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Dear Dr. Spock: Letters about the Vietnam War to America's Favorite Baby Doctor
ISBN: 9780814727447 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's pediatrician and a high-profile opponent of the war. Personal and heartfelt, thoughtful and volatile, these missives from Middle America provide an intriguing glimpse into the conflicts that took place over the dinner table as people wrestled with this divisive war and with their consciences. Providing one of the first clear views of the home front during the war, Dear Dr. Spock collects the best of these letters and offers a window into the minds of... At the height of the Vietnam War, thousands of Americans wrote moving letters to Dr. Benjamin Spock, America's pediatrician and a high-profile oppo... |
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151,83 |
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Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America: A Short History
ISBN: 9780814756690 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America, Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery interacted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He covers all aspects of the two labor systems, including their impact on the economy, on racial attitudes, social structures and on regional variations within the colonies. Throughout, overriding themes emerge: the labor market in North America, the significance of racial distinctions, supply and demand factors in transatlantic migration and labor, and resistance to bondage. This is an... In Slavery and Servitude in Colonial North America, Kenneth Morgan shows how the institutions of indentured servitude and black slavery inte... |
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583,56 |
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Archaeology of Prehistoric Native America: An Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780815307259 / Angielski / Twarda / 1020 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This encyclopaedia offers a tapestry of data, descriptions, speculation, facts and theories, and provides a comprehensive introduction to the early inhabitants and cultures of continental North America. It explores each cultural area, its major social complexes, important archaelogical sites, food resources, and pioneering archaelogists. It also covers topics such as tool types, archaeoastronomy, charmstones, shell money, fire use, nutting stone, bow and arrow, burial mounds, and rock art. A reader's guide, providing an overview of North American prehistory and its study, and an extensive...
This encyclopaedia offers a tapestry of data, descriptions, speculation, facts and theories, and provides a comprehensive introduction to the early in...
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979,55 |
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The Bioarchaeology of Virginia Burial Mounds
ISBN: 9780817351441 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds reaching heights of 12 to 15 feet marked the floodplains of interior Virginia. Today, none of these mounds built by the nearly forgotten Monacan Indians remain on the landscape, having been removed over the centuries by a variety of natural and cultural causes. This study uses what remains of the mounds excavated from the 1890s to the 1980s to gain a new understanding of the Monacans and to gauge their importance in the realm of the late prehistoric period in the... A long-ignored prehistoric moundbuilding people. By the 14th century more than a dozen accretional burial mounds reaching heights of ... |
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137,09 |
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Colonial Search for a Southern Eden
ISBN: 9780817351809 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Colonial Search for a Southern Eden "details how European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World. "Colonial Search for a Southern Eden "details how European imperialists began to dream of other kinds of wealth besides gold in the New World. |
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78,32 |
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La Florida del Inca and the Struggle for Social Equality in Colonial Spanish America
ISBN: 9780817352578 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A cross-disciplinary view of an important De Soto chronicle.
Among the early Spanish chroniclers who contributed to popular images of the New World was the Amerindian-Spanish (mestizo) historian and literary writer, El Inca Garcilaso de la Vega (1539-1616). He authored several works, of which La Florida del Inca (1605) stands out as the best because of its unique Amerindian and European perspectives on the De Soto expedition (1539-1543). As the child of an Indian mother and a Spanish father, Garcilaso lived in both worlds--and saw value in each. Hailed throughout Europe for his... A cross-disciplinary view of an important De Soto chronicle.
Among the early Spanish chroniclers who contributed to popular images of the New ... |
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97,90 |
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The Emergence of the Moundbuilders: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio
ISBN: 9780821416105 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Native American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded history. Societies of the Hocking River Valley in southeastern Ohio, part of the Ohio River Valley, created a tribal organization beginning about 2000 bc.
Edited by Elliot M. Abrams and AnnCorinne Freter, "The Emergence of the Moundbuilders: The Archaeology of Tribal Societies in Southeastern Ohio" presents the process of tribal formation and change in the region based on analyses of all available archaeological data from the Hocking River... Native American societies, often viewed as unchanging, in fact experienced a rich process of cultural innovation in the millennia prior to recorded hi...
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117,50 |
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Choice, Persuasion, and Coercion: Social Control on Spain's North American Frontiers
ISBN: 9780826336460 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume considers the responses to the social and institutional norms of the Spanish colonial system along Spain's northern frontier provinces.
This volume considers the responses to the social and institutional norms of the Spanish colonial system along Spain's northern frontier provinces.
