wyszukanych pozycji: 10
The Buzzel about Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land
ISBN: 9780813192116 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Touted as an American Eden, Kentucky provides one of the most dramatic social histories of early America. In this collection, ten contributors trace the evolution of Kentucky from First West to Early Republic. The authors tell the stories of the state's remarkable settlers and inhabitants: Indians, African Americans, working-class men and women, wealthy planters and struggling farmers. Eager settlers built defensive forts across the countryside, while women and slaves used revivalism to create new opportunities for themselves in a white, patriarchal society. The world that this diverse... Touted as an American Eden, Kentucky provides one of the most dramatic social histories of early America. In this collection, ten contributors trac... |
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205,78 zł |
Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South
ISBN: 9780820326160 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Spanning the era from the American Revolution to the Civil War, these nine pathbreaking original essays explore the unexpected, competing, or contradictory ways in which southerners made sense of manhood. Employing a rich variety of methodologies, the contributors look at southern masculinity within African American, white, and Native American communities; on the frontier and in towns; and across boundaries of class and age. Until now, the emerging subdiscipline of southern masculinity studies has been informed mainly by conclusions drawn from research on how the planter class engaged... Spanning the era from the American Revolution to the Civil War, these nine pathbreaking original essays explore the unexpected, competing, or contr... |
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161,25 zł |
Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South Since Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780820332321 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case studies document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography. After the Civil War, southern men crafted notions of manhood in opposition to northern ideals of masculinity and as counterpoint to southern womanhood. At... The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Sout... |
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172,39 zł |
Kentucke's Frontiers
ISBN: 9780253355195 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by Kentucky's frontier wars. Spanning the period from the 1720s when Ohio River valley Indians returned to their homeland to the American defeat of the British and their Indian allies in the War of 1812, Kentucke's Frontiers examines the political, military, religious, and public memory narratives of early Kentucky. Craig Thompson Friend explains how frontier terror framed that heroism, undermining the egalitarian promise of Kentucke and transforming a trans-Appalachian region into an Old South state. From county courts and the state... American culture has long celebrated the heroism framed by Kentucky's frontier wars. Spanning the period from the 1720s when Ohio River valley Indi... |
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160,42 zł |
Southern Masculinity: Perspectives on Manhood in the South Since Reconstruction
ISBN: 9780820329505 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Southern Masculinity explores the contours of southern male identity from Reconstruction to the present. Twelve case studies document the changing definitions of southern masculine identity as understood in conjunction with identities based on race, gender, age, sexuality, and geography. After the Civil War, southern men crafted notions of manhood in opposition to northern ideals of masculinity and as counterpoint to southern womanhood. At... The follow-up to the critically acclaimed collection Southern Manhood: Perspectives on Masculinity in the Old South (Georgia, 2004), Sout... |
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754,82 zł |
Death and the American South
ISBN: 9781107084209 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range of perspectives, while concentrating on discrete episodes in the region's past, the authors explore topics from the seventeenth century to the present, from the death traps that emerged during colonization to the bloody backlash against emancipation and civil rights to recent canny efforts to commemorate - and capitalize on - the region's deadly past. Some authors capture their subjects in the most intimate of moments: killing and dying,...
This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death. Employing a wide range...
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305,06 zł |
Family Values in the Old South
ISBN: 9780813036762 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple forms, definitions, and functions."--Sally McMillen, Davidson College
This collection of essays on family life in the nineteenth-century American South reevaluates the concept of family by looking at mourning practices, farming practices, tavern life, houses divided by politics, and interracial marriages. Individual essays examine cross-plantation marriages among slaves, white orphanages, childhood mortality, miscegenation and inheritance, domestic activities... "Will become a useful addition to our understanding of antebellum Southern families, especially in demonstrating their multiple forms, definitions, an...
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179,28 zł |
Death and the American South
ISBN: 9781107446038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death.
This rich collection of original essays illuminates the causes and consequences of the South's defining experiences with death.
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160,64 zł |
Reinterpreting Southern Histories: Essays in Historiography
ISBN: 9780807172568 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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445,59 zł |
Reinterpreting Southern Histories: Essays in Historiography
ISBN: 9780807173466 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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222,79 zł |