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"A Peculiar People"
Anti-Mormonism and the Making of Religion in Nineteenth...
Though the U.S. Constitution guarantees the free exercise of religion, it does not specify what counts as a religion. From its founding in the 1830s, Mormonism, a homegrown American faith, drew tho...
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165,01 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
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
Aunt Arie
A Foxfire Portrait
Of all the people documented by the Foxfire students since 1966, none has been more appealing to readers than Arie Carpenter. For all those who have read and cherished the Foxfire books, her...
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156,52 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
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
Border War
Fighting over Slavery before the Civil War
During the 1840s and 1850s, a dangerous ferment afflicted the North-South border region, pitting the slave states of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky, and Missouri against the free states of New Jersey...
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152,54 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
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
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
Gettysburg--The First Day
For good reason, the second and third days of the Battle of Gettysburg have received the lion's share of attention from historians. With this book, however, the critical first day's fighting finall...
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176,87 zł
Hittin' the Prayer Bones
Materiality of Spirit in the Pentecostal South
In this work, Anderson Blanton illuminates how prayer, faith, and healing are intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and material culture in the charismatic Christian worship of southe...
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179,48 zł
Infectious Ideas
U.S. Political Responses to the AIDS Crisis
Viewing contemporary history from the perspective of the AIDS crisis, Jennifer Brier provides rich, new understandings of the United States' complex social and political trends in the post-1960s er...
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178,01 zł
José Martí
Epic Chronicler of the United States in the Eighties
Jose Marti, great Cuban patriot, wrote Spanish articles on the United States during the eighties. In the present sketch, the author has presented Marti to the country he interpreted so sympathetica...
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196,32 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
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
Long, Obstinate, and Bloody
The Battle of Guilford Courthouse
On March 15, 1781, the armies of Nathanael Greene and Lord Charles Cornwallis fought one of the bloodiest and most intense engagements of the American Revolution at Guilford Courthouse in piedmont ...
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157,96 zł
Pages from the Past
History and Memory in American Magazines
American popular magazines play a role in our culture similar to that of public historians, Carolyn Kitch contends. Drawing on evidence from the pages of more than sixty magazines, including New...
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178,81 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
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
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