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  • av Robert E. May
    349,-

    Eine Auswahl der besten Geschichten von Long John Silver, Henry Morgan und vielen anderen Piraten und Korsaren aus der großen Zeit der Seeräuberei, erzählt nach Klassikern des Genres wie Robinson Crusoe oder der Schatzinsel, dazu fesselnde Illustrationen großer amerikanischer Grafikkünstler wie Howard Pyle und N. C. Wyeth.

  • - Slavery, Christmas, and Southern Memory
    av Robert E. May
    355,-

    How did enslaved African Americans in the Old South really experience Christmas? In this provocative, revisionist, and sometimes chilling account, Robert E. May chides the conventional wisdom for simplifying black perspectives, uncritically accepting southern white literary tropes about the holiday.

  • - Old South Crusader
    av Robert E. May
    651,-

    The premier secessionist of antebellum Mississippi, John A. Quitman was one of the half-dozen or so most prominent radicals in the entire South. In this full-length biography, Robert May reveals Quitman to have been an ambitious but relatively stable insider who reluctantly advocated secession because of a despondency over slavery's future.

  • - Filibustering in Antebellum America
    av Robert E. May
    552,-

    America's notorious ""filibusters"" weretthe adventurers who organized or participated in private military attacks on nations with which the United States was formally at peace. Condemned abroad as pirates, the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest Destiny.

  • av Robert E. May
    404,-

    A path-breaking work when first published in 1973, this book remains the standard work on attempts by the South to spread American slavery into the tropics - Cuba, Mexico and Central America in particular - before the Civil War.

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