wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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The Invention of George Washington
ISBN: 9780813918723 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. BY TRACING George Washington's deliberate development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon, Paul Longmore answers the riddle of Washington's simultaneous fame and aloofness, arriving at a portrait of Washington as a self-fashioning representative of his turbulent time. As a young Virginia planter, Washington aspired to virtues associated with the colonial gentry, but as the British system of patronage threatened his own ambitions, he adopted the radical Whig patriotism that would lead him to take up arms. As a national hero of the Revolutionary War, and in accepting the... BY TRACING George Washington's deliberate development from colonial planter and soldier to republican icon, Paul Longmore answers the riddle of Was... |
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209,53 zł |
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Telethons: Spectacle, Disability, and the Business of Charity
ISBN: 9780190262075 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Movie stars, entertainers, game-show hosts, jugglers, plate-spinners, gospel choirs, corporate executives posing with over-sized checks, household name-brand products, smiling children in leg braces-all were fixtures of the phenomenon that defined American culture in the second half of the twentieth century: the telethon. Hundreds of millions watched these weekend-long variety shows that raised billions of dollars for disability-related charities. Drawing on over two decades of in-depth research, Telethons trenchantly explores the complexity underneath the campy spectacles. At its...
Movie stars, entertainers, game-show hosts, jugglers, plate-spinners, gospel choirs, corporate executives posing with over-sized checks, household nam...
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221,85 zł |
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The New Disability History: American Perspectives
ISBN: 9780814785645 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over access and reasonable accommodations, disability has been present, in penumbra if not in print, on virtually every page of American history. Yet historians have only recently begun the deep excavation necessary to retrieve lives shrouded in religious, then medical, and always deep-seated cultural, misunderstanding. This volume opens up disability's hidden history. In these pages, a North Carolina Youth finds... Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current ... |
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141,55 zł |
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Why I Burned My Book
ISBN: 9781592130245 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Urges us to establish disability as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays on bioethics and public policy examine the conflict of agendas between disability rights activists and non-disabled policy makers, healthcare professionals, and others.
Urges us to establish disability as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already...
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141,55 zł |
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Why I Burned My Book and Other Essays on Disability
ISBN: 9781592130238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 289 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic prejudice and probe into the institutionalized discrimination that affects the one in five Americans with disabilities. Whether writing about the social critic Randolph Bourne, contemporary political...
This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major v...
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389,41 zł |
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Historicism, the Holocaust, and Zionism: Critical Studies in Modern Jewish History and Thought
ISBN: 9780814746165 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. - Of] the 12 well-crafted essays in this volume...the most useful are those dealing with the Holocaust.- -Especially recommended for college-level students of Jewish history and culture.- This is a critical exploration of the most repercussive topics in modern Jewish history and thought. A sequel to Katz's National Jewish Book Award-winning study, Post-Holocaust Dialogues, this book identifies the main issues in the contemporary Jewish intellectual universe and outlines a larger, more synthetic understanding of contemporary... - Of] the 12 well-crafted essays in this volume...the most useful are those dealing with the Holocaust.- -Especially r... |
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404,59 zł |
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The New Disability History: American Perspectives
ISBN: 9780814785638 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 422 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current controversies over access and reasonable accommodations, disability has been present, in penumbra if not in print, on virtually every page of American history. Yet historians have only recently begun the deep excavation necessary to retrieve lives shrouded in religious, then medical, and always deep-seated cultural, misunderstanding. This volume opens up disability's hidden history. In these pages, a North Carolina Youth finds... Disability has always been a preoccupation of American society and culture. From antebellum debates about qualification for citizenship to current ... |
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384,35 zł |
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Encyclopedia of American Disability History
ISBN: 9780816070305 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 1200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Encyclopedia of American Disability History is the first encyclopedia to focus on this important topic in U.S. history. By examining the issues, events, people, activism, laws, personal experiences, and social ramifications of disability throughout American history, this comprehensive three-volume reference provides a new and broader, more inclusive approach to our nation's past. More than 350 historians, scholars, and experts contributed to the 750-plus articles in this impressive work. Arranged alphabetically, each signed article includes cross-references to related entries and suggestions...
Encyclopedia of American Disability History is the first encyclopedia to focus on this important topic in U.S. history. By examining the issues, event...
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1554,46 zł |