History of the Americas
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Carolina Currents, Studies in South Carolina Culture: Volume 1. New Directions
University of South Carolina PressCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The first in a collection of essays and book reviews devoted to vital aspects of South Carolina history and culture.
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Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America
Dean G. LamprosCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities.Funeral homesthose grand, aging ...
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Prints of a New Kind: Political Caricature in the United States, 17891828
Allison M. StaggCurrent price €33.92Original price €38.99Prints of a New Kind details the political strategies and scandals that inspired the first generation of American caricaturists to share news and o...
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Polish Immigrants and American Reform: Eight Leaders in the Antebellum Women''s Rights and Anti-Slavery Movements
James S. PulaCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Between the American Revolution and the Civil War, two of the most persistent themes in American history were immigration and the growth of reform ...
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America''s War and Peace Cycles 1686 to 2002, With Projections
Dennis J FoleyCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99Current price €17.99Original price €19.99Save 10% -
The Burials of Cerro Azul, Peru
Joyce MarcusCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99Cerro Azul in Perus CaÑete Valley, a pre-Inca fishing community in the Kingdom of Huarco, stood at the interface between a rich marine ecosystem an...
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The Necessary Past: Revising History in Contemporary African American Poetry
Annette DeboCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Uncovering how poetry refigures Black history to imagine a more just present and future Poets are lyric historians, proclaimed Langston Hughes. T...
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Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History
Laura HeltonCurrent price €34.79Original price €39.99During the first half of the twentieth century, a group of collectors and creators dedicated themselves to documenting the history of African Ameri...
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A World of Enemies: Americas Wars at Home and Abroad from Kennedy to Biden
Osamah F. KhalilCurrent price €34.31Original price €38.99A sobering account of how the United States trapped itself in endless warsabroad and at homeand what it might do to break free.Over the past half-c...
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Habsburgs on the Rio Grande: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire
Raymond JonasCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by...
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The American Transportation Revolution: A Social and Cultural History
Aaron W. MarrsCurrent price €57.79Original price €67.99A history of steamboats and railroads in the United States prior to the Civil War.In the first half of the nineteenth century, transportation in th...
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Wilderness and the American Spirit
Ruby McConnellCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99The idea of the American spirit has always been rooted in expansion and abundanceat great cost to the environment. Americans now find themselves at...
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Decoding the Codex Borgia: Visual Symbols of Time and Space in Ancient Mexico
Susan MilbrathCurrent price €120.05Original price €137.99This book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Pre-Columbian art dating to the fifteenth century, showing how the manu...
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Past Forward: Three Millennia of Native American Art from Gilcrease Museum
Hirmer VerlagCurrent price €42.39Original price €52.99Past Forward highlights Gilcrease Museums unique collection, which gathers together more than three millennia of Native American art. The richly il...
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Unloose My Heart: A Personal Reckoning with the Twisted Roots of My Southern Family Tree
Marcia Edwina Herman-GiddensCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50A deeply personal memoir that unearths a family history of racism, slaveholding, and trauma as well as love and sparks of delight Marcia Hermans fa...
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Ordinary Lives: Recovering Deaf Social History through the American Census
Eric C. NystromCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50The collective social history of deaf people in America has yet to be written. While scholars have focused their attention on residential schools f...
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A Big History of North America: From Montezuma to Monroe
Kevin Jon FernlundCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99The special relationship between the United Kingdom, an established and secure power, and the United States, a rising one, began after the War of 1...
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At the Table with LBJ and Lady Bird: History, Humor, and True Texas Recipes
Jean E. SchulerCurrent price €41.75Original price €47.99Welcome to the table! This is a love story about an ambassador and two Texans. Not any ol ambassador or any ol Texans. He was Lyndon Baines Johnson...
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Race, Rape, and Injustice: Documenting and Challenging Death Penalty Cases in the Civil Rights Era
Barrett J. FoersterCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99This book tells the dramatic story of twenty-eight law studentsone of whom was the authorwho went south at the height of the civil rights era and h...
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The Missouri Home Guard: Protecting the Home Front during the Great War
Petra DeWittCurrent price €46.63Original price €52.99Missouri was one of many states that established a defense organization to take over the duties of the National Guard that had been federalized for...
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Martyrs of the Early American Left: Inez Milholland, Randolph Bourne and John Reed
Hillary SlaughterCurrent price €58.64Original price €68.99Intertwining the stories of three leading early twentieth century radical Americans, this book presents the enthralling tale of the too-short li...
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Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship
Matthew BlakeCurrent price €61.19Original price €67.99Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship contains original essays by a diverse group of leading and emergin...
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We Shall Overcome: Press Photographs of Nashville during the Civil Rights Era
John LewisCurrent price €25.35Original price €32.50Named One of the Best Art Books of 2018 by the New York Times Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s deathand at a time when race relations and...
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Discussions in History and Theology (Routledge Revivals)
George P. FisherCurrent price €55.35Original price €61.50First published in 1880 and reprinted in 1987, this is a fascinating collection of essays by the nineteenth-century theologian and historian George...
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Praise Songs for Dave the Potter: Art and Poetry for David Drake
Evie ShockleyCurrent price €33.14Original price €38.99David Drake is recognized as one of the United States most accomplished nineteenth-century potters. Yet, though his potsmany inscribed with origina...
