wyszukanych pozycji: 18
Anna May Wong: From Laundryman\'s Daughter to Hollywood Legend
ISBN: 9781641608831 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies, sharing billing with stars such as Douglas Fairbanks Sr., Marlene Dietrich, Joan Crawford, Ramon Novarro, and Warner Oland. Her life, though, is the prototypical story of an immigrant’s difficult path through the prejudices of American culture. Born in Los Angeles in 1905, she was the second daughter of seven children born to a laundryman and his wife. Childhood experience fueled her fascination with Hollywood. By 1919 she secured a...
Anna May Wong remains one of Hollywood’s best-known Chinese American actors. Between 1919 and 1960, Anna May Wong starred in over fifty movies,...
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73,50 zł |
Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers
ISBN: 9780765601124 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement, and interracial marriage before the Civil War. This book provides fascinating reading for students of American history, labor history, urban history, and black history.
Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as...
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650,87 zł |
Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North: African Americans in Monmouth County, New Jersey, 1665-1865
ISBN: 9780945612513 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This unique social history, focusing on a single community in eastern New jersey, addresses many long-held assumptions about slavery and emancipation outside the plantation South.
This unique social history, focusing on a single community in eastern New jersey, addresses many long-held assumptions about slavery and emancipation ...
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202,80 zł |
Black New Jersey: 1664 to the Present Day
ISBN: 9780813595184 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Black New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimination. Extensively researched, it shines a light on New Jersey's unique African American history and reveals how the state's black citizens helped to shape the nation.
Black New Jersey brings to life generations of courageous men and women who fought for freedom during slavery days and later battled racial discrimina...
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171,83 zł |
Slavery and Freedom Among Early American Workers
ISBN: 9780765601131 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as the formation of slavery in the North, the American Revolution, blacks and the Workingmen's Movement, and interracial marriage before the Civil War. This book provides fascinating reading for students of American history, labor history, urban history, and black history.
Covering a chronological span from the seventeenth century to the Civil War, the book reunites black and labor history, including such major topics as...
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197,81 zł |
Twenty-Two Years a Slave, Forty Years a Free Man
ISBN: 9780815627210 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1861, Austin Steward's memoir has long been a staple source of first-hand evidence about activism against slavery and racism by freed blacks. This narrative is now available with additional biographical information and a critical introduction.
Originally published in 1861, Austin Steward's memoir has long been a staple source of first-hand evidence about activism against slavery and racism b...
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108,74 zł |
The Marion Thompson Wright Reader: Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
ISBN: 9781978805361 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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229,11 zł |
New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850
ISBN: 9780814724613 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The cartmen--unskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecarts--were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunners of the Teamsters Union, these white-frocked laborers moved almost all of the nation's possessions, touching the lives of virtually every American. New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850 tells the story of this vital group of laborers. Besides documenting the cartmen's history, the book also demonstrates the tremendous impact of government intervention into the American economy via the creation of labor laws. The cartmen possessed a...
The cartmen--unskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecarts--were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunne...
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114,50 zł |
Taxi!: A Social History of the New York City Cabdriver
ISBN: 9781421437798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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137,03 zł |
David Ruggles: A Radical Black Abolitionist and the Underground Railroad in New York City
ISBN: 9780807872642 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in America. Graham Russell Gao Hodges provides the first biography of this African American activist, writer, publisher, and hydrotherapist who secured liberty for more than six hundred former bond people, the most famous of whom was Frederick Douglass. A forceful, courageous voice for black freedom, Ruggles mentored Douglass, Sojourner Truth, and William Cooper Nell in the skills of antislavery activism. As a founder of the New York Committee of...
David Ruggles (1810-1849) was one of the most heroic--and has been one of the most often overlooked--figures of the early abolitionist movement in Ame...
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163,53 zł |
Root and Branch: African Americans in New York and East Jersey, 1613-1863
ISBN: 9780807847787 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival of the first African--a sailor marooned on Manhattan Island in 1613--to the bloody Draft Riots of 1863. Throughout, he explores the intertwined themes of freedom and servitude, city and countryside, and work, religion, and resistance that shaped black life in the region through two and a half centuries.
Hodges chronicles the lives of the first free black settlers in the Dutch-ruled city, the gradual slide into enslavement after the... In this remarkable book, Graham Hodges presents a comprehensive history of African Americans in New York City and its rural environs from the arrival ...
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258,91 zł |
The Marion Thompson Wright Reader: Edited and with a Biographical Introduction by Graham Russell Gao Hodges
ISBN: 9781978805378 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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679,64 zł |
Regulatory Delivery
ISBN: 9781509918584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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468,63 zł |
The House Servant's Directory
ISBN: 9780765601148 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An annotated introduction exploring the contemporary importance of the book The House Servants Directory, the identity and character of the author, and its significance in American history.
An annotated introduction exploring the contemporary importance of the book The House Servants Directory, the identity and character of the author, an...
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807,08 zł |
The House Servant's Directory: Or a Monitor for Private Familes: Comprising Hints on the Arrangement and Performance of Servants' Work
ISBN: 9780765601155 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. An annotated introduction exploring the contemporary importance of the book The House Servants Directory, the identity and character of the author, and its significance in American history.
An annotated introduction exploring the contemporary importance of the book The House Servants Directory, the identity and character of the author, an...
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197,81 zł |
Pretends to Be Free: Runaway Slave Advertisements from Colonial and Revolutionary New York and New Jersey
ISBN: 9780823282159 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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161,42 zł |
An Enquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes
ISBN: 9781563249129 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Amongst other things, this book is a devastating critique of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, in which he mused about black inferiority. Its publication in 1810, after Jefferson's opposition to its appearance, was a major event for African Americans.
Amongst other things, this book is a devastating critique of Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia, in which he mused about black inferior...
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702,94 zł |
Writings on Black Women of the Diaspora: History, Language, and Identity
ISBN: 9780815327349 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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442,54 zł |