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The King of Adobe: Reies Lpez Tijerina, Lost Prophet of the Chicano Movement, Hardcover - Lorena Oropeza

259,99 RON 278,99 RON

Reducere. In 1967, Reies Lopez Tijerina led an armed takeover of a New Mexico courthouse in the name of land rights for disenfranchised Spanish-speaking loca...

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Slavery and Public History: The Tough Stuff of American Memory, Paperback - James Oliver Horton

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Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

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Abortion After Roe, Paperback - Johanna Schoen

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Reducere. Abortion is--and always has been--an arena for contesting power relations between women and men. When in 1973 the Supreme Court made the procedure ...

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Two Great Rebel Armies: An Essay in Confederate Military History, Paperback - Richard M. McMurry

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Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee's Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Ten...

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

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Reducere. In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was ...

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Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps, Paperback - Amy Murrell Taylor

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Reducere. The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of...

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The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today, Paperback - Stephen Cushman

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Reducere. In December 1885, under the watchful eye of Mark Twain, the publishing firm of Charles L. Webster and Company released the first volume of the Pers...

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Feud: Hatfields, McCoys, and Social Change in Appalachia, 1860-1900, Paperback - Altina L. Waller

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Reducere. The Hatfield-McCoy feud, the entertaining subject of comic strips, popular songs, movies, and television, has long been a part of American folklore...

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

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

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Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in America, 1740-1845, Paperback - Catherine a. Brekus

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Margaret Meuse Clay, who barely escaped a public whipping in the 1760s for preaching without a license; "Old Elizabeth, " an ex-slave who courageou...

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

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

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

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A Political Education: Black Politics and Education Reform in Chicago Since the 1960s - Elizabeth Todd-Breland

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn 2012, Chicago's school year began with the city's first teachers' strike in a quarter century and ended with the largest mass closure...

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Occupied Territory: Policing Black Chicago from Red Summer to Black Power, Paperback - Simon Balto

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Reducere. In July 1919, an explosive race riot forever changed Chicago. For years, black southerners had been leaving the South as part of the Great Migratio...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Circus Age. Culture and Society under the American Big Top, Paperback - Janet M. Davis

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This work explores the development of the early 20th-century circus against developments such as the rise of big business and the genesis of the Un...

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

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

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The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America, Paperback - Mario T. Garc a

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Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as...

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The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. Fought on July 28, 1864, the Battle of Ezra Church was a dramatic engagement during the Civil War's Atlanta campaign. Confederate forces under John...

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

204,00 RON

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

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Lula and His Politics of Cunning: From Metalworker to President of Brazil, Hardcover - John D. French

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

Reducere. Known around the world simply as Lula, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva was born in 1945 to illiterate parents who migrated to industrializing Sao Paulo. ...

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

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

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Planetary Specters: Race, Migration, and Climate Change in the Twenty-First Century, Paperback - Neel Ahuja

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Reducere. Neel Ahuja tracks the figure of the climate refugee in public media and policy over the past decade, arguing that journalists, security experts, po...

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Sobre los limites del campo. Ensayos de critica literaria latinoamericanista, Paperback - John Beverley

299,99 RON

Una coleccion de ensayos escogidos del critico John Beverley en el campo del Latinoamericanismo literario, atento a los conexiones entre literatura...

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These Ragged Edges. Histories of Violence along the U.S.-Mexico Border, Paperback - ***

299,99 RON

Through multiple perspectives from both sides of the border, the collected essays in These Ragged Edges argue that rapidly changing conditions alon...

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

99,99 RON 106,99 RON

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

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An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America's Domestic Slave Trade, Paperback - Alexandra J. Finley

177,99 RON 190,99 RON

Reducere. Alexandra Finley adds crucial new dimensions to the boisterous debate over the relationship between slavery and capitalism by placing women's labor...

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Soul Liberty: The Evolution of Black Religious Politics in Postemancipation Virginia, Paperback - Nicole Myers Turner

199,99 RON

That churches are one of the most important cornerstones of black political organization is a commonplace. In this history of African American Prot...

