First Americans, Hardcover

The Archaeology of Northern Slavery and Freedom, Hardcover - James A. Delle

877,99 RON

DescriptionInvestigating what life was like for African Americans north of the Mason-Dixon Line during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Jam...

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Banking on Freedom: Black Women in U.S. Finance Before the New Deal, Hardcover - Shennette Garrett-Scott

863,99 RON 924,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBetween 1888 and 1930, African Americans opened more than a hundred banks and thousands of other financial institutions. In Banking on F...

columbia university press, carti, carte straina, fiction & related items, fiction: general & literary

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More Than Our Pain, Hardcover - Beth Hinderliter

743,99 RON 796,99 RON

Reducere. Confronted by a crisis in black American leadership, state-sanctioned violence against black communities, and colorblind laws that trap black Ameri...

state university of new york press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Native Providence: Memory, Community, and Survivance in the Northeast, Hardcover - Patricia E. Rubertone

672,99 RON 720,99 RON

Reducere. A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the n...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Unfair Labor?: American Indians and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Hardcover - David R. M. Beck

412,99 RON

DescriptionUnfair Labor? is the first book to explore the economic impact of Native Americans who participated in the 1893 World's Columbian Exposi...

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A Russian American Photographer in Tlingit Country: Vincent Soboleff in Alaska, Hardcover - Sergei Kan

383,99 RON 410,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a rich record of life in small-town southeastern Alaska in the late 1800s and early 1900s. It is the first book to showcase the photog...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, biography

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Living Dangerously in Korea: The Western Experience 1900-1950, Hardcover - Donald N. Clark

370,99 RON 396,99 RON

Reducere. Korea was "discovered" by the West after World War II when it became a flashpoint in the Cold War. Before the war, however, it was home to many hun...

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Criminal Dissent: Prosecutions Under the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, Hardcover - Wendell Bird

366,99 RON

In the first complete account of prosecutions under the Alien and Sedition Acts, dozens of previously unknown cases come to light, revealing the le...

harvard university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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City of Big Shoulders: A History of Chicago, Hardcover - Robert G. Spinney

350,99 RON

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinn...

northern illinois university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda on the Home Front, Hardcover - Celia Malone Kingsbury

344,99 RON 369,99 RON

Reducere. World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear abou...

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Framing First Contact, Volume 38: From Catlin to Russell, Hardcover - Kate Elliott

343,99 RON 368,99 RON

Reducere. Representations of first contact--the first meetings of European explorers and Native Americans--have always had a central place in our nation's hi...

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Italians in the Lowcountry: Sunny Italy's Charleston Colony, Hardcover - Christina Rae Butler

342,99 RON 366,99 RON

Reducere. Italians in the Lowcountry is the first book to explore the contributions and legacies of the Italian and Italian American community in Charleston,...

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History of the Rise, Progress, and Termination of the American Revolution: All Three Volumes - Complete with Notes (Hardcover) - Mercy Otis Warren

338,99 RON 362,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWarren's spectacularly detailed account of the American War of Independence remains an authoritative, much-read source on the subject: t...

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Flying Across America, Hardcover - Daniel L. Rust

338,99 RON

Americans who now endure the inconveniences of crowded airports, packed airplanes, and missed connections might not realize that flying was once an...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, lifestyle

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War Is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War, Hardcover - Edward J. Blum

325,99 RON 348,99 RON

Reducere. During his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln expressed hope that the better angels of our nature would prevail as war loomed. He was wrong. ...

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Getting What We Need Ourselves: How Food Has Shaped African American Life, Hardcover - Jennifer Jensen Wallach

323,99 RON 346,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBeginning with an examination of West African food traditions during the era of the transatlantic slave trade and ending with a discussi...

