wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture
ISBN: 9780700604753 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It is the "heartland," the home of the average--middle--American. Yet the definition of the Middle West, that most amorphous of regions, is elusive and changing. In historical, cultural, political, literary, and artistic terms the region is variously drawn. It is alternately praised as a pastoral oasis and damned as a cultural backwater, fostering wholesome pragmatism and crass materialism, home to people at once resilient and embittered, hardworking and complacent. From Willa Cather to Sherwood Anderson, from The Wizard of Oz to The Music Man, images of the Middle West are...
It is the "heartland," the home of the average--middle--American. Yet the definition of the Middle West, that most amorphous of regions, is elusive an...
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150,31 zł |
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Kansas City and How It Grew, 1822-2011
ISBN: 9780700618828 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Think of Kansas City and you'll probably think of barbecue, jazz, or the Chiefs. But for James Shortridge, this heartland city is more than the sum of its cultural beacons. In Kansas City and How It Grew, 1822-201, a prize-winning geographer traces the historical geography of a place that has developed over 200 years from a cowtown on the bend of the Missouri River into a metropolis straddling two states. He explores the changing character of the community and its component neighborhoods, showing how the city has come to look and function the way it does-and how it has come to be...
Think of Kansas City and you'll probably think of barbecue, jazz, or the Chiefs. But for James Shortridge, this heartland city is more than the sum of...
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259,05 zł |
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Kaw Valley Landscapes: A Traveler's Guide to Northeastern Kansas
ISBN: 9780700603831 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This detailed guide to the backroads and small towns of northeastern Kansas charts a 350-mile loop from the Kansas-Missouri border west through the majestic Flint Hills. The mile-by-mile descriptions cover the following counties: Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Osage, Wabaunsee, Pottawatomie, Jackson, Shawnee, Jefferson, and Leavenworth. Along the way, Shortridge's commentary on the history, economy, architecture, and demographics of the region provides a rich appreciation of the landscape and encourages lingering and thoughtful contemplation. "Kansas perhaps needs a tour guide more than do...
This detailed guide to the backroads and small towns of northeastern Kansas charts a 350-mile loop from the Kansas-Missouri border west through the ma...
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150,31 zł |
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Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas
ISBN: 9780700606979 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the wake of the turbulent 1850s, Kansas was popularly portrayed as a Yankee stronghold, a "child of Plymouth Rock" where Puritan virtue triumphed over base Southern ways. Perpetuated by a century and a half of historical propaganda, this fictitious notion tenaciously shrouds the real Kansas. In Peopling the Plains, James R. Shortridge helps set the record straight. Early Yankee settlers did indeed influence the location of major education and governmental facilities, he shows, but they were only one of many regional and ethnic forces that molded the state's complex cultural and...
In the wake of the turbulent 1850s, Kansas was popularly portrayed as a Yankee stronghold, a "child of Plymouth Rock" where Puritan virtue triumphed o...
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294,37 zł |
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Cities on the Plains: The Evolution of Urban Kansas
ISBN: 9780700613120 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Abilene to Wichita and beyond, a constellation of cities glitters across the fertile plains of Kansas. Their history is entwined with that of the state as a whole, and their size and status are rarely questioned. Yet as James Shortridge reveals, the evolution of urban Kansas remains a largely untold story of competition, rivalry, and metropolitan dreams. Cities on the Plains relates the history of Kansas's larger communities from the 1850s to the present. The first book to provide a comprehensive, comparative account of an entire state's urban development, it shows how...
From Abilene to Wichita and beyond, a constellation of cities glitters across the fertile plains of Kansas. Their history is entwined with that of the...
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351,99 zł |
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Our Town on the Plains: J. J. Pennell's Photographs of Junction City, Kansas, 1893-1922
ISBN: 9780700610433 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. By the beginning of the twentieth century, photography had become accessible to average Americans as a means of documenting their lives. Although most people did not yet own cameras, they flocked to commercial photographers for affordable portraits that became the family heirlooms we gape at in wonder today. One of the most accomplished of these photographers was Joseph Judd Pennell of Junction City, Kansas. Pennell had one of the best equipped studios in the state and took thousands of photographs recording the public life of his town. People from all walks of life posed for his camera,...
By the beginning of the twentieth century, photography had become accessible to average Americans as a means of documenting their lives. Although most...
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196,40 zł |