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My Mother's Question: Truth and Consequences in a Family's Story
ISBN: 9780615495941 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The survivor of two suicide attempts begins a quest to understand her family's curse of depression, as well as its many gifts and rumored nobility. The story begins with her girlhood in Roslyn Village on Long Island but as her son takes up her unfinished work, it leads him to the Scottish border and back to the Jewish ghettos and villages of Bohemia, and finally forward to descendants on five continents.
The survivor of two suicide attempts begins a quest to understand her family's curse of depression, as well as its many gifts and rumored nobility. Th...
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86,08 zł |
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Trans-Americanity: Subaltern Modernities, Global Coloniality, and the Cultures of Greater Mexico
ISBN: 9780822350644 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, Jose David Saldivar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Americanity, he advances that critical project by arguing for a transnational, antinational, and "outernational" paradigm for American studies. Saldivar urges Americanists to adopt a world-system scale of analysis. "Americanity as a Concept," an essay by the Peruvian sociologist Anibal Quijano and Immanuel Wallerstein, the architect of world-systems analysis, serves as a theoretical touchstone for Trans-Americanity. In conversation not...
A founder of U.S.-Mexico border studies, Jose David Saldivar is a leading figure in efforts to expand the scope of American studies. In Trans-Ameri...
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463,42 zł |
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Surveyors of Empire: Samuel Holland, J.F.W. Des Barres, and the Making of The Atlantic Neptune: Volume 221
ISBN: 9780773538481 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British imperial power was greatly bolstered by new techniques in surveying and map-making during the eighteenth century. Well before James Cook sailed for the Pacific in 1768, British army engineers working on the coastline from Quebec to Rhode Island had set new scientific standards for cartography that would assist the British in mapping future conquests. Surveyors of Empire explores the groundbreaking work of these engineers, which formed the basis of The Atlantic Neptune, a four-volume hydrographic atlas that stands as a monument of European Enlightenment science. Using research from...
British imperial power was greatly bolstered by new techniques in surveying and map-making during the eighteenth century. Well before James Cook saile...
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187,45 zł |
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Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the Other British Provinces in North America: With a Plan of National Colonization
ISBN: 9781108033374 / Angielski / Miękka / 580 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cornish-born traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) campaigned energetically for social reform while a Member of Parliament during the 1830s. He later spent four years in North America, and in 1839 travelled on to Canada to investigate its social and economic landscape. In this revealing account, first published in 1843, Buckingham recalls his experiences in the Eastern provinces. He found the Canadians to be civilized, hospitable, hard working and unfailingly loyal to Britain (unlike the independent Americans, who he reports they despised). He also encountered evidence of...
The Cornish-born traveller and writer James Silk Buckingham (1786 1855) campaigned energetically for social reform while a Member of Parliament during...
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379,68 zł |
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On the Edge: Mapping North America's Coasts
ISBN: 9780199744046 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With our access to Google Maps, Global Positioning Systems, and Atlases that cover all regions and terrains and tell us precisely how to get from one place to another, we tend to forget there was ever a time when the world was unknown and uncharted--a mystery waiting to be solved. In On the Edge, Roger McCoy tells the captivating--and often harrowing--story of the 400 year effort to map North America's Coasts. Much of the book is based on the narratives of mariners who sought a passage through the continent to Asia and produced maps as a byproduct of their journeys. These...
With our access to Google Maps, Global Positioning Systems, and Atlases that cover all regions and terrains and tell us precisely how to get from one ...
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210,97 zł |
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The World of Thomas Jeremiah: Charles Town on the Eve of the American Revolution
ISBN: 9780199922871 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It focuses on the dramatic hanging and burning of Thomas Jeremiah, a free black harbor pilot and firefighter accused by the patriot party of plotting a slave insurrection during the tumultous spring and summer of 1775. To examine the world of this wealthy, slave-holding African American through his trial and execution, William R. Ryan uses a wide array of letters, naval records, personal and official correspondence, memoirs, and newspapers. He shows that the...
This book profiles the port of Charles Town, South Carolina, during the two-year period leading up to the Declaration of Independence. It focuses on t...
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144,38 zł |
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Hegemonie Und Kultur: Die Rolle Kultureller Soft-Power in Der Us-Außenpolitik
ISBN: 9783631536551 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Rave-Forschungspreis Auswartige Kulturpolitik 2006 der Alexander Rave-Stiftung des Instituts fur Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) in Stuttgart ausgezeichnet.
