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The Twentieth Century - A People's History (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed): Howard Zinn The Twentieth Century - A People's History (Paperback, 1st Perennial ed)
Howard Zinn
R478 R406 Discovery Miles 4 060 Save R72 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edition includes two new chapters -- covering Clinton's presidency, the 2000 Election, and the "war on terrorism."

Highlighting not just the usual terms of presidential administrations and congressional activities, this book provides you with a "bottom-to-top" perspective, giving voice to our nation's minorities and letting the stories of such groups as African Americans, women, Native Americans, and the laborers of all nationalities be told in their own words.

A Guide to Historic Gainesville (Paperback): Steve Rajtar A Guide to Historic Gainesville (Paperback)
Steve Rajtar
R570 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Your guide to the people, places and events that made Gainesville the thriving city and educational center it is today. Gainesville, Florida, was established in the early 1850s in an area of Alachua County known for cotton farming, cattle and citrus. It soon became known for education, with many fine private schools. The arrival of the railroads made it a crossroads town that grew to be the state's fourth-largest city. The arrival in 1906 of what became the University of Florida gave Gainesville the major state-supported institution of higher education, and thereafter the city and the university were inextricably entwined. The city has grown to be a comfortable place to live, and the university is now one of the largest in the nation, with an international reputation for academics and sports.Local historian and UF Law School graduate Steve Rajtar leads you through the decades with words and pictures. An A-to-Z street guide is included to help you explore the historic homes, churches and other sites of historic Gainesville on your own.

Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore (Paperback): Pam Matthias Peterson Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore (Paperback)
Pam Matthias Peterson
R563 R463 Discovery Miles 4 630 Save R100 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore, author Pam Peterson recounts the oral and written accounts that Marbleheaders have handed down over the past four hundred years. Here you will find stories of magic and witches, sailors, pirates and shipwrecks. Compiled with meticulous care, Marblehead Myths, Legends and Lore offers a diverse sampling of tales from one of New England's maritime treasures.

Maximum Vantage - New Selected Columns (Paperback): Bill Maxwell Maximum Vantage - New Selected Columns (Paperback)
Bill Maxwell
R730 R604 Discovery Miles 6 040 Save R126 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A veteran journalist speaks truth to power on issues that matter to the nation. In this collection of columns spanning the years 2000-2019, veteran journalist Bill Maxwell tackles important issues faced by Florida and broader American society that remain as relevant as ever today. Demonstrating the courage to take on controversy and the signature pithy style that have won him a nationwide readership, Maxwell offers his opinion on a wide variety of questions with a focus on race, agricultural labor, education, and the environment. Maxwell writes from the vantage point of a Florida native who grew up as a migrant farmworker at the end of the Jim Crow era; a Black man who participated in the civil rights movement to help make the state more equitable; a college professor who lectured about the harms of racial discrimination; and an environmentalist who has lived in the Everglades as artist-in-residence. Grounding his social criticism in firsthand knowledge of the contradictions of life in the American South, Maxwell uses reason and research to highlight uncomfortable realities and injustices that persist in the twenty-first century. Believing that informed citizens will make decisions that positively impact society, Maxwell prompts readers to examine their own perspectives, question their assumptions, and come to a deeper understanding of their state and nation. Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Looseleaf for the Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Loose-leaf, 10th ed.): Alan Brinkley, John... Looseleaf for the Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People (Loose-leaf, 10th ed.)
Alan Brinkley, John Giggie, Andrew Huebner
R5,238 Discovery Miles 52 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
American Courage - Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Great (Paperback): Herbert W Warden American Courage - Remarkable True Stories Exhibiting the Bravery That Has Made Our Country Great (Paperback)
Herbert W Warden
R588 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R104 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Here is the American adventure. This extraordinary volume captures a magnificent nation's spirit and the fortitude of those who helped to make it so. Drawn from remarkable firsthand accounts and historical writings, "American Courage" gives voice to the pilgrims, founding fathers, revolutionaries, pioneers, soldiers, and pilots, among other heroes, in a remarkable collection of harrowing tales, spanning from the "Mayflower"'s landing througSeptember 11, 2001. A Plymoutcolonist is held captive during King Philip's War. George Washington crosses the Delaware. Davy Crockett reports from inside the Alamo. General Longstreet recounts Pickett's charge at Gettysburg. Sergeant York single-handedly captures 132 German soldiers. Charles Lindbergflies across the Atlantic. Nine Little Rock students desegregate Central HigSchool. Passengers on Flight 93 overpower hijackers on 9/11.

