wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the World Wars
ISBN: 9780199927586 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals the breadth of American activities in the capital, the lessons visitors drew from their stay, and the passionate responses they elicited from others. For many sojourners-not just for the most famous expatriate artists and writers- Paris served as an important crossroads, a place where Americans reimagined their position in the...
Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United S...
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193,70 zł |
The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts After the Transnational Turn
ISBN: 9780801479113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts... In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut... |
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145,74 zł |
Americans in a World at War: Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am\'s Yankee Clipper
ISBN: 9780199322008 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, the impact of Americans' global connections. On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard...
A vivid narrative of an ill-fated Pan American flight during World War II that captures the dramatic backstories of its passengers and, through them, ...
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139,44 zł |
Becoming Americans in Paris: Transatlantic Politics and Culture Between the World Wars
ISBN: 9780199737819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United States. In this bold and original study, Brooke Blower shows that nothing could be further from the truth. She reveals the breadth of American activities in the capital, the lessons visitors drew from their stay, and the passionate responses they elicited from others. For many sojourners-not just for the most famous expatriate artists and writers- Paris served as an important crossroads, a place where Americans reimagined their position in the...
Americans often look back on Paris between the world wars as a charming escape from the enduring inequalities and reactionary politics of the United S...
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257,88 zł |
The Familiar Made Strange: American Icons and Artifacts After the Transnational Turn
ISBN: 9780801452499 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut across rather than stop at the nation's borders to model new interpretive approaches to studying United States history. These leading practitioners of the "transnational turn" pause to consider such famous icons as John Singleton Copley s painting Watson and the Shark, Alfred Eisenstaedt s photograph V-J Day, 1945, Times Square, and Alfred Kinsey s reports on sexual behavior, as well as more surprising but revealing artifacts... In The Familiar Made Strange, twelve distinguished historians offer original and playful readings of American icons and artifacts that cut... |
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562,35 zł |
The Cambridge History of America and the World: Volume 3, 1900–1945
ISBN: 9781108419260 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as a world power and American engagements abroad flourished in new and consequential ways. Showcasing the most innovative approaches to both traditional topics and emerging themes, leading scholars chart the complex ways in which Americans projected their growing influence across the globe; how others interpreted and constrained those efforts; how Americans disagreed with each other, often fiercely, about foreign relations; and how race, religion,...
The third volume of The Cambridge History of America and the World covers the volatile period between 1900 and 1945 when the United States emerged as ...
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627,85 zł |