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1921: The Yankees, the Giants, and the Battle for ...
$11.11
At the dawn of the roaring twenties, baseball was struggling to overcome two of its darkest moments: the death of a player during a Major League game and the revelations of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. At this critical juncture for baseball, two teams emerged to fight for the future of the game. They..
A Country Between: The Upper Ohio Valley and Its P...
$29.85
The Ohio Country in the eighteenth century was a zone of international strife, and the Delawares, Shawnees, Iroquois, and other natives who had taken refuge there were caught between the territorial ambitions of the French and British. A Country Between is unique in assuming the perspective of the I..
A Game of Brawl: The Orioles, the Beaneaters, and ...
$18.23
Not only was it probably the most cutthroat pennant race in baseball history; it was also a struggle to define how baseball would be played. This book re-creates the rowdy, season-long 1897 battle between the Baltimore Orioles and the Boston Beaneaters. The Orioles had acquired a reputation as the d..
A Mine of Her Own: Women Prospectors in the Americ...
$12.31
From the California gold rush through the mid-twentieth century, a special breed of women played an integral and heretofore unrecognized part in some of the most stirring adventures of the pioneer experience: the saintly Nellie Cashman; the copper queen Ferminia Sarras, known for her grand sprees; t..
A Primer of Italian Fascism (European Horizons)
$30.40
A Primer of Italian Fascism makes available for the first time in English translation the key documents pertaining to one of our century’s defining mass political movements. Whereas existing anthologies survey Fascist writings in a multiplicity of national settings, A Primer of Italian Fascism opts ..
American Hoops: U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball from...
$27.48
Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the “Dream Team” in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as Olympic basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men’s Olympic..
American Indian Policy in the Jacksonian Era
$18.36
Book by Satz, Ronald N. Author: Satz, Ronald N. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0803258488 ISBN-13: 9780803258488..
American Jewish Fiction: A Century of Stories
$9.61
This anthology presents an ambitious cross-section of Jewish American short fiction. It covers a full century of extraordinary writings, from turn-of-the-century immigrant fiction to stories by some of the finest young contemporary American writers. To read through its pages is to encounter a remark..
American Protestantism and United States Indian Po...
$14.64
American Protestantism and United States Indian Policy, 1869-82 Author: Keller Jr., Robert H. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Binding: Hardcover Language: English ISBN-10: 080322706X ISBN-13: 9780803227064..
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the N...
$21.74
Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples’ lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to American Indians the loss of homelands was a traged..
Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momad...
$9.96
Six conversations between Woodard and author/artist N. Scott Momaday paralleling the progression of the artist's life Author: Woodard, Charles L. Publisher: University of Nebraska Press Binding: Paperback Language: English ISBN-10: 0803297297 ISBN-13: 9780803297296..
And Keep Moving On: The Virginia Campaign, May-Jun...
$8.72
And Keep Moving On is the first book to see the Virginia campaign of spring 1864 as Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee saw it: a single, massive operation stretching hundreds of miles. The story of the campaign is also the story of the demise of two great armies. The scale of casualties and human su..
Ann Vickers
$16.04
Some reviewers were outraged by Ann Vickers when it first appeared in 1933. "Persons unused to horrid and filthy things had better stay at a safe distance from this book," wrote one. Lewis's Ann Vickers is a complex character: a strong-minded prison superintendent dedicated to enlightened social ref..
April Twilights (Landmark Edition)
$23.72
Before she wrote her prose masterpieces, Willa Cather produced striking poems, which were collected in 1903 in April Twilights. It was her literary debut, preceding the publication of O Pioneers! by nine years. In her introduction, distinguished Cather scholar Bernice Slote notes that this early edi..
Arabs at War: Military Effectiveness, 1948-1991 (S...
$14.67
Kenneth M. Pollack, formerly a Persian Gulf military analyst at the CIA and Director for Persian Gulf Affairs at the National Security Council, describes and analyzes the military history of the six key Arab states-Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Syria-during the post-World War II era...
Arkansas Politics and Government: Do the People Ru...
$28.15
In this full-scale study of Arkansas politics and government, Diane D. Blair spots many encouraging trends: an upsurge in voter registration and participation, the growth of partisan competition, the increasing influence of women and blacks in state and local government, and the state's provision of..
Asian American Women: The Frontiers Reader
$49.68
Asian American Women brings together landmark scholarship about Asian American women that has appeared in Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies over the last twenty-five years. The essays, written by established and emerging scholars, made a significant impact in the fields of Asian American studies..
Atlas of a Tropical Germany: Essays on Politics an...
$9.07
"Germany long ago became part of us German Turks," Zafer Senocak observes. "Are we also a part of Germany " Gathered here for the first time in English translation, these essays chart a new orientation for German life, culture, and politics beyond the Cold War and at the dawn of an unprecedented era..
Atrocities on Trial: Historical Perspectives on th...
$17.34
Since the Nuremberg trials following World War II, there has been considerable debate about the nature and effects of war crimes with regard both to the Nazis and to modern-day perpetrators. What constitutes a “war crime,” and how has the concept changed over time How do victors and vanquished deal..
Bandit Nation: A History of Outlaws and Cultural S...
$12.69
Stories about postcolonial bandits in Mexico have circulated since the moment Mexico won its independence. Narratives have appeared or been discussed in a wide variety of forms: novels, memoirs, travel accounts, newspaper articles, the graphic arts, social science literature, movies, ballads, and hi..
Baseball When the Grass Was Real: Baseball from th...
$10.27
Donald Honig crossed the country to meet and interview former big-league ball players. They shared their memories with him and the result is a book packed with nostalgia, statistics, action, revelations-an extraordinary oral history of baseball in the halcyon days beween the two world wars. Babe Rut..
Bela Bartok Essays
$118.96
The world knows Béla Bartók as a composer. The essays contained in this voluminous compilation disclose a side of the great Hungarian previously known to relatively few persons: Bartók the man of letters. Theorist, performer, collector, scholar, and composer, Béla Bartók is internationally renowned ..
Between Light and Shadow: A Guatemalan Girl's Jour...
$10.02
“An adoption professional once told me, ‘At its best, there is no adoption system as good as Guatemala’s. At its worst, there is none worse.’”-from the foreword by Kevin KreutnerIn Between Light and Shadow veteran journalist Jacob Wheeler puts a human face on the Guatemalan adoption industry, which ..
Beyond DiMaggio: Italian Americans in Baseball
$12.33
Berra, Rizzuto, Lasorda, Torre, Conigliaro, Santo, Piazza. Casual baseball fans-in fact, even many nonfans-know these names, not as Italian Americans but as some of the most colorful figures in Major League Baseball. Ever since future Hall of Famer Tony Lazzeri became a key part of the Yankees’ Murd..
Bleed into Me: A Book of Stories (Native Storiers:...
$296.36
We stare at each other because we don't know which tribe, and then nod at the last possible instant. Standard procedure. You pick it up the first time a white friend leads you across a room just to stand you up by another Indian, arrange you like furniture, like you should have something to say to e..