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  • American Civil War Stories
    Ahoy Publications
    If you want to vividly experience the American Civil War and explore its untold narratives without missing the emotional depth and personal stories, then keep reading...Step into the heart of the American Civil War with this riveting book, a portal to the dramatic and defining moments of a nation divided.This isn’t just a history book; it’s a time machine transporting you to th...
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    14,64 €

  • The Genius of America
    János Zoltán Csák / Thomas Sneddon
    In this book, János Csák explores the enduring intellectual and spiritual legacy behind America’s achievement, the very essence and history of the American genius. Americans see freedom as the ultimate human good, but it is precisely around the principle of freedom and its misuse that much drama has unfolded in recent years. This drama manifests in a creeping cognitive dissonan...
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    21,57 €

  • Laboring for the State
    Rachel Hynson
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    35,56 €

  • The American Nation- Vol 1 - European Background Of American History (1300-1600)
    Edward Potts Cheyney
    'This first volume of the series supplies a needed link between the history of Europe and the history of early America; for whether it came through a Spanish, French, English, Dutch, or Swedish medium, or through the later immigrants from Germany, from Italy, and from the Slavic countries, the American conception of society and of government was originally derived from the Euro...
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    15,90 €

  • Jane Pratt
    Marion Elliott Deerhake
    On May 25th, 1946, after 22 years as a congressional secretary, Jane Pratt was elected as North Carolina’s first congresswoman. The press reported with great interest how ''Miss Jane'' won by a landslide with only a $100 campaign budget. She hit the ground running, voting to the pass the Atomic Energy Act, working tirelessly to mitigate a century of flood disasters in western N...
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    57,10 €

  • American Literary Misfits
    D. Berton Emerson
    The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation—New England is a good example—D. Berton Emerson argues the same is true for American literature of the nineteenth century; a few canonical texts overrepresent the more motley histo...
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    127,02 €

  • American Literary Misfits
    D. Berton Emerson
    The study of nineteenth-century American literature has long been tied up with the study of American democracy. Just as some regions in the United States are elevated to stand in for the whole nation—New England is a good example—D. Berton Emerson argues the same is true for American literature of the nineteenth century; a few canonical texts overrepresent the more motley histo...
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    51,22 €

  • Creatures of Fashion
    John Soluri
    Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region’s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Dra...
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    126,95 €

  • Creatures of Fashion
    John Soluri
    Today, the mention of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego conjures images of idyllic landscapes untouched by globalization. Creatures of Fashion upends this, revealing how the exploitation of animals—terrestrial and marine, domesticated and wild, living and dead—was central to the region’s transformation from Indigenous lands into the national territories of Argentina and Chile. Dra...
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    35,48 €

  • DARE to Say No
    Max Felker-Kantor
    With its signature 'DARE to keep kids off drugs' slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education woul...
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    126,87 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    126,29 €

  • The Carceral City
    John Bardes
    Americans often assume that slave societies had little use for prisons and police because slaveholders only ever inflicted violence directly or through overseers. Mustering tens of thousands of previously overlooked arrest and prison records, John K. Bardes demonstrates the opposite: in parts of the South, enslaved and free people were jailed at astronomical rates. Slaveholders...
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    43,96 €

  • Cold War Country
    Joseph M. Thompson
    Country music maintains a special, decades-long relationship to American military life, but these ties didn’t just happen. This readable history reveals how country music’s Nashville-based business leaders on Music Row created partnerships with the Pentagon to sell their audiences on military service while selling the music to servicemembers. Beginning in the 1950s, the militar...
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    126,64 €

  • Thomas Jefferson~From Boy to Man
    Jayne D’Alessandro-Cox
    Dive into the Early Life of Thomas Jefferson: Uncover the Childhood, Influences, and Journey to Adulthood of America’s Founding Father.Experience a unique journey into the early life of Thomas Jefferson, the man behind the drafting of the Declaration of Independence. Thomas Jefferson~From Boy to Man illuminates the lesser-known years of this iconic American figure, providing a ...
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    27,18 €

  • Taiwan’s Buddhist Nuns
    De Vido Elise A. / Batygin Kirill
    ENG: Taiwan’s Buddhist nuns are as unique as they are noteworthy. Boasting the greatest number of Buddhist nuns of any country, Taiwan has a much greater number of nuns than monks. These women are well known and well regarded as dharma teachers and for the social service work that has made them a central part of Taiwan’s civil society. In this, the first English-language book o...
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    41,15 €

  • Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood
    Brian Steele / Steele Brian / Tarasov Mikhail
    ENGThis book emphasizes the centrality of nationhood to Thomas Jefferson’s thought and politics, envisioning Jefferson as a cultural nationalist whose political project sought the alignment of the American state system with the will and character of the nation. He appears in the book as the essential narrator of what he once called the 'American Story': as the historian, the so...
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    61,65 €

