wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Barons of Labor: The San Francisco Building Trades and Union Power in the Progressive Era
ISBN: 9780252060755 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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99,63 zł |
The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History 2 Volume Set
ISBN: 9780691129716 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped American politics from the founding to today. Broad in scope, the book addresses both the traditional topics of political history--such as eras, institutions, political parties, presidents, and founding documents--and the wider subjects of current scholarship, including military, electoral, and economic events, as well as social movements, popular culture, religion, education, race, gender, and more. Each article, specially commissioned... An essential resource for anyone interested in U.S. history and politics, this two-volume encyclopedia covers the major forces that have shaped Ame... |
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1844,68 zł |
Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal
ISBN: 9780807858974 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with political meaning. In response to the pervasive vision of Americanism as a battle cry or a smug assumption, this collection of essays stirs up new questions and debates that challenge us to rethink the model currently being exported, too often by force, to the rest of the world.
Crafted by a cast of both rising and renowned intellectuals... What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's righ...
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200,93 zł |
War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914-1918
ISBN: 9781476705910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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85,05 zł |
What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party
ISBN: 9781250862891 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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103,72 zł |
American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation
ISBN: 9780307279194 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky. While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has also been a story of movements that failed to gain support from mainstream America. In American Dreamers, Michael Kazin--one of the most respected historians of the American left working today--tells a new history of the...ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NEWSWEEK/THE DAILY BEAST, THE NEW REPUBLIC, THE PROGRESSIVE The definitive history of the refo... |
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93,56 zł |
The Populist Persuasion: An American History
ISBN: 9781501714535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "the people" that have run through our civic life, filling it with discord and meaning from the birth of the United States until the present day. Kazin argues persuasively that the power of...
In The Populist Persuasion, the distinguished historian Michael Kazin guides readers through the expressions of conflict between powerful elites and "...
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99,63 zł |
In Search of Progressive America
ISBN: 9780812220384 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Nearly every recent poll finds that most voters agree with views historically labeled as liberal: a hike in the minimum wage, government-mandated health insurance for every American, stronger gun control laws, broader sex education programs, laws that would make it easier for unions to organize, and the use of diplomacy instead of war to combat terrorism. But as a conservative presidential administration exits, how can progressives step into the breach? In Search of Progressive America presents ten essays by journalists, academics, and government insiders that address the... Nearly every recent poll finds that most voters agree with views historically labeled as liberal: a hike in the minimum wage, government-mandated h... |
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111,41 zł |
Jews Without Money
ISBN: 9780786713455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 309 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for more than three decades. Beginning in the 1920s his was a powerful journalistic voice for social change and human rights, and Jews Without Money--the author's only novel--is a passionate record of the times. First published in 1930, this fictionalized autobiography offered an unusually candid look at the thieves, gangsters, and ordinary citizens who struggled against brutal odds in lower East Side Manhattan. Like Henry Roth's Call It... As a writer and political activist in early-twentieth-century America, Michael Gold was an important presence on the American cultural scene for m... |
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72,25 zł |
America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s
ISBN: 9780190077846 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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458,65 zł |
The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History
ISBN: 9780691152073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 672 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. With 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the most important and talked-about topics in American history and politics, from the founding to today. Abridged from the acclaimed Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, this is the only single-volume encyclopedia that provides comprehensive coverage of both the traditional topics of U.S. political history and the broader forces that shape American politics--including economics, religion, social movements, race, class, and... With 150 accessible articles written by more than 130 leading experts, this essential reference provides authoritative introductions to some of the... |
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165,69 zł |
Christianity and American Democracy
ISBN: 9780674032309 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other. Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in...
Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of ...
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148,85 zł |