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Rites of Retaliation: Civilization, Soldiers, and Campaigns in the American Civil War, Paperback - Lorien Foote

180,99 RON 193,99 RON

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

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The Southern Tailgating Cookbook: A Game-Day Guide for Lovers of Food, Football, and the South, Hardcover - Taylor Mathis

184,00 RON

According to tailgating enthusiast Taylor Mathis, You'll understand why a game day in the South is unlike any other when you read this cookbook. Ma...

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Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan, Paperback (3rd Ed.) - J. Samuel Walker

184,99 RON 197,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: J. Samuel WalkerIn this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes t...

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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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Run Home If You Don't Want to Be Killed: The Detroit Uprising of 1943, Paperback - Rachel Marie-Crane Williams

186,99 RON 200,99 RON

Reducere. In the heat of June in 1943, a wave of destructive and deadly civil unrest took place in the streets of Detroit. The city was under the pressures o...

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Hugh Morton, North Carolina Photographer, Hardcover - Hugh Morton

186,99 RON

Hugh Morton was seldom seen in his adult life without a camera around his neck. Much to the benefit of his beloved home state, he crisscrossed Nort...

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Carolina Catch: Cooking North Carolina Fish and Shellfish from Mountains to Coast, Hardcover - Debbie Moose

187,99 RON 201,99 RON

Reducere. Early in life, North Carolinian Debbie Moose encountered fish primarily in stick form, but once she experienced her first raw oyster and first frie...

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Poetics of Aristotle: Translation and Commentary, Paperback - Stephen Halliwell

187,99 RON

DescriptionIncorporating the best modern work on the Poetics, Halliwell's translation is aimed at those who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ...

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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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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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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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Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North, Paperback - Crystal Lynn Webster

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

Reducere. For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African A...

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Dress Casual: How College Students Redefined American Style, Paperback - Deirdre Clemente

190,99 RON

As Deirdre Clemente shows in this lively history of fashion on American college campuses, whether it's jeans and sneakers or khakis with a polo shi...

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With a Sword in One Hand & Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North, Paperback - Carol Reardon

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. When the Civil War began, Northern soldiers and civilians alike sought a framework to help make sense of the chaos that confronted them. Many turne...

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I Don't Like the Blues: Race, Place, and the Backbeat of Black Life, Paperback - B. Brian Foster

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. How do you love and not like the same thing at the same time? This was the riddle that met Mississippi writer B. Brian Foster when he returned to h...

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A Very Mutinous People: The Struggle for North Carolina, 1660-1713, Paperback - Noeleen McIlvenna

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. Historians have often glorified eighteenth-century Virginia planters' philosophical debates about the meaning of American liberty. But according to...

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

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

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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Semi Queer: Inside the World of Gay, Trans, and Black Truck Drivers, Paperback - Anne Balay

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. Long-haul trucking is linked to almost every industry in America, yet somehow the working-class drivers behind big rigs remain largely hidden from ...

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

191,99 RON

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 Shadow of El Centro: A History of Migrant Incarceration and Solidarity, Paperback - Jessica Ordaz

191,99 RON 205,99 RON

Reducere. Bounded by desert and mountains, El Centro, California, is isolated and difficult to reach. However, its location close to the border between San D...

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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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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900, Paperback - Martha S. Jones

192,99 RON

The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, an...

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American Inquisition: The Hunt for Japanese American Disloyalty in World War II, Paperback - Eric L. Muller

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. When the U.S. government forced 70, 000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry into internment camps in 1942, it created administrative tribunals t...

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Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s, Paperback - Traci Parker

192,99 RON

DescriptionIn this book, Traci Parker examines the movement to racially integrate white-collar work and consumption in American department stores, ...

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Meade at Gettysburg: A Study in Command, Hardcover - Kent Masterson Brown

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade ...

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The Earliest African American Literatures: A Critical Reader, Paperback - Zachary McLeod Hutchins

192,99 RON 206,99 RON

Reducere. With the publication of the 1619 Project by The New York Times in 2019, a growing number of Americans have become aware that Africans arrived in No...

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Boss Lady: How Three Women Entrepreneurs Built Successful Big Businesses in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Paperback - Edith Sparks

193,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Edith SparksToo often, depictions of women's rise in corporate America leave out the first generation of breakthrough women...

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Southern Food: At Home, on the Road, in History, Paperback - John Egerton

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Hailed as an instant classic when it appeared in 1987, John Egerton's Southern Food captures the flavor and feel of what it has meant for southerne...

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The Swamp Peddlers: How Lot Sellers, Land Scammers, and Retirees Built Modern Florida and Transformed the American Dream - Jason Vuic

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Florida has long been a beacon for retirees, but for many, the American dream of owning a home there was a fantasy. That changed in the 1950s, when...

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Gone Home: Race and Roots Through Appalachia, Paperback - Karida L. Brown

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Since the 2016 presidential election, Americans have witnessed countless stories about Appalachia: its changing political leanings, its opioid cris...

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

193,99 RON 207,99 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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Capitalism and Slavery, Third Edition, Paperback - Eric Williams

193,99 RON 207,99 RON

Reducere. Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumula...

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Garden Perennials for the Coastal South, Paperback - Barbara J. Sullivan

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. Finally: a book that addresses the unique challenges of gardening in the coastal South.Master Gardener Barbara Sullivan provides an authoritative g...

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Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era, Paperback - Ashley D. Farmer

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn this comprehensive history, Ashley D. Farmer examines black women's political, social, and cultural engagement with Black Power ideal...

