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Watchman at the Gates: A Soldier's Journey from Berlin to Bosnia, Hardcover - George Joulwan

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. General George Joulwan played a role in many pivotal world events during his long and exceptional career. Present at both the rise and fall of the ...

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Robert Royston, Paperback - Reuben M. Rainey

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. Over nearly six decades of practice, Robert Royston (1918-2008) shaped the postwar Bay Area landscape with visionary designs for public spaces. Ear...

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Turtles of the Southeast, Paperback - Kurt Buhlmann

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. Seventy-five percent of the turtle species in the United States can be found in the Southeast. In fact, the region is second only to parts of Asia ...

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The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland, Paperback - George Petrie

162,00 RON

DescriptionFirst published in 1855, George Petrie's "The Petrie Collection of the Ancient Music of Ireland", is widely regarded as one of the most ...

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The Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Caroline Gordon, Hardcover - Christine Flanagan

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Description"This girl is a real novelist, " wrote Caroline Gordon about Flannery O'Connor upon being asked to review a manuscript of O'Connor's fir...

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Salamanders of the Southeast, Paperback - Joe Mitchell

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Describing 102 species of salamanders occurring in the southeastern United States, ecologists Joe Mitchell and Whit Gibbons provide us with the mos...

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The Slave Ship Wanderer, Paperback - Tom Henderson Wells

162,99 RON

Published in 1967, The Slave Ship Wanderer details the journey of the elegant yacht that was used to secretly land a cargo of 400 enslaved Africans...

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Camera Hunter: George Shiras III and the Birth of Wildlife Photography, Paperback - James H. McCommons

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of MichiganIn 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime...

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After the Black Death, Second Edition: A Social History of Early Modern Europe, Paperback - George Huppert

163,00 RON

Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --Histo...

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The Killers: A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia, Paperback - George Lippard

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Anoth...

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Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South, Hardcover - Rick Van Noy

163,99 RON

The results of climate change make the headlines almost daily. All across America and the globe, communities have to adapt to rising sea levels, in...

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Dragonflies and Damselflies of Georgia and the Southeast, Paperback - Giff Beaton

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Reducere. Visit any pond on a summer day and the air will be alive with dragonflies and damselflies--shimmering aerobatic daredevils that dart above the wate...

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Conversations with Milosevic, Hardback - Sir Ivor Roberts

163,99 RON

Offers a firsthand portrayal of the so-called Butcher of the Balkans, the Serbian president whose ambitions sparked the Bosnian conflict. At its he...

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Minerals of Georgia: Their Properties and Occurrences, Paperback - Jose Santamaria

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Minerals of Georgia presents an illustrated, alphabetized record of every mineral (or mineral group) identified in the state. Under each entry is a...

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The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of Nasa's Visionary Leader George M. Low, Hardcover - Richard Jurek

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. From the late 1950s to 1976 the U.S. manned spaceflight program advanced as it did largely due to the extraordinary efforts of Austrian immigrant G...

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Rethinking Rufus: Sexual Violations of Enslaved Men, Paperback - Thomas A. Foster

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionRethinking Rufus is the first book-length study of sexual violence against enslaved men. Scholars have extensively documented the widesp...

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Our Prince of Scribes: Writers Remember Pat Conroy, Hardcover - Nicole Seitz

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. New York Times best-selling writer Pat Conroy (1945-2016) inspired a worldwide legion of devoted fans numbering in the millions, but none are more ...

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Johnny Mercer: Southern Songwriter for the World, Paperback - Glenn T. Eskew

165,99 RON 177,99 RON

Reducere. John Herndon "Johnny" Mercer (1909-76) remained in the forefront of American popular music from the 1930s through the 1960s, writing over a thousan...

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Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Collection of Ancient Texts, Paperback - Georg Luck

166,99 RON

Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe, " of the ancient Greeks and R...

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Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia, Paperback - Eva Sheppard Wolf

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In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and...

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Snakes of the Southeast, Paperback - Whit Gibbons

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. Fifty-three kinds of snakes can be found in the Southeast, almost half of all species native to North America. Filled with more than 300 color phot...

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Anglo-Native Virginia: Trade, Conversion, and Indian Slavery in the Old Dominion, 1646-1722, Paperback - Kristalyn Marie Shefveland

167,99 RON

The 1646 Treaty of Peace with Necotowance in Virginia fundamentally changed relationships between Native Americans and the English settlers of Virg...

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And the Coastlands Wait: How the Grassroots Battle to Save Georgia's Marshlands Was Fought--And Won, Paperback - Reid W. Harris

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A broad-based coalition of conservative southern politicians, countercultural activists, environmental scientists, sportsmen, devout Christians, ga...

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Mound Sites of the Ancient South: A Guide to the Mississippian Chiefdoms, Paperback - Eric E. Bowne

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. From approximately AD 900 to 1600, ancient Mississippian culture dominated today's southeastern United States. These Native American societies, kno...

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Boyle Heights, 59: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy, Hardcover - George J. Sánchez

167,99 RON 179,99 RON

Reducere. The radical history of a dynamic, multiracial American neighborhood. "When I think of the future of the United States, and the history that matters...

