wyszukanych pozycji: 8
Angie Debo, 18: Pioneering Historian
ISBN: 9780806134383 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The daughter of Oklahoma sodbusters, a student of Edward Everett Dale, and a Protegee of Frederick Jackson Turner, Angie Debo was an unlikely forerunner of the New Western History. Breaking with the followers of Turner, Debo viewed the westward movement of European Americans as conquest rather than settlement. Her studies on the Five tribes presented the Native American point of view and incorporated ethnological insights more than a decade before ethnology emerged as a separate field. Shirley A. Leckie's biography of Debo is the first to assess the significance of Oklahoma's... The daughter of Oklahoma sodbusters, a student of Edward Everett Dale, and a Protegee of Frederick Jackson Turner, Angie Debo was an unlikely forer... |
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136,66 zł |
Angie Debo, Volume 18: Pioneering Historian
ISBN: 9780806132563 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The daughter of Oklahoma sodbusters, a student of Edward Everett Dale, and a Protegee of Frederick Jackson Turner, Angie Debo was an unlikely forerunner of the New Western History. Breaking with the followers of Turner, Debo viewed the westward movement of European Americans as conquest rather than settlement. Her studies on the Five tribes presented the Native American point of view and incorporated ethnological insights more than a decade before ethnology emerged as a separate field. Shirley A. Leckie's biography of Debo is the first to assess the significance of Oklahoma's... The daughter of Oklahoma sodbusters, a student of Edward Everett Dale, and a Protegee of Frederick Jackson Turner, Angie Debo was an unlikely forer... |
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136,66 zł |
Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
ISBN: 9780806130965 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Georger Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie," a frontier army wife who... Georger Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deep... |
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184,17 zł |
Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West
ISBN: 9780803229587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 414 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The writings of the American West have long dealt with masculine ideals. Well into the twentieth century, what little attention was afforded to women typically reflected prescribed or stereotyped roles, and the work of women scholars received less attention than that of men. And yet the early twentieth century saw a host of pioneering scholars who would not be ignored, erased, or marginalized. The ten women intellectuals showcased in this volume were pioneers in the writing of Indian-centered history, ethnology, and folklore that incorporated the insights, voices, and perspectives of American...
The writings of the American West have long dealt with masculine ideals. Well into the twentieth century, what little attention was afforded to women ...
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124,68 zł |
Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth
ISBN: 9780806125015 / Angielski / Twarda / 1993 / 444 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Georger Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deeply in debt. By the time she died fifty-seven years later she had achieved economic security, recognition as an author and lecturer, and the respect of numerous public figures. She had built the Custer legend, an idealized image of her husband as a brilliant military commander and a family man without personal failings. In Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth, Shirley A. Leckie explores the life of "Libbie," a frontier army wife who... Georger Armstrong Custer's death in 1876 at the Battle of the Little Big Horn left Elizabeth Bacon Custer a thirty-four-year-old widow who was deep... |
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154,48 zł |
The Buffalo Soldiers: A Narrative of the Black Cavalry in the West, Revised Edition
ISBN: 9780806138404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this revised edition delves into the social impact of being an African-American soldier in the 19th century.
Written in accessible prose that includes a synthesis of recent scholarship, this revised edition delves into the social impact of being an African-Am...
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105,84 zł |
The Colonel's Lady on the Western Frontier: The Correspondence of Alice Kirk Grierson
ISBN: 9780803279292 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel's lady spent most of her life at army outposts on the nineteenth-century western frontier, where she faced the problems of raising a large family while fulfilling the duties of a commanding officer's wife. Fortunately for history, she left a large and extraordinarily candid correspondence, which has now been edited by Shirley Anne Leckie. Alice was the wife of Benjamin B. Grierson, a major general in the Civil War who won fame for a raid that...
The modern woman who tries to juggle private and public roles with equilibrium will discover a spiritual ancestor in Alice Kirk Grierson. The colonel'...
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72,70 zł |
Unlikely Warriors: General Benjamin H Grierson and His Family
ISBN: 9780806130279 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Unlikely Warriors" is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," and his family on the western frontier. In 1863, Colonel Grierson led a cavalry brigade of 1,700 men on a daring raid through Mississippi, which helped Ulysses S. Grant launch his successful campaign against Vicksburg. In the army reorganization of 1866, Grierson accepted an appointment as colonel of the Tenth Cavalry, a command of white officers and black enlisted men. In this biography, William and Shirley Leckie explore three generations of Grierson... "Unlikely Warriors" is the story of Benjamin Henry Grierson, Civil War hero and postwar commander of the Tenth Cavalry "Buffalo Soldiers," and his ... |
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117,32 zł |