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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.
ISBN: 9780743282260 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connections to the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence. Over the two hundred-plus years that separate us, these connections are often surprising and always fascinating. Burke turns the signers from historical icons into flesh-and-blood people: Some were shady financial manipulators, most were masterful political operators, a few were good human beings, and some were great men. The network that links them to us is also peopled by all...
Using the unique approach that he has employed in his previous books, author, columnist, and television commentator James Burke shows us our connectio...
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The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland
ISBN: 9780743496964 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Glenn Beck has entertained, inspired, and informed millions with his self-effacing humor, heartfelt conviction, and down-to-earth approach to life. And in The Real America, a powerful collection of his early writings, he calls it as he sees it, cutting through the fog of those who have made it their mission to underestimate -- and undermine -- the greatness of America and the power of "We the People." Whether the topic is family, religion, personal responsibility, rampant political correctness, presidential elections, or out-of-control celebrities, Glenn Beck rails against the forces...
Glenn Beck has entertained, inspired, and informed millions with his self-effacing humor, heartfelt conviction, and down-to-earth approach to life. An...
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Issues in Americanisation and Culture
ISBN: 9780748619436 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americanisation-the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA-has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This has been the case from the 19th century, when new and old worlds were negotiating fundamental issues such as race and empire, to the 20th century, when mass media communications intensified and reconfigured the transatlantic relationship.Developments since the Cold War, including the September 11th attacks and the second Gulf War, have made this process ever more globally complex, contested and relevant. This textbook offers students an interdisciplinary...
Americanisation-the cultural, political and economic influence of the USA-has played an important role in the shaping of modern Europe. This has been ...
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Interpreting Historic House Museums
ISBN: 9780759102514 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. These respected museum professionals consider the history of house museums and the need to look at familiar issues from new perspectives and using new methods. If your site isn't using a comprehensive interpretive plan, how can you create one? While doing so, how do you address contemporary issues like race and gender? Don't forget the physical either--does your property need a landscape plan as well as a furnishings plan? And, when your visitors...
Times are changing at historic house museums and no one is more aware of this than the fourteen contributors to Interpreting Historic House Museums. T...
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205,71 |
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Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions
ISBN: 9780759104570 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.
Collection of essays by Chinese-American scholar Him Mark Lai; published in association with the Chinese Historical Society of San Francisco.
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Becoming Chinese American: A History of Communities and Institutions
ISBN: 9780759104587 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular breadth of knowledge about the Chinese American past, the volume begins with an historical overview of Chinese migration to the United States, followed by critical discussion of the development of key community institutions, Chinese-language schools, newspapers, and politics in early Chinese American life. Rather than emphasize experiences of discrimination, the collection focuses on Chinese American community formation that tested the...
Becoming Chinese American discusses the historical and cultural development of Chinese American life in the past century. Representing a singular brea...
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Mexicano Political Experience in Occupied Aztlan: Struggles and Change
ISBN: 9780759105676 / Angielski / Miękka / 768 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This exciting new volume from Armando Navarro offers the most current and comprehensive political history of the Mexicano experience in the United States. He examines in-depth topics such as American political culture, electoral politics, demography, and organizational development. Viewing Mexicanos today as an occupied and colonized people, he calls for the formation of a new movement to reinvigorate the struggle for resistance and change among Mexicanos. Navarro envisions a new political and cultural landscape as the dominant Latino population 'Re-Mexicanizes' the U.S. into a more...
This exciting new volume from Armando Navarro offers the most current and comprehensive political history of the Mexicano experience in the United Sta...
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These Hallowed Grounds: A Pursuit Of American History
ISBN: 9780759664913 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Names of Places
ISBN: 9780759690998 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Spanish Speakers in the United States: A History
ISBN: 9780761812586 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Spanish-Speakers in the United States covers the history, politics and culture of the major groups of the fastest growing minority in the United States, beginning with the Spanish legacy of the Southwest, and moving on to the beginnings of large-scale Mexican immigration after the turn of the century, socioeconomic changes brought about by World War I, and changes in the demographic composition of the nation as a result of later immigration. The authors address the major questions surrounding Hispanic immigrants, including whether immigrants compete for jobs and social services, whether...
