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North Carolina Slave Narratives: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project 1936-1938, Paperback - Federal Writers' Project

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. Autobiographical accounts of former slaves compiled in the 1930s by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration.

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Ribbon of Sand: The Amazing Convergence of the Ocean and the Outer Banks, Paperback - John Alexander

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander and Lazell's delightful study of North Carolina's Outer Banks contains a wealth of statistics and facts . . . A Ribbon of Sand...

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Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era, Paperback - David L. Parsons

155,99 RON

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned an...

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Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way, Paperback - Mical Raz

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed...

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White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights, Paperback - Justin Gomer

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, I have a dream that my four little children ...

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Dancing with the Revolution. Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba, Paperback - Elizabeth B. Schwall

311,99 RON

Aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance ...

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Prieto: Yor b Kingship in Colonial Cuba During the Age of Revolutions, Paperback - Henry B. Lovejoy

248,99 RON 266,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people ...

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

272,99 RON 292,99 RON

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

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

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

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

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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Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums, Paperback - Amy Lonetree

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

Reducere. Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a...

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Gettysburg: Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill, Paperback - Harry W. Pfanz

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg--The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting bet...

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Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit, Paperback - Lisa Blee

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionInstalled at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Mass...

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Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

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A Day of Blood: The 1898 Wilmington Race Riot, Paperback - Lerae Sikes Umfleet

152,99 RON 163,99 RON

Reducere. Originally published in 2009, the revised edition includes a foreword by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Chair of the North Carolina African American Heri...

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Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South, Paperback - Warren Eugene Milteer

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including...

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Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots, Paperback - Laura Visser-Maessen

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground st...

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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China, Paperback - Robert Jay Lifton

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Reducere. Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of...

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Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America, Paperback - David Stick

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony i...

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In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs, Paperback - Stephen M. Ward

241,99 RON 258,99 RON

Reducere. James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Bor...

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Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union's War Governors, Paperback - Stephen D. Engle

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In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing vic...

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Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture, Paperback - Aneeka Ayanna Henderson

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Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

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Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967, Paperback - Joan Marie Johnson

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Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ni...

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

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

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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Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice, Paperback - Lana Dee Povitz

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into po...

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Southern Snow: The New Guide to Winter Sports from Maryland to the Southern Appalachians, Paperback - Randy Johnson

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. This guide provides everything you need to know to discover the South's best-kept secrets of winter recreation: snow-covered mountains, remote yet ...

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Corazn de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910, Paperback - Julie M. Weise

289,99 RON 310,99 RON

Reducere. When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial ...

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More Civil War. How the Union Waged a Just War, Paperback - D. H. Dilbeck

282,99 RON

During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveal...

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The Thing about Religion: An Introduction to the Material Study of Religions, Paperback - David Morgan

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

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The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, Paperback - P. Gabrielle Foreman

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...

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Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, Paperback - Katrina Phillips

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities lo...

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Lost Cove, North Carolina. Portrait of a Vanished Appalachian Community, 1864-1957, Paperback - Christy A. Smith

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In this first historically comprehensive book on Lost Cove, North Carolina, the author paints a portrait of an isolated yet thriving settlement tha...

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Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, Paperback - Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desi...

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Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War, Paperback - Lorien Foote

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

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Destitute Patriots: Bertie County in the War of 1812, Paperback - Gerald W. Thomas

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. Destitute Patriots examines the contributions and sacrifices of the citizens of Bertie County in the context of North Carolina's preparations for a...

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Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling, Paperback - Brian Oliu

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Professional wrestling is a strange beast full of contradictions--part live soap opera, part hypermasculine violent spectacle. It is an indelibly A...

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

261,99 RON

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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Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II, Paperback - A. Naomi Paik

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil...

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The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, Paperback - Rudolph T. Ware

288,99 RON 309,99 RON

Reducere. Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudo...

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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War, Paperback - Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

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The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region, Paperback - Marcie Cohen Ferris

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

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No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Paperback - Sarah F. Rose

310,99 RON 332,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah F. RoseDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be ...

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Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South, Paperback - Leslie Brown

311,99 RON 333,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

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Captives and Cousins. Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, Paperback - James F. Brooks

347,99 RON 372,99 RON

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

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We Who Believe in Freedom: The Life and Times of Ella Baker, Paperback - Lea E. Williams

86,99 RON 93,99 RON

Reducere. The second volume in the True Tales for Young Readers series, this short biography of the civil rights leader is intended for middle school and hig...

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Fatal Revolutions. Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature, Paperback - Christopher P. Iannini

338,99 RON

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

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Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy, Paperback - Gregg A. Brazinsky

244,99 RON

In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

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Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Paperback - Edith Sparks

193,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Edith SparksToo often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women...

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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840, Paperback - Rana A. Hogarth

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rana A. HogarthIn 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is somethi...

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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945, Paperback - Beth Tompkins Bates

303,99 RON 325,99 RON

Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...

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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, Paperback - Stephanie M. H. Camp

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu...

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Teach S Light: A Tale of Blackbeard the Pirate, Paperback - Nell Wise Wechter

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. The legend of Teach's Light has been handed down by the people of Stumpy Point village in coastal North Carolina for nearly three centuries. None c...

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Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century, Paperback - Brianna Theobald

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

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Backroads of North Carolina: Your Guide to Great Day Trips & Weekend Getaways, Paperback - Kevin Adams

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. North Carolina is a traveler's dream, from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks' historic lighthouses, wild horses, and charming fishing vi...

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Living Stories of the Cherokee, Paperback - Barbara R. Duncan

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and ...

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Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue, Paperback - Walt Wolfram

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. As many visitors to Ocracoke will attest, the island's vibrant dialect is one of its most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer ...

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

271,99 RON

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

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The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines, Paperback - Paul a. Kramer

352,99 RON 377,99 RON

Reducere. In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperia...

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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War, Paperback - David S. Cecelski

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Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

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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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Finding God Through Yoga: Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age, Paperback - David J. Neumann

364,99 RON

DescriptionParamahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual cla...

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

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

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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A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South, Paperback - Stephanie Hinnershitz

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Reducere. In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by Afr...

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To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against Hiv/AIDS, Paperback - Dan Royles

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fig...

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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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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery, Paperback - Joseph P. Reidy

229,99 RON 246,99 RON

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

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Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, Paperback - Katherine M. Marino

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

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Burke County, North Carolina Records, 1755-1821 including Will Index, 1784-1900. ( Volume #4 ), Paperback - Edith Warren Huggins

189,99 RON 203,99 RON

Reducere. By: Edith Warren Huggins, Pub. 1987, Reprinted 2020, 190 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-621-5.Burke County was formed in 1777 from Rowan, which is bou...

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Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South, Paperback - Vanessa Siddle Walker

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Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

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Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War, Paperback - Kyle Burke

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Reducere. Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this ...

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