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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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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
Stories of the South
Race and the Reconstruction of Southern Identity, 1865-...
In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, the character of the South, and even its persistence as a distinct region, was an open question. During Reconstruction, the North assumed significant po...
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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
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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The Making of a Southern Industrialist
A Biographical Study of Simpson Bobo Tanner
Tanner, like so many of the region's giants, began his career in the South's dismal age of reconstruction. This is not only the Tanner story but, in microcosm, the story of those significant southe...
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193,99 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
The Poetics of Aristotle
Translation and Commentary
Incorporating the best modern work on the Poetics, Halliwell's translation is aimed at those who want a reliable version of Aristotle's ideas along with concise and stimulating guidance. A r...
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The Stigma of Surrender
German Prisoners, British Captors, and Manhood in the G...
Approximately 9 million soldiers fell into enemy hands from 1914 to 1918, but historians have only recently begun to recognize the prisoner of war's significance to the history of the Great War. Ex...
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The Virgin Vote
How Young Americans Made Democracy Social, Politics Per...
There was a time when young people were the most passionate participants in American democracy. In the second half of the nineteenth century--as voter turnout reached unprecedented p...
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The World the Civil War Made
At the close of the Civil War, it was clear that the military conflict that began in South Carolina and was fought largely east of the Mississippi River had changed the politics, policy, and daily ...
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190,15 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
Tribal Television
Viewing Native People in Sitcoms
Native Americans have been a constant fixture on television, from the dawn of broadcasting, when the iconic Indian head test pattern was frequently used during station sign-ons and sign-offs, to th...
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178,95 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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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
Writers in Retrospect
The Rise of American Literary History, 1875-1910
In the aftermath of America's centennial celebrations of 1876, readers developed an appetite for chronicles of the nation's past. Born amid this national vogue, the field of American literary histo...
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