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Myth Of The Hanging Tree - Stories Of Crime And Punishment In Territorial New Mexico

de Robert J. Torrez

29,68€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The haunting specter of hanging trees holds a sway on the American imagination, conjuring images of rough-and-tumble frontier towns struggling to impose law and order in a land where violence was endemic. This study examines several criminal cases that reveal the realities of the role hangings played in the administration of frontier justice.
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Cricket In The Web - The 1949 Unsolved Murder That Unraveled Politics In New Mexico

de Paula Moore

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 The murder of 18-year-old Ovida "Cricket" Coogler in 1949 launched a series of court inquiries and trials that would reshape the direction of New Mexico politics and expose political corruption. Paula Moore examines the infamous murder and the events that unfolded in its wake.University of New Mexico Press
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Sante Fe Trail

de R.L. Duffus

27,03€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Originally published in 1930 and now considered the standard work on the subject, this lively history is now available only from the University of New Mexico Press."A vivacious and accurate chronicle of one of the great highways of commerce."--Henry Steele Commager"Best of this century on the subject; swift reading."--J. Frank Dobie
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High And Dry - The Texas-New Mexico Struggle For The Pecos River

de G.E. Hall

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 Water law, water politics, and especially water shenanigans are at the centre of this book about New Mexico and Texas dividing the Pecos River. It is part memoir, part biography, and part environmental history, part the history of hydrology, and part a contribution to the annals of litigation in the great tradition of Anthony Lewis and Jonathan Harr.
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The Silver King - The Remarkable Life Of The Count Of Regia In Colonial Mexico

de Edith Boorstein Couturier

44,55€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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The Collapse Of Price'S Raid - The Beginning Of The End In Civil War Missouri

de Mark A. Lause

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Yankee Warhorse - A Biography Of Major General Peter Osterhaus

de Mary Bobbitt Townsend

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 A German-born Union officer in the American Civil War, Maj. Gen. Peter Osterhaus served from the first clash in the western theatre until the final surrender of the war. This full-length study of the officer documents how, despite his meteoric military career, his accomplishments were underreported and often misrepresented in the historical record.
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Thomas Ewing Jr. - Frontier Lawyer And Civil War General

de Ronald D. Smith

42,43€

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 An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the American Midwest for more than fifty years. Smith introduces us to the Ewing family, to show that Tom Jr. had a remarkable career of his own: first as a real estate lawyer, judge, soldier, and speculator in Kansas, then as a key figure in national politics.
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The Missouri Mormon Experience

38,56€

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 The Mormon presence in nineteenth-century Missouri was uneasy at best and at times flared into violence. By the end of 1838, blood was shed, and Governor Lilburn Boggs ordered that Mormons were to be ""exterminated or driven from the state. This book reexamines Mormon-Missourian history within the sociocultural context of its time.
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Knut Hamsun Remembers America - Essays And Stories, 1885-1949

de Knut Hamsun

38,56€

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 Knut Hamsen remains one of the most important and influential novelists of his time. This volume offers a collection of thirteen essays and stories based largely on Hamsun's experiences during the four years he spent in the US when he was a young man. Most of these pieces have never been published before in an English translation.
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From Home Guards To Heroes - The 87th Pennsylvania And Its Civil War Community

de Dennis W. Brandt

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 The soldiers of the 87th Pennsylvania Infantry fought in the Overland campaign and in the Shenandoah valley. Dennis Brandt's unique regimental history investigates why these ""boys from York"" enlisted and why some deserted, the ways in which soldiers reflected their home communities, and the area's attitudes toward the war.
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Creating Identity In The Victorian Fictional Autobiography

de Heidi L. Pennington

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 Provides the first book-length study of the fictional autobiography, a subgenre that is at once widely recognizable and rarely examined. Heidi L. Pennington shows that the narrative form and genre expectations associated with the fictional autobiography in the Victorian period engages readers in a sustained meditation on the fictional processes that construct selfhood both in and beyond the text.
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Bugle Resounding - Music And Musicians Of The Civil War Era

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 This anthology grew out of the first two National Conferences on Music of the Civil War Era. Those conferences established an academic setting solely devoted to exploring the effects of the Civil War on music and musicians. Bridging musicology and history, these essays represent the forefront of scholarship in music of the Civil War era.
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Gettysburg To Vicksburg - The Five Original Civil War Battlefield Parks

de A.J. Meek e Herman Hattaway

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 A pictorial history of the first five Civil War battlefield parks: Gettysburg, Shiloh, Antietam, Vicksburg and Chickamauga. There are more than 100 photographs of the battlefields, along with a brief history of these major battles and of the formation of the parks on the battlefield grounds.
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The Zunis - Self-Portrayals

de The Zuni People

28,26€

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 Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.
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Texas In The Confederacy - An Experiment In Nation Building

de Clayton E. Jewett

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 Historians examining the Confederacy have often assumed the existence of a monolithic South unified behind the politics and culture of slavery. In addition, they have argued for the emergence of a strong central state government in the Confederacy. This book challenges such assumptions.
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Byline, Richard Wright - Articles From The Daily Worker And New Masses

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 A writer perhaps best known for the revolutionary works Black Boy and Native Son, Richard Wright also worked as a journalist during one of the most explosive periods of the 20th century. Byline, Richard Wright assembles more than one hundred articles plus two of Wrightâ€™s essays from New Masses, revealing to readers the early work of an American icon.
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Thomas Ewing Jr. - Frontier Lawyer And Civil War General

de Ronald D. Smith

69,53€

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 An Ohio family with roots in the South, the Ewings influenced the course of the Midwest for more than fifty years. This book describes the seat-of-the-pants law practice in which Ewing worked with his brothers Hugh and Charlie and foster brother Cump. It tells a chapter of Kansas history and offers views of antebellum America, and the Civil War.
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Imagining Geronimo - An Apache Icon In Popular Culture

de William M. Clements

33,41€

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 Clements's study examines Americans' changing sense of Geronimo and looks at the ways Geronimo tried to maintain control of his own image during more than twenty years in which he was a prisoner of war.
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What Wars Leave Behind - The Faceless And The Forgotten

de J. Malcolm Garcia

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 They bear labels instead of names - noncombatant, unintended victim, collateral damage. Theirs are the blurred faces and forms seen in news footage shot from a moving vehicle. They have stories to tell to anyone who will pause long enough to hear them. In What Wars Leave Behind, J. Malcolm Garcia reveals the people and pain behind the statistics.
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The State Park Movement In America - A Critical Review

de Ney C. (Director Emeritus Of The Florida Division Of Recreation And Parks, Usa) Landrum

42,43€

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Bugle Resounding - Music And Musicians Of The Civil War Era

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 This anthology grew out of the first two National Conferences on Music of the Civil War Era. Those conferences established an academic setting solely devoted to exploring the effects of the Civil War on music and musicians. Bridging musicology and history, these essays represent the forefront of scholarship in music of the Civil War era.
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The Fictional World Of William Hoffman

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 An assessment of the work of William Hoffman. It includes commentary and analysis from fellow writers such as Fred Chappell and George Garrett, as well as from established and emerging critics, including Martha Cook, Jeanne Nostrandt and Gordon Van Ness.
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Transplanting The Great Society - Lyndon Johnson And Food For Peace

de Kristin L. Ahlberg

68,24€

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 Traces the transformation of Public Law 480 from a means of liquidating domestic surplus into a vital component of US foreign policy. This title focuses on how Lyndon Johnson sought to re-create his Great Society reforms on a global scale by exporting programs designed to improve the lives of world citizens through combating food shortages.
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