wyszukanych pozycji: 12
Lost Restaurants of Memphis
ISBN: 9781467142526 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,05 zł |
Lost Restaurants of Memphis
ISBN: 9781540241061 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,73 zł |
Essays & More Straight From The Pen
ISBN: 9781502767509 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Peek inside the wild life of a man who fought to change. "My salvation came in the form of a concept: fighting poison with poison; the same as using Cobra or Rattlesnake venom to save someone bitten by one of the vipers. I was the viper bitten by itself. ... When living, I used to lose interest in life and then go on sprees capable of causing death. When faced with death I fought to live: a paradox of my existence." THE SEARCH FOR ENLIGHTENMENT. "Maybe I was born mean, violent, screaming and striking all near when I came from my Mother's womb. And, yes, I was a disturbed child, disturbed by...
Peek inside the wild life of a man who fought to change. "My salvation came in the form of a concept: fighting poison with poison; the same as using C...
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41,04 zł |
On This Day in Memphis History
ISBN: 9781626191365 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Far more than blues and barbecue, Memphis culture has evolved one day at a time. Author G. Wayne Dowdy pins an exact date to a host of important, quirky and forgotten events in the history of Tennessee's largest city--an entertaining footnote for each day of the year. Earth, Wind and Fire founder Maurice White entered the world in a Memphis hospital on December 19, 1941. On January 15, 1877, a severe thunderstorm mysteriously left the city covered in snakes. On December 31, 1902, a resident was murdered on Main Street after taunting a Native American named Creeping Bear. A day or a month at a...
Far more than blues and barbecue, Memphis culture has evolved one day at a time. Author G. Wayne Dowdy pins an exact date to a host of important, quir...
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65,48 zł |
Enslavement in Memphis
ISBN: 9781540249210 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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179,05 zł |
On This Day in Memphis History
ISBN: 9781540208804 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Far more than blues and barbecue, Memphis culture has evolved one day at a time. Author G. Wayne Dowdy pins an exact date to a host of important, quirky and forgotten events in the history of Tennessee's largest city--an entertaining footnote for each day of the year. Earth, Wind and Fire founder Maurice White entered the world in a Memphis hospital on December 19, 1941. On January 15, 1877, a severe thunderstorm mysteriously left the city covered in snakes. On December 31, 1902, a resident was murdered on Main Street after taunting a Native American named Creeping Bear. A day or a month at a...
Far more than blues and barbecue, Memphis culture has evolved one day at a time. Author G. Wayne Dowdy pins an exact date to a host of important, quir...
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161,57 zł |
Hidden History of Memphis
ISBN: 9781596298750 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 127 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Step inside the fascinating annals of the Bluff City's history and discover the Memphis that only few know. G. Wayne Dowdy, longtime archivist for the Memphis Public Library, examines the history and culture of the Mid-South during its most important decades. Well-known faces like Clarence Saunders, Elvis Presley and W.C. Handy are joined by some of the more obscure characters from the past, like the Memphis gangster who inspired one of William Faulkner's most famous novels, the local Boy Scout who captured German spies during World War I, the Memphis radio station that pioneered wireless...
Step inside the fascinating annals of the Bluff City's history and discover the Memphis that only few know. G. Wayne Dowdy, longtime archivist for the...
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96,05 zł |
A Brief History of Memphis
ISBN: 9781540221100 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,73 zł |
Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South
ISBN: 9781617037092 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Memphis was governed by the Shelby County Democratic Party controlled by Edward Hull Crump, described by Time magazine as -the most absolute political boss in the U.S.- Crusades for Freedom chronicles the demise of the Crump political machine and the corresponding rise to power of the South's two minorities, African Americans and Republicans. Between the years 1948 and 1968, Memphis emerged as a battleground in the struggle to create a strong two-party South. For the first time in its history, both Republican and... During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Memphis was governed by the Shelby County Democratic Party controlled by Edward Hull Cr... |
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220,33 zł |
Mayor Crump Don't Like It: Machine Politics in Memphis
ISBN: 9781604731132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In the 1930s thousands of African Americans abandoned their long-standing allegiance to the party of Abraham Lincoln and began voting for Democratic Party candidates. This new voting pattern remapped the nation's political landscape and altered the relationship between citizen and government. One of the forgotten builders of this modern Democratic Party was Memphis mayor and congressman Edward Hull Crump (1874-1954). Crump created a biracial, multiethnic coalition within the segregated South that transformed the Mississippi Delta's largest city into a modern southern metropolis. Crump... In the 1930s thousands of African Americans abandoned their long-standing allegiance to the party of Abraham Lincoln and began voting for Democrati... |
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220,33 zł |
Hidden History of Memphis
ISBN: 9781540223883 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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139,73 zł |
A Brief History of Memphis
ISBN: 9781609494407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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96,05 zł |