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Slavery 101: Mercer Moments in American History, Hardcover - Ken Mercer

177,99 RON 190,99 RON

Reducere. "My Christian faith taught me always to fight hard but only to fight back with the truth. Sadly, I learned that the opposition to Judeo-Christian f...

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Ranching and the American West. A History in Documents, Paperback - ***

209,99 RON

The role of ranching in the West is central to the field of animal history. This volume covers the periods between the early Indigenous acquisition...

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Slavery 101: Mercer Moments in American History, Paperback - Ken Mercer

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

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Woodrow Wilson and American Internationalism, Paperback - Lloyd E. Ambrosius

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. In this new work, one of the world's leading historians of US foreign relations, Lloyd E.Ambrosius, addresses enduring questions about American pol...

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Californication: The Rise of the American Technocracy, Paperback - Joseph Pendleton

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. Californication: The Rise of the American Technocracy is a comprehensive analysis of the motivations and consequences of the burdensome regulatory ...

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

62,99 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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Immigration. An American History, Hardback - Hasia R. Diner

259,99 RON

A sweeping narrative history of American immigration from the colonial period to the presentPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Hasia R. Din...

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Untold Microcosms. Latin American Writers in the British Museum, Paperback - ***

59,99 RON

Collection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.Publisher: Charco PressIllustration(s): NoNu...

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

165,99 RON 177,99 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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Early Israelites: Two Peoples, One History: Rediscovery of the Origins of Ancient Israel, Paperback - Igor P. Lipovsky

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. What does the Bible hide and to what extent can we trust the Holy Scriptures? The "archaeology" of biblical texts yielded many interesting and surp...

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The First Way of War: American War Making on the Frontier, 1607-1814, Paperback - John Grenier

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. This book explores the evolution of Americans' first way of war, to show how war waged again Indian noncombatant population and agricultural resour...

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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn: An Untold Story of the American Revolution, Hardcover - Robert P. Watson

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn, the derelict HMS Jersey was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of...

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The Original Blues: The Emergence of the Blues in African American Vaudeville, Paperback - Lynn Abbott

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBlues Book of the Year --Living Blues Association of Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence Best Historical Research in Record...

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Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War, Hardcover - David Silkenat

311,99 RON 333,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

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Dodge City: Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and the Wickedest Town in the American West - Tom Clavin

51,99 RON

DescriptionNow in paperback, the New York Times bestselling story of the taming of the depraved and criminal Wild West. The instant New York Times ...

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To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe, Hardcover - Matthew Lockwood

185,99 RON

DescriptionThe first exploration of the profound and often catastrophic impact the American Revolution had on the rest of the world While the Ameri...

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A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, Paperback - John Ferling

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a ...

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War and Remembrance: The Story of the American Battle Monuments Commission, Hardcover - Thomas H. Conner

367,99 RON

Description"No soldier could ask for a sweeter resting place than on the field of glory where he fell. The land he died to save vies with the one w...

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Liberating Hollywood: Women Directors and the Feminist Reform of 1970s American Cinema, Paperback - Maya Monta Smukler

238,99 RON

Liberating Hollywood examines the professional experiences and creative output of women filmmakers during a unique moment in history when the socia...

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Girls Will Be Boys: Cross-Dressed Women, Lesbians, and American Cinema, 1908-1934, Paperback - Laura Horak

282,99 RON

Description2016 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Finalist for 2016 Richard Wall Memorial Award by the Theatre Library Long listed for the 2017 Kra...

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Franco-American Life & Culture in Manchester, New Hampshire: Vivre La Difference, Hardcover - Robert B. Perreault

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. A strong sense of unity and tradition frames a fascinating history of Manchester, New Hampshire's Franco-American community. Author Robert B. Perre...

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Oxford AQA History for A Level: The American Dream: Reality and Illusion 1945-1980, Paperback - Mark Stacey

292,99 RON

Retaining well-loved features, this book covers in depth the challenges faced by the USA at home and abroad as it emerged from the Second World War...

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The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics, Paperback - Don E. Fehrenbacher

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1979, The Dred Scott Case is a masterful examination of the most famous example of judicial failure--the case refer...

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The Glitter and the Gold: The American Duchess---In Her Own Words, Hardcover - Consuela Vanderbilt Balsan

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. A new edition of Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan's memoir--the story of the "real" Lady Grantham of Downton AbbeyConsuelo Vanderbilt was young, beautifu...

