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U.S. Constitution(2018) BODENHAMER, DAVID J. (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE POLIS CENTER AND PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE POLIS CENTER AND PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, INDIANA UNIVERSITY-PURDUE UNIVERSITY INDIANAPOLIS)The U.S. Constitution: A Very Short Introduction explores the major themes of American constitutional history--federalism, the balance of powers, property, representation, equality, rights, and security. Informed by the latest scholarship, each theme illuVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Freedom from Fear(2001) KENNEDY, DAVID M. (DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, DONALD J. MCLACHLAN PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY)Between 1929 and 1945, two great travails were visited upon the American people: the Great Depression and World War II. Freedom from Fear tells the story of how Americans endured, and eventually prevailed, in the face of those unprecedented calamities.Vezava: Mehka30,83 €
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Harlem Renaissance(2016) WALL, CHERYL A. (BOARD OF GOVERNORS ZORA NEALE HURSTON PROFESSOR, BOARD OF GOVERNORS ZORA NEALE HURSTON PROFESSOR, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY)This Very Short Introduction offers an overview of the Harlem Renaissance, a cultural awakening among African Americans between the two world wars. Cheryl A. Wall brings readers to the Harlem of 1920s to identify the cultural themes and issues that engageVezava: Mehka14,01 €
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Question of Standing(2022) JEFFREYS-JONES, RHODRI (PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HONORARY FELLOW, PROFESSOR EMERITUS OF AMERICAN HISTORY AND HONORARY FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balancedVezava: Trda38,54 €
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass(2022) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKIn his final autobiography, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass Written By Himself, Frederick Douglass shares the stories of his 'several lives in one.' He does powerful justice to his lives lived in U.S. slavery, in the fight for abolition, and in the 'Vezava: Mehka14,01 €
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My Bondage and My Freedom(2019) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKMy Bondage and My Freedom is the second of Frederick Douglass's full-length autobiographies. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
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Does Scripture Speak for Itself?(2022) HICKS-KEETON, JILL (UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA),CONCANNON, CAVAN (UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA)Examines the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC, and how race, money, and institution-building shape fights over the Bible and Christianity in US public life. This book will be essential for readers interested in evangelicalism, the study of the Bible,Vezava: Trda40,97 €
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Little Lindy Is Kidnapped(2022) DOHERTY, THOMASThomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime ofVezava: Mehka27,45 €
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Little Lindy Is Kidnapped(2020) DOHERTY, THOMASThomas Doherty offers a lively and comprehensive cultural history of the media coverage of the abduction of the child of Charles and Anne Lindbergh and its aftermath. He traces how newspapers, radio, and newsreels reported on what was dubbed the “crime ofVezava: Trda23,52 €
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Dangerous Medicine(2022) HALPERN, SYDNEY A.The untold history of America’s mid-twentieth-century program of hepatitis infection research, its scientists’ aspirations, and the damage the project caused human subjectsVezava: Trda47,52 €
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Return of Great Power Rivalry(2020) KROENIG, MATTHEW (PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT, PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF GOVERNMENT, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY)Vezava: Trda53,21 €
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Rebirthing a Nation(2021) ANDERSON, WENDY K. Z.Details how white nationalist and alt-right women refine racist rhetoric and web design as a means of protection and simultaneous instantiation of white supremacy, which conservative political actors including Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Kellyanne Conway,Vezava: Mehka70,24 €
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Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die(2020) GUTMANN, AMY (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA),MORENO, JONATHAN D. (UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA)An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over the last sixty years.Vezava: Mehka23,27 €
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Masters and Servants(2019) STEPHEN, SCOTT P. (ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, CENTRE FOR RUPERT'S LAND STUDIES, UWINNIPEG, HISTORIAN, ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY BRANCH PARKS CANADA / GOVERNMENT OF CANADA)An essential examination of the role of labourers in early modern Atlantic political-economic history.Vezava: Mehka64,85 €
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JFK Assassination Dissected(2021) WECHT, CYRIL H.,KAUFMANN, DAWNASince the day that President John F. Kennedy was murdered in Dallas, Dr Cyril Wecht has earned his reputation as one of the foremost skeptics of the US government's official answer to the death of the 35th president. Co-authored by true crime writer DawnaVezava: Mehka56,93 €
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Murder in the Neighbourhood(2022) GREEN, ELLEN J.Through the Gate explores the story of the first recorded mass shooting in the United States.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €