wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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Hollywood's Italians: From Periphery to Prominenti
ISBN: 9781934844304 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "Avoiding the sometimes sterile and by now often futile debate concerning stereotypes, Hollywood's Italians is instead an act of loving archeology: digging in the past and assembling a colorful kaleidoscopic mosaic of tesserae. It is a pointillist portrait of a collective community. Each chapter is devoted to a theme, be it Italians who made their way to Hollywood, the transition from stage to screen, the symbiotic interaction between television and film, music on the screen, food and family, and peopled with dozens of mini-biographies that reveal often surprising bits of information. The...
"Avoiding the sometimes sterile and by now often futile debate concerning stereotypes, Hollywood's Italians is instead an act of loving archeology: di...
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136,42 zł |
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Wop! A Documentary History of Anti-Italian Discrimination in the United States
ISBN: 9781096557357 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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88,16 zł |
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Long Island Italian Americans: History, Heritage and Tradition
ISBN: 9781540207821 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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134,36 zł |
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The Office of Strategic Services and Italian Americans: The Untold History
ISBN: 9783319333335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book explores the contributions of Italian Americans employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Italian Americans fluent in Italian language and customs became integral parts of intelligence operations working behind enemy lines. These units obtained priceless military information that significantly helped defeat the Axis. They parachuted into frozen mountains tops to link up with Italian guerilla units in northern Italy or hovered in small patrol torpedo boats and row boats across the Mediterranean Sea in pitch black darkness to destroy railroad... This book explores the contributions of Italian Americans employed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. Italian Americans... |
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475,10 zł |
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The Humble and the Heroic: Wartime Italian Americans
ISBN: 9780977356775 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. According to the author, an extra measure of loyalty and patriotism was required of Italian immigrants because the country of their birth was a declared enemy of their adopted country. This is the story of their quest for acceptance.
According to the author, an extra measure of loyalty and patriotism was required of Italian immigrants because the country of their birth was a declar...
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140,89 zł |
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The Office of Strategic Services and Italian Americans: The Untold History
ISBN: 9783319814872 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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475,10 zł |
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The Great Earthquake: America Comes to Messina's Rescue
ISBN: 9781934844069 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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136,42 zł |
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Long Island Italians
ISBN: 9781531603014 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In America "the streets were paved with gold." That was the mistaken notion of many an immigrant to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900s. On Long Island, deluded sojourners from Italy were to find that in fact there were few streets and that they themselves were to be the ones to build them.
Covering more than a century of history, Long Island Italians depicts the transition of urban Italians as they moved increasingly from the city to the suburbs in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. They were attracted to Long Island by economic opportunity, the availability of arable land,... In America "the streets were paved with gold." That was the mistaken notion of many an immigrant to the United States in the late 1800s and early 1900...
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167,96 zł |
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The Humble and the Heroic: Wartime Italian Americans
ISBN: 9781934043462 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. According to the author, an extra measure of loyalty and patriotism was required of Italian immigrants because the country of their birth was a declared enemy of their adopted country. This is the story of their quest for acceptance.
According to the author, an extra measure of loyalty and patriotism was required of Italian immigrants because the country of their birth was a declar...
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cena:
399,61 zł |