wyszukanych pozycji: 5
Passionate Liberator: Theodore Dwight Weld and the Dilemma of Reform
ISBN: 9780195030617 / Angielski / Miękka / 1982 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy religious conversion, his entry into the world of reform, and finally, his rejection of public life.
Recounts Weld's intense childhood, his stormy religious conversion, his entry into the world of reform, and finally, his rejection of public life.
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146,01 zł |
Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination
ISBN: 9780195045680 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awash in political and social reform movements. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of slavery. Temperance zealots hounded producers and consumers of strong drink. Sabbatarians fought to make Sunday an officially recognized sacred day. Woman's rights activists proclaimed the case for sexual equality. This colorful text brilliantly reassesses the religious roots of these antebellum reform movements through a series of penetrating profiles of key men and women who sought to remake their worlds in sacred terms. Arguing that we cannot...
In the forty years before the Civil War, America was awash in political and social reform movements. Abolitionists stormed against the cruelties of sl...
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604,31 zł |
Psyche and Soul in America: The Spiritual Odyssey of Rollo May
ISBN: 9780199754373 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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157,56 zł |
Inside the Vicious Heart: Americans and the Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
ISBN: 9780195042368 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, and other concentration camps, and came face to face with the human ruins of the Nazi system of slave labor and genocide. What they saw transformed the definition of evil in the Western mind. Inside the Vicious Heart captures the shock of that discovery by telling the story of the camp liberations as experienced by American GIs and other eyewitnesses, including Eisenhower, Patton, Joseph Pulitzer, and Margaret Bourke-White. Through their diaries, letters, and photographs we see how those Americans finally made the...
Forty years ago Allied soldiers liberated Buchenwald, Dachau, Belsen, and other concentration camps, and came face to face with the human ruins of the...
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64,08 zł |
New Perspectives on Race and Slavery in America: Essays in Honor of Kenneth M. Stampp
ISBN: 9780813150833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. For more than three decades race relations have been at the forefront of historical research in America. These new essays on race and slavery -- some by highly regarded, award-winning veterans in the field and others by talented newcomers -- point in fresh directions. They address specific areas of contention even as together they survey important questions across four centuries of social, cultural, and political history.Looking at the institution itself, Robert McColley reconsiders the origins of black slavery in America, while William W. Freehling presents a striking interpretation of... For more than three decades race relations have been at the forefront of historical research in America. These new essays on race and slavery -- so... |
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117,01 zł |