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Shadow Cold War: The Sino-Soviet Competition for the Third World, Paperback - Jeremy Friedman

217,99 RON 233,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionThe conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War has long been understood in a global context, but Jeremy...

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

257,99 RON 276,99 RON

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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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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Black Market: The Slave's Value in National Culture After 1865, Paperback - Aaron Carico

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. On the eve of the Civil War, the estimated value of the U.S. enslaved population exceeded $3 billion--triple that of investments nationwide in fact...

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Introduction to International and Global Studies, Third Edition, Paperback - Shawn C. Smallman

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Reducere. Shawn C. Smallman and Kimberley Brown's popular introductory textbook for undergraduates in international and global studies is now released in a s...

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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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Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism, Paperback - Taylor G. Petrey

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Reducere. Taylor G. Petrey's trenchant history takes a landmark step forward in documenting and theorizing about Latter-day Saints (LDS) teachings on gender,...

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Public Confessions: The Religious Conversions That Changed American Politics, Hardcover - Rebecca L. Davis

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. Personal reinvention is a core part of the human condition. Yet in the mid-twentieth century, certain private religious choices became lightning ro...

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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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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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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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Looking for Longleaf: The Fall and Rise of an American Forest, Paperback - Lawrence S. Earley

135,99 RON 145,99 RON

Reducere. Covering 92 million acres from Virginia to Texas, the longleaf pine ecosystem was, in its prime, one of the most extensive and biologically diverse...

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

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

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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Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity, Paperback - Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Available for the first time in English, Cruz Miguel Ortiz Cuadra's magisterial history of the foods and eating habits of Puerto Rico unfolds into ...

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Brazil's Revolution in Commerce: Creating Consumer Capitalism in the American Century, Paperback - James P. Woodard

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Reducere. James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and p...

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Mao's China and the Cold War, Paperback - Jian Chen

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jian ChenThis comprehensive study of China's Cold War experience reveals the crucial role Beijing played in shaping the ori...

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Stone Free: Jimi Hendrix in London, September 1966-June 1967, Hardcover - Jas Obrecht

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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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West of Slavery: The Southern Dream of a Transcontinental Empire, Hardcover - Kevin Waite

791,99 RON 847,99 RON

Reducere. When American slaveholders looked west in the mid-nineteenth century, they saw an empire unfolding before them. They pursued that vision through di...

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Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, Paperback - Monica M. White

153,99 RON 164,99 RON

Reducere. In May 1967, internationally renowned activist Fannie Lou Hamer purchased forty acres of land in the Mississippi Delta, launching the Freedom Farms...

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Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip-Hop South, Hardcover - Regina Bradley

778,99 RON 833,99 RON

Reducere. This vibrant book pulses with the beats of a new American South, probing the ways music, literature, and film have remixed southern identities for ...

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Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic, Paperback - Celia E. Schultz

301,99 RON

Expanding the discussion of religious participation of women in ancient Rome, Celia Schultz demonstrates that in addition to observances of marriag...

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

258,99 RON 277,99 RON

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 Happy Table of Eugene Walter: Southern Spirits in Food and Drink, Paperback - Eugene Walter

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

Reducere. A southern Renaissance man, Eugene Walter (1921-1998) was a pioneering food writer, a champion of southern foodways and culture, and a legendary pe...

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Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club, Paperback - Christopher B. Teuton

230,99 RON 247,99 RON

Reducere. Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically ...

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Twisted Cross: The German Christian Movement in the Third Reich, Paperback - Doris L. Bergen

346,99 RON 371,99 RON

Reducere. How did Germany's Christians respond to Nazism? In Twisted Cross, Doris Bergen addresses one important element of this response by focusing on the ...

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Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America, Paperback - Thomas J. Brown

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. Provides the most comprehensive overview of the American war memorial as a cultural form and reframes the national debate over Civil War monuments ...

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Sick and Tired. An Intimate History of Fatigue, Paperback - Emily K. Abel

177,99 RON

Offers the first history of fatigue, one that is scrupulously researched but also informed by Emily Abel's own experiences as a cancer survivor. Wi...

