wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas
ISBN: 9780300090932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," has long been enshrined in the public imagination as an authentic American hero, but one who was colorless and rather remote. This book, the first major biography in more than seventy years, brings Austin's private life, motives, personality, and character into sharp focus, revealing a driven man who successfully mixed effort and cunning, idealism and pragmatism to build an illustrious career. Gregg Cantrell traces Austin's early life from his privileged boyhood as the son of the Missouri mining baron Moses Austin to his family's humiliating financial...
Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," has long been enshrined in the public imagination as an authentic American hero, but one who was colorless a...
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285,42 zł |
Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas
ISBN: 9781585445691 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as important as the objective facts of that past. The memories used by a people to define itself have to be understood not just as (sometimes) bad history but also as historical artifacts themselves. Texas' pasts are examined in this groundbreaking volume, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars. Current historians' views of Texas in the nineteenth century and especially the significance of the Alamo as a site of memory in architecture, art, and film across the...
The past has long fingers into the present, but they are not just the fingers of fact. How we remember the past is at least as important as the object...
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125,95 zł |
The People’s Revolt: Texas Populists and the Roots of American Liberalism
ISBN: 9780300100976 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. An engaging and meticulously researched history of Texas Populism and its contributions to modern American liberalism
An engaging and meticulously researched history of Texas Populism and its contributions to modern American liberalism
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168,56 zł |
The History of Texas
ISBN: 9781119581437 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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262,31 zł |