With more than forty thrilling true accounts of bravery, selflessness, and daring, the stories in "American Courage" reveal the heart and soul of our country.

Lost Portland, Oregon (Paperback): Val C. Ballestrem Lost Portland, Oregon (Paperback)
Val C. Ballestrem
R561 R462 Discovery Miles 4 620 Save R99 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Union Pacific Railroad Heritage (Paperback): Beth Anne Keates, Kenneth C Springirth Union Pacific Railroad Heritage (Paperback)
Beth Anne Keates, Kenneth C Springirth
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Union Pacific Railroad Heritage covers the history of this amazing railroad that was founded in 1862 and completed the United States first transcontinental railroad in 1869. With the need to develop more powerful steam locomotives to handle the railroad's steep gradients, the Union Pacific Railroad designed the 4-12-2 locomotive, 4-6-6-4 Challenger which influenced development of the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy, followed by the 6,600-horsepower Centennial diesel locomotive, and 8,500-horsepower gas turbine electric locomotive. The Union Pacific Railroad operated well-maintained passenger trains including City of San Francisco, City of Los Angeles, City of Portland, and City of Denver until May 1, 1971, when AMTRAK took over United States intercity passenger service.

Brethren Inside the Supreme Co (Paperback, 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed): Woodward/Armstrong Brethren Inside the Supreme Co (Paperback, 1st Simon & Schuster pbk. ed)
Woodward/Armstrong
R622 R528 Discovery Miles 5 280 Save R94 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"The Brethren" is the first detailed behind-the-scenes account of the Supreme Court in action. Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong have pierced its secrecy to give us an unprecedented view of the Chief and Associate Justices -- maneuvering, arguing, politicking, compromising and making decisions that affect every major area of American life.

Kansas Oddities - Just Bill the Acting Rooster, the Locust Plagues of Grasshopper Falls, Naturalist Camps and More (Paperback):... Kansas Oddities - Just Bill the Acting Rooster, the Locust Plagues of Grasshopper Falls, Naturalist Camps and More (Paperback)
Roger L Ringer; Foreword by Marci Penner
R623 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R108 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Routledge Library Editions: Slavery (Hardcover): Various Routledge Library Editions: Slavery (Hardcover)
Various
R35,896 Discovery Miles 358 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Routledge Library Editions: Slavery is a collection of previously out-of-print titles that examine various aspects of international slavery. Books analyse the Atlantic slave trade, and its effects on Africa; modern slavery around the world; slave rebellions and resistance; the Abolitionist movements; the suppression of the slave trade; slavery in the ancient world; and more besides. These writings form part of the vital research into slavery through the ages, and together form a succinct overview.

St. Marys and Camden County (Paperback, 1st ed): Patricia Barefoot St. Marys and Camden County (Paperback, 1st ed)
Patricia Barefoot
R636 R523 Discovery Miles 5 230 Save R113 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Bounded on the north by the Little Satilla River from neighboring Glynn County and on the east by the Atlantic Ocean, Camden County's southern boundary at the St. Marys River separates Georgia from Florida. Dating from a 1766 land grant, port of St. Marys and Camden County have faced a challenging past, present, and future. Camden's growth and development have been driven by businessmen, adventurers and opportunists, determined "wild swamp Crackers," and hardy, self-reliant, God-fearing men and women.

Accompanied by Jonathan Bryan, a planter with an insatiable appetite for virgin tracts of land, Georgia's third and last Royal Governor James Wright visited Buttermilk Bluff in June 1767 and envisioned a city. St. Marys was born, and its street names reflect the surnames of the 20 founding fathers. While the county seat was removed from a quaint St. Marys on more than one occasion, today, the garden spot of Woodbine serves as the seat of county government. Formerly the rice plantation of J.K. Bedell, this small city shares a symbiotic relationship with port of St. Marys and the "City of Royal Treatment" at Kingsland. The history of the county, with its three main towns as well as the outlying, rural areas, unfolds in striking photographs from days gone by. Preserved within the pages of this treasured volume, images reveal Camden and its people in times of tragedy and triumph.

