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  • af John B. Boles
    340,95 kr.

    On such diverse issues as black population growth, the strength of the slave family, the efficiency and profitability of slavery, the diet and health care of bondsmen, the maturation of slave culture, the varieties of slave resistance, and the participation of blacks in the Civil War, Black Southerners provides a balanced and judicious treatment.

  • - A Saga of Southern Women
    af Margaret Ripley Wolfe
    368,95 kr.

    From Gone with the Wind to Designing Women, images of southern females that emerge from fiction and film tend to obscure the diversity of American women from below the Mason-Dixon line.

  • af Roger Biles
    244,95 kr.

    The Lion and the Star not only offers an informed glimpse into the intricacies of daily German life but also confirms the continuing danger of making sweeping generalizations about German Jews and non-Jews.

  • - Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980
    af Gilbert C. Fite
    372,95 kr.

    Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture.

  • - A Political History
    af Dewey W. Grantham
    372,95 kr.

    It was the mechanism that determined who would govern in the states and localities, and in national politics it was the means through which the South's politicians defended their region's special interests and political autonomy.

  • af J. A. Bryant
    372,95 kr.

    The author of over eighty novels, plays, and volumes of poetry, Eliza Haywood is one of the most prolific and high-profile female authors of the eighteenth century. Her last novel, The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, is original for its unsentimental

  • af James C. Cobb
    297,95 kr.

    Vernon and Irene Castle popularized ragtime dancing in the years just before World War I and made dancing a respectable pastime in America. The whisper-thin, elegant Castles were trendsetters in many ways: they traveled with a black orchestra, had an open

  • - An Environmental History
    af Albert E. Cowdrey
    367,95 kr.

    Here is the story of the long interaction between humans, land, and climate in the American South. Originally published in 1983 and needed now more than ever, This Land, This South was the first book to explore the cumulative impact of humans on the southern landscape and its effect on them.

  • - Southern Politics in the Nineteenth Century
    af Robert F. Durden
    222,95 kr.

    The essentially tragic political fate of the American South in the nineteenth century resulted from what Robert F. As the possibility of a ban on slavery in the territories rose to the center of national attention during and after the Mexican War, the South's views on the "peculiar institution" became increasingly defensive and intransigent.

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