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  • Along Freedom Road
    David S. Cecelski / David SCecelski
    David Cecelski chronicles one of the most sustained and successful protests of the civil rights movement--the 1968-69 school boycott in Hyde County, North Carolina. For an entire year, the county’s black citizens refused to send their children to school in protest of a desegregation plan that required closing two historically black schools in their remote coastal community. Par...
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    54,58 €

  • The State and Labor in Modern America
    Melvyn Dubofsky
    In this important new book, Melvyn Dubofsky traces the relationship between the American labor movement and the federal government from the 1870s until the present. His is the only book to focus specifically on the ’labor question’ as a lens through which to view more clearly the basic political, economic, and social forces that have divided citizens throughout the industrial e...
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    60,69 €

  • Revolution in the Countryside
    Jim Handy
    Although most discussions of the Guatemalan 'revolution' of 1944-54 focus on international and national politics, Revolution in the Countryside presents a more complex and integrated picture of this decade. Jim Handy examines the rural poor, both Maya and Ladino, as key players who had a decisive impact on the nature of change in Guatemala. He looks at the ways in which ethnic ...
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    60,94 €

  • Wilderness at Dawn
    Ted Morgan
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    29,14 €

  • The New Dealers
    Jordan A. Schwarz / Jordan ASchwarz
    With scholarly depth and perception this engrossing narrative of 20th-century history sheds new light on both the New Deal and current debate of American industrial policy. Out of portraits of Brandeis, Corcoran, Lilienthal and others comes a book that conveys the true scope of Roosevelt’s experiment. ...
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    17,26 €

  • The Devil’s Dominion
    Richard Godbeer
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    22,31 €

  • My Remembers
    Eddie Stimpson
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    16,73 €

  • Yankee Stepfather
    William S McFeely
    Instructed by Congress to divide lands abandoned to the Union army into forty-acre plots and award them to freedmen, Howard began a program that might have given many families farms of their own. The effort had barely begun when it ran into President Andrew Johnson’s policy of returning such lands to former white owners. Soon Howard and his agents were under pressure not to ass...
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    19,72 €

  • Cuba and the Future
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    121,97 €

  • Dreaming with the Wheel
    Don Bell / Sun Bear
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    18,99 €

  • Gringo Justice
    Alfredo Mirandé
    Gringo Justice is a comprehensive analysis and interpretation of the experiences of the Chicano people with the legal and judicial system in the United States. Beginning in 1848 and working to the present, a theory of Gringo justice is developed and applied to specific areas-displacement from the land, vigilantes and social bandits, the border, the police, gangs, and prisons. A...
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    41,09 €

  • The Hidden-Hand Presidency
    Fred I. Greenstein
    With a new Foreword that examines the continuing significance of the Eisenhower presidency, this title reveals that there was great political activity beneath the placid surface of the executive office under Eisenhower. 'To read (this book) is to discover . . . that everything you ever believed about Dwight Eisenhower as president of the United States is wrong'.--'Economist'. ...
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    47,11 €

  • From the Ashes
    James R Lewis / James R. Lewis / James RLewis
    ’Designed for the general reader, the essays on the religion of the Davidians are especially helpful....’-CHOICE ...
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    61,07 €

  • Northern Labor and Antislavery
    Philip Sheldon Foner
    This volume calls up the voices of the antebellum labor movement and abolitionists, enabling the reader to understand more clearly the process that led Northern workers to support Lincoln in waging war against slaveholders. ...
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    121,22 €

  • Ambivalent Anti-Colonialism
    Cary Fraser
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    121,80 €

  • The Newton Boys
    Joe Newton / Willis Newton
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    16,99 €

  • The North Fights the Civil War
    James Matthew Gallman / JMatthew Gallman / Matthew J. Gallman / Matthew JGallman
    A fresh look at how Northern society mobilized to fight the first great modern war. From Gallman’s analysis of continuity and change, it seems clear that the conflict was not the great watershed in political, economic, and social development that is often supposed. 'A concise, readable account....Gallman challenges some conventional wisdom while telling an important and dramati...
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    22,51 €

  • City of Eros
    Timothy J. Gilfoyle / Timothy JGilfoyle
    In the 19th century, New York saw the development of a sex industry at the heart of a consumer world of entertainment, goods, newspapers and advertising. In this book, Gilfoyle blends first-hand experience with demographic research to present a study of the politics and economics of sex. ...
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    23,93 €

  • Under an Open Sky
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    19,69 €

  • John C. Calhoun
    Irving H. Bartlett / Irving HBartlett
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    21,35 €

  • South Florida Folklife
    Peggy A. Bulger / Stetson Kennedy / Tina Bucuvalas
    South Florida summons tropical vacationland images—gleaming beaches, exotic foods, colorful costumes, and grand hotels. Yet beyond this facade teems a rich folklife that is the subject of this alluring book.The three collaborating authors present south Florida folklife from the 1930s to the present in four parts: the Everglades and Gulf Coast, the Miami megalopolis, the Keys, a...
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    54,20 €

  • American Political Trials
    An updated, expanded revision, American Political Trials examines the role of politicized criminal trials and impeachments from the early colonial era to the late twentieth century. Each chapter focuses on a trial representative of a particular era in U.S. history. New chapters on the trials of Anne Hutchinson and Lt. Col. Oliver North are included. ...
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    121,14 €

  • The Masterless
    Wilfred M. McClay / Wilfred MMcClay
    In this provocative book, Wilfred McClay considers the long-standing tension between individualism and social cohesion in conceptions of American culture. Exploring ideas of unity and diversity as they have evolved since the Civil War, he illuminates the historical background to our ongoing search for social connectedness and sources of authority in a society increasingly domin...
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    70,34 €

  • Politics and Urban Growth in Buenos Aires, 1910 1942
    Richard J. Walter / Richard JWalter
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    168,40 €

  • Colombia before Independence
    Anthony McFarlane
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    193,73 €

  • Prize Possession
    John Major
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    182,21 €

  • Chain Reaction
    Balogh Brian / Brian Balogh
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    42,85 €

  • Good Books in a Country Home
    Deanna B. Marcum / Deanna BMarcum
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    121,82 €

  • American Political Trials
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    57,17 €

  • Queen Moo’s Talisman
    Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
    Queen Moo’s Talisman: The Fall of the Maya Empire is a historical book written by Alice Dixon Le Plongeon. The book tells the story of the Maya civilization and its eventual downfall. The story revolves around Queen Moo, the last ruler of the Maya empire, and her talisman, which was believed to hold great power. The author explores the cultural and religious beliefs of the Maya...
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    25,12 €


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