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Man and Nature: Or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action, Paperback - George Perkins Marsh

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In Man and Nature, first published in 1864, polymath scholar and diplomat George Perkins Marsh challenged the general belief that human impact on n...

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A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel, Paperback - Steven C. Weisenburger

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Reducere. Adding some 20 percent to the original content, this is a completely updated edition of Steven Weisenburger's indispensable guide to Thomas Pynchon...

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A Man Absolutely Sure of Himself: Texan George Washington Littlefield, Hardcover - David B. Gracy

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This is the first full biography of George Washington Littlefield, the Texas and New Mexico rancher, Austin banker and businessman, University of T...

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V nus Noire: Black Women and Colonial Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century France, Paperback - Robin Mitchell

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Reducere. Even though there were relatively few people of color in postrevolutionary France, images of and discussions about black women in particular appear...

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Losing Power. African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics, Paperback - Ray Block Jr.

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Investigates the relationship between racial polarization, black political influence, and multiracial coalitions in Tennessee in the first decade o...

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Patrolling the Border. Theft and Violence on the Creek-Georgia Frontier, 1770-1796, Paperback - Joshua S. Haynes

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Focuses on a late eighteenth-century conflict between Creek Indians and Georgians. The conflict was marked by years of seemingly random theft and v...

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The Struggle and the Urban South. Confronting Jim Crow in Baltimore before the Movement, Paperback - David Taft Terry

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Through the example of Baltimore, Maryland, David Taft Terry explores the historical importance of African American resistance to Jim Crow laws in ...

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The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, Paperback - Harry S. Laver

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Reducere. What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D....

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One Faith No Longer: The Transformation of Christianity in Red and Blue America, Paperback - George Yancey

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Reducere. Irreconcilable differences drive the division between progressive and conservative Christians-is there a divorce coming? Much attention has been pa...

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Memories of the Mansion: The Story of Georgia's Governor's Mansion, Hardcover - Sandra D. Deal

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Reducere. Designed by Atlanta architect A. Thomas Bradbury and opened in 1968, the mansion has been home to eight first families and houses a distinguished c...

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The Gray Fox: George Crook and the Indian Wars, Paperback - Paul Magid

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Reducere. George Crook was one of the most prominent military figures of the late-nineteenth-century Indian Wars. Yet today his name is largely unrecognized ...

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Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr., Paperback - Vicki L. Crawford

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The burgeoning terrain of Martin Luther King Jr. studies is leading to a new appreciation of his thought and its meaningfulness for the emergence a...

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Real Presences, Paperback - George Steiner

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Reducere. Can there be major dimensions of a poem, a painting, a musical composition created in the absence of God? Or, is God always a real presence in the ...

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Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain, Paperback - George Edmund Street

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An architect and architectural theorist, George Edmund Street was one of the key proponents of the 'High Victorian' Gothic style in nineteenth-cent...

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¡viva George!: Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the Us-Mexico Border, Paperback - ***

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Reducere. Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's bir...

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Jekyll Island Club: Southern Haven for America's Millionaires, Hardcover - June Hall McCash

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Reducere. From its inception in 1886, the Jekyll Island Club included in its elite membership the nation's wealthiest families, among them the Rockefellers, ...

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Rehearsal for Reconstruction, Paperback - Willie Rose

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Reducere. Just seven months into the Civil War, a Union fleet sailed into South Carolina's Port Royal Sound, landed a ground force, and then made its way upr...

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Lectures on the History of Philosophy, Volume 1: Greek Philosophy to Plato, Paperback - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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Description"Hegel's Geschichte der Philosophie was one of the grand products of the renaissance in historical learning that took place in early nin...

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Television History, the Peabody Archive, and Cultural Memory, Paperback - ***

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Explores the influence of the Peabody Awards Collection as an archive of the vital medium of TV, These essays turn their attention to the wealth of...

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Dignity and Vulnerability. Strength and Quality of Character, Paperback - George W. Harris

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Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): George W. HarrisNumber of pages: 162Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 13Cover type:...

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The Families' Civil War. Black Soldiers and the Fight for Racial Justice, Paperback - Holly A. Pinheiro Jr.

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Tells the stories of freeborn northern African Americans in Philadelphia struggling to maintain families while fighting against racial discriminati...

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Baptized in Blood: The Religion of the Lost Cause, 1865-1920, Paperback (2nd Ed.) - Charles Wilson

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Charles WilsonSoutherners may have abandoned their dream of a political nation after Appomattox, but they preserved their c...

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Scarlet Sister Mary, Paperback - Julia Mood Peterkin

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Reducere. Julia Peterkin pioneered in demonstrating the literary potential for serious depictions of the African American experience. Rejecting the prevailin...

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The Seasons of Cumberland Island, Hardcover - Fred Whitehead

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Reducere. Cumberland Island is the largest and most beloved of the Georgia barrier islands. Although it can be reached only by boat, more than forty thousand...

