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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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164,47 zł
Rice in the Time of Sugar
The Political Economy of Food in Cuba
How did Cuba's long-established sugar trade result in the development of an agriculture that benefited consumers abroad at the dire expense of Cubans at home? In this history of Cuba, Louis A. Pere...
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178,95 zł
Picturing Identity
Contemporary American Autobiography in Image and Text
In this book, Hertha D. Sweet Wong examines the intersection of writing and visual art in the autobiographical work of twentieth- and twenty-first-century American writers and artists who employ a ...
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190,84 zł
Learning from the Wounded
The Civil War and the Rise of American Medical Science
Nearly two-thirds of the Civil War's approximately 750,000 fatalities were caused by disease--a staggering fact for which the American medical profession was profoundly unprepared. In the years bef...
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176,48 zł
Remembering the Civil War
Reunion and the Limits of Reconciliation
As early as 1865, survivors of the Civil War were acutely aware that people were purposefully shaping what would be remembered about the war and what would be omitted from the historical record. In...
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174,94 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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177,54 zł
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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178,55 zł
Black Slaves, Indian Masters
Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native Am...
From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tr...
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179,68 zł
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