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  • Rank and Privilege
    Dr. Linda A. RodrÌguez has assembled a new collection of essays that finally provides the historical context necessary to understand the Latin American military. The articles included here examine a variety of time periods and nations, from the counterinsurgency army of New Spain, to the nineteenth-century War of the Pacific, to the modern relationship between the military and ...
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    72,29 €

  • Not Like Us
    Roger Daniels
    In the thirty-five years after 1890, more than 20 million immigrants came to the United States-a greater number than in any comparable period, before or since. They were often greeted in hostile fashion, a reflection of American nativism that by the 1890s was already well developed. In this analytical narrative, Roger Daniels examines the condition of immigrants, Native America...
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    26,66 €

  • Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition
    Gertrude M Yeager / Gertrude M. Yeager / Gertrude MYeager
    Understanding the role of women in Latin American history demands a full examination of their activities in the region’s political, economic, and domestic spheres. Toward this end, historian Gertrude M. Yeager has assembled the multidisciplinary collection Confronting Change, Challenging Tradition. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which Latin American women have sh...
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    59,83 €

  • Communication in Latin America
    How has mass communication evolved in Latin America? How has the political climate in that region shaped the role of the mass media? What factors unite these many diverse countries? What are the special challenges facing this turbulent area? In Communication in Latin America: Journalism, Mass Media, and Society, editor Richard R. Cole has assembled a selection of articles that ...
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    164,70 €

  • The Press on Trial
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    121,80 €

  • Radium Girls
    Claudia Clark
    In the early twentieth century, a group of women workers hired to apply luminous paint to watch faces and instrument dials found themselves among the first victims of radium poisoning. Claudia Clark’s book tells the compelling story of these women, who at first had no idea that the tedious task of dialpainting was any different from the other factory jobs available to them. But...
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    54,34 €

  • Tropics of History
    Alan West / Alan West-Duran
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    121,88 €

  • The Senate Munitions Inquiry of the 1930s
    Matthew Ware Coulter
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    121,88 €

  • A Topical Index of Early U.S. Almanacs, 1776-1800
    Robert K. Dodge / Robert KDodge / UNKNOWN
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    105,10 €

  • American Legislative Leaders in the West, 1911-1994
    Charles Ritter / Jon L. Wakelyn / Jon LWakelyn
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    105,18 €

  • The American Constitution and Its Provenance
    Richard G. Stevens / Richard GStevens
    In this comprehensive collection of essays representing a lifetime of scholarship, distinguished political scientist Richard Stevens examines the fundamental principles of the American Constitutional order. Stevens discusses the Constitution’s roots in Renaissance and Enlightenment political philosophy, and evaluates several major twentieth-century constitutional commentators. ...
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    75,91 €

  • Democracy Reformed
    Bernard Hirschhorn
    Depicts Childs as an archetype of reform in the Progressive Era. ...
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    121,59 €

  • Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America
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    173,69 €

  • Swapping Stories
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    34,67 €

  • Gold Creeks and Ghost Towns
    Bill L. Barlee
    This work presents a brief look at the six historic mining counties of NE Washington. Included within these counties are some of the most fascinating and historic areas on the old Pacific Slope. Okanogan County - This is the land of Kamiakin and Tonasket' famous Indian chiefs from another century, and those men of the early west like Okanogan Smith and Pinnacle Jim O'Co...
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    34,73 €

  • Florida’s Past, Vol 2
    Gene M Burnett / Gene M. Burnett / Gene MBurnett
    Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title 'Florida’s Past' for Florida Trend, Florida’s respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperbac...
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    12,72 €

  • We Are Your Sisters
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    24,48 €

  • Christmas in Old Santa Fe
    Pedro Ribera Ortega
    The special customs and traditions of the Christmas season in Santa Fe, New Mexico are carefully and clearly explained in this book that has become a classic. Lightly falling snow, covering everything in sight with a soft mantle of white, burning luminarias and mellow-light farolitos, the warm adobe architecture, the peace and quiet that settles over the land on Christmas Eve, ...
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    14,39 €

  • Encyclopedia of American Indian Civil Rights
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    105,02 €

  • Major Crises in Contemporary American Foreign Policy
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    104,69 €

  • Transatlantic Images and Perceptions
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    231,98 €

  • Mine Eyes Have Seen
    Richard Goldstein
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    23,20 €

  • There’s a War to Be Won
    Geoffrey Perret
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    22,74 €

  • Baltimore
    Letitia Stockett
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    37,67 €

  • U.S. economic history since 1945
    Michael French
    A concise, accessible review of the principal economic developments and social changes in the US between 1945 and the present day.. Covers an era of US economic dominance and the challenge from overseas.. Links more ’historical’ post-war developments to the rapid ’contemporary’ changes of the 1970s-1990s.. No direct competitor known to the author. ...
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    28,33 €

  • Andrew Jackson and His Tennessee Lieutenants
    Lorman A. Ratner / Lorman ARatner / Lormen A. Ratner / Lormen ARatner
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    122,25 €

  • The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
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    148,77 €

  • The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
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    149,03 €

  • Under Sentence of Death
    From the assembled work of fifteen leading scholars emerges a complex and provocative portrait of lynching in the American South. With subjects ranging in time from the late antebellum period to the early twentieth century, and in place from the border states to the Deep South, this collection of essays provides a rich comparative context in which to study the troubling history...
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    54,16 €

  • Nicaragua Without Illusions
    Thomas W Walker / Thomas W. Walker / Thomas WWalker
    Focusing on Nicaragua after the 1990 Sandinista electoral defeat, this book is a comprehensive, multidisciplinary study of one of the most unusual cases of regime transition in the late 20th century. It shows the similarities and differences between Nicaragua’s regime and those of other countries. ...
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    60,89 €