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Over the Blue Wall

Beginning with Ponce de Leon and ending with Washington and Jefferson, this narrative history for young people covers three centuries of the most interesting and dramatic period in our history. In ...
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Passage of Darkness

The Ethnobiology of the Haitian Zombie
Autor: Davis Wade
In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physician...
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265,21 zł

Paying for the German Inflation

Contributing to the debate about the nature of politics in Weimar Germany, this study supports scholarship emphasizing that inept attempts to solve the intractable problems of stabilization contrib...
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Plural Office-Holding in Massachusetts, 1760-1780

Its Relation to the "Separation" of Departments of Gove...
The author contends that the separation of powers in American government is not primarily based on the political theories of Montesquieu but on the actual experience of the colonists with the abuse...
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266,40 zł

Policing the Poor in Eighteenth-Century France

Robert Schwartz examines the French government's attempts to suppress mendicity from the reign of Louis XIV to the Revolution. His study provides a rich account of the evolution of poverty, the va...
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279,49 zł

Public Service in Great Britain

The author discusses the inducements to public life and describes the type of personnel responsible for the public service, analyzes relationships in the various branches of the government, and pre...
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266,71 zł

Public Utility Rate Making and the Price Level

It is the purpose of this study to show how the rate-making rule and its procedure were developed, to consider the difficulties that were experienced under this rule, to discuss the new methods of ...
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210,89 zł

Rape and Race in the Nineteenth-Century South

Challenging notions of race and sexuality presumed to have originated and flourished in the slave South, Diane Miller Sommerville traces the evolution of white southerners' fears of black rape by e...
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Real Native Genius

How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians
In the mid-1840s, Warner McCary, an ex-slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a di...
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Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States

A Sourcebook
This engaging collection surveys and clarifies the complex issue of federal and state recognition for Native American tribal nations in the United States. Den Ouden and O'Brien gather focused and t...
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Recreating Africa

Culture, Kinship, and Religion in the African-Portugues...
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than one million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James Sweet...
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234,35 zł

Religious Intolerance in America, Second Edition

A Documentary History
The story of religion in America is one of unparalleled diversity and protection of the religious rights of individuals. But that story is a muddied one. This new and expanded edition of a classroo...
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Roots of Secession

Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia
Offering a provocative new look at the politics of secession in antebellum Virginia, William Link places African Americans at the center of events and argues that their acts of defiance and rebelli...
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Rudolf Otto

An Introduction to His Philosophical Theology
Almond places Otto's theory of religion within the context of his life (1869-1937), looking closely at the significant influences on Otto's thought, among them thinkers as different as Kant and the...
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Rum, Romanism, and Rebellion

The Making of a President, 1884
The presidential election of 1884, in which Grover Cleveland ended the Democrats' twenty-four-year presidential drought by defeating Republican challenger James G. Blaine, was one of the gaudiest i...
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Self-Exposure

Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrit...
Few features of contemporary American culture are as widely lamented as the public's obsession with celebrity--and the trivializing effect this obsession has on what appears as news. Nevertheless, ...
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Sex and Citizenship in Antebellum America

With this book, Nancy Isenberg illuminates the origins of the women's rights movement. Rather than herald the singular achievements of the 1848 Seneca Falls convention, she examines the confluence ...
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Southern Cultures

The Fifteenth Anniversary Reader
What does "redneck" mean? What's going to happen to the southern accent? What makes black southerners laugh? What is "real" country music? These are the kinds of questions that pop up in this colle...
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Subduing Satan

Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1...
Autor: 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 oppo...
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Textile Unionism and the South

This is a brief story of the long agitation for textile unions in the South. To evaluate the contributions of textile unions and to determine whether they are socially desirable, it is necessary to...
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