

  • Colonial Technology
    Jan Todd
    ...
    Disponible

    173,19 €

  • The Party of Fear
    David Bennett / David H. Bennett
    ...
    Disponible

    22,96 €

  • The Soviet Tragedy
    Martin Malia
    'The Soviet Tragedy is an essential coda to the literature of Soviet studies...Insofar as [he] returns the power of ideology to its central place in Soviet history, Malia has made an enormous contribution. He has written the history of a utopian illusion and the tragic consequences it had for the people of the Soviet Union and the world.'-- David Remnick, The New York Review of...
    Disponible

    27,53 €

  • Mexican Politics
    Martin Needler
    ...
    Disponible

    122,02 €

  • Mexican Politics
    Martin Needler
    ...
    Disponible

    44,99 €

  • Speak Now Against the Day
    John Egerton
    The compelling story of the earliest calls for desegregation and racial justice in the South. 'Make room on your library shelf . . . for John Egerton’s magnificent Speak Now Against the Day. His book is a stunning achievement: a sprawling, engrossing, deeply moving account of those Southerners, black and white, who raised their voices to challenge the South’s racial mores. . ....
    Disponible

    66,15 €

  • The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
    Angelique Haugerud / Haugerud Angelique
    ...
    Disponible

    145,09 €


Primera 4474 4475 4476 4477 4478 4479 4480 4481 4482 4483 Última