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Abolition's Axe: Beriah Green, Oneida Institute, and the Black Freedom Struggle
ISBN: 9780815630227 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer and one of Now York's most important abolitionists, this book is a history of Green and his attempt to create a model biracial society.
Chronicling the career of Beriah Green (1795-1874), theologian, educator, reformer and one of Now York's most important abolitionists, this book is a ...
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77,99 |
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Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History
ISBN: 9780822340737 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. "Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History" tells the fascinating story of Tubman's life as an American icon. The distinguished historian Milton C. Sernett compares the larger-than-life symbolic Tubman with the actual "historical" Tubman. He does so not to diminish Tubman's achievements but rather to explore the interplay of history and myth in our national consciousness. Analyzing how the Tubman icon has changed over time, Sernett shows that the...
Harriet Tubman is one of America's most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. "Ha...
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121,89 |
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Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History
ISBN: 9780822340522 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Harriet Tubman is one of America s most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. "Harriet Tubman: Myth, Memory, and History" tells the fascinating story of Tubman s life as an American icon. The distinguished historian Milton C. Sernett compares the larger-than-life symbolic Tubman with the actual historical Tubman. He does so not to diminish Tubman s achievements but rather to explore the interplay of history and myth in our national consciousness. Analyzing how the Tubman icon has changed over time, Sernett shows that the...
Harriet Tubman is one of America s most beloved historical figures, revered alongside luminaries including Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass. "Ha...
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526,80 |
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Hawkeye: An Iowa Boyhood
ISBN: 9781544657226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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108,06 |
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Cradle of the Breed: Gerrit Smith Miller & The Kriemhild Herd
ISBN: 9781451578256 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is the story behind the granite boulder that sits along Oxbow Road, about a quarter mile north of the Hamlet of Peterboro in the Town of Smithfield, Madison County, New York. Dedicated on August 17, 1929 by the New York Holstein-Friesian Association, the historical marker honors Gerrit Smith Miller, grandson of the famous abolitionist and reformer Gerrit Smith, for his pioneer work as a breeder of purebred Holstein cattle.
This is the story behind the granite boulder that sits along Oxbow Road, about a quarter mile north of the Hamlet of Peterboro in the Town of Smithfie...
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80,04 |
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North Star Country: Upstate New York and the Crusade for African American Freedom
ISBN: 9780815629153 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The compelling and wide-ranging tale that examines the moral choices made by blacks and whites of New York State to aid the newly freed slaves to secure the promise of freedom. The North Star was both an astronomical reference guiding slaves north to freedom, and a symbol of the moral enterprise that sought to end slavery. This crusade for freedom in the north was born of the religious revivals of the 1820s and 1830s in central and western New York - known as the Burned-Over District, which lit the fires that eventually burst into the conflagration of the Civil War. Milton C. Sernett begins...
The compelling and wide-ranging tale that examines the moral choices made by blacks and whites of New York State to aid the newly freed slaves to secu...
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48,73 |
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Reflections on Faith & History
ISBN: 9781522970576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) The noun "reflection" has several meanings. A reflection can be "the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it," as in the reflection of light from a mirror. But to "reflect" can be so much more, as when a person considers something in a deeply spiritual or meditative way. This collection of essays, both the memory mediations and the historical articles, are gathered here so that you, the reader, might spend some time on the path of contemplation. The "reflections" were initially distributed to worshippers at the First United Methodist Church, Cazenovia,...
The noun "reflection" has several meanings. A reflection can be "the throwing back by a body or surface of light, heat, or sound without absorbing it,...
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60,03 |
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The Sernett Story: In Search of My Bohemian (Czech) Heritage
ISBN: 9781499320299 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is the story of the search for my Czech or Bohemian heritage. My father was of Czech ancestry, but his death in 1950 when I was only seven created a situation where my mother's German American heritage was more intact. Beginning with a sketch of the history of the Kingdom of Bohemia, I trace the sojourn of my Czech Srnec (Sernett) ancestors from the Old Country to America where they eventually settled in Iowa. Most became farmers in Pocahontas County. My father Lee Louis Sernett (1892-1950) moved to Hampton, Iowa, in 1927 and two years later began operating a gas station. So it was that...
This is the story of the search for my Czech or Bohemian heritage. My father was of Czech ancestry, but his death in 1950 when I was only seven create...
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80,04 |
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Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration
ISBN: 9780822319931 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) "Bound for the Promised Land" is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following World War I. In focusing on this phenomenon's religious and cultural implications, Milton C. Sernett breaks with traditional patterns of historiography that analyze the migration in terms of socioeconomic considerations.