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The Art of English Poesy. A Critical Edition, Paperback - George Puttenham

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The first modernized and fully annotated edition of Puttenham's 1589 text.Publisher: Cornell University PressAuthor(s): George PuttenhamIllustratio...

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The Art of Command: Military Leadership from George Washington to Colin Powell, Hardcover - Harry S. Laver

236,99 RON

What essential leadership lessons do we learn by distilling the actions and ideas of great military commanders such as George Washington, Dwight D....

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Shout Because You're Free. The African American Ring Shout Tradition in Coastal Georgia, Paperback - Johann S. Buis

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Publisher: University of Georgia PressAuthor(s): Johann S. BuisIllustration(s): 18 black & white photographs, 9 illustrationsNumber of pages: 216Co...

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Household War. How Americans Lived and Fought the Civil War, Paperback - ***

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Restores the centrality of households to the American Civil War. These essays complicate the standard distinctions between battlefront and homefron...

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Courthouses of Georgia, Hardcover - George Justice

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Reducere. DescriptionThe courthouses of Georgia's 159 counties hold the keys to the history of individual families and entire communities alike. From their p...

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Creolization and Contraband. Curacao in the Early Modern Atlantic World, Paperback - Linda M. Rupert

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Reducere. Uses the history of Curacao to develop the first book-length analysis of the relationship between illicit interimperial trade and processes of soci...

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My Work Is That of Conservation: An Environmental Biography of George Washington Carver, Paperback - Mark D. Hersey

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Reducere. George Washington Carver (ca. 1864-1943) is at once one of the most familiar and misunderstood figures in American history. In My Work Is That of C...

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Southern Homes and Plan Books: The Architectural Legacy of Leila Ross Wilburn, Hardcover - Sarah J. Boykin

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Reducere. Southern Homes and Plan Books showcases the architectural legacy and design philosophy of Leila Ross Wilburn (1885-1967), a legacy that includes hu...

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As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, Paperback - Rebecca Solnit

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rebecca SolnitTo Rebecca Solnit, the word "landscape" implies not only literal places, but also the ground on which we inve...

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Searching for My Destiny, Paperback - George Blue Spruce

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Reducere. George Blue Spruce Jr. is recognized as the first American Indian dentist in the United States. His life story reaches back to the ancient Pueblo c...

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Savannah in the Old South, Paperback - Walter J. Fraser

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Reducere. This flowing, instantly engaging narrative tells the story of Savannah from the hopeful arrival of its first permanent English settlers in 1733 to ...

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The Pain and the Promise: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Tallahassee, Florida, Paperback - Glenda Alice Rabby

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Reducere. While Florida is rarely considered a traditional southern state, its history of race relations reveals otherwise. This study of the civil rights mo...

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Everyday Life in the Early English Caribbean, Paperback - Jenny Shaw

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Reducere. Set along both the physical and social margins of the British Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century, Everyday Life in the Early Engl...

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Land and Power in Hawaii: The Democratic Years, Paperback - George Cooper

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Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal fin...

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George Sword's Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition, Paperback - Delphine Red Shirt

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon FoundationThe general focus...

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American Color: Race and Identity in New Orleans and the Atlantic World, Paperback - Andrew N. Wegmann

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Reducere. For decades, scholars have conceived of the coastal city of New Orleans as a remarkable outlier, an exception to nearly every "rule" of accepted U....

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Why Millions Died. Before the War on Infectious Diseases, Paperback - George H. Scherr

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This book reviews the slow development of research by isolated investigators who believed that diseases could be caused by infectious organisms. Mi...

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Ely: An Autobiography, Paperback - Ely Green

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Reducere. Ely Green was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1893. His father was a member of the white gentry, the son of a former Confederate officer. His mother...

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Underdogs. Pets, People, and Poverty, Paperback - Andrew Rowan

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Looks into the rapidly growing initiative to provide veterinary care to underserved communities in North Carolina and Costa Rica and how those livi...

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Bodies in Blue. Disability in the Civil War North, Paperback - Sarah Handley-Cousins

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In the popular imagination, Civil War disability is synonymous with amputation. But war affects the body in countless ways. Sarah Handley-Cousins e...

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City of Refuge. Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763-1856, Paperback - Marcus P. Nevius

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Tells a story of petit marronage, an informal slave's economy, and the construction of internal improvements in the Great Dismal Swamp of Virginia ...

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BJU and Me. Queer Voices from the World's Most Christian University, Paperback - Elena Kelly

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Provides behind-the-scenes explanations from nineteen former BJU students from the past few decades who now identify as LGBT+. They write about the...

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Women of Discriminating Taste: White Sororities and the Making of American Ladyhood, Paperback - Margaret L. Freeman

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Reducere. Women of Discriminating Taste examines the role of historically white sororities in the shaping of white womanhood in the twentieth century. As nat...

