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Library Daylight: Traces of Modern Librarianship, 1874-1922
ISBN: 9780977861743 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Library Daylight is an eclectic collection of 36 articles about libraries and librarianship published between 1874 and 1922. These items, most of which will be new even to those most well-versed in American library history, cover topics that are hotly discussed today: library education, women's issues, library technology, the image of librarians, copyright, the tension between libraries as educational institutions and libraries as popular centers, the nature of library service, the public sphere, library PR, librarians and political activism, and visions of the future. The sources of these...
Library Daylight is an eclectic collection of 36 articles about libraries and librarianship published between 1874 and 1922. These items, most of whic...
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Sugar, Planters, Slaves, and Convicts
ISBN: 9780978587505 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author examines the first industry in Texas, sugar; the remarkable Jackson family who built one of the largest sugar empires in Texas; the slaves whose labor and knowledge produced the sugar; and the convicts that replaced them after the Civil War. A pod-cast with lectures on each chapter and additional photographs serves as a companion to this book.
The author examines the first industry in Texas, sugar; the remarkable Jackson family who built one of the largest sugar empires in Texas; the slaves ...
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How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, from the Pilgrims to the Present
ISBN: 9781400083312 / Angielski / Miękka / 1 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here's the real history of our country. How Capitalism Saved America explodes the myths spun by Michael Moore, the liberal media, Hollywood, academia, and the rest of the anticapitalist establishment. Whether it's Michael Moore or the New York Times, Hollywood or academia, a growing segment in America is waging a war on capitalism. We hear that greedy plutocrats exploit the American public; that capitalism harms consumers, the working class, and the environment; that the government needs to rein in capitalism; and on and on. Anticapitalist critiques have only grown more...
Here's the real history of our country. How Capitalism Saved America explodes the myths spun by Michael Moore, the liberal media, Hollywood, ac...
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Gender and Power in the Third Reich: Female Denouncers and the Gestapo (1933-45)
ISBN: 9781403911704 / Angielski / Twarda / 229 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-compliance with Nazi doctrines, especially "crimes" pertaining to the private spheres of social, family, and sexual life. One of the key factors in the enforcement of Nazi policies was the willingness of German citizens to provide the authorities with information about suspected "criminality." This book examines women denouncers in Nazi Germany through close examination of the Gestapo files. The author seeks to answer questions about how women in...
This book examines the everyday operations of the Gestapo, the Nazi secret police. The Gestapo were able to detect the smallest signs of non-complianc...
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402,53 |
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Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law-An American History
ISBN: 9781403964083 / Angielski / Miękka / 305 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts have defined and regulated mixed-race marriage from the colonial period to the present. Combining a storyteller's detail with a historian's analysis, Peter Wallenstein brings the sagas of Richard and Mildred Loving and countless other interracial couples before them to light in this harrowing history of how individual states had the power to regulate one of the most private aspects of life: marriage. The first in-depth history of miscegenation law in the United States, this book illustrates in vivid detail how states, communities, and the courts... |
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A History of Hope: When Americans Have Dared to Dream of a Better Future
ISBN: 9781403966001 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book chronicles American history through the stories of the individuals and movements that dreamed of a better future and then took action to make that dream a reality, arguing that the much heralded American spirit was not born as a gift of our founding, but was forged through our adversity and triumphs. From colonial revolutionaries to abolitionists, labor organizers to suffragists, progressives to civil rights activists, it was individuals and movements who dared to go against the American majority that both guarded and created our best national self.
This book chronicles American history through the stories of the individuals and movements that dreamed of a better future and then took action to mak...
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The Bush Administrations and Saddam Hussein: Deciding on Conflict
ISBN: 9781403975782 / Angielski / Twarda / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The authors present a vital analysis of the foreign policy-making processes of the two Bush administrations prior to the attacks on Iraq. In a thorough comparison, they show how both presidents used historical analogies to evaluate information, relied on instinct to formulate decisions, and drew on moral language to justify their choices.
