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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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Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps, Paperback - Amy Murrell Taylor

200,99 RON 215,99 RON

Reducere. The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of...

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

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

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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Goat Castle: A True Story of Murder, Race, and the Gothic South, Paperback - Karen L. Cox

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

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Fragile Democracy: The Struggle Over Race and Voting Rights in North Carolina, Paperback - James L. Leloudis

81,99 RON 87,99 RON

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

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The Struggle to Save the Soviet Economy: Mikhail Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR, Paperback - Chris Miller

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. For half a century the Soviet economy was inefficient but stable. In the late 1980s, to the surprise of nearly everyone, it suddenly collapsed. Why...

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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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Wilson's Creek: The Second Battle of the Civil War and the Men Who Fought It, Paperback - William Garrett Piston

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. In the summer of 1861, Americans were preoccupied by the question of which states would join the secession movement and which would remain loyal to...

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Pecans: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Kathleen Purvis

102,99 RON 110,99 RON

Reducere. Show me a recipe with pecans, and I have to try it." Attributing her own love of this American nut to the state of her birth--Georgia is the nation...

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s, Paperback - Traci Parker

192,99 RON

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

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The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems, Paperback - Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

Reducere. The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removin...

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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, Paperback - Tiya Miles

254,99 RON 272,99 RON

Reducere. At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantati...

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Ghosts from the Coast, Paperback - Nancy Roberts

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Reducere. Acclaimed storyteller Nancy Roberts takes the reader on a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in this engaging new ...

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American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science, Paperback - Megan Raby

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Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

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The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast: Barrier Islands, Coastal Waters, and Wetlands, Paperback - Dirk Frankenberg

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFor some years, The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast has stood as an essential resource for all who treasure our coastal enviro...

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Florynce Flo Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical, Paperback - Sherie M. Randolph

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Reducere. Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a ...

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Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, Paperback - Charles L. Hughes

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

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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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The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South, Paperback - Andrew W. Kahrl

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of be...

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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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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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Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, Paperback - James Oliver Horton

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

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The Darkest Days of the War, Paperback - Peter Cozzens

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The outcome of this offensive--the o...

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A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713, Paperback - Noeleen McIlvenna

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

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Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

158,99 RON 170,99 RON

Reducere. Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military act...

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A South You Never Ate: Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Hardcover - Bernard L. Herman

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a di...

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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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A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes, Hardcover - Mark Shapiro

245,99 RON 263,99 RON

Reducere. Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body o...

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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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Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering, Paperback - Bland Simpson

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, a...

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North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955, Paperback - Sarah-Jane Mathieu

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

Reducere. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5, 000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada ...

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Birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Paperback - Marcus B. Simpson

143,99 RON

In this detailed guide to the best birding localities, Simpson describes more than three hundred sites, including recreation areas, overlooks, camp...

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Hugh Morton's North Carolina, Hardcover - Hugh Morton

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Hugh Morton has had a long and active public life as an environmentalist, developer, and promoter of tourism. His favorite role, however, is that o...

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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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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 Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

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And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety, Paperback - Annemarie Schimmel

346,99 RON 371,99 RON

Reducere. The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never be...

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Railroads of the Confederacy, Paperback - Robert C. Black

148,99 RON

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a maj...

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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation, Paperback - Malinda Maynor Lowery

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

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In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War, Paperback - Alice Rains Trulock

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

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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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Circa 1903: North Carolina's Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight, Paperback - Larry E. Tise

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionStanding along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wil...

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Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South - Vanessa Siddle Walker

267,99 RON

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

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Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion, Paperback - Ira Helderman

338,99 RON

DescriptionInterest in the psychotherapeutic capacity of Buddhist teachings and practices is widely evident in the popular imagination. News media ...

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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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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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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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Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night, Paperback - Sallie Ann Robinson

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although te...

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A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People, Paperback - Carol Reardon

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, i...

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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth: And Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Paperback - Ron Rash

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentie...

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Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution, Hardcover - Jeff Broadwater

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution, " were two of the most impo...

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The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, Paperback - Pablo F. Gomez

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies ...

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Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, Paperback - Donna Jean Murch

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral histo...

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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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American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II, Paperback - Eric L. Muller

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. When the U.S. government forced 70, 000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals t...

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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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Nonviolence before King. The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Anthony C. Siracusa

219,99 RON

Unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutio...

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Manteo's World. Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country before and after the Lost Colony, Paperback - Helen C. Rountree

177,99 RON

Drawing on decades of researching the ethnohistory of the coastal mid-Atlantic, Helen Rountree reconstructs the Indigenous world the Roanoke coloni...

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Divided by Terror. American Patriotism after 9/11, Hardback - John Bodnar

311,99 RON

John Bodnar's compelling history shifts the focus on America's War on Terror from the battlefield to the arena of political and cultural conflict, ...

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Space-Time Colonialism. Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements, Paperback - Juliana Hu Pegues

292,99 RON

Offering an intersectional approach to US empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labour exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska...

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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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Catfish: A Savor the South(r) Cookbook, Hardcover - Angela Knipple

107,99 RON 115,99 RON

Reducere. While many fish, from bream and crappie to bass, trout, and shad, are popular in the South, none of them has settled as thoroughly in southern cult...

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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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Fall Color and Woodland Harvests: A Guide to the More Colorful Fall Leaves and Fruits of the Eastern Forests, Paperback - C. Ritchie Bell

114,99 RON

Whether on a lunch break visit to see an especially colorful maple in a nearby park or a month-long adventure from New England to the Smokies movin...

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With Masses and Arms. Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Hardback - Miguel La Serna

1.015,99 RON

Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and...

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The Haitians: A Decolonial History, Paperback - Jean Casimir

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. In this sweeping history, leading Haitian intellectual Jean Casimir argues that the story of Haiti should not begin with the usual image of Saint-D...

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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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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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Blurring the Lines of Race and Freedom: Mulattoes and Mixed Bloods in English Colonial America, Hardcover - A. B. Wilkinson

788,99 RON 844,99 RON

Reducere. The history of race in North America is still often conceived of in black and white terms. In this book, A. B. Wilkinson complicates that history b...

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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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