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

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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 Perfecting of Nature: Reforming Bodies in Antebellum Literature, Paperback - Josh Doty

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The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form. These new ways of understanding the body reflect ...

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

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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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Wittenwiler's Ring and the Anonymous Scots Poem Colkelbie Sow. Two Comic-Didactic Works from the Fifteenth Century, Paperback - ***

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Heinrich Wittenwiler's Ring, written in a Swiss dialect and presented in English translation for the first time in this 1956 volume, is a comic-did...

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Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal, Paperback - Kate Dossett

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Reducere. Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Projec...

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Righteous Propagation: African Americans and the Politics of Racial Destiny After Reconstruction, Paperback - Michele Mitchell

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Between 1877 and 1930--years rife with tensions over citizenship, suffrage, immigration, and "the Negro problem--African American activists promote...

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Men Is Cheap: Exposing the Frauds of Free Labor in Civil War America, Hardcover - Brian P. Luskey

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Reducere. When a Civil War substitute broker told business associates that "Men is cheep here to Day, " he exposed an unsettling contradiction at the heart o...

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Mothers of Invention: Women of the Slaveholding South in the American Civil War, Paperback - Faust, Drew Gilpin

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Reducere. When Confederate men marched off to battle, southern women struggled with the new responsibilities of directing farms and plantations, providing fo...

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

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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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Well-Read Lives: How Books Inspired a Generation of American Women, Paperback - Barbara Sicherman

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Reducere. In a compelling approach structured as theme and variations, Barbara Sicherman offers insightful profiles of a number of accomplished women born in...

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Chicago's New Negroes, Paperback - Davarian L. Baldwin

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As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250, 000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capit...

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The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America, Paperback - Michael T. Taussig

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Reducere. In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners i...

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

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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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Pigmentocracies: Ethnicity, Race, and Color in Latin America, Paperback - Edward Telles

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Reducere. Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary ...

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The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems, Paperback - Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow

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Reducere. The Romans developed sophisticated methods for managing hygiene, including aqueducts for moving water from one place to another, sewers for removin...

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The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle Against Atlantic Slavery, Paperback - Matt D. Childs

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Reducere. In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most im...

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Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare: Photography and the African American Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Leigh Raiford

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Reducere. In Imprisoned in a Luminous Glare, Leigh Raiford argues that over the past one hundred years, activists in the black freedom struggle have used pho...

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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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Trouble of the World: Slavery and Empire in the Age of Capital, Paperback - Zach Sell

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Reducere. In this innovative new study, Zach Sell returns to the explosive era of capitalist crisis, upheaval, and warfare between emancipation in the Britis...

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Fifteen Hurricanes That Changed the Carolinas. Powerful Storms, Climate Change, and What We Do Next, Paperback - Jay Barnes

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Tells the true stories of the hurricanes that had the greatest impact on North Carolina and South Carolina, from the eighteenth century to the pres...

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Say We Are Nations: Documents of Politics and Protest in Indigenous America Since 1887, Paperback - Daniel M. Cobb

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Reducere. In this wide-ranging and carefully curated anthology, Daniel M. Cobb presents the words of Indigenous people who have shaped Native American rights...

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Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Paperback - Janice a. Radway

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Reducere. Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's mo...

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

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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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North of the Color Line: Migration and Black Resistance in Canada, 1870-1955, Paperback - Sarah-Jane Mathieu

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Reducere. North of the Color Line examines life in Canada for the estimated 5, 000 blacks, both African Americans and West Indians, who immigrated to Canada ...

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A Theory of Craft, Paperback - Howard Risatti

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Reducere. What is craft? How is it different from fine art or design? In A Theory of Craft, Howard Risatti examines these issues by comparing handmade cerami...

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Forging Diaspora: Afro-Cubans and African Americans in a World of Empire and Jim Crow, Paperback - Frank Andre Guridy

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Reducere. Cuba's geographic proximity to the United States and its centrality to U.S. imperial designs following the War of 1898 led to the creation of a uni...

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The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929, Paperback - David A. Chang

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Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...

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Crescent City Girls: The Lives of Young Black Women in Segregated New Orleans, Paperback - Lakisha Michelle Simmons

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Reducere. What was it like to grow up black and female in the segregated South? To answer this question, LaKisha Simmons blends social history and cultural s...

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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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China's Muslims and Japan's Empire. Centering Islam in World War II, Paperback - Kelly A. Hammond

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In this transnational history of World War II, Kelly Hammond places Sino-Muslims at the centre of imperial Japan's challenges to Chinese nation-bui...

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Revolution Within the Revolution: Women and Gender Politics in Cuba, 1952-1962, Paperback - Michelle Chase

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Reducere. A handful of celebrated photographs show armed female Cuban insurgents alongside their companeros in Cuba's remote mountains during the revolutiona...

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Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves & the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia, Paperback - Woody Holton

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Reducere. In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Was...

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Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice, Hardcover - Finis Dunaway

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Reducere. Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refu...

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The Birth Certificate: An American History, Hardcover - Susan J. Pearson

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Reducere. For many Americans, the birth certificate is a mundane piece of paper, unearthed from deep storage when applying for a driver's license, verifying ...