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117,50 |
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Following the Royal Road: A Guide to the Historic Camino Real de Tierra Adentro
ISBN: 9780826340856 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior Land) is North America's oldest and longest road. Juan de Onate extended the Camino to New Mexico in 1598, making it 1,500 miles long. Here, Hal Jackson brings to life this important route connecting Mexico City with Santa Fe, New Mexico. It was the lifeline for administrative, commercial, and ecclesiastical functions in northern Mexico. The northern section of the Camino Real, the portion in New Mexico and Texas, was designated a National Historic Trail by the U.S. Congress in 2000 and an interpretive and visitor center (the... The Camino Real de Tierra Adentro (Royal Road of the Interior Land) is North America's oldest and longest road. Juan de Onate extended the Camino t... |
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96,15 |
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Melungeons: The Last Lost Tribe: The Last Lost Tribe In America (P245/Mrc)
ISBN: 9780865548619 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British Protestant colonists who fought the Indians tamed the wilderness, and brought democracy--or at least a representative republic--to North America. To the contrary, Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman's research indicates the earliest settlers were of Mediterranean extraction, and of a Jewish or Muslim religious persuasion. Sometimes called Melungeons, these early settlers were among the earliest nonnative Americans to live in the Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia. For fear of discrimination-since Muslims, Jews,...
Most of us probably think of America as being settled by British Protestant colonists who fought the Indians tamed the wilderness, and brought democra...
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82,01 |
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The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture: With Comparative Material from Other Western Tribes
ISBN: 9780898754223 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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161,85 |
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Who Were the First Americans?
ISBN: 9780912933207 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proceedings of the 58th Annual Biology Colloquium, Oregon State University. Seven chapters include genetic and craniometric studies and what they mean in regard to the initial peopling of the Americas.
Proceedings of the 58th Annual Biology Colloquium, Oregon State University. Seven chapters include genetic and craniometric studies and what they mean...
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93,01 |
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Within a Four-Mile Square: The History of the Onondaga Nation
ISBN: 9781401024208 / Angielski / Twarda / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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125,39 |
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This Was the Place: The Darker Side of Mormon Zion: Manifest Destiny's Mad March Across Northern Ute Indian Territory and Skullduggery in
ISBN: 9781403304810 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,49 |
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Canadians and Americans: Myths and Literary Traditions
ISBN: 9781412804837 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much can be learned from a nation's literature. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Katherine L. Morrison, a former American, now a Canadian, takes the reader through the historical, political, and sociological milieu of Canada and the United States to dispel misconceptions that they share near-identical social attitudes and historical experiences. To most Americans and much of the rest of the world, America and Canada differ little except in terms of climate. It is true that they share a common British heritage and immigration patterns, but there are subtle cultural...
Much can be learned from a nation's literature. Examining three hundred years of cultural traditions, Katherine L. Morrison, a former American, now a ...
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242,26 |
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A History of American Political Theories
ISBN: 9781412807142 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A History of American Political Theories is a comprehensive attempt to understand the full sweep of American political thought since the founding. Working within the liberal-progressive tradition, Merriam reviewed American political history in its entirety, from the founding down to his own day. He was not out to reduce political thought to a single element such as economics alone; his aim was to encompass the whole of modern social science.
A History of American Political Theories is a comprehensive attempt to understand the full sweep of American political thought since the founding. Wor...
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230,14 |
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One West, Two Myths: A Comparative Reader
ISBN: 9781552381359 / Angielski / Miękka / 183 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What comes to mind when we think of the Old West? Often, our conceptions are accompanied by as much mythology and mystique as fact or truth. What are the differences in how the Canadian and American Wests are perceived? Did they develop differently or are they just perceived differently? How do our conceptions influence our perceptions?
This reader explores the problems, importance, and results of comparing the Canadian and American Wests, critically examining how we conceptualize the history and development of the West and how that influences our perceptions. One West, Two Myths II:... What comes to mind when we think of the Old West? Often, our conceptions are accompanied by as much mythology and mystique as fact or truth. What are ...
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176,32 |
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Four Years Under Marse Robert
ISBN: 9781565544475 / Angielski / Miękka / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -Marse Robert- is one of the endearing nicknames by which General Robert E. Lee was called by his men. This book is the account of Robert Stiles' experience as a soldier during the Civil War. He traces his own story, giving personal significance to the battles fought and the time he spent under General Lee's command. Robert Stiles tells firsthand what a Confederate soldier experienced as he marched on and fought through great struggles and deprivation. He takes readers on the difficult journey through the Civil War battle by battle, while providing the personal analysis of an actual... -Marse Robert- is one of the endearing nicknames by which General Robert E. Lee was called by his men. This book is the account of Robert Stiles' e... |
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101,16 |
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The Book of the Indians of North America
ISBN: 9781582180946 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,58 |
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4
ISBN: 9781582187488 / Angielski / Miękka / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians, and is a reprint of the 1912 edition. Included are illustrations, manners, customs, places, and aboriginal words.
This is the Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Handbook of American Indians, and is a reprint of the 1912 edition. Included are illu...
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172,42 |
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