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Step It Up and Go: The Story of North Carolina Popular Music, from Blind Boy Fuller and Doc Watson to Nina Simone and Superchunk - David Menconi

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

Reducere. This book is a love letter to the artists, scenes, and sounds defining North Carolina's extraordinary contributions to American popular music. Davi...

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Jumping the Broom: The Surprising Multicultural Origins of a Black Wedding Ritual, Paperback - Tyler D. Parry

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

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Christian Citizens: Reading the Bible in Black and White in the Postemancipation South, Paperback - Elizabeth L. Jemison

229,99 RON 246,99 RON

Reducere. With emancipation, a long battle for equal citizenship began. Bringing together the histories of religion, race, and the South, Elizabeth L. Jemiso...

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Unjust Deeds: The Restrictive Covenant Cases and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement, Paperback - Jeffrey D. Gonda

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. In 1945, six African American families from St. Louis, Detroit, and Washington, D.C., began a desperate fight to keep their homes. Each of them had...

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I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life, Paperback - B. Brian Foster

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to h...

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Entertaining Entrepreneurs: Reality Tv's Shark Tank and the American Dream in Uncertain Times, Paperback - Daniel Horowitz

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. The Great Recession threatened the well-being of tens of millions of Americans, dramatically weakened the working class, hollowed out the middle cl...

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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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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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The Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature, Paperback - Josh Doty

272,99 RON

The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect ...

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Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses, Paperback - Piero Gleijeses

250,99 RON 268,99 RON

Reducere. During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between...

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Women in the Church of God in Christ: Making a Sanctified World, Paperback - Anthea D. Butler

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. The Church of God in Christ (COGIC), an African American Pentecostal denomination founded in 1896, has become the largest Pentecostal denomination ...

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Book of Salsa, Paperback - Cesar Miguel Rondon

136,99 RON 146,99 RON

Reducere. Salsa is one of the most popular types of music listened to and danced to in the United States. Until now, the single comprehensive history of the ...

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Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression, Paperback - Robert Cohen

132,99 RON 142,99 RON

Reducere. Impoverished young Americans had no greater champion during the Depression than Eleanor Roosevelt. As First Lady, Mrs. Roosevelt used her newspaper...

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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Paperback - Emily Clark

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orleans. Commonly known as a "...

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

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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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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains, Paperback - Steven E. Nash

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In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash...

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

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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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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900, Paperback - Martha S. Jones

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The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...

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Southern Appalachian Celebration: In Praise of Ancient Mountains, Old-Growth Forests, and Wilderness, Hardcover - James Valentine

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Reducere. With this stunning collection of images of the Southern Appalachians, James Valentine presents an enduring portrait of the region's unique natural ...

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Burying the Dead But Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause, Paperback - Caroline E. Janney

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Immediately after the Civil War, white women across the South organized to retrieve the remains of Confederate soldiers. In Virginia alone, these L...

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The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South - Eli N. Evans

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

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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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Backpacking North Carolina: The Definitive Guide to 43 Can't-Miss Trips from Mountains to Sea, Paperback - Joe Miller

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. Joe Miller brings us the first-ever stand-alone guidebook to backpacking in North Carolina, a state long known as a terrific backpacking destinatio...

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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, Paperback - Timothy B. Tyson

255,99 RON

This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and...

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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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Examining Tuskegee: The Infamous Syphilis Study and Its Legacy, Paperback - Susan M. Reverby

275,99 RON 295,99 RON

Reducere. The forty-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which took place in and around Tuskegee, Alabama, from the 1930s through the 1970s, has become a profound m...

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The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal: The Secret Lives of Birds of the Southeastern Shore - John Yow

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most fa...

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Peace Came in the Form of a Woman: Indians and Spaniards in the Texas Borderlands, Paperback - Juliana Barr

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power...

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The Armchair Birder: Discovering the Secret Lives of Familiar Birds, Paperback - John Yow

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. While birding literature is filled with tales of expert observers spotting rare species in exotic locales, John Yow reminds us that the most fascin...

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Covered with Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at Gettysburg, Paperback - Rod Gragg

109,99 RON

The battle of Gettysburg was the largest engagement of the Civil War, and--with more than 51, 000 casualties--also the deadliest. The highest regim...

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The Potter's Eye: Art and Tradition in North Carolina Pottery, Hardcover - Mark Hewitt

279,99 RON 299,99 RON

Reducere. Classic North Carolina stoneware pots--with their rich textures, monochromatic glazes, and minimal decoration--belong to one of America's most reve...

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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Piedmont: A Guidebook, Paperback - Georgann Eubanks

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. Read your way across North Carolina's Piedmont in the second of a series of regional guides that bring the state's rich literary history to life fo...

