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Our Documents: 100 Milestone Documents from the National Archives
ISBN: 9780195309591 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United States. The entry for each document includes a short introduction, a facsimile, and a transcript of the document. Backmatter includes further reading, credits, and index. The book is part of the much larger Our Documents initiative sponsored by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), National History Day, the Corporation for National and Community Service, and the USA Freedom Corps.
Our Documents is a collection of 100 documents that the staff of the National Archives has judged most important to the development of the United Stat...
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The Works of William Sanders Scarborough: Black Classicist and Race Leader
ISBN: 9780195309621 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first professional classicist of African American descent, William Sanders Scarborough rose from slavery to become president of Wilberforce University in Ohio. Excelling at Latin and Greek, he crossed the color line both socially and intellectually with his entry into a field of study commonly seen as elitist and dominated by white men. Although unknown to classicists today, Scarborough had a distinguished career in the field and held membership in many learned societies and had an active publication record. His life as an engaged intellectual, public citizen, and concerned educator was...
The first professional classicist of African American descent, William Sanders Scarborough rose from slavery to become president of Wilberforce Univer...
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The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights
ISBN: 9780195323320 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls. The book emphasizes the interplay of law, ideology, politics, and economic change in shaping constitutional thought and provides a historical perspective on the contemporary debate about property rights. Since publication of the original edition of this work, both academic and popular interest in the constitutional rights of property owners has markedly increased....
The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the col...
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489,53 |
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The Guardian of Every Other Right: A Constitutional History of Property Rights
ISBN: 9780195323337 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the colonial era to the current controversies over eminent domain and land use controls. The book emphasizes the interplay of law, ideology, politics, and economic change in shaping constitutional thought and provides a historical perspective on the contemporary debate about property rights. Since publication of the original edition of this work, both academic and popular interest in the constitutional rights of property owners has markedly increased....
The Guardian of Every Other Right chronicles the pivotal role of property rights in fashioning the American constitutional order from the col...
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183,44 |
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Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States
ISBN: 9780195336085 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admitted and what the path to citizenship should be. In Americans in Waiting, Hiroshi Motomura looks to a forgotten part of our past to show how, for over 150 years, immigration was assumed to be a transition to citizenship, with immigrants essentially being treated as future citizens--Americans in waiting. Challenging current conceptions, the author deftly uncovers how this view, once so central to law and policy, has all but vanished....
Although America is unquestionably a nation of immigrants, its immigration policies have inspired more questions than consensus on who should be admit...
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167,33 |
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Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, Culture
ISBN: 9780199251902 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why and how has the Business Corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American Society? The essays here take up this question, offering a fresh perspective on the ways in which the business corporation has assumed as enduring place in the modern capitalist economy, and how it has affected American society, culture and politics over the past two centuries. The authors challenge standard assumptions about the business corporation's emergence and performance in the United States over the past two centuries. Reviewing in depth the different theoretical and historiographical...
Why and how has the Business Corporation come to exert such a powerful influence on American Society? The essays here take up this question, offering ...
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273,22 |
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Estados Unidos Hispano
ISBN: 9781517256067 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Estados Unidos hispano, de Luis Alberto Ambroggio, libro entretenido y, al mismo tiempo serio, cuajado de datos originales, anecdotas y hechos sorprendentes, promueve la herencia y el verdadero aprecio de la poblacion hispana estadounidense. Este amplisimo estudio documenta la rica historia, cultura, idioma, presencia hispana de los Estados Unidos, el segundo pais hispanohablante del mundo. En este libro se destacan la contribucion hispana al desarrollo del territorio estadounidense, la incidencia del espanol y la importancia del bilinguismo en EE.UU. Estados Unidos hispano es un libro...
Estados Unidos hispano, de Luis Alberto Ambroggio, libro entretenido y, al mismo tiempo serio, cuajado de datos originales, anecdotas y hechos sorpren...
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119,73 |
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Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy
ISBN: 9780226035208 / Angielski / Twarda / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the newest form of black urban expression rap. A frank, polemical essay, "Black Studies, Rap, and the Academy" is an uninhibited defense of Black Studies and an extended commentary on the importance of rap. Written in the midst of the political correctness wars and in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, Baker's meditation on the academy and black urban expression has generated much controversy and comment from both ends of the political spectrum."
In this explosive book, Houston Baker takes stock of the current state of Black Studies in the university and outlines its responsibilities to the new...
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112,50 |
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American Progressive History: An Experiment in Modernization
ISBN: 9780226072777 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Progressive History is the first book to relate the story of Progressive history through all its transformations from its emergence in the early 1900s to its demise in the 1940s.
Focusing his account on the work of the movement's most important representatives including Charles Beard, James Harvey Robinson, and Carl Becker Ernst Breisach demonstrates that Progressive history is distinguished by its unique combination of beliefs in the objective reality of historical facts and its faith in the inevitability of the progress of the human race. And though he discusses at... American Progressive History is the first book to relate the story of Progressive history through all its transformations from its emergence in...
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History's Shadow: Native Americans and Historical Consciousness in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 9780226114958 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate.
History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the... Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as the...
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143,18 |
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The Nation Takes Shape: 1789-1837
ISBN: 9780226126678 / Angielski / Miękka / 231 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marcus Cunliffe, whom the Washington Post and Times Herald calls "a master historian capable of seeing his subject whole," has written a cogent and revealing study of America's first half-century under the federal Constitution. Bounded by the first Washington Administration and the last Jackson Administration, this is the period in which democracy grew and shaped the nation. It witnessed the launching of the federal government; the expansion of the frontier; the establishment of a party system; the enunciation of a foreign policy; the manufacture of the symbols of nationalism; and the forging...
