Contested Democracy: Freedom, Race, and Power in American History
ISBN: 9780231141109 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates struggles waged over freedom and citizenship throughout the American past. Guided by a commitment to democratic citizenship and responsible scholarship, the contributors to this volume insist that rigorous engagement with history is essential to a vital democracy, particularly amid the current erosion of human rights and civil liberties within the United States and abroad. Emphasizing the contradictory ways in which freedom has developed within the...
With essays on U.S. history ranging from the American Revolution to the dawn of the twenty-first century, Contested Democracy illuminates strug...
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302,03 zł |
After the Strike: A Century of Labor Struggle at Pullman
ISBN: 9780252027918 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the Strike places two important episodes in American labor history, the 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, into a new perspective - the century-long development of union organizing and labor-management relations in the Pullman Company. Connecting the stories of Pullman car builders and porters takes us to the heart of critical questions about American society: What created job segregation by race and gender? What role did such segregation play in shaping the labor movement? Susan Eleanor Hirsch illuminates, as have few others, the relationship...
After the Strike places two important episodes in American labor history, the 1894 Pullman strike and the rise of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Port...
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203,46 zł |
Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America
ISBN: 9780252030390 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Diane C. Vecchio's unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Endicott, New York, during the turn of the twentieth century. Using Italian and American sources and rich oral histories, this study reveals that women in Italy had economic responsibilities that often included work experiences outside of the home, including jobs as midwives and businesswomen. Demonstrating the regional variation of Italian women's work as well as the skills they transplanted to America serves to...
Diane C. Vecchio's unique study considers the work experiences of Italian immigrant women and their daughters in the previously unexamined regions of ...
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161,72 zł |
History Museums in the United States: A Critical Assessment
ISBN: 9780252060649 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Fifteen scholars and museum staffers critically review American history museums. They note exhibit form and content, social and political contexts, and suggest improvements. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
Fifteen scholars and museum staffers critically review American history museums. They note exhibit form and content, social and political contexts, an...
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104,29 zł |
Selling of the South: The Southern Crusade for Industrial Development, 1936-90
ISBN: 9780252061622 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sacred Ground: Americans and Their Battlefields
ISBN: 9780252061714 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An authoritative study of the nature of the American patriotic spirit as observed in its most hallowed memorials (Kirkus Reviews), this book includes updates of each site, and offers the most thorough description and analysis of the 50th anniversary commemorations at Pearl Harbor. Photos.
An authoritative study of the nature of the American patriotic spirit as observed in its most hallowed memorials (Kirkus Reviews), this book includes ...
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One Way: Bernard Dadie Observes America
ISBN: 9780252064081 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Golden Mountain: The Autobiography of a Korean Immigrant, 1895-1960
ISBN: 9780252065132 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the age of ten and unaccompanied by any adult, Easurk Charr came to Hawaii in 1904, a convert to Christianity who hoped to earn enough money to acquire an education and return to his native Korea as a medical missionary. The Golden Mountain is Charr's story of his early years in Korea, his migration to Hawaii and the mainland, and the joys and pain of his life as one of some seven thousand Koreans who migrated to the United States between 1903 and 1905. Charr tells eloquently of his difficulties in becoming a naturalized citizen, even after serving in the army, of his sergeant's...
At the age of ten and unaccompanied by any adult, Easurk Charr came to Hawaii in 1904, a convert to Christianity who hoped to earn enough money to acq...
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The Powers That Be
ISBN: 9780252069413 / Angielski / Miękka / 792 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gives an account of power at work in America.
Gives an account of power at work in America.
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104,29 zł |
Not Just Victims: Conversations with Cambodian Community Leaders in the United States
ISBN: 9780252071010 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities - Long Beach, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Seattle, Portland, Tacoma, and the Massachusetts towns of Fall River and Lowell. Unlike the dozens of autobiographies published by Cambodians that focus largely on their victimization, these narratives describe how Cambodian refugees have adapted to life in the United States. Sucheng Chan's extensive introduction provides a historical framework; she discusses the civil war (1970-75), the bloody Khmer Rouge revolution...
Not Just Victims contains twelve oral histories based on conversations with Cambodian community leaders in eight American cities - Long Beach, Philade...
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93,85 zł |
Along the Color Line: Explorations in the Black Experience
ISBN: 9780252071072 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An edition of a classic in African American history.
An edition of a classic in African American history.
