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  • Amanda Berry Smith
    Adrienne Israel
    Now available in paperback! This biography is the compelling story of Amanda Berry Smith, a former slave and washer-woman with less than a year of formal education who rose to become one of the nineteenth century’s most important and successful Christian evangelists. Based on letters published in Christian newspapers, copies of her own newspaper The Helper, and numerous publi...
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    71,05 €

  • 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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    27,39 €

  • Cornwell Chronicles
    David Cornwell
    Authored by a Civil War Union soldier with more than five years of active service along the Tennessee and Mississippi Rivers, 1862–1866. This iconoclastic, irascible old veteran (1838–1911) planned to publish these memoirs shortly after the turn of the century...but death came first, and unannounced. David Cornwell’s salty, vivid descriptions of his wartime service are layered ...
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    61,37 €

  • Ruling Race
    James Oakes
    This pathbreaking social history of the slaveholding South marks a turn in our understanding of antebellum America and the coming of the Civil War. Oakes's bracing analysis breaks the myth that slaveholders were a paternalistic aristocracy dedicated to the values of honor, race, and section. Instead they emerge as having much in common with their entrepreneurial counterpart...
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    24,47 €

  • From Ulster to Carolina
    Curtis W. Wood / Curtis WWood / H. Tyler Blethen / HTyler Blethen
    Recounts the long trek of the Scotch-Irish from their adoptive Irish homeland to the mountains of southwestern North Carolina and graphically describes the religion, occupations, living conditions, social life, and customs of those migrants. ...
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    15,13 €

  • We Will Not Be Stopped
    Arthur Bonner
    The expulsion of at least 15,000 indigenous Mexicans from their lands and homes in the highlands of Chiapas is a text book illustration of this 'complex brew'. They were expelled when they accepted the Bible and refused to pay homage to what they saw as 'idols' made by human hands -- the traditional village saints. In so doing, they challenged village leaders who were allied wi...
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    25,33 €

  • Building Little Italy
    Richard N. Juliani
    'In Building Little Italy, Richard Juliani has given us the definitive case study of Italian community formation in the United States. No other scholar has so exhaustively researched, so skillfully written about, or so imaginatively conceived the question of early Italian settlement before the age of mass migration. It will remain the essential guide for all future work in the ...
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    59,57 €

  • Enemy Images in American History
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    183,55 €

  • Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You
    C. F. Eckhardt / CFEckhardt / Charlie Eckhardt
    Charlie Eckhardt, a newspaper columnist and owner of the Lone Star Barber Shop in Seguin, Texas, spins his tales as only Charlie can. This book covers such topics as the little-known first Texas revolution and the counterrevolution of 1838-1840; the Linville raid; the legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas; Jim Bowie’s famous knife and Sam Colt’s equally famous pistol; and many mor...
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    16,60 €

  • Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County
    Phillip M White / Phillip M. White / Phillip MWhite / Stephen D Fitt / Stephen D. Fitt / Stephen DFitt
    The Bibliography of the Indians of San Diego County is intended to provide information on the American Indian groups indigenous to the area that is now San Diego County. All aspects of history and culture of the Kumeyaay, Diegueno, Ipai, Tipai, Luiseno and Cupeno Indians are covered, including language and linguistics, arts, agriculture, hunting, religion, mythology, music, pol...
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    148,15 €

  • Empire by Integration
    Geir Lundestad
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    68,33 €

  • Checklist of American Imprints 1846
    Carol Rinderknecht / Scott Bruntjen
    The purpose of the work is to make an initial identification of monographs; state and local documents; pamphlets; broadsides; and other material published in America during the period from 1820-1875. The bibliography is based upon the work of the American Imprints Inventory of the Depression era WPA, but draws heavily upon more recently published national and state bibliographi...
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    212,07 €

  • Workers’ Control in Latin America, 1930-1979
    The years between 1930 and 1979 witnessed a period of intense labor activity in Latin America as workers participated in strikes, unionization efforts, and populist and revolutionary movements. The ten original essays AEMDNMOin this volume examine sugar mill seizures in Cuba, oil nationalization and railway strikes in Mexico, the attempted revolution in Guatemala, railway natio...
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    60,70 €

  • But for Birmingham
    Glenn T. Eskew / Glenn TEskew
    Birmingham served as the stage for some of the most dramatic and important moments in the history of the civil rights struggle. In this vivid narrative account, Glenn Eskew traces the evolution of nonviolent protest in the city, focusing particularly on the sometimes problematic intersection of the local and national movements. Eskew describes the changing face of Birmingha...
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    60,26 €

