The Strange Career of William Ellis: The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire, Paperback - Karl Jacoby

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Publisher: Stanford University PressAuthor(s): Joseph DardaNumber of pages: 300Collection: Post*45Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 151 x 229 x 21C...

Reducere. San Francisco's Queen of Vice uncovers the story of one of the most skilled, high-priced, and corrupt abortion entrepreneurs in America. Even as Pr...

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Reducere. If we do in fact "remember the Alamo, " it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer's s...

Reducere. In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to creat...

Traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F Austin's proposal in the 1830s to ""Mexicanize"" Anglo children by ...

The son of a former slave, Pertinax was the Roman Emperor who proved that no matter how lowly your birth, you could rise to the very top through ha...

Contributor(s): Author: C. Vann WoodwardWith: William S. McFeelyC. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Sou...

DescriptionA uniquely personal yet deeply informed exploration of the hidden history of class in American life From the decks of the Mayflower stra...

It could happen to you. It happened to the girl next door... When Theresa was 15 she moved to a new school and fell for an older pupil, Daniel.

Reducere. Born Juanita Slusher in Edna, Texas, in 1935, the entertainer who became Candy Barr was perhaps the last great dancer in burlesque, a stripper who ...

The story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England's most distinguished man of lettersPublisher: Yale University PressA...

At the age of 19, scared and illiterate, James Pennington escaped from slavery in 1827 and soon became one of the leading voices against slavery pr...

The army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and...

From animal trainer for the movies Julie Tottman comes the first book in a new series about the animals she rescues, nurses and transforms into mov...

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Nevil Shute was a writer whose books were looked down on by literary critics and yet when he died he was one of the best selling novelists of his d...

Since her death at the age of nineteen in 1431, Joan of Arc has maintained a remarkable hold on our collective imagination. She was a teenager of a...

It is 1965, and Swinging London is coming into its prime years. Amid the color and chaos is a boy sporting drainpipe jeans, a devoted fan of The Wh...

The extraordinary story of a slave-girl who rose from concubine to become the Ottoman Empire's only queen.

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Reducere. An extraordinary and delightful true story. Tama was a homeless cat who lived in Japan. Her loving nature, goodwill and loyalty saved a railway com...

Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

The second book in the Paws of Fame series, this is the moving true story of the neglected rescue dog who went on to play Fang in the Harry Potter ...

Reducere. The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from concubine to become the only queen of the Ottoman empireIn Empress of the...

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Reducere. The inspiring true story of Reckless, the brave little mare that became a marine. This is the first picture book from award-winning novelist Patric...

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How the Bible Became a Book combines recent archaeological discoveries in the Middle East with insights culled from the history of writing to addre...

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A portrait of Robert Mugabe, a man whose once brilliant career has ruined Zimbabwe and cast shame on the African continent. It charts Mugabe's grad...

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The heart-warming, moving story of an ordinary Welsh woman who dreamed of training a racehorse and Dream Alliance, the horse who defied the odds to...

DescriptionIn 1830 census takers trudged door to door in San Antonio de Bexar and Nacogdoches gathering census data on the residents. Either they g...

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The 'Greatest Black Briton in History' triumphed over the Crimea and Victorian England. She became an independent 'doctress' combining the herbal r...

Reducere. His career derailed by the Great Recession, Romulus is lucky to land a community-college teaching job. There he meets young, African-American, Bobb...

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The Mayor Married Who?Who would have thought that managing a city could be so funny? The Mayor Married Who? provides a fun insider's look at the da...

Reducere. Since pre-Columbian times, soldiering has been a traditional life experience for innumerable women in Mexico. Yet the many names given these women ...