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  • The Stamp Act Crisis
    Edmund S. Morgan / Edmund SMorgan / Helen M. Morgan / Helen MMorgan
    ’Impressive! . . . The authors have given us a searching account of the crisis and provided some memorable portraits of officials in America impaled on the dilemma of having to enforce a measure which they themselves opposed.’--New York Times ’A brilliant contribution to the colonial field. Combining great industry, astute scholarship, and a vivid style, the authors have sou...
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    54,18 €

  • Artillery Hell
    Curt Johnson / Jr. Richard C. Anderson / JrRichard CAnderson
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    16,85 €

  • Between Two Waters
    Silvia Spitta
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    29,27 €

  • German Influences on Education in the United States to 1917
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    192,08 €

  • Fallen Guidon
    Edwin Adams Davis
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    23,51 €

  • Red Scare
    Griffin Fariello
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    24,93 €

  • The Care of Strangers
    Charles E. Rosenberg
    This widely acclaimed history traces every facet of the hospital’s social and professional transformations. Many of today’s obsessions with technology, rigid bureaucracy, and uncontrolled cost can be found in hospitals more than half a century ago. Illustrated. ...
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    45,20 €

  • Life of St. Dominic
    Bede Jarrett
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    14,37 €

  • Unto the Sons
    Gay Talese
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    24,70 €

  • Rangers at War
    Shelby L. Stanton / SHELBY LSTANTON
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    20,04 €

  • American Jihad
    Steven Barboza
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    16,36 €

  • Making American Foreign Policy
    Philip J Briggs / Philip J. Briggs / Philip JBriggs
    Expanded from the original edition to include the post-Cold War era, Making American Foreign Policy explores the struggle between the President and the Congress to shape U.S. foreign policy from World War II, through Vietnam and 'Operation Desert Storm,' to the Clinton Administration’s policy in Somalia. Case studies make the book especially useful for classroom teaching and th...
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    69,51 €

  • The Uneasy Center
    Paul K. Conkin / Paul KConkin
    Distinguished intellectual historian Paul Conkin offers the first comprehensive examination of mainline Protestantism in America, from its emergence in the colonial era to its rise to predominance in the early nineteenth century and the beginnings of its gradual decline in the years preceding the Civil War. He clarifies theological traditions and doctrinal arguments and include...
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    57,43 €

  • Our Rightful Share
    Aline Helg
    In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the island’s transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state. She challenges Cuba’s well-established myth of racial equality and shows that racism is deeply rooted in Cuban creole society. Helg argues that despite Cuba’s abolition of slavery in 1886 and its...
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    70,37 €

  • The Civil War in North Carolina
    John G. Barrett / John GBarrett
    Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War. Although the number of men involved in many of these engagements was comparatively small, the campaigns and battles themselves were crucial in the grand strategy of the conflict and involved some of the most famous generals of the war. John Barrett presents the complete story of mili...
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    48,97 €

  • Stephen Dodson Ramseur
    Gary W. Gallagher / Gary WGallagher
    Stephen Dodson Ramseur, born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, compiled an enviable record as a brigadier in the Army of Northern Virginia. Commissioned major general the day after his twenty-seventh birthday, he was the youngest West Pointer to achieve that rank in the Confederate army. He later showed great skill as a divisional leader in the 1864 Shenandoah Valley camp...
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    38,18 €

  • Environmental Inequalities
    Andrew Hurley
    By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America. Hurley’s study focuses on the steel mill community of Gary, Indiana, a city that was sacrificed, like a thousand other American places, to industrial priorities in the decades following Worl...
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    54,50 €

  • Experts and Politicians
    Kenneth Finegold
    During the Progressive Era, reform candidates in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago challenged the status quo--with strikingly different results: brief triumph in New York, sustained success in Cleveland, and utter failure in Chicago. Kenneth Finegold seeks to explain this phenomenon by analyzing the support for reform in these cities, especially the role of an emerging class of ...
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    184,52 €

  • Crossing Frontiers
    W. Andrew Achenbaum / WAndrew Achenbaum
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    39,32 €

  • On the Road with Charles Kuralt
    Charles Kuralt
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    17,46 €

  • Savages and Civilization
    J. McIver Weatherford / Jack Weatherford / JMcIver Weatherford
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    17,71 €

  • The Refiner’s Fire
    John L. Brooke / John LBrooke
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    137,70 €

  • From Pearl Harbor to V-J Day
    Anne Sharp Wells / Clayton D. James / Clayton DJames / DClayton James
    A compact but comprehensive history of the American armed forces in World War II, examining the strategy, logistics, high command, operations, and home-front aspects of the military campaign. 'Consistently absorbing....As inclusive and compact a rundown as general readers are likely to get anytime soon.' -Kirkus Reviews. American Ways Series. ...
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    25,28 €

  • More Letters from the American Farmer
    J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur
    This is a critical edition of the essays that J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur (1735-1813) wrote in English but did not include in Letters from an American Farmer. First published in 1782, Letters from an American Farmer is an eighteenth-century cultural masterpiece. Written in English by a French-born immigrant, it is a collection of semiautobiographical writings in epistolary...
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    126,90 €

  • Indian Freedom
    Bartolom- de Las Casas / Bartolomé de las Casas / de las Bartolomé Casas / de Las Casas Bartolomz
    The story of las CasasO 16th century fight against oppression of the Indian people in the New World. ...
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    52,46 €

  • Zebulon Butler
    James R. Williamson / James RWilliamson
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    121,93 €

  • North Carolina History
    H. Jones / HJones
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    103,23 €

  • J. William Fulbright
    Betty Austin
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    89,14 €

  • Myth, Symbol, and Colonial Encounter
    Jennifer Reid
    From the time of the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, people of British origin have shared the area of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island, traditionally called Acadia, with Eastern Canada's Algonkian-speaking peoples, the Mi'kmaq. This historical analysis of colonial Acadia from the perspective of symbolic and mythic existence will be useful to those interes...
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    25,65 €

  • I Married a Cowboy
    Connie Reeves
    This is the loving story of Constance Douglas Reeves and her husband, Jack Reeves. He was a rodeo cowboy and rancher, while she was a stable owner, riding instructor and wife. Together they managed ranches for Lyndon Baines Johnson and she spent more than a half-century teaching girls horsemanship at Waldemar Camp.The Depression ruined Connie’s plans to practice law. Instead, i...
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    19,09 €