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A History to Remember: TCU in Purple, White, and Black
Frederick W. GoodingCurrent price €39.59Original price €43.99The first of its kind, this book chronicles and contextualizes the underexplored history of African American memory at TCU. It focuses specifically...
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The Evolution of American Urban Society
Howard P. ChudacoffCurrent price €116.09Original price €128.99This interesting and informative book shows how different groups of urban residents with different social, economic, and political power cope with...
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Segregation and Resistance in the Landscapes of the Americas
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionCurrent price €71.09Original price €78.99Current price €71.09Original price €78.99Save 10% -
Alexander von Humboldt: Tagebücher der Amerikanischen Reise: Von Spanien nach Cumaná (1799/1800)
Sarah MorganCurrent price €65.69Original price €72.99Der erste Tagebuchband der amerikanischen Reise Alexander von Humboldts gibt Einblicke in die Überfahrt von Europa nach Amerika, den Aufenthalt auf...
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México Beyond 1968: Revolutionaries, Radicals, and Repression During the Global Sixties and Subversive Seventies
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Popularizing the Past: Historians, Publishers, and Readers in Postwar America
Nick WithamCurrent price €84.59Original price €93.99Popularizing the Past tells the stories of five postwar historians who changed the way ordinary Americans thought about their nations history. Wh...
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Changing on the Fly: Hockey through the Voices of South Asian Canadians
Courtney SztoCurrent price €125.79Original price €147.99Winner of the NASSS Outstanding Book Award Hockey and multiculturalism are often noted as defining features of Canadian culture; yet, rarely are we...
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American Whiskey (Second Edition): Over 300 Whiskeys and 110 Distillers Tell the Story of the Nation''s Spirit
R. ThomasCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Experience the American whiskey renaissance with internationally recognized whiskey expert Richard Thomas in this expert guide.The history of whisk...
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Mesoamerican Rituals and the Solar Cycle: New Perspectives on the Veintena Festivals
Peter Lang Publishing IncCurrent price €37.79Original price €41.99This book explores a seminal topic concerning the Mesoamerican past: the religious festivals that took place during the eighteen periods of twenty ...
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The Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith, Border Legend
Bill WrightCurrent price €26.99Original price €29.99Anecdotes about Maggie Smith abound, but Bill Wright's The Whole Damn Cheese is the first book devoted entirely to the woman whose life in Big Bend...
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When Rape was Legal: The Untold History of Sexual Violence during Slavery
Rachel A. FeinsteinCurrent price €41.39Original price €45.99When Rape was Legal is the first book to solely focus on the widespread rape perpetrated against enslaved black women by white men in the United St...
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New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century
Christopher Arris OakleyCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99The Eastern Bands economic decisions of the 1900s did not occur in a vacuum. In fact, these decisions reflected regional changes and the broader de...
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New South Indians: Tribal Economics and the Eastern Band of Cherokee in the Twentieth Century
Christopher Arris OakleyCurrent price €42.29Original price €46.99The Eastern Bands economic decisions of the 1900s did not occur in a vacuum. In fact, these decisions reflected regional changes and the broader de...
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Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes: Violent Myths of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier
Rafael Acosta MoralesCurrent price €56.69Original price €62.99Drug Lords, Cowboys, and Desperadoes examines how historical archetypes in violent narratives on the Mexican American frontier have resulted in pol...
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Hipbillies: Deep Revolution in the Arkansas Ozarks
Jared M. PhillipsCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99Counterculture flourished nationwide in the 1960s and 1970s, and while the hippies of HaightAshbury occupied the public eye, further off the beaten...
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Democracys Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times
Michael J. SandelCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A renowned political philosopher updates his classic book on the American political tradition to address the perils democracy confronts today.The 1...
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The Transatlantic Materials of American Literature: Publishing US Writing in Britain, 1830-1860
Katie McGettiganCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99During the antebellum period, British publishers increasingly brought out their own authorized and unauthorized editions of American literary works...
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Forging the Tortilla Curtain: Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border from the Spanish Conquest to the Present
Thomas TorransCurrent price €28.79Original price €31.99Some have called it the tortilla curtain. Others have viewed it as a Third World entity where primitive conditions and poverty exist alongside the ...
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Certain Concealments: Poe, Hawthorne, and Early Nineteenth-Century Abortion
Dana MedoroCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Antebellum America saw a great upsurge in abortion, driven in part by the rise of the pharmaceutical industry. Unsurprisingly, the practice became ...
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Native Peoples A to Z (Volume Seven): A Reference Guide to Native Peoples of the Western Hemisphere
Donald RickyCurrent price €120.05Original price €137.99Current price €120.05Original price €137.99Save 13% -
Portraits of Earth Justice: Americans Who Tell the Truth
Robert ShetterlyCurrent price €31.19Original price €38.99Five compelling essays and fifty stunning portraits and profiles of American environmental activists This second volume in the Americans Who Tell t...
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Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom
Kathryn OlivariusCurrent price €35.99Original price €39.99Disease is thought to be a great leveler of humanity, but in antebellum New Orleans acquiring immunity from the scourge of yellow fever magnified t...
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