wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Up from History: The Life of Booker T. Washington
ISBN: 9780674060371 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A century ago, in the era of Jim Crow, Booker T. Washington pursued a different strategy to lift his people. In this compelling biography, Norrell reveals how conditions in the segregated South led Washington to call for a less contentious path to freedom and equality. He urged black people to acquire economic independence and to develop the moral character that would ultimately gain them full citizenship. Although widely accepted as the most realistic... Since the 1960s, Martin Luther King, Jr., has personified black leadership with his use of direct action protests against white authority. A centur... |
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147,43 zł |
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
ISBN: 9780807847404 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique aspects of this key Southern town's experience and the elements that it shared with other communities during this period.
Home to Booker T. Washington's famed Tuskegee Institute, the town of Tuskegee boasted an unusually large professional class of African Americans, whose economic security and level of education provided a base for challenging the authority of white conservative officials. Offering sensitive portrayals of both black and... In this classic and compelling account, Robert Norrell traces the course of the civil rights movement in Tuskegee, Alabama, capturing both the unique ...
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230,54 zł |
How History Was Used in the Wars of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9781666941968 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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421,23 zł |
The House I Live in: Race in the American Century
ISBN: 9780195304527 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last one hundred and fifty years.
This scrupulously fair and insightful narrative--the most ambitious and wide-ranging history of its kind--sheds new light on the ideologies, from white supremacy to black nationalism, that have shaped race relations since the Civil War. Norrell argues that it is these ideologies, more than politics or economics, that have sculpted the landscape of race in America. Beginning with Reconstruction, he shows how the... In The House I Live In, award-winning historian Robert J. Norrell offers a truly masterful chronicle of American race relations over the last one hund...
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126,87 zł |
The New South Creed: A Study in Southern Mythmaking
ISBN: 9781603061438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, racially harmonious -- that developed in the three decades after the Civil War, and the transformation of that dream into widely accepted myths, shielding and perpetuating a conservative, racist society. Many young moderates of the period created a philosophy designed to enrich the region -- attempting to both restore the power and prestige and to lay the race question to rest. In spite of these men and their efforts, their dream of a New South...
First published in 1970, The New South Creed has lost none of its usefulness to anyone examining the dream of a "New South" -- prosperous, powerful, r...
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107,42 zł |
Historians in Service of a Better South: Essays in Honor of Paul Gaston
ISBN: 9781603064460 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Amid the soaring oratory of Martin Luther King and the fiery rhetoric of George Wallace, scholars who worked with the Southern Regional Council during the civil rights movement spoke quietly, but with the authority of informed reason. Prominent among them was Professor Paul Gaston of the University of Virginia, who co-authored an influential analysis of school segregation, served as president of the SRC board, and authored The New South Creed. Gaston's legacy of service includes his role as a mentor of historians. He oversaw more than two dozen dissertations at UVA from 1957 to the year 2000....
Amid the soaring oratory of Martin Luther King and the fiery rhetoric of George Wallace, scholars who worked with the Southern Regional Council during...
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128,94 zł |