wyszukanych pozycji: 26
Niche Publications and Subcultural Authenticity : The case of Stealth magazine
ISBN: 9783659266928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. |
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226,38 zł |
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
ISBN: 9781416590323 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century--Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. era.
The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the 19th century--Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest ora...
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77,92 zł |
When This Cruel War Is Over: The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster
ISBN: 9781558497481 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Chronicle of an ordinary Union soldier caught up in extraordinary events through a collection of letters
Chronicle of an ordinary Union soldier caught up in extraordinary events through a collection of letters
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222,97 zł |
Yale and Slavery: A History
ISBN: 9780300273847 / Angielski / Inna / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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138,60 zł |
American Oracle: The Civil War in the Civil Rights Era
ISBN: 9780674725973 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Takes readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century earlier. The author shows how four of America's most incisive writers - Robert Penn Warren, Bruce Catton, Edmund Wilson, and James Baldwin - explored the gulf between remembrance and reality.
Takes readers back to the Civil War's centennial celebration to determine how Americans made sense of the suffering, loss, and liberation a century ea...
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108,49 zł |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave: Written by Himself
ISBN: 9781319048891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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162,73 zł |
A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including Their Own Narratives of Emancipation
ISBN: 9780156034517 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere handful are first-person accounts by slaves who ran away and freed themselves. Now two newly uncovered narratives, and the biographies of the men who wrote them, join that exclusive group with the publication of A Slave No More, a major new addition to the canon of American history. Handed down through family and friends, these narratives tell gripping stories of escape: Through a combination of intelligence, daring, and sheer luck, the men...
Slave narratives, some of the most powerful records of our past, are extremely rare, with only fifty-five post-Civil War narratives surviving. A mere ...
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88,65 zł |
Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory
ISBN: 9780674008199 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and cast off a traumatic past. David Blight explores the perilous path of remembering and forgetting, and reveals its tragic costs to race relations and America's national reunion.In 1865, confronted with a ravaged landscape and a torn America, the North and South began a slow and painful process of reconciliation. The ensuing decades witnessed the triumph of a culture of reunion, which downplayed sectional division and emphasized the heroics of a...
No historical event has left as deep an imprint on America's collective memory as the Civil War. In the war's aftermath, Americans had to embrace and ...
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99,45 zł |
Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom
ISBN: 9781416590316 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 912 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, and TIME TOP 10 BOOK OF THE YEAR The definitive, dramatic biography of the most important African American of the nineteenth century: Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress,... A NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, ... |
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161,44 zł |
My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: 9780300190595 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass's masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race in chains. This classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight...
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spo...
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72,02 zł |
Young Frederick Douglass
ISBN: 9781421425948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. At the time of Douglass's death in 1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.
At the time of Douglass's death in 1895, one eulogist wrote that he was probably the best-known American throughout the world since Abraham Lincoln.
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138,60 zł |
Composite Nation
ISBN: 9781429095617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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84,35 zł |
The Life and the Adventures of a Haunted Convict
ISBN: 9780812986914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer--recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars--sheds light on the longstanding connection between race and incarceration in America.
" A] harrowing portrait] of life behind bars . . . part confession, part jeremiad, part lamentation, part picaresque novel (reminiscent, at times, of Dickens and Defoe)."--Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In 2009, scholars at Yale University came across a... The earliest known prison memoir by an African American writer--recently discovered and authenticated by a team of Yale scholars--sheds light on th...
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86,10 zł |
The Columbian Orator
ISBN: 9780814713235 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it frequently, referring to it as a -gem- and his -rich treasure.- The Columbian Orator presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and... First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and t... |
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126,35 zł |
The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces Together with Rules, Which Are Calculated to Improve Youth and Ot
ISBN: 9780814713228 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and totaling 200,000 copies in sales. The book was read by virtually every American schoolboy in the first half of the 19th century. As a slave youth, Frederick Douglass owned just one book, and read it frequently, referring to it as a -gem- and his -rich treasure.- The Columbian Orator presents 84 selections, most of which are notable examples of oratory on such subjects as nationalism, religious faith, individual liberty, freedom, and... First published in 1797, The Columbian Orator helped shape the American mind for the next half century, going through some 23 editions and t... |
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421,34 zł |
Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
ISBN: 9780300163872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery studies, this comprehensive work offers an original and creative study of slavery and abolition in the Indian Ocean world during this period. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between British imperialism and slavery; Islamic law and slavery; and the bureaucracy of slave... While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically c... |
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283,54 zł |
Intelligence and the Cuban Missile Crisis
ISBN: 9780714648835 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Intelligence played a crucial part in the genesis, management and resolution of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the world's closest brush with nuclear war. This study examines the role and performance of all three intelligence communities centrally involved in this event: American, Soviet and Cuban.
Intelligence played a crucial part in the genesis, management and resolution of the Cuban missile crisis in 1962, the world's closest brush with nucle...
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763,69 zł |
Atlas of the Transatlantic Slave Trade
ISBN: 9780300212549 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic coastline. In this extraordinary book, two leading historians have created the first comprehensive, up-to-date atlas on this 350-year history of kidnapping and coercion. It features nearly 200 maps, especially created for the volume, that explore every detail of the African slave traffic to the New World. The atlas is based on an online database (www.slavevoyages.org) with records on nearly 35,000 slaving voyages--roughly 80 percent of all such... Between 1501 and 1867, the transatlantic slave trade claimed an estimated 12.5 million Africans and involved almost every country with an Atlantic ... |
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152,46 zł |
Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
ISBN: 9780820351490 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defi...
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140,76 zł |
Beyond Freedom: Disrupting the History of Emancipation
ISBN: 9780820351483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defined freedom, and what did it mean to nineteenth-century African Americans, both during and after slavery? Some of the essays disrupt the traditional story and time-frame of emancipation.
This collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recentres our understanding of the process of emancipation. Who defi...
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512,26 zł |