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Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational Solidarity

Third Worlds Within: Multiethnic Movements and Transnational...

Author: Daniel Widener ,  Vijay Prashad
ISBN: 9781478025917
Format: Hardback
$303.47

Daniel Widener expands conceptions of the struggle for racial justice by reframing twentieth- and twenty-first-century...  Read More >>

Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape in Text and Images

Celebrating Palouse Country: A History of the Landscape...

Author: Richard Scheuerman ,  John Clement
ISBN: 9781638640288
Format: Hardback
$93.50

Enhanced with spectacular photographs from John Clement, travel through time among the Palouse Country’s beauty...  Read More >>

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People and the Color Line

Being Indigenous in Jim Crow Virginia: Powhatan People...

Author: Laura J. Feller
ISBN: 9780806193892
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Spanning a century of fraught history, this volume describes the critical strategic work that tidewater Virginia...  Read More >>

Chasing Steam in 1966: A Teenager in Pursuit of the Disappearing Steam Locomotive

Chasing Steam in 1966: A Teenager in Pursuit of the...

Author: Keith Widdowson
ISBN: 9781803995199
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A nostalgic look back at a year in the life of a teenage steam chaser at the end of British steam: steam-chasing...  Read More >>

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption, and Hope

More Finish Lines to Cross: Notes on Race, Redemption,...

Author: Cary Clack ,  Joe Holley
ISBN: 9781595342713
Format: Paperback
$34.99

A nationally loved columnist reflects on life in Texas and the times we live in  Read More >>

Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community Activism, Politics, and Greed

Creating the Hudson River Park: Environmental and Community...

Author: Tom Fox
ISBN: 9781978814011
Format: Hardback
$73.79

Former Hudson River Park Conservancy president Tom Fox offers an insider’s look at the park’s expansion and the...  Read More >>

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill Music Scene: 1989-1999

A Really Strange and Wonderful Time: The Chapel Hill...

Author: Tom Maxwell
ISBN: 9780306830587
Format: Hardback
$55.00

The first biography of the thriving and influential rock scene in Chapel Hill, which gave the world artists like...  Read More >>

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

Storm’s Edge: Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of...

Author: Peter Marshall
ISBN: 9780008394394
Format: Hardback
$45.00

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If...  Read More >>

Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco

Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice...

Author: Lindsey Dillon
ISBN: 9780520396227
Format: Paperback
$49.95

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point,...  Read More >>

Low Country: A Southern Memoir

Low Country: A Southern Memoir

Author: J. Nicole Jones
ISBN: 9781646221233
Format: Paperback
$32.99

"J. Nicole Jones is the only daughter of a prominent South Carolina family, a family that grew rich building the...  Read More >>

Sketches of St. Augustine

Sketches of St. Augustine

Author: Rufus King Sewall
ISBN: 9789357952866
Format: Paperback
$40.84

Sketches of St. Augustine, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so...  Read More >>

A Brief Colorado Indian History of the 1800s Through A Factual Lens(Hardcover)

A Brief Colorado Indian History of the 1800s Through...

Author: Roberta Carol Harvey
ISBN: 9781632936721
Format: Hardback
$86.99

"""Indigenous tribes in Colorado survival was threatened by the discovery of gold, squatters lust for farming and...  Read More >>

A Brief Colorado Indian History of the 1800s Through A Factual Lens (Softcover)

A Brief Colorado Indian History of the 1800s Through...

Author: Roberta Carol Harvey
ISBN: 9781632936714
Format: Paperback
$60.59

"""Indigenous tribes in Colorado survival was threatened by the discovery of gold, squatters lust for farming and...  Read More >>

Sketches from Concord and Appledore

Sketches from Concord and Appledore

Author: Frank Preston Stearns
ISBN: 9789357955331
Format: Paperback
$49.13

This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and...  Read More >>

Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West

Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort...

Author: Charlotte Ouisconsin Cleve
ISBN: 9789357939836
Format: Paperback
$45.59

Three Score Years and Ten' Life-Long Memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and Other Parts of the West, a classical...  Read More >>

A Sketch of the History of Oneonta

A Sketch of the History of Oneonta

Author: Dudley M Campbell
ISBN: 9789357953863
Format: Paperback
$40.50

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men

Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men

Author: Various
ISBN: 9789357950916
Format: Paperback
$75.06

Sketches of Successful New Hampshire Men, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

Sketches in Duneland

Sketches in Duneland

Author: Earl H Reed
ISBN: 9789357950763
Format: Paperback
$47.55

Sketches in Duneland, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that...  Read More >>

Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire

Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire

Author: Ella Mills
ISBN: 9789357951708
Format: Paperback
$38.89

Sketch of Dunbarton, New Hampshire, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history,...  Read More >>

A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856

A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the...

Author: Stephen Palfrey Webb
ISBN: 9789357951463
Format: Paperback
$39.44

The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books...  Read More >>

Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice in San Francisco

Toxic City: Redevelopment and Environmental Justice...

Author: Lindsey Dillon
ISBN: 9780520396210
Format: Hardback
$140.95

Toxic City presents a novel critique of postindustrial green gentrification through a study of Bayview-Hunters Point,...  Read More >>

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball Integration in the Carolinas

Cracks in the Outfield Wall: The History of Baseball...

Author: Chris Holaday
ISBN: 9781469678856
Format: Paperback
$42.90

Offers readers the first book-length history of baseball’s integration in the Carolinas, showing its slow and unsteady...  Read More >>

The Victorio Peak Mystery: A Search for the Greatest Lost Treasure Cache in America

The Victorio Peak Mystery: A Search for the Greatest...

Author: W.C. Jameson
ISBN: 9781493076390
Format: Paperback
$59.99

In a little-known mountain range in southern New Mexico is an unremarkable mountain called Victorio Peak. In a cavern...  Read More >>

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the Great-Granddaughter Who Found Her

Windfall: The Prairie Woman Who Lost Her Way and the...

Author: Erika Bolstad
ISBN: 9781728280349
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Beneath the windswept North Dakota plains, riches await...  Read More >>

The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest Times

The Borders: A History of the Borders from Earliest...

Author: Alistair Moffat
ISBN: 9781780278919
Format: Paperback
$34.99

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