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Us versus Them. The United States, Radical Islam, and the Rise of the Green Threat, 2 Revised edition, Paperback - Douglas Little

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Acclaimed historian of US-Middle East foreign relations Douglas Little examines how American presidents, policy makers, and diplomats dealt with th...

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Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt Between the Islamic and the Contemporary, Hardcover - Alex Dika Seggerman

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Reducere. Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman rev...

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Men of Mobtown. Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation, Paperback - Adam Malka

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What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery. The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save the Union, Paperback - Daniel W. Crofts

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In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the ""Gre...

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Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark, Paperback - Katherine Mellen Charron

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Reducere. In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousa...

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Winter in America: A Cultural History of Neoliberalism, from the Sixties to the Reagan Revolution, Paperback - Daniel Robert McClure

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Reducere. Neoliberalism took shape in the 1930s and 1940s as a transnational political philosophy and system of economic, political, and cultural relations. ...

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Seeing the New South. Race and Place in the Photographs of Ulrich Bonnell Phillips, Hardback - John David Smith

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Publisher: University of South Carolina PressAuthor(s): John David SmithIllustration(s): 87 illustrationsNumber of pages: 136Publication date: 2012...

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Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South - Diane Miller Sommerville

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Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

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The Haitians: A Decolonial History, Paperback - Jean Casimir

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Reducere. In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-D...

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Appalachia: A History, Paperback - John Alexander Williams

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Reducere. Interweaving social, political, environmental, economic, and popular history, John Alexander Williams chronicles four and a half centuries of the A...

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Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II, Paperback - Cedric J. Robinson

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Reducere. Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues...

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There's Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality - Philip F. Rubio

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Reducere. This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor a...

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UDL for Language Learners, Paperback - Caroline Torres

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Reducere. DescriptionHow do we help language learners--those whose primary language is not the language of instruction--become resourceful, motivated, and st...

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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy, Paperback - Susan M. Reverby

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Reducere. The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound m...

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Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War II, Paperback - Berube, Allan

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Reducere. During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forc...

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Bonds of Alliance: Indigenous and Atlantic Slaveries in New France, Paperback - Brett Rushforth

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Reducere. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North Amer...

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Pauli Murray: A Personal and Political Life, Hardcover - Troy R. Saxby

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Reducere. The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline Pauli Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for g...

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

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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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Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Hardcover - Monica M. White

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DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

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Game of Privilege. An African American History of Golf, Paperback - Lane Demas

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Explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregatio...

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Class Interruptions. Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction, Paperback - Robin Brooks

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As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences b...

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The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature, Paperback - Josh Doty

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The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect ...

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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, Paperback - Amy Louise Wood

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Reducere. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching a...

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Wittenwiler's Ring and the Anonymous Scots Poem Colkelbie Sow. Two Comic-Didactic Works from the Fifteenth Century, Paperback - ***

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Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-did...

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Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal, Paperback - Kate Dossett

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Reducere. Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Projec...

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Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny After Reconstruction, Paperback - Michele Mitchell

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Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promote...

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Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America, Hardcover - Brian P. Luskey

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Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, Paperback - Faust, Drew Gilpin

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Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

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Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians, Paperback - Susan Sleeper-Smith

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Reducere. A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of A...

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Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women, Paperback - Barbara Sicherman

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Reducere. In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in...

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Chicago's New Negroes, Paperback - Davarian L. Baldwin

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As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250, 000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capit...

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de Leon, a Tejano Family History, Paperback - Carolina Castillo Crimm

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Reducere. Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of thr...

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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Paperback - Michael T. Taussig

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Reducere. In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners i...

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Domingos lvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, Paperback - James H. Sweet

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Reducere. Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe...

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Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America, Paperback - Edward Telles

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Reducere. Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary ...

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The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems, Paperback - Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

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Reducere. The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removin...

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The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery, Paperback - Matt D. Childs

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Reducere. In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most im...

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Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Leigh Raiford

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Reducere. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used pho...

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Circus Age. Culture and Society under the American Big Top, Paperback - Janet M. Davis

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This work explores the development of the early 20th-century circus against developments such as the rise of big business and the genesis of the Un...

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Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital, Paperback - Zach Sell

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Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas. Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next, Paperback - Jay Barnes

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Tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the pres...

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Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887, Paperback - Daniel M. Cobb

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Reducere. In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights...

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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Paperback - Janice a. Radway

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Reducere. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's mo...

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How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations, Paperback - Carl W. Ernst

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Reducere. How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, ...

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North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955, Paperback - Sarah-Jane Mathieu

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Reducere. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5, 000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada ...

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A Theory of Craft, Paperback - Howard Risatti

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Reducere. What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade cerami...

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Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, Paperback - Frank Andre Guridy

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Reducere. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a uni...

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The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929, Paperback - David A. Chang

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Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

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Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans, Paperback - Lakisha Michelle Simmons

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Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

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Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South - Vanessa Siddle Walker

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African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

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China's Muslims and Japan's Empire. Centering Islam in World War II, Paperback - Kelly A. Hammond

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In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-bui...

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Playmakers Repertory Company: A History, Paperback - Bobbi Owen

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Reducere. PlayMakers Repertory Company: A History celebrates nearly fifty years of the professional theatre company founded at the University of North Caroli...

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Revolution Within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962, Paperback - Michelle Chase

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Reducere. A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutiona...

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The Meadowsweet Year Volume 1, Paperback - Caroline Acworth

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Reducere. Displays, Verses, Stories, Recipes & Craft Ideas to Complement Rudolf Steiner inspired Parent/Child Group sessions. This book is unique in that it ...

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Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, Paperback - Woody Holton

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Reducere. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Was...

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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice, Hardcover - Finis Dunaway

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Reducere. Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...

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The Birth Certificate: An American History, Hardcover - Susan J. Pearson

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Reducere. For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying ...

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Why Rural Schools Matter, Paperback - Mara Casey Tieken

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Reducere. From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that...

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Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood, Paperback - Chantal Norrgard

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Reducere. From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining...

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Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York, Paperback - Lori D. Ginzberg

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On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States--six women...

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The High Seminary: Vol. 1: A History of the Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina, 1889-1964, Paperback - Jerome V. Reel

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This study shows how Clemson weaves together the three federal charges of land-grant institutions--teaching (specified in the Land Grant Act of 186...

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War of 1898, Paperback - Louis A. Perez

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Reducere. A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years ...

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Searching for Black Confederates. The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth, Paperback - Kevin M. Levin

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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100...

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Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975, Paperback - Michitake Aso

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Reducere. Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought mo...

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The King of Adobe: Reies Lpez Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement, Hardcover - Lorena Oropeza

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Reducere. In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking loca...

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We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom, Paperback - Tisa Wenger

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For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-c...

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The Democratic Ethos. Authenticity and Instrumentalism in US Movement Rhetoric after Occupy, Paperback - A. Freya Thimsen

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What did Occupy Wall Street accomplish? While it began as a startling disruption in politics as usual, in The Democratic Ethos Freya Thimsen argues...

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Rural Republican Realignment in the Modern South. The Untold Story, Paperback - Seth C. McKee

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Since the 1948 Dixiecrat revolt from the national Democratic Party, rural white southerners have experienced a painstakingly slow transformational ...

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Citizenship on Catfish Row. Race and Nation in American Popular Culture, Paperback - Geoffrey Galt Harpham

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Focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first full-length narrative film, D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation; th...

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

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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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