  • Mestizo
    Arnoldo Carlos Vento
    This text covers over 2,000 years, tracing the roots of the contemporary Mexican-American. It utilizes the fields of history, political science, cultural anthropology, folklore, literature, sociolinguistics, Latin American studies and ethnic studies. ...
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    112,10 €

  • Globalization and Neoliberalism
    How do recent trends toward globalization affect the Caribbean, a region whose suppliers, production, markets, and politics have been globalized for centuries? What is the status of neoliberal development policy in the Caribbean, where the rewards for belt tightening and economic opening have been slow in coming? How have Caribbean policymakers and citizens responded to and res...
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    95,48 €

  • What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came? Interpreting International Crises
    Ron Hirschbein
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    121,69 €

  • The New Radicalism in America (1889-1963)
    Christopher Lasch
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    20,59 €

  • Andrew Johnson
    Han Treffousse / Hans Louis Trefousse
    Politically shrewd but fatally unable to adapt to new political realities, Andrew Johnson presided, disastrously, over the tumultuous first years of Reconstruction. In this provocative account, Hans Trefousse gives us 'a brilliant, compassionate portrait of a dynamic era of social change and national healing, and of the tragic failure of an American leader' (Library Journal). ...
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    22,10 €

  • Small Christian Communities
    Robert S. Pelton
    This text presents the findings of a theological consultation held in 1996, which discussed the future of the Christian Church. It describes how small communities can enrich the life of the Church by drawing together people of diverse cultures and economic situations for spiritual renewal. ...
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    19,80 €

  • Encyclopedia of Modern American Social Issues
    Michael Kronenwetter
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    104,33 €

  • Hall of Fame Museums
    Victor J. Danilov / Victor JDanilov
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    88,96 €

  • Clash of Cultures, Second Edition
    Brian M Fagan / Brian M. Fagan / Brian MFagan
    In Europe it was called the Age of Discovery. To the rest of the world, it often meant slavery, epidemic disease, cultural genocide, and wholesale social and economic changes. What happened in the period when Europe first came in contact with the rest of the world? In this new edition of Brian Fagan’s Clash of Cultures, the best-selling author offers a series of fascinating cas...
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    55,19 €

  • American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994
    Charles Ritter / Jon L. Wakelyn / Jon LWakelyn
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    105,35 €

  • In the Midst of Perpetual Fetes
    David Waldstreicher
    In this innovative study, David Waldstreicher investigates the importance of political festivals in the early American republic. Drawing on newspapers, broadsides, diaries, and letters, he shows how patriotic celebrations and their reproduction in a rapidly expanding print culture helped connect local politics to national identity. Waldstreicher reveals how Americans worke...
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    54,02 €

  • Discoveries of America
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    37,11 €

  • One Blood
    Spencie Love
    One Blood traces both the life of the famous black surgeon and blood plasma pioneer Dr. Charles Drew and the well-known legend about his death. On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who helped create the first American Red Cross blood bank had bled to death because a whites-only hospital refused to treat...
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    53,97 €

  • Women Against the Good War
    Rachel Waltner Goossen
    During World War II, more than 12,000 male conscientious objectors seeking alternatives to military service entered Civilian Public Service to do forestry, soil conservation, or other ’work of national importance.’ But this government-sponsored, church-supported program also attracted some 2,000 women--most of whom were part of Mennonite, Amish, Brethren, or Quaker families wit...
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    61,32 €

  • Consumer Rites
    Leigh Eric Schmidt
    Slogans such as 'Let’s put Christ back into Christmas' or 'Jesus is the Reason for the Season' hold an appeal to Christians who oppose the commercializing of events they hold sacred. However, through a close look at the rise of holidays in the United States, Leigh Schmidt show us that commercial appropriations of these occasions were as religious in form as they were secular. T...
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    71,57 €

  • Into the Sound Country
    Bland Simpson
    Into the Sound Country is a story of rediscovery--of two North Carolinians returning to seek their roots in the state’s eastern provinces. It is an affectionate, impressionistic, and personal portrait of the coastal plain by two natives of the region, writer Bland Simpson and photographer Ann Cary Simpson. Here Bland Simpson tours his old waterfront haunts in Elizabeth Cit...
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    51,34 €


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