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Part of Our Lives: A People's History of the American Public Library, Paperback - Wayne A. Wiegand

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. Despite dire predictions in the late twentieth century that public libraries would not survive the turn of the millennium, their numbers have only ...

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Descriptions of Twenty-Six New Species of North American Mammals, Issues 1-5, Paperback - Clinton Hart Merriam

44,99 RON

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): Clinton Hart MerriamIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 84Publication date: 2011Dimensi...

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Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice - Ronald J. Olive

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. Jonathan Pollard, an intelligence analyst working in the U.S. Naval Investigative Service's Anti-Terrorist Alert Center, systematically stole highl...

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Go for Broke: The Nisei Warriors of World War II Who Conquered Germany, Japan, and American Bigotry, Paperback - C. Douglas Sterner

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. Japanese-Americans were forcefully removed from their homes and businesses, and placed in "relocation" camps throughout the West. With countless in...

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Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia, Paperback - Lynn Rainville

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recover information c...

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The Texas Connection with the American Revolution, Paperback - Robert H. Thonhoff

88,99 RON

All too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English coloni...

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Carleton Watkins: Making the West American, Paperback - Tyler Green

178,99 RON

" A] fascinating and indispensable book."--Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2018--The Guardian Gold Medal for Contribution to Pu...

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Great American Explorer Stories. Lyons Press Classics, Paperback - Cheney Gardner

88,99 RON

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The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Century American Fiction, Paperback - ***

200,99 RON

This is one of the first volumes to systematically analyse the key trends, contexts, and developments of 21st century US fiction. 14 leading schola...

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The Good War in American Memory, Paperback - John Bodnar

220,99 RON

The "Good War" in American Memory dispels the long-held myth that Americans forged an agreement on why they had to fight in World War II. John Bodn...

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Becoming American in Creole New Orleans, 1896-1949, Hardcover - Darryl Barthé

340,99 RON 364,99 RON

Reducere. Extensive scholarship has emerged within the last twenty-five years on the role of Louisiana Creoles in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuri...

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American Religions: A Documentary History, Paperback - R. Marie Griffith

681,99 RON 729,99 RON

Reducere. Religion has played a complex, vibrant, and multifaceted role in our nation's history. One of the most effective ways to help students explore its ...

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American Senate: An Insider's History, Paperback - Neil MacNeil

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Onc...

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Hessians. German Soldiers in the American Revolutionary War, Hardback - ***

729,99 RON

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Friederike (Associate Professor of History, Associate Professor of History, Penn State Abington) B...

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Brethren by Nature: New England Indians, Colonists, and the Origins of American Slavery, Paperback - Margaret Ellen Newell

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. In Brethren by Nature, Margaret Ellen Newell reveals a little-known aspect of American history: English colonists in New England enslaved thousands...

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The Collinwood Tragedy: The Story of the Worst School Fire in American History, Paperback - James Jessen Badal

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. A devastating loss of life and a community's response March 4, 1908, was an ordinary morning in Collinwood, Ohio, a village about ten miles outside...

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Harlem's Hell Fighters: The African-American 369th Infantry in World War I, Paperback - Stephen L. Harris

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. When the United States entered World War I in 1917, thousands of African-American men volunteered to fight for a country that granted them only lim...

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Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Paperback - Richard A. Russell

139,99 RON

``This booklet, based on original materials culled from archives in the United States and in the Russian Federation, treats a little known aspect o...

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Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence, Hardcover - Glenn A. Moots

381,99 RON 408,99 RON

Reducere. The American imagination still exalts the Founders as the prime movers of the Revolution, and the War of Independence has become the stuff of legen...

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The American People in World War II: Freedom from Fear Part Two, Paperback - David M. Kennedy

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David M. KennedyEven as the New Deal was coping with the Depression, a new menace was developing abroad. Exploiting Germany...

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Giant's Causeway: Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary, Paperback - Tom Chaffin

115,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Tom ChaffinIn 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already ...

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Bound to the Fire: How Virginia's Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine, Hardcover - Kelley Fanto Deetz

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. In grocery store aisles and kitchens across the country, smiling images of ``Aunt Jemima`` and other historical and fictional black cooks can be fo...

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Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, Paperback - David W. Blight

127,99 RON

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

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George Washington's Washington: Visions for the National Capital in the Early American Republic, Paperback - Adam Costanzo

152,99 RON

This book traces the history of the development, abandonment, and eventual revival of George Washington's original vision for a grand national capi...

