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Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life
ISBN: 9780809098699 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America Yet as the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction--one created... Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America |
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106,09 zł |
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Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
ISBN: 9780195324907 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation-state model, with pollution, global warming, and other issues affecting the earth not stopping at national borders. With 25 essays, this Handbook is global in scope and innovative in organization,...
The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to h...
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778,23 zł |
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The California Gold Rush: A Brief History with Documents
ISBN: 9781457671647 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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175,44 zł |
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Mining California: An Ecological History
ISBN: 9780809069323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile--rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same... An environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. ... |
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79,57 zł |
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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History
ISBN: 9780190673482 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to history, one that bridges the human and natural world, the humanities and the sciences. With the current trend towards internationalizing history, environmental history is perhaps the quintessential approach to studying subjects outside the nation-state model, with pollution, global warming, and other issues affecting the earth not stopping at national borders. With 25 essays, this Handbook is global in scope and innovative in organization,...
The field of environmental history emerged just decades ago but has established itself as one of the most innovative and important new approaches to h...
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240,31 zł |
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The Nature of Cities: Culture, Landscape, and Urban Space
ISBN: 9781580462204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This volume explores the intersection of cities and the natural environment in an array of urban places, including New York, London, New Orleans, Venice, and Seattle, across a broad period from the late Renaissance to the present. The essays investigate the ecological context of revolts-both real and imagined-by urban squatters and slaves; urban epidemics and their cultural and political consequences; the social and economic impact of natural catastrophes upon urban places; and the environmental history of the rise and fall of cities. The Nature of Cities brings together the work of scholars...
This volume explores the intersection of cities and the natural environment in an array of urban places, including New York, London, New Orleans, Veni...
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420,55 zł |
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The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750–1920
ISBN: 9781108816724 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise analysis of the near-extinction of the North American bison population from an estimated 30 million in 1800 to fewer than 1000 a century later. His wide-ranging, interdisciplinary study carefully considers the multiple causes, cultural and ecological, of the destruction of the species. The twentieth-anniversary edition includes a new foreword connecting this seminal work to developments in the field – notably new perspectives in Native American...
For the last twenty years, The Destruction of the Bison has been an essential work in environmental history. Andrew C. Isenberg offers a concise anal...
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105,85 zł |
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The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump
ISBN: 9780674979970 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Not long ago Republicans took pride in their tradition of environmental leadership. The GOP helped create the EPA, extend the Clean Air Act, and protect endangered species. Today Republicans denounce climate change as a "hoax" and seek to dismantle environmental regulations. What happened? James Morton Turner and Andrew C. Isenberg provide answers.
Not long ago Republicans took pride in their tradition of environmental leadership. The GOP helped create the EPA, extend the Clean Air Act, and prote...
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198,93 zł |
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Rip Van Winkle's Republic: Washington Irving in History and Memory
ISBN: 9780807177594 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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154,50 zł |
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The Hunting of the Buffalo
ISBN: 9780803261372 / Angielski / Miękka / 1963 / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gradual extermination is chronicled by E. Douglas Branch, who drew on rich materials, including Indian legends, old letters and diaries, and tales of frontier travelers. No one has ever written more memorably about the great herds, their habits and haunts, their importance to the Indians, their discovery by awed whites, their decimation by huge cultural and economic forces. E. Douglas Branch (1905-1954) is also the author of The Cowboy and His...
The Hunting of the Buffalo, originally published in 1929, tells all about the marvelous and useful animal that once roamed the American plains. Its gr...
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78,80 zł |
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