wyszukanych pozycji: 7
The Natures of John and William Bartram
ISBN: 9780812219340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Natures of John and William Bartram Thomas P. Slaughter "An outstanding work of scholarship that tells us much about a natural world that no longer exists but that our age should know."--Philadelphia Inquirer "Slaughter has broken the confines of ordinary narrative history. . . . Books about the business of fatherhood and the trials of sonhood are very rare, and this is a fine one."--Boston Globe "A fascinating page-turner that should not be missed."--Michael Kammen, Cornell University John Bartram (1699-1777), the first native-born American to devote his entire life to the...
The Natures of John and William Bartram Thomas P. Slaughter "An outstanding work of scholarship that tells us much about a natural world that no longe...
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146,86 zł |
Rich Man in Training: VII Pillars to obtain your true riches
ISBN: 9781948085007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 138 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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57,74 zł |
The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780195051919 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic confrontation between champions of liberty and defenders of order was long considered the most significant event in the first quarter-century of the new nation. Thomas P. Slaughter recaptures the historical drama and significance...
When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a...
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98,21 zł |
Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North
ISBN: 9780195046342 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he'd tracked them down, as his federal posse retreated pell-mell before the armed might of local blacks--and the impact of the most notorious act of resistance against the federal Fugitive Slave Law was about to be felt across a divided nation.
Bloody Dawn vividly tells this dramatic story of escape, manhunt, riot, and the ensuing trial, detailing its importance in... When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years ...
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403,96 zł |
Exploring Lewis and Clark: Reflections on Men and Wilderness
ISBN: 9780375700712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers' journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted with those who traveled with them, the people they discovered along the way, the animals they hunted, and the land they walked across. The book discovers new heroes and brings old ones into historical focus.
Thomas P. Slaughter interrogates the explorers' dreams, how they wrote and... This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark's expedition across the continent and back again. Uncoveri...
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96,10 zł |
Independence: The Tangled Roots of the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780809058358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence "What do we mean by the Revolution?" John Adams asked Thomas Jefferson in 1815. "The war? That was no part of the Revolution. It was only an effect and consequence of it." As the distinguished historian Thomas P. Slaughter shows in this landmark history, the roots of the Revolution went back even further than Adams may have realized. An important new interpretation of the American colonists' 150-year struggle to achieve independence "What do we mean by the Revolutio... |
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104,83 zł |
Arms and Influence
ISBN: 9780300246742 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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87,36 zł |