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Cuban Memory Wars
Retrospective Politics in Revolution and Exile
For many Cubans, Fidel Castro's Revolution represented deliverance from a legacy of inequality and national disappointment. For others—especially those exiled in the United States—Cuba'...
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197,25 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
Boy Soldiers of the American Revolution
Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not ...
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165,21 zł
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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194,54 zł
At the Threshold of Liberty
Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, ...
The capital city of a nation founded on the premise of liberty, nineteenth-century Washington, D.C., was both an entrepot of urban slavery and the target of abolitionist ferment. The growing slave ...
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153,06 zł
A New Christian Identity
Christian Science Origins and Experience in American Cu...
In this study of Christian Science and the culture in which it arose, Amy B. Voorhees emphasizes Mary Baker Eddy's foundational religious text, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures....
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163,28 zł
Convulsed States
Earthquakes, Prophecy, and the Remaking of Early America
The New Madrid earthquakes of 1811–12 were the strongest temblors in the North American interior in at least the past five centuries. From the Great Plains to the Atlantic Coast and from the ...
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151,88 zł
Staging Indigeneity
Salvage Tourism and the Performance of Native American ...
As tourists increasingly moved across the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a surprising number of communities looked to capitalize on the histories of Native Amer...
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164,55 zł
Putinomics
Power and Money in Resurgent Russia
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
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
To Make the Wounded Whole
The African American Struggle against HIV/AIDS
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the begi...
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177,54 zł
Beneath the Backbone of the World
Blackfoot People and the North American Borderlands, 17...
For the better part of two centuries, between 1720 and 1877, the Blackfoot (Niitsitapi) people controlled a vast region of what is now the U.S. and Canadian Great Plains. As one of the most expansi...
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178,74 zł
That Middle World
Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing
In this study of racial passing literature, Julia S. Charles highlights how mixed-race subjects invent cultural spaces for themselves—a place she terms that middle world—and how ...
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179,34 zł
Uncontrollable Blackness
African American Men and Criminality in Jim Crow New York
Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justice system, and overt racial attacks by police and ...
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177,54 zł
Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South
In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, r...
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177,75 zł
White Balance
How Hollywood Shaped Colorblind Ideology and Undermined...
The racial ideology of colorblindness has a long history. In 1963, Martin Luther King famously stated, "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not...
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178,81 zł
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
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