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

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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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Beatriz Allende. A Revolutionary Life in Cold War Latin America, Hardback - Tanya Harmer

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This biography of Beatriz Allende - revolutionary doctor and daughter of Salvador Allende - portrays what it means to live, love, and fight for cha...

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Corazn de Dixie: Mexicanos in the U.S. South Since 1910, Paperback - Julie M. Weise

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Reducere. When Latino migration to the U.S. South became increasingly visible in the 1990s, observers and advocates grasped for ways to analyze "new" racial ...

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More Civil War. How the Union Waged a Just War, Paperback - D. H. Dilbeck

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During the Civil War, Americans confronted profound moral problems about how to fight in the conflict. In this innovative book, D.H. Dilbeck reveal...

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

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Reducere. Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

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The Colored Conventions Movement: Black Organizing in the Nineteenth Century, Paperback - P. Gabrielle Foreman

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Reducere. This volume of essays is the first to focus on the Colored Conventions movement, the nineteenth century's longest campaign for Black civil rights. ...

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Staging Indigeneity: Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American History, Paperback - Katrina Phillips

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Reducere. As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities lo...

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Living Queer History: Remembrance and Belonging in a Southern City, Paperback - Gregory Samantha Rosenthal

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Reducere. Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desi...

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

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

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Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling, Paperback - Brian Oliu

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Reducere. Professional wrestling is a strange beast full of contradictions--part live soap opera, part hypermasculine violent spectacle. It is an indelibly A...

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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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The Walking Qur'an: Islamic Education, Embodied Knowledge, and History in West Africa, Paperback - Rudolph T. Ware

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Reducere. Spanning a thousand years of history--and bringing the story to the present through ethnographic fieldwork in Senegal, Gambia, and Mauritania--Rudo...

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Colored Travelers: Mobility and the Fight for Citizenship Before the Civil War, Paperback - Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor

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Reducere. Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically ...

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The Edible South: The Power of Food and the Making of an American Region, Paperback - Marcie Cohen Ferris

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Reducere. In The Edible South, Marcie Cohen Ferris presents food as a new way to chronicle the American South's larger history. Ferris tells a richly illustr...

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North Carolina's Roadside Eateries: A Traveler's Guide to Local Restaurants, Diners, and Barbecue Joints, Paperback - D. G. Martin

85,99 RON 92,99 RON

Reducere. Want to eat like the locals? D. G. Martin has spent years traveling the major roadways of North Carolina, on the lookout for community, local histo...

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Distilling the South: A Guide to Southern Craft Liquors and the People Who Make Them, Hardcover - Kathleen Purvis

162,99 RON 174,99 RON

Reducere. Intrepid Kathleen Purvis traveled extensively throughout the South to create this first-ever guide to the region's burgeoning craft-liquor movement...

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No Right to Be Idle: The Invention of Disability, 1840s-1930s, Paperback - Sarah F. Rose

310,99 RON 332,99 RON

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah F. RoseDuring the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans with all sorts of disabilities came to be ...

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Aberration of Mind: Suicide and Suffering in the Civil War-Era South - Diane Miller Sommerville

276,99 RON 296,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionMore than 150 years after its end, we still struggle to understand the full extent of the human toll of the Civil War and the psychologi...

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Upbuilding Black Durham: Gender, Class, and Black Community Development in the Jim Crow South, Paperback - Leslie Brown

311,99 RON 333,99 RON

Reducere. DescriptionIn the 1910s, both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington praised the black community in Durham, North Carolina, for its exceptional ...

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Captives and Cousins. Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands, Paperback - James F. Brooks

347,99 RON 372,99 RON

Reducere. An examination of the origin and legacies of the captive exchange economy within and among the Native Americans and Euro-American communities throu...

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Fatal Revolutions. Natural History, West Indian Slavery, and the Routes of American Literature, Paperback - Christopher P. Iannini

338,99 RON

Drawing on letters, illustrations, engravings, and neglected manuscripts, Christopher Iannini connects two dramatic transformations in the eighteen...

