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Wrecks of Human Ambition: A History of Utah's Canyon Country to 1936
ISBN: 9781607813330 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The red rock canyon country of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is one of the most isolated, wild, and beautiful regions of North America. Europeans and Americans over time have mostly avoided, disdained, or ignored it. Wrecks of Human Ambition illustrates how this landscape undercut notions and expectations of good, productive land held by the first explorers, settlers, and travelers who visited it. Even today, its aridity and sandy soils prevent widespread agricultural exploitation, and its cliffs, canyons, and rivers thwart quick travel in and through the landscape.
... The red rock canyon country of southeastern Utah and northeastern Arizona is one of the most isolated, wild, and beautiful regions of North America. E...
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Hoopers Island: Glimpses of the Past
ISBN: 9781304423344 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a collection of essays about events that occurred on Hoopers Island, Maryland, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some concern newsworthy events. Others describe the cultural life of the Island or its connection to America's military history. The final essays are memories of the author's life on Hoopers Island.
This is a collection of essays about events that occurred on Hoopers Island, Maryland, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Some concern new...
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81,78 |
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Ballston Spa History Walkaround: A Guide to Historic Places and Interesting People
ISBN: 9781489571632 / Angielski / Miękka / 40 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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"The Place Where Hell Bubbled Up"
ISBN: 9781491026083 / Angielski / Miękka / 74 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Warren Ferris, a clerk for the American Fur Company, had ventured into the upper Yellowstone country with two Indian companions to find out for himself the truth about the wild tales trappers told about the region.
Warren Ferris, a clerk for the American Fur Company, had ventured into the upper Yellowstone country with two Indian companions to find out for himsel...
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60,65 |
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America Walks Into a Bar: A Spirited History of Taverns and Saloons, Speakeasies and Grog Shops
ISBN: 9780199324484 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans against the British in 1815, he met Jean Lafitte in a grog shop. And when John Wilkes Booth plotted with his accomplices to carry out an assassination, they gathered in Surratt Tavern.
In America Walks into a Bar, Christine Sismondo recounts the rich and fascinating history of an institution often reviled, yet always central to American life. She traces the tavern from England to New England, showing how even the Puritans valued "a good... When George Washington bade farewell to his officers, he did so in New York's Fraunces Tavern. When Andrew Jackson planned his defense of New Orleans ...
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78,17 |
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The Cherokee Struggle to Maintain Identity in the 17th and 18th Centuries
ISBN: 9780786473175 / Angielski / Miękka / 436 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were one of the many Indian nations profoundly affected. This book thoroughly discusses the history of the Cherokee during the Colonial and Revolutionary War eras. Starting with the French and Indian War, the Cherokee were allied with the British government, overly relying on them for trade goods like poorly made muskets. The alliance proved unequal, with the British refusing aid--while settlers made incursions into Cherokee lands--while requiring the Cherokee to fight on the British side against the French and rebellious Americans....
With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were one of the many Indian nations profoundly affected. This book thoroughly discusses t...
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275,77 |
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Holocene Human Ecology in Northeastern North America
ISBN: 9781489923783 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Students of human behavior have always been interested in the relationship between human populations and their environment. Decades of research not only have illuminated the backdrop against which culture is viewed, but have identi- fied many of the conditions that influence or promote technological develop- ment, social transformation, and economic reorganization. It has become in- creaSingly evident, however, that if we are to explore more forcefully the linkages between culture and environment, a processual orientation is required. This is found in human ecology-the study of the...
Students of human behavior have always been interested in the relationship between human populations and their environment. Decades of research not on...
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402,53 |
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Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon
ISBN: 9781491844977 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon," explores the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo; a Gold Rush ghost town, in remote Southwest Oregon. In the 60's and 70's, young hippies flocked to the run-down mining and logging town of Takilma on the edge of the Siskiyou Mountains, which straddle the border between California and Oregon. In that wilderness, the hippies transformed the small town, and with hard work and dedication, they created an intentional community, with its own medical clinic, community building, alternative school and food co-operative....
"Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon," explores the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo; a Gold Rush ghost tow...
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77,73 |
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Running the River: Secrets of the Sabine
ISBN: 9781623490379 / Angielski / Miękka / 133 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black bear lumbering through swamp oak and cypress knees.
But when Ferguson set out to do a series of newspaper stories on the upper portion of the river, he and photographer Jacob Croft Botter were... Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived i...
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88,11 |
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The Atchafalaya River Basin: History and Ecology of an American Wetland
ISBN: 9781623490393 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than five centuries, the Atchafalaya River Basin has captured the flow of the Mississippi River, becoming its main distributary as it reaches the Gulf of Mexico in south Louisiana. This dynamic environment, comprising almost a million acres of the lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley and Mississippi River Deltaic Plain, is perhaps best known for its expansive swamp environments dominated by baldcypress, water tupelo, and alligators. But the Atchafalaya River Basin contains a wide range of habitats and one of the highest levels of biodiversity on the North American continent....
For more than five centuries, the Atchafalaya River Basin has captured the flow of the Mississippi River, becoming its main distributary as it reaches...
