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Virginia Honey - A Sweet History (Paperback): Virginia C Johnson Virginia Honey - A Sweet History (Paperback)
Virginia C Johnson
R525 R495 Discovery Miles 4 950 Save R30 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Texas Gunslingers (Paperback): Bill O'Neal Texas Gunslingers (Paperback)
Bill O'Neal
R560 R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Fading Ads of Detroit (Paperback): Robert C. Allen Fading Ads of Detroit (Paperback)
Robert C. Allen
R520 R479 Discovery Miles 4 790 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Lebanon (Paperback): Kim Jackson Parks, Historic Lebanon Lebanon (Paperback)
Kim Jackson Parks, Historic Lebanon
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Downtown Knoxville (Paperback): Paul James, Jack Neely Downtown Knoxville (Paperback)
Paul James, Jack Neely
R541 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Glen Carbon (Paperback): Joyce A Williams Glen Carbon (Paperback)
Joyce A Williams
R541 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Harrington (Paperback): Doug Poore Harrington (Paperback)
Doug Poore; Foreword by Arthur C. a. Hall
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
American Civil Religion - What Americans Hold Sacred (Hardcover): Peter Gardella American Civil Religion - What Americans Hold Sacred (Hardcover)
Peter Gardella
R3,848 Discovery Miles 38 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The United States has never had an officially established church. Since the time of the first British colonists, it has instead developed a strong civil religion that melds national symbols to symbols of God. In a deft exploration of American civil religious symbols ranging from the Liberty Bell and Vietnam Memorial to Mount Rushmore and Disney World, Peter Gardella explains how the places, objects, and symbols that Americans hold sacred came into being and how they have changed over time. In addition to examining revered historical sites and structures, he analyzes such sacred texts as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, the Kennedy Inaugural, and the speeches of Martin Luther King, and shows how five patriotic songs-''The Star-Spangled Banner,'' ''The Battle Hymn of the Republic'' ''America the Beautiful,'' ''God Bless America,'' and ''This Land Is Your Land''-have been elevated into hymns. Arguing that certain values-personal freedom, political democracy, world peace, and cultural tolerance-have held American civil religion together, this book chronicles the numerous forms those values have taken, from Jamestown and Plymouth to the September 11, 2001, Memorial in New York.

North Clackamas (Paperback): Mark W Hurlburt North Clackamas (Paperback)
Mark W Hurlburt
R537 R496 Discovery Miles 4 960 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
All Those Strangers - The Art and Lives of James Baldwin (Hardcover): Douglas Field All Those Strangers - The Art and Lives of James Baldwin (Hardcover)
Douglas Field
R1,311 Discovery Miles 13 110 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Adored by many, appalling to some, baffling still to others, few authors defy any single critical narrative to the confounding extent that James Baldwin manages. Was he a black or queer writer? Was he a religious or secular writer? Was he a spokesman for the civil rights movement or a champion of the individual? His critics, as disparate as his readership, endlessly wrestle with paradoxes, not just in his work but also in the life of a man who described himself as "all those strangers called Jimmy Baldwin" and who declared that "all theories are suspect." Viewing Baldwin through a cultural-historical lens alongside a more traditional literary critical approach, All Those Strangers examines how his fiction and nonfiction shaped and responded to key political and cultural developments in the United States from the 1940s to the 1980s. Showing how external forces molded Baldwinas personal, political, and psychological development, Douglas Field breaks through the established critical difficulties caused by Baldwinas geographical, ideological, and artistic multiplicity by analyzing his life and work against the radically transformative politics of his time. The book explores under-researched areas in Baldwin's life and work, including his relationship to the Left, his FBI files, and the significance of Africa in his writing, while also contributing to wider discussions about postwar US culture. Field deftly navigates key twentieth-century themesathe Cold War, African American literary history, conflicts between spirituality and organized religion, and transnationalismato bring a number of isolated subjects into dialogue with each other. By exploring the paradoxes in Baldwin's development as a writer, rather than trying to fix his life and work into a single framework, All Those Strangers contradicts the accepted critical paradigm that Baldwin's life and work are too ambiguous to make sense of. By studying him as an individual and an artist in flux, Field reveals the manifold ways in which Baldwin's work develops and coheres.

