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The New South Faces the World: Foreign Affairs and the Southern Sense of Self,1877-1950
ISBN: 9780817354718 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic attitude about U.S. relations with the rest of the world? He notes that throughout their history southerners have encountered failure, poverty, guilt, defeat, and ridicule and that their experiences seem at odds with the notions of invincibility that have fueled the flames of American idealism. Yet McWilliams points out that southerners have joined with northerners in accepting the ideas of a mission to extend the American way of life to people...
In his study of the New South and foreign affairs, Tennant McWilliams raises a central question: why have southerners failed to develop a realistic at...
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107,26 zł |
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Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780817321611 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, and extensive interviews, Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy offers a life-and-times biography of the Alabama Black Belt minister, Renwick C. Kennedy (1900–1985). Here, Tennant McWilliams gives an unvarnished account of Kennedy’s tortuous efforts to make his congregants and other southern whites “better Christians.” Kennedy came from “upcountry” South Carolina, a place rife with Scotch-Irish Associate...
A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings...
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507,29 zł |
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Hannis Taylor: The New Southerner as an American
ISBN: 9780817353759 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) was a Mobile lawyer, author of books on constitutional history and other legal treatises, U.S. Minister to Madrid during the second Cleveland administration, a spread-eagle imperialist, candidate for Congress, a Republican convert and friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and finally a Washington attorney. . . . Taylor was a model 'New South' optimist and exemplar of Southern progressivism's preoccupation with race and governmental efficiency. . . . Meticulous . . . the organization of the book is sensible, the prose simple and clear.
American Historical Review... Hannis Taylor (1851-1922) was a Mobile lawyer, author of books on constitutional history and other legal treatises, U.S. Minister to Madrid during the...
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117,02 zł |
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New Lights in the Valley: The Emergence of UAB
ISBN: 9780817315467 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s. While the economy and culture of the post World War II South changed from an era of material capital (e.g., cotton and iron ore) to a period of social capital (intellectual development and networked approaches to social change), one of the most important components of urban life, the university, emerged as both a creator and a reflector of such modernization. This is the case with Birmingham and its youthful institution of higher learning, the University of Alabama at Birmingham. From its... A scholarly narrative of UAB from its nascent beginnings through the mid 1990s. While the economy and culture of the post World War II... |
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204,87 zł |
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The Chaplain's Conflict: Good and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943-1945
ISBN: 9781603444705 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--"Ren" to those who knew him--witnessed great courage, extreme talent, and many lives snatched from the precipice of death, all under the most trying conditions. He also observed drug and alcohol abuse, prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and chronic depression.What he saw, he chronicled in his journal, and what he wrote, he processed with an intellectual and ethical rigor born of his remarkably sophisticated worldview and his deeply held Christian faith. With Kennedy's war diaries and postwar...
As chaplain for the US Army's 102nd Evacuation Hospital in the European Theater, Renwick C. Kennedy--"Ren" to those who knew him--witnessed great cour...
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141,40 zł |
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Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy
ISBN: 9780817360887 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings, and extensive interviews, Dixie Heretic: The Civil Rights Odyssey of Renwick C. Kennedy offers a life-and-times biography of the Alabama Black Belt minister, Renwick C. Kennedy (1900–1985). Here, Tennant McWilliams gives an unvarnished account of Kennedy’s tortuous efforts to make his congregants and other southern whites “better Christians.” Kennedy came from “upcountry” South Carolina, a place rife with Scotch-Irish Associate...
A life-and-times biography of the minister and social reformer Renwick C. Kennedy Drawn from some 5,000 letters, six decades of daily-diary writings...
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156,09 zł |
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Iberville's Gulf Journals
ISBN: 9780817300494 / Angielski / Twarda / 1981 / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) Europe's expansion into the New World during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries was a story of power alignment and cultural transmission as well as dramatic individual effort. Spain had her conquistadores, France her coureurs de bois, and England her sea dogs. Isolated from the authority of home governments, tempted by the abundance of gold, fur, and fish in the New World, these adventurers so vital to national policies of expansion developed their own personal creeds of conquest and colonization. Their individual exploits not only represent a humanistic theme essential in Europe's...
Europe's expansion into the New World during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries was a story of power alignment and cultural transmission as well as ...
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63,37 zł |
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Hannis Taylor
ISBN: 9780817351144 / Angielski / Twarda / 1978 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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68,24 zł |
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Fairhope, 1894-1954: The Story of a Single Tax Colony
ISBN: 9780817321277 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Bez gwarancji dostawy przed świętami) |
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121,89 zł |
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