Hegemonie und Kultur unter diesen beiden Schlagworten wird in der Studie untersucht, welche Rolle die Kultur fur die Akzeptanz amerikanischer Aussenpolitik hat. Die Hauptthese des Buches lautet dabei: Die amerikanische Kultur, die das 20. Jahrhundert gepragt hat, dient in all ihren Formen als Matrix fur den Aufstieg der USA zur globalen Macht. Erst durch die -weiche Macht- Kultur wird die Akzeptanz der... Die Arbeit wurde mit dem Rave-Forschungspreis Auswartige Kulturpolitik 2006 der Alexander Rave-Stiftung des Instituts fur Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa)...
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323,38 zł |
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Trust Me, I Know What I'm Doing: 100 More Mistakes That Lost Elections, Ended Empires, and Made the World What It Is Today
ISBN: 9780425257364 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hindsight hurts.
* The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense which instead starts a revolution. * In 1929, President Herbert Hoover decides to let the economy fix itself and the Great Depression gets greater. * Nixon tapes everything he says in the Oval Office, believing it will all be of great historical value. He turns out to be right when those same tapes cost him his presidency. * Charles the First cuts a deal with the Irish to fight Parliament that instead loses him public support and later his head. Along with... Hindsight hurts.
* The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act, having the American colonies pay for their own defense which instead starts a revo... |
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103,82 zł |
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Die Vereinigten Staaten von Nordamerika: mit besonderer Rücksicht auf deutsche Auswanderung dahin
ISBN: 9783956102332 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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182,47 zł |
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The Edge of New Netherland
ISBN: 9781461060956 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Over three centuries ago, the Dutch colonized a large portion of the northeastern United States. This area, called New Netherland, included New York, New Jersey, Delaware, most of Connecticut, and some of Pennsylvania. The fur trade drove a frontier economy. New Netherland was far removed from the political disputes of Europe, but not immune to the consequences that ensued. The Edge of New Netherland takes us back in time and gives us a glimpse of an emerging nation from a Dutch and Swedish perspective. It is an evocative look back along the banks of the Delaware River and an overview of New...
Over three centuries ago, the Dutch colonized a large portion of the northeastern United States. This area, called New Netherland, included New York, ...
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102,21 zł |
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The Early History of Roscommon County
ISBN: 9781461142102 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Early History of Roscommon County - This book is a vehicle for time travel to the earliest days of Roscommon County, Michigan - a place of woods, water and wildlife in north central Michigan. The book describes the county and provides an account of its history from the beginning of time to the end of the 19th century, a mere 25 years after the remote area was first settled. The economic engine that ignited interest and settlement of the area was white pine; green gold for those who had the skills and ingenuity to harvest it. In a period so brief that the imagination is stretched, a...
The Early History of Roscommon County - This book is a vehicle for time travel to the earliest days of Roscommon County, Michigan - a place of woods, ...
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58,82 zł |
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Fairest Picture -- Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe
ISBN: 9781463765699 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fairest Picture is the book Mark Twain fans and Lake Tahoe enthusiasts have longed for. For the first time, a single volume brings together Mark Twain and his favorite lake, Lake Tahoe. Inside you will find little known facts and newly discovered information about Mark Twain's experiences and adventures at Lake Tahoe that cannot be found in any other books or on the web. You will read about Mark Twain's Lake Tahoe of the early 1860s, how it is different today and still the same in many ways. We solve the riddle of where Mark Twain was camped and located his timber claim on the North Shore,...
Fairest Picture is the book Mark Twain fans and Lake Tahoe enthusiasts have longed for. For the first time, a single volume brings together Mark Twain...
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81,71 zł |
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Aurora, Nevada's Silent City on the Hill
ISBN: 9781466224377 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The ghost town of Aurora, Nevada holds a mystique among ghost town visitors. Born on the coattails of the great Comstock Lode discovery at Virginia City and Gold Hill, Aurora quickly boomed with mining men who held it up to great expectation. Within a short four years, the luster and hopes of the new city began to fade amidst legal difficulties and shallow mineral ledges. Although the town continued to exist and mining activities occasionally rallied on into the early twentieth century, Aurora's greatest moment and romance had long since passed. Of the reported thousands of people who once...
The ghost town of Aurora, Nevada holds a mystique among ghost town visitors. Born on the coattails of the great Comstock Lode discovery at Virginia Ci...
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77,00 zł |
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Out of Oklahoma: The Dreams of Homesteaders
ISBN: 9781466365537 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this historical account the author writes about the lives of his ancestors in great detail. From documents saved by these pioneers and unpublished stories of their lives an intriguing story unfolds. The story reveals the joys and sorrows of two families that homestead in western Oklahoma at the turn of the century. Born in 1866 the daughter of a Union civil war veteran, Susie Jones and her husband John struggled to prove up their homestead. At the same time Nathan McAlister, who grew up in Texas, brings his family to Oklahoma to file a homestead. Using pictures and letters from family...
