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The Supreme Court
ISBN: 9780375708619 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist s classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court.
Chief Justice Rehnquist s engaging writing illuminates both the high and low points in the Court's history, from Chief Justice Marshall s dominance of the Court during the early nineteenth century through the landmark decisions of the Warren Court. Citing cases such as the Dred Scott decision and Roosevelt's Court-packing plan, Rehnquist makes clear that the Court does not operate in a vacuum, that the justices are unavoidably influenced by their... The sixteenth Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist s classic book offers a lively and accessible history of the Supreme Court.
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84,78 |
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Indians of the United States
ISBN: 9780385020190 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A revision of Wissler's authoritative study, this volume traces the history of the American Indian from prehistoric times to the present. It gives a broad survey of the tribes and cultures of all the great Indian language families.
A revision of Wissler's authoritative study, this volume traces the history of the American Indian from prehistoric times to the present. It gives a b...
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96,34 |
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Polk's Folly: An American Family History
ISBN: 9780385491518 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Polk's Folly is William Polk's captivating investigation of his impressive family tree and of the broader American tale it narrates.
Growing up in Texas in the late 1930s, listening to his grandmother's memories of her childhood amidst the Civil War, Polk became fascinated by tales of his family's engagement in monumental moments of our nation's history. Beginning when Robert Pollok fled Ireland in the 1680s, Polk's saga includes an Indian trader, an early drafter of the Declaration of Independence, one of our greatest presidents, heroes and rascals on both sides of the Civil War,... Polk's Folly is William Polk's captivating investigation of his impressive family tree and of the broader American tale it narrates.
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77,07 |
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Irish America: Coming Into Clover
ISBN: 9780385495967 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick's Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy or contributions of the nation's oldest ethnic group, who rank among the most highly educated and affluent Americans today.
In Irish America, Maureen Dezell takes a new and invigorating look at Americans of Irish Catholic ancestry--who they are, and how they got that way. A welcome antidote to so many standard-issue, sentimental representations of the Irish in the United States, Irish America focuses on popular... Old-time politics, piety, and St. Patrick's Day parades loom large when the Irish come to the American mind. None truly represents the complex legacy ...
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80,92 |
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Drake's Fortune: The Fabulous True Story of the World's Greatest Confidence Artist
ISBN: 9780385499507 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. His scam was as simple as it was brazen. Before and during the Great Depression, Oscar Hartzell persuaded tens of thousands of Midwesterners to part with millions of dollars to start a legal fund that would see the mythical fortune of Sir Francis Drake restored to his rightful heir. In return for their contributions, donors would get shares in the riches, estimated to be worth $100 billion. The money of course went in the pocket of Hartzell, who transformed himself into a hedonistic English aristocrat even as the folks back home continued to see him as a hero.
As he recounts this amazing... His scam was as simple as it was brazen. Before and during the Great Depression, Oscar Hartzell persuaded tens of thousands of Midwesterners to part w...
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61,66 |
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Prayer in America
ISBN: 9780385504041 / Angielski / Miękka / 542 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A stirring chronicle of the spiritual life of a nation, Prayer in America shows how the faith of Americans from the founding fathers to corporate tycoons, from composers to social reformers, from generals to slaves was an essential ingredient in the formation of American culture, character, commerce, and creed. A stirring chronicle of the spiritual life of a nation, Prayer in America shows how the faith of Americans from the founding fathers to corp... |
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104,04 |
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The Men Who Made the Nation: The Architects of the Young Republic 1782-1802
ISBN: 9780385513623 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For this history, Dos Passos returns to the American colonial period and early nationhood, exploring the personalities who won the nation s independence from England: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, and George Washington.
Originally called The World Turned Upside Down, The Men Who Made the Nationcovers the period from 1781 to Hamilton s death in 1804. The work crystallizes the author s fascination with the psychology of the colonial freedom fighter and presents lessons for current American policymakers." For this history, Dos Passos returns to the American colonial period and early nationhood, exploring the personalities who won the nation s independen...
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88,63 |
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Thaddeus Stevens: Scourge of the South
ISBN: 9780393003314 / Angielski / Miękka / 452 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this biography of the chief architect of Reconstruction after the Civil War, Fawn Brodie seeks to explain the basis for his actions, the nature of his economic radicalism, and the emotional forces that resulted in his becoming one of the most controversial figures in American history. She describes his roles as father of the Fourteenth Amendment and prosecutor in the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson, his relations with Lincoln, and his battles for black suffrage and schooling.
In this biography of the chief architect of Reconstruction after the Civil War, Fawn Brodie seeks to explain the basis for his actions, the nature of ...
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111,56 |
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The Rising American Empire
ISBN: 9780393007503 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the origins, emergence, growth, and peculiar characteristics of the United States as a national state whose policies and goals have been, from the beginning, those of an empire. Bibliogs.
Examines the origins, emergence, growth, and peculiar characteristics of the United States as a national state whose policies and goals have been, fro...
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84,59 |
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The First New Nation: The United States in Historical and Comparative Perspective
ISBN: 9780393009118 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The United States was the first major colony successfully to revolt against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first "new nation." Two broad themes occupy Seymour Martin Lipset's attention here: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent to which the American experience was representative or exceptional. Mr. Lipset compares early America with today's emerging nations to discover problems common to them as new nations. He then concentrates on American history in later periods, selecting for discussion as critical cases religious institutions and trade...
