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Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation
ISBN: 9780195189087 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Landon Carter, a Virginia planter, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Isaac mines this remarkable document--and many other sources--to reconstruct Carter's interior world as it plunged into revolution.
The aging patriarch, though a fierce supporter of American liberty, was deeply troubled by the rebellion and its threat to established order. His diary, originally a record of plantation business, began to fill with angry stories of revolt in his own little kingdom. Carter writes at white heat, his words sputtering from his... Landon Carter, a Virginia planter, left behind one of the most revealing of all American diaries. In this astonishingly rich biography, Isaac mines th...
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129,87 zł |
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Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790
ISBN: 9780807848142 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transformed Virginia in the second half of the eighteenth century. Making use of the observational techniques of the cultural anthropologist, Isaac vividly recreates and painstakingly dissects a society in the turmoil of profound inner change.
In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the dramatic confrontations--primarily religious and political--that transforme...
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227,16 zł |