Fight Like Hell. The Untold History of American Labor, Hardback - Kim Kelly

Publisher: Simon & SchusterAuthor(s): Kim KellyNumber of pages: 448Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 164 x 236 x 40Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

The story of one of the world's most important crops From the gold potatoes at the Sun Temple in Cuzco, Peru, the muddy ones in Ireland and those g...

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Reducere. Moral treatment, the vogue of early American psychology, freed the mentally ill of their chains. They were, however, still relegated to separate in...

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Ilarion Merculieff weaves the remarkable strands of his life and culture into a fascinating account that begins with his traditional Unangan (Aleut...

Reducere. A groundbreaking look at how the interrogation rooms of the Korean War set the stage for a new kind of battle--not over land but over human subject...

Publisher: Beacon PressAuthor(s): Michael HinesNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 236 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescopera ...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressAuthor(s): Robert DormanIllustration(s): mapsNumber of pages: 268Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 161 x 236 ...

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'Groundbreaking, deeply researched and profoundly heart-rending' Peniel Joseph, New York Times A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of Am...

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A unique perspective on the intense fighting in Husaybah during the Iraq war, told through a series of interviews with those who were there, from t...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Supreme UnderstandingIn this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you typically l...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Supreme UnderstandingIn this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you learned in ...

Reducere. In this book, you'll learn about the history of Black people. I don't mean the history you typically learn in school, which most likely began with ...

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From longtime New York Times labor correspondent, an in-depth and stirring look at working men and women in America, the challenges they face, and ...

The creators of the podcast The Dollop present illustrated profiles of the weird, outrageous, NSFW, and downright absurd tales from American histor...

William Morgan, a tough-talking ex-paratrooper, stunned family and friends when in 1957 he left Ohio to join freedom fighters in the mountains of C...

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As the war began to swing in the favor of the Allies, it became clear that no final defeat of the Third Reich would be possible until the armored m...

Reducere. At 3: 17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created ...

Reducere. At last, here is a book that tells the full story of the turning point in World War II's Battle of the Bulge--the story of five crucial days in whi...

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For pop culture and history buffs, Con attendees, and fans of Norse mythology and the numerous Viking-themed shows, The Viking Hondbok is a fun and...

Upon its first publication in 2001 as the inaugural volume in The New Press People's History series, edited by the late Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael's ...

Reducere. "WWII scholar John Kelly triumphs again" (Vanity Fair) in this remarkably vivid account of a key moment in Western history: The critical six months...

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Some of the most brutally intense infantry combat in World War II occurred within Germany's Hrtgen Forest. Focusing on the bitterly fought battle b...

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...

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...

An enlightening narrative exploring an oft-overlooked aspect of the sixteenth president's life, An American Marriage reveals the tragic story of Ab...

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom the urban affairs correspondent of the New York Times--the story of a city through twenty-seven structures that define it. As New Y...