Reading American Horizons - Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume I: To 1877 (Paperback, 4th ed.):... Reading American Horizons - Primary Sources for U.S. History in a Global Context, Volume I: To 1877 (Paperback, 4th ed.)
Michael Schaller, Janette Thomas Greenwood, Andrew Kirk, Sarah J. Purcell, Aaron Sheehan-Dean, …
R949 Discovery Miles 9 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa (Paperback): Rachelle Chase Creating the Black Utopia of Buxton, Iowa (Paperback)
Rachelle Chase
R585 R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Save R97 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Beef, Bible and Bullets - Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro (Paperback): Richard Lapper Beef, Bible and Bullets - Brazil in the Age of Bolsonaro (Paperback)
Richard Lapper
R366 Discovery Miles 3 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Backed by Brazil's wealthy agribusiness groups, a growing evangelical movement, and an emboldened military and police force, Jair Bolsonaro took office in 2019. Driven by the former army captain's brand of controversial, aggressive rhetoric, the divisive presidential campaign saw fake news and misinformation shared with Bolsonaro's tens of millions of social media followers. Bolsonaro promised simple solutions to Brazil's rising violent crime, falling living standards and widespread corruption, but what has emerged is Latin America's most right-wing president since the military dictatorships of the 1970s. Famous for his racist, homophobic and sexist beliefs and his disregard for human rights, he has established a reputation based on his polemical, sensationalist statements. Written by a journalist with decades of experience in the field, Beef, Bible and bullets is a compelling account of the origins of Brazil's unique brand of right-wing populism. -- .

12 Years a Slave (Paperback): Solomon Northup 12 Years a Slave (Paperback)
Solomon Northup
R364 Discovery Miles 3 640 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

First published in 1853, 12 Years a Slave is the riveting true story of a free black American who was sold into slavery, remaining there for a dozen years until he finally escaped. This powerfully written memoir details the horrors of slave markets, the inhumanity practiced on southern plantations, and the nobility of a man who persevered in some of the worst of conditions, a man who never ceased to hope that he would find freedom and see his beloved family again. This edition has been slightly edited--for spelling and punctuation only--for easier reading by a modern audience. It also includes two helpful appendixes not found in the original book. Now a major motion picture

Ghosts of the Blackstone Valley (Paperback): Thomas D'Agostino, Arlene Nicholson Ghosts of the Blackstone Valley (Paperback)
Thomas D'Agostino, Arlene Nicholson
R572 R473 Discovery Miles 4 730 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Does Scripture Speak for Itself? - The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation (Hardcover): Jill Hicks-Keeton,... Does Scripture Speak for Itself? - The Museum of the Bible and the Politics of Interpretation (Hardcover)
Jill Hicks-Keeton, Cavan Concannon
R672 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R125 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Is the Bible the unembellished Word of God or the product of human agency? There are different answers to that question. And they lie at the heart of this book's powerful exploration of the fraught ways in which money, race and power shape the story of Christianity in American public life. The authors' subject is the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC: arguably the latest example of a long line of white evangelical institutions aiming to amplify and promote a religious, political, and moral agenda of their own. In their careful and compelling investigation, Jill Hicks-Keeton and Cavan Concannon disclose the ways in which the Museum's exhibits reinforce a particularized and partial interpretation of the Bible's meaning. Bringing to light the Museum's implicit messaging about scriptural provenance and audience, the authors reveal how the MOTB produces a version of the Bible that in essence authorizes a certain sort of white evangelical privilege; promotes a view of history aligned with that same evangelical aspiration; and above all protects a cohort of white evangelicals from critique. They show too how the Museum collapses vital conceptual distinctions between its own conservative vision of the Bible and 'The Bible' as a cultural icon. This revelatory volume above all confirms that scripture - for all the claims made for it that it speaks only divine truth - can in the end never be separated from human politics.

