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  • U.S. Department of Transportation
    Donald Robert Whitnah
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    89,14 €

  • Vendetta!
    William B. Breuer / William BBreuer
    1960. As the Cold War reaches its height, so does postwar prosperity, and the American people celebrate their optimism by electing as president the young, charismatic John F. Kennedy. Just 90 miles from the United States, the Cuban people are celebrating the rise of Fidel Castro, their own young and charismatic populist leader who overthrew Batista’s oppressive regime. Around t...
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    31,58 €

  • The Manipulated Path to the White House-1996
    Robert D. Loevy / Robert DLoevy
    This book takes the reader through the intricate process by which the United States chooses its President. All aspects of the 1996 presidential election are covered-from the first primary election votes cast in New Hampshire to the fun and excitement at the two national conventions to the presidential candidate debates to President Bill Clinton’s final victory over Senator Bob...
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    104,92 €

  • The Black 100
    Colombus Salley / Columbus Salley
    Dr. Columbus Salley has selected the one hundred most influential African-Americans of all time and then ranked them according to their contributions to cultures worldwide and the struggle for equality.From Dr. Martin Luther King (1) and Harriet Tubman (12) to Louis Armstrong (68) and Arthur Ashe (98), here are the one hundred who have fundamentally altered the ways in which mi...
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    17,95 €

  • Keepers of the Spirits
    John J. Guthrie / John JGuthrie
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    95,97 €

  • The Challenge of Interracial Unionism
    Daniel L. Letwin / Daniel LLetwin
    This study explores a tradition of interracial unionism that persisted in the coal fields of Alabama from the dawn of the New South through the turbulent era of World War I. Daniel Letwin focuses on the forces that prompted black and white miners to collaborate in the labor movement even as racial segregation divided them in nearly every other aspect of their lives. Letwin...
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    60,88 €

  • Free Speech in its Forgotten Years, 1870-1920
    David M. Rabban / David MRabban
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    118,63 €

  • Chippewa Families
    M. Inez Hilger / MInez Hilger
    This valuable study of twentieth-century reservation life, first published in 1939, portrays 150 families at White Earth, Minnesota in a period of loss of traditional ways. ...
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    11,11 €

  • Ploughshares Into Swords
    James Sidbury
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    136,39 €

  • Ploughshares Into Swords
    James Sidbury / Sidbury James
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    29,53 €

  • Western Gunslingers in Fact and on Film
    Buck Rainey
    Billy the Kid, Wild Bill Hickok, Belle Starr, Wyatt Earp, the Younger Gang, the Dalton-Doolin Gang and Bat Masterson--these real-life lawmen and lawbreakers have been the basis of so many Hollywood Westerns that it has become difficult to discover where the truth ends and the legend begins. All actually became larger-than-life characters during their lifetimes, as contempora...
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    42,36 €

  • Soviet Strategic Thought, 1917-91
    Andrei A. Kokoshin
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    27,29 €

  • Alabama History
    Donald B. Dodd / Donald BDodd / Lloyd H. Jr. Cornett / Lloyd HJrCornett / Lynda W. Brown / Lynda WBrown
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    105,24 €

  • Making Peace with the 60s
    David Burner
    David Burner’s panoramic history of the 1960s conveys the ferocity of debate and the testing of visionary hopes that still require us to make sense of the decade. He begins with the civil rights and black power movements and then turns to nuanced descriptions of Kennedy and the Cold War, the counterculture and its antecedents in the Beat Generation, the student rebellion, the p...
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    72,04 €

  • A Cultural History of Latin America
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    42,07 €

  • A Cultural History of Latin America
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    99,74 €

  • The Rise of Capitalism on the Pampas
    Samuel Amaral
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    193,87 €

  • FORT RILEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS
    William A Dobak
    FORT RILEY AND ITS NEIGHBORS is a story of soldiers trying to save money and civilians trying to make it. Fort Riley stands today overlooking the Kansas River because army quartermasters in the 1850s thought that small steamboats could deliver supplies cheaply there. Civilians came to help build the fort and stayed to bid on the quartermaster’s contracts for feed and fuel. Town...
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    35,41 €