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Why Rural Schools Matter, Paperback - Mara Casey Tieken

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Reducere. From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that...

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Seasons of Change: Labor, Treaty Rights, and Ojibwe Nationhood, Paperback - Chantal Norrgard

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Reducere. From the 1870s to the 1930s, the Lake Superior Ojibwes of Minnesota and Wisconsin faced dramatic economic, political, and social changes. Examining...

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Untidy Origins: A Story of Woman's Rights in Antebellum New York, Paperback - Lori D. Ginzberg

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On a summer day in 1846--two years before the Seneca Falls convention that launched the movement for woman's rights in the United States--six women...

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War of 1898, Paperback - Louis A. Perez

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Reducere. A century after the Cuban war for independence was fought, Louis Perez examines the meaning of the war of 1898 as represented in one hundred years ...

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

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More than 150 years after the end of the Civil War, scores of websites, articles, and organizations repeat claims that anywhere between 500 and 100...

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

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

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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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We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom, Paperback - Tisa Wenger

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For Native Americans, religious freedom has been an elusive goal. From nineteenth-century bans on indigenous ceremonial practices to twenty-first-c...

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

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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 Punitive Turn in American Life: How the United States Learned to Fight Crime Like a War, Hardcover - Michael S. Sherry

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Reducere. In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson insisted that the policeman is the frontline soldier in our war against crime, and police forces, arms makers, po...

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Fever Within: The Art of Ronald Lockett, Hardcover - Bernard L. Herman

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Reducere. Ronald Lockett (1965-1998) stands out among southern artists in the late twentieth century. Raised in the African American industrial city of Besse...

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

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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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Oil Palm: A Global History, Paperback - Jonathan E. Robins

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Reducere. Oil palms are ubiquitous--grown in nearly every tropical country, they supply the world with more edible fat than any other plant and play a role i...

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

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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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Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power, Paperback - Timothy B. Tyson

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This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and...

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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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The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story, Paperback - Tiya Miles

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Reducere. At the turn of the nineteenth century, James Vann, a Cherokee chief and entrepreneur, established Diamond Hill in Georgia, the most famous plantati...

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Jah Kingdom: Rastafarians, Tanzania, and Pan-Africanism in the Age of Decolonization, Paperback - Monique A. Bedasse

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Monique A. BedasseFrom its beginnings in 1930s Jamaica, the Rastafarian movement has become a global presence. While the ex...

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

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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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Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California, Paperback - Donna Jean Murch

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Reducere. In this nuanced and groundbreaking history, Donna Murch argues that the Black Panther Party (BPP) started with a study group. Drawing on oral histo...

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Opening the Gates to Asia: A Transpacific History of How America Repealed Asian Exclusion, Paperback - Jane H. Hong

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Reducere. Over the course of less than a century, the U.S. transformed from a nation that excluded Asians from immigration and citizenship to one that receiv...

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Grotesque Touch: Women, Violence, and Contemporary Circum-Caribbean Narratives, Paperback - Amy King

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Reducere. In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzi...

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Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991 /]cpiero Gleijeses, Paperback - Piero Gleijeses

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Reducere. During the final fifteen years of the Cold War, southern Africa underwent a period of upheaval, with dramatic twists and turns in relations between...

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The Young Lords. A Radical History, Paperback - Johanna Fernandez

249,99 RON

Utilizing oral histories, archival records, and an enormous cache of police records released only after a decade-long Freedom of Information Law re...

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

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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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Constantine and the Council of Nicaea: Defining Orthodoxy and Heresy in Christianity, 325 C.E., Paperback - David E. Henderson

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Reducere. Constantine and the Council of Nicaea plunges students into the theological debates confronting early Christian church leaders. Emperor Constantine...

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

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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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Blind Joe Death's America. John Fahey, the Blues, and Writing White Discontent, Paperback - George Henderson

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For over sixty years, American guitarist John Fahey (1939-2001) has been a storied figure, first within the folk and blues revival of the long 1960...

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An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle Over Equality in Washington, D.C., Paperback - Kate Masur

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Contributor(s): Author: Kate MasurAn Example for All the Land reveals Washington, D.C. as a laboratory for social policy in the era of emancipation...

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A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes, Hardcover - Mark Shapiro

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Reducere. Renowned ceramic artist Karen Karnes has created some of the most iconic pottery of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The body o...

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Jack London. A Writer's Fight for a Better America, Paperback - Cecelia Tichi

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Jack London (1876-1916) found fame with his wolf-dog tales and sagas of the frozen North, but Cecelia Tichi challenges the long-standing view of Lo...

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Nation Building in South Korea: Koreans, Americans, and the Making of a Democracy, Paperback - Gregg A. Brazinsky

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In this ambitious and innovative study Gregg Brazinsky examines American nation building in South Korea during the Cold War. Marshaling a vast arra...

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

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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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Torchbearers of Democracy: African American Soldiers in the World War I Era, Paperback - Chad L. Williams

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On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

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From Asylum to Prison. Deinstitutionalization and the Rise of Mass Incarceration after 1945, Paperback - Anne E. Parsons

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Recasts the political narrative of the late twentieth century, as Anne Parsons charts how the politics of mass incarceration shaped the deinstituti...

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