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The Midwest region holds a pivotal place in the tapestry of American history.The Oxford Handbook of Midwestern History delves into this rich heritage with chapters on topics ranging from the early Native American and French Midwest to the impact of the Northwest...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-05-09
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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A highly original reinterpretation of how race and class shaped the entirety of Southern history through the experience of four interconnected family lines.
The Southern Fault Line explores the under-appreciated division in the South between the oligarchic rule of...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2025-02-03
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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For most of its existence, the US Supreme Court has sustained slavery, racial discrimination, segregation, racial inequality, and white preference through constitutional interpretation and legal doctrine. During America's first two centuries, slavery was the law of the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2024-10-04
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Exposing the U.S. government's biggest-kept secret: a fifty-eight-year UFO cover-up.Top Secret/Majic is the result of nuclear physicist and renowned UFO investigator Stanton T. Friedman's twenty-one year search for the truth about the mysterious Operation...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2023-10-10
Format(s) : ePub
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The new edition of the most up-to-date, interdisciplinary history of Ohio currently available Now in its second edition, Ohio: A History of the Buckeye State surveys the long and rich history of Ohio from its earliest geological periods to the present day. Designed for...
Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2023-03-28
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYAn "important, deeply affecting—and regrettably relevant" (New York Times) chronicle of a sinister idea of freedom: white Americans’ freedom to oppress others and their fight against the...
Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2022-11-22
Format(s) : ePub
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13,99€ (-7%)
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Rescue Me meets Blue Bloods in this riveting social history of the New York City Fire Department told from the perspective of the Feehan family, who served in the FDNY for four generations and counting.Seen through the eyes of four generations of a firefighter family,...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2022-09-06
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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The gritty, true blue story of two remarkable cops and an equally extraordinary nurse who provided the spirit and smarts that transformed Fear City into the safest big city in America.NEW YORK'S FINEST is the story of a city's transformation through the tireless...
Editeur : Twelve
Parution : 2021-12-07
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
11,99€ (-17%)
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Finalist, Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Award for Best New Book on Drinks Culture, History, or Spirits“An impassioned case against a senseless system . . . Come for the cocktail recipes, stay for the call to arms.” —Clay Risen, author of American...
Editeur : Artisan
Parution : 2020-10-06
Format(s) : ePub
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**Winner of the 2021 Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins’ Award for Best Book of Nonfiction**One part Columbine, one part God Save Texas, Joe Holley's riveting, compassionate book examines the 2017 mass shooting at a church in a small Texas town,...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2020-03-17
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
12,99€ (-8%)
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Insulting the president is an American tradition. From Washington to Trump, presidents have been called "lazy," "feeble," "pusillanimous," and more. Our leaders have been derided as "ignoramuses," "idiots," "morons," and "fatheads," and have been compared to all manner...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2020-03-11
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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'Captivating and emotional' 5* reader review'A riveting and heart wrenching read' 5* reader reviewFrom the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the...
Editeur : Quercus
Parution : 2019-10-22
Format(s) : ePub
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A surreal, lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil...
Editeur : PublicAffairs
Parution : 2018-04-24
Format(s) : ePub
Offre spéciale
15,99€ (-13%)
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When first opened to the public in 1853, New York's Crystal Palace created a sensation. Those who had seen London's Crystal Palace, the structure it was openly intended to emulate, argued that America's copy far surpassed it. Built in what is today Bryant Park, a...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2018-01-10
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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How could the same person be classified by the US census as black in 1900, mulatto in 1910, and white in 1920? The history of categories used by the US census reflects a country whose identity and self-understanding--particularly its social construction of race--is...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-06-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-05-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Started in the wake of George Zimmerman's 2013 acquittal in the death of Trayvon Martin, the #BlackLivesMatter movement has become a powerful and uncompromising campaign demanding redress for the brutal and unjustified treatment of black bodies by law enforcement in the...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2017-05-01
Format(s) : PDF
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In the summer of 1978, residents of Love Canal, a suburban development in Niagara Falls, NY, began protesting against the leaking toxic waste dump in their midst-a sixteen-acre site containing 100,000 barrels of chemical waste that anchored their neighborhood. Initially...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-04-12
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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To most people, the term "opera house" conjures up images of mink-coated dowagers accompanied by tuxedo-clad men in the gilded interiors of opulent buildings like the Met in New York or La Scala in Milan. However, the opera house in the United States has a far more...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2016-02-23
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces...
Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-08-01
Format(s) : PDF, ePub
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