Caribbean New Orleans: Empire, Race, and the Making of a Slave Society, Hardcover - Cecile Vidal

Reducere. DescriptionCombining Atlantic and imperial perspectives, Caribbean New Orleans offers a lively portrait of the city and a probing investigation of ...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Willie Lynch"The Willie Lynch Letter" written by Willie Lynch is widely considered to be one of the top 100 most controvers...

Reducere. The Willie Lynch Letter and The Making of A Slave is a speech delivered by Willie Lynch to an audience on the bank of the James River in Virginia i...

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To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a c...

Reducere. The Willie Lynch speech is an address purportedly delivered by a certain William Lynch (or Willie Lynch) to an audience on the bank of the James Ri...

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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 ...

Race and the Making of American Political Science shows that changing scientific ideas about racial difference were central to the academic study o...

Reducere. Mardi Gras remains one of the most distinctive features of New Orleans. Although the city has celebrated Carnival since its days as a French and Sp...

Social conflict and the making of a globalized place at Rosia Montana - Filip Alexandrescu

Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual ...

Reducere. One of the first women s organizations to mask in a Mardi Gras parade, the Million Dollar Baby Dolls redefined the New Orleans carnival tradition. ...

Reducere. This fascinating and groundbreaking work tells the remarkable story of the relationship between Americans and their trees across the entire span of...

Reducere. A "Philadelphia Inquirer "Best Book of the Year A biography of Pope Francis that describes how this revolutionary thinker will use the power of his...

DescriptionThis volume gathers an array of voices to tell the stories of Cleveland's twentieth century Jewish community. Strong and stable after an...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Michelle JonesIllustration(s): 61 black and white illustrationsNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Reducere. The West Bank has been a vital part of greater New Orleans since the city's inception, serving as its breadbasket, foundry, shipbuilder, railroad t...

Reducere. From bestselling author Gary Krist, a vibrant and immersive account of New Orleans' other civil war, at a time when commercialized vice, jazz cultu...

Known internationally as a symbol of elegance and luxury, Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria is one of the world's most famous hotels. David Freeland take...

Reducere. INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe first, epic and true story of the Duke and Duchess of ...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Mitch AlbomNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 108 x 168 x 18Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...

It is impossible to imagine New Orleans, and by extension American history, without the vibrant and singular Creole culture. In the face of an oppr...

Urena Valerio illuminates nested imperial and colonial relations using sources ranging from medical texts and state documents to travel literature ...

Mitch Albom has done it again with this moving memoir of love and loss. You can't help but fall for Chika. A page-turner that will no doubt become ...

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Reducere. DescriptionLeaving the crowded, tourist-driven French Quarter by crossing Esplanade Avenue, visitors and residents entering the Faubourg Marigny tr...

Bringing together histories of immigration and emigration in the era of decolonisation, Settlers at the end of empire is an essential new study hig...

Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg's compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Reboucas (1798-1880) traces t...

A story of change in the Inca capital told through its artefacts, architecture, and historical documents

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Reducere. "I have no desire whatever to reform myself. My only desire is to reform people who try to reform me. And I believe that the only way to reform peo...

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Bulent Gokay examines Turkey's recent remarkable political and economic transformation within the context of broader regional and global change to ...

"Fun...and full of smart science. Fans of CSI--the real kind--will want to read it" (The Washington Post): A young forensic pathologist's "rookie s...

Reducere. A captivating, richly illustrated full account of the making of the ground-breaking movie classic West Side Story (1961). A major hit on Broadway, ...

The First Lady--Serial Killer The nurse from hell. Always cheerful, helpful, and sweet, nurse Jane Toppan was the last person you would suspect to ...

By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

Reducere. One July week in 1900 an obscure black laborer named Robert Charles drew national headlines when he shot twenty-seven whites -- including seven pol...

Reducere. Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans, Hardcover

DescriptionHow do Caribbean writers see the British countryside? Do they feel included, ignored, marginalised? In Topographies of Caribbean Writing...

Reducere. The American Gospel literally, the good news about America is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. In this vivid book, New ...

An explosive and news-making look at Donald Trump and his relationships with women, from his girlfriends to his multiple marriages, painting a port...

International number one bestseller Mitch Albom's first work of non-fiction in ten years - his most personal story to date.Illustrations: TBC

Examines the nineteenth-century royal tour from the perspectives of various historical actors - including royals, politicians and indigenous people...

Reducere. The demand for slave labor increased dramatically in the first decade of the 19th century due to the invention of the cotton gin and the consequent...

Reducere. Race is our age's great taboo. Public intellectuals insist that it does not exist-that it's a "social construct" and biological differences between...