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Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle
ISBN: 9780812218701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful armed rebellion against the state of Massachusetts. Their desperate struggle was fueled by the injustice of a regressive tax system and a conservative state government that seemed no better than British colonial rule. But despite the immediate failure of this local call-to-arms in the Massachusetts countryside, the event fundamentally altered the course of American history. Shays and his army of four thousand rebels so shocked the young nation's...
During the bitter winter of 1786-87, Daniel Shays, a modest farmer and Revolutionary War veteran, and his compatriot Luke Day led an unsuccessful arme...
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109,78 zł |
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Who Freed the Slaves?: The Fight Over the Thirteenth Amendment
ISBN: 9780226178202 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been limited--freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines--but it is nonetheless generally seen as the key moment, with Lincoln's leadership setting into motion a train of inevitable events that culminated in the passage of an outright ban: the Thirteenth Amendment. The real story, however, is much more complicated--and dramatic--than that. With Who Freed the Slaves?, distinguished historian...
In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been limite...
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142,78 zł |
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The Slave Power: The Free North and Southern Domination, 1780--1860
ISBN: 9780807126004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Through biographical cameos and narrative vignettes, the author explains the evolution of the slave power argument over time, tracing the often repeated scenario of northern outcry against the perceived slavery, and revealing the importance of slavery in the structure of national politics. Through biographical cameos and narrative vignettes, the author explains the evolution of the slave power argument over time, tracing the often rep... |
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163,53 zł |
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The California Gold Rush and the Coming of the Civil War
ISBN: 9780307277572 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that was to come. When gold was discovered at Sutter's Mill in 1848, Americans of all stripes saw the potential for both wealth and power. Among the more calculating were Southern slave owners. By making California a slave state, they could increase the value of their slaves by 50 percent at least, and maybe much more. They could also gain additional influence in Congress and expand Southern economic clout, abetted by a new... Award-winning historian Leonard L. Richards gives us an authoritative and revealing portrait of an overlooked harbinger of the terrible battle that... |
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82,19 zł |
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A Return to His Native Town: Martin Van Buren's Life at Lindenwald, 1839-1862
ISBN: 9781484045947 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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90,80 zł |
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