wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South
ISBN: 9780807164013 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful plantation owner in the Arkansas delta to recount the evolution of southern agriculture from the late nineteenth century through World War II. After his father's death in 1870, Robert E. "Lee" Wilson inherited 400 acres of land in Mississippi County, Arkansas. Over his lifetime, he transformed that inheritance into a 50,000-acre lumber operation and cotton plantation. Early on, Wilson saw an opportunity in the swampy local terrain, which sold for as...
In Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the fascinating history of a powerful planta...
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164,71 zł |
A New Plantation South: Land, Labor, and Federal Favor in Twentieth-Century Arkansas
ISBN: 9780813925943 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 342 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this book, the author traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War.
In this book, the author traces the emergence of a transformed southern plantation system in the Arkansas delta decades after the end of the Civil War...
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174,07 zł |
The Ongoing Burden of Southern History: Politics and Identity in the Twenty-First-Century South
ISBN: 9780807147566 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward's landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on the southern past. Today, a "southern burden" still exists, but its shape and impact on southerners and the world varies dramatically from the one envisioned by Woodward. Recasting Woodward's ideas on the contemporary South, the contributors to The Ongoing Burden of Southern History highlight the relevance of his scholarship for the twenty-first-century reader and student. This interdisciplinary retrospective tackles questions of equality,... More than fifty years after its initial publication, C. Vann Woodward's landmark work, The Burden of Southern History, remains an essential text on... |
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247,08 zł |
Buildings of Arkansas
ISBN: 9780813939780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hot Springs to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and scores of places in between, the latest volume in the Buildings of the United States series provides the most comprehensive, authoritative, and up-to-date guide to the architecture of Arkansas. The result of a lifetime's research and fieldwork by the esteemed historian and preservationist Cyrus A. Sutherland, this book captures the range and richness of the state's buildings and landscapes, whose stories can prove as fascinating and gripping as a novel's plotline. Nearly 500 building... From Fayetteville, Little Rock, and Hot Springs to Jonesboro, El Dorado, Arkadelphia, Texarkana, and scores of places in between, the latest volume... |
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524,84 zł |
Arkansas: A Concise History
ISBN: 9781682260920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 415 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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136,98 zł |