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Washington at the Plow(2021) RAGSDALE, BRUCE A.George Washington spent most of his time farming, often employing experimental methods. Washington saw slave-powered scientific agriculture as the key to the nation’s prosperity. Bruce Ragsdale argues that it was slave labor’s inefficiency as much as itsVezava: Trda42,91 € -
Herring and People of the North Pacific(2021) THORNTON, THOMAS F. (DEAN OF ARTS AND SCIENCES),MOSS, MADONNA L. (UNIVERSITY OF OREGON)A unique look at Indigenous knowledge, fisheries management, and marine ecologyHerring are vital to the productivity and health of marine systems, and socio-ecologically Pacific herring (Clupea pallasii) is one of the most important fish species in the NoVezava: Mehka64,53 € -
Guaman Poma(2000) ADORNO, ROLENAPresents the work of Guaman Poma, a native Andean born after the fall of the Incas, who protested against Spanish rule.Vezava: Mehka36,58 € -
First Black Archaeologist(2022) LEE, JOHN W.I. (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA)This is the very first book-length biography of John Wesley Gilbert, a man famous as "the first black archaeologist." The book uses previously unstudied sources to reveal the triumphs and challenges of an overlooked pioneer in American archaeology.Vezava: Trda51,72 € -
Only the Clothes on Her Back(2022) EDWARDS, LAURA F. (CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, CLASS OF 1921 BICENTENNIAL PROFESSOR OF AMERICAN LAW AND LIBERTY, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)Only the Clothes on Her Back illuminates the ways in which women, men of color, and poor people used textiles as a form of property that enabled them to gain access to the legal system and to exercise political power.Vezava: Trda63,66 € -
Scars on the Land(2022) SILKENAT, DAVID (SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, SENIOR LECTURER IN AMERICAN HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH)Scars on the Land is the first comprehensive history of American slavery to examine how the environment fundamentally formed enslaved people's lives and how slavery remade the Southern landscape.Vezava: Trda57,95 € -
Chiefs Now in This City(2021) CALLOWAY, COLIN G. (JOHN KIMBALL JR. 1943 PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, JOHN KIMBALL JR. 1943 PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES, DARTMOUTH COLLEGE)Vezava: Trda43,45 € -
Campus Color Line(2022) COLE, EDDIE R.The remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America's most pressing civil rights issues-desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free speech-have been clVezava: Mehka19,24 € -
Campus Color Line(2020) COLE, EDDIE R.The remarkable history of how college presidents shaped the struggle for racial equalitySome of America's most pressing civil rights issues-desegregation, equal educational and employment opportunities, housing discrimination, and free speech-have been clVezava: Trda16,63 € -
Dreamworlds of Race(2020) BELL, DUNCANHow transatlantic thinkers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries promoted the unification of Britain and the United StatesBetween the late nineteenth century and the First World War an ocean-spanning network of prominent individuals advocatVezava: Trda62,48 € -
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Polarization(2019) MCCARTY, NOLAN (SUSAN DOD BROWN PROFESSOR OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, SUSAN DOD BROWN PROFESSOR OF POLITICS AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY)Nolan McCarty's Polarization: What Everyone Needs to Know ® is an accessible introduction to polarization in America. McCarty takes readers through what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of our rising politicalVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
American Business History(2020) FRIEDMAN, WALTER A. (DIRECTOR OF THE BUSINESS HISTORY INITIATIVE AND LECTURER, DIRECTOR OF THE BUSINESS HISTORY INITIATIVE AND LECTURER, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL)Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Walk with Me(2021) LARSON, KATE CLIFFORD (BRANDEIS WOMEN'S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER SCHOLAR, BRANDEIS WOMEN'S STUDIES RESEARCH CENTER SCHOLAR, BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY)From bestselling biographer Kate Clifford Larson comes the first full portrait of Fannie Lou Hamer and her galvanic part in the greatest social movement of our era.Vezava: Trda40,91 €
