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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

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

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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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The Intersectional Approach, Paperback - Michele Tracy Berger

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

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

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

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

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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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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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Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music, Paperback - John W. Troutman

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Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of k&299;k&257; kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and...

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

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

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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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Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, Paperback - Jeremy Friedman

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Reducere. DescriptionThe conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy...

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Wayfaring Strangers: The Musical Voyage from Scotland and Ulster to Appalachia, Paperback - Fiona Ritchie

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Reducere. From the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, a steady stream of Scots migrated to Ulster and eventually onward across the Atlantic to res...

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Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich, Paperback - Doris L. Bergen

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Reducere. How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the ...

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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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Behold the Land: The Black Arts Movement in the South, Paperback - James Smethurst

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Reducere. In the mid-1960s, African American artists and intellectuals formed the Black Arts movement in tandem with the Black Power movement, with creative ...

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The Citizen Patient: Reforming Health Care for the Sake of the Patient, Not the System, Paperback - Nortin M. Hadler

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DescriptionConflicts of interest, misrepresentation of clinical trials, hospital price-fixing, and massive expenditures for procedures of dubious e...

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Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure, Paperback - Patricia Matthew

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Patricia MatthewThe academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color a...

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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, Paperback - Victoria E. Bynum

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Reducere. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

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The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey, Paperback - Bland Simpson

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Reducere. As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey fro...

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

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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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Black Smoke: African Americans and the United States of Barbecue, Hardcover - Adrian Miller

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Reducere. Across America, the pure love and popularity of barbecue cookery have gone through the roof. Prepared in one regional style or another, in the Sout...

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Convulsed States: Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America, Paperback - Jonathan Todd Hancock

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The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811-12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Grea...

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Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman's March and American Memory, Paperback - Anne Sarah Rubin

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Reducere. Sherman's March, cutting a path through Georgia and the Carolinas, is among the most symbolically potent events of the Civil War. In Through the He...

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Dispossession: Discrimination Against African American Farmers in the Age of Civil Rights, Paperback - Pete Daniel

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Between 1940 and 1974, the number of African American farmers fell from 681, 790 to just 45, 594--a drop of 93 percent. In his hard-hitting book, h...

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The Marines of Montford Point: America's First Black Marines, Paperback - Melton A. McLaurin

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--...

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

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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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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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May We Forever Stand: A History of the Black National Anthem, Paperback - Imani Perry

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Reducere. The twin acts of singing and fighting for freedom have been inseparable in African American history. May We Forever Stand tells an essential part o...

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The Ballad of Robert Charles: Searching for the New Orleans Riot of 1900, Paperback - K. Stephen Prince

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

Reducere. For a brief moment in the summer of 1900, Robert Charles was arguably the most infamous black man in the United States. After an altercation with p...

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The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making, Paperback - Sharika D. Crawford

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. Illuminating the entangled histories of the people and commodities that circulated across the Atlantic, Sharika D. Crawford assesses the Caribbean ...

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River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign: Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga, Hardcover - William Glenn Robertson

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's wes...

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The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta, Paperback - Maurice J. Hobson

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFor more than a century, the city of Atlanta has been associated with black achievement in education, business, politics, media, and mus...

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The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South, Paperback - Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghogh...

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The Strange Genius of Mr. O: The World of the United States' First Forgotten Celebrity, Hardcover - Carolyn Eastman

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. When James Ogilvie arrived in America in 1793, he was a deeply ambitious but impoverished teacher. By the time he returned to Britain in 1817, he h...

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Color-Rich Gardening for the South: A Guide for All Seasons, Paperback - Roxann Ward

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. In this gardening guide for the South, Roxann Ward shows how color provides one of the easiest and most impressive ways to shape a garden with inte...

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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision, Paperback - Barbara Ransby

279,99 RON 299,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Barbara RansbyOne of the most important African American leaders of the twentieth century and perhaps the most influential ...

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Monuments to Absence: Cherokee Removal and the Contest Over Southern Memory - Andrew Denson

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Reducere. DescriptionThe 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the America...

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The New Vegetarian South: 105 Inspired Dishes for Everyone, Hardcover - Jennifer Brule

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Reducere. In this enlightening cookbook, chef Jennifer Brule brings southern-style food together with plant-based approaches to eating. Her down-to-earth sty...

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Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Hardcover - Monica M. White

272,99 RON

DescriptionIn May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Fr...

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Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War, Paperback - Stanley Harrold

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

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Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project, Paperback - Catherine A. Stewart

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2, 300 former African American slaves. These narra...

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Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice, Paperback - Mario T. Garcia

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mario T. GarciaAuthor: Sal CastroIn March 1968, thousands of Chicano students walked out of their East Los Angeles high sch...

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

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

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

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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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Fred Thompson's Southern Sides: 250 Dishes That Really Make the Plate, Hardcover - Fred Thompson

220,00 RON

Side dishes are the very heart and soul of southern cuisine. So proclaims Fred Thompson in this heartfelt love letter to the marvelous foods on the...

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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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Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement, Paperback - Cathleen D. Cahill

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote ...

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After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880, Paperback - William G. McLoughlin

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members we...

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The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945 - Oscar de la Torre

218,00 RON

DescriptionIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating th...

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Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism, Paperback - Timothy Gloege

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American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about ...

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

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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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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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On Freedom and the Will to Adorn: The Art of the African American Essay, Paperback - Cheryl a. Wall

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Reducere. DescriptionAlthough they have written in various genres, African American writers as notable and diverse as W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and Al...

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Hajj to the Heart: Sufi Journeys Across the Indian Ocean, Paperback - Scott Kugle

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Reducere. Against the sweeping backdrop of South Asian history, this is a story of journeys taken by sixteenth-century reformist Muslim scholars and Sufi mys...

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Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years, Paperback - Joseph C. Ewoodzie

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph C. EwoodzieThe origin story of hip-hop--one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Br...

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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee, Paperback - Robert J. Norrell

288,99 RON

In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the uniq...

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All the Agents and Saints, Paperback Edition: Dispatches from the U.S. Borderlands, Paperback - Stephanie Elizondo Griest

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Reducere. After a decade of chasing stories around the globe, intrepid travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest followed the magnetic pull home--only to disco...

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Building the British Atlantic World: Spaces, Places, and Material Culture, 1600-1850, Paperback - Daniel Maudlin

291,99 RON

Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply i...

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Cattle Colonialism: An Environmental History of the Conquest of California and Hawai'i, Paperback - John Ryan Fischer

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. In the nineteenth century, the colonial territories of California and Hawai'i underwent important cultural, economic, and ecological transformation...

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The Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, Paperback - Jessica Ordaz

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Reducere. Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San D...

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A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History, Paperback - Francesca Morgan

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Reducere. From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for ...

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

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

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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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