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141,98 |
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Teenage New Jersey, 1941-1975
ISBN: 9780911020311 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of essays on the emergence of teenagers as an independent sector of society. It explores the origins of this phenomenon during the Depression, World War II and to the post-war suburban explosion. It examines the identities assumed by the teenagers, and how mobility changed their lives.
A collection of essays on the emergence of teenagers as an independent sector of society. It explores the origins of this phenomenon during the Depres...
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97,90 |
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Echoes of Mutiny: Race, Surveillance, and Indian Anticolonialism in North America
ISBN: 9780199376247 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movement that British authorities claimed nearly toppled their rule in India during the First World War? Seema Sohi traces how Indian labor migrants, students, and intellectual activists who journeyed across the globe seeking to escape the exploitative and politically repressive policies of the British Raj, linked restrictive immigration policies and political repression in North America to colonial subjugation at home. In the process, they developed...
How did thousands of Indians who migrated to the Pacific Coast of North America during the early twentieth century come to forge an anticolonial movem...
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690,69 |
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Apartheid, 1948-1994
ISBN: 9780199550678 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts. The overall conception of Apartheid, 1948-1994 is to integrate studies of resistance with the analysis of power, paying attention to the importance of ideas, institutions, and culture.
Saul Dubow refamiliarizes and defamiliarizes apartheid so as to approach South Africa's white... This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial ...
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147,78 |
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Remembering Iosepa: History, Place, and Religion in the American West
ISBN: 9780199844913 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Mormon Historical Association Best Community History In the late nineteenth century, a small community of Native Hawaiian Mormons established a settlement in heart of The Great Basin, in Utah. The community was named Iosepa, after the prophet and sixth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Joseph F. Smith. The inhabitants of Iosepa struggled against racism, the ravages of leprosy, and economic depression, by the early years of the twentieth century emerging as a modern, model community based on ranching, farming, and an unwavering...
Winner of the Mormon Historical Association Best Community History In the late nineteenth century, a small community of Native Ha...
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335,74 |
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The Indian Great Awakening: Religion and the Shaping of Native Cultures in Early America
ISBN: 9780199376445 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers tried to convert to Christianity were the region's native peoples. In this book, Linford Fisher tells the gripping story of American Indians' attempts to wrestle with the ongoing realities of colonialism between the 1670s and 1820. In particular, he looks at how some members of previously unevangelized Indian communities in Connecticut, Rhode Island, western Massachusetts, and Long Island adopted Christian practices, often joining local...
The First Great Awakening was a time of heightened religious activity in the colonial New England. Among those whom the English settlers trie...
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Community Lost: The State, Civil Society, and Displaced Survivors of Hurricane Katrina
ISBN: 9780521176163 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the authors use extensive interviews with Katrina evacuees and reports from service providers to identify what helped or hindered the reestablishment of the lives of hurricane survivors who relocated to Austin, Texas. Drawing on social capital and social network theory, the authors assess the complementary, and often conflicting, roles of FEMA, other governmental agencies, and a range of non-governmental organizations in addressing survivors' short-...
Neither government programs nor massive charitable efforts responded adequately to the human crisis that was Hurricane Katrina. In this study, the aut...
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Tasunka: A Lakota Horse Legend
ISBN: 9780985290528 / Angielski / Twarda / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange new creatures. They are horses that shimmer with color and run swift as the wind. The Lakota capture and tame them, and the people grow rich and powerful. They become filled with pride. With their newfound strength they rule over the plains. Then the Great Spirit, who gave the gift of the horse, takes it away. Written in both English and Lakota, Donald F. Montileaux retells the legend of Tasunka from the traditional stories of the Lakota people. Using the ledger-art...
Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange new creatures. They are ...
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With the Indians in the Rockies
ISBN: 9781467921343 / Angielski / Miękka / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the Indians in the Rockies. By James Willard Schultz
With the Indians in the Rockies. By James Willard Schultz
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92,86 |
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Little Known Tales in Oklahoma History
ISBN: 9781495350474 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oklahoma Land Rush was a madhouse scene that brought both smiles and heartache to its participants. There is also the wonderful story about Cherokee Indian Lewis Ross who drilled for water but failed. He wasn't disappointed though, as he struck oil instead. Then there's the wild and woolly No-Man's land in the Oklahoma Panhandle where outlaws could hide without fear of the law. There was no law. No history of Oklahoma would be complete without a run-down on its favorite son, the ever-humorous Will Rogers.
The Oklahoma Land Rush was a madhouse scene that brought both smiles and heartache to its participants. There is also the wonderful story about Cherok...
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48,35 |
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Turning Down the Sound: Travel Escapes in Washington's Small Towns
ISBN: 9780870717307 / Angielski / Miękka / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his new travelogue, Foster Church guides adventurerslifelong residents of the Northwest and visitors aliketo the small communities beyond the state s well-known urban center.
As in his previous book, "Discovering Main Street: Travel Adventures in Small Towns of the Northwest," Church employs the finesse of his Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalism. He also shares his passion for encouraging tourists down less traveled pathspaths that curve beside valleys and wheat fields, travel along orchards and straits, and abut mountains and rivers. Once inside these small towns, local flavors... In his new travelogue, Foster Church guides adventurerslifelong residents of the Northwest and visitors aliketo the small communities beyond the state...
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