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The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950's (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Originally published in 1969, The Rise of Massive Resistance was the first scholarly work to deal decisively with the... Læs mere
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Stephen Sayre: American Revolutionary Adventurer (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Following the dizzying course of Stephen Sayre's career, this biography reveals a vast panorama of life, both high and low, in the era of the American Revolution.
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Gentle Tiger: The Gallant Life of Roberdeau Wheat (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Chatham Roberdeau Wheat has rightly been called the grandest of Civil War heroes. Born a Virginia gentleman, this handsome giant was by turns lawyer,... Læs mere
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Passing Through Customs: New and Selected Poems (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Gibbons Ruark is a poetic naturalist, bending close to his subject to report with precision the complexity of beauty we overlook in our haste. A truly... Læs mere
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Secessionists and Other Scoundrels: Selections from Parson Brownlow's Book (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Civil War scholars and enthusiasts will welcome Secessionists and Other Scoundrels as an exciting and entertaining opportunity to be reintroduced to one of the era's most colourful and controversial characters.
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Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats That Won World War II (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Andrew Jackson Higgins is perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. He designed the LCVP (landing craft vehicle, personnel) that... Læs mere
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Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience During the Civil War (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
After the US Civil War, Native Guard veterans took up the struggle for civil rights - in particular, voting rights - for... Læs mere
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The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this indispensable volume, John Burt, Robert Penn Warren's literary executor, has assembled every poem Warren ever published (with the exception of Brother... Læs mere
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The Civil War Diary of Cyrus F. Boyd, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, 1861-1863 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A native of Warren County, Iowa, Cyrus F. Boyd served a year and a half as an orderly sergeant with the Fifteenth Iowa Infantry before becoming first lieutenant in Company B of the Thirty-Fourth Iowa Infantry. His diary offers a full account of soldiering in the Union Army.
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Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in... Læs mere
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The Confederate State of Richmond: A Biography of the Capital (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Blending official documents and city council minutes with personal diaries and newspaper accounts, Emory Thomas vividly recounts the... Læs mere
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Flight: A Novel (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Published amid controversy in 1926, Flight focuses on the dilemma of Mimi Daquin, a light-complexioned African American woman who passes, for a time, as white. When her family moves to Atlanta, she embarks on a lifelong lesson about what it really means to belong to a people.
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