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Ballet in the Cold War: A Soviet-American Exchange, Hardcover - Anne Searcy

321,99 RON 344,99 RON

Reducere. In 1959, the Bolshoi Ballet arrived in New York for its first ever performances in the United States. The tour was part of the Soviet-American cult...

oxford university press, usa, carti, carte straina, the arts

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The Harry's Bar Cookbook: Recipes and Reminiscences from the World-Famous Venice Bar and Restaurant, Hardcover - Harry Cipriani

320,99 RON 343,99 RON

Reducere. There is only one Harry's Bar. Located on Venice's Calle Vallaresso, near the Piazza San Marco, this legendary restaurant has been, for five decade...

bantam, carti, carte straina, language & linguistics, linguistics

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When the World Broke in Two: The Roaring Twenties and the Dawn of America's Culture Wars, Hardcover - Erica J. Ryan

314,99 RON 337,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAmericans have been embroiled in debate over culturally significant issues including race and immigration, gender and sexuality, and mor...

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No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security, Hardcover - Thomas M. Nichols

307,99 RON 329,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald ...

university of pennsylvania press, carti, carte straina, computing & information technology, computer security

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African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation, Hardcover - Gary Zellar

307,99 RON 329,99 RON

Reducere. Among the Creeks, they were known as Estelvste--black people--and they had lived among them since the days of the first Spanish entradas. They spok...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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The Ruling Elite: The Zionist Seizure of World Power, Hardcover - Deanna Spingola

304,99 RON 326,99 RON

Reducere. The U.S. government, complicit with the well-connected corporations, since the so-called Civil War, continues to wage war and destruction. Lincoln'...

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Robert Frank: In America, Hardcover - Robert Frank

303,99 RON 325,99 RON

Reducere. Because of the importance of Robert Frank's The Americans; because he turned to filmmaking in 1959, the same year the book appeared in the United S...

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Prelude to the Dust Bowl: Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains, Hardcover - Kevin Z. Sweeney

300,99 RON 322,99 RON

Reducere. Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. But in this eye-open...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Diminishing the Bill of Rights, Volume 3: Barron V. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty, Hardcover - William Davenport Mercer

298,99 RON 319,99 RON

Reducere. The modern effort to locate American liberties, it turns out, began in the mud at the bottom of Baltimore harbor. John Barron Jr. and John Craig su...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, law

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Nicodemus: Post-Reconstruction Politics and Racial Justice in Western Kansas, Hardcover - Charlotte Hinger

297,99 RON 318,99 RON

Reducere. Pushed out of the South as Reconstruction ended and as white landowners, employers, and "Redeemer" governments sought to reestablish the constraint...

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American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty Stuart, Hardcover - Kathryn E. Delmez

292,99 RON 313,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Kathryn E. DelmezIntroduction by: Marty StuartText by (Art/Photo Books): Susan H. EdwardsAlthough known primarily as a coun...

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A Pledge with Purpose: Black Sororities and Fraternities and the Fight for Equality, Hardcover - Gregory S. Parks

292,99 RON 313,99 RON

Reducere. Reveals the historical and political significance of "The Divine Nine"--the Black Greek Letter Organizations In 1905, Henry Arthur Callis began his...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Kabbalah and the Founding of America: The Early Influence of Jewish Thought in the New World, Hardcover - Brian Ogren

287,99 RON 308,99 RON

Reducere. Explores the influence of Kabbalah in shaping America's religious identity In 1688, a leading Quaker thinker and activist in what is now New Jersey...

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Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism, Hardcover - Brian Hoffman

287,99 RON 308,99 RON

Reducere. In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, marking the start of the Americ...

new york university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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Warriors and Fools: How America's Leaders Lost the Vietnam War and Why It Still Matters, Hardcover - Harry E. Rothmann

284,99 RON 304,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWarriors and Fools is not just another book about the Vietnam War. It is different from most. Unlike some others, the author is a vetera...

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American Indians in Early New Orleans: From Calumet to Raquette, Hardcover - Daniel H. Usner

274,99 RON 294,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFrom a peace ceremony conducted by Chitimacha diplomats before Governor Bienville's makeshift cabin in 1718 to a stickball match played ...

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Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, Hardcover - Jessica Bruder

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

Reducere. From North Dakota beet fields to California campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have found a new cheap labor pool: transie...

thorndike press large print, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences

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Russell Kirk: American Conservative, Hardcover - Bradley J. Birzer

263,99 RON

Award NameMichigan Notable BooksAward categoryNotable BookDescriptionEmerging from two decades of the Great Depression and the New Deal and facing ...

university press of kentucky, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, politics & government

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Born to Serve: A History of Texas Southern University, Hardcover - Merline Pitre

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Texas Southern University is often said to have been "conceived in sin." Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an "emergency" s...

