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  • When Darkness Falls
    Docia Shultz Williams / Docia William
    Once again, well-known ghost story writer Docia Williams brings us an all-new book about recent ghost sightings and mysterious happenings in the Alamo City. A chilling book for those wanting a guide to places where spirits are known to rendezvous or for those who just like a good ghost story. ...
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    15,81 €

  • Wages of Independence
    America between the Revolution and the Civil War was a society in full adolescence. Vibrant, cocky, feeling its own strength, and ready to take on the world, America was driven by an upstart economy and a capitalist bravado. The early republic, argues Paul Gilje in his cogent introduction, was the crucial period in the development of that trademark characteristic of American so...
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    46,35 €

  • Aransas
    Sue H. Taylor / William Allen
    Aransas: The Life of a Texas Coastal County is a wonderfully researched history of an exciting part of Texas. This is the story of a little place that has played a surprisingly large role in the history of Texas. From the early explorers, Cabeza de Vaca and LaSalle, this is where much of the early history of Texas was born.This book is in three parts and is comprehensive in tel...
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    21,29 €

  • Robert E. Lee
    Emory M Thomas
    The life of Robert E. Lee is a story of triumph - triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee wrote what may be his most revealing phrase. H...
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    23,50 €

  • Ojibwa Narratives
    Marquette County Historical Society
    Ojibwa Narratives presents a fresh view of an early period of Ojibwa thought and ways of life in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and the south shore of Lake Superior. This fascinating collection of fifty-two narratives features, for the first time, the tales of three nineteenth-century Ojibwa storytellers-Charles and Charlotte Kawbawgam and Jaques LePique-collected by Homer H. K...
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    34,29 €

  • Alternative Tracks
    Gerald Berk
    'Gerald Berk’s Alternative Tracks is a lean but provocative, timely, insightful, and forcefully written challenge to the conventional wisdom about industrial America’s political economy'. -- Review of PoliticsAt the heart of Alternative Tracks is the historical relationship between democracy. and the modern corporation. Gerald Berk uses the case of the railroad industry to show...
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    42,10 €

  • Year the Dream Died
    Jules Witcover
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    44,35 €

  • ’New Raiments of Self’
    Helen Bradley Foster
    This book examines the clothing worn by African Americans in the southern United States during the thirty years before the American Civil War. Drawing on a wide range of sources, most notably oral narratives recorded in the 1930s, this rich account shows that African Americans demonstrated a thorough knowledge of the role clothing played in demarcating age, sex, status, work, r...
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    57,03 €

  • Notable Latino Americans
    Conchita Serri / Matt Meier / Richard Garcia
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    133,74 €

  • No Easy Walk to Freedom
    James E. Bond / James EBond
    A major study of the ratification of the 14th Amendment, shedding new light on the meaning of the amendment. ...
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    121,35 €

  • America’s Communal Utopias
    From the Shakers to the Branch Davidians, America’s communal utopians have captured the popular imagination. Seventeen original essays here demonstrate the relevance of such groups to the mainstream of American social, religious, and economic life. The contributors examine the beliefs and practices of the most prominent utopian communities founded before 1965, including the lon...
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    76,15 €

  • Southern Strategies
    Elna C. Green / Elna CGreen
    The biographies of more than 800 women form the basis for Elna Green’s study of the suffrage and the antisuffrage movements in the South. Green’s comprehensive analysis highlights the effects that factors such as class background, marital status, educational level, and attitudes about race and gender roles had in inspiring the region’s women to work in favor of, or in oppositio...
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    54,32 €

  • Toward an Intellectual History of Women
    Linda K. Kerber / Linda KKerber
    As a leading historian of women, Linda K. Kerber has played an instrumental role in the radical rethinking of American history over the past two decades. The maturation and increasing complexity of studies in women’s history are widely recognized, and in this remarkable collection of essays, Kerber’s essential contribution to the field is made clear. In this volume is gath...
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    54,14 €

  • Civil Tongues and Polite Letters in British America
    David S. Shields / David SShields
    In cities from Boston to Charleston, elite men and women of eighteenth-century British America came together in private venues to script a polite culture. By examining their various ’texts’--conversations, letters, newspapers, and privately circulated manuscripts--David Shields reconstructs the discourse of civility that flourished in and further shaped elite society in British...
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    60,55 €

  • The Corporate City
    Leonard P. Curry / Leonard PCurry
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    121,21 €

  • Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity
    Robert S. Levine / Robert SLevine
    The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the relationship of these two important nineteenth-century African American writers to its original complexity. He explores their debates over issues like abolitionism, emigration, and nati...
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    60,77 €

  • The Secret of the Incas
    William Sullivan
    In the tradition of Fingerprints of the Gods (Crown, 1995; 65,000 sold) and Stonehenge Decoded, this revolutionary new interpretation of the mythology of the Incas offers an astonishing 'history of prehistory'.At its peak, the Inca empire was the largest on Earth. Yet in the year 1532, it was conquered by fewer than 200 Spanish adventurers. How could this happen? Approaching th...
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    19,78 €

  • Filipino Americans
    Maria P. P. Root
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    184,19 €

  • Southwestern Minnesota Archaelogy
    Scott Anfinson
    Drawing together a century of widely scattered scientific and technical reports, as well as 25 years of first-hand experience in the field, Scott Anfinson provides the first comprehensive overview of the peoples who inhabited the Prairie Lake Region of the northeastern Plains before the arrival of European explorers.Minnesota Prehistoric Archaeology Series #14Focusing on southw...
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    16,59 €

  • Elusive Empires
    Eric Hinderaker
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    136,33 €

  • Masters of War
    Robert Buzzanco
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    37,75 €

  • The Hard Hand of War
    Mark Grimsley
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    25,85 €

  • Dispossession by Degrees
    Jean M. O’Brien / Jean MO'Brien / Jean MO’Brien
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    115,59 €

  • A Comprehensive Name Index for the American Slave
    Howard E. Potts / Howard EPotts / UNKNOWN
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    220,90 €

  • A Mythic Land Apart
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    121,78 €

  • Contempt and Pity
    Daryl Michael Scott
    For over a century, the idea that African Americans are psychologically damaged has played an important role in discussions of race. In this provocative work, Daryl Michael Scott argues that damage imagery has been the product of liberals and conservatives, of racists and antiracists. While racial conservatives, often playing on white contempt for blacks, have sought to use fin...
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    54,39 €

  • The Empty Schoolhouse
    Luther Bryan Clegg
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    23,24 €

  • The Urban Caribbean
    Carlos Dore y. Cabral
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    38,08 €

  • On the Road to Total War
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    255,20 €

  • Abundance and Anxiety
    Gary A. Donaldson / Gary ADonaldson / Gary Donaldson
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    121,84 €


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