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Against All Odds: Holocaust Survivors and the Successful Lives They Made in America
ISBN: 9781560008651 / Angielski / Miękka / 355 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have made here. William Helmreich writes of their experiences beginning with their first arrival in the United States: the mixed reactions they encountered from American Jews who were not always eager to receive them; their choices about where to live in America; and their efforts in finding marriage partners with whom they felt most comfortable-most often other survivors. In preparation, Helmreich spent more than six years traveling the United... Against All Odds is the first comprehensive look at the 140,000 Jewish Holocaust survivors who came to America and the lives they have mad... |
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Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers
ISBN: 9781561641192 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed the lighthouse keepers from the year 1716, when the first lighthouse was established in America, to the early 1980s when automation replaced the last human guardian of the light. A wealth of material from the archives of the 19th and 20th centuriesss primarily letters, diaries, and newspaper accounts provides vivid stories about lighthouse keeping in this country: the daily work; coping with fog, storms and other catastrophes; legends and ghosts; women s and families'...
In a charming blend of history and human interest, this book paints a colorful portrait of the lives of a vanished breed the lighthouse keepers from t...
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82,28 |
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A Brief History of American Culture
ISBN: 9781563248658 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The discussion of each period is wide-ranging, analyzing movements and spotlighting major figures in politics and philosophy, law and literature, economics and education, jazz and journalism, science and civil rights. A readable, insightful overview of the underlying patterns that give shape to U.S. cultural history. Nonacademic readers will find Crunden's selective bibliographical essay helpful." -- Booklist
"The discussion of each period is wide-ranging, analyzing movements and spotlighting major figures in politics and philosophy, law and literature, eco...
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242,84 |
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American Space, Jewish Time
ISBN: 9781563249327 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "This is a delightful book, a small gem replete with insightful, provocative pieces about both American culture and Jewish life. I think that Stephen Whitfield is one of the most original essayists on these two topics. Few other scholars combine the density of his knowledge with the verve of his prose." -- Hasia R. Diner, New York University
"This is a delightful book, a small gem replete with insightful, provocative pieces about both American culture and Jewish life. I think that Stephen ...
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145,69 |
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Profiles in Character: Hubris and Heroism in the U.S. Senate, 1789-1996
ISBN: 9781563249372 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A take-off of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, which argues that the best-known US senators don't deserve their renown as much as some lesser-known ones. Over the course of ten biographical chapters, this book tells the story of 16 men's lives in the Senate in relation to each other.
A take-off of Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, which argues that the best-known US senators don't deserve their renown as much as some lesser-known ones...
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752,97 |
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A History of the National Society of Sons of the American Revolution
ISBN: 9781565546158 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,40 |
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American Dreams: Lost and Found
ISBN: 9781565845459 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ted Turner, Jesse Helms, Joan Crawford, Nine Deloria, and Helen and Scott Nearing are just some of the people whose version of the American Dream is included in this text. Author and interviewer Studs Terkel discusses ideals and aspirations with the businessman enamoured of success, farm kids dreaming of the city, city boys determined to get out, the Boston Brahmin and a KKK member.
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ted Turner, Jesse Helms, Joan Crawford, Nine Deloria, and Helen and Scott Nearing are just some of the people whose version of ...
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75,61 |
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A People's History of the United States: American Beginnings to Reconstruction
ISBN: 9781565847248 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Volume I of the abridged teaching edition of the bestselling history of the United States. Includes teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
Volume I of the abridged teaching edition of the bestselling history of the United States. Includes teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
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88,99 |
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A People's History of the United States: The Civil War to the Present
ISBN: 9781565847255 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
Like Volume I, each chapter in Volume II provides exercises and teaching materials that allow students to begin a critical inquiry into the American past. Volume II covers the Civil War through the present, with new chapters on the Clinton Presidency, the 2000 elections, and the "war on terrorism." An abridged classroom edition of Howard Zinn's bestselling history of the United States, with teaching materials to accompany each chapter.
