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Coastal Plants from Cape Cod to Cape Canaveral

This beautifully illustrated book introduces readers to 125 frequently encountered wildflowers and other plants that grow in coastal habitats from Massachusetts to central Florida. Drawn from the a...
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Captain Ahab Had a Wife

New England Women and the Whalefishery, 1720-1870
Autor: Lisa Norling
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the whaling industry in New England sent hundreds of ships and thousands of men to distant seas on voyages lasting up to five years. In Captain Ah...
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204,54 zł

Home Fires Burning

Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace--particularly poorer women--on German ...
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261,49 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

Somerset Homecoming

Recovering a Lost Heritage
In 1860, Somerset Place was one of the most successful plantations in North Carolina--and its owner one of the largest slaveholders in the state. More than 300 slaves worked the plantation's fields...
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144,74 zł

Gendered Compromises

Political Cultures and the State in Chile, 1920-1950
With this book, Karin Rosemblatt presents a gendered history of the politics and political compromise that emerged in Chile during the 1930s and 1940s, when reformist popular-front coalitions held ...
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261,49 zł

Iron Confederacies

Southern Railways, Klan Violence, and Reconstruction
During Reconstruction, an alliance of southern planters and northern capitalists rebuilt the southern railway system using remnants of the Confederate railroads that had been built and destroyed du...
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235,21 zł

Art As Politics in the Third Reich

The political elite of Nazi Germany perceived itself as a cultural elite as well. In Art as Politics in the Third Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos explores the elite's cultural aspirations by exa...
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259,69 zł

Time before History

The Archaeology of North Carolina
North Carolina's written history begins in the sixteenth century with the voyages of Sir Walter Raleigh and the founding of the ill-fated Lost Colony on Roanoke Island. But there is a deeper, unwri...
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205,88 zł

Constructing American Lives

Biography and Culture in Nineteenth-Century America
Nineteenth-century American authors, critics, and readers believed that biography had the power to shape individuals' characters and to help define the nation's identity. In an age predating radio ...
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259,76 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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Exchanging Our Country Marks

The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonia...
The transatlantic slave trade brought individuals from diverse African regions and cultures to a common destiny in the American South. In this comprehensive study, Michael Gomez establishes tangibl...
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261,09 zł

The Social Gospel in Black and White

American Racial Reform, 1885-1912
In a major revision of accepted wisdom, this book, originally published by UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity played an important role in racial reform during the per...
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259,56 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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The Opium War, 1840-1842

Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of...
This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in w...
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The Nation as a Local Metaphor

Wurttemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 187...
Autor: Alon Confino
All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the n...
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262,69 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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234,54 zł

Mastered by the Clock

Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South
Autor: Mark M. Smith
Mastered by the Clock is the first work to explore the evolution of clock-based time consciousness in the American South. Challenging traditional assumptions about the plantation economy's r...
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234,08 zł

American Originals

Homemade Varieties of Christianity
In a work of striking breadth and clarity, Paul Conkin offers an even-handed and in-depth look at the major American-made forms of Christianity--a diverse group of religious traditions, each of whi...
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261,68 zł

Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, and the Politics of Representative Identity

The differences between Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany have historically been reduced to a simple binary pronouncement: assimilationist versus separatist. Now Robert S. Levine restores the re...
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262,22 zł
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