The United States was the first major colony successfully to revolt against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first "new nation." Two broad the...
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103,86 |
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At a Century's Ending: Reflections, 1982-1995
ISBN: 9780393316094 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As participant and observer, George F. Kennan has left an indelible mark on more than six decades of this century. In this new volume of essays, reviews, and speeches, Kennan reflects on the forces that have shaped this tragic century.
As participant and observer, George F. Kennan has left an indelible mark on more than six decades of this century. In this new volume of essays, revie...
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96,34 |
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American Work: Four Centuries of Black and White Labor
ISBN: 9780393318333 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is history at its best--the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking research and passionately alive to its present-day implications for a just society. Jacqueline Jones shows unmistakably how nearly every significant social transformation in American history (from bound to free labor, from farm work to factory work, from a blue-collar to a white-collar economy) rolled back the hard-won advances of those African Americans who had managed to gain footholds in various jobs and industries. This is a story not of...
This is history at its best--the epic, often tragic story of success and failure on the uneven playing fields of American labor, rooted in painstaking...
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125,24 |
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The Story of American Freedom
ISBN: 9780393319620 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americans and a cruel mockery for others. Eric Foner takes freedom not as a timeless truth but as a value whose meaning and scope have been contested throughout American history. His sweeping narrative shows freedom to have been shaped not only in congressional debates and political treatises but also on plantations and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms, by our acknowledged leaders and by former slaves, union organizers, freedom riders, and...
From the Revolution to our own time, freedom has been America's strongest cultural bond and its most perilous fault line, a birthright for some Americ...
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76,88 |
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Around America: A Tour of Our Magnificent Coastline
ISBN: 9780393323351 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America has nearly five thousand miles of coastline. What would it be like to travel from the islands of Maine to the stepping-stones of the Florida Keys; from the cliffs of the Pacific Northwest to the beaches of southern California; and around the Gulf Coast, where our major rivers reach the sea? Here we travel with Walter Cronkite, our trusted guide. At Maine's eastern tip, we find a British warship captured during the Revolution by the citizens of Machias, wielding pitchforks because they had no muskets. We visit islands along Texas's coastline, exploring a sanctuary for migratory birds....
America has nearly five thousand miles of coastline. What would it be like to travel from the islands of Maine to the stepping-stones of the Florida K...
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77,07 |
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Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
ISBN: 9780393330304 / Angielski / Miękka / 864 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Power, Faith, and Fantasytells the remarkable story of America's 230-year relationship with the Middle East. Drawing on a vast range of government documents, personal correspondence, and the memoirs of merchants, missionaries, and travelers, Michael B. Oren narrates the unknown story of how the United States has interacted with this vibrant and turbulent region.
Power, Faith, and Fantasytells the remarkable story of America's 230-year relationship with the Middle East. Drawing on a vast range of gover...
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life
ISBN: 9780394703176 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction.
In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of The Age of Reform, examines the role of social movements in the perception of intellect in American life. -As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no crude battle of eggheads and fatheads. It is a rich, complex, shifting picture of the life of the mind in a society dominated by the ideal of practical success.- --Robert Peel in the Christian Science Monitor Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in Non-Fiction. In this award-winning classic work of consensus history, Richard Hofstadter, author of |
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The Good Old Days-- They Were Terrible!
ISBN: 9780394709413 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Good Old Days--were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so--especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the years from the end of the Civil War to the early 1900's. This period of history has receded into a benevolent haze, leaving us with the image of an ebullient, carefree America, the fun and charm of the Gilded Age, the Gay Nineties. But this gaiety was only a brittle veneer that covered widespread turmoil and suffering. The good old days were good for but the privileged few. For the farmer, the laborer, the average breadwinner, life was an...
The Good Old Days--were they really good? On the surface they appear to be so--especially the period to which this term is most often applied, the yea...
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69,36 |
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Flash of the Spirit: African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy
ISBN: 9780394723693 / Angielski / Miękka / 317 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World.
This landmark book shows how five African civilizations--Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River--have informed and are reflected in the aesthet...
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73,22 |
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Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Value
ISBN: 9780415083027 / Angielski / Miękka / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Human Knowledge" is Bertrand Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge. It presents a rigorous examination of the problems of an empiricist epistemology. This paperback edition includes a new introduction by John G. Slater.
"Human Knowledge" is Bertrand Russell's classic examination of the relation between individual experience and the general body of scientific knowledge...
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239,94 |
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Diversity and Unity in Early North America
ISBN: 9780415087995 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Philip Morgan's selection of essays by leading historians, represents the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America. The book opens up areas such as cultural diversity, ethnicity, and gender, and reveals the importance of methods such as anthropology and historical demography to the study of early America. By fitting these approaches into broader patterns of interpretation, the essays suggest ways of integrating these new findings and synthesizing the vast proliferation of recent research to provide students with a more coherent vision of colonial America.
Philip Morgan's selection of essays by leading historians, represents the extraordinary vitality of recent historical literature on early America. The...
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137,09 |
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