Acadian Odyssey: Race and Americanization, Paperback - Oscar W. Winzerling

Reducere. First published in 1955, Oscar Winzerling's Acadian Odyssey has remained unsurpassed as a study of the exodus of 1755.Following their eviction from...

Reducere. In this new verse adaptation, originally commissioned for BBC radio, Simon Armitage has recast Homer's epic as a series of bristling dramatic dialo...

Composed at the rosy-fingered dawn of world literature almost three millennia ago, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; a...

The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and pow...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: James OakesThis pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum Ameri...

DescriptionAuthor Mikhal Dekel's father, Hannan Teitel, and her aunt Regina were two of these refugees. After they fled the town in eastern Poland ...

Reducere. Stressing culture, community and choice, this book outlines a therapy for the new poor, a people poor more because they have lost their spirit than...

Reducere. Why has human history been crowded into the last few thousand years? Why has it happened at all? Could it have happened in a radically different wa...

Reducere. In the past two decades, our understanding of the navigational and physiological feats that enable birds to cross immense oceans, fly above the hig...

Reducere. As a working mother and poet-lecturer, Camille Dungy's livelihood depended on travel. She crisscrossed America and beyond with her daughter in tow,...

Reducere. A century on, the twisted wreckage from the Ricohoc disaster smolders, passenger trains turned into husks amid predawn fog. Would-be assassins draw...

First published in 1937, Snow on the Equator chronicles H.W. Tilman's early adventures; his transition from East African coffee planter to famed mo...

Reducere. Geronimo was hated by some of his own people, loved by others, but respected by all. The Odyssey of Geronimo, based on history and Apache culture b...

This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries. First -- the 'biblical' age: how was the date of Cr...

Reducere. As the world observes the 25th anniversary of the first man on the moon, this exciting book tells the gripping story of the engineers who answered ...

DescriptionTragedy and destruction abound in this region and in these pages, but heroism, glory and Cajun flair come in equal measure. From the imp...

Using Germany as a case study of the impact of American culture throughout a period characterized by a totalitarian system, two destructive wars, e...

Reducere. Elijah Anderson, called "one of our best urban ethnographers" by the New York Times Book Review, introduces the concept of the "cosmopolitan canopy...

Reducere. Samir Amin's ambitious new book argues that the ongoing American project to dominate the world through military force has its roots in European lib...

The Great Zodiac Race was the winner for 2017 Best Book Awards - Children's Picture Book: Softcover Fiction. A challenge has been set A race is on ...

Reducere. The past sixty years have shaped and reshaped the group of French-speaking Louisiana people known as the Cajuns. During this period they have becom...

Reducere. During a century of colonialism, Burma was plundered for its natural resources and remade as a racial hierarchy. Over decades of dictatorship, it s...

Reducere. Did you know that there is race in your movie?! Prepare yourself, for this is the report that Hollywood doesn't want you to see! Picking up where t...

Reducere. Midnight train rides, head-on freight collisions--there is never a dull moment when it comes to trains. Take a look at America's biggest railroads ...

Reducere. When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients ...

Reducere. Acadian Families in Exile - 1785, Hardcover

Reducere. DescriptionTracing Your Ancestry: French Acadian, French Canadian is a resource that will provide the family historian with the knowledge of how an...

Reducere. Acadian to Cajun: Transformation of a People, 1803-1877 by Carl A. Brasseaux An enlightening assessment that provides understanding of how the Acad...

Reducere. Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North A...

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Explains how jazz was shaped by urbanization, the 'great migration' of southern blacks northward, and the 'jazz image' - dress code, jargon, and us...

Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Theodore W AllenNumber of pages: 800Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 233 x 154 x 40Cover type: Paperback / softba...

Groundbreaking analysis of the birth of racism in America - volume 2.

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Embark on your own creative journey with the beautiful Color Odyssey. Stunningly intricate black and White designs are inspired by nature and penne...

Reducere. DescriptionMormonism is one of the few homegrown religions in the United States, one that emerged out of the religious fervor of the early nineteen...

Awards🏆Winner (2002) - Bancroft Prize - (History)Contributor(s): Author: David W. BlightNo historical event has left as deep an imprint on America'...

Through a rich interpretation of the remarkable photographs W. E. B. Du Bois compiled for the American Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition, ...

Reducere. DescriptionThroughout his life, Atlanta resident George W. Wray Jr. (1936-2004) built a collection of more than six hundred of the rarest Confedera...