Marcus Cunliffe, whom the Washington Post and Times Herald calls "a master historian capable of seeing his subject whole," has written a cogent and re...
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122,72 |
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Difficult Reputations: Collective Memories of the Evil, Inept, and Controversial
ISBN: 9780226249414 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national heritage. Yet we are largely ignorant of how such reputations came to be, who was instrumental in creating them, and why. Even less have we considered how villains, just as much as heroes, have helped our society define its values.
Presenting essays on America's most reviled traitor, its worst president, and its most controversial literary ingenue (Benedict Arnold, Warren G. Harding, and Lolita), among others, sociologist Gary Alan Fine... We take reputations for granted. Believing in the bad and the good natures of our notorious or illustrious forebears is part of our shared national he...
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Government and the American Economy: A New History
ISBN: 9780226251288 / Angielski / Miękka / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source of this success has been widespread participation in political and economic processes. In "The Government and the American Economy, " leading economic historians chronicle the significance of America's open-access society and the roles played by government in its unrivaled success story. The American economy has provided a level of well-being that has consistently ranked at or near the top of the international ladder. A key source o... |
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The Degradation of American History
ISBN: 9780226316178 / Angielski / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American historical writing has traditionally been one of our primary forms of moral reflection. However, David Harlan argues that in the disillusionment following the 1960s, history abandoned its redemptive potential and took up the methodology of the social sciences. In this provocative new book, Harlan describes the reasons for this turn to objectivity and professionalism, explains why it failed, and examines the emergence of a New Traditionalism in American historical writing.
Part One, "The Legacy of the Sixties," describes the impact of literary theory in the 1970s and beyond, the... American historical writing has traditionally been one of our primary forms of moral reflection. However, David Harlan argues that in the disillusionm...
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame
ISBN: 9780226534664 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features to have salacious, bawdy, and even derogatory names. In the age before political correctness, mapmakers readily accepted any local preference for place names, prizing accurate representation over standards of decorum. But later, when sanctions prohibited local use of racially, ethnically, and scatalogically offensive toponyms, names like Jap Valley, California, were erased from the national and cultural map forever.
From Squaw Tit... Brassiere Hills, Alaska. Mollys Nipple, Utah. Outhouse Draw, Nevada. In the early twentieth century, it was common for towns and geographical features...
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Faces Along the Bar: Lore and Order in the Workingman's Saloon, 1870-1920
ISBN: 9780226677699 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this lively and engaging history, Madelon Powers recreates the daily life of the barroom, exploring what it was like to be a "regular" in the old-time saloon of pre-prohibition industrial America. Through an examination of saloongoers across America, her investigation offers a fascinating look at rich lore of the barroom its many games, stories, songs, free lunch customs, and especially its elaborate system of drinking rituals that have been passed on for decades.
"A free-pouring blend of astonishing facts, folklore and firsthand period observations. . . . It's the rich details that'll... In this lively and engaging history, Madelon Powers recreates the daily life of the barroom, exploring what it was like to be a "regular" in the old-t...
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122,72 |
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The People Shall Judge, Volume I, Part 1: Readings in the Formation of American Policy
ISBN: 9780226770499 / Angielski / Miękka / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The People Shall Judge provides a complete set of readings for courses in American history and political science and for general social science courses. The editors have assembled more than 250 readings which illustrate the great controversies in America's past, the issues involved in forming American public policy yesterday and today.
These selections have been drawn from systematic philosophies; from opinions expressed in law and judicial decisions; from speeches or pamphlets struck off in the heat of controversy; from political and diplomatic correspondence. They are grouped to... The People Shall Judge provides a complete set of readings for courses in American history and political science and for general social science...
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160,30 |
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Anger: The Struggle for Emotional Control in America's History
ISBN: 9780226771526 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this groundbreaking social history, Carol and Peter Stearns trace the two hundred-year development of anger, beginning with premodern colonial America. Drawing on diaries and popular advice literature of key periods, Anger deals with the everyday experiences of the family and workplace in its examination of our attempts to control our domestic lives and lessen social tensions by harnessing emotion. Offering an entirely new approach to the study of emotion, the authors inaugurate a new field of study termed "emotionology," which distinguishes collective emotional standards from the...
In this groundbreaking social history, Carol and Peter Stearns trace the two hundred-year development of anger, beginning with premodern colonial Amer...
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153,41 |
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Redeemer Nation: The Idea of America's Millennial Role
ISBN: 9780226819211 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ernest Tuveson here shows that the idea of the redemptive mission which has motivated so much of the United States foreign policy is as old as the Republic itself. He traces the development of this element of the American heritage from its beginning as a literal interpretation of biblical prophecies. Pointing to the application of the millenarian ideal to successive stages of American history, notably apocalyptic events like the Civil War, Tuveson illustrates its pervasive cultural influences with examples from the writings of Jonathan Edwards, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Timothy Dwight, and Julia...
Ernest Tuveson here shows that the idea of the redemptive mission which has motivated so much of the United States foreign policy is as old as the Rep...
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153,41 |
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Black Camelot: African-American Culture Heroes in Their Times, 1960-1980
ISBN: 9780226847177 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Uniquely suited to the times, burgeoning pop icons projected the values and beliefs of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements, and reflected both the possibility and the actuality of a rapidly changing American landscape.
In "Black Camelot," William Van Deburg examines the dynamic rise of these new black champions, the social and historical contexts in which they flourished, and their powerful impact on the African-American community. "Van Deburg manages the enviable feat of... In the wake of the Kennedy era, a new kind of ethnic hero emerged within African-American popular culture. Uniquely suited to the times, burgeoning po...
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132,95 |
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