The Old Spanish Trail Highway in Texas (Paperback): James Collett The Old Spanish Trail Highway in Texas (Paperback)
James Collett
R541 R500 Discovery Miles 5 000 Save R41 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Alturas and Lake Garfield (Paperback): Sherry Hielscher Maberry, Linda Smith King, Christi Voigt Adkins, Cathy Frankenburger... Alturas and Lake Garfield (Paperback)
Sherry Hielscher Maberry, Linda Smith King, Christi Voigt Adkins, Cathy Frankenburger Curtis, W Patrick Huff, …
R549 R508 Discovery Miles 5 080 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Future History - Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings (Hardcover): Kristina Bross Future History - Global Fantasies in Seventeenth-Century American and British Writings (Hardcover)
Kristina Bross
R2,473 Discovery Miles 24 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Future History traces the ways that English and American writers oriented themselves along an East-West axis to fantasize their place in the world. The book builds on new transoceanic scholarship and recent calls to approach early American studies from a global perspective. Such scholarship has largely focused on the early national period; Bross's work begins earlier and considers the intertwined identities of America, other English colonial sites and metropolitan England during a period before nation-state identities were hardened into the forms we know them today, when an English empire was nascent, not realized, and when a global perspective such as we might recognize it was just coming into focus for early modern Europeans. The author examines works that imagine England on a global stage in the Americas and East Indies just as-and in some cases even before-England occupied such spaces in force. Future History considers works written from the 1620s to the 1670s, but the center of gravity of Future History is writing at the mid-century, that is, writings coincident with the Interregnum, a time when England plotted and launched ambitious, often violent schemes to conquer, colonize or otherwise appropriate other lands, driven by both mercantile and religious desires.

Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard - Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer (Paperback): Brad Holden Seattle Mystic Alfred M. Hubbard - Inventor, Bootlegger and Psychedelic Pioneer (Paperback)
Brad Holden; Foreword by Don Lattin
R501 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Haunted Inns, Pubs and Eateries of St. Augustine (Paperback, New): Greg Jenkins Haunted Inns, Pubs and Eateries of St. Augustine (Paperback, New)
Greg Jenkins
R444 R412 Discovery Miles 4 120 Save R32 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Once sought after by French Huguenots, Spanish invaders, English privateers and indigenous tribes, St. Augustine is a melting pot of cultural conquests. Anyone who traces its cobblestone streets, sails its vast shoreline or explores its unique architecture senses those who came before. Paranormal researcher and author Dr. Greg Jenkins examines ghostly happenings in the city's charming inns, pubs and eateries that keep guests looking over their shoulders. There's the lady with the lantern perched atop the Casablanca Inn who still searches for seafaring bootleggers and the spirit "Catalina" who peers through the window at hungry diners in Harry's Seafood Bar & Grille. Enjoy these stories and more, with personal interviews and documented visitor logs from the featured establishments.

Maritime Tales of Lake Ontario (Paperback): Susan Peterson Gateley Maritime Tales of Lake Ontario (Paperback)
Susan Peterson Gateley
R484 R448 Discovery Miles 4 480 Save R36 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Easternmost of the Great Lakes, Lake Ontario is bordered by both New York and Ontario. Upon its pristine surface, countless vessels have sailed, but its bottom depths are littered with the skeletons of shipwrecks, including Fleetwing, caught and destroyed in one of the sudden storms that often turn this sea-like lake deadly. Daring mariners, male and female, have seen their share of peril, and battles during wars between Britain and the US and Canada have also been waged here. From Huron canoes to today's "Sunday Sailors" who venture from shore only during warmer months, local author Susan Gateley tells some of the lake's most exciting stories.

The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook (Paperback): Nick Swartsell The Cincinnati Neighborhood Guidebook (Paperback)
Nick Swartsell
R520 R480 Discovery Miles 4 800 Save R40 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Midwest Futures (Paperback): Phil Christman Midwest Futures (Paperback)
Phil Christman
R378 R351 Discovery Miles 3 510 Save R27 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Cottonwood (Paperback): Helen Killebrew, Verde Historical Society Cottonwood (Paperback)
Helen Killebrew, Verde Historical Society
R560 R514 Discovery Miles 5 140 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In the last quarter of the 19th century, a circle of 16 tall Cottonwood trees stood in the wash that extended to the Verde River just north of where the old jail building now stands. Cattlemen and ranchers from Oak Creek and the mountains made their overnight stops under these trees and the location became known as "The Cottonwoods." The lush riparian area attracted hardy settlers, and Fort Verde's military camp and the copper mines of Jerome provided a ready market for agricultural goods. Thus began the town that was soon to become the commercial hub for the Verde Valley. Today the incorporated city of Cottonwood serves an area population of over 55,000 and boasts a diverse economy based on health care, education, tourism, and the service and retail industries. With its moderate climate, beautiful setting, and small-town charm, combined with the amenities of a larger city, Cottonwood continues to attract steady growth and tourism.