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

781,99 RON 836,99 RON

Reducere. Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

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Living at the Water's Edge: A Heritage Guide to the Outer Banks Byway, Paperback - Barbara Garrity-Blake

124,99 RON 133,99 RON

Reducere. The Outer Banks National Scenic Byway received its designation in 2009, an act that stands as a testament to the historical and cultural importance...

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Chocolate City: A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital, Paperback - Chris Myers Asch

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMonumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's ...

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Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami Before 1940, Paperback - Julio Capao

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Julio CapaoPoised on the edge of the United States and at the center of a wider Caribbean world, today's Miami is marketed ...

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Raising the White Flag: How Surrender Defined the American Civil War, Hardcover - David Silkenat

311,99 RON 333,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe American Civil War began with a laying down of arms by Union troops at Fort Sumter, and it ended with a series of surrenders, most f...

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Remembering the Civil War: Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation, Paperback - Caroline E. Janney

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and wh...

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Bruce Moffett Cooks: A New England Chef in a New South Kitchen, Hardcover - Bruce Moffett

203,99 RON 218,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionA native New Englander, chef Bruce Moffett fell in love with the South. Founding chef of three Charlotte restaurants--Barrington's, Good...

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Reality Radio: Telling True Stories in Sound, Paperback - John Biewen

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. This new revised and expanded edition of Reality Radio celebrates today's best audio documentary work by bringing together some of the most influen...

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Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C., Paperback - Ashante M. Reese

166,99 RON 178,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn this book, Ashante M. Reese makes clear the structural forces that determine food access in urban areas, highlighting Black residents...

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Portrait's Subject. Inventing Inner Life in the Nineteenth-Century United States, Paperback - Sarah Blackwood

313,99 RON

Between the invention of photography in 1839 and the end of the nineteenth century, portraiture became one of the most popular and common art forms...

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Game of Privilege. An African American History of Golf, Paperback - Lane Demas

272,99 RON

Explores the role of race, class, and public space in golf course development, the stories of individual black golfers during the age of segregatio...

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West of Slavery. The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, Paperback - Kevin Waite

287,99 RON

Examines the threads connecting South and West America during the slaveholding era, and that undermined the radical promise of Reconstruction. Kevi...

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Class Interruptions. Inequality and Division in African Diasporic Women's Fiction, Paperback - Robin Brooks

272,99 RON

As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences b...

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The Promise of Patriarchy: Women and the Nation of Islam, Paperback - Ula Yvette Taylor

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ula Yvette TaylorThe patriarchal structure of the Nation of Islam (NOI) promised black women the prospect of finding a prov...

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Black Slaves, Indian Masters: Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South, Paperback - Barbara Krauthamer

228,99 RON 245,99 RON

Reducere. From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Ameri...

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The Tuscarora War: Indians, Settlers, and the Fight for the Carolina Colonies, Paperback - David La Vere

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. At dawn on September 22, 1711, more than 500 Tuscarora, Core, Neuse, Pamlico, Weetock, Machapunga, and Bear River Indian warriors swept down on the...

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Makers: A History of American Studio Craft, Hardcover - Janet Koplos

356,99 RON

Here is the first comprehensive survey of modern craft in the United States. Makers follows the development of studio craft--objects in fiber, clay...

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Insurgent Cuba: Race, Nation, and Revolution, 1868-1898 - Ada Ferrer

303,99 RON 325,99 RON

Reducere. In the late nineteenth century, in an age of ascendant racism and imperial expansion, there emerged in Cuba a movement that unified black, mulatto,...

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Ribbon of Sand: The Amazing Convergence of the Ocean and the Outer Banks, Paperback - John Alexander

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander and Lazell's delightful study of North Carolina's Outer Banks contains a wealth of statistics and facts . . . A Ribbon of Sand...

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Hearthside Cooking: Early American Southern Cuisine Updated for Today's Hearth and Cookstove - Nancy Carter Crump

114,99 RON

For cooks who want to experience a link to culinary history, Hearthside Cooking is a treasure trove of early American delights. First published in ...

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Dangerous Grounds: Antiwar Coffeehouses and Military Dissent in the Vietnam Era, Paperback - David L. Parsons

155,99 RON

As the Vietnam War divided the nation, a network of antiwar coffeehouses appeared in the towns and cities outside American military bases. Owned an...