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, society & social sciences, education

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Atlas of the Great Plains, Hardcover - Center for Great Plains Studies

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. 2011 Booklist Editor's Choice, reference categoryThe Great Plains, stretching northward from Texas into Canada, is a region that has been understud...

university of nebraska press, carti, carte straina, earth sciences

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Copper Stain, Hardcover - Elaine Hampton

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. "The convertors would spew it out, " employee Arturo Hernandez recalled, referring to molten metal. "You'd see the ground, the dirt, catch on fire....

university of oklahoma press, carti, carte straina, mathematics & science, chemistry

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Picturing Apollo 11: Rare Views and Undiscovered Moments, Hardcover - J. L. Pickering

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. July 16, 1969. Nearly one million spectators flock to Cape Canaveral to witness the largest rocket ever built send three Americans to the Moon. Fou...

university press of florida, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Coalition Strategy and the End of the First World War: The Supreme War Council and War Planning, 1917-1918, Hardcover - Meighen McCrae

256,99 RON

DescriptionWhen the Germans requested an armistice in October 1918, it was a shock to the Allied political and military leadership. They had been e...

cambridge university press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology, history

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Force and Freedom: Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence, Hardcover - Kellie Carter Jackson

243,99 RON 261,99 RON

Reducere. From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as b...

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Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen, Hardcover - Lidia Matticchio Bastianich

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. IACP Crystal Whisk AwardLidia Bastianich, loved by millions of Americans for her simple, delectable Italian cooking, gives us her most instructive ...

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The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity, Hardcover - Carolyn Eastman

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he h...

university of north carolina press, carti, carte straina, history & archaeology

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The Things Our Fathers Saw - Vol. 3, the War in the Air Book Two: The Untold Stories of the World War II Generation from Hometown, USA, Hardcover - Ma

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionDying for freedom isn't the worst that could happen. Being forgotten is.(The War in the Air Book Two) VOLUME 3 IN THE BEST SELLING 'The ...

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100 Amazing Facts about the Negro, Hardcover - Henry Louis Gates

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. The first edition of Joel Augustus Rogers's now legendary 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof, published in 1957, was billed as "...

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Lucean Arthur Headen: The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur, Hardcover - Jill D. Snider

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, ...

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The Idealist: Wendell Willkie's Wartime Quest to Build One World, Hardcover - Samuel Zipp

231,99 RON

"The Idealist is a powerful book, gorgeously written and consistently insightful. Samuel Zipp uses the 1942 world tour of Wendell Willkie to examin...

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Hollywood's Spies: The Undercover Surveillance of Nazis in Los Angeles, Hardcover - Laura B. Rosenzweig

225,99 RON 241,99 RON

Reducere. Tells the remarkable story of the Jewish moguls in Hollywood who established the first anti-Nazi Jewish resistance organization in the country in t...

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Dinner at Omar Khayyam's, Hardcover - George Mardikian

224,99 RON 240,99 RON

Reducere. This is a new edition of the 1944 classic by George Mardikian, America's first celebrity chef. Omar Khayyam's is an Armenian restaurant with a Pers...

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Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee: An African American Architect Designs for Booker T. Washington, Hardcover - Ellen Weiss

222,99 RON

DescriptionRobert R. Taylor and Tuskegee interweaves the life of the first academically trained African American architect with his life's work -- ...

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Corvette from the Inside, Hardcover - Dave McLellan

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Celebrations begin this year to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette. There's no one more qualified than Dave McLellan to reflect up...

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Robert Frank: London/Wales, Hardcover - Robert Frank

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. Description"War is over; the heroic French population reaffirms superiority. Love, Paris, and Flowers ... but London was black, white, and gray, th...

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A Perfect Gibraltar: The Battle for Monterrey, Mexico, 1846, Hardcover - Christopher D. Dishman

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. For three days in the fall of 1846, U.S. and Mexican soldiers fought fiercely in the picturesque city of Monterrey, turning the northern Mexican to...

