wyszukanych pozycji: 5
West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776
ISBN: 9780393351156 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region s native residents. The Russians pushed into Alaska in search of valuable sea otters, devastating local Aleut communities. And the British extended their fur trade from Hudson Bay deep into the continent, sparking an environmental revolution that transformed America s boreal forests. While imperial officials in distant Europe maneuvered to control lands they knew almost nothing about, America's indigenous peoples sought their own advantage. Creek Indians... In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region s native residents.... |
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73,86 zł |
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
ISBN: 9780521669436 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. As the Creeks amassed a fortune in cattle and slaves, new property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New Order of Things is the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless.
Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians...
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153,95 zł |
West of the Revolution : An Uncommon History of 1776
ISBN: 9780393240207 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region's native residents. The Russians pushed into Alaska in search of valuable sea otters, devastating local Aleut communities. And the British extended their fur trade from Hudson Bay deep into the continent, sparking an environmental revolution that transformed America's boreal forests. While imperial officials in distant Europe maneuvered to control lands they knew almost nothing about, America's indigenous peoples sought their own advantage. Creek Indians... In that pivotal year, the Spanish established the first European colony in San Francisco and set off a cataclysm for the region's native residents.... |
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114,83 zł |
Black, White, and Indian: Race and the Unmaking of an American Family
ISBN: 9780195313109 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent living in the newly formed United States, the most personal and emotional choices--to honor a friendship or pursue an intimate relationship--were often necessarily guided by the harsh economic realities imposed by the country's racial hierarchy. Few families in American history embody this struggle to survive the pervasive onslaught of racism more than the Graysons.
Like many other residents of the eighteenth-century Native American South,... Deceit, compromise, and betrayal were the painful costs of becoming American for many families. For people of Indian, African, and European descent li...
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173,65 zł |
A New Order of Things: Property, Power, and the Transformation of the Creek Indians, 1733-1816
ISBN: 9780521660433 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians and forever changed the Deep South. As the Creeks amassed a fortune in cattle and slaves, new property fostered a new possessiveness, and government by coercion bred confrontation. A New Order of Things is the first book to chronicle this decisive transformation in America's early history, a transformation that left deep divisions between the wealthy and poor, powerful and powerless.
Claudio Saunt vividly depicts a dramatic transformation in the eighteenth century that overturned the world of the powerful and numerous Creek Indians...
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262,32 zł |