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Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Paperback - Annette Gordon-Reed

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings h...

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Killer on the Road: Violence and the American Interstate, Paperback - Ginger Strand

88,99 RON 95,99 RON

Reducere. Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet's largest public work: the 42, 795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highway...

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American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland, Paperback - Robert O. Self

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert O. SelfAs the birthplace of the Black Panthers and a nationwide tax revolt, California embodied a crucial motif of t...

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Inn Civility: Urban Taverns and Early American Civil Society, Hardcover - Vaughn Scribner

286,99 RON 307,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...

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The Darkest Year: The American Home Front 1941-1942, Hardcover - William K. Klingaman

191,99 RON

DescriptionThe Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through t...

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American Disruptor: The Scandalous Life of Leland Stanford, Hardcover - Roland de Wolk

224,99 RON

DescriptionAmerican Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford - from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class univers...

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Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions - Jacob S. Dorman

275,99 RON 295,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionNamed Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICEWinnter of the Wesley-Logan Prize of the American Historical AssociationWinner of the Byron Ca...

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Cambridge History of the American Civil War: Volume 2, Affairs of the State, Hardback - ***

825,99 RON 1.125,99 RON

Reducere. This volume explores the political and social dimensions of the Civil War in both the North and South. Chapters explore the military leadership of ...

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The Master of Auschwitz: Memoirs of Rudolf Hoess, Kommandant SS, Paperback - Rudolf Hoess

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. The first-hand account of the life, career and the practices of horror at Auschwitz, written by Auschwitz Kommandant SS Rudolf Hoss as he awaited e...

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American Polygamy: A History of Fundamentalist Mormon Faith, Paperback - Craig L. Foster

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionToday's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite ...

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Better Homes of South Bend: An American Story of Courage, Hardcover - Gabrielle Robinson

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Black Beauties: African American Pageant Queens in the Segregated South, Paperback - Kimberly Brown Pellum Phd

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. In 1984, Vanessa Williams broke the race barrier to become Miss America, but she was not the first Black woman to wear a pageant crown. Black beaut...

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American Song and Struggle from Columbus to World War 2. A Cultural History, Hardback - ***

259,99 RON

This groundbreaking book explores the hidden history of American song and struggle, from the moment Columbus made fateful landfall to the start of ...

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Making Gullah: A History of Sapelo Islanders, Race, and the American Imagination, Paperback - Melissa L. Cooper

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Melissa L. CooperDuring the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections be...

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The Cambridge Companion to Early American Literature, Paperback - ***

200,99 RON

This Companion covers American literary history from European colonization to the early republic. It provides a succinct introduction to the major ...

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A History of African American Poetry, Hardcover - Lauri Ramey

548,99 RON

DescriptionAfrican American poetry is as old as America itself, yet this touchstone of American identity is often overlooked. In this critical hist...

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Rethinking American Grand Strategy, Paperback - Elizabeth Borgwardt

181,99 RON 194,99 RON

Reducere. A wide-ranging rethinking of the many factors that comprise the making of American Grand Strategy. What is grand strategy? What does it aim to achi...

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A History of American Law, Paperback - Lawrence M. Friedman

284,99 RON 304,99 RON

Reducere. Renowned legal historian Lawrence Friedman presents an accessible and authoritative history of American law from the colonial era to the present da...

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Wow, I'm an American, Paperback - Peter R. Breggin

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. "Wow, I'm an American!" is written by Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author Peter R. Breggin, MD. In a bold new approach to the live...

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Origins of the American Indians: European Concepts, 1492-1729, Paperback - Lee Eldridge Huddleston

130,99 RON

The American Indian--origin, culture, and language--engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creatio...

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Over Here: The First World War and American Society, Paperback - David M. Kennedy

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. The Great War of 1914-1918 confronted the United States with one of the most wrenching crises in the nation's history. It also left a residue of di...

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Tucson: The Life and Times of an American City, Paperback - C. L. Sonnichsen

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. Dedicated to all those living elsewhere who would rather be in TucsonTucson is the first comprehensive history of a unique corner of America, a cit...

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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, Paperback - Bernard Bailyn

167,99 RON

The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution, awarded both the Pulitzer and the Bancroft prizes, has become a classic of American historical ...

