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The Origins of the Southern Middle Class, 1800-1861

With a fresh take on social dynamics in the antebellum South, Jonathan Daniel Wells contests the popular idea that the Old South was a region of essentially two classes (planters and slaves) until ...
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262,01 zł

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

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 Origins of Women's Activism

New York and Boston, 1797-1840
Tracing the deep roots of women's activism in America, Anne Boylan explores the flourishing of women's volunteer associations in the decades following the Revolution. She examines the entire spectr...
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233,36 zł

Close Harmony

A History of Southern Gospel
Comprehensive and richly illustrated, Close Harmony traces the development of the music known as southern gospel from its antebellum origins to its twentieth-century emergence as a vibrant m...
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208,32 zł

Moral Reconstruction

Christian Lobbyists and the Federal Legislation of Mora...
Between 1865 and 1920, Congress passed laws to regulate obscenity, sexuality, divorce, gambling, and prizefighting. It forced Mormons to abandon polygamy, attacked interstate prostitution, made nar...
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233,89 zł

A Short, Offhand, Killing Affair

Soldiers and Social Conflict during the Mexican-America...
Autor: Paul Foos
The Mexican-American War (1846-48) found Americans on new terrain. A republic founded on the principle of armed defense of freedom was now going to war on behalf of Manifest Destiny, seeking to con...
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235,95 zł

GIs and Fräuleins

The German-American Encounter in 1950s West Germany
Autor: Maria Höhn
With the outbreak of the Korean War, the poor, rural West German state of Rhineland-Palatinate became home to some of the largest American military installations outside the United States. In GI...
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261,76 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

Fear and Memory in the Brazilian Army and Society, 1889-1954

For more than half a century, the Brazilian army used fear and censorship to erase aspects of its history from public memory and to create its own political myths. Although the military had remarka...
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263,29 zł

Internal Improvement

National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Govern...
When the people of British North America threw off their colonial bonds, they sought more than freedom from bad government: most of the founding generation also desired the freedom to create and en...
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Torching the Fink Books and Other Essays on Vernacular Culture

Autor: Archie Green
Archie Green--shipwright, folklorist, teacher, and lobbyist--was a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies. An inspiration to a generation of students and ...
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237,93 zł

Hallelujah Lads and Lasses

Remaking the Salvation Army in America, 1880-1930
Autor: Lillian Taiz
So strongly associated is the Salvation Army with its modern mission of service that its colorful history as a religious movement is often overlooked. In telling the story of the organization in Am...
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235,48 zł

Dealing with the Devil

East Germany, Détente, and Ostpolitik, 1969-1973
Autor: M. E. Sarotte
Using new archival sources--including previously secret documents of the East German secret police and Communist Party--M. E. Sarotte goes behind the scenes of Cold War Germany during the era of d<...
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234,31 zł

The Politics of Freeing Markets in Latin America

Chile, Argentina, and Mexico
In the 1980s and 1990s, nations throughout Latin America experienced the dual transformations of market liberalizing reforms and democratization. Since then, perhaps no issue has been more controve...
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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

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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