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The Hanging of Ang?lique: The Untold Story of Canadian Slavery and the Burning of Old Montr?al
ISBN: 9780820329406 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of starting the blaze that consumed forty-six buildings. Suspecting that she had not acted alone and angered that she had maintained her innocence, Angelique's condemners tortured her after the trial. She confessed but named no accomplices. Before Angelique was hanged, she was paraded through the city. Afterward, her corpse was burned. Angelique, who had been born in Portugal, faded into the shadows of Canadian history, vaguely remembered as the... During the night of April 10, 1734, Montreal burned. Marie-Joseph Angelique, a twenty-nine-year-old slave, was arrested, tried, and found guilty of... |
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Sound Wormy: Memoir of Andrew Gennett, Lumberman
ISBN: 9780820329413 / Angielski / Miękka / 258 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormy recalls a time when regulations were few and resources were abundant for the southern lumber industry. In 1901 Andrew Gennett put all of his money into a tract of timber along the Chattooga River watershed, which traverses parts of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. By the time he wrote his memoir almost forty years later, Gennett had outwitted and outworked countless competitors in the southern mountains to make his mark as one of the region's most seasoned, innovative, and successful... Set in what remains some of the wildest country in the United States, Sound Wormy recalls a time when regulations were few and resources wer... |
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140,56 |
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The Formation of a Planter Elite
ISBN: 9780820330181 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jonathan Bryan (1708 88) rose from the obscurity of the southern frontier to become one of colonial Georgia s richest, most powerful men. Along the way he made such influential friends as George Whitefield and James Oglethorpe. Bryan s contemporaries, in terms of their large holdings of land and slaves, were markedly traditional and conservative. As Alan Gallay shows, Bryan was different. Paternalistic and relatively open minded, Bryan contemplated religious, social, political, and economic ideas that other planters refused to consider. Of equal importance, he explored the geographic areas...
Jonathan Bryan (1708 88) rose from the obscurity of the southern frontier to become one of colonial Georgia s richest, most powerful men. Along the wa...
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Kwame Nkrumah: The Father of African Nationalism
ISBN: 9780821412428 / Angielski / Miękka / 153 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He campaigned ceaselessly for African solidarity and for the liberation of southern Africa from white settler rule. His greatest achievement was to win the right of black peoples in Africa to have a vote and to determine their own destiny. He turned a dream of liberation into a political reality. He was the leader of Ghana who urged Africa to shed the colonial yoke and who inspired black people everywhere to seek their freedom. This revised edition...
The first African statesman to achieve world recognition was Kwame Nkrumah (1909-1972), who became president of the new Republic of Ghana in 1960. He ...
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73,42 |
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Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife: The Diary of Annie Elliott Perrin
ISBN: 9780821412664 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife" is the bare-bones diary of a Geneva, Ohio, farmer's wife, Annie Perrin, who wrote during the last three weeks of 1917 and all of 1918, that is, during the final battles, climax, and close of World War I.
Her entries recount her family's trip to Florida where they considered settling before deciding to make a go of their farm near Lake Erie. She writes also of the daily chores and personal stresses of dealing with a difficult husband, sending a son off to the Navy, and worrying about the health of her younger son. In addition to the work and worry, and... "Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife" is the bare-bones diary of a Geneva, Ohio, farmer's wife, Annie Perrin, who wrote during the last three weeks of 1917 a...
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205,71 |
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Soliloquy of a Farmer's Wife: The Diary of Annie Elliott Perrin
ISBN: 9780821412671 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Annie Elliott Perrin, a northern Ohio farmer's wife, received a diary book as a gift in December 1917, as the family set out on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Florida. Her daily notations for a year are the basis for this story of a family's life and times. Perrin's brief, practical entries center aro
Annie Elliott Perrin, a northern Ohio farmer's wife, received a diary book as a gift in December 1917, as the family set out on a once-in-a-lifetime t...
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137,09 |
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Seeking the One Great Remedy: Francis George Shaw and Nineteenth-Century Reform
ISBN: 9780821414996 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a practical field guide to common dental procedures for horses. Beginning with a chapter on the integration of dentistry into the veterinarian's practice, the manual proceeds from basic concepts to more advanced techniques in sequential order by chapter.
This is a practical field guide to common dental procedures for horses. Beginning with a chapter on the integration of dentistry into the veterinarian...
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The Dukes of Durham, 1865-1929
ISBN: 9780822307433 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the history of Washington Duke and two of his sons, Benjamin Newton Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Although numerous other members of the family play their parts in the story it focuses primarily on the three men who were at the center of the economic and philanthropic activities which made the Dukes of Durham one of America's famous families. The Dukes operated closely and constantly as a family, and only in that context is their full story told.
In the years after the Civil War, Washington Duke proved to be an unusually able industrialist and a conscientious, Methodist... This is the history of Washington Duke and two of his sons, Benjamin Newton Duke and James Buchanan Duke. Although numerous other members of the famil...
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137,09 |
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George Washington Williams: A Biography
ISBN: 9780822321644 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "George Washington Williams," John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first history of African Americans in the United States. Awarded the Clarence L. Holte Literary Prize, this book traces Franklin's forty-year quest for Williams's story, a story largely lost to history until this volume was first published in 1985. The result, part biography and part social history, is a unique consideration of a pioneering historian by his most distinguished successor.