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Edible Wild Plants of the Carolinas. A Forager's Companion, Paperback - Peter W. Schafran

194,99 RON

Offers a colour guide for the everyday forager, featuring profiles of more than 100 edible plants, organised broadly by food type, including seeds,...

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Country Soul: Making Music and Making Race in the American South, Paperback - Charles L. Hughes

194,99 RON 208,99 RON

Reducere. In the sound of the 1960s and 1970s, nothing symbolized the rift between black and white America better than the seemingly divided genres of countr...

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Reconstruction's Ragged Edge: The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains, Paperback - Steven E. Nash

195,99 RON

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash...

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Beyond the Crossroads: The Devil and the Blues Tradition, Paperback - Adam Gussow

196,99 RON

Contributor(s): Author: Adam GussowThe devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition. He's not just the music's namesak...

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City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles, 1771-1965, Paperback - Kelly Lytle Hernndez

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. This boo...

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Free the Land: The Republic of New Afrika and the Pursuit of a Black Nation-State, Paperback - Edward Onaci

196,99 RON 210,99 RON

Reducere. On March 31, 1968, over 500 Black nationalists convened in Detroit to begin the process of securing independence from the United States. Many concl...

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The Souls of Womenfolk: The Religious Cultures of Enslaved Women in the Lower South, Paperback - Alexis Wells-Oghoghomeh

197,99 RON 211,99 RON

Reducere. Beginning on the shores of West Africa in the sixteenth century and ending in the U.S. Lower South on the eve of the Civil War, Alexis Wells-Oghogh...

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A Saint of Our Own: How the Quest for a Holy Hero Helped Catholics Become American, Paperback - Kathleen Sprows Cummings

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. What drove U.S. Catholics in their arduous quest, full of twists and turns over more than a century, to win an American saint? The absence of Ameri...

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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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Incarcerated Stories: Indigenous Women Migrants and Violence in the Settler-Capitalist State, Paperback - Shannon Speed

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

Reducere. Indigenous women migrants from Central America and Mexico face harrowing experiences of violence before, during, and after their migration to the U...

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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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Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West, Paperback - Karla Slocum

199,99 RON 213,99 RON

Reducere. Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era--this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla ...

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Wild North Carolina: Discovering the Wonders of Our State's Natural Communities, Hardcover - David Blevins

200,99 RON 215,99 RON

Reducere. Celebrating the beauty, diversity, and significance of the state's natural landscapes, Wild North Carolina provides an engaging, beautifully illust...

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

200,99 RON 215,99 RON

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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Shelter in a Time of Storm: How Black Colleges Fostered Generations of Leadership and Activism, Paperback - Jelani M. Favors

200,99 RON 215,99 RON

Reducere. 2020 Museum of African American History Stone Book Award2020 Lillian Smith Book AwardFinalist, 2020 Pauli Murray Book PrizeFor generations, histori...

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Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Paperback - Anne E. Marshall

202,99 RON

DescriptionIn Creating a Confederate Kentucky, Anne E. Marshall traces the development of a Confederate identity in Kentucky between 1865 and 1925,...

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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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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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A Commentary on Plato's Meno, Paperback - Jacob Klein

202,99 RON 217,99 RON

Reducere. The Meno, one of the most widely read of the Platonic dialogues, is seen afresh in this original interpretation that explores the dialogue as a the...

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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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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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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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Weaving New Worlds: Southeastern Cherokee Women and Their Basketry, Paperback - Sarah H. Hill

204,99 RON 219,99 RON

Reducere. In this innovative study, Sarah Hill illuminates the history of Southeastern Cherokee women by examining changes in their basketry. Based in tradit...

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Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens, Paperback - Rebecca Sharpless

204,99 RON

As African American women left the plantation economy behind, many entered domestic service in southern cities and towns. Cooking was one of the pr...

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Racism in the Nation's Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America, Paperback - Eric S. Yellin

204,99 RON

Between the 1880s and 1910s, thousands of African Americans passed civil service exams and became employed in the executive offices of the federal ...

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In This Timeless Time: Living and Dying on Death Row in America [With DVD], Hardcover - Bruce Jackson

205,99 RON 220,99 RON

Reducere. Independent Publisher Book AwardsIn this stark and powerful book, Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian explore life on Death Row in Texas and in other...

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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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American Tropics: The Caribbean Roots of Biodiversity Science, Paperback - Megan Raby

205,99 RON

Biodiversity has been a key concept in international conservation since the 1980s, yet historians have paid little attention to its origins. Uncove...

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Guaranteed Pure: The Moody Bible Institute, Business, and the Making of Modern Evangelicalism, Paperback - Timothy Gloege

205,99 RON

American evangelicalism has long walked hand in hand with modern consumer capitalism. Timothy Gloege shows us why, through an engaging story about ...

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The Storied South: Voices of Writers and Artists, Hardcover - William Ferris

206,99 RON 221,99 RON

Reducere. The Storied South features the voices--by turn searching and honest, coy and scathing--of twenty-six of the most luminous artists and thinkers in t...

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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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With Malice Toward Some: Treason and Loyalty in the Civil War Era, Paperback - William A. Blair

209,99 RON

DescriptionFew issues created greater consensus among Civil War-era northerners than the belief that the secessionists had committed treason. But a...

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North Carolina: Land of Water, Land of Sky, Hardcover - Bland Simpson

209,99 RON 224,99 RON

Reducere. Bland Simpson, the celebrated bard of North Carolina's sound country, has blended history, observation of nature, and personal narrative in many bo...

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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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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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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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