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  • The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt
    Hugh Aylmer Dempsey
    The result of more than 40 years of research, The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories is a unique oral history spanning three hundred years of the Blackfoot people. Dating back as far as 1690, the stories collected here by Hugh Dempsey tell of renowned Blackfoot warriors such as Calf Shirt and Low Horn, of those who tried to adapt to a changing world, and of...
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    19,25 €

  • The Old Southwest, 1795-1830
    Thomas Dionysius Clark
    During the early years of the U.S. Republic, its vital southwestern quadrant-encompassing the modern-day states between South Carolina and Louisiana-experienced nearly unceasing conflict. In The Old Southwest, 1795-1830: Frontiers in Conflict, historians Thomas D. Clark and John D. W. Guice analyze the many disputes that resulted when the United States pushed aside a hundred th...
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    30,65 €

  • James J. Hill
    Michael Malone
    In this volume, Michael P. Malone provides a succinct interpretive biography of James J. Hill, the 'Empire Builder'-so called for his work in developing the region of the United States between the Great Lakes and the Pacific Northwest.Malone explores Hill’s complex life and personality, his activities and interests, and recreates both the story of the railroad race to the Pacif...
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    18,97 €

  • King of the Wildcatters
    Ray Miles
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    17,70 €

  • Sacco and Vanzetti
    Paul Avrich
    The Sacco-Vanzetti affair is the most famous and controversial case in American legal history. It divided the nation in the 1920s, and it has continued to arouse deep emotions, giving rise to an enormous literature. Few writers, however, have consulted anarchist sources for the wealth of information available there about the movement of which the defendants were a part. Now Pau...
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    49,93 €

  • Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness
    Peter McCandless
    Moonlight, Magnolias, and Madness is a social history of the perceptions and treatment of the mentally ill in South Carolina over two centuries. Examining insanity in both an institutional and a community context, Peter McCandless shows how policies and attitudes changed dramatically from the colonial era to the early twentieth century. He also sheds new light on the ways secti...
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    83,24 €

  • Left Intellectuals and Popular Culture in Twentieth-Century America
    Paul R. Gorman / Paul RGorman
    Since the late nineteenth century, American intellectuals have consistently criticized the mass arts, charging that entertainments ranging from popular theater, motion pictures, and dance halls to hit records, romance novels, and television are harmful to the public. This critique of popular culture continues today, with condemnations of television shows like NYPD Blue and incr...
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    54,52 €

  • U.S.-Mexico Borderlands
    Oscar JMartinez
    The U.S.-Mexican borderlands form the region where the United States and Latin America have interacted with the greatest intensity. In U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, Oscar Martinez has brought together both scholarly essays and primary documents that address the protracted conflict rooted in the vast difference in power between Mexico and its northern neighbor. Each of the seven part...
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    52,83 €

  • Chicago & Cook County
    Loretto Dennis Szucs
    Completely revised and updated, this book is a comprehensive guide to the vastly complex records for this major urban area. Thousands of immigrants around the world arriving in the U.S. found the rapidly growing Chicago city a new-found home. Chances are, you can find a branch of your family tree in the Chicago area. This friendly guide to the vital records of Chicago and Cook ...
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    33,96 €

  • Chicago & Cook County
    Loretto Dennis Szucs
    Completely revised and updated, this book is a comprehensive guide to the vastly complex records for this major urban area. Thousands of immigrants around the world arriving in the U.S. found the rapidly growing Chicago city a new-found home. Chances are, you can find a branch of your family tree in the Chicago area. This friendly guide to the vital records of Chicago and Cook ...
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    20,55 €

  • The Two Milpas of Chan Kom
    Alicia Re Cruz
    An ethnographic account of Chan Kom, a contemporary Maya community in Yucatan, Mexico that focuses on the social schism within the community resulting from an accelerated process of migration to Cancun, a major tourist center. ...
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    42,21 €

  • Texas and Texans in the Civil War
    Ralph A. Wooster
    Based on extensive research over three decades 'Texas and Texans in the Civil War,' fills a glaring gap in the literature on the Confederacy with this excellent study of Texas and its people during the Civil War. He follows the state’s soldiers into battle across the conflict’s vast military frontier, examines civilian conditions in the state as the war progressed, and assesses...
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    27,31 €

  • James Glen
    W. Stitt Robinson / Walter Stitt Robinson / WStitt Robinson
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    95,90 €