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The Ultimate Engineer. The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low, Paperback - Richard Jurek

167,99 RON

The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer George M. Low's remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.Publisher: U...

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Smokelore: A Short History of Barbecue in America, Paperback - Jim Auchmutey

168,99 RON 180,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBarbecue: It's America in a mouthful. The story of barbecue touches almost every aspect of our history. It involves indigenous culture, ...

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Fireflies, Glow-Worms, and Lightning Bugs: Identification and Natural History of the Fireflies of the Eastern and Central United States and Canada, Pa

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. Fireflies, Glow-worms, and Lightning Bugs is the first-ever comprehensive firefly guide for eastern and central North America. It is written for al...

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Celia, a Slave, Paperback - Melton A. McLaurin

169,99 RON

Illuminating the moral dilemmas that lie at the heart of a slaveholding society, this book tells the story of a young slave who was sexually exploi...

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The Fourth World: An Indian Reality, Paperback - George Manuel

170,99 RON

DescriptionA foundational work of radical anticolonialism, back in print Originally published in 1974, The Fourth World is a critical work of Indig...

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Finding Charity's Folk: Enslaved and Free Black Women in Maryland, Paperback - Richard Newman

171,99 RON

DescriptionFinding Charity's Folk highlights the experiences of enslaved Maryland women who negotiated for their own freedom, many of whom have bee...

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The Pleasures of Exile, Paperback - George Lamming

171,99 RON 184,99 RON

Reducere. In The Pleasures of Exile, as in his other works, George Lamming embraces the intricate issues of colonization and decolonization with a canny comb...

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Smoke Over Oklahoma: The Railroad Photographs of Preston George, Hardcover - Preston George

172,99 RON 185,99 RON

Reducere. Oklahoma was in the throes of the Great Depression when Preston George acquired a cheap Kodak folding camera and took his first photographs of stea...

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Ebb Tide: As Seen Through the Diary of Josephine Clay Habersham, 1863, Paperback - Josephine Clay Habersham

172,99 RON

First published in 1958, Ebb Tide tells the story of the Habersham family of Savannah during the Civil War. In her diary and her "Letter Book, " Jo...

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In the Castle of My Skin, Paperback - George Lamming

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. Nearly forty years after its initial publication, George Lamming's In the Castle of My Skin is considered a classic narrative of the Black colonial...

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In the Shadow of the Cold War: American Foreign Policy from George Bush Sr. to Donald Trump, Paperback - Timothy J. Lynch

173,99 RON

This book offers a bold re-interpretation of the prevailing narrative that US foreign policy after the Cold War was a failure. In chapters that ret...

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A President in Our Midst: Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Georgia, Paperback - Kaye Lanning Minchew

173,99 RON 186,99 RON

Reducere. Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited Georgia forty-one times between 1924 and 1945. This rich gathering of photographs and remembrances documents the ...

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Emory as Place: Meaning in a University Landscape, Hardcover - Gary S. Hauk

174,99 RON

DescriptionUniversities are more than engines propelling us into a bold new future. They are also living history. A college campus serves as a repo...

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Animals and Why They Matter, Paperback - Mary Midgley

174,99 RON 187,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary MidgleyAnimals and Why They Matter examines the barriers that our philosophical traditions have erected between human ...

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Recipes for Respect: African American Meals and Meaning, Paperback - Rafia Zafar

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. Food studies, once trendy, has settled into the public arena. In the academy, scholarship on food and literary culture constitutes a growing river ...

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Stories of Erskine Caldwell, Paperback - Erskine Caldwell

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productiv...

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Building Beloved Communities: The Life and Work of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith, Hardcover - Hildi Hendrickson

175,99 RON 188,99 RON

Reducere. Building Beloved Communities traces the life of Rev. Dr. Paul Smith (b. 1935), an iconoclastic black minister who has channeled his civil rights wo...

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Slaveholders' Union. Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic, Paperback - George William Van Cleve

176,00 RON

After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passa...

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Guide to the Plants of Arizona's White Mountains, Paperback - George C. West

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. George C. West provides a simple and quick guide written especially for amateur plant lovers, nature enthusiasts, interested hikers, tourists, and ...

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Saving the Georgia Coast: A Political History of the Coastal Marshlands Protection ACT, Hardcover - Paul Bolster

176,99 RON 189,99 RON

Reducere. Fifty years ago Georgia chose how it would use the natural environment of its coast. The General Assembly passed the Coastal Marshlands Protection ...

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A Field Guide for Immersion Writing: Memoir, Journalism, and Travel - Robin Hemley

177,99 RON 190,99 RON

Reducere. For centuries writers have used participatory experience as a lens through which to better see the world at large and as a means of exploring the s...

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St. Eom in the Land of Pasaquan: The Life and Times and Art of Eddie Owens Martin, Hardcover - Tom Patterson

177,99 RON

Self-taught Georgia artist Eddie Owens Martin (1908-86), known as St. EOM, created a visionary art site called Pasaquan in the mid-1950s in Marion ...

