Thema Amerikanische Geschichte – alle Bücher, Seite 10

Nicholas L Caverly
Demolishing Detroit

Pioneering field work reveals how infrastructural systems-buildings, laws, algorithms, excavators, regulations, toxins-maintain white supremacy within the urban landscapeFor decades, Detroit residents, po…

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Anna Harwell Celenza
On the Record

In On the Record: Music That Changed America , Anna Harwell Celenza uncovers the sometimes-surprising influence of music on American politics and culture. From "The Star-Spangled Banner" and Bil…

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Christopher Everette Cenac
Hard Scrabble to Hallelujah, Volume 2: The Bowie Brothers and Bayou Buffalo, Dularge

This second installment in a planned four-volume series chronicles the saga of one of the most rural and rustic regions of coastal Louisiana---Bayou DuLarge. In a story that has its origin centuries ago, …

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David Chadwick
Tassajara Stories

"As priceless as discovering a previously unknown time capsule."---Peter Coyote (Hosho Jishi), actor, director, authorThis is what happened at the famous Zen monastery south of San Francisco.Fro…

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Max Chafkin
Contrarian

A New York Times Notable Book A shocking and assiduously reported biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely inﬂuential power broker whose techn…

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Cynthia L. Chamberlin, David E. Hayes-Bautista, Luis Jaime Veytia Orozco, Paul Bryan Gray
The Latino Big Bang in California

The Latino Big Bang in California presents a Spanish transcription and English translation of a diary written by Forty-Niner Justo Veytia, a Mexican immigrant seeking riches during California's Gold Rush.…

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Jeff Chang
Water Mirror Echo

Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by Publishers WeeklyNamed a Best of the Year by NPR, Vogue , Kirkus Reviews, Alta Journal" This book is as celebratory as it is incisive, as it is, at times…

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David Chanoff
Anthony Benezet

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a m…

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Daniel S. Chard
Nixon's War at Home

During the presidency of Richard Nixon, homegrown leftist guerrilla groups like the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army carried out hundreds of attacks in the United States. The FBI had a lo…

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Sylvain Charlebois
Poutine Nation

Poutine Nation traces the evolution of poutine from its origins in rural Quebec to its status as a global phenomenon. Though it was once dismissed as lowbrow junk food, poutine has now earned a place in f…

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Jerome Charyn
Silver Wolves

Jonah is a teenager torn between the life of the streets and a life of art and opportunity in 1950s New York City. The first young adult novel by the award-winning writer of noir and American life who the…

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Owen Chase,
Tage des Grauens und der Verzweiflung

Die Männer vom Walfänger "Essex" trauen ihren Augen nicht und sind derart ungläubig, dass sie die Gefahr erst im letzten Moment begreifen. Mitten in der Waljagd sehen sie sich dem Ansturm eines …

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Paul Chastko
Boom

When the Calgary Petroleum Product Dingman No. 1 Well began operation in Turner Valley on May 14, 1914, it unleashed a spectacular frenzy of greed and excess. In a fever of free-market capitalism over 500…

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Paul Chastko
Boom

When the Calgary Petroleum Product Dingman No. 1 Well began operation in Turner Valley on May 14, 1914, it unleashed a spectacular frenzy of greed and excess. In a fever of free-market capitalism over 500…

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Yve Chavez,
Indigenizing California Mission Art and Architecture

Examines how native artists kept their culture alive by creatively adapting under colonial ruleBetween 1769 and 1823, the Franciscans established twenty-one missions in California, colonizing the ancestra…

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Robert W. Cherny
A Short History of San Francisco

When British explorer George Vancouver arrived at the San Francisco presidio in 1792, he described it as resembling a "compound for cattle"---hardly the opulent outpost he had expected of Spanis…

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Robert W. Cherny
The Coit Tower Murals

Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the New Deal art programs. Twenty-five master artists and their assistants worked there, most …

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Nina Chhita
The Healers of Harlem

**For fans of Hidden Figures,an amazing history of Harlem Hospital with particular emphasis on the pioneering work done by Black women.The story of the Harlem Hospital is entwined with the history of dese…

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Dan Chiasson
Bernie for Burlington

The early days and inexorable rise of the young Bernie Sanders, the one-of-a-kind visionary who changed American politics forever, told by a son of the People's Republic of Burlington, Vermont "The m…

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Peter Chin, Everett de Morier
In the Ghost Shadows

A never-before-seen glimpse into the rarefied world of the Ghost Shadows, New York's powerful Chinese crime organization of the 1970s and '80s--written by the young leader who ran it: reformed gangster Pe…

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