University of Georgia Press

Courthouses of Georgia, Hardcover - George Justice

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

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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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought, Paperback - George C. Williams

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionBiological evolution is a fact--but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natu...

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Rights in Transit: Public Transportation and the Right to the City in California's East Bay, Paperback - Kafui Ablode Attoh

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. Is public transportation a right? Should it be? For those reliant on public transit, the answer is invariably "yes" to both. Indeed, when city offi...

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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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A Man's World: A Gallery of Fighters, Creators, Actors, and Desperadoes - Steve Oney

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DescriptionA Man's World is a collection of twenty profiles of fascinating men by author and magazine writer Steve Oney. Oney realized early in his...

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Feeding Victory: Innovative Military Logistics from Lake George to Khe Sanh, Hardcover - Jobie Turner

351,99 RON 376,99 RON

Reducere. An army, Lewis Mumford once observed, "is a body of pure consumers"--and it is logistics that feeds this body's insatiable appetite for men and mat...

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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

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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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This Is One Way to Dance: Essays, Paperback - Sejal Shah

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Reducere. In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, This Is One Way to Dance, Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Through...

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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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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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Overshot: The Political Aesthetics of Woven Textiles from the Antebellum South and Beyond, Paperback - Susan Falls

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Reducere. Woven coverlets have appeared in several guises within the history of folk textiles. Created on four-harness looms, coverlets made in the nineteent...

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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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Snowbird Cherokees. People of Persistence, Paperback - Sharlotte Neely

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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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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 Papers of George Washington 15 September-31 October 1778, Hardback - George Washington

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Describes how Washington moved his army north from White Plains, New York, into new positions that ran from West Point to Danbury, Connecticut. His...

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The Papers of George Washington v. 12; Presidential Series;January-May, 1793, Hardback - George Washington

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Volume 12 of the ""Presidential Series"" continues the fourth chronological series of ""The Papers of George Washington"". This series includes the...

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The Papers of George Washington v.5; Presidential Series;January-June 1790, Hardback - W.W. Abbot

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Publisher: University of Virginia PressAuthor(s): W.W. AbbotNumber of pages: 656Publication date: 1996Dimensions: 258 x 570 x 40Cover type: Hardbac...

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Lighthouses of the Georgia Coast, Hardcover - William Rawlings

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The Papers of George Washington 1 November 1778 - 14 January 1779, Hardback - George Washington

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Covers the period 1 November 1778 through 14 January 1779. This title begins with George Washington at Fredericksburg, New York, watching New York ...

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The Papers of George Washington v. 16; July-September 1778, Hardback - George Washington

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Talks about the myriad military and political matters with which Washington dealt during the long war for American independence. This book document...

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The Papers of George Washington v.9; Presidential Series;September 1791-February 1792, Hardback - George Washington

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This is the ninth volume of George Washington's presidential papers, covering the period September 1791 to February 1792. Over 40 letters concern t...

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Prophet of Discontent: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Critique of Racial Capitalism, Paperback - Jared A. Loggins

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Reducere. Many of today's insurgent Black movements call for an end to racial capitalism. They take aim at policing and mass incarceration, the racial partit...

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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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Dwellers in the Land, Paperback - Kirkpatrick Sale

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Reducere. Imagine a world structured around ecological and cultural diversity, rather than national and political parameters. In response to present and impe...

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Doing Recent History: On Privacy, Copyright, Video Games, Institutional Review Boards, Activist Scholarship, and History That Talks Back - Claire Bond

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Recent history--the very phrase seems like an oxymoron. Yet historians have been writing accounts of the recent past since printed history acquired...

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Black on Earth, Paperback - Kimberly N. Ruffin

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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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The Rise and Demise of World Communism, Hardcover - George W. Breslauer

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Reducere. A concise, readable, and novel interpretation of the history of communist states. Sixteen states came to be ruled by communist parties during the 2...

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

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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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The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque, the First African Anglican Missionary, Paperback - Vincent Carretta

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This is the first edition of the correspondence of Philip Quaque, a prolific writer of African descent whose letters provide a unique perspective o...

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This Impermanent Earth: Environmental Writing from the Georgia Review, Paperback - Douglas Carlson

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Reducere. With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of...

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

224,99 RON 240,99 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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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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Traditions of the Arapaho, Paperback - George a. Dorsey

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Reducere. Anthropologists George A. Dorsey and Alfred L. Kroeber joined forces to record and preserve the rich cultural traditions of the Arapaho Indians, lo...

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Flexible Lyric, Paperback - Ellen Bryant Voigt

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Reducere. These nine eloquent and skillfully crafted essays by a distinguished poet examine the art of lyric poetry in all aspects of its design and structur...

