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  • The Popol Vhu
    Steven Selby
    Set in a new world recently created by the Plumed Serpent and Hurikan the Mayan Gods of Creation, the Popol Vuh is the story of how the first humans were created. It is an epic story of the struggle of good over evil set in the oasis of this new world. From the only four remaining Mayan codices, scholars believe that the original Popol Vuh was a collection of intricate calcul...
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    18,90 €

  • A savage song
    Margarita Aragon
    This book examines key moments of violent social unrest in the twentieth-century United States. Investigating the centrality of constructions of gender to American racism, it asks how African and Mexican American men responded to the violence of racism, and how their resistance was understood by law enforcement, politicians, and press. ...
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    34,64 €

  • Knox County, Tennessee Minutes of the County Court, 1792-1795
    Works Projects Administration
    By: WPA, Pub. 1941, reprinted 2024, 296 pages, soft cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-642-8.  These court minutes begin with the creation of the county in 1792. Knox County was created out of Greene & Hawkins and was one of the many Eastern Tennessee counties that saw a great influx of settlers migrating West. In these minutes of pleas & quarters sessions you will find appointments o...
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    45,85 €

  • Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II - The Planting Of The First Colonies
    Francis W. Halsey
    This book 'Great Epochs in American History (Volume 2)- The Planting of the First Colonies: 1562-1733' has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has b...
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    15,84 €

  • An American Planter
    Martha Jane Brazy
    Extraordinarily wealthy and influential, Stephen Duncan (1787-1867) was a landowner, slaveholder, and financier with a remarkable array of social, economic, and political contacts in pre-Civil War America. In this, the first biography of Duncan, Martha Jane Brazy offers a compelling new portrait of antebellum life through exploration of Duncan’s multifaceted personal networks i...
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    38,23 €

  • A Mountain Boyhood
    Joe Mills
    A Mountain Boyhood, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not ...
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    23,67 €

  • Apaches
    Víctor Orozco
    Los apaches o Ndee en su propio idioma, formaron una nación que peleó contra españoles, novohispanos (llamémosles así a falta de un gentilicio aceptado) y mexicanos al menos durante dos siglos, desde que fueron identificados entre los habitantes del territorio que hoy ocupan parcialmente Estados Unidos y México. Se caracterizaron por su idioma, su nomadismo, su resistencia a la...
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    26,00 €

  • The War That Made America
    This collection of original essays reveals the richness and dynamism of contemporary scholarship on the Civil War era. Inspired by the lines of inquiry that animated the writings of the influential historian Gary W. Gallagher, this volume includes nine essays by leading scholars in the field who explore a broad range of themes and participants in the nation’s greatest conflict,...
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    126,90 €

  • ’Abdu’l-Bahá in New York
    Hillary Chapman / Hussein Ahdieh
    Of all the historical, religious and cultural events in the history of the United States, the arrival of ’Abdu’l-Bahá in 1912 was the most important one of all. Many people-from all facets of society-had the honor to meet Him, attend His talks, benefit from His wisdom and witness His benevolence and humility. Their encounter with ’Abdu’l-Bahá was life-altering: He touched the d...
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    10,96 €

  • The History of Silver Lake
    Kathleen Webb / Scott Webb
    The History Of Silver Lake is a captivating book that takes you on a journey through time. With over 135 photos and 20 eclectic chapters, this book will transport you to eras worth reliving. Whether you’re reading for your own pleasure or sharing the book with loved ones, this is a treasure to be cherished for generations to come.Searching through old county archives, the autho...
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    27,33 €

  • Oceanside History of Alaska
    Mike Coppock
    A history of Alaska’s seaports settled by fisherman, gold seekers, Scandinavians, Native peoples and Russin trappers. It is a time a violent history as these diverse people carved their own isolated world from forests, cliff faces and raging seas. This is a tale of wild men and intrepid women looking for a home from the world they rejected.It is the story of empire builders lik...
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    16,30 €

  • Hollywood’s Imperial Wars
    Armando José Prats
    When the Vietnam War punctured the myth of American military invincibility, Hollywood needed a new kind of war movie. The familiar triumphal narrative was relegated to history and, with it, the heroic legacy that had passed from one generation to the next for more than two hundred years.How Hollywood helped create and instill the American myth of heroic continuity, and how film...
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    63,04 €

  • Essential Lewis and Clark, The
    Landon Y. Jones
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    13,88 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    140,64 €

  • A History of Argentina
    Ezequiel Adamovsky
    In A History of Argentina, originally published in Spanish in 2020, Ezequiel Adamovsky presents over five hundred years of Argentine economic, political, social, and cultural history. Adamovsky highlights the experiences of women, Indigenous communities, and other groups that have traditionally been left out of the historical archive. He focuses on harmful aspects of Spanish co...
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    37,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    138,47 €

  • The Prestes Column
    Jacob Blanc
    In The Prestes Column, Jacob Blanc offers a new interpretation of the legendary rebellion, in which a band of rebel officers and soldiers marched fifteen thousand miles through the vast interior regions of Brazil between 1924 and 1927. Blanc’s analysis of the Prestes Column is a showcase of what he calls 'interior history.' At a pivotal moment in national politics, the long mar...
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    36,61 €

