wyszukanych pozycji: 10
American Exceptionalism?: Us Working-Class Formation in an International Context
ISBN: 9781349255863 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The idea that American historical development is different from that of other nations is an old one, yet it shows no sign of losing its emotive power. 'Exceptionalism' continues to excite, beguile, and frustrate students of the American past. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which the process of class formation in the United States can be said to be distinctive. Focusing upon the impact of liberal political thought, race and immigration, and the role of the war-time state, they challenge particularist and nation-centred modes of explanation. Comparing American historical...
The idea that American historical development is different from that of other nations is an old one, yet it shows no sign of losing its emotive power....
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582,32 zł |
Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
ISBN: 9781583670057 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch in which trade unions fought and won whatever rights working people possess today. With these rights constantly imperiled, this book is mandatory reading." "The stories are dramatically and richly told, and they offer insights no scholarly study can quite adequately provide." Available for the first time in paperback, Meatpackers provides an important... "Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch ... |
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121,37 zł |
American Exeptionalism
ISBN: 9780333628102 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 325 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. The idea that American historical development is different from that of other nations is an old one, yet it shows no sign of losing its emotive power. 'Exceptionalism' continues to excite, beguile, and frustrate students of the American past. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which the process of class formation in the United States can be said to be distinctive. Focusing upon the impact of liberal political thought, race and immigration, and the role of the war-time state, they challenge particularist and nation-centred modes of explanation. Comparing American historical...
The idea that American historical development is different from that of other nations is an old one, yet it shows no sign of losing its emotive power....
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582,32 zł |
Down on the Killing Floor: Black and White Workers in Chicago's Packinghouses, 1904-54
ISBN: 9780252066337 / Angielski / Miękka / 1997 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This detailed study of the relationship between race relations and unionization in Chicago's meatpacking industry draws on traditional primary and secondary materials and on an extensive set of interviews conducted in the mid-1980s that explore subjective dimensions of the workers' experience.
This detailed study of the relationship between race relations and unionization in Chicago's meatpacking industry draws on traditional primary and sec...
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109,29 zł |
Slavery and Emancipation
ISBN: 9780631217350 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents.
Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South c...
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240,89 zł |
Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850
ISBN: 9780812216998 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. The
Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isle...
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204,17 zł |
Slavery and Emancipation
ISBN: 9780631217343 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents.
Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South c...
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619,08 zł |
Margaret Bourke-White and the Dawn of Apartheid
ISBN: 9780253021267 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechoslovakia in 1938, and recorded the liberation of Buchenwald at the end of WWII. In 1949, Life sent her to South Africa to take photographs in a country that was becoming racially polarized by white minority rule. Life published two photo-essays highlighting Bourke-White's photographs, but much of her South African work remained unpublished until now. Here, these stunning photographs collected by Alex Lichtenstein and Rick Halpern offer an... As a photographer for Life and Fortune magazines, Margaret Bourke-White traveled to Russia in the 1930s, photographed the Nazi takeover of Czechosl... |
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191,84 zł |
Race and Class in the American South Since 1890
ISBN: 9781859730317 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A clear and accessible overview of the 20th century history of the American South. Topics covered include labour, intellectual and women's history as well as an analysis of the impact of Federal government policy on economic and social affairs. While embracing several fields, the authors all address the same theme: the slow loss of Southern distinctiveness and the effect this process has had on issues of race and class. A clear and accessible overview of the 20th century history of the American South. Topics covered include labour, intellectual and women's history ... |
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624,83 zł |
Race and Class in the American South Since 1890
ISBN: 9781859730362 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A clear and accessible overview of the 20th century history of the American South. Topics covered include labour, intellectual and women's history as well as an analysis of the impact of Federal government policy on economic and social affairs. While embracing several fields, the authors all address the same theme: the slow loss of Southern distinctiveness and the effect this process has had on issues of race and class. A clear and accessible overview of the 20th century history of the American South. Topics covered include labour, intellectual and women's history ... |
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176,99 zł |