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Don't Make No Waves...Don't Back No Losers: An Insiders' Analysis of the Daley Machine
ISBN: 9780253202024 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tis is simply the best book that has been written about politics in Chicago. In the words of Andrew M. Greeley, "It is a very astute and dispassionate analysis of Chicago political life--far and away the best I have ever seen. Rakove is without illusions about either the right or the left." Rakove brings to his study an intimate knowledge of Chicago and the Daley machine, a practitioner's understanding of street-level politics, and a scholar's background in political theory. Blending anecdote with theory and description in a lively style, Rakove has bridged the gap between scholar and... Tis is simply the best book that has been written about politics in Chicago. In the words of Andrew M. Greeley, "It is a very astute and dispassion... |
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109,50 zł |
The Transplanted: A History of Immigrants in Urban America
ISBN: 9780253204165 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". an excellent broad overview... " Journal of Social History ..". powerfully argued... " Moses Rischin ..". imaginative and soundly based... " Choice "Highly recommended... " Library Journal ..". an outstanding major contribution to the literature on immigration history." History ..". a very important new synthesis of American immigration history... " Journal of American Ethnic History ..". a state of the art discussion, impressively encyclopaedic... The Transplanted is a tour de force, and a fitting summation to Bodnar s own prolific, creative, and... ..". an excellent broad overview... " Journal of Social History ..". powerfully argued... " Moses Rischin ..". imaginative and soundly ... |
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Maria W. Stewart, America's First Black Woman Political Writer: Essays and Speeches
ISBN: 9780253204462 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". enthusiastic, well-written... read it if you want to be inspired by a truly heroic woman." New Directions for Women ..". the fullest account to date of Stewart s life and an excellent basis for understanding Stewart s work." History "This is informative and inspiring source material for today s scholars, lay readers, and professionals ... " Journal of American History In gathering and introducing Stewart s works, Richardson provides an opportunity for readers to study the thoughts and words of this influential early black female activist, a forerunner to Frederick... ..". enthusiastic, well-written... read it if you want to be inspired by a truly heroic woman." New Directions for Women ..". the fullest acc... |
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Historians & Race
ISBN: 9780253211019 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "These essays provide a rich portrait of how the self and its deepest commitments have driven some of the most important, vital scholarship of the last fifty years." --Georgia Historical Quarterly ..". the writing is highly readable and informative for a non-academic audience curious about how history is written." --Magill Book Reviews To provide a context for understanding current race relations and the goals of the civil rights movement, the editors asked distinguished scholars to reflect upon their careers and how personal experiences have influenced their scholarship.... "These essays provide a rich portrait of how the self and its deepest commitments have driven some of the most important, vital scholarship of the ... |
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72,99 zł |
Rioting in America
ISBN: 9780253212627 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. " . . . a sweeping, analytical synethsis of collective violence from the colonial experience to the present." -American Studies "Gilje has written 'the book' on rioting throughout American history." -The Historian ." . . a thorough, illuminating, and at times harrowing account of man's inhumanity to man." -William and Mary Quarterly " . . . fulfills its title's promise as an encyclopedic study . . . an impressive accomplishment and required reading for anyone interested in America's contentious past." -Journal of the Early Republic "Gilje has written a thought-provoking survey of the social...
" . . . a sweeping, analytical synethsis of collective violence from the colonial experience to the present." -American Studies "Gilje has written 'th...
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Taking Hold of Torah: Jewish Commitment and Community in America
ISBN: 9780253213815 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now in paperback A personal meditation on the meaning of Judaism today and a vision for revitalizing Jewish community and tradition in America. "Arnold M. Eisen offers a personal plea for and a vision of the revitalizing of American Judaism through a renewed relationship to Jewish tradition and the strengthening of Jewish communities." Jewish Book News ..".required reading for Jewish communal professionals, Taking Hold of Torah] spells out the discontents and dreams of the baby... Now in paperback A personal meditation on the meani... |
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Africanisms in American Culture, Second Edition
ISBN: 9780253217493 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed originally by Melville J. Herskovits, the father of New World African studies. Since its original publication, the field has changed considerably. Africanism has been explored in its broader dimensions, particularly in the area of white Africanisms. Thus, the new edition has been revised and expanded. Joseph E. Holloway has written three essays for the new volume. The first uses a transnational framework to examine how African cultural survivals... An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ... |
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The Emerging Midwest: Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787-1861
ISBN: 9780253329943 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". agile, ambitious, and complex..." The Journal of Southern History "Etcheson adds a fresh dimension to the history of the Old Northwest by examining the way in which Upland Southerners regional heritage affected the evolution of political culture in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois." Choice ..". not only a political account, but also a cultural survey. The book is clearly written, free of jargon, and makes excellent use of both primary and secondary sources.... an outstanding interpretation of the motives and acts of a significant portion of the population of a significant... ..". agile, ambitious, and complex..." The Journal of Southern History "Etcheson adds a fresh dimension to the history of the Old Northwest b... |
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161,72 zł |
American Public Life Historical Imagin
ISBN: 9780268020187 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By applying various critical historical strategies and methodologies to the study of 19th- and 20th-century American public life, this volume unearths fascinating chronicles in American history, such as the alliance of the Anti-Saloon League and the Klu Klux Klan.
By applying various critical historical strategies and methodologies to the study of 19th- and 20th-century American public life, this volume unearths...
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83,42 zł |