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Die Entdeckung Von Amerika, Zweite Auflage
ISBN: 9781145099951 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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102,52 |
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Joint Report Upon the Survey and Demarcation of the Boundary Between the United States and Canada: From the Western Terminus of the Land Boundary Alon
ISBN: 9781146451352 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your...
This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and...
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76,84 |
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États-Unis, Manitoba Et Nord-Ouest: Notes De Voyage
ISBN: 9781148559568 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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81,12 |
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The Role of the Americas in History: By Leopoldo Zea
ISBN: 9780847677214 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first-time translation makes available to English-speaking readers a seminal essay in Latin American thought by one of Latin America's leading intellectuals. Originally published in Mexico in 1957, The Role of the Americas in History explores the meaning of the history of the Americas in relation to universal history. Amy A. Oliver's introduction provides an excellent overview of such major themes in Zea's thought as marginality, humanism, Catholicism and Protestantism, philosophy of history, and liberation.
This first-time translation makes available to English-speaking readers a seminal essay in Latin American thought by one of Latin America's leading in...
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248,26 |
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Miracle Across the Water: How and why a new and different nation was miraculously born.
ISBN: 9781453638132 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A history beginning in Portugal in the 1400's leading to England exploring the New World establishing thirteen colonies that would become the United States of America. This book traces the historical thread that ended in a completely different political nation.
A history beginning in Portugal in the 1400's leading to England exploring the New World establishing thirteen colonies that would become the United S...
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48,15 |
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Time Capsule: The Book of Record
ISBN: 9780981848761 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world's first Time Capsule, filled with artifacts and documents that tell the story of 1930s America, was buried at the site of the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair. Time Capsule II was buried ten feet away at the 1964-1965 Fair. Together, the two Time Capsules comprise a message to the future, meant to be opened by the people of the year 6939 A.D. But what if, by that date, all knowledge of the Fairs, of New York City, of the English language itself, has been lost in the mists of time? How were the Futurians to find this hidden trove of knowledge, or know what it contained? The simple but...
The world's first Time Capsule, filled with artifacts and documents that tell the story of 1930s America, was buried at the site of the 1939-1940 New ...
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Defending the Conquest: Bernardo de Vargas Machuca's Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests
ISBN: 9780271029375 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Of great benefit for scholars and teachers, this is the first English translation and critical edition of a rare refutation of Bartolome de las Casas's famous 1552 Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, one of the most influential texts of the sixteenth century. The Defense and Discourse of the Western Conquests, written by the Spanish soldier Bernardo de Vargas Machuca about 1603, provides valuable insights into the other side of the debate over the morality of the Spanish conquest. Of great benefit for scholars and teachers, this is the first English translation and critical edition of a rare refutation of Bartolome de las Cas... |
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Polynesians in America: Pre-Columbian Contacts with the New World
ISBN: 9780759120044 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This book reviews the debate, evaluates theoretical trends that have discouraged consideration of...
The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of a...
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707,91 |
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Seeds of Extinction: Jeffersonian Philanthropy and the American Indian
ISBN: 9780807897782 / Angielski / Miękka / 313 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study is the first to explain how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the Indian and directed his selection of policy toward the native tribes. Sheehan presents the paradoxical and pathetic story of how the Jeffersonian generation, with the best of goodwill toward the American Indian, destroyed him with its benevolence, literally killed him with kindness.
Originally published 1973. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again... This study is the first to explain how the white American's conception of himself and his position on the continent formed his perception of the India...
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Resources, Power, and Interregional Interaction
ISBN: 9781441932204 / Angielski / Miękka / 259 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Archaeological research on interregional interaction processes has recently reasserted itself after a long hiatus following the eclipse of diffusion studies. This "rebirth" was marked not only by a sudden increase in publications that were focused on interac tion questions, but also by a diversity of perspectives on past contacts. To perdurable interests in warfare were added trade studies by the late 196Os. These viewpoints, in turn, were rapidly joined in the late 1970s by a wide range of intellectual schemes stimulated by developments in French Marxism (referred to in various ways; termed...
Archaeological research on interregional interaction processes has recently reasserted itself after a long hiatus following the eclipse of diffusion s...
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403,47 |
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A Patriotic Destiny: From Lancaster to Perryville
ISBN: 9781456710552 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The greatest catastrophe in the United States was that of the American Civil War. As the years have passed since this great disaster, much of the truth has been lost. A "Patriotic Destiny" will enlighten the reader as to the realities of this time period. It is based on actual letters and newspaper articles written just before and during the Civil War. The reader will travel with the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as they march through Kentucky and Tennessee in their quest to save the Union and defend the Constitution. You will feel their fatigue as they march, their boredom and anxiety...
The greatest catastrophe in the United States was that of the American Civil War. As the years have passed since this great disaster, much of the trut...
