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Southern Snow: The New Guide to Winter Sports from Maryland to the Southern Appalachians, Paperback - Randy Johnson

148,99 RON 159,99 RON

Reducere. This guide provides everything you need to know to discover the South's best-kept secrets of winter recreation: snow-covered mountains, remote yet ...

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Stirrings: How Activist New Yorkers Ignited a Movement for Food Justice, Paperback - Lana Dee Povitz

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Reducere. In the last three decades of the twentieth century, government cutbacks, stagnating wages, AIDS, and gentrification pushed ever more people into po...

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Food Fights: How History Matters to Contemporary Food Debates, Paperback - Charles C. Ludington

238,99 RON 255,99 RON

Reducere. What we eat, where it is from, and how it is produced are vital questions in today's America. We think seriously about food because it is freighted...

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Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business, Paperback - Stanley Buder

415,99 RON

Americans love "this year's model, " relying on the "new" to be always "improved." Enthusiasm for the new, says Stanley Buder, is essential to Amer...

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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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Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition: Race, Class, and Urban Development in Charlotte, 1875-1975, Paperback - Thomas W. Hanchett

113,99 RON 121,99 RON

Reducere. One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth ...

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

267,99 RON 286,99 RON

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

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

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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Border War: Fighting Over Slavery Before the Civil War, Paperback - Stanley Harrold

115,99 RON 124,99 RON

Reducere. During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, ...

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

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

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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Black in Place: The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City, Paperback - Brandi Thompson Summers

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as "Chocolate City, " it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change i...

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Saltbox Seafood Joint Cookbook, Hardcover - Ricky Moore

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Ricky Moore was born and reared in the North Carolina coastal town of New Bern, where catching and eating fresh fish and shellfish is what people d...

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Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt Between the Islamic and the Contemporary, Hardcover - Alex Dika Seggerman

278,99 RON 298,99 RON

Reducere. Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman rev...

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

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

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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Kika Kila: How the Hawaiian Steel Guitar Changed the Sound of Modern Music, Paperback - John W. Troutman

240,99 RON 257,99 RON

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, the distinct tones of k&299;k&257; kila, the Hawaiian steel guitar, have defined the island sound. Here historian and...

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

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

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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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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Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation, Hardcover - Jack Reid

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Reducere. Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventure...

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Discovering the South: One Man's Travels Through a Changing America in the 1930s, Paperback - Jennifer Ritterhouse

323,99 RON

During the Great Depression, the American South was not merely "the nation's number one economic problem, " as President Franklin Roosevelt declare...

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Funding Feminism: Monied Women, Philanthropy, and the Women's Movement, 1870-1967, Paperback - Joan Marie Johnson

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Joan Marie Johnson examines an understudied dimension of women's history in the United States: how a group of affluent white women from the late ni...

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

271,99 RON 291,99 RON

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

213,99 RON 228,99 RON

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

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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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We Are Not Slaves: State Violence, Coerced Labor, and Prisoners' Rights in Postwar America, Hardcover - Robert T. Chase

301,99 RON 323,99 RON

Reducere. In the early twentieth century, the brutality of southern prisons became a national scandal. Prisoners toiled in grueling, violent conditions while...

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Great Day Hikes on North Carolina's Mountains-To-Sea Trail, Paperback - Friends of the Mountains-To-Sea Trail

127,99 RON 136,99 RON

Reducere. The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is an 1, 175-mile destination trail that crosses North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in Great Smoky Mountains National Pa...

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The Essential Clarence Major: Prose and Poetry, Paperback - Clarence Major

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

Reducere. Clarence Major is one of America's literary masters. He has published numerous books, from novels to poetry and short story collections. Among his ...

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Two Faces of Exclusion: The Untold History of Anti-Asian Racism in the United States, Paperback - Lon Kurashige

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. From the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 to the Immigration Act of 1924 to Japanese American internment during World War II, the United States has a ...

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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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The Second American Revolution: The Civil War-Era Struggle Over Cuba and the Rebirth of the American Republic, Hardcover - Gregory P. Downs

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. Much of the confusion about a central event in United States history begins with the name: the Civil War. In reality, the Civil War was not merely ...

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Those Who Know Don't Say: The Nation of Islam, the Black Freedom Movement, and the Carceral State, Paperback - Garrett Felber

169,99 RON 181,99 RON

Reducere. Challenging incarceration and policing was central to the postwar Black Freedom Movement. In this bold new political and intellectual history of th...

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

272,99 RON 292,99 RON

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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Unc A to Z: What Every Tar Heel Needs to Know about the First State University, Hardcover - Nicholas Graham

134,99 RON 144,99 RON

Reducere. Covering everything from the Old Well to the Speaker Ban and more, UNC A to Z is a concise, easy-to-read introduction to the nation's first public ...

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My Desire for History: Essays in Gay, Community, and Labor History, Paperback - Allan B rub

237,99 RON

This anthology pays tribute to Allan Berube (1946-2007), a self-taught historian and MacArthur Fellow who was a pioneer in the study of lesbian and...

