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Blind Vengeance - The Roy Moody Mail Bomb Murders

de Ray Jenkins

41,24€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Ray Jenkins's research is based on new information from interviews, record searches, and unprecedented access to Moody's psychiatric profile. The result is a chilling exploration of the mind of a killer blinded by a desire for revenge.
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Looking For De Soto - A Search Through The South For The Spaniard'S Trail

de Joyce Rockwood Hudson

37,18€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 Looking for De Soto is the journal Joyce Hudson kept, as she accompanied her husband on a four-thousand-mile trek. It provides a warmly humane account of the people they met and the places they saw as they searched for De Soto's trail beneath railroad tracks and two-lane blacktops, along riverbanks and mountain ridges, from Florida to Texas.
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An Island In The Lake Of Fire - Bob Jones University, Fundamentalism, And The Separatist Movement

de Mark Taylor Dalhouse

34,48€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 The Religious Right's most dogmatic and resolute faction has its roots in three generations of the Bob Jones family of Greenville, South Carolina. An Island in the Lake of Fire is the first in-depth history of this militantly separatist, ultrafundamentalist dynasty to be written by an "outsider" with the Joneses' cooperation.
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Paternalism In A Southern City - Race, Religion, And Gender In Augusta, Georgia

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 These essays focus on paternalism between masters and slaves, husbands and wives, elites and the masses, and industrialists and workers. The varied and creative responses to paternalism discussed here open new ways to view relationships based on power and negotiated between men and women, blacks and whites, and the prosperous and the poor.
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Lachlan Mcgillivray, Indian Trader - The Shaping Of The Southern Colonial Frontier

de Edward J. Cashin

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 By following the career of one influential trader (Lachlan McGillivray) from 1736 to 1776, Cashin presents a historical perspective of the frontier, as a zone of interaction between many cultures. Cashin profiles the figures who catalyzed the power struggles and explains events from the vantage points of traders and Native Americans.
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Parties, Slavery, And The Union In Antebellum Georgia

de Anthony Gene Carey

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 Before the Civil War, two ideological cornerstones were laid that would eventually lead to Georgia's secession: the protection of white men's liberty and the defense of African slavery. Secession, the ultimate expression of white unity, flowed logically from the values, attitudes, and antagonisms developed during these decades of political strife.
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Music In Eighteenth-Century Georgia

de Ron Byrnside

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 This volume explores the musical landscape of Georgia's colonial period, from traditional ballads and operatic productions to John Wesley's first hymn book and New England fuging tunes that took root in south Georgia in the latter half of the century.
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Shadows On My Heart - The Civil War Diary Of Lucy Rebecca Buck Of Virginia

de Lucy Rebecca Buck

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 This chronicle mirrors the experience of many women torn between loyalty to the Confederate cause and dissatisfaction with the unrealistic ideology of white southern womanhood. In powerful, unsentimental language, Buck's diary reveals her anger and ambivalence about the challenges thrust upon her, her family, and the world as she knew it.
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The History Of Indiana Law

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 Long regarded as a center for middle-American values, Indiana is also a cultural crossroads that has produced a rich and complex legal and constitutional heritage.
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Gibbons V. Ogden, Law, And Society In The Early Republic

de Thomas H. Cox

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 Decided in 1824, Gibbons v Ogden arose out of litigation between owners of rival steamboat lines over passenger and freight routes between the neighboring states of New York and New Jersey. This title examines a landmark decision in American jurisprudence, the first Supreme Court case to deal with the thorny legal issue of interstate commerce.
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Democracy In Session - A History Of The Ohio General Assembly

de David M. Gold

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 For more than 200 years no institution has been more important to the development of the American democratic polity than the state legislature, yet no political institution has been so neglected by historians. Although more lawmaking takes place in the state capitals than in Washington D.C.,
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No Winners Here Tonight - Race, Politics, And Geography In One Of The Country'S Busiest Death Penalty States

de Andrew Welsh-Huggins

29,60€

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 Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. Some form of capital punishment has existed in America for hundreds of years, yet the justification for carrying out the ultimate sentence is a continuing source of controversy. This book explores the history of the death penalty.
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No Winners Here Tonight - Race, Politics, And Geography In One Of The Country'S Busiest Death Penalty States

de Andrew Welsh-Huggins

63,09€

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 Few subjects are as intensely debated in the United States as the death penalty. This book explores the history of the death penalty and the question of its fairness through the experience of a single state, Ohio, which, despite its moderate midwestern values, has long had one of the country's active death chambers.
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The Rescue Of Joshua Glover - A Fugitive Slave, The Constitution, And The Coming Of The Civil War

de H. Robert Baker

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 The events leading up o the Civil War included the lawful capture and then the "unlawful" release by force of a fugitive slave by a mob of sympathizers outside a Milwaukee courthouse. This book looks at the ensuing trial between the state and federal government over the constitution-ality of the fugitive slave act.
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Wantedâ€”Correspondence - Women'S Letters To A Union Soldier

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 A collection of 150 letters that offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. It reveals details of the lives of mostly young, single women - friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier's advertisement for correspondents.
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Wantedâ€”Correspondence - Women'S Letters To A Union Soldier

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 A collection of 150 letters that offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front. It reveals details of the lives of mostly young, single women - friends, acquaintances, love interests, and strangers who responded to one Union soldier's advertisement for correspondents.
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American Pogrom - The East St. Louis Race Riot And Black Politics

de Charles L. Lumpkins

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 On July 2 and 3, 1917, a mob of white men and women looted and torched the homes and businesses of African Americans in the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois.
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Our First Family'S Home - The Ohio Governor'S Residence And Heritage Garden

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 Tells the story of the home that has served as Ohio's executive residence since 1957, and of the nine governors and their families who have lived in the house. This book offers a history of the residence and garden that represent Ohio to visiting dignitaries and the citizens of the state alike.
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The History Of Nebraska Law

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 In the aftermath of the Civil War, legislators in the Nebraska Territory grappled with the responsibility of forming a state government as well as with the larger issues of reconstructing the Union, protecting civil rights, and redefining federal-state relations.
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The Fairer Death - Executing Women In Ohio

de Victor L. Streib

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 Women on death row are such a rarity that, once condemned, they may be ignored and forgotten. Ohio, a typical, middle-of-the-road death penalty state, provides a telling example of this phenomenon.
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The Fairer Death - Executing Women In Ohio

de Victor L. Streib

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 Women on death row are such a rarity that, once condemned, they may be ignored and forgotten. Ohio, a typical, middle-of-the-road death penalty state, provides a telling example of this phenomenon.
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Closing Arguments - Clarence Darrow On Religion, Law, And Society

de Clarence Darrow

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 Clarence Darrow, son of a village undertaker and coffinmaker, rose to become one of Americaâ€™s greatest attorneysâ€"and surely its most famous. The Ohio native gained renown for his central role in momentous trials, including his 1924 defense of Leopold and Loeb and his defense of Darwinian principles in the 1925 Scopes â€œMonkey Trial.â€
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The Fin-De-Siecle Poem - English Literary Culture And The 1890s

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 This edited collection shows how a strikingly rich body of lyrical and narrative poems anticipated many of the developments traditionally attributed to Modernism.
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The Black Laws - Race And The Legal Process In Early Ohio

de Stephen Middleton

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 Beginning in 1803, the Ohio legislature enacted what came to be known as the Black Laws. These laws instituted barriers against blacks entering the state and placed limits on black testimony against whites.
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