  • Annabellas Story
    Mary Jo Schell
    Annabella, Bella to her family and friends, was sixteen years old when the US Civil War started. Now two years into the war, her Uncle Edwin and cousin Marie are dead, most of the four hundred slaves have run away, and she is responsible--responsible for the one-thousand-acre Johnson Plantation just outside Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the care and safety of her mother and three...
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    12,94 €

  • Abstracts from the Old North State, Pasquotank County, North Carolina, 1849-1850.
    Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 1996, reprinted 2024, 164 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-1-63914-207-1. Pasquotank County was created in 1739 with the county seat being named Elizabeth City. It lies in the extreme northeast corner of the state located on the Albemarle Sound. Many of her early settlers were from Virginia. This newspaper was published out of Eliz...
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    41,60 €

  • Abstracts from the Edenton Gazette and Farmer’s Palladium, Chowan County, North Carolina, 1830-1831
    Raymond Parker Fouts
    By: Raymond Parker Fouts, Pub. 2006, reprinted 2024, 166 pages, 8 1/2' x 11' soft cover, Index, ISBN #978-163914-208-8. Chowan County was created in 1739 with a county seat named Edenton. It lies in the northeastern corner of the state along the Albemarle Sound. These abstracts not only pertain to persons of Chowan County but surrounding counties of: Bertie, Gates, Halifax, Her...
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    41,63 €

  • An Aide to Custer
    Edward Granger / Sandy Barnard / Thomas Singelyn
    In August 1862, nineteen-year-old Edward G. Granger joined the 5th Michigan Cavalry Regiment as a second lieutenant. On August 20, 1863, the newly promoted Brig. Gen. George Armstrong Custer appointed Granger as one of his aides, a position Granger would hold until his death in August 1864. Many of the forty-four letters the young lieutenant wrote home during those two years, i...
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    42,48 €

  • Bacon’s Rebellion, 1676-1677
    Paul Otto / Verdis LeVar Robinson
    In the early seventeenth century, Virginia’s Chesapeake region saw the emergence of a multiracial society centered around the profitable tobacco industry. While Native Americans, free and enslaved Africans, and Europeans coexisted and interacted, a hierarchical order formed with a small elite planting class, led by Governor William Berkeley, wielding power over land, labor, and...
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    39,05 €

  • Troublemakers
    Rebekah Brewster
    Sometimes the only way to do right is to do wrong. Sometimes the only way to change the rules is to break them. Sometimes the only way to save lives is to disrupt them. These are true stories of people who broke the rules to protect the ones they loved. ...
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    11,85 €

  • The Vote Collectors, Second Edition
    Michael Graff / Nick Ochsner
    In November 2018, Baptist preacher Mark Harris beat the odds, narrowly fending off a blue wave in the sprawling Ninth District of North Carolina. But word soon got around that something fishy was going on in rural Bladen County. At the center of the mess was a local political operative named McCrae Dowless. Dowless had learned the ins and outs of the absentee ballot system from...
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    28,88 €

  • Honoring Native Warriors
    Gary Robinson
    This exhaustive examination of American Indian service in the United States military includes a history of that service from the Revolutionary War to modern times and an in-depth look at Native America 'Code Talkers' in WWI and WWII. It also includes links to documentary films produced by the author that can be viewed on the Internet. ...
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    30,12 €

  • Tragedy and Triumph
    Christopher Feldt
    These mountains have their stories. All deal with the relationship between man, his relationship to the earth, and his cohabitation with others. Thousands of years before the Europeans found their way to the New World, pre-tribal Indians hunted the backbones of nascent mountains, using the atlatl and other weapons to harvest food. Thousands of years later still, their tribal ...
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    22,16 €

  • Honoring Native Warriors
    Gary Robinson
    This compilation of the author’s previous works includes a history of American Indian service in the US military, an examination of the code talkers of WWI and WWII, plus links to documentaries produced by the author, and profiles and interviews with Native American men and women who served. ...
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    45,45 €

  • The Creole Incident
    John Hyde Barnard
    The Creole Incident was more than a simple conspiracy of nineteen individuals seeking their freedom. The layers of history surrounding this event conceal a careful, step-by-step process of subterfuge, cunning and boldness taken by a select group of individuals who acted in concert to save the Union from the domination of slavocracy. The Creole Incident reveals an undeniable lin...
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    19,01 €

  • Butterfield Overland National Historic Trail Across Faulkner County, Arkansas
    Bob O Crossman
    After twenty years of effort by the Heritage Trail Partners, and Arkansas Senator John Boozman, in December of 2022, the US Congress established this route as The Butterfield National Historic Trail. That historic decision brings up the task of determining exactly where that trail crossed Faulkner County. This book outlines the two year process the author followed to determine ...
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    25,90 €

  • The Breath Of Life
    John Burroughs
    'The Breath of Life' is a 1915 book by American naturalist John Burroughs. It contains a number of essays related to his observations as he travelled around New England. Beautifully written and thought provoking, 'The Breath of Life' will appeal to lovers of nature writing. John Burroughs (1837 - 1921) was an American naturalist, essayist, and active member of the U.S. conserva...
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    14,33 €


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