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

245,99 RON

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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Josephus Daniels. His Life and Times, Paperback - Lee A. Craig

338,99 RON

As a longtime leader of the Democratic Party and key member of Woodrow Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Daniels was one of the most influential progressi...

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Red Coats and Wild Birds. How Military Ornithologists and Migrant Birds Shaped Empire, Paperback - Kirsten A. Greer

364,99 RON

During the nineteenth century, Britain maintained a complex network of garrisons to manage its global empire. During their tours abroad, many Briti...

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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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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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Private Confederacies: The Emotional Worlds of Southern Men as Citizens and Soldiers, Paperback - James J. Broomall

348,99 RON

DescriptionHow did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows,...

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River of Death--The Chickamauga Campaign: Volume 1: The Fall of Chattanooga, Hardcover - William Glenn Robertson

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe Battle of Chickamauga was the third bloodiest of the American Civil War and the only major Confederate victory in the conflict's wes...

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Backpacking Virginia: The Definitive Guide to 40 Can't-Miss Trips from Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, Paperback - Johnny Molloy

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCovering 40 of the best trips the state of Virginia has to offer, Backpacking Virginia provides all the information necessary for beginn...

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Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, Paperback - E. Patrick Johnson

318,99 RON 341,99 RON

Reducere. Giving voice to a population too rarely acknowledged, Sweet Tea collects more than sixty life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and...

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Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II, Paperback - A. Naomi Paik

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. In this bold book, A. Naomi Paik grapples with the history of U.S. prison camps that have confined people outside the boundaries of legal and civil...

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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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Builders of Empire: Freemasons and British Imperialism, 1717-1927, Paperback - Jessica L. Harland-Jacobs

381,99 RON 408,99 RON

Reducere. They built some of the first communal structures on the empire's frontiers. The empire's most powerful proconsuls sought entrance into their lodges...

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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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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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The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835-1945 - Oscar de la Torre

218,00 RON

DescriptionIn this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating th...

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Jean Anderson's Preserving Guide: How to Pickle and Preserve, Can and Freeze, Dry and Store Vegetables and Fruits, Paperback - Jean Anderson

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn this classic work, born of the back-to-the-land movement, Jean Anderson teaches you how to enjoy the bounty of your own garden, farme...

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Troubled Memory, Second Edition: Anne Levy, the Holocaust, and David Duke's Louisiana, Paperback - Lawrence N. Powell

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThis powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passi...

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War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865, Paperback - James M. McPherson

141,99 RON 151,99 RON

Reducere. Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confeder...

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Woodwright's Eclectic Workshop, Paperback - Roy Underhill

149,99 RON 160,99 RON

Reducere. For more than ten years, Roy Underhill has taught the techniques of traditional woodcraft, or 'how to start with a tree and an axe and make one thi...

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The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys: North Carolina's Scott Family and the Era of Progressive Politics, Hardcover - Rob Christensen

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionLouisiana had the Longs, Virginia had the Byrds, Georgia had the Talmadges, and North Carolina had the Scotts. In this history of North ...

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Recreating Africa: Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portuguese World, 1441-1770, Paperback - James H. Sweet

291,99 RON

Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africa...

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The Waterman's Song: Slavery and Freedom in Maritime North Carolina, Paperback - David S. Cecelski

305,99 RON 327,99 RON

Reducere. The first major study of slavery in the maritime South, The Waterman's Song chronicles the world of slave and free black fishermen, pilots, riverme...

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Caribenos at the Table. How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City, Paperback - Melissa Fuster

220,99 RON

Applying a much needed intersectional approach, Melissa Fuster shows that nutritionists and eaters often misrepresent, and even racialize or pathol...

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

251,99 RON 269,99 RON

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

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

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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Freedom's Teacher: The Life of Septima Clark, Paperback - Katherine Mellen Charron

277,99 RON 297,99 RON

Reducere. In the mid-1950s, Septima Poinsette Clark (1898-1987), a former public school teacher, developed a citizenship training program that enabled thousa...

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Dred: A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp, Paperback - Harriet Beecher Stowe

302,99 RON

Harriet Beecher Stowe's second antislavery novel was written partly in response to the criticisms of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) by both white Souther...

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Porn Work: Sex, Labor, and Late Capitalism, Paperback - Heather Berg

177,99 RON 190,99 RON

Reducere. Every porn scene is a record of people at work. But on-camera labor is only the beginning of the story. Porn Work takes readers behind the scenes t...

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

264,99 RON 283,99 RON

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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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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After the Trail of Tears: The Cherokees' Struggle for Sovereignty, 1839-1880, Paperback - William G. McLoughlin

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. This powerful narrative traces the social, cultural, and political history of the Cherokee Nation during the forty-year period after its members we...

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Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississippi Delta After World War II, Paperback - Françoise N. Hamlin

226,99 RON

Weaving national narratives from stories of the daily lives and familiar places of local residents, Francoise Hamlin chronicles the slow struggle f...

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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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Republics Ancient and Modern, Volume I: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece, Paperback - Paul a. Rahe

442,99 RON 473,99 RON

Reducere. An assessment of the ancient Greek city and its subsequent influence. A masterwork of political theory and comparative politics for the classroom.I...

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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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