wyszukanych pozycji: 8
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The Making of a Confederate: Walter Lenoir's Civil War
ISBN: 9780195314342 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) Despite the advances of the civil rights movement, many white southerners cling to the faded glory of a romanticized Confederate past. In The Making of a Confederate, William L. Barney focuses on the life of one man, Walter Lenoir of North Carolina, to examine the origins of southern white identity alongside its myriad ambiguities and complexities. Born into a wealthy slaveholding family, Lenoir abhorred the institution, opposed secession, and planned to leave his family to move to Minnesota, in the free North. But when the war erupted in 1860, Lenoir found another escape...
Despite the advances of the civil rights movement, many white southerners cling to the faded glory of a romanticized Confederate past. In The Maki...
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131,39 |
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Companion to 19c America C
ISBN: 9780631209850 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritative overview of current historiographical developments and major themes in the history of nineteenth-century America. Twenty-seven scholars, all specialists in their own thematic areas, examine the key debates and historiography. A thematic and chronological organization brings together the major time periods, politics, the Civil War, economy, and social and cultural history of the nineteenth century. Written with the general reader in mind, each essay surveys the historical research, the emerging concerns, and assesses the future...
A Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritative overview of current historiographical developments and major themes in the history of n...
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879,27 |
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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War
ISBN: 9780199782017 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the major personalities and pivotal events of the war that redefined the American nation.
Drawing upon recent research that has moved beyond battles and military campaigns to address the significant roles played by civilians, women, and African Americans, the 250 entries explore the era in all its complexity and unmistakable human drama. Here of course are the major battles and campaigns, ranging from Gettysburg and Shiloh to Sherman's... A gold mine for the historian as well as the Civil War buff, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Civil War offers a concise, comprehensive overvie...
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The Secessionist Impulse: Alabama and Mississippi in 1860
ISBN: 9780817350895 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 371 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supplies data on the property holdings and occupations of the elected representatives and finds the secessionists to be young, probably lawyers who were both ambitious and confident. Because the economic dislocation of the 1850s made people receptive to a rhetoric that emphasized conspiratorial abolitionists and almost paranoid fear of blacks and strangers, the politicians were able to persuade their constituents that a real crisis did exist and...
This is an outline of the economic crisis in the South based on the declining yields, increasing class stratification and higher slave prices. It supp...
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A Companion to 19th-Century America
ISBN: 9781405149822 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritative overview of current historiographical developments and major themes in the history of nineteenth-century America. Twenty-seven scholars, all specialists in their own thematic areas, examine the key debates and historiography. A thematic and chronological organization brings together the major time periods, politics, the Civil War, economy, and social and cultural history of the nineteenth century. Written with the general reader in mind, each essay surveys the historical research, the emerging concerns, and assesses the future...
A Companion to 19th-Century America is an authoritative overview of current historiographical developments and major themes in the history of n...
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229,86 |
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Rebels in the Making: The Secession Crisis and the Birth of the Confederacy
ISBN: 9780190076085 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A comprehensive study of secession in all fifteen slave states, Rebels in the Making is a political, social, and economic history of the late antebellum South that examines the appeal of secession to a variety of actors in these states and reveals it to be not a mass democratic movement but a revolution led from above.
A comprehensive study of secession in all fifteen slave states, Rebels in the Making is a political, social, and economic history of the late antebell...
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139,71 |
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The Corsair; a Romantic Legend of Hell Gate
ISBN: 9781023480352 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) |
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Words from a Wide Land
ISBN: 9780929398648 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) If you enjoyed books like "A Sand County Almanac" or "A Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek," you ll love "Words from a Wide Land." Barney brings insights of people and places, natural phenomena, birds, animals, insects, and other things he has encountered in many years of living and traveling.
In these entries (a year s worth, though not in chronological order by year), can be found humor, romance, delight, philosophy, even terror. He has measured the life about him with a flair, which at times bursts into poetry. From the book: September 6, 1977. The migration of birds resembles Pickett s... If you enjoyed books like "A Sand County Almanac" or "A Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek," you ll love "Words from a Wide Land." Barney brings insights of pe...
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53,39 |