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The Southern Cheyennes
ISBN: 9780806111995 / Miękka / 484 str. For almost fifty years George Bird Grinnell s great work The Fighting Cheyennes has stood unrevised and virtually unchallenged as the definitive account of the struggles of the Cheyenne Indians to preserve their way of life. Now Donald J. Berthrong has re-examined Grinnell s findings and searched historical records unavailable to or not used by Grinnell to verify or correct his conclusions. The result is this accurate, highly interesting account of the Cheyennes life on the Great Plains, their system of government and religion, and their relation to the fur and hide trade during their last... For almost fifty years George Bird Grinnell s great work The Fighting Cheyennes has stood unrevised and virtually unchallenged as the definitive ac... |
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174,18 zł |
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The Nez Perces: Tribesmen of the Columbia Plateau
ISBN: 9780806109824 / Miękka / 384 str. "Haines has made a genuine effort to make imaginative and sympathetic use of the few sources that tell the internal story of what the Nez Perces thought, felt, and did. He succeeds so well that the reader, for a change, finds himself looking eastward with the Nez Perces instead of riding westward in the vanguard of the new civilization." Montana A sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Perces were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated...
"Haines has made a genuine effort to make imaginative and sympathetic use of the few sources that tell the internal story of what the Nez Perces thoug...
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146,61 zł |
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The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters
ISBN: 9780806117706 / Miękka / 848 str. Perhaps once in a generation a great book appears on the life of a people less than a nation, more than a tribe that reflects in a clear light the epic strivings of men and women everywhere, since the beginnings of time. "The Osages: Children of the Middle Waters "is such a book. Drawing from the oral history of his people before the coming of Europeans, the recorded history since, and his own lifetime among them, John Joseph Mathews created a truly epic history. This account of the Osages, a Siouan tribe once centered in the area now occupied by St. Louis, later on small streams in... Perhaps once in a generation a great book appears on the life of a people less than a nation, more than a tribe that reflects in a clear light th... |
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178,45 zł |
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Judi Letters
ISBN: 9781934610282 / Afrihili (sztuczny) / Miękka / 144 str. Florence City, Alabama, historian McDonald makes available another treasured research piece of family and community history.
Florence City, Alabama, historian McDonald makes available another treasured research piece of family and community history.
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84,67 zł |
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History of Carroll, Henry and Benton Counties Tennessee.
ISBN: 9780893080983 / Chiński / Miękka / 178 str. |
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122,86 zł |
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A New Deal in Puerto Rico: Colonial Development and Governmentality, 1929-1935. Manuel R. Rodrguez
ISBN: 9781558765184 / Miękka / 170 str. The author leads the reader through the political and economic upheaval which Puerto Rico underwent in the 1930s during the New Deal.
The author leads the reader through the political and economic upheaval which Puerto Rico underwent in the 1930s during the New Deal.
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123,92 zł |
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The Death of an American Jewish Community: A Tragedy of Good Intentions
ISBN: 9780029138663 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. In 1967, leaders of the Boston establishment decided to open the city's neighbourhoods by making mortgage funds available to blacks who wanted to build or buy houses there. But this goal was to be achieved by the private understanding that these mortgages would be available only in Boston's established Jewish neighbourhoods, such as Mattapan. This policy quickly wiped out the tightly knit Jewish areas in Dorchester and nearby Roxbury, once home to 90,000 Jews. Tragically, few of the new black residents of the area acquired adequate housing, security or education for their families, and the...
In 1967, leaders of the Boston establishment decided to open the city's neighbourhoods by making mortgage funds available to blacks who wanted to buil...
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106,53 zł |
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Ruby Ridge: The Truth and Tragedy of the Randy Weaver Family
ISBN: 9780060007942 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weaver's family, government insiders, and others, Jess Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal agents and led the government to treat a family like a gang of criminals. This is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge: the... On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day thr... |
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69,75 zł |
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Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
ISBN: 9780060503079 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold "; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of... The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuab... |
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69,75 zł |
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Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn
ISBN: 9780140265095 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. "A fascinating tale of two cities told through the rise of two of Atlanta's most illustrious political families...highly significant in what it reveals about ambition, hard work, success, and race relations."--David Levering Lewis.