In this historical account the author writes about the lives of his ancestors in great detail. From documents saved by these pioneers and unpublished ...
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113,33 zł |
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Our Front Yard
ISBN: 9781466434752 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the Larue community is included in this book. Many of the old businesses are mentioned, along with a story about a bank robbery and a story about the old jail house. Ronald and Carole leave the busy city and raise their five children in the country, in the hills between the communities of Larue, New York and Poynor, Texas. Mr. McClure shares many adventures of his children as they grow up playing on dirt roads, climbing trees, working on their place and on ranches of neighbors. They encounter wild coyotes that attack their dogs and have interesting adventures. Ronald shares...
The history of the Larue community is included in this book. Many of the old businesses are mentioned, along with a story about a bank robbery and a s...
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77,18 zł |
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Through A Chaplain's Eyes: The Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients from McDonough County During the Civil War
ISBN: 9781468127287 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the four McDonough County residents from Bushnell and Prairie City who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for their heroic acts during the Civil War. Chaplain Milton Haney, Sergeant Jacob Sanford and Corporal Robert M. Cox were volunteers in the Fifty-fifth Illinois Regiment and Samuel McConnell served as a Captain with the 119th Illinois Volunteers, But this story is not theirs alone. One-hundred twenty-nine brave men from Bushnell, Prairie City and Marietta served in Companies F and G of the Fifty-fifth Regiment and 35 gave their very lives to preserve the union...
This is the story of the four McDonough County residents from Bushnell and Prairie City who received the Congressional Medal of Honor for their heroic...
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90,62 zł |
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Diary of a Volunteer: An Account of the 14th Illnois Regiment in the Great Rebellion of the Southern States
ISBN: 9781468137422 / Angielski / Miękka / 618 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the eleven Companies of the "Fighting Fourteenth Regiment" as seen through the eyes of James William Covington, a self-styled "blacksmith with a literary turn" and member of the Regimental Band, along with seven other soldiers who recorded their thoughts and feelings in journals and letters to their loved ones. They were common men who lived in the most uncommon of times and as such, were called upon to perform uncommon deeds. It is seen against the backdrop of our country's greatest struggle; a war that pitted brother against brother, father against son, and took the...
This is the story of the eleven Companies of the "Fighting Fourteenth Regiment" as seen through the eyes of James William Covington, a self-styled "bl...
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113,33 zł |
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Mississippi Beneath the Surface: 1800 - 1910
ISBN: 9781468147025 / Angielski / Miękka / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the experiences of slaves in Mississippi between 1800 and 1865 and their lives as freedmen between 1865 and 1910. It was designed to fill in the gaps of the struggling and overcoming cycles for African-Americans between 1800 and 1910. It uncovers truths about their lives as slaves and freedmen in Mississippi. It provides information about their personal, work and spiritual lives as slaves. It shows why and how they were the central issue in the Civil War. It provides information about how they were personally impacted by the war scrimmages on a daily basis. It provides...
This book describes the experiences of slaves in Mississippi between 1800 and 1865 and their lives as freedmen between 1865 and 1910. It was designed ...
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90,80 zł |
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The Bandit Kings of the Cookson Hills
ISBN: 9781581070828 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles the true adventures of a loose-knit confederation of daring bank bandits originating from the infamous Cookson Hills of Eastern Oklahoma who terrorized the Arkansas-Oklahoma borderlands for more than a half decade following the close of the First World War. The original leader of the group was Henry Starr, the Cherokee bandit, who claimed to have robbed more banks than any man. Upon his death, a middle-age storekeeper along with an audacious young war hero named Ed Lockhart took over the helm. In a time when most Americans were captivated by the "Teapot Dome" scandal, the...
This book chronicles the true adventures of a loose-knit confederation of daring bank bandits originating from the infamous Cookson Hills of Eastern O...
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77,00 zł |
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Land of the Burnt Thigh, (illustrated)
ISBN: 9781849023139 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kohls work is a collection of early 20th century homesteading accounts, describing the experiences of her sister and herself. The same dramatic events -- land rushes, blizzards, prairie fires -- as in all the other versions of homesteader stories are told new somehow this time, perhaps because Kohl adds a subtle political dimension that most other writers werent even aware of. Fully illustrated.
Kohls work is a collection of early 20th century homesteading accounts, describing the experiences of her sister and herself. The same dramatic events...
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103,51 zł |
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