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Things New and Strange: A Southerner's Journey Through the Smithsonian Collections, Hardcover - Gerald Wayne Clough

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. Things New and Strange chronicles a research quest undertaken by G. Wayne Clough, the first secretary of the Smithsonian Institution born in the So...

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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage, Paperback - Bess Lomax Hawes

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bess Lomax HawesAuthor: Bessie JonesGrowing up in the rural South, Bessie Jones sang her way through long hours of field wo...

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Black on Earth, Paperback - Kimberly N. Ruffin

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. American environmental literature has relied heavily on the perspectives of European Americans, often ignoring other groups. In Black on Earth, Kim...

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Unreconciled: Race, History, and Higher Education in the Deep South, Hardcover - Arthur N. Dunning

178,99 RON 191,99 RON

Reducere. How do well-meaning people help a community move beyond its past when confronted by those who hold ingrained stereotypes, profit from maintaining t...

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Child and the World. Child-Soldiers and the Claim for Progress, Paperback - Jana Tabak

179,99 RON

Using the perspectives of both childhood studies and critical approaches to international relations, Jana Tabak explores the constructions of child...

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A Curious Garden of Herbs: Cultivated and Wild; Culinary, Medicinal, Cordial, and Amusing; Of the Eighteenth-Century Southern Frontier - Kay K. Moss

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. A Curious Garden of Herbs is a richly illustrated collection of herbal fact and lore that illuminates the "why" rather than the "how" of the histor...

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Ambitious Honor: George Armstrong Custer's Life of Service and Lust for Fame, Hardcover - James E. Mueller

179,99 RON 192,99 RON

Reducere. George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of nineteenth-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his bri...

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Maps to Anywhere, Paperback - Bernard Cooper

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Reducere. Award NameHemingway Foundation/PEN AwardAward categoryFictionThe essays in Maps to Anywhere plot terrain that is at once familiar and subtly strang...

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Dark Side of Hopkinsville, Paperback - Ted Poston

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Reducere. Preserving an engaging, little-known slice of American life, The Dark Side of Hopkinsville is a collection of ten picaresque tales bearing witness ...

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Our Sufficiency Is of God: Essays on Preaching in Honor of Gardner C. Taylor, Paperback - Timothy George

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. Resources for preachers steadily appear, called forth by the perennial need on the part of working pastors for helpful and inspirational materials ...

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The Chicken Book, Paperback - Page Smith

181,99 RON

Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble ...

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Snowbird Cherokees. People of Persistence, Paperback - Sharlotte Neely

181,99 RON

Originally published in 1991, Snowbird Cherokees has since inspired a documentary of the same name and remains the only ethnographic study of Snowb...

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A Kentucky Christmas, Paperback - George Ella Lyon

182,99 RON 195,99 RON

Reducere. "Table of Contents A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers....

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Anatomies of Revolution, Paperback - George Lawson

182,99 RON

Recent years have seen renewed interest in the study of revolution. Spurred by events like the 2011 uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, ...

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Slave-Trader's Letter-Book. Charles Lamar, the Wanderer, and Other Tales of the African Slave Trade, Paperback - Jim Jordan

183,99 RON

Recounts the flamboyant and reckless life of Savannah businessman Charles Lamar, including Lamar's involvement in southern secession, the slave tra...

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Historical Novel, Paperback - Georg Lukacs

183,99 RON

Georg Lukacs (1885-1971) is now recognised as one of the most innovative and best-informed literary critics of the twentieth century. Trained in th...

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William Gregg's Civil War: The Battle to Shape the History of Guerrilla Warfare, Paperback - William H. Gregg

183,99 RON

During the Civil War, William H. Gregg served as William Clarke Quantrill's de facto adjutant from December 1861 until the spring of 1864, making h...

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A Beachcomber's Guide to Fossils, Paperback - Bob Gale

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Compiled from decades of visiting beaches along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts collecting fossils and conducting extensive research, A Beachcomber's ...

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'Eastland': Legacy of the 'Titanic', Paperback - George W. Hilton

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. More than 800 people lost their lives when the steamer Eastland capsized in the Chicago River in 1915. This is the full story, with more than 100 i...

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Being Somebody and Black Besides. An Untold Memoir of Midcentury Black Life, Hardback - George B Nesbitt

184,99 RON

An immersive multigenerational memoir that recounts the hopes, injustices, and triumphs of a Black family fighting for access to the American dream...

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Origins of English Revenge Tragedy, Paperback - George Oppitz-Trotman

185,99 RON

Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in ...

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Saving the Soul of Georgia: Donald L. Hollowell and the Struggle for Civil Rights, Hardcover - Maurice C. Daniels

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. Donald L. Hollowell was Georgia's chief civil rights attorney during the 1950s and 1960s. In this role he defended African American men accused or ...

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Slavery and Freedom in Savannah, Paperback - Leslie M. Harris

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Reducere. Slavery and Freedom in Savannah is a richly illustrated, accessibly written book modeled on the very successful Slavery in New York, a volume Lesli...

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