Williams, who lived from 1849 to 1891, had a remarkable career as... In "George Washington Williams," John Hope Franklin reconstructs the life of the controversial, self-made black intellectual who wrote the first histo...
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117,50 |
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The Man Who Stayed Behind
ISBN: 9780822326670 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Man Who Stayed Behind" is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A student activist and labor organizer who was fluent in Chinese, Rittenberg became caught up in the turbulence that engulfed China and remained there until the late 1970s. Even with access to China's highest leaders as an American communist, however, he was twice imprisoned for a total of sixteen years.
Both a memoir and a documentary history of the Chinese revolution from 1949 through the Cultural Revolution, "The Man Who Stayed Behind... "The Man Who Stayed Behind" is the remarkable account of Sidney Rittenberg, an American who was sent to China by the U.S. military in the 1940s. A stu...
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156,72 |
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Las Hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed
ISBN: 9780822338802 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Las hijas de Juan" shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie MEndez-Negrete's story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
MEndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in "el norte." He worked sun-up to sun-down... "Las hijas de Juan" shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and ...
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460,38 |
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Las hijas de Juan: Daughters Betrayed
ISBN: 9780822338963 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Las hijas de Juan" shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie MEndez-Negrete's story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father.
MEndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in "el norte." He worked sun-up to sun-down... "Las hijas de Juan" shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and ...
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122,40 |
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Alexander the Great
ISBN: 9780822960843 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In taking account of recent research and in reassesing the markedly contradictory contemporary sources, J.R. Hamilton present a far less attractive but no less compelling portrait of Alexander than Tarn's classic study. The discussion ranges from Alexander's Macedonian background and relations with Philip to his request for deification and his death, and the economic achievements of his reign are stressed alongside the military.
In taking account of recent research and in reassesing the markedly contradictory contemporary sources, J.R. Hamilton present a far less attractive bu...
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138,94 |
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Stealing Home: Israel Bound and Rebound
ISBN: 9780823211883 / Angielski / Twarda / 265 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Stealing Home is an at times witty, at times grave, at times hopeful, and at times cynical, but always thought-provoking collection of autobiographical essays. This book is a man's bold yet humble analysis of his own choices, particularly of his decision to give up a modest, bucolic, and secure academic life in California for an even more rewarding and meaningful one in Israel. These twenty-eight wonderfully written essays leave no delicate subject untouched. Chertok exposes the materialistic shallowness of many American assimilated Jews. He describes his experiences in the Israeli army and...
Stealing Home is an at times witty, at times grave, at times hopeful, and at times cynical, but always thought-provoking collection of autobiographica...
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367,33 |
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Astorian Adventure: The Journal of Alfred Seton, 1811-15
ISBN: 9780823215034 / Angielski / Twarda / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For four years, Seton worked for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, traveling in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Russian Alaska, and Spanish dominions in California and Mexico, and writing about his experiences and observations. The journal, which was discovered in 1947 during a renovation of Wa
For four years, Seton worked for John Jacob Astor's Pacific Fur Company, traveling in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii, Russian Alaska, and Spanish domin...
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195,91 |
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An American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner
ISBN: 9780823215218 / Angielski / Miękka / 494 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This tale of two families is set on a grand scale, as James Thomas Flexner brings his talents to bear on his own noteworthy heritage. An American Saga is an historical narrative, grounded on documentary sources, which ends with the marriage of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner. The account deals equally with the lives and the backgrounds of husband and wife, the author's parents. Simon Flexner was the famous medical investigator, discoverer of the Flexner vacillusand the Flexner serum, who became the creating director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (now Rockefeller University)...
This tale of two families is set on a grand scale, as James Thomas Flexner brings his talents to bear on his own noteworthy heritage. An American Saga...
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151,83 |
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On Desperate Seas: A Biography of Gilbert Stuart
ISBN: 9780823216123 / Angielski / Twarda / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents us with a portrait constructed as the artist would have constructed it, frank, without flattery, profound, and soul-stirring. A man once regarded as the probable successor of Sir Joshua Reynolds, Stuart was born in poverty in Rhode Island. He became through his art the intimate of the great of two continents. Yet, he never abandoned his disdain for worldly rank, or his fascination with character. He...
This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he ha...
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141,98 |
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Maverick's Progress: An Autobiography
ISBN: 9780823216604 / Angielski / Twarda / 510 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; among many others, James Thomas Flexner has written with distinction about American history and art. He has penetrated many of the charactrers who have shaped history exposing the intricacies of not only the historical figure, but the man beneath the marble image. The range of Flexner's subjects is wide: painters, inventors, doctors, loyalists, traitors, and spies, such luminaries as George Washington, Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, and John...
National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; am...
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386,93 |
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Young Hamilton
ISBN: 9780823217892 / Angielski / Twarda / 497 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton's early years shaped him into the statesman he became.
Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton'...
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406,51 |
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Young Hamilton
ISBN: 9780823217908 / Angielski / Miękka / 497 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton's early years shaped him into the statesman he became.
Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton's life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton'...
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171,42 |
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