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Western Apache Raiding and Warfare
ISBN: 9780816502974 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a remarkable series of personal narrations from Western Apaches before and just after the various agencies and sub-agencies were established. It also includes extensive commentary on weapons and traditions, with Apache words and phrases translated and complete annotation.
This is a remarkable series of personal narrations from Western Apaches before and just after the various agencies and sub-agencies were establ...
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138,77 zł |
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The Autobiography of a Yaqui Poet
ISBN: 9780816506286 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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169,91 zł |
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Amerindian Images and the Legacy of Columbus: Volume 9
ISBN: 9780816621675 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The legacy of Columbus' discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical debate. This book examines the constitution of an Amerindian world born of resistance against European cultural imperialism.
The legacy of Columbus' discovery of the New World and its subsequent colonization is a current focus of much historical debate. This book examines th...
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125,15 zł |
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The Golden Dream : Seekers of El Dorado
ISBN: 9780821411704 / Angielski / Miękka / 446 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most persistent legends in the annals of New World exploration is that of the Land of God. Its mythical site was located over vast areas of South American (and later, North America); it drove some men mad with greed and, often as not, to their deaths.
In this amazing history of quest and adventure, Robert Silverberg traces the fate of Old World explorers lured westward by the myth of El Dorado. From the German conquistadores, licensed by the Spanish king to operate out of Venezuela; to the journeys of Gonzalo Pizarro in the Amazon basin; to the nearly miraculous voyage of... One of the most persistent legends in the annals of New World exploration is that of the Land of God. Its mythical site was located over vast areas of...
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146,02 zł |
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Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
ISBN: 9780826306562 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cabeza de Vaca came to the New world in 1527 as part of a Spanish expedition to conquer the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His exploration party lost contact with their ships, set out northward on foot, and traveled, their numbers soon reduced from 300 to 4, across Florida, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico for the next eight years. In addition to being one of the great true adventure stories of all time, Cabeza de Vaca's account of their travels is an unparalleled source of firsthand information on the pre-European Southwest--the variety of its climate, its flora and... Cabeza de Vaca came to the New world in 1527 as part of a Spanish expedition to conquer the region north of the Gulf of Mexico. His exploration par... |
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127,42 zł |
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The Conquest of America: How the Indian Nations Lost Their Continent
ISBN: 9780853458760 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,35 zł |
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Studies in Medievalism VI: Medievalism in North America
ISBN: 9780859914178 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen essays trace North America's enthusiastic engagement with the middle ages from the Revolution to Disney. There are eight studies of the American reception of Arthur: in art (Abbey, Rosenthal), literature (Canadian writers, John Ciardi), scholarship (R.S. Loomis), politics (JFK), and popular culture (Arthurian youth groups, Disneyland, the Excalibur Casino). Other topics include Tom Paine, Elbertus Hubbard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, C.B. DeMille, popular treatments of Villon, the roots of the New Mexican cuento, and the rhetoric of the Gulf War. Contributors: ROGER WOOD, KYMBERLEY N....
Fifteen essays trace North America's enthusiastic engagement with the middle ages from the Revolution to Disney. There are eight studies of the Americ...
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417,35 zł |
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Washington State Place Names: From Alki to Yelm
ISBN: 9780870043567 / Angielski / Miękka / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"
Place names are like the historical markers past which we all speed in our cars, too preoccupied to stop and enjoy them. The Strait of Juan de Fuca, Puyallup, Anacortes, Walla Walla--these are some of the place names of Washington State. Scratch the surface and spend a little time wondering from whence they came and you will uncover a wealth of lore, legend and local flavor. "Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press"
Place names are like the historical markers past which we all speed in our cars,... |
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64,83 zł |
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Pomo Indian Basketry
ISBN: 9780936127071 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the time of its publication in 1908, Pomo Indian Basketry was the most complete and detailed study of a single Native American basketry tradition. The work, prepared as Samuel Barrett's doctoral dissertation, earned the author the first Ph.D. in anthropology at UC Berkeley. Among its contents are sections devoted to materials, techniques, forms, and designs. This edition is supplemented with two early articles, "Basket Designs of the Pomo Indians" by Barrett (1905) and "California Basketry and the Pomo" by his teacher Alfred Kroeber (1909). Sherrie Smith-Ferri's introduction... At the time of its publication in 1908, Pomo Indian Basketry was the most complete and detailed study of a single Native American basketry t... |
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125,15 zł |
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Christopher Columbus and the Participation of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese Discoveries
ISBN: 9780964169494 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The role of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese discoveries is explored inthis long out of print classic volume.