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The Other War of 1812: The Patriot War and the American Invasion of Spanish East Florida, Paperback - James G. Cusick

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Reducere. Resurrecting a forgotten chapter in transatlantic history, James G. Cusick tells how, just before the United States went to war against Great Brita...

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Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching, Paperback - Julie Buckner Armstrong

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Reducere. Mary Turner and the Memory of Lynching traces the reaction of activists, artists, writers, and local residents to the brutal lynching of a pregnant...

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The Children's Table: Childhood Studies and the Humanities, Paperback - Annette Ruth Appell

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Reducere. Like the occupants of the children's table at a family dinner, scholars working in childhood studies can seem sidelined from the "adult" labor of h...

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Social Justice and the City, Paperback - David Harvey

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David HarveyThroughout his distinguished and influential career, David Harvey has defined and redefined the relationship be...

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Drums and Shadows: Survival Studies Among the Georgia Coastal Negroes, Paperback - Writers Project Georgia

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Reducere. Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks liv...

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Southern Hospitality Myth: Ethics, Politics, Race, and American Memory, Paperback - Anthony Szczesiul

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Hospitality as a cultural trait has been associated with the South for well over two centuries, but the origins of this association and the reasons...

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Uneven Development: Nature, Capital, and the Production of Space, Paperback - Neil Smith

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Reducere. In Uneven Development, a classic in its field, Neil Smith offers the first full theory of uneven geographical development, entwining theories of sp...

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Audacious Agitation: The Uncompromising Commitment of Black Youth to Equal Education After Brown, Paperback - Vincent D. Willis

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Reducere. In the decade after the landmark 1954 Brown v. Board decision, it became clear to students, parents, and community members alike that court cases w...

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Philip Juras: The Southern Frontier: Landscapes Inspired by Bartram's Travels, Paperback - Philip Juras

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Presenting stunning reproductions of oil paintings by landscape artist Philip Juras, this exhibition catalogue offers a glimpse of the presettlemen...

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Sounding the Color Line. Music and Race in the Southern Imagination, Paperback - Erich Nunn

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Explores how competing understandings of the US South in the first decades of the twentieth century have led us to experience musical forms, sounds...

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Man Called White: The Autobiography of Walter White, Paperback - Walter White

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Reducere. First published in 1948, A Man Called White is the autobiography of the famous civil rights activist Walter White during his first thirty years of ...

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Seen/Unseen: Hidden Lives in a Community of Enslaved Georgians, Paperback - Christopher R. Lawton

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Reducere. Seen/Unseen is a vivid portrait of the complex network that created, held, and sustained a community of the enslaved. The hundreds of men and women...

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

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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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Plea Bargaining's Triumph: A History of Plea Bargaining in America - George Fisher

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Though originally an interloper in a system of justice mediated by courtroom battles, plea bargaining now dominates American criminal justice. This...

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Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life Well Lived, Hardcover - Malcolm Varon

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Reducere. Georgia O'Keeffe remains an icon, continuing to inspire generations to break barriers and embrace the natural world in both art and life. Featuring...

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The Hanging of Ang?lique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montr?al, Paperback - Afua Cooper

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Reducere. During the night of April 10, 1734, Montr al burned. Marie-Joseph Ang lique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of...

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The Nashville Way, Paperback - Benjamin Houston

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Among Nashville's many slogans, the one that best reflects its emphasis on manners and decorum is the Nashville Way, a phrase coined by boosters to...

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Growing Up America. Youth and Politics since 1945, Paperback - ***

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Brings together new scholarship that considers the role of children and teenagers in shaping American political life during the decades following t...

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Peachtree Creek: A Natural and Unnatural History of Atlanta's Watershed, Hardcover - David R. Kaufman

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Reducere. In 1990 David Kaufman decided to explore Peachtree Creek from its headwaters to its confluence with the Chattahoochee River. For thirteen years he ...

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George Mason, Forgotten Founder: , Paperback - Jeff Broadwater

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Reducere. George Mason (1725-92) is often omitted from the small circle of founding fathers celebrated today, but in his service to America he was, in the wo...

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Georgia Quilts: Piecing Together a History, Paperback - Catherine Holmes

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Reducere. This abundantly illustrated volume arises out of the painstaking work of the Georgia Quilt Project, the most authoritative survey of quilts and qui...

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Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras, Paperback - Kristen Epps

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Reducere. Slavery on the Periphery traces the rise and fall of chattel slavery on the Kansas-Missouri border from the earliest years of American settlement t...

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Breaking the War Habit. The Debate over Militarism in American Education, Paperback - Seth Kershner

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Provides an original consideration of the militarization of schools in the United States and explores the prolonged battle to prevent the military ...

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