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Stone Free: Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966-June 1967, Hardcover - Jas Obrecht

211,99 RON

DescriptionA compelling portrait of rock's greatest guitarist at the moment of his ascendance, Stone Free is the first book to focus exclusively on...

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

346,99 RON 371,99 RON

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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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America, Paperback - Thomas J. Brown

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

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Sick and Tired. An Intimate History of Fatigue, Paperback - Emily K. Abel

177,99 RON

Offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by Emily Abel's own experiences as a cancer survivor. Wi...

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

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

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

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Caging Borders and Carceral States: Incarcerations, Immigration Detentions, and Resistance, Paperback - Robert T. Chase

210,99 RON

DescriptionThis volume considers the interconnection of racial oppression in the U.S. South and West, presenting thirteen case studies that explore...

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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880, Paperback - Wendy Gonaver

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThough the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occu...

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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations, Paperback - Sharla M. Fett

304,99 RON 326,99 RON

Reducere. Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American heal...

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Defiant Indigeneity: The Politics of Hawaiian Performance, Paperback - Stephanie Nohelani Teves

202,99 RON

"Aloha" is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon. For K&257;naka Maoli people, the concep...

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Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians, Paperback - Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from mi...

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The Ariadne Auf Naxos of Hugo Von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss, Paperback - Donald G. Daviau

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. This book presents in comprehensive fashion the extraordinary development of Ariadne auf Naxos from its conception to the final operatic version. T...

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Divided by Terror. American Patriotism after 9/11, Hardback - John Bodnar

311,99 RON

John Bodnar's compelling history shifts the focus on America's War on Terror from the battlefield to the arena of political and cultural conflict, ...

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Ghost Ship of Diamond Shoals: The Mystery of the Carroll A. Deering, Paperback - Bland Simpson

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

Reducere. In the misty dawn of January 31, 1921, a Coast Guardsman on watch at the Cape Hatteras Life-Saving Station sighted a mighty five-masted schooner, a...

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Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America, Paperback - Sara Mayeux

210,99 RON 225,99 RON

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

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Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West, Hardcover - Susan Lee Johnson

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

Reducere. In this critical biography, Susan Lee Johnson braids together lives over time and space, telling tales of two white women who, in the 1960s, wrote ...

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Vaudeville and the Making of Modern Entertainment, 1890-1925, Paperback - David Monod

188,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. Today, vaudeville is imagined as a parade of slapstick comedians, blackface shouters, coyly revealed knees, and second-rate acrobats. But vaudevill...

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Black Market: The Slave's Value in National Culture After 1865, Paperback - Aaron Carico

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in fact...

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Introduction to International and Global Studies, Third Edition, Paperback - Shawn C. Smallman

343,99 RON 368,99 RON

Reducere. Shawn C. Smallman and Kimberley Brown's popular introductory textbook for undergraduates in international and global studies is now released in a s...

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

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

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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Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, Paperback - Taylor G. Petrey

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. Taylor G. Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender,...

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Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics, Hardcover - Rebecca L. Davis

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning ro...

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Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935, Paperback - James D. Anderson

290,99 RON 311,99 RON

Reducere. James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing black school...

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Rubber and the Making of Vietnam: An Ecological History, 1897-1975, Paperback - Michitake Aso

260,99 RON 279,99 RON

Reducere. Dating back to the nineteenth-century transplantation of a latex-producing tree from the Amazon to Southeast Asia, rubber production has wrought mo...

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Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society, Paperback - Nortin M. Hadler

118,99 RON 127,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFor those fortunate enough to reside in the developed world, death before reaching a ripe old age is a tragedy, not a fact of life. Alth...

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Lucean Arthur Headen: The Making of a Black Inventor and Entrepreneur, Hardcover - Jill D. Snider

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. Born in Carthage, North Carolina, Lucean Arthur Headen (1879-1957) grew up amid former slave artisans. Inspired by his grandfather, a wheelwright, ...

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American Lucifers: The Dark History of Artificial Light, 1750-1865, Hardcover - Jeremy Zallen

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

Reducere. The myth of light and progress has blinded us. In our electric world, we are everywhere surrounded by effortlessly glowing lights that simply exist...

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The Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink, Paperback - Eugene Walter

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. A southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (1921-1998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary pe...

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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club, Paperback - Christopher B. Teuton

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically ...

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Brazil's Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century, Paperback - James P. Woodard

297,99 RON 318,99 RON

Reducere. James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and p...

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

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms...

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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, Hardcover - Kevin Waite

791,99 RON 847,99 RON

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...

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Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South, Paperback - Regina Bradley

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

Reducere. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for ...

