wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813)
ISBN: 9781551117812 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today's readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today's audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events--an interpretation informed by his deeply...
The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today's readers about the...
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117,38 zł |
Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County, Massachusetts, 1630-1850
ISBN: 9780807844588 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature society on the brink of industrialization. Lacking a means to purchase slaves or hire help, seventeenth-century settlers adapted the labor systems of Europe to cope with the shortages of capital and workers they encountered on the edge of the wilderness. As their world developed, changes in labor arrangements paved the way for the economic transformations of the nineteenth century. By reconstructing the work experiences of thousands of farmers and...
Daniel Vickers examines the shifting labor strategies used by colonists as New England evolved from a string of frontier settlements to a mature socie...
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233,91 zł |
A Companion to Colonial America
ISBN: 9780631210115 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.
A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial...
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944,27 zł |
A Companion to Colonial America
ISBN: 9781405149853 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.
A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial...
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252,34 zł |
Young Men and the Sea: Yankee Seafarers in the Age of Sail
ISBN: 9780300123661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier Westward expansion has been the great narrative of the first two centuries of American history, but as historian Daniel Vickers demonstrates here, the horizon extended in all directions. For those who lived along the Atlantic coast, it was the East--and the Atlantic Ocean--that beckoned. While historical and fictional accounts have tended to stress the exceptional circumstances or psychological compulsions that drove men to sea, this book shows how normal a part of life seafaring was for those...
Two centuries of American maritime history, in which the Atlantic Ocean remained the great frontier Westward expansion has been the great narrative of...
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318,17 zł |
Remembering Asia's World War Two
ISBN: 9780367731366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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219,06 zł |
Remembering Asia's World War Two
ISBN: 9780367111328 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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704,29 zł |