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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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The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast: Barrier Islands, Coastal Waters, and Wetlands, Paperback - Dirk Frankenberg

110,99 RON 118,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionFor some years, The Nature of North Carolina's Southern Coast has stood as an essential resource for all who treasure our coastal enviro...

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Florynce Flo Kennedy: The Life of a Black Feminist Radical, Paperback - Sherie M. Randolph

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Reducere. Often photographed in a cowboy hat with her middle finger held defiantly in the air, Florynce "Flo" Kennedy (1916-2000) left a vibrant legacy as a ...

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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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The Fire of Freedom: Abraham Galloway and the Slaves' Civil War, Paperback - David S. Cecelski

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. Abraham H. Galloway (1837-1870) was a fiery young slave rebel, radical abolitionist, and Union spy who rose out of bondage to become one of the mos...

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Defiant Braceros: How Migrant Workers Fought for Racial, Sexual, and Political Freedom, Paperback - Mireya Loza

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. In this book, Mireya Loza sheds new light on the private lives of migrant men who participated in the Bracero Program (1942-1964), a binational agr...

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Abortion After Roe, Paperback - Johanna Schoen

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

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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The Land Was Ours: How Black Beaches Became White Wealth in the Coastal South, Paperback - Andrew W. Kahrl

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. The coasts of today's American South feature luxury condominiums, resorts, and gated communities, yet just a century ago, a surprising amount of be...

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Ancient Greek Alive, Paperback - Paula Saffire

308,99 RON

This innovative textbook offers students a dynamic introduction to classical Greek. It inspires a constructive sense of enthusiasm in the classroom...

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The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines, Paperback - Paul a. Kramer

352,99 RON 377,99 RON

Reducere. In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperia...

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

271,99 RON

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

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

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

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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The Darkest Days of the War, Paperback - Peter Cozzens

139,99 RON 149,99 RON

Reducere. During the late summer of 1862, Confederate forces attempted a three-pronged strategic advance into the North. The outcome of this offensive--the o...

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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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Pickett's Charge--The Last Attack at Gettysburg, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

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Reducere. Sweeping away many of the myths that have long surrounded Pickett's Charge, Earl Hess offers the definitive history of the most famous military act...

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A South You Never Ate: Savoring Flavors and Stories from the Eastern Shore of Virginia, Hardcover - Bernard L. Herman

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Nestled between the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, and stretching from Hampton Roads to Assateague Island, Virginia's Eastern Shore is a di...

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Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks: The Story of the Ocracoke Brogue, Paperback - Walt Wolfram

120,99 RON 129,99 RON

Reducere. As many visitors to Ocracoke will attest, the island's vibrant dialect is one of its most distinctive cultural features. In Hoi Toide on the Outer ...

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New Voyage to Carolina, Paperback - John Lawson

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Reducere. John Lawson's amazingly detailed yet lively book is easily one of the most valuable of the early histories of the Carolinas, and it is certainly on...

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

245,99 RON 263,99 RON

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

270,99 RON

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

122,99 RON 131,99 RON

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

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How to Read a Florida Gulf Coast Beach: A Guide to Shadow Dunes, Ghost Forests, and Other Telltale Clues from an Ever-Changing Coast, Paperback - Tony

109,99 RON 117,99 RON

Reducere. Come explore the geology of Florida's Gulf Coast beaches, from a bird's-eye view down to a crab's-eye view. You'll journey from Panhandle sugar-san...

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

268,99 RON 287,99 RON

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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Birds of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Paperback - Marcus B. Simpson

143,99 RON

In this detailed guide to the best birding localities, Simpson describes more than three hundred sites, including recreation areas, overlooks, camp...

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Guide to Ocean Dune Plants Common to North Carolina, Paperback - E. Jean Wilson Kraus

79,99 RON 85,99 RON

Reducere. For readers of all levels of interest and expertise, this guide provides a clear, informative look at the ecology and biology of the dunes. Botanic...

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Tar Heel Ghosts, Paperback - John W. Harden

93,99 RON 100,99 RON

Reducere. An amazing assortment of twenty-three stories and ten "short shorts" comprise this popular selection. More than merely entertaining, Tar Heel Ghost...

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Hugh Morton's North Carolina, Hardcover - Hugh Morton

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. Hugh Morton has had a long and active public life as an environmentalist, developer, and promoter of tourism. His favorite role, however, is that o...

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

150,99 RON 161,99 RON

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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Pickles and Preserves: A Savor the South Cookbook, Hardcover - Andrea Weigl

105,99 RON 113,99 RON

Reducere. Andrea Weigl defines the year by her canning sessions. In the winter, she makes bright yellow Jerusalem Artichoke Relish from her backyard crop. In...

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

126,99 RON 135,99 RON

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

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I Rode with Stonewall, Paperback - Henry Kyd Douglas

144,99 RON 155,99 RON

Reducere. Stonewall Jackson depended on him, General Lee complimented him, Union soldiers admired him, and women in Maryland, Virginia, and even Pennsylvania...

