wyszukanych pozycji: 40
When Benjamin Franklin Met the Reverend Whitefield: Enlightenment, Revival, and the Power of the Printed Word
ISBN: 9781421403120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought--the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book takes an encounter between the paragons of each movement--the printer and entrepreneur Benjamin Franklin and the British-born revivalist George Whitefield--as an opportunity to explore the meaning of the beginnings of modern science and rationality on one hand and evangelical religious enthusiasm on the other. There are people who both represent the times in which they live and change them for the better. Franklin and Whitefield were two... In the 1740s, two quite different developments revolutionized Anglo-American life and thought--the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. This book... |
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114,88 zł |
Zombie History: Lies about Our Past That Refuse to Die
ISBN: 9780472074525 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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350,11 zł |
John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850
ISBN: 9781421423876 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams and the Gag Rule, 1835-1850, vividly portrays the importance of the political machinations and debates that colored the age.
A lively narrative intended for history classrooms and anyone interested in abolitionism, slavery, Congress, and the coming of the Civil War, John Qui...
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235,23 zł |
Zombie History: Lies about Our Past That Refuse to Die
ISBN: 9780472054527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Fake history is not a harmless mistake. It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; discriminates against certain kinds of people; a mistake that harms us. This book likens fake history to the Zombies, for the fake fact, like the fictional Zombie, lives by turning real events and people into monstrous perversions of fact and interpretation.
Fake history is not a harmless mistake. It is a mistake that conceals prejudice; discriminates against certain kinds of people; a mistake that harms u...
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120,08 zł |
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel
ISBN: 9780700617654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall write, print, utter or publish . . . scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States." Such a broadly and loosely defined offense challenged the freedom of the American press and gave the government the power to drag offending newspaper editors into court. The trial of Thomas Cooper in particular became an important showcase for debating the dangers and limits of the new...
The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imp...
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147,43 zł |
Past Imperfect: Facts, Fictions, Fraud American History from Bancroft and Parkman to Ambrose, Bellesiles, Ellis, and Goodwin
ISBN: 9781586484453 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: -A nation which does not know what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today.- He, like many men of his generation, wanted to impose a version of America's founding identity: it was a land of the free and a home of the brave. But not the braves. Or the slaves. Or the disenfranchised women. So the history of Wilson's generation omitted a significant proportion of the population in favor of a perspective that was predominantly white, male and Protestant.
That flaw would... Woodrow Wilson, a practicing academic historian before he took to politics, defined the importance of history: -A nation which does not know what it w...
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98,23 zł |
The Supreme Court Footnote
ISBN: 9781479830220 / Twarda / 2024 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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124,68 zł |
Great NY Conspiracy of 1741
ISBN: 9780700612468 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Three and a half decades before the city of New York witnessed the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, rumors of a massive conspiracy among the city's slaves spread panic throughout the colony. On the testimony of frightened bondsmen and a handful of whites, over seventy slaves were convicted and a third of these were executed. The suspected conspiracy in New York prompted one of the most extensive slave trials in colonial history and some of the most grisly punishments ever meted out to individuals. Peter Hoffer now retells the dramatic...
Three and a half decades before the city of New York witnessed the first great battle waged by the new United States of America for its independence, ...
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149,94 zł |
Law and People in Colonial America
ISBN: 9781421434599 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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158,64 zł |
The Treason Trials of Aaron Burr
ISBN: 9780700615926 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton resulting in a murder indictment that effectively ended his legal career. And when he turned his attention to entrepreneurial activities on the frontier he was suspected of empire building--and worse. Burr was finally arrested as a threat to national security, under suspicion of fomenting insurrection against the young republic, and then held without bail for months. His trial, witnessing the unfortunate intrusion of partisan politics and personal animosity into...
Aaron Burr was an enigma even in his own day. Founding father and vice president, he engaged in a duel with Alexander Hamilton resulting in a murder i...
