2,109円 Dal XVIII secolo una variegata umanità di donne e di uomini è giunta negli Stati Uniti per cercare lavoro e fortuna. Questo libro racconta la storia di quella parte di loro che, pur trovandosi a vivere in un contesto che esalta il successo individuale, ha cercato di lottare collettivamente per i ...

617円 Hace 18 años se publicó el libro En donde se mete el sol…, en el que se documentó lo que, al parecer, constituía un inminente proceso de asimilación y extinción de los indígenas de Baja California. En consonancia con las teorías transculturales de la época, dicho trabajo mostraba el abandono de l...

9,616円 Dressing Global Bodies addresses the complex politics of dress and fashion from a global perspective spanning four centuries, tying the early global to more contemporary times, to reveal clothing practice as a key cultural phenomenon and mechanism of defining one’s identity. This collection of es...

700円 Five decades have now passed since a major university proudly announced the existence of the Vinland Map to the world. Hailed as the "oldest known map showing American lands," its publication was greeted with a wave of chaotic controversy. To this day, despite being widely denounced as a forgery,...

3,447円 How did Hawaiian and Polynesian culture come to dramatically alter American music, fashion and decor, as well as ideas about race, in less than a century? It began with mainland hula and musical performances in the late 19th century, rose dramatically as millions shipped to Hawaii during the Paci...

150円 What most people know of George Washington comes from myths, legends and a few classes in U.S. history. While much of that information is interesting and even fascinating, the fact is that not all of it is true. However, that isn't to suggest that the real George Washington wasn't interesting or ...

1,500円 Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the history of the Titanic in next to no time with this concise guide. 50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the voyage of the Titanic.When the Titanic liner set sail from Southampton on 10 April 1912, the passengers on board ha...

1,500円 Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Cristóbal Colón, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo. En tan solo 50 minutos, usted podrá: • Descubrir la biografía de Cristóbal Colón y el contexto político, social y económico en el que se enmarcan ...

2,500円 Einst waren sie unzertrennlich, seit fünf Jahren sprechen sie nicht mehr miteinander, doch die eine wacht insgeheim über die andere. Jetzt aber ist die Lage bedrohlich geworden: Mickey, Streifenpolizistin in Philadelphia, findet ihre drogenabhängige Schwester Kacey nicht mehr auf den Straßen der ...

700円 The First 400 illuminates the reality that debt peonage, convict leasing, sharecropping, and militarized policing were the spawns of antebellum slavery proving that the gist of this heinous practice has a shelf life which extends much further than Emancipation. From the account of possibly the fi...

4,227円 Huguenot refugees were everywhere in the early modern world. French Protestant exiles fleeing persecution following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, they scattered around Europe, North America, the Caribbean, South Africa, and even remote islands in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. T...

1,850円 At the dawn of the twentieth century, before good roads were common and everyone owned an automobile, Northwestern Ohio was home of the Toledo, Port Clinton and Lakeside Railway. The TPC&L began operating in 1905 and didn't entirely close down until 1958, decades after other railways like it were...