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The Civil War in the West: Victory and Defeat from the Appalachians to the Mississippi, Paperback - Earl J. Hess

156,99 RON 167,99 RON

Reducere. The Western theater of the Civil War, rich in agricultural resources and manpower and home to a large number of slaves, stretched 600 miles north t...

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

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

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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And Muhammad Is His Messenger: The Veneration of the Prophet in Islamic Piety, Paperback - Annemarie Schimmel

346,99 RON 371,99 RON

Reducere. The important role of the Prophet Muhammad in the everyday lives of Muslims is usually overlooked by Western scholars and has consequently never be...

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Railroads of the Confederacy, Paperback - Robert C. Black

148,99 RON

Originally published by UNC Press in 1952, The Railroads of the Confederacy tells the story of the first use of railroads on a major scale in a maj...

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Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation, Paperback - Malinda Maynor Lowery

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. With more than 50, 000 enrolled members, North Carolina's Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River. Malin...

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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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An Anthropology of Marxism, Paperback - Cedric J. Robinson

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionAn Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. S...

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In the Hands of Providence: Joshua L. Chamberlain and the American Civil War, Paperback - Alice Rains Trulock

164,99 RON 176,99 RON

Reducere. Deserve s] a place on every Civil War bookshelf.--New York Times Book Review " Trulock] brings her subject alive and escorts him through a brillian...

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War of 1898, Paperback - Louis A. Perez

262,99 RON 281,99 RON

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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Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World, Paperback - Robbie Ethridge

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge ill...

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Circa 1903: North Carolina's Outer Banks at the Dawn of Flight, Paperback - Larry E. Tise

103,99 RON 111,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionStanding along the coast of today's Outer Banks, it can be hard to envision the barrier island world at Kitty Hawk as it appeared to Wil...

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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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Prescribing the Dharma: Psychotherapists, Buddhist Traditions, and Defining Religion, Paperback - Ira Helderman

338,99 RON

DescriptionInterest in the psychotherapeutic capacity of Buddhist teachings and practices is widely evident in the popular imagination. News media ...

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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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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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Living Stories of the Cherokee, Paperback - Barbara R. Duncan

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. This remarkable book, the first major new collection of Cherokee stories published in nearly a hundred years, presents seventy-two traditional and ...

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Cooking the Gullah Way, Morning, Noon, and Night, Paperback - Sallie Ann Robinson

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. Sallie Ann Robinson was born and reared on Daufuskie Island, one of the South Carolina Sea Islands well known for their Gullah culture. Although te...

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A Field Guide to Antietam: Experiencing the Battlefield Through Its History, Places, and People, Paperback - Carol Reardon

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. The Battle of Antietam took place on September 17, 1862, and still stands as the bloodiest single day in American military history. Additionally, i...

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The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth: And Other Stories from Cliffside, North Carolina, Twentieth Anniversary Edition, Paperback - Ron Rash

114,99 RON 123,99 RON

Reducere. The Night the New Jesus Fell to Earth was originally released in 1994 and was the first published book from acclaimed writer Ron Rash. This twentie...

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Jefferson, Madison, and the Making of the Constitution, Hardcover - Jeff Broadwater

147,99 RON 158,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence, and James Madison, "Father of the Constitution, " were two of the most impo...

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The Experiential Caribbean: Creating Knowledge and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic, Paperback - Pablo F. Gomez

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. Opening a window on a dynamic realm far beyond imperial courts, anatomical theaters, and learned societies, Pablo F. Gomez examines the strategies ...

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Shenandoah 1862: Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign, Paperback - Peter Cozzens

155,99 RON 166,99 RON

Reducere. One of the most intriguing and storied episodes of the Civil War, the 1862 Shenandoah Valley Campaign has heretofore been related only from the Con...

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

270,99 RON 289,99 RON

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

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

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

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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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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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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Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil, Paperback - Patricia De Santana Pinho

338,99 RON

DescriptionBrazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the bl...

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Pickett's Charge in History and Memory, Paperback - Carol Reardon

129,99 RON 139,99 RON

Reducere. If, as many have argued, the Civil War is the most crucial moment in our national life and Gettysburg its turning point, then the climax of the cli...

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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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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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Nonviolence before King. The Politics of Being and the Black Freedom Struggle, Paperback - Anthony C. Siracusa

219,99 RON

Unearths the deeper lineage of anti-war pacifist activists and thinkers from the early twentieth century who developed nonviolence into a revolutio...

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Manteo's World. Native American Life in Carolina's Sound Country before and after the Lost Colony, Paperback - Helen C. Rountree

177,99 RON

Drawing on decades of researching the ethnohistory of the coastal mid-Atlantic, Helen Rountree reconstructs the Indigenous world the Roanoke coloni...

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

311,99 RON

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

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

292,99 RON

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

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Tar Heel History on Foot: Great Walks through 400 Years of North Carolina's Fascinating Past, Paperback - Lynn Setzer

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. This lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state's history, from the tim...

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Reproduction on the Reservation: Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twentieth Century, Paperback - Brianna Theobald

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century ...

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