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Lincoln and the Politics of Slavery

The Other Thirteenth Amendment and the Struggle to Save...
In this landmark book, Daniel Crofts examines a little-known episode in the most celebrated aspect of Abraham Lincoln's life: his role as the "Great Emancipator." Lincoln always hated slavery, but...
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190,62 zł

Long, Obstinate, and Bloody

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont ...
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Matters of Care

Speculative Ethics in More than Human Worlds
To care can feel good, or it can feel bad. It can do good, it can oppress. But what is care? A moral obligation? A burden? A joy? Is it only human? In Matters of Care, María&n...
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Mobile Urbanism

Cities and Policymaking in the Global Age
Mobile Urbanism provides a unique set of perspectives on the current global-urban condition. Drawing on cutting-edge theoretical work, leading geographers reveal that cities are n...
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Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey

Bodies, Places, and Time
Autor: Alev Cinar
What would an Islamic modernism look like? The question is a pressing one, as cultures rebel against modernity in its almost exclusively European forms. Alev Cinar's groundbreaking exami...
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157,46 zł

Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers

How a Nineteenth-Century Man of Business, Science, and ...
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowd...
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189,68 zł

Our Daily Bread

Wages, Workers, and the Political Economy of the Americ...
Autor: Geoff Mann
A wage is more than a simple fee in exchange for labor, argues Geoff Mann. Beyond being a quantitative reflection of productivity or bargaining power, a wage is a political arena in which working p...
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Pages from the Past

History and Memory in American Magazines
Autor: Carolyn Kitch
American popular magazines play a role in our culture similar to that of public historians, Carolyn Kitch contends. Drawing on evidence from the pages of more than sixty magazines, including New...
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178,81 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

Political Affect

Connecting the Social and the Somatic
Autor: John Protevi
For many philosophers, the rational cognitive (Cartesian) subject defines the human, or at least defines what humans should be. Yet some recent cognitive science, as well as the phil...
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Political Matter

Technoscience, Democracy, and Public Life
Taking seriously the argument that things have politics, Political Matter seeks to develop a fully materialist theory of politics, one that opens new possibilities for imagining t...
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Politics of Touch

Sense, Movement, Sovereignty
Autor: Erin Manning
Political philosophy has long been bound by traditional thinking about the body and the senses. Through an engagement with the state-centered vocabulary of this discipline, Politics o...
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159,42 zł

Pragmatist Politics

Making the Case for Liberal Democracy
Autor: John McGowan
In our current age of cynicism, John McGowan suggests that the time is right to take a fresh look at pragmatism, the philosophy of American democracy. As McGowan shows, pragmatism ca...
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Putinomics

Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
Autor: Chris Miller
When Vladimir Putin first took power in 1999, he was a little-known figure ruling a country that was reeling from a decade and a half of crisis. In the years since, he has reestablished Russia as a...
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153,80 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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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

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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Robert Parris Moses

A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots
One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights. As a leader of...
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Seeking Asylum

Human Smuggling and Bureaucracy at the Border
Autor: Alison Mountz
In July 1999, Canadian authorities intercepted four boats off the coast of British Columbia carrying nearly six hundred Chinese citizens who were being smuggled into Canada. Government o...
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174,98 zł

Slavery and Public History

The Tough Stuff of American Memory
America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the culture wars over the way that slavery is remembered a...
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