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Harvesting Freedom - African American Agrarianism In Civil War Era South Carolina

de Akiko Ochiai

83,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Details the triumphs and failures of freedpeople in their struggles to claim their own lands on which their forefathers had toiled and died.
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Bulwark Of The Republic - The American Militia In Antebellum West

de Mary Ellen Rowe

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Examines the antebellum militia as a social and political institution rather than a military one, and argues that it is a key to understanding the political ideology and social values of early 19th century America.
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In The Affairs Of The World - Women, Patriarchy, And Power In Colonial South Carolina

de Cara Anzilotti

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This book examines how, quite by accident and under very unfortunate circumstances, Britain's colony of South Carolina afforded women an unprecedented opportunity for economic autonomy.
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Portrait Of An Abolitionist - A Biography Of George Luther Stearns, 1809-1867

de Charles E. Heller

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 George Luther Stearns became John Brown's single most important financial backer. Massachusetts Governor John Andrew asked Stearns to recruit the first northern state African-American regiment, the 54th Massachusetts Infantry, recently made famous by the Hollywood movie Glory.
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Developing Dixie - Modernization In A Traditional Society

de Joseph F. Tripp, Lyon G. Tyler e Winfred Moore

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This collection of essays examines the development of the American South from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War II. Each article offers fresh insights or new information on its subject, and collectively the articles help to illuminate how the most traditional of American regions tried to cope with the forces of modernization.
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Northern Labor And Antislavery - A Documentary History

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Provides a documentary history of the relationships between labour and abolitionists from the early 1830s to the US Civil War. This text shows labour's response to episodes like the 1831 Nat Turner Revolt, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's execution and the election of Abraham Lincoln.
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Final Frontiers, 1880-1930 - Settling The Southern Bottomlands

de John Otto

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An examination of the settlement history of the alluvial bottomlands of the lower Mississippi Valley from 1880 to 1930, this study details how cotton-growers transformed the swamplands of northwestern Mississippi, northeastern Louisiana, northeastern Arkansas, and southern Missouri into cotton fields.
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American Dole - Unemployment Relief And The Welfare State In The Great Depression

de Jeff Singleton

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 As Jeff Singleton shows, the rapid expansion of unemployment relief in the early 1930s generated pressures which led to the first federal welfare programs.
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Southern Frontiers, 1607-1860 - The Agricultural Evolution Of The Colonial And Antebellum South

de John Otto

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses on agriculture, the primary economic activity and the single most important factor in shaping the South's colonial and antebellum frontiers. After examining the agricultural economy on the Southern seaboard during colonial times, Otto explains the economic and environmental forces that led to the expansion of upland and lowland agriculturalists across the trans-Appalachian South during the antebellum period.<br/><br/>Although many specialized studies have dealt with the colonial and antebellum American South, very little attention has been paid to the Southern agricultural frontiers before 1860. This study focuses on agriculture, the primary economic activity and the single most important factor in shaping the South's colonial and antebellum frontiers. After examining the agricultural economy on the Southern seaboard during colonial times, Otto explains the economic and environmental forces that led to the expansion of upland and lowland agriculturalists across the trans-Appalachian South during the antebellum period. Synthesizing sources drawn from history, geography, anthropology, and folklife, Otto has added an important new dimension to our knowledge of the American South. This book is an appropriate resource for courses or studies in Southern and American history, historical geography, folklife, anthropology, and agricultural history.
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Frontier Profit And Loss - The British Army And The Fur Traders, 1760-1764

de Walter S. Dunn Jr.

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 By 1760, with the alleviation of the French threat to the western frontier, colonial fur traders headed west to reap the bounty of trade with the local tribes.
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Members Of The Regiment - Army Officers'' Wives On The Western Frontier, 1865-1890

de Michele Nacy

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Many extraordinary women traveled west with their Army officer husbands between 1865 and 1890 and discovered a world that was completely controlled by the United States Army.
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Unions, Radicals, And Democratic Presidents - Seeking Social Change In The Twentieth Century

de Martin Halpern

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Highlights key episodes in the struggles of labor unions, radicals, and progressive coalitions to produce reforms of benefit to working people, particularly during the terms of Democratic presidents.
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Like Fire In Broom Straw - Southern Journalism And The Textile Strikes Of 1929-1931

de Robert W. Whalen

71,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The southern textile strikes of 1929-1931 were ferocious struggles--thousands of millhands went on strike, the National Guard was deployed, several people were killed and hundreds injured and jailed.
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Earnest Endeavors - The Life And Public Work Of George Rublee

de Marc Mcclure

71,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The first biography of George Rublee (1868-1957), an eastern establishment lawyer who made a significant contribution to economic reform legislation during the progressive era, as well as to a number of international events from 1917 to 1939.
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Uncommon Americans - The Lives And Legacies Of Herbert And Lou Henry Hoover

de Timothy Walch

101,36€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The first joint biography of President and Mrs. Hoover by scholars who have conducted extensive research into their lives.
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Tormented President - Calvin Coolidge, Death, And Clinical Depression

de Robert E. Gilbert

101,36€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 This is the first account of Coolidge's life to compare his behavior before and after this tragedy, and the first to consider the importance of Coolidge's mental health in his presidential legacy. Gilbert carefully documents the dramatic change in Coolidge's leadership style, as well as the changes in his personal behavior.
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Andrew Jackson And His Tennessee Lieutenants - A Study In Political Culture

de Lormen A. Ratner

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Andrew Jackson and those Tennesseans who, along with him, were a major force in Tennessee and American political life can best be understood by examining the political culture they all shared. This view of Jackson and his closest friends suggests a view of these men's motives;
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Keeping The Faith - Race, Politics, And Social Development In Jacksonville, Florida, 1940-1970

de Abel A. Bartley

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 An examination of the political and economic power of a large African American community in a segregated southern city;
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Chief Justice'S Progress - John Marshall From Revolutionary Virginia To The Supreme Court

de David Robarge

89,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Widely regarded as America's most important Chief Justice, John Marshall influenced US constitutional, political, and economic development. This study views his pre-Supreme Court life as a cumulative experience that formed the identity and value system brought to bear on his judicial experiences.
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Keepers Of The Spirits - The Judicial Response To Prohibition Enforcement In Florida, 1885-1935

de John Guthrie Jr.

71,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Drawn from research in the manuscript records of the federal judiciary and the court reports of the Florida Supreme Court, this book examines how state and federal judges responded to the enforcement of local, state, and national prohibition in Florida.
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The Collapse Of The Middle Way - Senate Republicans And The Bipartisan Foreign Policy, 1948-1952

de David Kepley

67,59€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Truman years saw the beginnings of a dramatic shift in the Republican party's approach to foreign policy and a growing congressional commitment to bipartisanship in foreign affairs.
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The Eleventh Amendment And Sovereign Immunity

de Clyde E. Jacobs

101,39€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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Annual Index To Motion Picture Credits 1980

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 Since 1934, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has organized motion picture credit information and published it, primarily for distribution to the motion picture community, in the Screen Achievements Records Bulletin.
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French Newspaper Opinion On The American Civil War

de George M. Blackburn

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 During the American Civil War, political ideology was the most important determinant of French journalistic attitudes. Conservatives usually supported the South while Liberals usually supported the North. rather, both Conservatives and Liberals used the issue of slavery as a device to garner support.
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