The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840 (Paperback, 1st Perennial Library ed): Jack Larkin The Reshaping of Everyday Life 1790-1840 (Paperback, 1st Perennial Library ed)
Jack Larkin
R452 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R75 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Compact and insightful. "--New York Times Book Review "Jack Larkin has retrieved the irretrievable; the intimate facts of everyday life that defined what people were really like."--American Heritage

The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815 - Letters from a Wayward Son (Hardcover): Rebecca M. Dresser The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815 - Letters from a Wayward Son (Hardcover)
Rebecca M. Dresser
R3,915 Discovery Miles 39 150 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Placed within a comprehensive contextual historical narrative, The Life of Daniel Waldo Lincoln, 1784-1815 offers a compelling portrait of one brilliant but compromised man's perspective of his changing times. Daniel Waldo Lincoln, the second son of Levi Lincoln, a prominent Massachusetts Democratic-Republican, was destined to become a man of influence. Born in 1784, equipped with wealth, prestige, a Harvard education, powerful friends, and a distinguished family name, Lincoln ranked high among the inheritors of the Revolution whose purpose was to protect the ideals of the nation's founders. In over 250 private letters, essays, and poems beginning with his first day at Harvard in 1801 and ending just weeks before his death in 1815, Lincoln brings to readers a portrait of privilege as it careened into disappointment. A young man active in Republican circles, an orator and attorney in Worcester, Portland, Maine, and Boston, Lincoln comments on the politics, honor, religion, the War of 1812, and his struggles with romance and alcohol. Written for private eyes, his letters are an unusually candid eyewitness account of early-nineteenth-century Massachusetts interwoven with his personal agonies. This volume is of great use for students and scholars interested in life, society, and politics in nineteenth-century America.

Of the People - Volume I: To 1877 with Sources (Paperback, 5th ed.): Michael McGerr, Camilla Townsend, Karen M. Dunak, Mark... Of the People - Volume I: To 1877 with Sources (Paperback, 5th ed.)
Michael McGerr, Camilla Townsend, Karen M. Dunak, Mark Summers, Jan Ellen Lewis
R2,191 Discovery Miles 21 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Edith Wharton's Lenox (Paperback): Cornelia Brooke Gilder Edith Wharton's Lenox (Paperback)
Cornelia Brooke Gilder
R617 R501 Discovery Miles 5 010 Save R116 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Not So Wild a Dream (Paperback): Eric Sevareid Not So Wild a Dream (Paperback)
Eric Sevareid
R948 R815 Discovery Miles 8 150 Save R133 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Again available in paperback is Eric Sevareid's widely acclaimed Not So Wild a Dream. In this brilliant first-person account of a young journalist's experience during World War II, Sevareid records both the events of the war and the development of journalistic strategies for covering international affairs. He also recalls vividly his own youth in North Dakota, his decision to study journalism, and his early involvement in radio reporting during the beginnings of World War II.

Five Presidents - My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford (Paperback): Clint Hill, Lisa... Five Presidents - My Extraordinary Journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford (Paperback)
Clint Hill, Lisa McCubbin Hill
R412 R283 Discovery Miles 2 830 Save R129 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Mrs. Kennedy and Me and Five Days in November reflects on his seventeen years in the Secret Service for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. The assassination of one president, the resignation of another, and the swearing-in of the two who followed those traumatic events. Clint Hill was there, on duty, through Five Presidents. After an extraordinary career as a Special Agent on the White House Detail, Clint Hill retired in 1975. His career spanned the administrations of Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon, and Gerald R. Ford. A witness to some of the most pivotal moments in the twentieth century, Hill lets you walk in his shoes alongside the most powerful men in the world during tumultuous times in America's history, the Cold War; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy; the Vietnam War; Watergate; and the resignations of Vice President Spiro Agnew and President Nixon. It was indeed a turbulent time and through it all, Clint Hill had a unique insider perspective. His fascinating stories will shed new light on the character and personality of each of these five presidents, as Hill witnesses their human sides in the face of grave decisions.

Family, Faith and Love - Beyond Immigration (Paperback): Elizabeth McClure Family, Faith and Love - Beyond Immigration (Paperback)
Elizabeth McClure; Ralph Bartel; Edited by Alan G Bartel
R636 Discovery Miles 6 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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