wyszukanych pozycji: 9
Letters from an American Farmer
ISBN: 9780875801230 / Angielski / Twarda / 1987 / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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171,17 zł |
American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780896725584 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Comprising land that Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico did not want, and that Texas, after entering the Union as a slave state, could not have, the Oklahoma Panhandle was dubbed No Man s Land. This geographical anomaly, 165 miles long and only 35 miles wide, belonged to no one and, before statehood, served as a haven for desperadoes and villains. Only with the creation of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890 was the area finally claimed...
To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in ...
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95,64 zł |
The New Deal and the West
ISBN: 9780806125572 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 283 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This valuable survey of the impact of New Deal agencies and programs focuses on the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin, the Pacific Northwest, and California during the period from 1932 to 1940.
This valuable survey of the impact of New Deal agencies and programs focuses on the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and Great Basin, the Pacific No...
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158,51 zł |
Twentieth-Century Oklahoma: Reflections on the Forty-Sixth State
ISBN: 9780806149103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades moves with ease among historical topics as various as agriculture, health, industry, labor, and the environment, offering an informed and enlightened perspective. Collected for the first time in one volume, Lowitt's articles on post-World War II Oklahoma and notable Oklahomans reveal a remarkable range of the state's political, environmental, agricultural, civil rights, and Native American history in the Cold War era. Nowhere else,... Few writers have written as thoughtfully and extensively on Oklahoma politics and culture as Richard Lowitt. His work of the past six decades m... |
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158,51 zł |
Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Montana: Law and Public Affairs, from TR to FDR
ISBN: 9780252024702 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, fought throughout his long career against corruption and monopoly power. His most celebrated coup was breaking open the Teapot Dome scandal of 1923 -- 24, revealing that the secretary of the interior had accepted loans from oil men in return for leases of U.S. naval oil reserves.
Thomas J. Walsh, Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933, fought throughout his long career against corruption and monopoly power. His most ...
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186,73 zł |
Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier
ISBN: 9780806139258 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Henry A. Wallace had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour "on the trail of the Corn Belt Farmer." Wallace's articles, collected and reprinted here for the first time, are lively descriptions of up-and-coming western locales such as Amarillo, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; the orange groves of southern California;the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys; and the Greeley District of Colorado. Wallace made a specialty of down-home conversation with farming families and of cross-examining the real-estate agents who profited from the...
When Henry A. Wallace had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour "on the trail of the Corn Bel...
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158,51 zł |
Forty Years a Legislator
ISBN: 9780806194936 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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128,01 zł |
Forty Years a Legislator
ISBN: 9780806138091 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "The senator s own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and war" Elmer Thomas (18761965) represented the people of Oklahoma in the state s first legislature and in Congress. This memoir, written shortly after he left the U.S. Senate in 1951 but never before published, chronicles his long career and offers a wealth of information on people and events that helped shape the development of the state and the course of American history. Thomas became one of Oklahoma s first state senators in 1907 and was involved with financing the construction of public... "The senator s own account of his service to Oklahoma and the nation through depression and war" Elmer Thomas (18761965) represented the people o... |
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158,51 zł |
The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform
ISBN: 9780252028526 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The authors examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, brought the plight of his tribe, and of tribespeople across America, to the attention of the general public, serving as a catalyst for the nineteenth-century Indian reform movement.
The authors examine how the national publicity surrounding the trial of Chief Standing Bear, as well as a speaking tour by the chief and others, broug...
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150,37 zł |