Drawing on a range of sources--interviews, government documents, church periodicals, books, pamphlets, and... "Bound for the Promised Land" is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movemen...
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156,09 |
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Bound for the Promised Land: African American Religion and the Great Migration
ISBN: 9780822319849 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Discusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churches and religions.
Discusses the migration of African-Americans from the south to the north after WWI through the 1940s and the effect this had on African-American churc...
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648,74 |
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"Come to Peterboro": Commemorating the 175th Anniversary of the Founding of The New York State Anti-Slavery Society, October 21-22, 1835
ISBN: 9781453711798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Abolitionists met on October 21, 1835, in Utica, NY, to form The New York State Anti-Slavery Society. Rioters forced them to go to Peterboro, New York, where Gerrit Smith welcomed them. This book tells the story of the Utica and Peterboro conventions and reproduces the Minutes of this historic event.
Abolitionists met on October 21, 1835, in Utica, NY, to form The New York State Anti-Slavery Society. Rioters forced them to go to Peterboro, New York...
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80,04 |
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Farm: A Walk through Agricultural History with Jared van Wagenen
ISBN: 9781475160543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Dr. Milton C. Sernett is a historian who grew up in the tall corn state of Iowa. He taught at Syracuse University for three decades and then retired to pursue a lifelong interest in agricultural history. He has authored fifteen books, including ones on the transition from horse to tractor farming, the history of cheesemaking in New York State, and the origin of the Holstein breed of dairy cattle in the United States. Known as "the Sage of Lawyersville," Jared van Wagenen, Jr. (1871-1960) lived at Hillside Farm in Schoharie County in eastern New York State. A graduate of Cornell University...
Dr. Milton C. Sernett is a historian who grew up in the tall corn state of Iowa. He taught at Syracuse University for three decades and then retired t...
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80,04 |
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African American Religious History: A Documentary Witness
ISBN: 9780822324263 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and the black theology. This work includes documents, such as personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, and theological statements.
Offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil right...
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African American Religious History: Documentary Witness
ISBN: 9780822324492 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reconstruction to the rise of black nationalism, civil rights, and black theology of today. The documents--many of them rare, out-of-print, or difficult to find--include personal narratives, sermons, letters, protest pamphlets, early denominational histories, journalistic accounts, and theological statements. In this volume Olaudah Equiano describes Ibo religion. Lemuel Haynes gives a black Puritan's farewell. Nat Turner confesses. Jarena Lee...
This widely-heralded collection of remarkable documents offers a view of African American religious history from Africa and early America through Reco...
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136,53 |
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Say Cheese!: The Story of the Era when New York State Cheese was King
ISBN: 9781456577667 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is the story of the era when the premier cheesemaking region of the United States was in Central New York, chiefly in the Mohawk Valley. Here it was that Jesse Williams set up the first cheese factory in 1851 in Oneida County. Here too, Prof. Xerxes A. Willard championed the cause of higher standards in cheesemaking and became the nation's most respected spokesman for the "associated dairies" concept. This book includes reproductions of three rare primary documents about the history of cheesemaking in New York State in the 19th century. Many illustrations help tell the story. A list of...
This is the story of the era when the premier cheesemaking region of the United States was in Central New York, chiefly in the Mohawk Valley. Here it ...
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The Horse and Tractor Wars: Letters & Lessons from an Old Horseman
ISBN: 9781456364441 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Confined to a nursing home in Iowa in 1960, a time-worn horseman seeks to educate his grandson about the great transformation in American agriculture when horse power gave way to tractor power (1910-1950). Walt Decker spent nearly four decades as the chief national defender for the continued use of draft horses on the farm, especially Percherons. His grandson Jethro is a student in agricultural engineering at Iowa State University and does not understand the significance of the shift from equine power to tractor power. Grandfather Decker seeks to teach him with seven historical lessons that...
Confined to a nursing home in Iowa in 1960, a time-worn horseman seeks to educate his grandson about the great transformation in American agriculture ...
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Family Matters: Exploring My German American Heritage
ISBN: 9781497564039 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) More than 88 milliion Americans can claim to be of German descent. My maternal great grantparents, Johannes and Katharina Berghofer, came from Hesse Nassau, Germany, to the United States in 1880 with their five children. This book is both family history and an investigation of my German-American heritage. By the time that I was born in 1942 in Hampton, Iowa, the German culture which shaped my mother and her parents had all but disappeared. This book is written so that their story can be remembered by succeeding generations."
More than 88 milliion Americans can claim to be of German descent. My maternal great grantparents, Johannes and Katharina Berghofer, came from Hesse N...
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88,04 |
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Chickens: Musings and Memories
ISBN: 9781530980840 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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100,05 |
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