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147,43 zł |
The Brave New World: A History of Early America
ISBN: 9780801884832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 544 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. The Brave New World covers the span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to creation of the new nation. With its exploration of the places and peoples of early America, this comprehensive, lively narrative brings together the most recent scholarship on the colonial and revolutionary eras, Native Americans, slavery, politics, war, and the daily lives of ordinary people. The revised, enlarged edition includes a new chapter carrying the story through the American Revolution, the War for Independence, and the creation of the... The Brave New World covers the span of early American history, from 30,000 years before Europeans ever landed on North American shores to c... |
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144,97 zł |
The Brave New World: A History of Early America
ISBN: 9781421445427 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. |
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180,53 zł |
Rutgers V. Waddington: Alexander Hamilton, the End of the War for Independence, and the Origins of Judicial Review
ISBN: 9780700622047 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case in the aftermath of violent revolutions, the matter made its way into the legal arena. Rutgers v. Waddington was such a case. Through this little-known but remarkable dispute over back rent for a burned-down brewery, Peter Charles Hoffer recounts a tale of political and constitutional intrigue involving some of the most important actors in America's transition from a confederation of states under the Articles of Confederation to a national republic under...
Once the dust of the Revolution settled, the problem of reconciling the erstwhile warring factions arose, and as is often the case in the aftermath of...
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410,29 zł |
For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History
ISBN: 9780199899531 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweeping, dramatic narration of a crucial moment in Early American history. Over the course of five days in September 1787, five men serving on an ad hoc "Committee of Style and Arrangement" edited the draft of the federal Constitution at the Constitutional Convention, profoundly recasting the wording of the Preamble. In so doing, the committee changed a federation into a Union and laid out an ambitious program for national governance many years ahead...
In For Ourselves and Our Posterity: The Preamble to the Federal Constitution in American History, author Peter Charles Hoffer offers a sweepi...
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70,93 zł |
A Nation of Laws: America's Imperfect Pursuit of Justice
ISBN: 9780700617074 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. America's founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corruption and tyranny. Nearly two and a half centuries later, that system remains the ultimate safeguard for us all. With concise but penetrating and provocative insights, the eminent Peter Charles Hoffer recaptures the spirit of this grand enterprise while never losing sight of its human face. The distillation of four decades of stellar writing, Hoffer's book is a wise and illuminating meditation on the key concepts, history, evolution, and...
America's founders extolled a nation of laws, for they knew that only a fairly enforced legal system could protect liberty and property against corrup...
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293,63 zł |
The Radical Advocacy of Wendell Phillips: Abolitionism, Democracy, and Public Interest Law
ISBN: 9781606354780 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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180,25 zł |
Salem Witchcraft Trials
ISBN: 9780700608591 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In late seventeenth-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan was brought into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in Salem, Massachusetts, neighbors turned against neighbors and children against parents with accusations of witchcraft, and nineteen people were hanged for having made pacts with the devil. Peter Charles Hoffer, a historian long familiar with the Salem witchcraft trials, now reexamines this notorious episode in American history and presents many of its legal details in correct perspective for the first time. He tells the real story of how...
In late seventeenth-century New England, the eternal battle between God and Satan was brought into the courtroom. Between January 1692 and May 1693 in...
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147,43 zł |
Litigation Nation: A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America
ISBN: 9781538116579 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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191,47 zł |
Clio Among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities
ISBN: 9781479832835 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. -A learned, lively, and witty review of the history of historical writing... A deeply insightful analysis of the never-ending challenge that historians face in getting their story right.- - Richard R. Beeman, John Welsh Centennial Professor of History Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania -I cannot imagine a reader of this book who will not learn from it and be provoked to a new level of thoughtfulness by it.- - Michael Zuckerman, University of Pennsylvania -Students and general readers will find no more engaging guide to the value and distinctiveness of what historians do.- -... -A learned, lively, and witty review of the history of historical writing... A deeply insightful analysis of the never-ending challenge that histor... |
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131,24 zł |
The Free Press Crisis of 1800: Thomas Cooper's Trial for Seditious Libel
ISBN: 9780700617647 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imprisonment "if any person shall write, print, utter or publish . . . scandalous and malicious writing or writings against the government of the United States." Such a broadly and loosely defined offense challenged the freedom of the American press and gave the government the power to drag offending newspaper editors into court. The trial of Thomas Cooper in particular became an important showcase for debating the dangers and limits of the new...
The far-reaching Sedition Act of 1798 was introduced by Federalists to suppress Republican support of French revolutionaries and imposed fines and imp...
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410,29 zł |