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Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic, Paperback - Rosemarie Zagarri

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

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American Tempest: How the Boston Tea Party Sparked a Revolution, Paperback - Harlow Giles Unger

100,99 RON 108,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOn December 16, 1773, an estimated seven dozen men dumped roughly 10, 000 worth of tea in Boston Harbor. This symbolic act unleashed a s...

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The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution, Paperback - Thomas P. Slaughter

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen President George Washington ordered an army of 13, 000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, h...

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That Noble Dream: The 'objectivity Question' and the American Historical Profession, Paperback - Peter Novick

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. The aspiration to relate the past "as it really happened" has been the central goal of American professional historians since the late nineteenth c...

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Moses Hazen and the Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution, Paperback - Allan S. Everest

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMoses Hazen, commander of the Second Canadian Reiment, was an unusual and influential man during the period of the American Revolution. ...

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American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865, Hardcover - Jeremy Zallen

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...

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Film Blackness: American Cinema and the Idea of Black Film, Paperback - Michael Boyce Gillespie

208,99 RON 223,99 RON

Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...

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African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western, Paperback - Sheree Scarborough

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Roanoke, Virginia, is one of America's great historic railroad centers. The Norfolk & Western Railway Company, now the Norfolk Southern Corporation...

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From Slave Ship to Harvard: Yarrow Mamout and the History of an African American Family, Paperback - James H. Johnston

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique ...

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Bergen County Voices from the American Revolution: Soldiers and Residents in Their Own Words, Hardcover - Todd W. Braisted

148,99 RON

DescriptionBergen County saw much of the American Revolution from its own doorstep. Close to British-occupied New York City, this corner of New Jer...

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Home of the Brave: An American History Book for Kids: 15 Immigrants Who Shaped U.S. History, Paperback - Brooke Khan

67,99 RON 72,99 RON

Reducere. Discover the stories of extraordinary immigrants who changed America.The United States has always been a nation of immigrants--and now you can lear...

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Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest, Paperback - Douglas J. Preston

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. This riveting true story recounts the author's journey on horseback across Arizona and New Mexico, retracing Coronado's desperate search for the le...

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Eating the Landscape: American Indian Stories of Food, Identity, and Resilience, Paperback - Enrique Salmon

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. "Eating is not only a political act, it is also a cultural act that reaffirms one's identity and worldview, " Enrique Salmon writes in Eating the L...

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Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City, Paperback - Colin Gordon

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Colin GordonOnce a thriving metropolis on the banks of the Mississippi, St. Louis, Missouri, is now a ghostly landscape of ...

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Illiberal Reformers: Race, Eugenics, and American Economics in the Progressive Era, Paperback - Thomas C. Leonard

116,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Thomas C. LeonardIn Illiberal Reformers, Thomas Leonard reexamines the economic progressives whose ideas and reform agenda ...

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Wild Bill Donovan: The Spymaster Who Created the OSS and Modern American Espionage, Paperback - Douglas Waller

116,99 RON 125,99 RON

Reducere. Now in paperback: "Entertaining history...Donovan was a combination of bold innovator and imprudent rule bender, which made him not only a remarkab...

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Black Visions: The Roots of Contemporary African-American Political Ideologies, Paperback - Michael C. Dawson

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and b...

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American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World, Paperback - David E. Stannard

156,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: David E. StannardFor four hundred years--from the first Spanish assaults against the Arawak people of Hispaniola in the 149...

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Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy, Paperback - Mary L. Dudziak

193,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Mary L. DudziakIn 1958, an African-American handyman named Jimmy Wilson was sentenced to die in Alabama for stealing two do...

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The Historian's Eye. Photography, History, and the American Present, Paperback - Matthew Frye Jacobson

272,99 RON

Between 2009 and 2014, as the US contemplated the election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson se...

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African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision, Paperback - Tamara L. Brown

252,99 RON 270,99 RON

Reducere. African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter org...

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Contest for California: From Spanish Colonization to the American Conquest, Paperback - Stephen G. Hyslop

211,99 RON

DescriptionCalifornia's early history was both colorful and turbulent. After Europeans first explored the region in the sixteenth century, it was c...

