wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
ISBN: 9780801456725 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she argues that working-class families of the time were not on the verge of entering the middle class and embracing mass culture. Rather, she contends that during the interwar period such families lived in a context of scarcity and limited resources, not plenty. Their consumption, Benson argues,... With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class f... |
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131,12 zł |
Household Accounts: Working-Class Family Economies in the Interwar United States
ISBN: 9780801437236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class families in the United States between the two world wars. Focusing on families from regions across America and of differing races and ethnicities, she argues that working-class families of the time were not on the verge of entering the middle class and embracing mass culture. Rather, she contends that during the interwar period such families lived in a context of scarcity and limited resources, not plenty. Their consumption, Benson argues,... With unprecedented subtlety, compassion and richness of detail, Susan Porter Benson takes readers into the budgets and the lives of working-class f... |
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283,33 zł |
Fireweed: A Political Autobiography
ISBN: 9781566398893 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In "Fireweed, Gerda Lerner, a pioneer and leading scholar in women's history, tells her story of moral courage and commitment to social change. Focusing on the formative experiences that made her an activist for social justice before her academic career began, Lerner presents her life in the context of the major historical events of the twentieth century. Hers is a gripping story about surviving hardship and living according to one's convictions.
In "Fireweed, Gerda Lerner, a pioneer and leading scholar in women's history, tells her story of moral courage and commitment to social change. Focusi...
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330,55 zł |
History and 9/11
ISBN: 9781592132027 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The contributors to this collection set the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. They reject the simplistic notion of an age-old clash of civilizations and instead examine the particular histories of American nationalism, anti-Americanism, US foreign policy and Islamic fundamentalism among other topics. With renewed attention to Americans' sense of national identity, they focus on the US in relation to the rest of the world. A collection of recent and historical documents - speeches, articles and book excerpts - supplement the essays. Taken together, the essays and sources...
The contributors to this collection set the attacks on the United States in historical perspective. They reject the simplistic notion of an age-old cl...
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330,55 zł |