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1777: The Year of the Hangman
ISBN: 9780817306878 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A revisionist view of the Revolution's most crucial year... it explodes many of the myths surrounding Burgoyne's Canadian expedition and Howe's Pennsylvania campaign. There is a wealth of fascinating detail in this book, including information on arms and supplies, rations for women camp followers, and even the numbers of carts (30-odd) carrying Burgoyne's luggage." --History Book Club Newsletter"A revisionist view of the Revolution's most crucial year... it explodes many of the myths surrounding Burgoyne's Canadian expedition and Howe's P... |
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Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India
ISBN: 9780822323488 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Foreword by James Scott
This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonial period. Ranajit Guha--intellectual founder of the groundbreaking and influential Subaltern Studies Group--describes from the peasants' viewpoint the relations of dominance and subordination in rural India from 1783 to 1900. Foreword by James Scott
This classic work in subaltern studies explores the common elements present in rebel consciousness during the Indian colonia... |
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Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask
ISBN: 9780822339786 / Angielski / Twarda / 499 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion against the government; by sunset Marcos was on his way to becoming the most famous guerrilla leader since Che Guevara. Subsequently, through a succession of interviews, communiquEs, and public spectacles, the Subcommander emerged as a charismatic spokesperson for the indigenous Zapatista uprising...
Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a...
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Subcommander Marcos: The Man and the Mask
ISBN: 9780822339953 / Angielski / Miękka / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a town-hall balcony he announced that the Zapatista Army of National Liberation had seized several towns in the Mexican state of Chiapas in rebellion against the government; by sunset Marcos was on his way to becoming the most famous guerrilla leader since Che Guevara. Subsequently, through a succession of interviews, communiquEs, and public spectacles, the Subcommander emerged as a charismatic spokesperson for the indigenous Zapatista uprising...
Subcommander Marcos made his debut on the world stage on January 1, 1994, the day the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect. At dawn, from a...
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156,41 |
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FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle That Divided America
ISBN: 9780822340553 / Angielski / Twarda / 223 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America s rise to global power, and the 1936 39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt s most isolationist episodes, Dominic Tierney argues that it marked the president s first attempt to challenge fascist aggression in Europe. Drawing on newly discovered archival documents, Tierney describes the evolution of Roosevelt s thinking about the Spanish Civil War in relation to America s...
What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America s rise to global power, and the 1936 39 Spanish Civil War, whi...
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459,45 |
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FDR and the Spanish Civil War: Neutrality and Commitment in the Struggle that Divided America
ISBN: 9780822340768 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America s rise to global power, and the 1936 39 Spanish Civil War, which inspired passion and sacrifice, and shaped the road to world war? While many historians have portrayed the Spanish Civil War as one of Roosevelt s most isolationist episodes, Dominic Tierney argues that it marked the president s first attempt to challenge fascist aggression in Europe. Drawing on newly discovered archival documents, Tierney describes the evolution of Roosevelt s thinking about the Spanish Civil War in relation to America s...
What was the relationship between President Franklin D. Roosevelt, architect of America s rise to global power, and the 1936 39 Spanish Civil War, whi...
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122,15 |
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The Age of Revolution
ISBN: 9780863153952 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is a valuable overview of world history, from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial revolutions. Kovacs chooses pertinent stories to create a rich tapestry that shows the development of humankind, from medieval times--when every person had a fixed place in the social hierarchy--to the awakening of individuality in modern times. In the Waldorf curriculum, this period of history is usually taught in class 8 (ages 13-14).
Here is a valuable overview of world history, from the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, including the French, American and Industrial revolutions. <...
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65,37 |
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Revolution in Orange: The Origins of Ukraine's Democratic Breakthrough
ISBN: 9780870032219 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004 --the "Orange Revolution" --were seminal both for Ukrainian history and the history of democratization. Pro-Western presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko was poisoned with dioxin, an industrial pollutant that left him weakened and horribly disfigured. When this assassination attempt failed, the Kremlin-backed ruling party resorted to voter intimidation and massive electoral fraud to win the runoff election. Supporters of Yushchenko responded with a series of strikes, sit-ins, and marches... The dramatic series of protests and political events that unfolded in Ukraine in the fall of 2004 --the "Orange Revolution" --were seminal both for... |
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Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magon and the Mexican Revolution
ISBN: 9780875651088 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Often described as the primary mover behind the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magon was a liberal journalist working in Mexico in 1900. By 1910 and the Revolution, he was a radical anarchist in exile in the United States. Always a Rebel studies Magon's transformation during those crucial ten years, placing his changing ideas in the context of the liberal movement in Mexico, government suppression, the development of the Partido Liberal Mexicano in the United States, and thwarted attempts at revolution in 1906 and 1908. The first work to concentrate on Flores Magon himself, Always a Rebel...
Often described as the primary mover behind the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magon was a liberal journalist working in Mexico in 1900. By 1910 a...
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Always a Rebel: Ricardo Flores Magon and the Mexican Revolution
ISBN: 9780875652818 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Once described as the primary mover behind the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magon was a liberal journalist working in Mexico in 1900. By 1910 and the Revolution, he was a radical anarchist in exile in the United States. Always a Rebel studies Magon's transformation during those crucial ten years, placing his changing ideas in the context of the liberal movement in Mexico, government suppression, the development of the Partido Liberal Mexicano in the United States, and thwarted attempts at revolution in 1906 and 1908. The first work to concentrate on Flores Magon himself, Always a Rebel...
