wyszukanych pozycji: 27
Slavery: Oxford Readers
ISBN: 9780192893024 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the economic, cultural, and political role of slavery, the volume shows the similarities as well as the differences in different times and places. While focusing primarily on the Americas, the volume extends to a consideration of slavery in other societies in the classical world, Africa, Asia, and the contemporary world. With over 150 selections, varying from one paragraph to several pages in length, the volume ranges widely, from international slave...
This new Reader draws on a range of documentary sources to show the origins, history, and realities of slavery and the slave trade. Exploring the econ...
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203,19 zł |
Economic Development in the Americas Since 1500: Endowments and Institutions
ISBN: 9781107009554 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences in the rates of economic growth in Latin American and mainland North America, specifically the United States and Canada. It demonstrates how relative differences in growth over time are related to differences in the institutions that developed in different economies. This variation is driven by differences in major institutions suffrage, education, tax policy, land and immigration policy, and banking and financial organizations. These factors, in...
This book brings together a number of previously published articles by Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth L. Sokoloff. Its essays deal with differences i...
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424,80 zł |
I CAN! i CAN'T!: HipHop&Friends
ISBN: 9780990335702 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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72,77 zł |
Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
ISBN: 9780199832477 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful and controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together they created the knowledge...
As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network o...
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200,73 zł |
Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality and Sovereignty in History
ISBN: 9780415771191 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities, and religions. These disputes raise a number of interesting issues related to the nature of land regimes and to their economic and political implications. The studies drawn together in this key volume explore these and related issues for a broad variety of countries and times. They illuminate the diverse causes of ethno-national land disputes, and the different forms of adjustment... The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control an... |
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280,58 zł |
Let's Talk About Fifth: Teaching Ballet in the 21st Century
ISBN: 9798218237936 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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91,02 zł |
Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America's Soviet Experts
ISBN: 9780195324860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network of scholars, soldiers, spies, and philanthropists created an enterprise known as Soviet Studies to fill in this dangerous gap in American knowledge. This group brought together some of the nation's best minds from the left, right, and center, colorful and controversial individuals ranging from George Kennan to Margaret Mead to Zbigniew Brzezinski, not to mention historians Sheila Fitzpatrick and Richard Pipes. Together they created the knowledge...
As World War II ended, few Americans in government or universities knew much about the Soviet Union. As David Engerman shows in this book, a network o...
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232,73 zł |
Mr. Masque
ISBN: 9780595363131 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A man in a rocky marriage forges a special relationship with a paranormal painting, leading him to unspeakable acts.
Upon graduating high school, a boy visits his grandmother at her nursing home. The loving nature of his visit is slowly destroyed as his grandmother reveals the true nature of their rendezvous. An alien awakes on an escape pod hurtling through deep space. Shackled with amnesia, he struggles to discover why his family has abandoned his home planet and where he is headed. The messenger, Death, receives a dictum to search for 'clients" in the most dubious of places. As... A man in a rocky marriage forges a special relationship with a paranormal painting, leading him to unspeakable acts.
Upon graduating high school, a... |
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64,83 zł |
The Terms of Labor: Slavery, Serfdom, and Free Labor
ISBN: 9780804735216 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 364 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor--the arrangements under which labor is made to produce and to divide its product with others--are of great significance for understanding the past and the emergence of the modern world. For long periods, much of the world's labor could be considered under the coercive control of systems of slavery or of serfdom, with relatively few workers laboring under terms of freedom, however defined. Slavery and serfdom were systems that controlled not only...
Throughout recorded history, labor to produce goods and services has been a central concern of society, and questions surrounding the terms of labor--...
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363,79 zł |
The Price of Aid: The Economic Cold War in India
ISBN: 9780674241671 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Looking back to the evolution of foreign aid during the Cold War, David C. Engerman invites us to recognize the strategic thinking at the heart of development assistance-along with the political costs. India's history provides an instructive model, as China spends freely in Africa and the political stakes of foreign aid start to rise again.
Looking back to the evolution of foreign aid during the Cold War, David C. Engerman invites us to recognize the strategic thinking at the heart of dev...
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141,96 zł |
Long-Term Factors in American Economic Growth: Volume 51
ISBN: 9780226209296 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 900 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."-Samuel Bostaph, "Southern Economic Journal"
These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national prod...
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382,94 zł |
Modernization from the Other Shore: American Intellectuals and the Romance of Russian Development
ISBN: 9780674011519 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 410 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a course of rapid industrialization. Captivated by the idea of modernization, diplomats, journalists, and scholars across the political spectrum rationalized the enormous human cost of this path to progress. In a fascinating examination of this crucial era, David Engerman underscores the key role economic development played in America's understanding of Russia and explores its profound effects on U.S. policy. American intellectuals from George... From the late nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, America's experts on Russia watched as Russia and the Soviet Union embarked on a cours... |
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437,37 zł |
Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History
ISBN: 9780415321266 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Relevant to many fields including institutional economics, political science, anthropology, sociology and social psychology, this text handles the thorny issue of property rights and ethno-nationality.
Relevant to many fields including institutional economics, political science, anthropology, sociology and social psychology, this text handles the tho...
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961,44 zł |
A Historical Guide to World Slavery
ISBN: 9780195120912 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from a ncient times to the present day. Drawing on the virtual explosion of e mpirical research and theoretical discussion of the subject over the p ast thirty years, many of the articles overturn conventional wisdom an d illuminate little-known aspects of the subject, with essays on topic s such as concubinage, eunuchs, occupational mobility.
Eminent scholars provide an overview of what we now know about slavery as an institution and way of life in cultures around the globe from a ncient ti...
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560,19 zł |
The God That Failed
ISBN: 9780231123952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of the twentieth century on their conversion to and subsequent disillusionment with communism. In describing their own experiences, the authors illustrate the fate of leftism around the world. Andre Gide (France), Richard Wright (the United States), Ignazio Silone (Italy), Stephen Spender (England), Arthur Koestler (Germany), and Louis Fischer, an American foreign correspondent, all tell how their search for the betterment of humanity led them to...
The God That Failed is a classic work and crucial document of the Cold War that brings together essays by six of the most important writers of ...
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153,17 zł |
Without Consent or Contract: Conditions of Slave Life and the Transition to Freedom, Technical Papers, Vol. II
ISBN: 9780393027921 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery with detailed analyses of specific areas. This book looks at the conditions of slave life and the transition to freedom.
Written to accompany Without Consent or Contract, this book is part of a two volume set which has been designed to fill out the portrait of slavery wi...
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264,31 zł |
Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Slavery
ISBN: 9780393312188 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
In an Afterword added in 1989, the authors assess their findings in the light of recent scholarship and debate.
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95,18 zł |
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 2, Ad 500-Ad 1420
ISBN: 9780521840675 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 602 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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626,65 zł |
The Cambridge World History of Slavery: Volume 4, Ad 1804-Ad 2016
ISBN: 9780521840699 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 718 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of coerced labor, slave societies, and consequences of legal abolition around the globe.
In this volume, leading scholars provide essay-length coverage of coerced labor, slave societies, and consequences of legal abolition around the globe...
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705,43 zł |
Gender Equity: Global Policies and Perspectives on Advancing Social Justice
ISBN: 9781666914498 / Angielski / 21-11-2024 Książka dostępna od: 21-11-2024 |
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Planowany termin premiery książki: 21-11-2024
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171,25 zł |