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118,21 |
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A Patriotic Destiny: From Lancaster to Perryville
ISBN: 9781456710569 / Angielski / Twarda / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The greatest catastrophe in the United States was that of the American Civil War. As the years have passed since this great disaster, much of the truth has been lost. A "Patriotic Destiny" will enlighten the reader as to the realities of this time period. It is based on actual letters and newspaper articles written just before and during the Civil War. The reader will travel with the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment as they march through Kentucky and Tennessee in their quest to save the Union and defend the Constitution. You will feel their fatigue as they march, their boredom and anxiety...
The greatest catastrophe in the United States was that of the American Civil War. As the years have passed since this great disaster, much of the trut...
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The Makers Of The Mold: A History of Newton Upper Falls
ISBN: 9781456459970 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in depth history of Newton Upper Falls written by local historian and life long resident - Kenneth W. Newcomb.
An in depth history of Newton Upper Falls written by local historian and life long resident - Kenneth W. Newcomb.
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Confederate American
ISBN: 9781931672702 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume goes in-depth about untold Confederate history--a history not taught in schools.
This volume goes in-depth about untold Confederate history--a history not taught in schools.
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Furs, Fir and Fourdrinier: A Story of Wisconsin Paper Families
ISBN: 9781450599962 / Angielski / Miękka / 450 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Furs, Fur and Fourdrinier presents a 500-year history of the discovery and settlement of New France, New England and Wisconsin through the perspective of ten families who became known as the Wisconsin paper barons. It explains how personal, family and political relationships, and many small events played dramatic roles in the shaping of history and how this led to the settlement of Wisconsin and the success of its papermaking industry. A network of people and events is identified that reveals new insights into the histories of Canada and the United States. This intriguing book explores such...
Furs, Fur and Fourdrinier presents a 500-year history of the discovery and settlement of New France, New England and Wisconsin through the perspective...
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Recollections Grave and Gay
ISBN: 9781452821504 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book describes the period of Mr. Horton's services as a US Consul in the Kingdom of Greece. His service spans 31 years from 1893 to 1924 and describes these years representing the United States in Athens, Smyrna, Thessaloniki, Smyrna, and Budapest. Inside the pages of this book you can read about his love towards Hellenism starting with his first view of the Parthenon, from on board his arriving steamer. The Hellenic Electronic Center (HEC) re-published this book in 2007. The publication was funded by AHEPA-Athens HJ-1
The book describes the period of Mr. Horton's services as a US Consul in the Kingdom of Greece. His service spans 31 years from 1893 to 1924 and descr...
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Battle Of Barboursville Kentucky
ISBN: 9781438251578 / Angielski / Miękka / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Eight years of research of the first armed conflict in Kentucky.Where on September 19,1861 30 Barbourville Home Guards made their stand against 800 Confederate forces, Site of the fist Confederate Officer Lt.Robert Powell of the 19th Tenn, . and Pvt.John Hendrickson, a Barboursville Union Home Guard was killed
Eight years of research of the first armed conflict in Kentucky.Where on September 19,1861 30 Barbourville Home Guards made their stand against 800 Co...
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48,15 |
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Prairie Dreams: A Human and Natural History of North America's Great Plains
ISBN: 9781456590185 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Prairie Dreams" is an environmental history of the Great Plains, a history of the interaction between European culture and the North American grasslands. It argues that the stories of man and nature on the Plains are inextricably linked and that the development of a more ethical, conservation-focused future for the region must draw on a more complete and connected understanding of both its human and natural history. This history, though, is not just a story of physical change, of ranching, settlement, landscape transformation and wildlife extinction. It is also the story of our values,...
"Prairie Dreams" is an environmental history of the Great Plains, a history of the interaction between European culture and the North American grassla...
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65,22 |
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The American Southwest: Pride Prejudice Perseverance
ISBN: 9781451558593 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American Southwest-A colorful and culturally rich tapestry woven with the various dialects, customs, cultures and architecture of the people who have dwelt in it for thousands of years. Section One provides an overview of the early inhabitants. Section Two and Three focus on the struggles, triumphs and contributions of Mexican Americans. Section Four looks at the immigration issue (past and present) from various Latin American countries and Section Five examines the participation of Latinos in education. This well-researched book contains maps, graphs and a glossary and appeals to...
The American Southwest-A colorful and culturally rich tapestry woven with the various dialects, customs, cultures and architecture of the people who h...
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49,16 |
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Amériques Transculturelles - Transcultural Americas
ISBN: 9782760307216 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. La transculturalite constitue une nouvelle facon de concevoir les cultures, c'est-adire non plus comme des ilots distincts, mais plutot comme des reseaux interactifs de sens et de pratiques. Ces identites transculturelles qui n'entrent pas aisement dans le seul moule d'une nation ou d'une ethnie abondent particulierement dans les Ameriques, par exemple les Chicanos, les Franco-Ontariens, les Creoles et les immigrants de deuxieme et de troisieme generation. De Quebec a l'Argentine, cet ouvrage se penche sur ces identites qui se construisent au carrefour de la similitude et de la difference. --...
La transculturalite constitue une nouvelle facon de concevoir les cultures, c'est-adire non plus comme des ilots distincts, mais plutot comme des rese...
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