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The Gulf Stream: Tiny Plankton, Giant Bluefin, and the Amazing Story of the Powerful River in the Atlantic, Paperback - Stan Ulanski

106,99 RON 114,99 RON

Reducere. Coursing through the Atlantic Ocean is a powerful current with a force 300 times that of the mighty Amazon. Ulanski explores the fascinating scienc...

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The Myth of Seneca Falls: Memory and the Women's Suffrage Movement, 1848-1898, Paperback - Lisa Tetrault

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. The story of how the women's rights movement began at the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 is a cherished American myth. The standard account credit...

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

928,99 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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Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State, Paperback - Foy Allen Edelman

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCrisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitch...

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The Nature of the Outer Banks: Environmental Processes, Field Sites, and Development Issues, Corolla to Ocracoke, Paperback - Dirk Frankenberg

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. North Carolina's Outer Banks are in constant motion, responding to weather, waves, and the rising sea level. Beaches erode, sometimes taking homes ...

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A Field Guide to Wildflowers of the Sandhills Region: North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, Paperback - Bruce A. Sorrie

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. Featuring over 600 wildflowers, flowering shrubs, and vines, this user-friendly field guide is the first to focus on the rare, fragile lands and sp...

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Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, Paperback - Woody Holton

266,99 RON 285,99 RON

Reducere. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Was...

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No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment, and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, Paperback - Sarah Haley

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries imprisoned black women faced wrenching forms of gendered racial terror and heinous ...

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Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion, Paperback - Jane H. Hong

251,99 RON 269,99 RON

Reducere. Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receiv...

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Tar Heel Lightnin': How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World, Hardcover - Daniel S. Pierce

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. From the late nineteenth century well into the 1960s, North Carolina boasted some of the nation's most restrictive laws on alcohol production and s...

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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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The Intersectional Approach, Paperback - Michele Tracy Berger

369,99 RON

DescriptionIntersectionality, or the consideration of race, class, and gender, is one of the prominent contemporary theoretical contributions made ...

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Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era, Paperback - Dan Berger

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. In this pathbreaking book, Dan Berger offers a bold reconsideration of twentieth century black activism, the prison system, and the origins of mass...

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The Terms of Order: Political Science and the Myth of Leadership, Paperback - Cedric J. Robinson

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and di...

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With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era, Paperback - William A. Blair

209,99 RON

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

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Slave No More: Self-Liberation Before Abolitionism in the Americas, Paperback - Aline Helg

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCommanding a vast historiography of slavery and emancipation, Aline Helg reveals as never before how significant numbers of enslaved Afr...

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Waterfalls and Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachians: Thirty Great Hikes, Paperback - Timothy P. Spira

138,99 RON 148,99 RON

Reducere. If you love waterfalls, here are some of the best hikes in the Southern Appalachians. And if you love plants--or simply would like to learn more ab...

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Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, Paperback - Chad L. Williams

243,99 RON

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

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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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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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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Paperback - Janice a. Radway

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Reducere. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's mo...

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The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies, Paperback - David La Vere

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the...

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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, Paperback - Barbara Krauthamer

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

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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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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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Field Guide to the Piedmont: The Natural Habitats of America's Most Lived-In Region, from New York City to Montgomery, Alabama - Michael a. Godfrey

154,99 RON 165,99 RON

Reducere. America's most populous region is also home to some of the nation's most serenely beautiful country. Tracing a gentle, thousand-mile curve from New...

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The Heart of Confederate Appalachia: Western North Carolina in the Civil War, Paperback - John C. Inscoe

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. In the mountains of western North Carolina, the Civil War was fought on different terms than those found throughout most of the South. Though relat...

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Hugh Morton, North Carolina Photographer, Hardcover - Hugh Morton

186,99 RON

Hugh Morton was seldom seen in his adult life without a camera around his neck. Much to the benefit of his beloved home state, he crisscrossed Nort...

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Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History, Paperback - John Egerton

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Reducere. Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, John Egerton's Southern Food captures the flavor and feel of what it has meant for southerne...

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Long, Obstinate, and Bloody: The Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Paperback - Lawrence E. Babits

125,99 RON 134,99 RON

Reducere. On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the Ameri...

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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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Puerto Rico in the American Century: A History Since 1898, Paperback - Cesar J. Ayala

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. Offering a comprehensive overview of Puerto Rico's history and evolution since the installation of U.S. rule, Cesar Ayala and Rafael Bernabe connec...

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Exploring Southern Appalachian Forests: An Ecological Guide to 30 Great Hikes in the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia, Paperback - Stephani

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities vi...

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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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Deng Xiaoping's Long War: The Military Conflict Between China and Vietnam, 1979-1991, Paperback - Xiaoming Zhang

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist natio...

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