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  • Many Are the Crimes
    Ellen Schrecker
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    46,65 €

  • Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt
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    121,73 €

  • Father Charles E. Coughlin
    Ronald H. Carpenter / Ronald HCarpenter
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    89,25 €

  • New England in U.S. Government Publications, 1789-1849
    Suzanne M. Clark / Suzanne MClark
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    104,61 €

  • Ghosts Along the Texas Coast
    Docia Schultz Williams
    A collection of strange occurences, this book brings to light tangible evidence and first-hand testimony to validate a wide range of ghostly tales. Whether they haunt the place of their death or a place they loved in their lives, these spirits are found up and down the Texas coast. Author Docia Williams brings us the best of these stories, where they happen, and provides some o...
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    15,42 €

  • J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy
    Randall Bennett Woods
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    28,12 €

  • J. William Fulbright, Vietnam, and the Search for a Cold War Foreign Policy
    Randall Bennett Woods
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    120,42 €

  • The Railroads of the Confederacy
    Robert C. Black III / Robert CBlack III
    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 major war. Robert Black presents a complex and fascinating tale, with the railroads of the American South playing the part of tragic hero in the Civil War: at first vigorous though immature; then overloaded, driven unmercifully, starved...
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    49,37 €

  • Slave Counterpoint
    Philip D. Morgan / Philip DMorgan
    On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares and contrasts African American life in these two regional black cultures, exploring the differences as well as the similariti...
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    83,29 €

  • Southern Cross
    Christine Leigh Heyrman
    Revealing a surprising paradox at the heart of America’s 'Bible Belt,' Christine Leigh Heyrman examines how the conservative religious traditions so strongly associated with the South evolved out of an evangelical Protestantism that began with very different social and political attitudes. Although the American Revolution swept away the institutional structures of the Angli...
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    54,15 €

  • The Essential Bill of Rights
    Gordon Lloyd / Margie Lloyd
    The Essential Bill of Rights: Original Arguments and Fundamental Documents provides the convenience of an affordable and accessible compilation of the original, essential documents and arguments that eventually led to the adoption of the Bill of Rights in the United States. Beginning with its origin in British covenant and common law, the book moves into the arguments for vario...
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    74,57 €

  • Lift Up Your Voice Like a Trumpet
    Michael B. Friedland / Michael BFriedland
    When the Supreme Court declared in 1954 that segregated publicschools were unconstitutional, the highest echelons ofProtestant, Catholic, and Jewish religious organizationsenthusiastically supported the ruling, and black civil rightsworkers expected and actively sought the cooperation of theirwhite religious cohorts. Many white southern clergy, however,were outspoken in their d...
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    54,20 €

  • Washington County
    Donald Debats / Paul Bourke
    In the 1850s, Washington County, Oregon, gathered together a broad cross-section of antebellum America -- rich and poor, Northerners and Southerners, Protestant and Catholics, old natives and new immigrants. More than that, however, it left for historians a rare opportunity to explore political, social, and cultural trends in American history due to its unique practice of viva ...
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    37,47 €

  • The Montana Cree
    Verne Dusenberry
    The Montana Cree is a study of religion as a sustaining force in American Indian life. On the small Rocky Boy reservation in northern Montana, the Cree Indians provide an example of how a people transplanted and persecuted throughout their history can maintain and develop a tribal identity and unity through the continuance of their religious values. As the adopted son of Mose M...
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    30,89 €

  • America’s Right Turn
    William C. Berman
    In America’s Right Turn historian William Berman examines the political, cultural, and economic contexts in which Republican conservatives operated and explores the crisis of the liberal welfare state against the background of presidential politics. Berman demonstrates the key roles played by conservative populism and the conservative backlash to the rights revolution in the co...
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    38,25 €

  • Andrew Jackson
    Robert Vincent Remini
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    42,23 €

  • Lift Every Voice
    Lani Guinier
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    19,82 €

  • Palatines, Liberty, and Property
    A. G. Roeber
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    40,00 €

  • A Word for Nature
    Robert L. Dorman / Robert LDorman
    The careers and ideas of four figures of monumental importance in the history of American conservation--George Perkins Marsh, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, and John Wesley Powell--are explored in A Word for Nature. Robert Dorman offers lively portraits of each of these early environmental advocates, who witnessed firsthand the impact of economic expansion and industrial revol...
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    54,46 €

  • John Bell Hood
    David Coffey
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    11,26 €

  • The Most Promising Man of the South
    Clyde N. Wilson / Clyde NWilson
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    11,37 €

  • Georgia’s Lighthouses and Historic Coastal Sites
    Kevin M McCarthy / Kevin M. McCarthy
    Though the Georgia coast is a mere 110 miles long, a wealth of historic beauty—natural and manmade—lies between the Savannah and St. Mary’s Rivers. The last-settled and poorest of the original thirteen colonies of the United States, Georgia is a unique combination of war-torn history and genteel character. Here you’ll find stories of Civil War soldiers, pioneers and settlers, N...
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    13,73 €

  • Colonial Spanish America
    Kenneth Mills / KMills / William B Taylor / William B. Taylor / William BTaylor
    Colonial Spanish America is a book of readings about people-people from different worlds who came together to form a society by chance and by design in the years after 1492. The book is meant to enrich, not repeat, the work of existing texts on this period, and its focus on people makes it stand out from other books that have concentrated on the political and economic aspects o...
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    75,49 €

  • Last of The Old-Time Cowboys
    Patrick Dearen
    From true cowhands who stood tall in the saddle as the prototypes of the American myth, historian Patrick Dearen has collected priceless, spellbinding stories of a simpler era when a man’s word was his bond and a cowhand rode hard and lived harder. Within the pages of this book these genuine legends who rode through a golden moment in American history live on. ...
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    17,52 €

  • Frances Parkman Rdr PB
    Francis Jr. Parkman / Francis JrParkman
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    35,89 €

  • Indian Mounds You Can Visit
    I. Mac Perry / IMac Perry
    Imagine my surprise when I discovered my home sits on an ancient Indian mound. Imagine my surprise when I found that 100,000 Indians were living in Florida when the Europeans arrived in the 1500s, and that they had been here for 12,000 years... and today they are gone--extinct--no descendants. I had to know more! From the Everglades to the Suwannee River I searched Florida’s we...
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    12,51 €

  • MEN AND VIOLENCE
    PIETER SPIERENBURG
    There is growing interest in the history of masculinity and male culture, including violence, as an integral part of a proper understanding of gender. In almost every historical setting, masculinity and violence are closely linked; certainly, violent crime has been overwhelmingly a male enterprise. But violence is not always criminal: in many cultural contexts violence is linke...
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    40,30 €

  • The Devil’s Disciples
    Peter Charles Hoffer
    Approaching the subject as a legal and social historian, Peter Charles Hoffer offers a fresh look at the Salem outbreak based on recent studies of panic rumors, teen hysteria, child abuse, and intrafamily relations. He brings to life a set of conversations -- in taverns and courtrooms, at home and work -- which took place among suspected witches, accusers, witnesses, and specta...
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    40,62 €

  • The Course of American Freedom, 1822-1832
    Robert Vincent Remini
    Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America’s territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country general. Volume Two traces Jackson’s senatorial career, his presidential campaigns, and his f...
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    42,48 €

  • The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845
    Robert Vincent Remini
    Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America’s territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country general. Volume Two traces Jackson’s senatorial career, his presidential campaigns, and his f...
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    41,75 €


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