History of the Americas
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Hollywood''s Imperial Wars: The Vietnam Generation and the American Myth of Heroic Continuity
Armando Jose PratsCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrat...
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The U.S. Supreme Court''s Democratic Spaces Volume 5
Jocelyn J. EvansCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Atop broad stone stairs flanked by statues of ancient lawgivers, the U.S. Supreme Court building stands as a shining temple to the American idea of...
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Free Love: The Story of a Great American Scandal
Robert ShaplenCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99On the night of July 3, 1870, Elizabeth Tilton confessed to her husband that shed had an affair with their pastor, Henry Ward Beecher. This secret ...
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So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969-1979
Bonnie TsuiCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99A richly produced, craft- and activist-centered celebration of radical DIY publishing, for readers of Appalachian Reckoning.In a remarkable act of ...
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News from the American War of Independence: What Scots Read of the American War
Tom HunterCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Current price €16.19Original price €17.99Save 10% -
Born in Blood: Violence and the Making of America
BJ HensleyCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Born in Blood investigates one of history's most violent undertakings: The United States of America. People the world over consider violence in the...
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Making Mexican Chicago: From Postwar Settlement to the Age of Gentrification
Mike AmezcuaCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50Winner of the Immigration and Ethnic History Societys First Book Award: an exploration of how the Windy City became a postwar Latinx metropolis in ...
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The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico: Livestock, Land, and Dollars
Jon WallaceCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99The Sheep Industry of Territorial New Mexico offers a detailed account of the New Mexico sheep industry during the territorial period (18461912) wh...
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Patagonia National Park: Chile: Chile
Patagonia BooksCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Andean condors soaring over snow-capped mountains. Waving grasslands where herds of guanacos roam. Mountain lions haunting the shadows . . . Patago...
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Running the Blockade; A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War
Thomas E TaylorCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
Running the Blockade; A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War
Thomas E TaylorCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
We Are Not Animals: Indigenous Politics of Survival, Rebellion, and Reconstitution in Nineteenth-Century California
Martin Rizzo-MartinezCurrent price €36.33Original price €45.99Winner of the 2023 John C. Ewers Award from the Western History Association 2023 Choice Outstanding Academic Title By examining historical records ...
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Suffragist Migration West After Seneca Falls, 1848-1871: Catharine Paine Blaine
Stephanie Stidham RogersCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99Current price €85.49Original price €94.99Save 10% -
Black Reason, White Feeling: The Jeffersonian Enlightenment in the African American Tradition
Hannah SpahnCurrent price €100.79Original price €111.99The vital influence of Black American intellectuals on the legacy of Thomas Jeffersons ideas The lofty Enlightenment principles articulated by Thom...
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Student-Centered Oral History: An Ethical Guide
Summer CherlandCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Student-Centered Oral History explores the overlaps of culturally relevant teaching, student-centered teaching, and oral history to demonstrate how...
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The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region
David AlffCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99All aboard for the first comprehensive history of the hard-working and wildly influential Northeast Corridor. Traversed by thousands of trains an...
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The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau
Barry M. AndrewsCurrent price €26.09Original price €29.99Henry David Thoreau is best known today as a writer, naturalist, and social critic. He was also a schoolteacher, surveyor, and pencil-maker. In The...
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The Gospel According to This Moment: The Spiritual Message of Henry David Thoreau
Barry M. AndrewsCurrent price €86.12Original price €98.99Henry David Thoreau is best known today as a writer, naturalist, and social critic. He was also a schoolteacher, surveyor, and pencil-maker. In The...
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Among the Screams of Silence: Memoirs of a Cuban girl exiled of her childhood
Lily PonsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Walking TCU: A Historic Perspective
Joan Hewatt SwaimCurrent price €44.99Original price €49.99Founded in 1873, Texas Christian University is located on 272 acres about three miles from downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Walking TCU: A Historic Pers...
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Murder in a Mill Town: Sex, Faith, and the Crime That Captivated a Nation
Bruce DorseyCurrent price €30.59Original price €33.99A master storyteller presents a riveting drama of America's first crime of the century--from murder investigation to a church sex scandal to celebr...
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The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War
Jeff SharletCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Nominally Christian churches glorify materialism, a gluttony of the soul, while others celebrate an ecstatic indulgence in hate, citing Scripture w...
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Thomas Jefferson, A Character Sketch
Edward Sylvester EllisCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
Thirty Years a Slave From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of Louis Hughes
Louis HughesCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Current price €19.79Original price €21.99Save 10% -
Thirty Years'' View (Vol. 2) Or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850
Thomas Hart BentonCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99Current price €51.29Original price €56.99Save 10% -
The siege of Vicksburg, from the diary of Seth J. Wells
Seth J WellsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Thirty-One Years on the Plains and in the Mountains, Or, the Last Voice from the Plains An Authentic Record of a Life Time of Hunting, Trapping, Scouting and Indian Fighting in the Far West
William F DrannanCurrent price €21.73Original price €27.50Current price €21.73Original price €27.50Save 21% -
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; Or, The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery
Ellen CraftCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
Austin Music Is a Scene Not a Sound
Michael CorcoranCurrent price €39.49Original price €49.99Michael Corcoran culminates 40 years of writing about Austin music with a history of the scene, going back to the German singing societies of the l...
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Cuba: A Brief History of the End
Tomá Klva?aCurrent price €102.84Original price €120.99In this vividly written, politically-oriented travelogue, Tomá Klva?a offers a stark narrative of his decade-long travels to Cuba, interweaving a p...
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The Thirty-Ninth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers, 1862-1865
Alfred S RoeCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Current price €26.99Original price €29.99Save 10% -
Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
Rachel GordanCurrent price €85.49Original price €94.99The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roose...
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Postwar Stories: How Books Made Judaism American
Rachel GordanCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The period immediately following World War II was an era of dramatic transformation for Jews in America. At the start of the 1940s, President Roose...
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Gender and Cultural Mediation in the Long Eighteenth Century: Women across Borders
Virgil CainCurrent price €50.39Original price €55.99This open access book explores the transnational and transoceanic dimensions of the debate on gender and women's cultural agency and mediation in t...
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Aztekische Mythologie: Reise in das Herz der aztekischen Mythen, zu den Gttern, Helden und Monstern der aztekischen Kultur
Mythologica CosmosCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Current price €15.75Original price €17.50Save 10% -
Once We Were Strangers: A German Immigrant Family in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest
Roberta Reb AllenCurrent price €99.89Original price €110.99Little attention has been paid to the settlement of Germans in Kansas, and Roberta Reb Allens Once We Were Strangers helps to fill that void. It is...
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