wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Crosscurrents: Atlantic and Pacific Migration in the Making of a Global America
ISBN: 9780199757442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Crosscurrents: Atlantic and Pacific Migration in the Making of a Global America asks two fundamental questions: When and how did the trajectories of Atlantic history and Pacific history overlap and converge with each other through travel and migration? What historically rooted processes drove people originally separated by immense physical and cultural distances into mutual encounters, close exchanges, and collective creativity in building an inter-hemispheric social and cultural life based on group diversity? Historian Reed Ueda moves beyond regional compartments to uncover transnational...
Crosscurrents: Atlantic and Pacific Migration in the Making of a Global America asks two fundamental questions: When and how did the trajectories of A...
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334,08 zł |
Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts 1860-2000
ISBN: 9780934909808 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For hundreds of thousands of immigrants, coming to Massachusetts has meant exchanging one community for another in multiple ways that are often overlooked. Whether home was originally an Irish tenant farm or the slave quarters of a Southern plantation or an Eastern European ghetto, whether its mention evoked warm memories or nightmares, immigration has required adopting a new identity consonant with new circumstances. Men who considered themselves Milanese moved to Boston's North End and became Italian Americans; women who identified themselves with County Cork turned into Irish Americans... For hundreds of thousands of immigrants, coming to Massachusetts has meant exchanging one community for another in multiple ways that are often ove... |
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309,86 zł |
Avenues to Adulthood: The Origins of the High School and Social Mobility in an American Suburb
ISBN: 9780521100687 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) American educators have hailed the public high school as the ultimate guarantor of equal opportunity in a modern educational system. Avenues to Adulthood assesses how the high school played this role. Professor Ueda's book discusses the reasons for the modernisation of the high school at the turn of the twentieth century, the kinds of opportunities the high school offered and the way in which it became a focus of civic life that reshaped the American sense of community and generation. To the extent that a small share of poor immigrant children gained access to the high school and received its...
American educators have hailed the public high school as the ultimate guarantor of equal opportunity in a modern educational system. Avenues to Adulth...
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216,69 zł |
Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts 1860-2000
ISBN: 9780934909822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 269 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For hundreds of thousands of immigrants, coming to Massachusetts has meant exchanging one community for another in multiple ways that are often overlooked. Whether home was originally an Irish tenant farm or the slave quarters of a Southern plantation or an Eastern European ghetto, whether its mention evoked warm memories or nightmares, immigration has required adopting a new identity consonant with new circumstances. Men who considered themselves Milanese moved to Boston's North End and became Italian Americans; women who identified themselves with County Cork turned into Irish Americans... For hundreds of thousands of immigrants, coming to Massachusetts has meant exchanging one community for another in multiple ways that are often ove... |
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142,91 zł |