wyszukanych pozycji: 6
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Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation
ISBN: 9781469614915 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessionists actively debated. Imagining themselves as nation builders, they understood the importance of a plan for the economic structure of the Confederacy.
The traditional view assumes that Confederate slave-based agrarianism went hand in hand with a natural hostility toward industry and commerce. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, John Majewski's analysis finds that secessionists strongly believed in industrial development and... What would separate Union and Confederate countries look like if the South had won the Civil War? In fact, this was something that southern secessioni...
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152,45 |
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A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War
ISBN: 9780521590235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Professor Majewski compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to explain how slavery undermined the development of the southern economy. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, residents in each state financed transportation improvements to raise land values and spur commercial growth. However, by the 1830s, Philadelphia capitalists began financing Pennsylvania's railroad network, building integrated systems that reached the Midwest. Virginia's railroads remained a collection of lines without western connections. The lack of a major city that could provide capital and traffic for large-scale...
Professor Majewski compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to explain how slavery undermined the development of the southern economy. In the beginning of t...
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215,95 |
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A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War
ISBN: 9780521025362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Professor Majewski compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to explain how slavery undermined the development of the southern economy. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, residents in each state financed transportation improvements to raise land values and spur commercial growth. However, by the 1830s, Philadelphia capitalists began financing Pennsylvania's railroad network, building integrated systems that reached the Midwest. Virginia's railroads remained a collection of lines without western connections. The lack of a major city that could provide capital and traffic for large-scale...
Professor Majewski compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to explain how slavery undermined the development of the southern economy. In the beginning of t...
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191,03 |
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Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780812698435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees the Civil War as America's turning point: simultaneously the culmination and repudiation of the American revolution. Chapters tell the story of the Civil War, discussing the issues raised in readable prose, each followed by a detailed bibliographical essay, looking at the different major works on the subject with varying ideological viewpoints and conclusions. In his economic analysis of slavery, Professor Hummel takes a different view....
This book combines a sweeping narrative of the Civil War with a bold new look at the war's significance for American society. Professor Hummel sees th...
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171,80 |
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At Ease with Images of Art: Poems by John Tagliabue
ISBN: 9781499793543 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At Ease with Images of Art (color edition), a collection of previously unpublished poems by the poet John Tagliabue, celebrates the experience of seeing and reflecting on works of art. John and his wife Grace traveled extensively during his teaching career, and one of their major destinations was always the museums of each city. Many of the poems were written spontaneously while viewing a work of art; he often responded to the artist by imagining a dialogue between himself and the artist or the subject of the work. "John's beautiful and perceptive poems about art can be situated in a long...
At Ease with Images of Art (color edition), a collection of previously unpublished poems by the poet John Tagliabue, celebrates the experience of seei...
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219,24 |
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At Ease with Images of Art: Poems by John Tagliabue
ISBN: 9781494747183 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At Ease with Images of Art (black & white edition), a collection of previously unpublished poems by the poet John Tagliabue, celebrates the experience of seeing and reflecting on works of art. John and his wife Grace traveled extensively during his teaching career, and one of their major destinations was always the museums of each city. Many of the poems were written spontaneously while viewing a work of art; he often responded to the artist by imagining a dialogue between himself and the artist or the subject of the work. "John's beautiful and perceptive poems about art can be situated in a...
At Ease with Images of Art (black & white edition), a collection of previously unpublished poems by the poet John Tagliabue, celebrates the experience...
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72,24 |