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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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224,42 zł

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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260,89 zł

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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233,69 zł

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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205,54 zł

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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278,00 zł

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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237,64 zł

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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The African American Roots of Modernism

From Reconstruction to the Harlem Renaissance
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Sme...
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207,07 zł

The American Union and the Problem of Neighborhood

The United States and the Collapse of the Spanish Empir...
In this book, James Lewis demonstrates the centrality of American ideas about and concern for the union of the states in the policymaking of the early republic. For four decades after the
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The Arts in Early American History

Needs and Opportunities for Study
This summary essay and the heavily annotated bibliography covering the period from the first colonization to 1826 are primarily intended to aid the scholar and student by suggesting areas of furthe...
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The Blessings of Liberty

Defining liberty as balance between freedom and security, the author speculates on the possibilities of the preservation of liberty and the Union. This is dependent on the subordination of commerci...
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The Blood of Government

Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines
In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over t...
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The Botanizers

Amateur Scientists in Nineteenth-Century America
Keeney examines the role of botany in the lives of nineteenth-century 'botanizers,' amateur scientists who collected, identified, and preserved plant specimens as a pastime. Using popular magazines...
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278,42 zł

The Casablanca Connection

French Colonial Policy, 1936-1943
The Casablanca Connection examines France's colonial policy in Morocco from the Popular Front to the end of the Vichy regime in North Africa, relating it to overall French imperial policy an...
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265,49 zł

The Claims of Kinfolk

African American Property and Community in the Nineteen...
In The Claims of Kinfolk, Dylan Penningroth uncovers an extensive informal economy of property ownership among slaves and sheds new light on African American family and community life from t...
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234,15 zł

The Counter-Reformation Prince

Anti-Machiavellianism or Catholic Statecraft in Early M...
Bireley explores the anti-Machavellian tradition of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe and the writers who cultivated it, including Giovanni Botero and Justus Lipsius. The tradition produce...
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262,35 zł

The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America. Grounding his analysis in Marxist...
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209,26 zł

The Formation of Candomblé

Vodun History and Ritual in Brazil
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influen...
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260,31 zł

The Fruits of Their Labor

Atlantic Coast Farmworkers and the Making of Migrant Po...
In 1933 Congress granted American laborers the right of collective bargaining, but farmworkers got no New Deal. Cindy Hahamovitch's pathbreaking account of migrant farmworkers along the Atlantic Co...
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