Ocean Shores (Paperback): Gene Woodwick Ocean Shores (Paperback)
Gene Woodwick
R561 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Ocean Shores was the newest city in Washington for nearly 40 years, but for centuries before it had been a place of permanent occupation and food gathering for Native American tribes and a place for sea otter hunters, pioneers, and settlers to reach the interior of the Olympic Peninsula. Before Ocean Shores, there was the dream of a town called Cedarville followed by the reality of Lone Tree with its post office and 200 residents. Point Brown Peninsula was a village of survival for Polynesian Kanakas, Finns living on the edge of society, migrant workers called Bluebills, and a Hooverville for depression-era families. After World War II, when developers first conceived of creating a "Venice of the West," many said their dream would never last. However, in 1970, Ocean Shores became a city and today has entered its 50th year of development.

Olympic Mountains (Paperback): Jefferson County Historical Society Olympic Mountains (Paperback)
Jefferson County Historical Society
R557 R511 Discovery Miles 5 110 Save R46 (8%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Olympic Mountains rise up from the sea with moss-draped forests growing right to the water's edge. Glaciers crown steep slopes while alpine meadows and lush valleys teem with elk, deer, cougars, bears, and species known nowhere else on earth. The Olympic National Park was created in 1938 to protect the grandeur of the Olympic Mountains. The rugged coastal area was added in 1953. To further protect this remnant of wild America, Congress designated 95 percent of the park as the Olympic Wilderness in 1988. Today it is recognized as a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site and one of the most popular wilderness destinations in North America. It is a place that changed the people who would conquer it. Farmers gave up; miners found no riches; loggers reforested. Tourism came early and endures.

Historic Tales of Whoop-Up Country - On the Trail from Montana's Fort Benton to Canada's Fort MacLeod (Paperback):... Historic Tales of Whoop-Up Country - On the Trail from Montana's Fort Benton to Canada's Fort MacLeod (Paperback)
Ken Robison
R574 R533 Discovery Miles 5 330 Save R41 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Brutal Reckoning - The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South (Hardcover, Main): Peter Cozzens A Brutal Reckoning - The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South (Hardcover, Main)
Peter Cozzens
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

'Cozzens is a master storyteller' The Times From the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal Reckoning tells the story of encroachment on the vast Native American territory in the Deep South, which gave rise to the Creek War, the bloodiest in American Indian history, and propelled Andrew Jackson into national prominence, as he led the US Army in a ruthless campaign. It was a war that involved not only white Americans and Native Americans but also the British and the Spanish, and ultimately led to the Trail of Tears, in which the government forcibly removed the entire Creek people, as well as the neighbouring Chickasaw, Choctaw and Cherokee nations, from their homelands, leaving the way open for the conquest of the West. No other single Indian conflict had such a significant impact on the fate of the country. Wonderfully told and brilliantly detailed, A Brutal Reckoning is a sweeping history of a crucial period in the destruction of America's native tribes.

Erie Canal (Paperback): Andrew P Kitzmann, Erie Canal Museum Erie Canal (Paperback)
Andrew P Kitzmann, Erie Canal Museum
R476 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R83 (17%) Out of stock

The Erie Canal was completed in 1825 and became the backbone of an economic and cultural explosion that defined the image of New York. The canal's development spurred successful industry and a booming economy, sparking massive urban growth in an area that was previously virtually unexplored wilderness. People poured west into this new space, drawn by the ability to ship goods along the canal to the Hudson River, New York City, and the world beyond. Erie Canal is a compilation of 200 vintage images from the Erie Canal Museum's documentary collection of New York's canal system. Vintage postcards depict life and industry along the canal, including not only the Erie itself but also the lateral and feeder canals that completed the state-wide system.

Life of a Klansman - A Family History in White Supremacy (Paperback): Edward Ball Life of a Klansman - A Family History in White Supremacy (Paperback)
Edward Ball
R460 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R29 (6%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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