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Represented: The Black Imagemakers Who Reimagined African American Citizenship, Hardcover - Brenna Wynn Greer

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1948, Moss Kendrix, a former New Deal public relations officer, founded a highly successful, Washington, D.C.-based public relations ...

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The X-15 Rocket Plane: Flying the First Wings Into Space, Hardcover - Michelle L. Evans

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. With the Soviet Union's launch of the first Sputnik satellite in 1957, the Cold War soared to new heights as Americans feared losing the race into ...

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The Iron Triangle: Inside the Liberal Democrat Plan to Use Race to Divide Christians and America in their Quest for Power and How We Can, Hardcover -

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. To save America and the world, Conservatives must first answer this one very important question: Why do the vast majority of Christian African Amer...

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Blacks in the Bible: The Original Roots of Men and Women of Color in Scripture, Hardcover - James H. Warden Jr

216,99 RON

Abraham and his wife made their African slave a surrogate mother and she bore Abraham a half-black heir. Later, God wished to use Moses and his Eth...

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Historic Photos of the Manhattan Project, Hardcover - Timothy Joseph

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. The atomic age began at 5: 30 a.m. on July 16, 1945, with the explosion of "the Gadget" at Trinity near Alamogordo, New Mexico. Prelude to the bomb...

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The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, 1: A Photographic History, Hardcover - Karlos K. Hill

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. On the evening of May 31, 1921, and in the early morning hours of June 1, several thousand white citizens and authorities violently attacked the Af...

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Charcutería: The Soul of Spain, Hardcover - Jeffrey Weiss

214,99 RON

2015 James Beard Award nominee 2015 Gourmand World Cookbook Award nominee An updated and redesigned edition of Charcutería: The Soul of Spain, the ...

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Jesse Livermore's Two Books of Market Wisdom: Reminiscences of a Stock Operator & Jesse Livermore's Methods of Trading in Stocks, Hardcover - Jesse La

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. For the first time, these two works attributed to the great Jesse Livermore are presented together in one volume with a new foreword by Juliette Ro...

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Time in the Wilderness: The Formative Years of John "Black Jack" Pershing in the American West, Hardcover - Tim McNeese

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. Most Americans familiar with General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing know him as the commander of American Expeditionary Forces in Europe during the ...

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Home Fires, Hardcover - Margaret Maron

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Since the first Deborah Knott novel, Bootlegger's Daughter, swept the Edgar, Agatha, Anthony, and Macavity Awards for 1993, Margaret Maron has brou...

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An African American Dilemma: A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North, Hardcover - Zoe Burkholder

209,99 RON

An African American Dilemma offers the first social history of northern Black debates over school integration versus separation from the 1840s to t...

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Asian American Spies: How Asian Americans Helped Win the Allied Victory, Hardcover - Brian Masaru Hayashi

209,99 RON

A recovery of the vital role Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Americans played in US intelligence services in Asia during World War II. Spies deep beh...

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Juneteenth: The Story Behind the Celebration, Hardcover - Edward T. Cotham

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of th...

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Western Art of the Twenty-First Century: Native Americans, Hardcover - E. Ashley Rooney

207,99 RON

DescriptionThe second book in this two-volume survey, readers are invited to re-examine the history of the West and its art through a multi-faceted...

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Towards an Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics, Hardcover - Gale a. Yee

207,99 RON

Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial/ethnic population in the United States. Especially since the 1990s, readings by Asian American bibli...

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Focus on Abortion: Americans Share Their Stories, Hardcover - Roslyn Banish

205,99 RON

Focus on Abortion: Americans Share Their Storiesintroduces the often-missing and most important voices in the abortion conversation: the voices of ...

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From the River to the Sea: The Untold Story of the Railroad War That Made the West, Hardcover - John Sedgwick

205,99 RON

A sweeping and lively history of one of the most dramatic stories never told--of the greatest railroad war of all time, fought by the daring leader...

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Set the World on Fire: Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom, Hardcover - Keisha N. Blain

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration t...

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