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A Frail Liberty: Probationary Citizens in the French and Haitian Revolutions (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
By mapping the quandaries of racial equality in Atlantic revolutions, A Frail Liberty contrasts the treatment and status of two colonial populations with African ancestry to document the link between exceptionalism and political inclusion.
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Under Prairie Skies: The Plants and Native Peoples of the Northern Plains (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Writer and anthropologist C. Thomas Shay traces the key roles of plants since humans arrived in the northern plains at the end of the Ice Age and began to hunt the region’s woodlands, fish its waters, and gather its flora.
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The Great Plains (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Walter Prescott Webb identifies the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as technological adaptations that facilitated Anglo conquest of the arid, treeless region of the Great Plains.
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The Settler Sea: California's Salton Sea and the Consequences of Colonialism (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Settler Sea is an environmental history of Southern California’s Salton Sea, the state’s largest inland body of water, and the complex politics of environmental and human health in the West.
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The Horse Lover: A Cowboy's Quest to Save the Wild Mustangs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The Horse Lover is H. Alan Day’s personal history of the first government-sponsored wild horse sanctuary, with its surprises and pleasures and its plentiful dangers, frustrations, and heartbreak.
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If This Were Fiction: A Love Story in Essays (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Playing like a lively mixtape in both subject and style, If This Were Fiction takes on gender-based violence, trauma, recovery, and motherhood, focusing an open-hearted, frequently funny, clear-eyed feminist lens on Jill Christman’s first fifty years.
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Woman Pissing (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Elizabeth Cooperman celebrates artists who have struggled with debilitating self-doubt and uncertainty, while she reflects on her own life, grappling with questions of creativity, womanhood, and motherhood.
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Voice First: A Writer's Manifesto (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Voice First offers writers and teachers of writing an opportunity not only to engage their voices but to understand and experience how developing their range of voices strengthens their writing.
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Cotton Candy: Poems Dipped Out of the Air (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
The poems in Cotton Candy were written during Ted Kooser’s daily writing routine of getting up long before dawn and snatching out of the air whatever comes to... Læs mere
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The Old Iron Road: An Epic of Rails, Roads, and the Urge to Go West (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A combination of travelogue, history, and storytelling, this is the story of David Haward Bain’s family’s travels from their home in Vermont to the West in search of America’s past.
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Under My Bed and Other Essays (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Jody Keisner searches for the roots of the violence and fear that afflict women, starting with the working-class midwestern family she was adopted into and ending with her own experience of mothering daughters.
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Imperial Zions: Religion, Race, and Family in the American West and the Pacific (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Imperial Zions explores the importance of the body in Latter-day Saint theology through the faith’s attempts to spread its gospel as a “civilizing” force, highlighting the intertwining of Latter-day Saint theology and American ideas about race, sexuality, and colonialism.
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