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Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a bold reinterpretation of the role of race and racial discrimination in the American labour movement. Paul Moreno applies insights of the... Læs mere
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The River Flows on: Black Resistance, Culture, and Identity Formation in Early America (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers an impressively broad examination of slave resistance in America, spanning the colonial and antebellum eras in both the North and South and covering all forms of recalcitrance, from major revolts and rebellions to everyday acts of disobedience.
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Human Rights: Fact or Fancy? (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In his provocative and highly readable study, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?, Henry B. Veatch finds the basis for human rights in natural law. He builds his argument step by... Læs mere
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The New Orleans of George Washington Cable: The 1887 Census Office Report (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In 1880, George Washington Cable was commissioned to write a “historical sketch” of pre-Civil War New Orleans for a special... Læs mere
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Sex at Noon Taxes: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Playfully invading the traditional territories of poetry, Sally Van Doren throws into question form, subject matter, and the sound and meaning of words. The poems in Sex at Noon... Læs mere
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Blind Rain: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In his newest collection, Bruce Bond transforms the known and the familiar into something surreal and new. With spare, unadorned language, he complicates what it is to be both bound to... Læs mere
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Glory River: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
In Glory River, David Huddle's poems pit precise observation, extravagant language, and humour against despair in an attempt to find a way to live in a new century in which the values of the past are dissolving and those of the future are frightening.
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The Long Fault: Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)Levering: Skaffevare (forvent 14 - 30 hverdage)
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John Washington's Civil War: A Slave Narrative (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
An unprecedented window into the life of a Virginia bondsman, John Washington's Civil War communicates with real urgency what it meant to be a slave during a period of extreme crisis that sounded the notes of freedom for some and the end of a way of life for others.
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Nothing but Freedom: Emancipation and Its Legacy (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the aftermath of emancipation in the South and the restructuring of society by which the former slaves gained, beyond their freedom, a new relation to the land they worked on, to the men they worked for, and to the government they lived under.
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Emmett Till in Literary Memory and Imagination (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The horrific 1955 slaying of fourteen-year-old Emmett Till marks a significant turning point in the history of American race relations. The eleven essays... Læs mere
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Moon Road: Poems, 1986-2005 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
From poems of memory and family through its extraordinary voyaging sequences “Via Appia” and “To Ithaca”, Ron Smith's Moon Road embodies the experiences and some of the more elusive lessons of marriage, fatherhood, teaching, sports, and travel.
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