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Salvador(2019) DIDION, JOAN'It is quite impossible to deny the artistic brilliance of her reportage. [Didion] brings El Salvador to life so that it ends up invading our flesh.' - New York TimesVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Slavery(2021)While the depth of Americans' historiographical engagement with slavery is not surprising, the range and sheer volume of writing on the subject can be overwhelming. Editors Aaron Astor and Thomas Buchanan, together with a team of expert contributors, highVezava: Mehka60,83 € -
Importance of Not Being Ernest(2022) KURLANSKY, MARKIn The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to his own. This memoir and biography contains an in-depthVezava: Trda30,81 € -
Inca(2022) LANE, KEVINA new account of the Inca, who in their heyday were at the pinnacle of South American civilizationVezava: Trda25,23 € -
Rising of the Women(2022) TAX, MEREDITHHow working-class socialist women changed the course of American history.Vezava: Mehka38,00 € -
When Britain Burned the White House(2014) SNOW, PETERThe 1814 invasion of Washington.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bartonellas and Peruvian Medicine(2019) ALARCON, GRACIELA S,ALARCON, RENATO DExplores the events surrounding the discovery of the etio-pathogenic agent of the Oroya Fever, also known as Peruvian Verruga or Carrión's disease by Dr. Alberto Leonardo Barton. Graciela S. Alarcón and Renato D. Alarcón recount Barton's persistent work aVezava: Mehka42,33 € -
Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870(2020) ZVENGROWSKI, JEFFREYIn this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America.Vezava: Trda82,86 € -
Avengers of the New World(2005) DUBOIS, LAURENTThe first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters on Saint-Domingue. Dubois weaves the stories of slaves, free people of African descent, wealthy whites, and French adVezava: Mehka41,31 € -
Race and Reunion(2002) BLIGHT, DAVID W.No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and revVezava: Mehka30,17 € -
O Say Can You Hear?(2022) CLAGUE, MARKThe fascinating story of America’s national anthem and a search for the source of its powerful meaning todayVezava: Trda38,24 € -
Vicksburg Besieged(2020)Offers a detailed analysis of the end of the Vicksburg Campaign and the forty-day siege. Ranging in scope from military to social history, contributors examine the role of Grant's staff, contributions of African American troops to the Union Army of the TeVezava: Trda42,76 € -
Vicksburg Assaults(2019)This anthology is an in-depth examination of General Ulysses S. Grant's unsuccessful assaults against Confederate defensive lines around the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi, on May 19 and May 22, 1863. Steven E. Woodworth and Charles D. Grear have assembleVezava: Trda39,90 € -
Pearl Harbor(2018) NELSON, CRAIGThe gripping and definitive account of the Day of Infamy, the attack on Pearl Harbor that led to the United States' entry into the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
50 Years of Rolling Stone: The Music, Politics and People that Changed Our Culture(2017) ROLLING STONE LLC,WENNER, JANN S.A lavish book celebrating 50 years of Rolling Stone magazine--one of the most iconic and influential voices in American music and cultureVezava: Trda70,98 €
