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Meatpackers: An Oral History of Black Packinghouse Workers and Their Struggle for Racial and Economic Equality
ISBN: 9781583670057 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch in which trade unions fought and won whatever rights working people possess today. With these rights constantly imperiled, this book is mandatory reading." "The stories are dramatically and richly told, and they offer insights no scholarly study can quite adequately provide." Available for the first time in paperback, Meatpackers provides an important... "Here is a piece of history not found in conventional textbooks. If ever there were a book our young needed, it is Meatpackers-it reveals an epoch ... |
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San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals
ISBN: 9781585442225 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cities, like people, may be best known by the way they party. For nearly a century-and-a-half, San Antonio has partied well. In this fascinating look at late-nineteenth-century festivals in San Antonio, Judith Berg Sobre brings an art historian's sensibility to accounts of the pageantry, parades, and festive events that typified a city welcoming settlers from several nations and American regions into a community that valued their individuality even while it taught them a new identity. Six historic festivals provide windows into the culture of this polyglot city: the Fourth of July,...
Cities, like people, may be best known by the way they party. For nearly a century-and-a-half, San Antonio has partied well. In this fascinating look ...
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121,15 |
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Builders
ISBN: 9781585442669 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herman and George R. Brown, formidable figures in the construction industry and Texas politics, were an almost perfect business team. Practical and decisive Herman, a natural builder, and university trained, soft-spoken George, a natural salesperson, combined their individual strengths with their shared strong work ethic and ambition and developed Brown and Root, a company that began by building roads and grew into a diversified international construction company. "Builders" serves both as a history of their lives and as an examination of business life in mid-twentieth-century America....
Herman and George R. Brown, formidable figures in the construction industry and Texas politics, were an almost perfect business team. Practical and de...
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164,83 |
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Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas
ISBN: 9781585442805 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the...
In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An importan...
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101,76 |
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Christmas in Dairyland: True Stories From a Wisconsin Farm
ISBN: 9781591133667 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrate the Christmas season with 20 true stories from a simpler time, 40 years ago, when happiness was baking cookies, decorating the Christmas tree, or even just getting out of wearing snow boots to school.
Celebrate the Christmas season with 20 true stories from a simpler time, 40 years ago, when happiness was baking cookies, decorating the Christmas tre...
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67,90 |
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No Sword to Bury: Japanese Americans in Hawai'i During World War II
ISBN: 9781592132072 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately called upon to defend the Hawaiian islands against invasion. In a few weeks, however, the military government questioned their loyalty and disarmed them. In "No Sword to Bury," Franklin Odo places the largely untold story of the wartime experience of these young men in the context of the community created by their immigrant families and its relationship to the larger, white-dominated society. At the heart of the book are vivid oral histories that...
When bombs rained down on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Japanese American college students were among the many young men enrolled in ROTC and immediately call...
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208,46 |
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Veterans Stadium: Field of Memories
ISBN: 9781592134281 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Veterans Stadium was the outdoor sports and concert capital of Philadelphia from 1971 until its televised demolition in 2004. At its best, "The Vet" spawned two of the greatest moments in the city's sports history?Tug McGraw's 1980 strikeout of Willie Wilson to win the World Series and the Eagles thrashing of the Dallas Cowboys to clinch their first Super Bowl bid. At its worst, it saw fans pelt Santa Claus with snowballs and the opening of an in-stadium branch of Philadelphia municipal court to deal with rowdy Eagles fans. Part of a look-alike generation of all-purpose stadiums erected...
Veterans Stadium was the outdoor sports and concert capital of Philadelphia from 1971 until its televised demolition in 2004. At its best, "The Vet" s...
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150,29 |
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Philadelphia Maestros: Ormandy, Muti, Sawallisch
ISBN: 9781592134878 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few orchestras in this country are as storied as the Philadelphia Orchestra. Famed for its lush sound, it is equally famous for the maestros who lead it: Eugene Ormandy, who was a last-minute substitute for guest conductor Arturo Toscanini and whose star then began to rise in the music world; Ricardo Muti, whose international fame helped to increase the standing of the Orchestra around the world; and Wolfgang Sawallisch, who returned the Orchestra to its musical roots and shepherded its move to its grand new hall at the Kimmel Center. For fans of the Philadelphia Orchestra and of great...
Few orchestras in this country are as storied as the Philadelphia Orchestra. Famed for its lush sound, it is equally famous for the maestros who lead ...
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140,54 |
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American Indians of the Southeast
ISBN: 9781855325661 / Angielski / Miękka / 48 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The southeastern people were the descendants of ancient prehistoric Indian cultures, and were probably on the decline when first known to Europeans. Despite being poorly reported in popular histories, they have been well described by several early European traders and by a number of well-known American ethnologists who collected details of surviving native culture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The white man's expanding plantation society and the tragic removal of the Indian population to Indian Territory saw the end of this farming, hunting and trading culture. This title...
The southeastern people were the descendants of ancient prehistoric Indian cultures, and were probably on the decline when first known to Europeans. D...
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66,29 |
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Zeropolis: The Experience of Las Vegas
ISBN: 9781861891761 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Las Vegas, an artificial city brought to life in the heart of the Mojave desert, is the ultimate urban temptation: its shopping malls, theme parks and casinos offer an unceasing parade of entertainments and diversions. Its architecture combines slick, commercial seduction with a childish, cartoon-like appearance; its streets and arcades are constantly animated with visitors and residents willingly submitting to the opium of this spectacular place.
Las Vegas has always fascinated those who write about the American malaise, from Tom Wolfe to J. G. Ballard, but Begout reveals the city s... Las Vegas, an artificial city brought to life in the heart of the Mojave desert, is the ultimate urban temptation: its shopping malls, theme parks and...