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Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South, Hardcover - Regina Bradley

778,99 RON 833,99 RON

Reducere. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for ...

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Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic, Paperback - Celia E. Schultz

301,99 RON

Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriag...

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Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society, Paperback - Nortin M. Hadler

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. Nortin M. Hadler knows backaches. For more than three decades as a physician and medical researcher, he has studied the experience of low back pain...

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Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country, Hardcover - Fay A. Yarbrough

256,99 RON 274,99 RON

Reducere. When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people--th...

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Runaway: Gregory Bateson, the Double Bind, and the Rise of Ecological Consciousness, Paperback - Anthony Chaney

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. The anthropologist Gregory Bateson has been called a lost giant of twentieth-century thought. In the years following World War II, Bateson was amon...

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Frank Porter Graham: Southern Liberal, Citizen of the World, Hardcover - William A. Link

188,99 RON 202,99 RON

Reducere. Frank Porter Graham (1886-1972) was one of the most consequential white southerners of the twentieth century. Born in Fayetteville and raised in Ch...

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Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism, Paperback - Michael J. McVicar

312,00 RON

This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-20...

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The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher, Paperback - W. Jeffrey Tatum

343,99 RON 368,99 RON

Reducere. Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, hi...

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Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign, Paperback - Kent Masterson Brown

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on p...

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Men of Mobtown. Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation, Paperback - Adam Malka

277,99 RON

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

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

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

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

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

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

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

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

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

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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The Historian's Eye. Photography, History, and the American Present, Paperback - Matthew Frye Jacobson

272,99 RON

Between 2009 and 2014, as the US contemplated the election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson se...

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Southern Snacks: 77 Recipes for Small Bites with Big Flavors, Hardcover - Perre Coleman Magness

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflow...

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Book - Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth, Hardcover - Kevin M. Levin

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between ...

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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, Paperback - William Ferris

163,99 RON 175,99 RON

Reducere. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they...

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Women at the Front: Hospital Workers in Civil War America - Jane E. Schultz

192,99 RON

DescriptionAs many as 20, 000 women worked in Union and Confederate hospitals during America's bloodiest war. Black and white, and from various soc...

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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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Racial Taxation: Schools, Segregation, and Taxpayer Citizenship, 1869-1973, Paperback - Camille Walsh

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Camille WalshIn the United States, it is quite common to lay claim to the benefits of society by appealing to "taxpayer cit...

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Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers, Paperback - Harry R. Phillips

160,99 RON 172,99 RON

Reducere. This book, the most complete and expert treatment of wild flower propagation and cultivation to date, offers a sure approach to gardening with nati...

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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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Transforming the Elite: Black Students and the Desegregation of Private Schools, Paperback - Michelle a. Purdy

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionWhen traditionally white public schools in the South became sites of massive resistance in the wake of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Boar...

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A Chance for Change: Head Start and Mississippi's Black Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Crystal R. Sanders

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. In this innovative study, Crystal Sanders explores how working-class black women, in collaboration with the federal government, created the Child D...

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

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

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

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Ku-Klux: The Birth of the Klan During Reconstruction, Paperback - Elaine Frantz Parsons

237,99 RON 254,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe first comprehensive examination of the nineteenth-century Ku Klux Klan since the 1970s, Ku-Klux pinpoints the group's rise with star...

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

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

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

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

275,99 RON 295,99 RON

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

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

239,99 RON 256,99 RON

Reducere. In the decades of the early republic, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten their opponents. As ...

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Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music, Paperback - Adam Gussow

220,99 RON 236,99 RON

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

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Whose Blues?: Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music, Hardcover - Adam Gussow

788,99 RON 844,99 RON

Reducere. Mamie Smith's pathbreaking 1920 recording of Crazy Blues set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for race recor...

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The Workboats of Core Sound: Stories and Photographs of a Changing World, Hardcover - Lawrence S. Earley

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. Along the wide waters of eastern North Carolina, the people of many scattered villages separated by creeks, marshes, and rivers depend on shallow-w...

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Space-Time Colonialism. Alaska's Indigenous and Asian Entanglements, Paperback - Juliana Hu Pegues

292,99 RON

Offering an intersectional approach to US empire, Indigenous dispossession, and labour exploitation, Space-Time Colonialism makes clear that Alaska...

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Why You Can't Teach United States History Without American Indians, Paperback - Susan Sleeper-Smith

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

Reducere. A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of A...

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Their Highest Potential: An African American School Community in the Segregated South - Vanessa Siddle Walker

267,99 RON

African American schools in the segregated South faced enormous obstacles in educating their students. But some of these schools succeeded in provi...

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Aunt Arie: A Foxfire Portrait, Paperback - Linda Garland Page

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who hav...

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