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Sweet Carolina: Favorite Desserts and Candies from the Old North State, Paperback - Foy Allen Edelman

104,99 RON 112,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionCrisscrossing her home state of North Carolina over the course of six tasty years, Foy Allen Edelman visited families in their own kitch...

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

253,99 RON 271,99 RON

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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Working Cures: Healing, Health, and Power on Southern Slave Plantations, Paperback - Sharla M. Fett

304,99 RON 326,99 RON

Reducere. Exploring the charged topic of black health under slavery, Sharla Fett reveals how herbalism, conjuring, midwifery, and other African American heal...

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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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Mountain Nature: A Seasonal Natural History of the Southern Appalachians, Paperback - Jennifer Frick-Ruppert

117,99 RON 126,99 RON

Reducere. The Southern Appalachians are home to a breathtakingly diverse array of living things--from delicate orchids to carnivorous pitcher plants, from mi...

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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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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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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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Christian Reconstruction: R. J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism, Paperback - Michael J. McVicar

312,00 RON

This is the first critical history of Christian Reconstruction and its founder and champion, theologian and activist Rousas John Rushdoony (1916-20...

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

255,99 RON 273,99 RON

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

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

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

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

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Men of Mobtown. Policing Baltimore in the Age of Slavery and Emancipation, Paperback - Adam Malka

277,99 RON

What if racialized mass incarceration is not a perversion of our criminal justice system's liberal ideals, but rather a natural conclusion? Adam Ma...

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Break Beats in the Bronx: Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years, Paperback - Joseph C. Ewoodzie

216,99 RON 232,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Joseph C. EwoodzieThe origin story of hip-hop--one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Br...

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Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure, Paperback - Patricia Matthew

233,99 RON 250,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Patricia MatthewThe academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color a...

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The Free State of Jones: Mississippi's Longest Civil War, Paperback - Victoria E. Bynum

101,99 RON 109,99 RON

Reducere. Between late 1863 and mid-1864, an armed band of Confederate deserters battled Confederate cavalry in the Piney Woods region of Jones County, Missi...

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The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey, Paperback - Bland Simpson

111,99 RON 119,99 RON

Reducere. As compelling as fiction, The Mystery of Beautiful Nell Cropsey tells the dramatic story of the disappearance of nineteen-year-old Nell Cropsey fro...

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

96,99 RON 103,99 RON

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

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

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

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

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

288,99 RON

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

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

302,99 RON

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

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

227,99 RON 243,99 RON

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

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

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

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

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The Patrician Tribune: Publius Clodius Pulcher, Paperback - W. Jeffrey Tatum

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Reducere. Publius Clodius Pulcher was a prominent political figure during the last years of the Roman Republic. Born into an illustrious patrician family, hi...

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Retreat from Gettysburg: Lee, Logistics, and the Pennsylvania Campaign, Paperback - Kent Masterson Brown

159,99 RON 171,99 RON

Reducere. In a groundbreaking, comprehensive history of the Army of Northern Virginia's retreat from Gettysburg in July 1863, Kent Masterson Brown draws on p...

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Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, Paperback - William Ferris

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Reducere. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, folklorist William Ferris toured his home state of Mississippi, documenting the voices of African Americans as they...

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

137,99 RON 147,99 RON

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

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

170,99 RON 182,99 RON

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

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The Historian's Eye. Photography, History, and the American Present, Paperback - Matthew Frye Jacobson

272,99 RON

Between 2009 and 2014, as the US contemplated the election of Barack Obama and endured the effects of the Great Recession, Matthew Frye Jacobson se...

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Southern Snacks: 77 Recipes for Small Bites with Big Flavors, Hardcover - Perre Coleman Magness

161,99 RON 173,99 RON

Reducere. This cookbook is dedicated to the truth that southerners are just as skilled and generous with the snack as they are with their bounteous, overflow...

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

146,99 RON 157,99 RON

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

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

244,99 RON 262,99 RON

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

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

291,99 RON

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

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

269,99 RON

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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