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  • C. Vann Woodward
    James C. Cobb
    With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C. Vann Woodward (1908–1999) was a historian of singular importance. A brilliant writer, his work captivated both academic and public audiences. He also figured prominently in the major intellectual conflicts between left and right during the last half of the twentieth century, although his unwavering commitm...
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    37,12 €

  • Big Green Circles in the Desert
    James C. Cobb
    I wrote Big Green Circles in the Desert because I had a small window into events in the Middle East that attracted worldwide attention, and I wanted to preserve my stories. In the 1970s, I was a young geologist starting my first big job which was to drill wells in the Sahara Desert for water to raise crops of alfalfa. The pivot irrigators sprayed water in a circle creating gree...
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    20,14 €

  • Brown Decision, Jim Crow, and Southern Identity
    James C Cobb
    The 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling was a watershed event in the fight against racial segregation in the United States. The recent fiftieth anniversary of Brown prompted a surge of tributes: books, television and radio specials, conferences, and speeches. At the same time, says James C. Cobb, it revealed a growing trend of dismissiveness and negativity toward Brown and ...
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    32,23 €

  • Georgia Odyssey
    James C. Cobb
    Georgia Odyssey is a lively survey of the state’s history, from its beginnings as a European colony to its current standing as an international business mecca, from the self-imposed isolation of its Jim Crow era to its role as host of the centennial Olympic Games and beyond, from its long reign as the linchpin state of the Democratic Solid South to its current dominance by the ...
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    23,37 €

  • Away Down South
    James C. Cobb
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    28,10 €

  • The Most Southern Place on Earth
    James C. Cobb
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    29,71 €