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A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
ISBN: 9780393354867 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A sensory tour de force." -Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic
"A sensory tour de force." -Caitlin Fitz, The Atlantic
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87,48 zł |
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Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England
ISBN: 9780195130904 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once historical, socio-cultural, and linguistic, Jane Kamensky explores the little-known words of unsung individuals, and reconsiders such famous Puritan events as the banishment of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem witch trials, to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue." But even while dangerous or deviant speech was restricted, as Kamensky illustrates here, godly speech was continuously praised and promoted....
Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once hist...
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222,88 zł |
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A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley
ISBN: 9780393240016 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Boston in the 1740s: a bustling port at the edge of the British empire. A boy comes of age in a small wooden house along the Long Wharf, which juts into the harbor, as though reaching for London thousands of miles across the ocean. Sometime in his childhood, he learns to draw. That boy was John Singleton Copley, who became, by the 1760s, colonial America's premier painter. His brush captured the faces of his neighbors--ordinary men like Paul Revere, John Hancock, and Samuel Adams--who would become the revolutionary heroes of a new United States. Today, in museums across America,... Boston in the 1740s: a bustling port at the edge of the British empire. A boy comes of age in a small wooden house along the Long Wharf, which juts... |
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153,12 zł |
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Governing the Tongue
ISBN: 9780195090802 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once historical, socio-cultural, and linguistic, Jane Kamensky explores the little-known words of unsung individuals, and reconsiders such famous Puritan events as the banishment of Anne Hutchinson and the Salem witch trials, to expose the ever-present fear of what the Puritans called "sins of the tongue." But even while dangerous or deviant speech was restricted, as Kamensky illustrates here, godly speech was continuously praised and promoted....
Governing the Tongue explains why the spoken word assumed such importance in the culture of early New England. In a work that is at once hist...
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301,71 zł |
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The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America's First Banking Collapse
ISBN: 9780143114901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic
This enthralling historical narrative of the birth of speculative capitalism in America opens in the 1790s when financial pioneer-turned-confidence-man Andrew Dexter, Jr. created a pyramid scheme founded on real estate speculation and the greed of banks, who freely printed the paper money he needed to finance the then tallest building in the United States-the Exchange Coffee House, a 153-room, seven-story colossus in downtown Boston. The story of Dexter's rise and eventual... The riveting story of the country's first banking scandal in the first decades of the American republic
This enthralling historical narrat... |
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104,58 zł |
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Candida Royalle and the Sexual Revolution: A History from Below
ISBN: 9781324002086 / Angielski / Inna / 2024 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. |
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142,84 zł |
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Blindspot
ISBN: 9780385526203 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire's far shores--in the city of Boston, lately seized with the spirit of liberty. Eager to begin anew, he advertises for an apprentice, but the lad who comes knocking is no lad at all. Fanny Easton is a fallen woman from Boston's most prominent family who has disguised herself as a boy to become Jameson's defiant and seductive apprentice.
Written with wit and exuberance by accomplished historians, Blindspot is an affectionate send-up of the best of eighteenth-century... Stewart Jameson, a Scottish portrait painter fleeing his debtors in Edinburgh, has washed up on the British Empire's far shores--in the city of Boston...
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95,87 zł |
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A People and a Nation: A History of the United States
ISBN: 9781337402712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 1024 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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497,76 zł |
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A People and a Nation, Volume I: To 1877
ISBN: 9781337402729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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437,59 zł |
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