  • Riots in the Cities
    The goal of Riots in the Cities, editors Silvia Marina Arrom and Servando Ortoll contend, is to encourage Latin Americanists to rethink standard notions of urban politics before the populist era. The actual political power wielded by the underprivileged city dwellers before the twentieth century has received little scholarly attention or has been downplayed. Researchers often d...
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    167,60 €

  • The Hard Hand of War
    Mark Grimsley
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    136,43 €

  • No King, No Popery
    Francis D. Cogliano / Francis DCogliano
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    121,90 €

  • Restructuring Patriarchy
    Susan K. Besse / Susan KBesse
    Susan K. Besse broadens our understanding of the political by establishing the relevance of gender for the construction of state hegemony in Brazil after World War I. Restructuring Patriarchy demonstrates that the consolidation and legitimization of power by President Getulio Vargas’s Estado Novo depended to a large extent on the reorganization of social relations in the privat...
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    60,87 €

  • Abiding Courage
    Gretchen Lemke-Santangelo
    Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region’s expanding defense industry and its reputation for greater racial tolerance. Drawing on fifty oral interviews with migrants as well as on archival and other written records, A...
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    54,64 €

  • Out of the Madness
    Jerrold Ladd
    The child of a heroin-addicted mother growing up amidst poverty, violence, and drugs in the ghetto of West Dallas, Jerrold Ladd was determined to lead a better life. Fiercely independent, he took responsibility for his future, and, with the love of his family, became the first person in his family to attend college and later a national spokesperson on inner city problems. ...
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    21,30 €

  • Embattled Island
    Arnold Leibowitz
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    121,60 €

  • Asian Americans and Congress
    Robert H. Hyung Chan Kim / Robert HHyung Chan Kim
    Covering all major laws since 1790, this volume shows the impact of congressional immigration laws on Asian Americans. ...
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    104,25 €

  • Strangers in Blood
    Jennifer S.H. Brown
    'A long-needed comparative analysis of...the officer class of the Hudson’s Bay and North West companies before and after their merger in 1821...Essential reading for all serious scholars of the fur trade.'-Ethnohistory'The book makes a significant contribution to our understanding not only of the fur trade but also to anthropology and Indian-white relations.' -Pacific Historica...
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    30,90 €

  • Ceremonies of Possession in Europe’s Conquest of the New World, 1492 1640
    Patricia Seed
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    29,81 €

  • Portrait of an Abolitionist
    Charles E. Heller / Charles EHeller
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    121,57 €

  • Sherman’s March Through the Carolinas
    John G. Barrett / John GBarrett
    In retrospect, General William Tecumseh Sherman considered his march through the Carolinas the greatest of his military feats, greater even than the Georgia campaign. When he set out northward from Savannah with 60,000 veteran soldiers in January 1865, he was more convinced than ever that the bold application of his ideas of total war could speedily end the conflict. John...
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    39,18 €

  • Two Great Rebel Armies
    Richard M. McMurry / Richard MMcMurry
    Richard McMurry compares the two largest Confederate armies, assessing why Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia was more successful than the Army of Tennessee. His bold conclusion is that Lee’s army was a better army--not just one with a better high command. 'Sheds new light on how the South lost the Civil War.--American Historical Review'McMurry’s mastery of the literature is impr...
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    35,72 €

  • Challenging the Secret Government
    Kathryn S. Olmsted / Kathryn SOlmsted
    Just four months after Richard Nixon’s resignation, New York Times reporter Seymour Hersh unearthed a new case of government abuse of power: the CIA had launched a domestic spying program of Orwellian proportions against American dissidents during the Vietnam War. The country’s best investigative journalists and members of Congress quickly mobilized to probe a scandal that seem...
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    61,00 €

  • Sweet Chariot
    Ann Patton Malone
    Sweet Chariot is a pathbreaking analysis of slave families and household composition in the nineteenth-century South. Ann Malone presents a carefully drawn picture of the ways in which slaves were constituted into families and households within a community and shows how and why that organization changed through the years. Her book, based on massive research, is both a statis...
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    53,89 €

  • The First American Frontier
    Wilma A. Dunaway / Wilma ADunaway
    In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia’s society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first region...
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    69,98 €

  • Harlem
    Gilbert Osofsky
    For social history, no book has surpassed Mr. Osofsky’s account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. 'A careful and important study.'-John Hope Franklin. ...
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    16,09 €


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