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Romare Bearden In The Homeland Of His Imagination - An Artist''S Reckoning With The South

by Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore

39,74€ + 10% CARD

 Romare Bearden, one of the most prolific, original, and acclaimed American artists of the twentieth century, depicted scenes and figures rooted in the American South and the Black experience. in this trenchant reappraisal of Beardenâ€™s life and art, Glenda Gilmore reveals his deep imagination, extensive training and rich knowledge of art history.
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Passion Plays - How Religion Shaped Sports In North America

by Randall Balmer

165,63€ + 10% CARD

 Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn’t help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses of worship once railed against Sabbath-busting sports events, but today most willingly accommodate Super Bowl Sunday. On the other hand, basketball’s inventor, James Naismith, was an ardent follower of Muscular Christianity and believed the game would help develop religious character. But today those religious roots are largely forgotten. Here one of our most insightful writers on American religion trains his focus on that other great passion—team sports—to reveal their surprising connections. From baseball to basketball and football to ice hockey, Balmer explores the origins and histories of big-time sports from the late nineteenth century to the present, with entertaining anecdotes and fresh insights into their ties to religious life. Referring to Notre Dame football, the Catholic Sun called its fandom "a kind of sacramental." Legions of sports fans reading Passion Plays will recognize exactly what that means.
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No Common Ground - Confederate Monuments And The Ongoing Fight For Racial Justice

by Karen L. Cox

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning.
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Vote Collectors - The True Story Of The Scamsters, Politicians, And Preachers Behind The Nation''S Greatest Electoral Fraud

by Michael Graff e Nick Ochsner

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 Tells the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, in the Ninth District of North Carolina, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why Americaâ€™s present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud.
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Cool Town - How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music And Changed American Culture

by Grace Elizabeth Hale

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 In Athens, Georgia in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Cool Town reveals the passion, vitality, and enduring significance of a bohemian scene that became a model for others to follow.
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A New History Of The American South

48,67€ + 10% CARD

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 A groundbreaking work that draws on both well-established and new currents in scholarship, including global and Atlantic world history, histories of African diaspora, environmental history, and more. The volume also considers the experiences of all people of the South: Black, white, Indigenous, female, male, poor, elite, and more.
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White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition - The Politics Of Morality In America

by Anthea Butler

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler argues that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.
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White Evangelical Racism, Second Edition - The Politics Of Morality In America

by Anthea Butler

~~165,63€~~ 149,07€ 10% OFF

 The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler argues that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.
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Sabor Judio - The Jewish Mexican Cookbook

by Ilan Stavans e Margaret E. Boyle

~~39,74€~~ 35,77€ 10% OFF

 Celebrates the delicious fusion of two culinary traditions: Jewish and Mexican. Written with joy and verve, Ilan Stavans and Margaret Boyleâ€™s lavishly illustrated cookbook demonstrates how cooking and eating connect the Jewish-Mexicans across places and generations.
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Freedom Was In Sight - A Graphic History Of Reconstruction In The Washington, D.C., Region

by Kate Masur

~~19,86€~~ 17,87€ 10% OFF

 Draws on words and experiences of people who lived during Reconstruction, powerfully narrating how the impacts of emancipation and civil war rippled outward for decades. Vividly drawn by graphic artist Liz Clarke and written by historian Kate Masur, this rich graphic history reveals the hopes and betrayals of a critical period in American history.
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Freedom Was In Sight - A Graphic History Of Reconstruction In The Washington, D.C., Region

by Kate Masur; Illustration: Elizabeth Clarke

~~48,67€~~ 43,80€ 10% OFF

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 Draws on words and experiences of people who lived during Reconstruction, powerfully narrating how the impacts of emancipation and civil war rippled outward for decades. Vividly drawn by graphic artist Liz Clarke and written by historian Kate Masur, this rich graphic history reveals the hopes and betrayals of a critical period in American history.
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White Evangelical Racism - The Politics Of Morality In America

by Anthea Butler

~~16,21€~~ 14,59€ 10% OFF

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 The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler argues that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power.
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Vote Collectors, Second Edition - The True Story Of The Scamsters, Politicians, And Preachers Behind The Nation''S Greatest Electoral Fraud

by Michael Graff e Nick Ochsner

~~159,00€~~ 143,10€ 10% OFF

 In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County’s vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year. In The Vote Collectors, Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner tell the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why our present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud. In their hands, this tale of rural corruption becomes a fascinating narrative of the long clash of racism and electioneering—and a larger story about the challenges to democracy in the rural South. In their preface to this second edition, Graff and Ochsner bring the story up to date, as accusations of voter fraud continue to pervade our national discourse. The Vote Collectors shows the reality of election stealing in one southern county, where democracy was undermined the old-fashioned way: one absentee ballot at a time.
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Vote Collectors, Second Edition - The True Story Of The Scamsters, Politicians, And Preachers Behind The Nation''S Greatest Electoral Fraud

by Michael Graff e Nick Ochsner

~~159,00€~~ 143,10€ 10% OFF

 In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from Democrats before switching over to the Republican Party. Bladen County’s vote-collecting cottage industry made national headlines, led to multiple election fraud indictments, toppled North Carolina GOP leadership, and left hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians without congressional representation for nearly a year. In The Vote Collectors, Michael Graff and Nick Ochsner tell the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why our present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud. In their hands, this tale of rural corruption becomes a fascinating narrative of the long clash of racism and electioneering—and a larger story about the challenges to democracy in the rural South. In their preface to this second edition, Graff and Ochsner bring the story up to date, as accusations of voter fraud continue to pervade our national discourse. The Vote Collectors shows the reality of election stealing in one southern county, where democracy was undermined the old-fashioned way: one absentee ballot at a time.
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New History Of The American South