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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, Paperback - Scott Reynolds Nelson

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. The ballad "John Henry" is the most recorded folk song in American history and John Henry--the mighty railroad man who could blast through rock fas...

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Inventing the American Flag: How the Stars and Stripes Was Woven from Symbols, Hardcover - Henry W. Moeller

152,99 RON

DescriptionA treasure hunt for the hidden meaning of the symbols that appear on the most revered national icon. With gorgeous four-color reproducti...

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Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 2: The Golden Age: 1881-1914, Paperback - Jason Thompson

193,99 RON

"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental histor...

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Love's Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture, Hardcover - Aaron Lecklider

186,99 RON

How queerness and radical politics intersected--earlier than you thought. Well before Stonewall, a broad cross section of sexual dissidents took ad...

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The Pyramids (New and Revised): The Archaeology and History of Egypt's Iconic Monuments, Hardcover - Miroslav Verner

518,99 RON 555,99 RON

Reducere. An authoritative account by preeminent Egyptologist Miroslav Verner covering over 70 of Egypt's and Sudan's pyramids, their historical and politica...

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The Bonds of Inequality. Debt and the Making of the American City, Paperback - Destin Jenkins

179,99 RON

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Destin JenkinsIllustration(s): 26 halftones, 10 tablesNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 20...

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New Women In The Old West. From Settlers to Suffragists, an Untold American Story, Paperback - Winifred Gallagher

89,99 RON

Publisher: Prentice Hall PressAuthor(s): Winifred GallagherNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 139 x 212 x 25Cover type: Paperbac...

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AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWMEN, 1867-1877, vol.1, Hardcover - Lievin Kambamba Mboma

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. AFRICAN AMERICAN LAWMEN, 1867-1877 explores the understudied topic of African Americans in law enforcement, as well as in executive and elected pol...

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The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolution, Paperback - Jack P. Greene

128,99 RON 138,99 RON

Reducere. Using the British Empire as a case study, this succinct study argues that the establishment of overseas settlements in America created a problem of...

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Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discourse of Natural History, Hardback - Juliana Chow

684,99 RON

This book discusses how literary writers re-envisioned species survival and racial uplift through ecological and biogeographical concepts of disper...

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Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History, Paperback - Ted Steinberg

508,99 RON 544,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn this ambitious and provocative text, environmental historian Ted Steinberg offers a sweeping history of the United States--a history ...

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Contemporary Western. An American Genre Post-9/11, Paperback - John White

148,99 RON

In this book, John White explores how films such as Open Range, True Grit and Jane Got a Gun reinforce a conservative myth of America exceptionalis...

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Aaron and Alexander: The Most Famous Duel in American History, Hardcover - Don Brown

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. The most famous duel in American history dramatized by leading nonfiction picture book illustrator, Don Brown.Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton wer...

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A Letter of Resignation: An American Libretto, Paperback - Enzo Silon Surin

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. A LETTER OF RESIGNATION is a meditation on American history informed by the Black experience in the United States and neighboring island republics....

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Victory Motorcycles 1998-2017: The Complete History of an American Original, Hardcover - Lee Klancher

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. With the 1998 debut of its V92C, Victory Motorcycles became the New American Motorcycle. Victory's innovative, stylish heavyweight cruiser motorcyc...

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Black Freethinkers. A History of African American Secularism, Paperback - Christopher Cameron

359,99 RON

Argues that, contrary to historical and popular depictions of African Americans as naturally religious, freethought has been central to black polit...

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Common Phantoms: An American History of Psychic Science, Paperback - Alicia Puglionesi

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. S ances, clairvoyance, and telepathy captivated public imagination in the United States from the 1850s well into the twentieth century. Though skep...

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African American Political Thought. A Collected History, Paperback - ***

255,99 RON

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Women on the North American Plains, Paperback - Renee M. Laegreid

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. The first comprehensive view of women on the North American Plains, these essays explore the richness, variety, and complexity of their experiences...

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Black Drink: A Native American Tea, Paperback - Charles M. Hudson

160,99 RON

Until its use declined in the nineteenth century, Indians of the southeastern United States were devoted to a caffeinated beverage commonly known a...

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Fade to Gray. Aging in American Cinema, Paperback - Nancy McVittie

183,99 RON

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African American Religious History: Documentary Witness, Paperback - Milton C. Sernett

296,99 RON 317,99 RON

Reducere. This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through R...

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