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107,02 |
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Afro-American Jeremiad
ISBN: 9781566390866 / Angielski / Miękka / 139 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, W E B Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Jesse Jackson to show how black leaders have employed American jeremiad to create a variant that is specifically Afro-American.
Examines the speeches and writings of Frederick Douglass, Booker T Washington, Ida B Wells, W E B Du Bois, Mary McLeod Bethune, Martin Luther King, Jr...
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97,10 |
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Between the Lines: South Asians and Postcoloniality
ISBN: 9781566394680 / Angielski / Miękka / 301 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Features interviews, critical essays, and commentary that explores South Asian identity and culture. By examining the social, economic, and historical particularities of people who live 'between the lines' on and between borders, this book reinstates questions of power and privilege, agency and resistance.
Features interviews, critical essays, and commentary that explores South Asian identity and culture. By examining the social, economic, and historical...
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155,45 |
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The New American History
ISBN: 9781566395526 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. This revised and expanded edition includes three new essays on intellectual history, the history of the West, and the histories of the family.
American historians survey the key works and themes in the scholarship of the last three decades. This revised and expanded edition includes three new...
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140,83 |
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Claiming America
ISBN: 9781566395762 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays that center on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. It emphasizes the attempts by immigrant Chinese to assert their intention of becoming Americans and to defend the few rights they had as resident aliens.
A collection of essays that center on the formation of an ethnic identity among Chinese Americans during the period when immigration was halted. It em...
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116,54 |
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Making History Matter
ISBN: 9781566397483 / Angielski / Twarda / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sophie Tucker, Trent Lott, and Cole Porter. Drawing together this unlikely cast of characters, Dawidoff probes into the role of outsider groups as well as intellectual and political elites in the formation of American culture.
As a scholar of intellectual and cultural history, Dawidoff takes the stance that historians ought to take an active role in our democratic culture, informing and participating in public discourse. He argues for a broad... This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sop...
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354,62 |
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Making History Matter
ISBN: 9781566397490 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sophie Tucker, Trent Lott, and Cole Porter. Drawing together this unlikely cast of characters, Dawidoff probes into the role of outsider groups as well as intellectual and political elites in the formation of American culture.
As a scholar of intellectual and cultural history, Dawidoff takes the stance that historians ought to take an active role in our democratic culture, informing and participating in public discourse. He argues for a broad... This collection of Robert Dawidoff's essays and journalism is peopled by the likes of the Founding Fathers, Fred Astaire, Henry and William James, Sop...
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121,40 |
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A Synopsis of American History--Complete, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9781566631600 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic, and diplomatic developments in American history, but it also analyzes the social, cultural, and intellectual currents of American life with attention to gender, minority, urban and industrial history.
Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chron...
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145,74 |
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A Synopsis of American History: Through Reconstruction, Volume I, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9781566631617 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chronological summary of major political, economic, and diplomatic developments in American history, but it also analyzes the social, cultural, and intellectual currents of American life with attention to gender, minority, urban and industrial history.
Updated through the 1996 elections to reflect current historical thinking, the 8th edition A Synopsis of American History continues to provide a chron...
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A Synopsis of American History: Since the Civil War, Volume II, 8th Edition
ISBN: 9781566631624 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor's course emphases. Available in a complete or two-volume edition.
The 8th edition of this notably successful college text. The concise nature of the Synopsis makes it easily compatible with the instructor's course em...
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Rendezvous with Destiny
ISBN: 9781566633697 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most brilliant and dramatic historical narratives ever written about the American experience. Eric Goldman tells a story of the wise and the shortsighted, the bold and the timid, the generous and the grasping men and women who are the stuff of American reform. He begins in the years after the Civil War, when our tradition of dissent was fueled by industrialization and urbanization. He deals not with theories, alien or native, but with the lives of the dissenters, Populist and Progressive, with their political organizations and schemes, their...
Here, back in print in paperback, is one of the most brilliant and dramatic historical narratives ever written about the American experience. Eric Gol...
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From Munich to Pearl Harbor: Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War
ISBN: 9781566633901 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways Series."
A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Ways S...
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