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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, Paperback - Gary W. Gallagher

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. Generally regarded as the most important of the Civil War campaigns conducted in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, that of 1864 lasted more than f...

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Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South, Paperback - Marcie Cohen Ferris

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. From the colonial era to the present, Marcie Cohen Ferris examines the expressive power of food throughout southern Jewish history. She demonstrate...

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The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1862, Paperback - Gary W. Gallagher

123,99 RON 132,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis volume explores the Shenandoah Valley campaign, best known for its role in establishing Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's reputation ...

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Benjamin Elijah Mays, Schoolmaster of the Movement: A Biography, Paperback - Randal Maurice Jelks

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. In this first full-length biography of Benjamin Mays (1894-1984), Randal Maurice Jelks chronicles the life of the man Martin Luther King Jr. called...

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Barbecue: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - John Shelton Reed

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. John Shelton Reed's Barbecue celebrates a southern culinary tradition forged in coals and smoke. Since colonial times southerners have held barbecu...

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Gettysburg--The Second Day, Paperback - Harry W. Pfanz

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. The second day's fighting at Gettysburg--the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863--was probably ...

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Saving Community Journalism: The Path to Profitability, Hardcover - Penelope Muse Abernathy

384,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Penelope Muse AbernathyAmerica's community newspapers have entered an age of disruption. Towns and cities continue to need ...

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Pickles and Preserves: A Savor the South Cookbook, Hardcover - Andrea Weigl

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. Andrea Weigl defines the year by her canning sessions. In the winter, she makes bright yellow Jerusalem Artichoke Relish from her backyard crop. In...

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The New Guide to North Carolina Beaches: All You Need to Know to Explore and Enjoy Currituck, Calabash, and Everywhere Between, Paperback - Glenn Morr

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe New Guide to North Carolina Beaches is an invaluable resource for every coastal traveler in the Tar Heel State. This descriptive gui...

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

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

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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Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition, Paperback - Adam Gussow

196,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Adam GussowThe devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesak...

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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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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880, Paperback - Wendy Gonaver

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThough the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occu...

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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, Paperback - David Monod

188,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...

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Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South, Paperback - Regina Bradley

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for ...

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Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South, Hardcover - Regina Bradley

778,99 RON 833,99 RON

Reducere. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for ...

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Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness, Paperback - Anthony Chaney

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was amon...

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Lessons from the Sand: Family-Friendly Science Activities You Can Do on a Carolina Beach, Paperback - Charles O. Pilkey

112,99 RON 120,99 RON

Reducere. Ever wonder where sand comes from? Or why shells are colored differently? Or how to estimate the size of a wave? Featuring more than forty fun hand...

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The Woodwright's Apprentice: Twenty Favorite Projects from the Woodwright's Shop, Paperback - Roy Underhill

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. For more than twenty years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft with muscle-powered tools. With his four previous book...

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The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg, Hardcover - Cary Carson

552,99 RON 591,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Cary CarsonEditor: Carl R. LounsburyFor more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsb...

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Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music, Paperback - Adam Gussow

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

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Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music, Hardcover - Adam Gussow

788,99 RON 844,99 RON

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, Hardcover - Kevin Waite

791,99 RON 847,99 RON

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...

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Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787, Paperback - Gordon S. Wood

302,99 RON 324,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Gordon S. WoodOne of the half dozen most important books ever written about the American Revolution.--New York Times Book R...

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Conquered: Why the Army of Tennessee Failed, Hardcover - Larry J. Daniel

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionOperating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military fate of the Confe...

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Bernardo de Galvez: Spanish Hero of the American Revolution, Hardcover - Gonzalo M. Quintero Saravia

215,99 RON 231,99 RON

Reducere. Although Spain was never a formal ally of the United States during the American Revolution, its entry into the war definitively tipped the balance ...

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Fields of Blood: The Prairie Grove Campaign, Paperback - William L. Shea

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam L. Shea offers a gripping narrative of the events surrounding fighting at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, one of the great unsung battl...

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Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922, Hardcover - Margaret Sartor

353,99 RON 378,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionSelf-taught photographer Hugh Mangum was born in 1877 in Durham, North Carolina, as its burgeoning tobacco economy put the frontier-like...

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Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal, Paperback - Tisa Wenger

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. Religious freedom is so often presented as a timeless American ideal and an inalienable right, appearing fully formed at the founding of the United...