The Spanish-Speakers in the United States covers the history, politics and culture of the major groups of the fastest growing minority in the United S...
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The Boundless Frontier: America From Christopher Columbus to Abraham Lincoln
ISBN: 9780761813026 / Angielski / Miękka / 369 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Boundless Frontier follows the major events of American History from the pre-Columbian Indians through the Civil War. This comprehensive reader presents the development of America as it changed from an unexplored Indian land into a "civilized" and unified country as the Europeans and their descendents pushed into the frontier, constantly moving the borders to the west. James T. Wall depicts this development of a nation through this gradual engulfing of land to its sophistication as technology guided its evolution and a new democratic government took over. He notes the effects of other...
The Boundless Frontier follows the major events of American History from the pre-Columbian Indians through the Civil War. This comprehensive reader pr...
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A Comparison of the African-American Presence in an Earlier and Later American History Textbooks
ISBN: 9780761818373 / Angielski / Twarda / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Comparison of the African-American Presence in an Earlier and Later American History Textbook
A Comparison of the African-American Presence in an Earlier and Later American History Textbook
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A White Minority in Post-Civil Rights Mississippi
ISBN: 9780761829621 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this book, Thomas Adams Upchurch presents the true story of a white youth's experiences with race relations in the early years of integration in Mississippi. Upchurch, a first-generation product of the integrated public schools in Mississippi, describes what it was like to be white in a public school that was 70% black. The book offers a glimpse into the triumphs, challenges, and failures of integration in the 1970s and 1980s and beyond, from one 'white minorityOs' perspective. By analyzing the factors of prejudice, academics, sports, masculinity, religion, and attempts at racial...
In this book, Thomas Adams Upchurch presents the true story of a white youth's experiences with race relations in the early years of integration in Mi...
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Power, Race, and Culture: The Evolution of a Black Anthropologist
ISBN: 9780761831365 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As an African American female who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights period, Janis Faye Hutchinson has always had a strong awareness of race and racism. This book intertwines Hutchinson's experiences in a segregated South with her academic experiences to examine race and race relations in the United States. Hutchinson specifically examines the impact of the concept of race on her professional development and provides a modern outlook on diversity.
As an African American female who grew up in Birmingham, Alabama during the Civil Rights period, Janis Faye Hutchinson has always had a strong awarene...
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Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
ISBN: 9780761832348 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933.
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933.
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Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere: A Conceptual History, 1919-1933
ISBN: 9780761832355 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933.
Herbert Hoover, Unemployment, and the Public Sphere examines the fulfillment of Hoover's ideas in the area of unemployment between 1919 and 1933.
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220,40 |
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Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity
ISBN: 9780761905783 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the largest Asian American ethnic group, addressing such issues as ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race and racism.
This is an interdisciplinary analysis of the largest Asian American ethnic group, addressing such issues as ethnic identity, the impact of different c...
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Filipino Americans: Transformation and Identity
ISBN: 9780761905790 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian American ethnic group is Filipino, a group of which little is known or written despite its long-standing history with the United States. This interdisciplinary analysis rectifies this dearth of information by addressing ethnic identity, the impact of different colonizations on ethnic identity, personal and family relationships, mental health, race, and racism. In addition, the sociopolitical context is examined in each chapter, making the volume... When Asian Americans are discussed in the media the reference is often to people of Chinese or Japanese descent. However, the largest Asian America... |
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651,40 |
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Material Culture Studies in America: An Anthology
ISBN: 9780761991601 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of the field of material culture.
The country's leading authority on use of artifactual evidence in historical research collects twenty-five classic essays and gives his overview of th...
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303,02 |
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Interpretation of Historic Sites
ISBN: 9780761991625 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of size or budget.
Interpretation of Historic Sites offers essential knowledge on how to develop and conduct interpretive programs for every historic site, regardless of...
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