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Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898
ISBN: 9780195140491 / Angielski / Miękka / 1408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed with bears, wolves, raccoons, beavers, otters, and foxes. Today, it is the site of Broadway and Wall Street, the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, and the home of millions of people, who have come from every corner of the nation and the globe. In Gotham, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace have produced a monumental work of history, one that ranges from the Indian tribes that settled in and around the island of Manna-hata,...
To European explorers, it was Eden, a paradise of waist-high grasses, towering stands of walnut, maple, chestnut, and oak, and forests that teemed wit...
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143,84 zł |
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Ceremonial Time Ceremonial Time: Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile Fifteen Thousand Years on One Square Mile
ISBN: 9780201149371 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ceremonial time is the moment when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Usually experienced only during ancient dances or rituals, this escape from time is the theme of this book, which traces the life on a single spot in New England from the last ice age through years of Indians, shamans, and bears, to the colonists, witches and farmers, and now the encroaching parks.
Ceremonial time is the moment when past, present, and future can be perceived simultaneously. Usually experienced only during ancient dances or ritual...
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73,50 zł |
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Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872
ISBN: 9780226194868 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Property Rules," Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council records-previously thought destroyed-and census data to track the course of city government in Chicago, providing an important reinterpretation of the relationship between political and social structures in the nineteenth-century American city.
A Choice "Outstanding Academic Book" " A] masterful study of policy-making in Chicago." "Choice" " A] major contribution to urban and political history. . . . A]n excellent book." Jeffrey S. Adler, "American Historical Review" " A]n enlightening trip. . . . Einhorn's foray helps... In "Property Rules," Robin L. Einhorn uses City Council records-previously thought destroyed-and census data to track the course of city government in...
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196,56 zł |
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Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias of 1893
ISBN: 9780226293189 / Angielski / Miękka / 293 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this elegant and sensitive look at the milieu of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, James Gilbert examines the three utopias that were designed to bring order to the chaos of urban life: The World's Fair itself, George Pullman's community for his workers, and Dwight Moody's evangelical crusade. Gilbert draws upon a rich selection of fiction, collective biography, architecture, photographs, and souvenir books to show how these experiments each acted as a middle-class prescription for coming to terms with the new cultural diversity and competition resulting from the disruptive forces...
In this elegant and sensitive look at the milieu of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, James Gilbert examines the three utopias that were desig...
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152,88 zł |
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Harlemworld: Doing Race and Class in Contemporary Black America
ISBN: 9780226389998 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Harlem is one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world a historic symbol of both black cultural achievement and of the rigid boundaries separating the rich from the poor. But as this book shows us, Harlem is far more culturally and economically diverse than its caricature suggests: through extensive fieldwork and interviews, John L. Jackson reveals a variety of social networks and class stratifications, and explores how African Americans interpret and perform different class identities in their everyday behavior.
" Harlem is one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world a historic symbol of both black cultural achievement and of the rigid boundaries separatin...
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131,04 zł |
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Coyote Nation: Sexuality, Race, and Conquest in Modernizing New Mexico, 1880-1920
ISBN: 9780226532431 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s came the emergence of a modern and profoundly multicultural New Mexico. Native Americans, working-class Mexicans, elite Hispanos, and black and whitenewcomers all commingled and interactedin the territory in ways that had not been previously possible. But what did itmean to be white in thismultiethnic milieu? And how did ideas of sexuality and racial supremacy shape ideas of citizenry anddetermine who would govern the region?
"Coyote Nation" considers these questions as it explores how New Mexicans evaluated and categorized... With the arrival of the transcontinental railroad in the 1880s came the emergence of a modern and profoundly multicultural New Mexico. Native American...
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152,88 zł |
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Smoldering City: Chicagoans and the Great Fire, 1871-1874
ISBN: 9780226735481 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The fateful kick of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, the wild flight before the flames, the astonishingly quick rebuilding these are the well-known stories of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. But as much as Chicago's recovery from disaster was a remarkable civic achievement, the Great Fire is also the story of a city's people divided and at odds. This is the story that Karen Sawislak tells so revealingly in this book.
In a detailed account, drawn on memoirs, private correspondences, and other documents, Sawislak chronicles years of widespread, sometimes bitter, social and political conflict in the... The fateful kick of Mrs. O'Leary's cow, the wild flight before the flames, the astonishingly quick rebuilding these are the well-known stories of the ...
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152,88 zł |
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The Changing Face of Inequality: Urbanization, Industrial Development, and Immigrants in Detroit, 1880-1920
ISBN: 9780226994581 / Angielski / Miękka / 502 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1983, "The Changing Face of Inequality" is the first systematic social history of a major American city undergoing industrialization. Zunz examines Detroit's evolution between 1880 and 1920 and discovers the ways in which ethnic and class relations profoundly altered its urban scene. Stunning in scope, this work makes a major contribution to our understanding of twentieth-century cities.
Originally published in 1983, "The Changing Face of Inequality" is the first systematic social history of a major American city undergoing industriali...