"A fascinating tale of two cities told through the rise of two of Atlanta's most illustrious political families...highly significant in what it reveal...
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82,11 zł |
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How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
ISBN: 9780140280562 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national emblem. This extraordinary work of intellectual and environmental history tells two tales of the Canyon: the discovery and exploration of the physical Canyon and the invention and evolution of the cultural Canyon--how we learned to endow it with mythic significance.Acclaimed historian Stephen Pyne examines the major shifts in Western attitudes toward nature, and recounts the achievements of...
Dismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century Americ...
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61,58 zł |
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Notes on the State of Virginia
ISBN: 9780140436679 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Jefferson's chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and...
Jefferson's chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a...
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69,79 zł |
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The Reader's Companion to Alaska
ISBN: 9780156003681 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly s footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the cruise from hell, and more. Map.
" The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glim...
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94,22 zł |
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Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts
ISBN: 9780156595513 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. The two classic studies of "Middletown" were pioneering works that examined the daily life of a typical small American city -- in actuality, Muncie, Indiana -- using the approach of social anthropology. The initial volume was published in the mid-1920s, when H. L. Mencken called it "one of the richest and most valuable documents ever concocted by American sociologists." The sequel, Middletown in Transition, returned to the same community in 1935, after six years of the Depression. Of enduring interest to students of sociology, these historic studies have also inspired a six-part television...
The two classic studies of "Middletown" were pioneering works that examined the daily life of a typical small American city -- in actuality, Muncie, I...
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119,06 zł |
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Content Area Readers: Two Villages: Two Hundred Years Apart
ISBN: 9780194309523 / Angielski / Miękka / 22 str. The readers expand student's command of the vocabulary, language and concepts used in teaching math, history, science and social studies.
Pre-reading and post-reading exercises and glossary reinforce reading comprehension, vocabulary and language structures. The Teacher's Book includes reproducible pages for additional practice and reinforcement of vocabulary and language. Color art includes diagrams, photos, graphic organizers and illustrations. The readers expand student's command of the vocabulary, language and concepts used in teaching math, history, science and social studies.
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37,65 zł |
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Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643
ISBN: 9780195034547 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Making a radical departure form traditional approaches to colonial American history, this book looks back at Indian-white relations from the perspective of the Indians themselves. In doing so, Salisbury reaches some startling new conclusions about a period of crucial-yet often overlooked-contact between two irreconcilably different cultures.
Making a radical departure form traditional approaches to colonial American history, this book looks back at Indian-white relations from the perspecti...
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350,88 zł |
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Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World
ISBN: 9780195036626 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. "A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Rahv, and William Phillips; social scientists like Nathan Glazer; art critics and historians Clement Greenberg, Harold Rrosenberg, and Meyer Schapiro; novelist Saul Bellow; and political journalists Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz. Their story winds through nearly all of the crucial intellectual and political events of the last...
"A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinati...
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575,33 zł |
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
ISBN: 9780195042337 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and...
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236,16 zł |
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Mill Family
ISBN: 9780195042993 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. The growing cotton textile industry of the postbellum South required a stable and reliable work force made up of laborers with varied skills. At the same time, Southern agriculture was in a depressed state. Families, especially those with many children, were therefore forced to look for work in the textile mills. Mill managers, in their own interest, created the basis for a distinctive social and economic structure: the Southern cotton mill village. These villages, which included such accoutrements as good schools for the children, were paternalistic work environments designed to attract this...
The growing cotton textile industry of the postbellum South required a stable and reliable work force made up of laborers with varied skills. At the s...
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897,19 zł |
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Material Dreams: Southern California Through the 1920s
ISBN: 9780195044874 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history,...
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The fir...
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379,90 zł |
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