  • Women of the Depression
    J. K. Blackwelder / JKBlackwelder / Julia Kirk Blackwelder
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    25,46 €

  • Death in September
    Perry D. Jamieson
    Early September 1862... General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River and invades the North for the first time during the Civil War. Major General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac moves northwest through Maryland in pursuit of the Confederates. Lee decides on a daring course of action. To capture the Union garrison at Harpers Ferry, the ...
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    10,37 €

  • War in the West
    William L. Shea / William LShea
    Early 1862, Union forces under Major General Samuel R. Curtis drive Confederate forces led by Brigadier General Sterling Price out of Missouri and into Arkansas. The Confederates, now representing combined forces under General Earl Van Dorn, Commander of the Trans-Mississippi District, counter-attack and strike Curtis’s isolated Union army at Pea Ridge in March 1862. Despite be...
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    13,32 €

  • Iron and Heavy Guns
    Gene A. Smith / Gene ASmith
    March 1862. The Union ironclad warship, Monitor, with its two eleven inch Dahlgren smoothbores in a unique revolving turret assembly, leaves New York City under tow to serve blockade duty off the coast of North Carolina. Meanwhile, the Confederate ironclad Virginia (formerly the wooden frigate Merrimac) is raising havoc with Union blockaders in Hampton Roads.The inevitable show...
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    13,36 €

  • Las Mejores Estampas de Eladio Secados
    Eladio Secades
    Eladio Secades style is a little like the American Benchley who wrote 'The Off-Islanders' and several books of essays about typical American characters. Secades was a newspaperman in Cuba and his Estampas were published in the paper weekly, if I remember correctly. The Estampas are small essays about typical Cuban people and attitudes. Unlike other people, Cubans laughed at t...
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    20,17 €

  • Giron La Verdadera Historia
    Enrique Ros
    An eyewitness account about what really happened before, during and after the 2506 Assault Brigade-a force of U.S. trained Cuban exiles-invaded Fidel Castro's Cuba in April 1961. An action filled personal account with new recently released declassified information and eyewitness accounts. Enrique Ros was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba and graduated with an accounting degree from the...
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    30,48 €

  • Fuera del Juego
    Heberto Padilla
    El mismo año de su regreso, se convirtió en centro de una polémica cultural en las páginas de Juventud Rebelde. Sus críticas afloraron en Fuera del juego, que, pese a todo, obtuvo en 1968 el Premio Julián del Casal, de la Unión de Escritores y Artistas de Cuba (UNEAC), dado por un jurado compuesto por los cubanos Manuel Díaz Martínez, José Lezama Lima y José Z. Tallet, el perua...
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    27,97 €

  • The Civil War Battles of the Western Theatre
    Bryan S Bush / Bryan S. Bush
    A Civil War First!Never has anything comparable to this massive volume been published on the Western Theatre in America’s War Between the States. Bush takes the reader through every major battle in the West complete with an order of battle listing all units involved for each confrontation.Richly illustrated with nearly 700 photographs maps, charts and drawings to embellish each...
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    12,11 €

  • Perry County, Illinois
    Perry County Historical Society
    (From the General History....Once Illinois was a portion of the Virginia Territory, later part of the North Western Territory, becoming a state in 1818.) This is the history of the people of Perry County. ...
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    34,32 €

  • Perry County, Illinois
    Perry County Historical Society
    (From the General History....Once Illinois was a portion of the Virginia Territory, later part of the North Western Territory, becoming a state in 1818.) This is the history of the people of Perry County. ...
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    48,68 €

  • The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper
    Anna JCooper
    This collection is a major contribution to the reconstruction of gender balance in African-American history -Manning Marable, Columbia University ...
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    40,04 €

  • Enrichment
    Lowell a Martin / Lowell A. Martin / Lowell AMartin
    Now in paperback! The concept of the American public library was born in the nineteenth century under the auspices of private citizens and small public organizations, and then grew through the nurturing of both the capitalist and democratic systems. Enrichment provides an overview of the notable events and underlying trends that either furthered or deterred the growth of this...
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    79,39 €


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