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Colors of Africa, Paperback - James Kilgo

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This extraordinary, candid account of James Kilgo's African sojourn conveys the untamed beauty of the bush country with the attention of a seasoned...

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George Padmore's Black Internationalism, Paperback - Rodney Worrell

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Reducere. In George Padmore's Black Internationalism, Rodney Worrell traces the main features of Padmore's social and political thought. Worrell explores Pad...

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

225,99 RON 241,99 RON

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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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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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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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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Searching for My Destiny, Paperback - George Blue Spruce

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

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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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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American Plants for American Gardens, Hardcover - Edith A. Roberts

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Reducere. Undeservedly out of print for decades, American Plants for American Gardens was one of the first popular books to promote the use of plant ecology ...

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Something in the Water: A History of Music in Macon, Georgia, 1823-1980, Hardcover - Ben Wynne

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Shadows on My Heart: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Rebecca Buck of Virginia, Paperback - Lucy Rebecca Buck

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When the Civil War began in 1861 Lucy Rebecca Buck was the eighteen-year-old daughter of a prosperous planter, living on her family's plantation in...

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The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings, Paperback - Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Reducere. The German volume Gadamer Lesebuch [A Gadamer Reader] (1997), selected and edited by Jean Grondin in consultation with Hans-Georg Gadamer himself, ...

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

226,99 RON 242,99 RON

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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The Papers of George Washington v.7; Presidential Series;December 1790-March 1791, Hardback - George Washington

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This volume presents documents written during the final sessions of the First Congress. Congress passed legislation that established a national ban...

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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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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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The Jekyll Island Cottage Colony, Hardcover - June Hall McCash

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

Reducere. During the Gilded Age, Jekyll Island, Georgia, was one of the most exclusive resort destinations in the United States. Owned by the most elite and ...

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

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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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Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life?: The People of Johns Island South Carolina-Their Faces, Their Words, and Their Songs - Guy Carawan

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Ain't You Got a Right to the Tree of Life? presents an oral, musical, and photographic record of the venerable Gullah culture in modern times. With...

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

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

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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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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Little Women Abroad, Paperback - Louisa May Alcott

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Reducere. In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe. Louisa had already made her mark as a writ...

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The Papers of George Washington v.10; Presidential Series;March-August 1792, Hardback - George Washington

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Volume 10 of the ""Presidential Series"" continues the fourth chronological series of ""The Papers of George Washington"". In the period covered by...

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The Papers of George Washington Presidential Series, v.4;Presidential Series, v.4, Hardback - George Washington

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Part of a series presenting public papers either written by George Washington or presented to him during both of his administrations. Volume 4 cove...

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The Fictions of Romantic Tourism. Radcliffe, Scott, and Mary Shelley, Hardback - George Dekker

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Romantic novelists Ann Radcliffe, Sir Walter Scott, and Mary Shelley were keen tourists and influential contributors to the discourse of Romantic t...

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Of Fear and Strangers. A History of Xenophobia, Hardback - George Makari

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An illuminating work revealing the long history of xenophobia -and what it means for today's divided worldPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s)...

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Commanders of the Dining Room. Biographic Sketches and Portraits of Successful Head Waiters, Paperback - E.A. Maccannon

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Originally published in 1904, Commanders of the Dining Room features brief biographies of more than fifty African American head waiters and front-o...

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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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When the River Ran Wild!: Indian Traditions on the Mid-Columbia and the Warm Springs Reservation, Paperback - Sr. Aguilar, George W.

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. "Nearly seventy-five years of my lifetime have come and gone since hearing of the sparse historical events from the old-timers, " American Indian e...

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George C. Marshall and the Early Cold War: Policy, Politics, and Society, Paperback - William a. Taylor

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. Though best known for his central part in the American war effort from 1939 to 1945, George C. Marshall's critical role in the early Cold War was p...

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Georgia. From Autocracy to Democracy, Hardback - Neil Macfarlane

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This multidisciplinary collection provides a unique insiders' perspective on the major issues in Georgian politics, society, and economics in the t...

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First and Always: A New Portrait of George Washington, Hardcover - Peter R. Henriques

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. George Washington may be the most famous American who ever lived, and certainly is one of the most admired. While surrounded by myths, it is no myt...

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Selling Hate. Marketing the Ku Klux Klan, Paperback - Dale W. Laackman

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A fascinating and powerful story about the power of a southern PR firm to further the Ku Klux Klan's agenda. Dale Laackman's uncovered never-before...

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

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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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Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth, Paperback - Kim Paffenroth

211,99 RON 226,99 RON

Reducere. Winner of the 2006 Bram Stoker Award, Gospel of the Living Dead connects American social and religious views with the classic American movie genre ...

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