The authors present a vital analysis of the foreign policy-making processes of the two Bush administrations prior to the attacks on Iraq. In a thoroug...
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Ancient Rome and Modern America
ISBN: 9781405139342 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America's understanding of itself and its history.
Ancient Rome and Modern America explores the vital role the narratives and images of Rome have played in America's understanding of itself and ...
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A Companion to Post-1945 America
ISBN: 9781405149846 / Angielski / Miękka / 604 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America.
A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America....
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A Companion to American Foreign Relations
ISBN: 9781405149860 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an authoritative volume of historiographical essays that survey the state of U.S. diplomatic history. The essays cover the entire range of the history of American foreign relations from the colonial period to the present. They discuss the major sources and analyze the most influential books and articles in the field.
This is an authoritative volume of historiographical essays that survey the state of U.S. diplomatic history. The essays cover the entire range of the...
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Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man
ISBN: 9781406703566 / Angielski / Miękka / 508 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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History of European Morals - From Augustus to Charlemagne - Volume I
ISBN: 9781406708981 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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A Dictionary of English Synonyms and Synonymous Expressions
ISBN: 9781406762860 / Angielski / Miękka / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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War - Patriotism - Peace
ISBN: 9781410201270 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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History of Prisoner of War Utilization by the United States Army 1776 - 1945
ISBN: 9781410201287 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Guide to the Materials for the History of the United States in Spanish Archives: (Simancas, the Archivo Historico National, and Seville)
ISBN: 9781410201508 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,02 |
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Thomas Jefferson and the Education of a Citizen
ISBN: 9781410202024 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contains articles that focus on citizenship and how members of society need to prepare themselves to be citizens of the American republic that Jefferson envisioned. Essays published here were selected from a conference, held at the Library of Congress May 13-15, 1993. There are four main parts: the public and private spheres, informed citizenry, influence of the Old and New Worlds, and a Republic of Citizens.
Contains articles that focus on citizenship and how members of society need to prepare themselves to be citizens of the American republic that Jeffers...
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Secret Proceedings and Debates of the Constitutional Convention, 1787
ISBN: 9781410203632 / Angielski / Miękka / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most important collections of documents pertaining to the formation of the Constitution of the United States. Notes on the convention taken by Robert Yates, Chief Justice of New York, and copied by John Lansing, Jun. Esquire, late chancellor of that state, members of that convention. Including "The Genuine Information, " laid before the Legislature of Maryland, by Luther Martin, Esquire, then attorney-general of that state, and member of the same convention. James Madison thought that Yates and Martin "appear to have reported in angry terms what they observed with jaundiced eyes."...
One of the most important collections of documents pertaining to the formation of the Constitution of the United States. Notes on the convention taken...
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The American Slave-Trade: An Account of Its Origin, Growth and Suppression
ISBN: 9781410206237 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of American slave trading, from its early beginning in 1619 to its end with the hanging of the last slaver in 1862. In this carefully researched history, John R. Spears, an American naval historian, tells of ship-owners who crammed 500 or more human beings into holds so filthy that half of them died before the voyage ended, of captains who chained their human cargo to the anchor and threw them into the sea to avoid being taken with "evidence. " Chapters on the first slaver pirate to be executed in the United States, the forming of the law that followed Amistad's voyage, "that a man...
The story of American slave trading, from its early beginning in 1619 to its end with the hanging of the last slaver in 1862. In this carefully resear...
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American Individualism
ISBN: 9781410210609 / Angielski / Miękka / 84 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individual. We can safeguard these ends if we give to each individual that opportunity for which the spirit of America stands. We can make a social system as perfect as our generation merits and one that will be received in gratitude by our children." - Woodrow Wilson
"Progress will march if we hold an abiding faith in the intelligence, the initiative, the character, the courage, and the divine touch in the individu...
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