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  • New England’s Generation
    Virginia DeJohn Anderson
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    23,85 €

  • The Worlds of Christopher Columbus
    Jr. Phillips / JrPhillips / William D. Phillips / William DPhillips
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    44,32 €

  • Peasant Labour and Colonial Capital
    Sugata Bose
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    179,38 €

  • The Regime of Anastasio Somoza, 1936-1956
    Knut Walter
    To many observers, Anastasio Somoza, who ruled Nicaragua from 1936 until his assassination in 1956, personified the worst features of a dictator. While not dismissing these characteristics, Knut Walter argues that the regime was in fact more notable for its achievement of stability, economic growth, and state building than for its personalistic and dictatorial features. Using a...
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    70,58 €

  • Grand Dragon
    M. William Lutholtz / MWilliam Lutholtz
    The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen. This book explores the career of D. C. Stephenson, grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, his rise to power, and his eventual conviction for second-degree murder in 1925. Grand Dragon trac...
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    16,59 €

  • Stonewall
    Byron Farwell
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    25,31 €

  • American History
    Melinda Corey
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    14,68 €

  • Castro’s Final Hour
    Andres Oppenheimer
    Reported from inside Cuba by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Andres Oppenheimer, Castro’s Final Hour chronicles the dramatic events that have crippled the more-than-three-decades-old Marxist regime of Fidel Castro. From the execution of the country’s most celebrated Army general in 1989 to the devastating effects of the loss of all Soviet aid, the picture Oppenheimer paints is ...
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    26,57 €

  • A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1850s in America
    Robert L. Gale / Robert LGale
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    104,77 €

  • Jimmy Carter
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    120,32 €

  • The Presidency and Domestic Policies of Jimmy Carter
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    118,71 €

  • The First America
    D. A. Brading / DABrading
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    91,72 €

  • The Sioux and Other Native American Cultures of the Dakotas
    Herbert T. Hoover / Herbert THoover
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    88,80 €

  • South Dakota History
    Herbert T. Hoover / Herbert THoover
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    104,53 €

  • The Fox Wars
    Joseph L. Peyser / R. David Edmunds
    This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians’ struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French firearm-and-fur trade with their western enemie...
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    30,86 €

  • Discovering North Carolina
    This splendid anthology offers an engaging journey through four centuries of North Carolina life. It draws on a wealth of sources--histories, biographies, diaries, novels, short stories, newspapers, and magazines--to show how North Carolina’s rich history and remarkable literary achievements cut across economic and racial lines in often surprising ways. There are selectio...
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    45,48 €

  • The Language of Liberty 1660 1832
    J. C. D. Clark / JCDClark / Jonathan Clark
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    41,41 €

  • Red Sunset
    Philip G. Roeder / Philip GRoeder
    Why did the Soviet system fail? How is it that a political order, born of revolution, perished from stagnation? What caused a seemingly stable polity to collapse? Philip Roeder finds the answer to these questions in the Bolshevik 'constitution'--the fundamental rules of the Soviet system that evolved from revolutionary times into the post-Stalin era. These rules increasingly pr...
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    92,76 €

  • The Taoist Experience
    Livia Kohn
    Containing sixty translations from a large variety of texts, this is an accessible yet thorough introduction to the major concepts, doctrines, and practices of Taoism. It presents the philosophy, rituals, and health techniques of the ancients as well as the practices and ideas of Taoists today. Divided into four sections, it follows the Taoist Path: The Tao, Long Life, Etern...
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    42,76 €

  • Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age
    Heiner Roetz
    Confucian Ethics of the Axial Age describes the formative period of Chinese culture-the last centuries of the Zhou dynasty-as an early epoch of enlightenment. It comprehensively reconstructs the ethical discourse as thought gradually became emancipated from tradition and institutions. Rather than presenting a chronology of different thinkers and works, this book discusses the...
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    46,75 €

  • Liberty, Justice, Order
    John Morton Blum
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    20,56 €

  • Subduing Satan
    Ted Ownby
    The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture. In Subduing Satan, Ted Ownby details the tensions between these complex--and often opposing--attitudes.'Ownby’s re-creation of male recreation is rich and fascinating. He paints the saloon and the street, the cockfighting and dogfighting rings as realms of distinctly male vice...
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    54,34 €

  • Stalinist Terror
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    75,87 €

  • Entitled to Power
    Katherine Jellison
    The advent of modern agribusiness irrevocably changed the patterns of life and labor on the American family farm. In Entitled to Power, Katherine Jellison examines midwestern farm women’s unexpected response to new labor-saving devices. Federal farm policy at mid-century treated farm women as consumers, not producers. New technologies, as promoted by agricultural extension...
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    64,40 €

  • After Gorbachev
    Stephen White
    this new edition of Stephen Whites best-selling introductory text has been revised throughout and now examines the full cycle of this period of revolutionary change from its Brezhnevite origins to postcommunist disintegration. ...
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    38,98 €

  • Christopher Columbus and the Portuguese, 1476-1498
    Rebecca Catz
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    96,00 €

  • A Guide to Indian Manuscripts
    John F. Riddick / John FRiddick
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    88,80 €

  • The Marathas 1600 1818
    Gordon Stewart / Stewart Gordon
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    185,93 €

  • The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913 1945
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    159,00 €

  • The Economic Transformation of the Soviet Union, 1913 1945
    Robert William Davies
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    74,11 €