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Peruvian Street Lives: Culture, Power, and Economy Among Market Women of Cuzco (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Presents the cultural study of the lives and struggles the women in the open-air markets of the Andean highlands of Cuzco face. This book traces the impact on market women and market activities of distant yet enormously powerful forces, such as economic globalization.
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The Land of Journeys' Ending (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Describes the epic journey the author undertook in 1923, when she left her East Coast home at the age of fifty-five to travel through the south western United States, the... Læs mere
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No Lonesome Road: SELECTED PROSE and POEMS (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A book to celebrate the life and writing of one of the Southern leaders of the middle twentieth century, Don West (1906-1992). It provides a comprehensive collection of his poetry, spanning five decades of his literary career.
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Seeing the Elephant: RAW RECRUITS at the BATTLE of SHILOH (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Study of the impact of one of the bloodiest battles in the Civil War on the soldiers who fought in it
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Tales and Trails of Illinois (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Based on a collection of fifty-two vignettes of Illinois history originally published as weekly columns in newspapers, this title presents little-known episodes and adds... Læs mere
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Mammals of Illinois (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A guide that provides a detailed profile of all the state's mammals, past and present - from the elephant-sized mastodons that roamed the region during the Ice Age and the black... Læs mere
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American Dream, American Nightmare: Fiction Since 1960 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A celebration of contemporary American fiction. It explores how estrangement from America has shaped the fiction of a literary generation. In... Læs mere
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The HOUSE of SONG: POEMS (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers hundred poems in six parts. This title ventures to the seemingly infinitesimal points where people, legends, and culture collide with nature, memory, and action. It... Læs mere
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Rivington Street: A NOVEL (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
This sprawling historical novel follows the fortunes of four enterprising, courageous Jewish women on New York's Lower East Side. Through their lives, loves, and convictions,... Læs mere
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Illinois: A History (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its history exhibits basic conflicts that had much to do with shaping American society in general.
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Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln- or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Written in a conversational, first-person narrative, it is the personal... Læs mere
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Ohio: A HISTORY (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Focusing on the people who stamped the state with their vision, this book captures the vibrancy and ingenuity of Ohio's inventors, manufacturers, leaders and dreamers, as well as the consequences, for the land and its inhabitants, of unchecked industrial excesses.
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