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  • Last Train South
    James C. Clark
    The story begins in March 1865 as Union troops closed in on Richmond. Jefferson Davis tries to establish new capitals in Danville, Greensboro, and Charlotte and is ultimately captured in Georgia. Secretary of War Breckinridge dons the style of a pirate to escape. Secretary of State Benjamin disguises himself as a poor farmer--with his gold sewn inside his clothes. Nearly 60 ...
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    28,45 €

  • World War I
    Neil Heyman
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    79,62 €

  • The Women of Hull House
    Eleanor J Stebner / Eleanor J. Stebner
    Stebner shows the interconnections of spirituality, vocation, and friendship and argues that individual actions for social change must take place within communities which provide a level of uniting vision yet allow for diverse actions and viewpoints. ...
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    43,35 €

  • Goldbugs and Greenbacks
    Gretchen Ritter
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    136,33 €

  • Latin America Between the Second World War and the Cold War
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    71,08 €

  • Honor and Slavery
    Kenneth S. Greenberg / Kenneth SGreenberg
    The 'honorable men' who ruled the Old South had a language all their own, one comprised of many apparently outlandish features yet revealing much about the lives of masters and the nature of slavery. When we examine Jefferson Davis’s explanation as to why he was wearing women’s clothing when caught by Union soldiers, or when we consider the story of Virginian statesman John Ran...
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    61,52 €

  • Rebellious Laughter
    Joseph Boskin
    Bringing together everyday language, social interaction and cultural warfare, this work forms a social history of humour in American culture. It argues that jokes provide a cultural barometer of concerns and anxieties, and that laughter is transformative. 3 ...
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    28,11 €

  • Crude Dreams
    Jack Roderick
    In February 1968, the rumors became reality: An ARCO drilling rig has struck oil -- lots of oil -- on Alaska’s remote North Slope. Jack Roderick’s story of oil and politics in Alaska reads like a novel as he tells of the risky, expensive, and mostly frustrating search for oil across the 49th state. Oil companies watch one another jealously. Small independents and the new state ...
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    19,76 €

  • Subjected to Science
    Susan E Lederer
    The first full-length history of biomedical research with human subjects in the period 'before Tuskegee'--from 1890 to 1940Long before the U.S. government began conducting secret radiation and germ-warfare experiments, and long before the Tuskegee syphilis experiments, medical professionals had introduced--and hotly debated the ethics of--the use of human subjects in medical ex...
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    38,37 €

  • The ABC-Clio Companion to the 1960s Counterculture in America
    Neil A. Hamilton / Neil AHamilton
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    104,55 €

  • Encyclopedia of American Indian Wars
    Jerry Keenan
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    104,17 €

  • The Frontier in the Colonial South
    George Johnson
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    121,77 €

  • Dictionary of Mexican Rulers, 1325-1997
    Juana Vazquez-Gomez
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    89,17 €

  • Notable U.S. Ambassadors Since 1775
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    105,02 €

  • Daily Life in the United States, 1960-1990
    Myron Marty
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    94,81 €

  • Electrical Pioneers of America, Their Own Words
    Stephen P. Tubbs
    This book is a compilation of writings of great American electrical pioneers at the dawn of the electrical age. They were a diverse group. Many were not born in the U.S., but became naturalized U. S. citizens. They came from different economic levels. Edison started out poor, went to work young, and was practically self-educated. Westinghouse had the benefits of wealthy par...
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    21,63 €

  • The Other Missiles of October
    Philip Nash
    Shedding important new light on the history of the Cold War, Philip Nash tells the story of what the United States gave up to help end the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. By drawing on documents only recently declassified, he shows that one of President Kennedy’s compromises with the Soviets involved the removal of Jupiter missiles from Italy and Turkey, an arrangement concealed ...
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    61,09 €

  • Mixed Harvest
    Hal S. Barron / Hal SBarron
    Mixed Harvest explores rural responses to the transformation of the northern United States from an agricultural society into an urban and industrial one. According to Hal S. Barron, country people from New England to North Dakota negotiated the rise of large-scale organizational society and consumer culture in ways marked by both resistance and accommodation, change and continu...
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    60,82 €

  • Government Policies and Ethnic Relations in Asia and the Pacific
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    39,42 €

  • Daybreak of Freedom
    Stewart Burns
    The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak of Freedom, Stewart Burns presents a groundbreaking documentary history of t...
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    60,51 €

  • Mastered by the Clock
    Mark M. Smith / Mark MSmith
    Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy’s reliance on a premodern, nature-based conception of time, Mark M. Smith shows how and why southerners--particularly masters and their slaves--came to view the clock as a legitimate arbiter of...
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    54,25 €

  • Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality
    Examines the impact of coca and the cocaine trade on the Latin American country most affected by it, Bolivia. ...
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    43,09 €

  • Great American Stuff
    R.L. Jones / Ray Jones / RLJones
    One of the most compelling and delightful anthologies of popular culture published in years, Great American Stuff tells the story of more than 250 of our country’s finest products, richest traditions, and most inspiring people. ...
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    15,35 €

  • Great American Stuff
    R.L. Jones / Ray Jones / RLJones
    One of the most compelling and delightful popular culture anthologies published in decades, this volume tells the story of Ivory Soap and the Model-T Ford, probes the intricate glories of Navajo rugs and Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, and celebrates the genius of Benny Goodman and Humphrey Bogart. Uniquely organized, it romps in a whimsical stream-of-consciousness manner thro...
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    26,90 €

  • The Politics of Antipolitics
    Latin America is moving toward democracy. The region’s countries hold elections, choose leaders, and form new governments. But is the civilian government firmly in power? Or is the military still influencing policy and holding the elected politicians in check under the guise of guarding against corruption, instability, economic uncertainty, and other excesses of democracy? The...
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    63,25 €

  • Revolutionary Medicine
    C. Keith Wilbur / CKeith Wilbur
    Here are the struggles, the strategies, the odd treatments, and the theories the limited amount of physicians used when the Revolutionary War exploded. ...
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    13,29 €

  • Commodify Your Dissent
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    17,27 €

  • Creative Minds in Desperate Times
    Webb Garrison
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    18,48 €

  • Blessed Assurance
    A Mojtabai / TBD
    In 1982, with Cold War anxieties running high, A.G. Mojtabai set out for Amarillo, Texas, home of Pantex, the final assembly plant for all nuclear weapons in the United States. Through the lens of this particular city, she sought to focus on our adaptation as a nation to the threat of nuclear war. Her interviews began with Pantex workers assured of both the necessity and the sa...
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    28,06 €

  • Petticoats and White Feathers
    Erika A. Kuhlman / Erika AKuhlman
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    95,91 €


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