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Footsteps in the Attic: More First-Hand Accounts of the Paranormal in New England
ISBN: 9781891724022 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Already considered a classic of paranormal literature, FOOTSTEPS IN THE ATTIC is a first-hand record of some of the 20th century's most stunning cases, written by the eminent expert who investigated them, and interpreted according to an entirely new approach to the paranormal.
Already considered a classic of paranormal literature, FOOTSTEPS IN THE ATTIC is a first-hand record of some of the 20th century's most stunning cases...
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59,66 |
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A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume XII: Chelsea
ISBN: 9781904356240 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and courtiers from the fifteenth century, and a pleasure resort for all ranks of society from the eighteenth; it is now one of the most expensive and desirable places to live in London. This new volume relates all this and more, including a re-examination of the location of Sir Thomas More's house, a reassessment of Henry VIII's relationship with the manor house, the history of a major estate not previously identified, and a survey of the farm-gardening which gave prosperity to some local inhabitants. Facets of...
Chelsea was a desirable riverside residence for wealthy merchants, lawyers, and courtiers from the fifteenth century, and a pleasure resort for all ra...
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460,55 |
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Sitting Bull - Champion Of The Sioux - A Biography
ISBN: 9781406770049 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republ...
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183,02 |
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I Remember Nonna
ISBN: 9780595450305 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I Remember Nonna" is a collection of several Vignettes of my childhood experiences with Nonna during my pre-teen years, when my sister and I went to live in the small hamlet in Pennsylvania called Old Boston in the fall of 1941. Moving from a small town to a farm environment made every aspect of our daily life, from that point, a learning encounter. The most trying part was the very beginning when we had neither understanding of Italian nor any clue at all what to expect in Old Boston. It was those stark beginnings with Nonna that have made such an impact on my thinking later in my life. For...
"I Remember Nonna" is a collection of several Vignettes of my childhood experiences with Nonna during my pre-teen years, when my sister and I went to ...
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37,82 |
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Creating an American Identity: New England, 1789-1825
ISBN: 9780230605268 / Angielski / Twarda / 291 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Creating an American Identity examines the relationship between regionalism and nationalism in New England. Focusing on the years 1789-1825, it analyzes the process by which New Englanders used trans-Atlantic symbols as well as regional landscapes, values, and characteristics to create an American identity.
Creating an American Identity examines the relationship between regionalism and nationalism in New England. Focusing on the years 1789-1825, it analyz...
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Dance Lodges of the Omaha People: Building from Memory
ISBN: 9780803217577 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb to a Euro-American standard of living under the combined onslaught of federal Indian policies, governmental officials, and missionary zealots. At the same time, however, new circular wooden structures appeared on some Omaha homesteads. Blending into the architectural environment of the mainstream culture, these lodges provided the ritual space in which dances and ceremonies could be conducted at a time when such practices were coercively suppressed. Drawing on...
After the Omaha Nation was officially granted its reservation land in northeastern Nebraska in 1854, Omaha culture appeared to succumb to a Euro-Ameri...
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82,36 |
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Legacy
ISBN: 9780595479207 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winston Hardegree was born in the throes of the Great Depression in 1932, but spent happy boyhood summers on his grandparents' rural Alabama farm, where hard work and adventure led to a deep appreciation for life's simple pleasures. At nineteen, Winston lost his father and suddenly became family patriarch for his mother, siblings, and new bride. He took a job in the local textile mill, and over thirty-five years of unrelenting hard work became a successful top-executive of this international company. Disenchanted, Winston decided to return to the simpler way of life he had so loved as a boy....
Winston Hardegree was born in the throes of the Great Depression in 1932, but spent happy boyhood summers on his grandparents' rural Alabama farm, whe...
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72,03 |
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Legacy
ISBN: 9780595714438 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winston Hardegree was born in the throes of the Great Depression in 1932, but spent happy boyhood summers on his grandparents' rural Alabama farm, where hard work and adventure led to a deep appreciation for life's simple pleasures.At nineteen, Winston lost his father and suddenly became family patriarch for his mother, siblings, and new bride. He took a job in the local textile mill, and over thirty-five years of unrelenting hard work became a successful top-executive of this international company. Disenchanted, Winston decided to return to the simpler way of life he had so loved as a...
Winston Hardegree was born in the throes of the Great Depression in 1932, but spent happy boyhood summers on his grandparents' rural Alabama farm, whe...
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110,04 |
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Slavery and Freedom in Delaware, 1639-1865
ISBN: 9780842025942 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a comprehensive study of slavery and freedom in Delaware. Williams describes and analyses slavery, freedom and their impact on the lives of the state's whites as well as on African-Americans, in the context of Delaware's social, economic and political history.
This is a comprehensive study of slavery and freedom in Delaware. Williams describes and analyses slavery, freedom and their impact on the lives of th...
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518,72 |
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Transitions: Archaic and Early Woodland Research in the Ohio Country
ISBN: 9780821417973 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The late archaic and early woodland peoples lived in the Ohio region between 5,000 and 2,000 years ago. This was a time of transition, when hunters and gatherers began to grow native seed crops, establish more permanent settlements, and develop complex forms of ritual and ceremonialism, sometimes involving burial mound construction.
The focused archaeological studies described in "Transitions: Archaic and Early Woodland Research in the Ohio Country "shed light on this important episode in human cultural development. The authors describe important archaeological sites such as the rich... The late archaic and early woodland peoples lived in the Ohio region between 5,000 and 2,000 years ago. This was a time of transition, when hunters an...
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135,69 |
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