wyszukanych pozycji: 9
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Grass Roots History
ISBN: 9780816659616 / Angielski / Miękka / 1947 / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Grass Roots History was first published in 1947. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. The pivot of history is not the uncommon, but the usual, and the true makers of history are "the people, yes." Theodore C. Blegen, writing with discernment and vigor, explores in his book the simple essence of grass roots history, the colors and forms and the processes of our daily life and civilization. He uses diaries and letters,... Grass Roots History was first published in 1947. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once agai... |
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231,17 zł |
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Minnesota History: A Guide to Reading and Study
ISBN: 9780816660780 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Minnesota History was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Anyone interested in Minnesota history, whether as a teacher, as a student, or as a general reader, will find this an invaluable guide to reading and study. The book contains an outline of the state's history, questions and suggestions for the student, and lists of reading material for each of the 42 topical sections into which the outline is... Minnesota History was first published in 1960. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again ... |
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231,17 zł |
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The Land Lies Open
ISBN: 9780816672370 / Angielski / Miękka / 1949 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Land Lies Open was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.In The Land Lies Open some of the thousands of characters and incidents that made up the panorama of exploration and settlement in the Upper Mississippi Valley are recreated. Although the author is an outstanding professional historian, he writes with the narrative skill of a novelist; his history is never dry and remote, but always vividly alive.Here are the...
The Land Lies Open was first published in 1949. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessibl...
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231,17 zł |
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Land of Their Choice: The Immigrants Write Home
ISBN: 9780816657100 / Angielski / Miękka / 1955 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Land of Their Choice was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. This collection of "American letters" that immigrants wrote to friends and relatives in the lands they had left tells a little-known human story that is part of the larger saga of America. It constitutes a kind of composite diary of everyday people at the grass roots of American life. The letters published here, written by Norwegian... Land of Their Choice was first published in 1955. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once aga... |
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277,41 zł |
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Minnesota History: A Study Outline
ISBN: 9780816660773 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 70 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Minnesota History was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. Minnesota History was first published in 1931. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again ... |
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112,97 zł |
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Kensington Rune Stone
ISBN: 9780873515399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Few questions in American history," writes Theodore C. Blegen, "have stirred so much curiosity or provoked such extended discussions as that of the authenticity of the runic inscription on a stone found near Kensington, Minnesota, in 1898."
Swedish-American farmer Olof Ohman discovered the stone clasped in the roots of an aspen tree on a knoll above the surrounding swamp. His young son was the first to notice the strange letters chiseled into the rock face. Since then historians, geologists and runic scholars have entered the debate over the age and meaning of these carvings. Are... "Few questions in American history," writes Theodore C. Blegen, "have stirred so much curiosity or provoked such extended discussions as that of the a...
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108,89 zł |
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Minnesota: A History of the State
ISBN: 9780816639830 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 746 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In an engaging and readable style, renowned historian Theodore Blegen takes the reader on a tour of Minnesota's development, from the geological events that shaped the land to westward movement to twentieth-century modernization. This second edition includes a concluding chapter by Russell W. Fridley that chronicles the impact of turbulent national politics and cultural changes of the 1960s and 1970s on the state, as well as an extensive reading list and detailed index. Minnesota is a concise yet comprehensive account of the state's progress, highlighting landmarks in politics,...
In an engaging and readable style, renowned historian Theodore Blegen takes the reader on a tour of Minnesota's development, from the geological event...
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154,07 zł |
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Civil War Letters of Colonel Hans Christian Heg: A Norwegian Regiment in the American Civil War
ISBN: 9780873519564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A collection of Civil War-era letters written by Hans Christian Heg, who grew up in southeastern Norway, migrated to Wisconsin, and traveled to the gold fields of California and the mining camps of the West, only to return to the Badger State to lead a regiment of Scandinavian immigrants--the Fifteenth Wisconsin--in the Civil War. His achievements are well known among Norwegian-Americans but little known outside that circle. However, his life story typifies the processes of transition and service to his new country that have marked the lives of thousands of immigrants.
The many... A collection of Civil War-era letters written by Hans Christian Heg, who grew up in southeastern Norway, migrated to Wisconsin, and traveled to the go...
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104,00 zł |
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Norwegian Emigrant Songs and Ballads
ISBN: 9780816671243 / Angielski / Miękka / 1936 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Norwegian Emigrant Songs and Ballads was first published in 1936. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.This book, presenting the English and Norwegian texts of more than fifty emigrant songs and ballads, forms a unique contribution to folk literature and social history. Here is collected for the first time a group of songs born of the European folk movement to America during the nineteenth century.Many of the ballads are human stories of...
Norwegian Emigrant Songs and Ballads was first published in 1936. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books on...
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277,41 zł |