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Abusive Policies: How the American Child Welfare System Lost Its Way, Paperback - Mical Raz

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. In the early 1970s, a new wave of public service announcements urged parents to help end an American tradition of child abuse. The message, relayed...

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White Balance: How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined Civil Rights, Paperback - Justin Gomer

231,99 RON 248,99 RON

Reducere. The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, I have a dream that my four little children ...

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With Masses and Arms. Peru's Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement, Hardback - Miguel La Serna

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Miguel La Serna's gripping history of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA) provides vital insight into both the history of modern Peru and...

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Dancing with the Revolution. Power, Politics, and Privilege in Cuba, Paperback - Elizabeth B. Schwall

311,99 RON

Aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance ...

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Prieto: Yor b Kingship in Colonial Cuba During the Age of Revolutions, Paperback - Henry B. Lovejoy

248,99 RON 266,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis Atlantic world history centers on the life of Juan Nepomuceno Prieto (c. 1773-c. 1835), a member of the West African Yoruba people ...

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Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, Paperback - Amy Louise Wood

272,99 RON 292,99 RON

Reducere. Lynch mobs in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America exacted horrifying public torture and mutilation on their victims. In Lynching a...

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Domingos lvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World, Paperback - James H. Sweet

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

Reducere. Between 1730 and 1750, Domingos Alvares traversed the colonial Atlantic world like few Africans of his time--from Africa to South America to Europe...

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How to Read the Qur'an: A New Guide, with Select Translations, Paperback - Carl W. Ernst

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

Reducere. How to Read the Qur'an offers a compact introduction and reader's guide for anyone, non-Muslim or Muslim, who wants to know how to approach, read, ...

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Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums, Paperback - Amy Lonetree

249,99 RON 267,99 RON

Reducere. Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a...

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Gettysburg: Culp's Hill and Cemetery Hill, Paperback - Harry W. Pfanz

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Reducere. In this companion to his celebrated earlier book, Gettysburg--The Second Day, Harry Pfanz provides the first definitive account of the fighting bet...

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Monumental Mobility: The Memory Work of Massasoit, Paperback - Lisa Blee

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionInstalled at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Mass...

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Fighting for Atlanta: Tactics, Terrain, and Trenches in the Civil War, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

223,99 RON 239,99 RON

Reducere. As William T. Sherman's Union troops began their campaign for Atlanta in the spring of 1864, they encountered Confederate forces employing field fo...

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Beyond Slavery's Shadow: Free People of Color in the South, Paperback - Warren Eugene Milteer

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, most people of color in the United States toiled in bondage. Yet nearly half a million of these individuals, including...

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Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots, Paperback - Laura Visser-Maessen

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground st...

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Ends of War: The Unfinished Fight of Lee's Army After Appomattox, Hardcover - Caroline E. Janney

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. The Army of Northern Virginia's chaotic dispersal began even before Lee and Grant met at Appomattox Court House. As the Confederates had pushed wes...

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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'brainwashing' in China, Paperback - Robert Jay Lifton

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Reducere. Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appreared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of...

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Roanoke Island: The Beginnings of English America, Paperback - David Stick

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

Reducere. Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony i...

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In Love and Struggle: The Revolutionary Lives of James and Grace Lee Boggs, Paperback - Stephen M. Ward

241,99 RON 258,99 RON

Reducere. James Boggs (1919-1993) and Grace Lee Boggs (1915-2015) were two largely unsung but critically important figures in the black freedom struggle. Bor...

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Gathering to Save a Nation: Lincoln and the Union's War Governors, Paperback - Stephen D. Engle

374,99 RON

In this rich study of Union governors and their role in the Civil War, Stephen D. Engle examines how these politicians were pivotal in securing vic...

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Veil and Vow: Marriage Matters in Contemporary African American Culture, Paperback - Aneeka Ayanna Henderson

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Reducere. In Veil and Vow, Aneeka Ayanna Henderson places familiar, often politicized questions about the crisis of African American marriage in conversation...

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