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Japanese American Baseball in California: A History, Hardcover - Kerry Yo Nakagawa

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. Four generations of Japanese Americans broke down racial and cultural barriers in California by playing baseball. Behind the barbed wire of concent...

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A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900, Paperback - Stephen Puleo

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stephen PuleoBetween 1850 and 1900, Boston underwent a stunning metamorphosis from an insulated New England town into one o...

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Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, Paperback - Deirdre Cooper Owens

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no sec...

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46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence - Scott Liell

97,99 RON 104,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's colonies with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, th...

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The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam, Paperback - Mark Clodfelter

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American...

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Charros: How Mexican Cowboys Are Remapping Race and American Identity, Paperback - Laura R. Barraclough

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation's origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Ameri...

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American Cultural History: A Very Short Introduction, Paperback - Eric Avila

56,99 RON

The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the...

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The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Paperback - T. H. Breen

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. The Marketplace of Revolution offers a boldly innovative interpretation of the mobilization of ordinary Americans on the eve of independence. Breen...

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Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, Paperback - James Oliver Horton

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

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The Legacy of Ibo Landing: Gullah Roots of African American Culture, Paperback - Marquetta L. Goodwine

252,99 RON 270,99 RON

Reducere. A rich potpourri of articles and paintings on Gullah art, history, fiction, recipes, and language along with social commentary which clarifies the ...

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Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Paperback - Robert Bray

156,99 RON

Diary of a Common Soldier in the American Revolution, 1775-1783, Paperback

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Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana. The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History, Hardback - Gene E. Salecker

399,99 RON

In Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana: The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History paroled prisoners, civilian passengers, guards, crewmember...

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Confederate Soldier of the American Civil War, Paperback - Denis Hambucken

75,00 RON

As 1862 dawned, the Civil War, the conflict that had started the year before and that most Americans thought would last only a few months, showed n...

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Nasrullah: Forgotten Patriarch of the American Thoroughbred, Hardcover - Melanie Greene

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Nasrullah arrived in Kentucky in 1950 and forever changed the modern American thoroughbred. Bred in royalty by the Aga Kahn, Nasrullah's journey fr...

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On the Trail: A History of American Hiking, Paperback - Silas Chamberlin

111,99 RON

DescriptionThe first history of the American hiking community and its contributions to the nation's vast network of trails In the mid-nineteenth ce...

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American Public School Librarianship. A History, Hardback - ***

303,99 RON

Filling a huge void in the history of education, American Public School Librarianship provides essential background information to members of the n...

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Constitutional History of the American Revolution, Paperback - John Phillip Reid

130,99 RON 140,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis book is a supplement to the textbook Basic Technical Japanese. It introduces 100 new kanji and more than 1500 technical terms that ...

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A History of American Higher Education, Paperback - John R. Thelin

242,99 RON

DescriptionColleges and universities are among the most cherished--and controversial--institutions in the United States. In this updated edition of...

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The Two Faces of American Freedom, Paperback - Aziz Rana

159,99 RON

The Two Faces of American Freedom boldly reinterprets the American political tradition from the colonial period to modern times, placing issues of ...

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American Indian Education, 2nd Edition: A History, Paperback - Jon Reyhner

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. Before Europeans arrived in North America, Indigenous peoples spoke more than three hundred languages and followed almost as many distinct belief s...

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Pez: From Austrian Invention to American Icon, Hardcover - Shawn Peterson

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. PEZ is an American classic and a staple of many childhood memories. Yet it originated in Austria, where PEZ began in 1927 as compressed peppermint ...

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American Trailblazers: 50 Remarkable People Who Shaped U.S. History, Paperback - Lisa Trusiani

80,99 RON 86,99 RON

Reducere. Discover the amazing stories of 50 real American heroes.Are you ready to read about daring deeds and world-changing events? Meet the American Trail...

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The Cambridge Guide to African American History, Paperback - Raymond Gavins

200,99 RON

This book emphasizes blacks' agency and achievements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably outcomes of the Civil Rights Movement. To c...

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The Archaeology of the North American Great Plains, Hardback - ***

958,99 RON

People often see the Plains as a vast, empty space where cowboys and Indians fought. This book highlights a rich history of change over time on the...

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A History of African American Theatre, Paperback - James V. Hatch

480,99 RON

This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-Americ...

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