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Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818
ISBN: 9781469633497 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." Most controversial were the details of the romantic liaisons of Godwin's wife, Mary Wollstonecraft, with both American Gilbert Imlay and Godwin himself. Wollstonecraft's life and writings became central to a continuing discussion about love's place in human society. Literary radicals argued that the cultivation of intense friendship could lead to the renovation of social and political institutions, whereas others maintained that...
In 1798, English essayist and novelist William Godwin ignited a transatlantic scandal with Memoirs of the Author of "A Vindication of the Rights of...
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178,87 zł |
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The Identity of the American Midwest: Essays on Regional History
ISBN: 9780253219206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In a series of often highly personal essays, this book considers the question of regional identity as a useful way of thinking about the history of the American Midwest. The contributors begin with the assumption that Midwesterners have never been as consciously regional as their fellow Americans, east, south, and west. They note the particular absence of the Midwest from the recent revival of interest in American regionalism among both scholars and journalists. Drawing on personal experiences as well as a wide variety of scholarship, the authors consider what it means to be from the... In a series of often highly personal essays, this book considers the question of regional identity as a useful way of thinking about the history of... |
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115,37 zł |
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Frontier Indiana
ISBN: 9780253212177 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Frontier Indiana Andrew R. L. Cayton "The research and scholarship that went into the work are excellent; so good, in fact, that the book should be on the required text list for all Transappalachian frontier courses." History Cayton s lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Sieur de Vincennes, John Francis Hamtramck, Little Turtle, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, Tenskwatawa, Calvin Fletcher along with many more familiar (and not so... Frontier Indiana Andrew R. L. Cayton "The research and scholarship that went into the work are excellent; so good, in fact, that the bo... |
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115,37 zł |
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The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region
ISBN: 9780253315250 / Angielski / Twarda / 1990 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Cayton and Onuf have tried to recapture a central place for region in our thinking while, at the same time, incorporating into their analysis the latest scholarship on gender, political behavior, etc. Theirs is a fine blending of the old and the new: old scholarship and new directions." --Malcolm J. Rohrbough "This is an ambitious work that... truly beongs on the 'must do' reading list of all midwestern and American historians." --American Historical Review ..". an impressive interpretive work that will command the attention of regional historians and national scholars alike."... "Cayton and Onuf have tried to recapture a central place for region in our thinking while, at the same time, incorporating into their analysis the ... |
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162,66 zł |
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The Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
ISBN: 9780143036517 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Americans often think of their nation's history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood both as necessary to defend those values and as exceptions to the rule of peaceful progress. In The Dominion of War, historians Fred Anderson and Andrew Cayton boldly reinterpret the development of the United States, arguing instead that war has played a leading role in shaping North America from the sixteenth century to the present.
Anderson and Cayton bring their sweeping narrative to life by structuring it around the lives of eight... Americans often think of their nation's history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedom. Wars in this story are understood ...
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104,83 zł |
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The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic
ISBN: 9780821416488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A forested borderland dominated by American Indians in 1780, Ohio was a landscape of farms and towns inhabited by people from all over the world in 1830. The Center of a Great Empire: The Ohio Country in the Early Republic chronicles this dramatic and all-encompassing change. Editors Andrew R.L. Cayton and Stuart D. Hobbs have assembled a focused collection of articles by established and rising scholars that address the conquest of Native Americans, the emergence of a democratic political culture, the origins of capitalism, the formation of public culture, the growth of evangelical...
A forested borderland dominated by American Indians in 1780, Ohio was a landscape of farms and towns inhabited by people from all over the world in 18...
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115,93 zł |
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Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi, 1750-1830
ISBN: 9780807847343 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions
between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier zones from the late colonial era to the end of the early republic. Focusing on contact points between these groups, they construct frontiers as creative arenas that produced new forms of social and political organization.
The eleven essays in this volume probe multicultural interactions
between Indians, Europeans, and Africans in eastern North America's frontier... |
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261,43 zł |
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