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American Indians in American History, 1870-2001: A Companion Reader
ISBN: 9780275972776 / Miękka / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Although coverage of American Indian history has improved remarkably in the past 20 years, the role of American Indians is still downplayed in many mainstream American history courses. In-depth discussions of United States policies toward Native Americans or the reactions of Native Americans do not appear in most textbooks. This book helps to overcome these shortcomings. Designed to accompany post-Reconstruction survey courses, it will help to integrate aspects of American Indian history. Arranged according to time periods used in most textbooks, the book's seventeen essays--many written... Although coverage of American Indian history has improved remarkably in the past 20 years, the role of American Indians is still downplayed in many... |
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179,71 zł |
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The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica
ISBN: 9780292721012 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 335 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the country's national park system as a response to the rapid destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of export-related agriculture. Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible... With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green republic." I... |
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117,02 zł |
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Farming Across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West
ISBN: 9781623495688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of the Pacific Rim. Case studies of commodity production and distribution, trans-border agricultural labour, and environmental change unite to reveal new perspectives on a historiography traditionally limited to a regional approach.
Uses agricultural history to connect the regional experiences of the American West, northern Mexico, western Canada, and the North American side of th...
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263,40 zł |
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The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-Ninth Parallel
ISBN: 9780803217942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests is the first collection of interdisciplinary essays bringing together scholars from both sides of the forty-ninth parallel to examine life in a transboundary region. The result is a text that reveals the diversity, difficulties, and fortunes of this increasingly powerful but little-understood part of the North American West. Contributions by historians, geographers, anthropologists, and scholars of criminal justice and environmental studies provide a comprehensive picture of the history of the borderlands region of the western United States...
The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests is the first collection of interdisciplinary essays bringing together scholars from both sides of t...
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117,02 zł |
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Bound in Twine: The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880-1950
ISBN: 9781623490478 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine that could then be hand-gathered into shocks for threshing. Hundreds of thousands of farmers across the United States and Canada relied on binders and the twine required for the machine's operation. Implement manufacturers discovered that the best binder twine was made from henequen and sisal-spiny, fibrous plants native to the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The double dependency that subsequently developed between Mexico and the Great Plains of...
Before the invention of the combine, the binder was an essential harvesting implement that cut grain and bound the stalks in bundles tied with twine t...
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117,02 zł |
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American Indians in American History, 1870-2001: A Companion Reader
ISBN: 9780275972639 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Although coverage of American Indian history has improved remarkably in the past 20 years, the role of American Indians is still downplayed in many mainstream American history courses. In-depth discussions of United States policies toward Native Americans or the reactions of Native Americans do not appear in most textbooks. This book helps to overcome these shortcomings. Designed to accompany post-Reconstruction survey courses, it will help to integrate aspects of American Indian history. Arranged according to time periods used in most textbooks, the book's seventeen essays--many written... Although coverage of American Indian history has improved remarkably in the past 20 years, the role of American Indians is still downplayed in many... |
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359,42 zł |
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Gus Wortham: Portrait of a Leader
ISBN: 9781623491543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shape the economic institutions of Houston.
Gus Wortham was a civic leader, who worked actively in the Chamber of Commerce to influence the city's economic climate and who left the city a legacy of cultural institutions, including the Wortham Theater Center. Gus Wortham was a rancher and land developer. Land: "they aren't making any more of it," he liked to say. So he bought it, developed it, and built a business with it. In short, he... Gus S. Wortham was a good businessman. Among other enterprises, he started a highly successful insurance company, American General, and helped to shap...
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117,02 zł |
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Working Women Into the Borderlands
ISBN: 9781623490416 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In "Working Women into the Borderlands," author Sonia Hernandez sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women's work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts' labor in industries which were historically male-dominated.
As Hernandez reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain... In "Working Women into the Borderlands," author Sonia Hernandez sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of M...
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87,75 zł |
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Working Women Into the Borderlands
ISBN: 9781623490409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In "Working Women into the Borderlands," author Sonia Hernandez sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of Mexico and how women's labor activism simultaneously shaped the nature of foreign investment and relations between Mexicans and Americans. As capital investments fueled the growth of heavy industries in cities and ports such as Monterrey and Tampico, women's work complemented and strengthened their male counterparts' labor in industries which were historically male-dominated.
As Hernandez reveals, women laborers were expected to maintain... In "Working Women into the Borderlands," author Sonia Hernandez sheds light on how women's labor was shaped by US capital in the northeast region of M...
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92,63 zł |
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