The role of the Jews in the Spanish and Portuguese discoveries is explored inthis long out of print classic volume.
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84,21 zł |
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Electrical Pioneers of America, Their Own Words
ISBN: 9780965944625 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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121,20 zł |
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The Norse Discovery of America
ISBN: 9781410200372 / Angielski / Miękka / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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77,66 zł |
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Poetry of the Civil War: Poems of a Bygone Era
ISBN: 9781411698154 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poetry of the Civil War is based on factual accounts that occurred during that fascinating era when a nation was divided. The historical places, events, and names are reality based and have been put into prose, as if the author was actually living during the War Between the States. Based in reality, the book offers poems and descriptors that not only provide factual information but the author's interpretations, which inspired the writings of the 120+ poems.
Poetry of the Civil War is based on factual accounts that occurred during that fascinating era when a nation was divided. The historical places, event...
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128,75 zł |
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Fire Lookouts: Life and Limb
ISBN: 9780999606704 / Angielski / Miękka / 86 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,59 zł |
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Grand Dragon: D.C. Stephenson and the Ku Klux Klan
ISBN: 9781557530462 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the native-born white male population were Klansmen. This book explores the career of D. C. Stephenson, grand dragon of the Indiana Klan, his rise to power, and his eventual conviction for second-degree murder in 1925. Grand Dragon traces Stephenson's background, still shrouded in mystery due to Stephenson's own colorful but imaginary accounts of his early years. A political opportunist, Stephenson's rise to power in the loan was startlingly swift,...
The Ku Klux Klan reached its height in the 1920s, and nowhere was it as large and politically powerful as in Indiana, where about 30 percent of the na...
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86,51 zł |
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Acadian Reminiscences
ISBN: 9781565544420 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Acadian Reminiscences is a The plain, simple frugal life of these people, their devotion to principle, The Acadian Reminiscences is a The plain, simple frugal ... |
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58,97 zł |
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Spanish Sea: The Gulf of Mexico in North America Discovery 1500-1685
ISBN: 9781585440665 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost five hundred years ago an obscure Spanish sailor aboard the "Pinta"""spotted the outlines of an unknown land rising above the western horizon. From that moment Spain embarked upon an age of discovery, exploration, and conquest of the New World virtually unchallenged until the coming of the French in 1685. Not until sixteen years after the discovery of the fringe islands of North America did an explorer find the crucial passage into the Gulf of Mexico, or Spanish Sea, which then served as a vital conduit to the discovery of North America and was the theater for the earliest and most...
Almost five hundred years ago an obscure Spanish sailor aboard the "Pinta"""spotted the outlines of an unknown land rising above the western horizon. ...
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151,56 zł |
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The Discovery of America - Volume 1
ISBN: 9781932080421 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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257,76 zł |
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The Discovery of America - Volume 2
ISBN: 9781932080438 / Angielski / Miękka / 660 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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283,56 zł |
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Columbus Was Last
ISBN: 9781933665016 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this provocative examination of the popular misconceptions of history, Patrick Huyghe takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through the substantial body of evidence that places Christopher Columbus last in a long and diverse line of explorers. What better time than the quincentennial anniversary of Columbus's arrival on this continent to take a closer look, without prejudice or prior assumptions, at the story of the discovery of America? In this engrossing narrative, the assembled research of archeologists, geographers, geologists, oceanographers, linguists, folklorists,...
In this provocative examination of the popular misconceptions of history, Patrick Huyghe takes the reader on a voyage of discovery through the substan...
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87,18 zł |
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