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

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

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Medicalizing Blackness: Making Racial Difference in the Atlantic World, 1780-1840, Paperback - Rana A. Hogarth

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Rana A. HogarthIn 1748, as yellow fever raged in Charleston, South Carolina, doctor John Lining remarked, "There is somethi...

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Pullman Porters and the Rise of Protest Politics in Black America, 1925-1945, Paperback - Beth Tompkins Bates

303,99 RON 325,99 RON

Reducere. Between World War I and World War II, African Americans' quest for civil rights took on a more aggressive character as a new group of black activis...

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Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South, Paperback - Stephanie M. H. Camp

214,99 RON 230,99 RON

Reducere. Recent scholarship on slavery has explored the lives of enslaved people beyond the watchful eye of their masters. Building on this work and the stu...

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Teach S Light: A Tale of Blackbeard the Pirate, Paperback - Nell Wise Wechter

82,99 RON 88,99 RON

Reducere. The legend of Teach's Light has been handed down by the people of Stumpy Point village in coastal North Carolina for nearly three centuries. None c...

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The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South - Eli N. Evans

142,99 RON 152,99 RON

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

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

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

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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Finding God Through Yoga: Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age, Paperback - David J. Neumann

364,99 RON

DescriptionParamahansa Yogananda (1893-1952), a Hindu missionary to the United States, wrote one of the world's most highly acclaimed spiritual cla...

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

269,99 RON 288,99 RON

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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A Different Shade of Justice: Asian American Civil Rights in the South, Paperback - Stephanie Hinnershitz

218,99 RON 234,99 RON

Reducere. In the Jim Crow South, Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and, later, Vietnamese and Indian Americans faced obstacles similar to those experienced by Afr...

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To Make the Wounded Whole: The African American Struggle Against Hiv/AIDS, Paperback - Dan Royles

234,99 RON 251,99 RON

Reducere. In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fig...

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Uncontrollable Blackness: African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York, Hardcover - Douglas J. Flowe

748,99 RON 801,99 RON

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

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

267,99 RON

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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Illusions of Emancipation: The Pursuit of Freedom and Equality in the Twilight of Slavery, Paperback - Joseph P. Reidy

229,99 RON 246,99 RON

Reducere. As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 186...

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Feminism for the Americas: The Making of an International Human Rights Movement, Paperback - Katherine M. Marino

221,99 RON 237,99 RON

Reducere. This book chronicles the dawn of the global movement for women's rights in the first decades of the twentieth century. The founding mothers of this...

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

190,99 RON 204,99 RON

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

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Hello Professor: A Black Principal and Professional Leadership in the Segregated South, Paperback - Vanessa Siddle Walker

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Reducere. Like many black school principals, Ulysses Byas, who served the Gainesville, Georgia, school system in the 1950s and 1960s, was reverently addresse...

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Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War, Paperback - Kyle Burke

236,99 RON 253,99 RON

Reducere. Freedom fighters. Guerrilla warriors. Soldiers of fortune. The many civil wars and rebellions against communist governments drew heavily from this ...

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A Nation of Descendants: Politics and the Practice of Genealogy in U.S. History, Paperback - Francesca Morgan

232,99 RON 249,99 RON

Reducere. From family trees written in early American bibles to birther conspiracy theories, genealogy has always mattered in the United States, whether for ...

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Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement, Paperback - Cathleen D. Cahill

219,99 RON 235,99 RON

Reducere. We think we know the story of women's suffrage in the United States: women met at Seneca Falls, marched in Washington, D.C., and demanded the vote ...

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

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

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

264,99 RON

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

198,99 RON 212,99 RON

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

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From Goodwill to Grunge: A History of Secondhand Styles and Alternative Economies, Paperback - Jennifer Le Zotte

235,99 RON 252,99 RON

Reducere. In this surprising new look at how clothing, style, and commerce came together to change American culture, Jennifer Le Zotte examines how secondhan...

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

205,99 RON

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

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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300, Paperback - Jason Berry

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Reducere. In 2015, the beautiful jazz funeral in New Orleans for composer Allen Toussaint coincided with a debate over removing four Confederate monuments. M...

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