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  • Exchanging Our Country Marks
    Michael A. Gomez / Michael AGomez
    The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangible links between the African American community and its African origins and traces the process by which African populations exchanged their distinct ethnic identities for onedefined pr...
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    60,54 €

  • In Face of the Facts
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    168,32 €

  • The Bondsman’s Burden
    Jenny Bourne Wahl
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    196,51 €

  • Father of the Poor?
    Robert M. Levine / Robert MLevine
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    81,34 €

  • Father of the Poor?
    Robert M. Levine / Robert MLevine
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    39,63 €

  • Unlikely Warriors
    Shirley A. Leckie / Shirley ALeckie / William H. Leckie / WILLIAM HLECKIE
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    18,71 €

  • We Mean to Be Counted
    Elizabeth R. Varon / Elizabeth RVaron
    Over the past two decades, historians have successfully disputedthe notion that American women remained wholly outside the realm of politics until the early twentieth century. Still, a consensus has prevailed that, unlike their Northern counterparts, women of the antebellum South were largely excluded from public life. With this book, Elizabeth Varon effectively challenges such...
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    54,56 €

  • Boy Colonel of the Confederacy
    Archie K. Davis / Archie KDavis
    Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. (1841-63), one of the youngest colonels in the Confederate Army, died at the age of twenty-one while leading the twenty-sixth North Carolina regiment into action at the battle of Gettysburg. In this sensitive biography, originally published by UNC Press in 1985, Archie Davis provides a revealing portrait of the young man’s character and a striking exampl...
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    50,59 €

  • Gettysburg--The Second Day
    Harry W. Pfanz / Harry WPfanz
    The second day’s fighting at Gettysburg--the assault of the Army of Northern Virginia against the Army of the Potomac on 2 July 1863--was probably the critical engagement of that decisive battle and, therefore, among the most significant actions of the Civil War. Harry Pfanz, a former historian at Gettysburg National Military Park, has written a definitive account of the second...
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    44,54 €

  • The Social Gospel in Black and White
    Ralph E. Luker / Ralph ELuker
    In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the period between Emancipation and the civil rights movement. As organizations created by the heirs of antislavery sentimentfoundered in the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a new gene...
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    60,22 €

  • A Separate Canaan
    Jon F. Sensbach / Jon FSensbach
    In colonial North Carolina, German-speaking settlers from the Moravian Church founded a religious refuge--an ideal society, they hoped, whose blueprint for daily life was the Bible and whose Chief Elder was Christ himself. As the community’s demand for labor grew, the Moravian Brethren bought slaves to help operate their farms, shops, and industries. Moravians believed in the u...
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    63,85 €

  • Reconstructing the Household
    Peter W. Bardaglio / Peter WBardaglio
    In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South. He focuses on miscegenation, rape, incest, child custody, and adoption laws to show how southerners struggled with the conflicts and stresses that surfaced within their own households and in the larger society during the Civil W...
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    60,56 €

  • Impressions of Cuba in the Nineteenth Century
    Joseph Judson Dimock / Louis AJrPerez / Louis APerez Jr
    Joseph J. Dimock’s descriptions of Cuba in his travel diary provide a remarkable firsthand view of a fascinating period in the island’s history. In the mid-nineteenth century, the United States was pursuing manifest destiny. The war with Mexico had resulted in a vast increase of national territory, and many north Americans wanted Cuba as the next acquisition. In addition to ann...
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    49,14 €

  • Urban Elections in Democratic Latin America
    Henry ADietz
    Two decades ago the mere notion of examining local elections in Latin America would have produced a puzzled look and a simple question: ?Why?? Elections of any sort were limited and suspect if they occurred at all, and local elections were for the vast majority of countries nonexistent. Latin America?s return to democracy in the 1980s marked a new chapter in its political hist...
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    48,52 €

  • Alamo Sourcebook 1836
    Terry Todish / Timothy J. Todish
    Few historical events are as widely known as the Siege and Battle of the Alamo. This is true not only in the United States, but also throughout much of the rest of the world. The idea of a small band of men choosing to fight and die, in the face of overwhelming odds, for the cause of liberty, has wide appeal.'Alamo Sourcebook 1836' covers all facets of one of the greatest battl...
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    22,08 €

  • The Inheritance
    Samuel G. Freedman / Samuel GFreedman
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    24,85 €

  • John Wayne’s America
    Garry Wills
    The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lincoln at Gettysburg brings his eloquence, wit, and on-target perceptions of American life and politics to this fascinating, well-drawn protrait of a twentieth-century hero. In this work of great originality-the biography of an idea-Garry Wills shows how John Wayne came to embody Amercian values and influenced our culture to a degree unmatc...
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    21,46 €

  • The Encyclopedia of Native American Legal Tradition
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    105,40 €

  • The Vietnam Experience
    Kevin Hillstrom / Laurie Collier Hillstrom
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    105,76 €

  • Roots of Afrocentric Thought
    Clovis E. Semmes / Clovis ESemmes
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    105,76 €

  • A Measure of Perfection
    Charles Colbert
    Despite its widespread popularity in antebellum America, phrenology has rarely been taken seriously as a cultural phenomenon. Charles Colbert seeks to redress this neglect by demonstrating the important contributions the theory made to artistic developments in the period. He goes on to reveal the links between the tenets of phrenology and the cultural ideals of Jacksonian democ...
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    79,40 €

  • Labor’s Great War
    Joseph A. McCartin / Joseph AMcCartin
    Since World War I, says Joseph McCartin, the central problem of American labor relations has been the struggle among workers, managers, and state officials to reconcile democracy and authority in the workplace. In his comprehensive look at labor issues during the decade of the Great War, McCartin explores the political, economic, and social forces that gave rise to this conflic...
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    60,81 €

  • A History of Accountancy in the United States
    GARY JOHN PREVITS
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    66,68 €

  • Slavery & the Law
    Central to the development of the American legal system, writes Professor Finkelman in Slavery & the Law, is the institution of slavery. It informs us not only about early concepts of race and property, but about the nature of American democracy itself. Prominent historians of slavery and legal scholars analyze the intricate relationship between slavery, race, and the law from ...
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    178,41 €

  • My Mind Set on Freedom
    John A. Salmond / John ASalmond
    This is the story of the drive to free the American South from the shackles of legally sanctioned racial segregation. In a lively and compact narrative, John Salmond sets the scene with the first stirrings of revolt prompted by the New Deal and the experiences of blacks in World War II. He then concentrates on the years between the 1954 Supreme Court decision overturning segreg...
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    17,18 €

  • George Washington the Mason
    Wallace McCammant
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    15,07 €

  • Missiles in Cuba
    Mark J. White / Mark JWhite
    For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. Mark White’s study adds an equally intense scrutiny of the causes and consequences of the crisis. Missiles in Cuba is based on up-to-date scholarship as well as Mr. White’s own findings in National Security Archive m...
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    22,76 €

  • FOR THE UNION
    KENNETH W. WHEELER / KENNETH WWHEELER
    On the eve of the Civil War, Ohio was an important Union State. Third in population and wealth among the thirty-four states, the number of its people, joined with those of New York and Pennsylvania, surpassed the total population of the Confederacy. In addition to its status as a major agricultural producer, Ohio was significant in terms of manufacturing, urbanization, commerce...
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    64,31 €

  • A House Divided
    Richard H. Sewell
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    40,88 €

  • U.S. Imperialism in Latin America
    Edward S. Kaplan / Edward SKaplan
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    95,96 €


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