Once described as the primary mover behind the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magon was a liberal journalist working in Mexico in 1900. By 1910 an...
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113,34 |
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Spanish Civil War
ISBN: 9781403995162 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andy Durgan provides a clear introductory overview and evaluation of the key debates and recent research on the origins, outbreak, course and implications of the Spanish Civil War, including the impact of foreign powers, the socio-political situation, the Republican failure and Nationalist success and the nature of the emerging Franco regime.
Andy Durgan provides a clear introductory overview and evaluation of the key debates and recent research on the origins, outbreak, course and implicat...
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144,01 |
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Prison Journals During the French Revolution
ISBN: 9781410206633 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTS: Prison Life during the French RevolutionAddendaMadame Latour's MemoirEvents of the 21st of July, 1794Narrative of an Eye-Witness of the Affair of July 22, 1794Letter from Madame La Duchesse de Duras, Ne? Noailles, to Monsieur GreletExtract from the 'M?morial Europ?en, ' April 24, 1809
CONTENTS: Prison Life during the French RevolutionAddendaMadame Latour's MemoirEvents of the 21st of July, 1794Narrative of an Eye-Witness of the Affa...
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92,28 |
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Joseph Stalin On Chinese Revolution
ISBN: 9781410206893 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONTENTSThe Prospects of the Revolution in ChinaQuestions of the Chinese RevolutionConcerning Questions of the Chinese RevolutionTalk with Students of the Sun Yat-sen UniversityRevolution in China and the Tasks of the CominternNotes On Contemporary Themes: ChinaAbout ChinaThe Political Complexion of the Russian Opposition
CONTENTSThe Prospects of the Revolution in ChinaQuestions of the Chinese RevolutionConcerning Questions of the Chinese RevolutionTalk with Students of...
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96,58 |
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The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld
ISBN: 9781560254089 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the...
The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the...
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84,27 |
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Don't You Know There's a War On?: The American Home Front, 1941-1945
ISBN: 9781560254652 / Angielski / Miękka / 412 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergencyPearl Harborand America's subsequent involvement in World War II. In this evocative cultural history, Richard Lingeman re-creates the eventshistoric, humorous, and tragicand personalities of the American home front. From V-girls and V-mail, blackouts and the internment of the Japanese, to new opportunities for African-Americans and women, Lingeman recaptures a unique time in American history in this New York Times Notable Book."
The tragic events of September 11, 2001 brought to the surface memories of an earlier time of unprecedented national emergencyPearl Harborand America'...
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95,77 |
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The French Quarter: An Informal History of the New Orleans Underworld
ISBN: 9781560254942 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light district gained a reputation as one of the most raucous in the world. But the New Orleans underworld consisted of much more than the local bordellos. It was also well known as the early gambling capital of the United States, and sported one of the most violent records of street crime in the country. In The French Quarter, Herbert Asbury, author of The Gangs of New York, chronicles this rather immense underbelly of "The Big Easy." From the murderous...
Home to the notorious "Blue Book," which listed the names and addresses of every prostitute living in the city, New Orleans's infamous red-light distr...
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Gangsters and Gold Diggers: Old New York, the Jazz Age, and the Birth of Broadway
ISBN: 9781560256434 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a swaggering, golden era in American lifethe Roaring Twentieswhen Broadway the street exploded into Broadway the legend. Charyn looks at the men and women who helped make the Big Street the most glamorous place on the planet, from Mae West to Fanny Brice, Legs Diamond to Irving Berlin, Scott Fitzgerald to Arnold Rothstein, and many more. In cinematic prose and numerous photographs, Charyn captures Broadway's vagabondage, outlaw culture, and...
In this rousing tribute to an unforgettable time and place, Jerome Charyn picks up where Gangs of New York left off and transports readers back to a s...
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The Port Huron Statement: The Vision Call of the 1960s Revolution
ISBN: 9781560257417 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions determining the quality and direction of his life; that society be organized to encourage independence in men and provide the media for their common participation . . ." --from the "PORT HURON STATEMENT"
Four key periods in American history have most influenced what America is like today: the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, World War II, and the 1960s. No document better frames and explains the 1960s than the "PORT HURON STATEMENT." The... We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisions...
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Crimes of War: Iraq
ISBN: 9781560258032 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Crimes of War -- Iraq provides a comprehensive legal, historical, and psychological exploration of the war in Iraq from the same editorial team whose 1971 "Crimes of War was a landmark book about Vietnam and the revelation of American war crimes. The editors apply standards of international criminal law, as set forth at Nuremberg after World War II, and by subsequent developments regarding individual responsibility and accountability. These principles have to do with the waging of aggressive war, attacks on civilian centers of population, rights of resistance against an illegal occupation,...
"Crimes of War -- Iraq provides a comprehensive legal, historical, and psychological exploration of the war in Iraq from the same editorial team whose...
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99,60 |
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Impact of the Haitian Revolution in the Atlantic World
ISBN: 9781570034169 / Angielski / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its repercussions ranged from the world commodity markets to the imagination of poets, from the council chambers of the great powers to slave quarters in Virginia and Brazil and most points in between. Sharing attention with such tumultuous events as the French Revolution and the Napoleonic War, Haiti's fifteen-year struggle for racial equality, slave emancipation, and colonial independence challenged notions about racial hierarchy that were gaining...
The slave revolution that two hundred years ago created the state of Haiti alarmed and excited public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic. Its reper...
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