30,46€ + 10% CARD

 A groundbreaking work that draws on both well-established and new currents in scholarship, including global and Atlantic world history, histories of African diaspora, environmental history, and more. The volume also considers the experiences of all people of the South: Black, white, Indigenous, female, male, poor, elite, and more.
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Country Capitalism - How Corporations From The American South Remade Our Economy And The Planet

by Bart Elmore

29,14€ + 10% CARD

 The American Southâ€™s impact on the interconnected histories of business and ecological change is narrated here by scholar Bart Elmore, who uses the histories of five southern firms - Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Walmart, FedEx, and Bank of America - to investigate the environmental impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit economy.
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White Evangelical Racism - The Politics Of Morality In America

by Anthea Butler

99,38€ + 10% CARD

 In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler argues that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power. Butler reveals how evangelical racism, propelled by the benefits of whiteness, has since America's founding played a provocative role in severely fracturing the electorate.
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Passion Plays - How Religion Shaped Sports In North America

by Randall Balmer

26,49€ + 10% CARD

 Randall Balmer was a late convert to sports talk radio, but he quickly became addicted, just like millions of other devoted American sports fans. As a historian of religion, the more he listened, Balmer couldn’t help but wonder how the fervor he heard related to religious practice. Houses of worship once railed against Sabbath-busting sports events, but today most willingly accommodate Super Bowl Sunday. On the other hand, basketball’s inventor, James Naismith, was an ardent follower of Muscular Christianity and believed the game would help develop religious character. But today those religious roots are largely forgotten. Here one of our most insightful writers on American religion trains his focus on that other great passion—team sports—to reveal their surprising connections. From baseball to basketball and football to ice hockey, Balmer explores the origins and histories of big-time sports from the late nineteenth century to the present, with entertaining anecdotes and fresh insights into their ties to religious life. Referring to Notre Dame football, the Catholic Sun called its fandom "a kind of sacramental." Legions of sports fans reading Passion Plays will recognize exactly what that means.
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No Common Ground - Confederate Monuments And The Ongoing Fight For Racial Justice

by Karen L. Cox

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 In this eye-opening narrative of the efforts to raise, preserve, protest, and remove Confederate monuments, Karen Cox depicts what these statues meant to those who erected them and how a movement arose to force a reckoning.
ENGLISH

Vote Collectors - The True Story Of The Scamsters, Politicians, And Preachers Behind The Nation''S Greatest Electoral Fraud

by Michael Graff e Nick Ochsner

159,00€ + 10% CARD

 Tells the story of the political shenanigans in Bladen County, in the Ninth District of North Carolina, exposing the shocking vulnerability of local elections and explaining why Americaâ€™s present systems are powerless to monitor and prevent fraud.
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Wild, Tamed, Lost, Revived - The Surprising Story Of Apples In The South

by Diane Flynt

194,76€ + 10% CARD

 For anyone who’s ever picked an apple fresh from the tree or enjoyed a glass of cider, writer and orchardist Diane Flynt offers a new history of the apple and how it changed the South and the nation. Showing how southerners cultivated over 2,000 apple varieties from Virginia to Mississippi, Flynt shares surprising stories of a fruit that was central to the region for over 200 years. Colorful characters abound in this history, including aristocratic Belgian immigrants, South Carolina plantation owners, and multiple presidents, each group changing the course of southern orchards. She shows how southern apples, ranging from northern varieties that found fame on southern soil to hyper-local apples grown by a single family, have a history beyond the region, from Queen Victoria’s court to the Oregon Trail. Flynt also tells us the darker side of the story, detailing how apples were entwined with slavery and the theft of Indigenous land. She relates the ways southerners lost their rich apple culture in less than the lifetime of a tree and offers a tentatively hopeful future. Alongside unexpected apple history, Flynt traces the arc of her own journey as a pioneering farmer in the southern Appalachians who planted cider apples never grown in the region and founded the first modern cidery in the South. Flynt threads her own story with archival research and interviews with orchardists, farmers, cidermakers, and more. The result is not only the definitive story of apples in the South but also a new way to challenge our notions of history.
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Black Smoke - African Americans And The United States Of Barbecue

by Adrian Miller

25,16€ + 10% CARD

 Chronicles how Black barbecuers, pitmasters, and restauranteurs helped develop this cornerstone of American foodways and how they are coming into their own today. This is a smoke-filled story of Black perseverance, culinary innovation, and entrepreneurship.
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Cool Town - How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music And Changed American Culture

by Grace Elizabeth Hale

152,38€ + 10% CARD

 In Athens, Georgia in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible. Cool Town reveals the passion, vitality, and enduring significance of a bohemian scene that became a model for others to follow.
ENGLISH

New History Of The American South

198,75€ + 10% CARD

 A groundbreaking work that draws on both well-established and new currents in scholarship, including global and Atlantic world history, histories of African diaspora, environmental history, and more. The volume also considers the experiences of all people of the South: Black, white, Indigenous, female, male, poor, elite, and more.
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