wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Praying for Base Hits : An American Boyhood
ISBN: 9780826211897 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. "Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood" follows a young man's bittersweet experiences from youth to adulthood. Bruce Clayton gives readers more than a chronicle of his growing-up years in Kansas City, Missouri; this narrative taps the commonalities of the fifties and conveys the innocence, simplicity, and naivete of the era. Shifting from impish boyhood escapades to persistent family tensions and back again, "Praying for Base Hits" elicits a wide range of emotions. Clayton tells of raucously boyish adventures siphoning "free" orange concentrate from Old Man Pierce's drugstore... "Praying for Base Hits: An American Boyhood" follows a young man's bittersweet experiences from youth to adulthood. Bruce Clayton gives readers mor... |
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145,73 zł |
Varieties of Southern History: New Essays on a Region and Its People
ISBN: 9780313298608 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book reflects the best of contemporary scholarship on the history of the American South. Each contributor is an authority--one a Pulitzer Prize winner. The essays examine what life was like for the slaves; for the victims of terror and lynchings; for workers who dared strike and demand fairness; and for dissenters who challenged the accepted truths. The essays are grouped around three major research areas: history and the social sciences, history and biography, and the new labor history. This is a unique collection of essays by some of the world's leading historians of the South,... This book reflects the best of contemporary scholarship on the history of the American South. Each contributor is an authority--one a Pulitzer Priz... |
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378,53 zł |
The South Is Another Land: Essays on the Twentieth-Century South
ISBN: 9780313255564 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. One might argue as to whether the South is another land' or only a separate verse in the American song. There should be little argument over the usefulness of this collection of ten essays. They find their common ground in a loose schema--the 20th-century South with subsections on politics, the world of work, ' religious affairs, and the search for the South.' All the work is most competently done. It may appear to some that the essays on the southern politicians are generic stories now thrice told; however, they show the individual differences and the uniqueness of personality that always... One might argue as to whether the South is another land' or only a separate verse in the American song. There should be little argument over the us... |
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378,53 zł |
Lives Full of Struggle and Triumph: Southern Women, Their Institutions, and Their Communities
ISBN: 9781616101114 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history."--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky University
Spanning the sweep of southern women's history from colonial times to the late 20th century, this collection represents the best scholarship on the lives and experiences of black and white southern women. Through topics as diverse as the rise of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the organization of labor in the apparel industry, these essays explore how southern women constantly moved beyond the traditional confines of race,... "A splendid sampler of the very latest and best of scholarship in the field of southern women's history."--Thomas Appleton, Eastern Kentucky Universit...
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173,26 zł |