  • Before Ishi
    Steve Schoonover
    This book is an attempt to reconstruct the history of the Yahi Indians of Northern California, a history the author feels was mangled by a common infatuation with the myths surrounding Ishi, the last survivor of the tribe. The focus on Ishi has allowed the Yahi’s remarkable adaptation to a hostile environment to be ignored. And the facts of the destruction of the tribe have be...
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    31,87 €

  • Narrative Devices in the Shiji
    Lei Yang
    Provides a new model for reading the Shiji and other early Chinese historical texts. ...
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    127,23 €

  • Progressive New York
    Bruce W. Dearstyne
    The exciting story of New York in the progressive era told by the reformers and visionaries who shaped its history, ...
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    126,52 €

  • Utopian Imaginings
    Victoria V. Wolcott
    Challenges readers to use utopian thinking and practice to counter the conditions of the present and create an alternative future. ...
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    44,56 €

  • Utopian Imaginings
    Victoria V. Wolcott
    'Sometimes that’s all it takes to save a world, you see. A new vision. A new way of thinking, appearing at just the right time.' These words were spoken by a fictional character in N. K. Jemisin’s 2019 utopian novella Emergency Skin. But the idea of saving the world through utopian imaginings has a deep and profound history. At this moment of rupture—with the related crises of ...
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    126,89 €

  • Legend & Lore of the Lost Adams
    John LeMay
    For years, the tale of a group of miners who found a hidden canyon of gold only to be massacred by the Apache was legend across the Old West. Initially spread in saloons by the lone survivor known only as Adams, Texas folklorist J. Frank Dobie later immortalized it for a new generation in his writings. However, Dobie’s tale was a pastiche constructed of the myriad of conflictin...
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    16,07 €

  • Mitología de la India
    Billy Wellman
    Desde la creación del universo hasta guerras celestiales y la reencarnación, la mitología de la India aborda enigmáticos cuentos ancestrales, creación y espiritualidad.La mitología india no es una simple cuestión del pasado. Los festivales contemporáneos, celebraciones, cultos, música, bailes, poesía, películas y televisión pueden representar o incluir aspectos de la mitología ...
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    20,97 €

  • Mexican History
    Billy Wellman
    Dive into the heart of Mexico’s vibrant history with Mexican History!This book is your passport to understanding the forces that have shaped the fascinating nation of Mexico. From the dawn of civilizations to the challenges of the modern era, this compelling and comprehensive book has you covered.Here’s a glimpse of what awaits inside:���� Explore Ancient FoundationsOlmec Origi...
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    21,75 €

  • House of War
    James Carroll
    'A masterful achievement...[Carroll’s] prose is elegant, his viewpoint bold.' --Howard Zinn, author of The People’s History of the United States'One cannot understand the impact of the Pentagon on US foreign policy. . . without reading James Carroll’s House of War.' --Lawrence Korb, former Undersecretary of Defence under Ronald ReaganFrom the National Book Award-winning author ...
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    17,50 €

  • Police Dogs of Trinidad and Tobago
    Debbie Jacob
    They are four-legged police officers sniffing their way through mountains, tropical forests, and urban jungles, and they operate in the southernmost Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago, just seven miles from Venezuela. Police dogs and their canine officers face dangers including drug dealers, thieves, kidnappers, and murderers by relying on their most important weapon: trus...
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    42,84 €

  • The Popol Vhu
    Steven Selby
    Set in a new world recently created by the Plumed Serpent and Hurikan the Mayan Gods of Creation, the Popol Vuh is the story of how the first humans were created. It is an epic story of the struggle of good over evil set in the oasis of this new world. From the only four remaining Mayan codices, scholars believe that the original Popol Vuh was a collection of intricate calcul...
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    18,90 €

  • A savage song
    Margarita Aragon
    This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth-century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men responded to the violence of racism, and how their resistance was understood by law enforcement, politicians, and press. ...
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    34,64 €

  • Knox County, Tennessee Minutes of the County Court, 1792-1795
    Works Projects Administration
    By: WPA, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2024, 296 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-642-8.  These court minutes begin with the creation of the county in 1792. Knox County was created out of Greene & Hawkins and was one of the many Eastern Tennessee counties that saw a great influx of settlers migrating West. In these minutes of pleas & quarters sessions you will find appointments o...
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    45,85 €

  • ORURO: IV Siglos En La Eternidad 1606-2006
    Freddy Sanjinés Montán
    Oruro: IV SIGLOS EN LA ETERNIDAD. Breve visión multifacética de un departamento de Bolivia enclavado en el altiplano de los Andes. Además de valorar los aportes civilizatorios y culturales de la prístina cultura milenaria en Sudamérica, incide en su historia de los últimos cuatrocientos años, en su vida colonial y republicana, desde su fundación como Villa (1606), hasta el naci...
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    54,09 €


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