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The Washington Apple - Orchards And The Development Of Industrial Agriculture

de Amanda L. Van Lanen

36,44€ + 10% EM CARTÃO

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 How did Washington become the leading producer of Americaâ€™s most popular fruit? In this enlightening book, Amanda Van Lanen offers a comprehensive response to this question by tracing the origins, evolution, and environmental consequences of the stateâ€™s apple industry.
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Sitting On A Keg Of Dynamite - Father Bill, Texas City, And A Disaster Foretold

de John Neal Phillips

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 On April 16, 1947, the French vessel SS Grandcamp exploded in the port of Texas City, just north of Galveston, Texas. Nearly 600 people died. Among those killed was William Roach, a Roman Catholic priest known affectionately as Father Bill. Sitting on a Keg of Dynamite tells the remarkable story of Father Bill's life.
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Son Of Vengeance - Searching For The Legendary Apache Rafael

de Bradley Folsom

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 Since the early 1800s, the violent exploits of 'El Indio' Rafael through the settlements of northern New Spain have become the stuff of myth and legend. In Son of Vengeance, Bradley Folsom sets out to find the real Rafael - to extract the true story from the scant historical record and superabundance of speculation.
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Son Of Vengeance - Searching For The Legendary Apache Rafael

de Bradley Folsom

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 Since the early 1800s, the violent exploits of â€˜El Indioâ€™ Rafael through the settlements of northern New Spain have become the stuff of myth and legend. In Son of Vengeance, Bradley Folsom sets out to find the real Rafael - to extract the true story from the scant historical record and superabundance of speculation.
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The Real Contra War - Highlander Peasant Resistance In Nicaragua

de Timothy C. Brown

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 Relying on original documents, interviews with veterans, and other primary sources, Brown contradicts conventional wisdom about the Contras, debunking most of what has been written about the movementâ€™s leaders, origins, aims, and foreign support.
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The Girl Who Dared To Defy - Jane Street And The Rebel Maids Of Denver

de Jane Little Botkin

24,40€

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 In the wake of the violent labor disputes in Colorado's two-year Coalfield War, a young woman and single mother resolved in 1916 to change the status quo for 'girls,' as well-to-do women in Denver referred to their hired help. Her name was Jane Street, and this compelling biography is the first to chronicle her defiant efforts.
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Jayhawkers - The Civil War Brigade Of James Henry Lane

de Bryce Benedict

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 No person excited greater emotion in Kansas than James Henry Lane, the US senator who led a volunteer brigade in 1861-1862. This first book-length study of the 'jayhawkers', as the men of Lane's brigade were known, takes a fresh look at their exploits and notoriety.
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Diversion And Deception - Dudley Clarke'S "A" Force And Allied Operations In World War Ii

de Whitney T. Bendeck

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 Combining military and deception histories - so often viewed in isolation - this book provides context for deceptions and adds a layer of knowledge regarding the planning of military operations. The result is a more complete and nuanced view of Allied operations than is to be found in most histories of World War II.
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Race And The War On Poverty Volume 3 - From Watts To East L.A.

de Robert Bauman

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 President Lyndon B. Johnson's War on Poverty did more than offer aid to needy Americans; in some cities, it also sparked both racial conflict and cooperation. Race and the War on Poverty examines the African American and Mexican American community organizations in Los Angeles that emerged to implement War on Poverty programs.
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The Sooner Story - The University Of Oklahoma, 1890-2015

de Anne Barajas Harp

24,40€

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 Oklahoma University's remarkable journey from a treeless prairie to its present standing as a world-class institution of learning unfolds in The Sooner Story. Anne Barajas Harp examines the school's history through the lens of each presidential administration from the beginning of David Ross Boyd's tenure to David Lyle Boren's presidency.
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The Arts Of South America, 1492-1850

33,41€

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Tiwanaku - Papers From The 2005 Mayer Center Symposium At The Denver Art Museum

33,41€

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Heart Of The West - New Painting And Sculpture Of The American West

de Denver Art Museum

12,81€

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Sweet On The West - How Candy Built A Colorado Treasure

de Denver Art Museum

12,81€

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West Point Points West

de Denver Art Museum

12,81€

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Magnificent Failure - A Portrait Of The Western Homestead Era

de John Martin Campbell e Kenneth W. Karsmizki

16,68€

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After Lewis And Clark - The Forces Of Change, 1806-1871

de Gary Allen Hood

28,26€

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Numbers From Nowhere - The American Indian Contact Population Debate

de David Henige

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 Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, David Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.
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Nicodemus - Post-Reconstruction Politics And Racial Justice In Western Kansas

de Charlotte Hinger

24,40€

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 As the first well-known all-black community on the plains, Nicodemus, Kansas, became a national exemplar of black self-improvement. But Nicodemus also embodied many of the problems facing African Americans. Diverging philosophies within the community, Charlotte Hinger argues, foretold the differences that continue to divide today.
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Eastern Cherokee Stories - A Living Oral Tradition And Its Cultural Continuance

de Joyce Dugan e Sandra Muse Isaacs

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 Uses the concepts of Gadugi and Duyvkta to explore the Eastern Cherokee oral tradition, and to explain how storytelling in this tradition-as both an ancient and a contemporary literary form-is instrumental in the perpetuation of Cherokee identity and culture.
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Black Spokane - The Civil Rights Struggle In The Inland Northwest

de Dwayne A. Mack

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 In 1981, decades before mainstream America elected Barack Obama, James Chase became the first African American mayor of Spokane, Washington, with the overwhelming support of a majority-white electorate. In Black Spokane, Dwayne Mack recovers a crucial chapter in the history of race relations and civil rights in America.
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African Creeks - Estelvste And The Creek Nation

de Gary Zellar

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 Taking in the full historical sweep of African Americans among the Creeks, from the sixteenth century through Oklahoma statehood, Gary Zellar unfolds a narrative history of the many contributions these people made to Creek history.
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Dreaming With The Ancestors - Black Seminole Women In Texas And Mexico

de Shirley Boteler Mock

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 Indian freedmen and their descendants have garnered much public and scholarly attention, but women's roles have largely been absent from that discussion. Now a scholar who gained an insider's perspective into the Black Seminole community in Texas and Mexico offers a rare and vivid picture of these women and their contributions.
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Born To Serve - A History Of Texas Southern University

de Merline Pitre

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 Texas Southern University is often said to have been 'conceived in sin'. Located in Houston, the school was established in 1947 as an 'emergency' state-supported university for African Americans, to prevent the integration of the University of Texas. Born to Serve is the first book to tell the full history of TSU.
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