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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America, Hardcover - Thomas J. Brown

659,99 RON

This sweeping new assessment of Civil War monuments unveiled in the United States between the 1860s and 1930s argues that they were pivotal to a na...

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White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, Hardcover - Anthea Butler

235,99 RON

The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in ...

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

265,99 RON 284,99 RON

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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The Woodwright's Guide: Working Wood with Wedge and Edge, Paperback - Roy Underhill

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. For thirty years, Roy Underhill's PBS program, The Woodwright's Shop, has brought classic hand-tool craftsmanship to viewers across America. Now, i...

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Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, Paperback - Robbie Ethridge

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge ill...

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The Lumbee Indians: An American Struggle, Paperback - Malinda Maynor Lowery

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--th...

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

272,99 RON 292,99 RON

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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Pollinator Gardening for the South: Creating Sustainable Habitats, Paperback - Danesha Seth Carley

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. This step-by-step guide will answer all of your questions about how to create beautiful gardens designed to welcome beneficial pollinators across t...

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The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader, Paperback - Zachary McLeod Hutchins

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in No...

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The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam, Paperback - Ula Yvette Taylor

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ula Yvette TaylorThe patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a prov...

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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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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, Paperback - William Ferris

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they...

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Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools, Paperback - Michelle a. Purdy

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Boar...

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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction, Paperback - Elaine Frantz Parsons

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with star...

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Disunion!: The Coming of the American Civil War, 1789-1859, Paperback - Elizabeth R. Varon

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

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The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America, Paperback - Mario T. Garc a

191,99 RON

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as...

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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John...

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Hoppin' John's Lowcountry Cooking: Recipes and Ruminations from Charleston and the Carolina Coastal Plain, Paperback - John Martin Taylor

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. At oyster roasts and fancy cotillions, in fish camps and cutting-edge restaurants, the people of South Carolina gather to enjoy one of America's mo...

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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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Vicksburg: The Campaign That Opened the Mississippi, Paperback - Michael B. Ballard

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. Michael Ballard provides a concise yet thorough study of the 1863 battle that cut off a crucial river port and rail depot for the South and split t...

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Stitched from the Soul: Slave Quilts from the Antebellum South, Paperback - Gladys-Marie Fry

177,99 RON 190,99 RON

Reducere. This richly illustrated book offers a glimpse into the lives and creativity of African American quilters during the era of slavery. Originally publ...

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The Workboats of Core Sound: Stories and Photographs of a Changing World, Hardcover - Lawrence S. Earley

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-w...

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Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest, Paperback - Lawrence S. Earley

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse...

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Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance, Paperback - Stephanie Nohelani Teves

202,99 RON

"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For K&257;naka Maoli people, the concep...

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Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians, Paperback - Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from mi...

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The Ariadne Auf Naxos of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss, Paperback - Donald G. Daviau

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. This book presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the final operatic version. T...

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Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, Paperback - Sara Mayeux

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

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Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, Paperback - James D. Anderson

290,99 RON 311,99 RON

Reducere. James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black school...

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

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

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

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

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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The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink, Paperback - Eugene Walter

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. A southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (1921-1998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary pe...

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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club, Paperback - Christopher B. Teuton

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically ...

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Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World, Hardcover - William A. Link

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Ch...

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Hiking North Carolina's National Forests: 50 Can't-Miss Trail Adventures in the Pisgah, Nantahala, Uwharrie, and Croatan National Forests, Paperback -

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. North Carolina's 1.2 million acres of national forestland are some of our state's most distinctive and botanically diverse areas. Veteran nature wr...

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With a Sword in One Hand & Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North, Paperback - Carol Reardon

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

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

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

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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Movie-Made Appalachia: History, Hollywood, and the Highland South, Paperback - John C. Inscoe

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. While Hollywood deserves its reputation for much-maligned portrayals of southern highlanders on screen, the film industry also deserves credit for ...

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The Scotch-Irish: A Social History, Paperback - James G. Leyburn

131,99 RON 141,99 RON

Reducere. Dispelling much of what he terms the 'mythology' of the Scotch-Irish, James Leyburn provides an absorbing account of their heritage. He discusses t...

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Beans and Field Peas: A Savor the South Cookbook, Hardcover - Sandra A. Gutierrez

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Robust and delicious, beans and field peas have graced the tables of southerners for generations, making daily appearances on vegetable plates, sid...

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Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South, Paperback - Samia Serageldin

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they...

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