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196,56 zł |
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Prurient Interests: Gender, Democracy, and Obscenity in New York City, 1909-1945
ISBN: 9780231110679 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Debate about what constitutes obscenity and how--if at all--it should be regulated has been at the center of the "culture wars" of the past two decades. While literature abounds on the contemporary politics of obscenity, there has been little inquiry into the historic origins of these issues. Focusing on New York City in the first half of the twentieth century, Andrea Friedman's Prurient Interests considers the ways in which the evolution of obscenity debates in decades past has significantly affected today's controversies. Exploring motion pictures, burlesque, and Broadway...
Debate about what constitutes obscenity and how--if at all--it should be regulated has been at the center of the "culture wars" of the past two decade...
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212,72 zł |
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A Ghetto Takes Shape: Black Cleveland, 1870-1930
ISBN: 9780252006906 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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114,06 zł |
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French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois Country and the Western Great Lakes
ISBN: 9780252017971 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging book is the first to offer--in one volume--detailed results of many of the investigations of French colonial sites made in the mid-continent during the last decade. It includes work done at Fort St. Louis, Fort de Chartres, Fort Massac, French Peoria, Cahokia, Prairie du Pont, Prairie du Rocher, and other locations controlled by the French during a time when their dominance in North America was more than twice that of Britain and Spain combined.
This wide-ranging book is the first to offer--in one volume--detailed results of many of the investigations of French colonial sites made in the mid-c...
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186,73 zł |
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The History of Development of Building Construction in Chicago
ISBN: 9780252024160 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long regarded as the definitive catalogue of Chicago architecture, The History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a treasure trove of architectural and engineering information about buildings in Chicago's central business and residential district. Generations have relied on the Randall book as the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to buildings in the Chicago central area. This edition is updated with information about fifty additional buildings from the time frame of the original text, 1830-1949; new data for four hundred buildings from the period 1950-98; and...
Long regarded as the definitive catalogue of Chicago architecture, The History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a treasure tr...
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274,91 zł |
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Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890
ISBN: 9780252060267 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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98,50 zł |
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Freedom's Port: The African American Community of Baltimore, 1760-1860
ISBN: 9780252066184 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,87 zł |
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All That Glitters: Class, Conflict, and Community in Cripple Creek
ISBN: 9780252066900 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and the unquestionable strength of the militant Western Federation of Miners. In ALL THAT GLITTERS, Elizabeth Jameson tells the better-than-fiction story of Cripple Creek, the scene in 1894 of one of radical labor's most stunning victories and in 1903-4 of one of its most crushing defeats. 32 photos.
At the turn of the century, Colorado's Cripple Creek District captured the national imagination with the extraordinary wealth of its gold mines and th...
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129,62 zł |
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Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835
ISBN: 9780252069703 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this sweeping survey, Milo Milton Quaife traces the events leading from Chicago's emergence as a key outpost at the edge of the frontier to its establishment as the crossroads of American commerce.
Quaife narrates the opening of trade and the course of European exploration, facilitated by the Chicago portage and subsequent construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. He profiles the personalities who shaped the early Chicago area, from the French explorers La Salle, Marquette, and Joliet to the ambitious Champlain, who set the course for decades to come by securing for New France the... In this sweeping survey, Milo Milton Quaife traces the events leading from Chicago's emergence as a key outpost at the edge of the frontier to its est...
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155,56 zł |
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Ohio: A History
ISBN: 9780252070174 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the people who stamped the state with their vision, this book captures the vibrancy and ingenuity of Ohio's inventors, manufacturers, leaders and dreamers, as well as the consequences, for the land and its inhabitants, of unchecked industrial excesses.
Focusing on the people who stamped the state with their vision, this book captures the vibrancy and ingenuity of Ohio's inventors, manufacturers, lead...
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108,87 zł |
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Wisconsin: A History
ISBN: 9780252070181 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A haven for summer tourists, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. This title chronicles how Wisconsin's homegrown ideas, from the 'Wisconsin Idea' of efficient state government to ski-tows and speedometers, made their way into the broader marketplace of American culture.
A haven for summer tourists, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. This title chronic...
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88,13 zł |
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Illinois: A History
ISBN: 9780252070211 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its history exhibits basic conflicts that had much to do with shaping American society in general.
Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its hi...
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93,31 zł |
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Tales and Trails of Illinois
ISBN: 9780252070853 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a collection of fifty-two vignettes of Illinois history originally published as weekly columns in newspapers and revised for publication in book form, Tales and Trails of Illinois presents little-known episodes and adds perspective to tales of the state's varied past. Pairing readable commentary with striking description and detail, the book is a useful compendium of Illinois heritage in an accessible and entertaining format. Stu Fliege highlights historical events, such as the Herrin Massacre and Chicago's Iroquois Theatre fire, and covers the diverse terrain of Illinois's natural...
Based on a collection of fifty-two vignettes of Illinois history originally published as weekly columns in newspapers and revised for publication in b...
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88,13 zł |
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