wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
ISBN: 9780394743981 / Angielski / Miękka / 1980 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this "rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, The New York Times Book Review) aims to show how, during the Civil War and after Emancipation, blacks and whites interacted in ways that dramatized not only their mutual dependency, but the ambiguities and tensions that had always been latent in "the peculiar institution." Contents 1. "The Faithful Slave" 2. Black Liberators 3. Kingdom... Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accoun... |
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101,31 zł |
How Free Is Free?: The Long Death of Jim Crow
ISBN: 9780674031524 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southerners learned to live with betrayed expectations, diminishing prospects, and devastated aspirations. Their odyssey includes some of the most appalling examples of terrorism, violence, and dehumanization in the history of this nation. But, as Leon Litwack graphically demonstrates, it is at the same time an odyssey of resilience and resistance defined by day-to-day acts of protest: the fight for justice poignantly recorded in the stories, songs,... In 1985, a black veteran of the civil rights movement offered a bleak vision of a long and troubled struggle. For more than a century, black southe... |
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196,29 zł |
North of Slavery: The Negro in the Free States
ISBN: 9780226485867 / Angielski / Miękka / 1965 / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. ." . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid account of the Northern phase of the story Professor Litwack has performed a notable service."--John Hope Franklin, Journal of Negro Education "For a searching examination of the North Star Legend we are indebted to Leon F. Litwack. . . ."--C. Vann Woodward, The American Scholar
." . . no American can be pleased with the treatment of Negro Americans, North and South, in the years before the Civil War. In his clear, lucid accou...
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152,88 zł |
Trouble in Mind: Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow
ISBN: 9780375702631 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. -The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy.- --The Washington Post
-The most complete and moving account we have had of what the victims of the Jim Crow South suffered and somehow endured.- --C. Vann Woodward In April 1899, black laborer Sam Hose killed his white boss in self-defense. Wrongly accused of raping the man's wife, Hose was mutilated, stabbed, and burned alive in front of 2,000 cheering whites. His... -The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolute...
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104,08 zł |
Black Leaders of the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780252062131 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A rich and rewarding collection that will repay many reading by students of Afro-American, social, and political history.
A rich and rewarding collection that will repay many reading by students of Afro-American, social, and political history.
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114,06 zł |
Without Sanctuary
ISBN: 9780944092699 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence.
Gruesome photographs document the victims of lynchings and the society that allowed mob violence.
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325,24 zł |