wyszukanych pozycji: 9
The Nature of Childhood: An Environmental History of Growing Up in America Since 1865
ISBN: 9780700619580 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When did the kid who strolled the wooded path, trolled the stream, played pick-up ball in the back forty turn into the child confined to the mall and the computer screen? How did "Go out and play " go from parental shooing to prescription? When did parents become afraid to send their children outdoors? Surveying the landscape of childhood from the Civil War to our own day, this environmental history of growing up in America asks why and how the nation's children have moved indoors, often losing touch with nature in the process. In the time the book covers, the nation that once lived in...
When did the kid who strolled the wooded path, trolled the stream, played pick-up ball in the back forty turn into the child confined to the mall and ...
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307,59 zł |
Always Plenty to Do: Growing Up on a Farm in the Long Ago
ISBN: 9780896726925 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The story of childhood on America's farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; reveals what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt--and how they worked, played, and learned. Includes historical photographs--Provided by publisher.
The story of childhood on America's farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; reveals what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, ...
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94,50 zł |
The Routledge History of Rural America
ISBN: 9780415832922 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The Routledge History of Rural America charts the course of rural life in the United States, raising questions about what makes a place rural and how rural places have shaped the history of the nation. Bringing together leading scholars to analyze a wide array of themes in rural history and culture, this text is a state-of-the-art resource for students, scholars, and educators at all levels. This Routledge History provides a regional context for understanding change in rural communities across America and examines a number of areas where the history of rural people has deviated from the... The Routledge History of Rural America charts the course of rural life in the United States, raising questions about what makes a place rural and h... |
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1083,03 zł |
Rooted in Dust
ISBN: 9780700608393 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Fontell Littrell's grandmother was a devout Latter-Day Saint. But when Fontell's father turned to bootlegging and poker to support an extended family of ten during the dirty thirties, her grandmother took it in stride. "The Lord works in mysterious ways, his miracles to perform," she rationalized. The Litrells' story and those of thousands of others who rode out the dust bowl in southwest Kansas are the focus of Pamela Riney-Kehrberg's study of survival in a drought-ridden decade. Unlike other historians, who have dwelt on those who fled hardship, Riney-Kehrberg concentrates on the...
Fontell Littrell's grandmother was a devout Latter-Day Saint. But when Fontell's father turned to bootlegging and poker to support an extended family ...
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174,99 zł |
Childhood on the Farm: Work, Play, and Coming of Age in the Midwest
ISBN: 9780700635184 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big city. But even by 1920 the nation’s heartland remained predominantly rural and most children in the region were still raised on farms. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg retells their stories, offering glimpses—both nostalgic and realistic—of a bygone era.As Riney-Kehrberg shows, the experiences of most farm children continued to reflect the traditions of family life and labor, albeit in an age when middle-class urban Americans were beginning to redefine...
As the United States transformed itself from an agricultural to an industrial nation, thousands of young people left farm homes for life in the big ci...
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187,05 zł |
The Routledge History of Rural America
ISBN: 9781138482890 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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231,67 zł |
When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
ISBN: 9780700633555 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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247,32 zł |
When a Dream Dies: Agriculture, Iowa, and the Farm Crisis of the 1980s
ISBN: 9780700638048 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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187,05 zł |
Before the Lark
ISBN: 9780896727274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally a Junior Literary Guild selection, Bank Street College choice for Best Books for Children, and winner of the Western Writers of America Spur Award for Best Western Juvenile BookIn 1888 Kansas City, Missouri, twelve-year-old Jocey Royal, who has a cleft lip, no longer goes to school. Jocey believes that she will never have a friend, that others will always chase and make fun of her, as they did at school before she quit.Since her mother died and her father became a drifter, Jocey has lived with her grandmother, a washerwoman. When she s not helping Gram with laundry, she fills her...
Originally a Junior Literary Guild selection, Bank Street College choice for Best Books for Children, and winner of the Western Writers of America Spu...
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81,59 zł |