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The Peculiar Institution and the Making of Modern Psychiatry, 1840-1880
Though the origins of asylums can be traced to Europe, the systematic segregation of the mentally ill into specialized institutions occurred in the United States only after 1800, just as the strugg...
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192,87 zł
Reproduction on the Reservation
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Colonialism in the Long Twen...
This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of...
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178,47 zł
The Invention of the Favela
For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela b...
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192,54 zł
Black Towns, Black Futures
The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West
Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla Slocum shows that the appeal of these towns i...
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165,95 zł
The Virgin Vote
How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Per...
There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented p...
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164,47 zł
Rice in the Time of Sugar
The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pere...
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178,95 zł
Picturing Identity
Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text
In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a ...
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190,84 zł
Learning from the Wounded
The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years bef...
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176,48 zł
Liberated Threads
Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul
From the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s through antiapartheid activism in the 1980s and beyond, black women have used their clothing, hair, and style not simply as a fashion statemen...
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153,06 zł
Break Beats in the Bronx
Rediscovering Hip-Hop's Early Years
The origin story of hip-hop—one that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx—has become received wisdom. But Joseph C. Ewoodzie Jr. argues that the full s...
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164,67 zł
Remembering the Civil War
Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In...
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174,94 zł
Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club
Cherokee Stories of the Turtle Island Liars' Club paints a vivid, fascinating portrait of a community deeply grounded in tradition and dynamically engaged in the present. A collection of for...
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178,95 zł
America Is the Prison
Arts and Politics in Prison in the 1970s
In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and l...
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181,84 zł
Stories of the South
Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-...
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant po...
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177,54 zł
The Stigma of Surrender
German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the G...
Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War. Ex...
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178,55 zł
Talkin' Tar Heel
How Our Voices Tell the Story of North Carolina
Are you considered a "dingbatter," or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?
Have you ever noticed a picture in your house hanging a little "sigogglin," or crooked?
Do you enjoy spending...
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129,31 zł
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native Am...
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tr...
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179,68 zł
The World the Civil War Made
At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily ...
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190,15 zł
Hittin' the Prayer Bones
Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southe...
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179,48 zł
Black Faces, White Spaces
Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to th...
Why are African Americans so underrepresented when it comes to interest in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism? In this thought-provoking study, Carolyn Finney looks beyond the discour...
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165,93 zł
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