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Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence
ISBN: 9780803224902 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Choctaw Nation is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Valerie Lambert treats nation-building projects as nothing new to the Choctaws of southeastern Oklahoma, who have responded to a number of hard-hitting assaults on Choctaw sovereignty and nationhood by rebuilding their tribal nation. Drawing on field research, oral histories, and archival sources, Lambert explores the struggles and triumphs of a tribe building a new government and launching an ambitious program of economic development in the late twentieth century, achieving a partial restoration of the tribe's former...
Choctaw Nation is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Valerie Lambert treats nation-building projects as nothing new to the Choctaws ...
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96,15 |
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Life Along the Hudson
ISBN: 9780823218035 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a set of kaleidoscopic impressions of life along the Hudson, from its earliest days to the present, writes Allan Keller in his Preface. Keller's impressions encompass the scope of history, art, and literature, to tell the story of the majestic Hudson River and the life along its banks. The book provides a picture of life along the river at every step of the way, including facts and fables, legends and living realities. It is the story of sloops and steamers, shad fishing and ice cutting, the splendor of the Palisades and the stately homes of the well-born. From Revolutionary...
This volume is a set of kaleidoscopic impressions of life along the Hudson, from its earliest days to the present, writes Allan Keller in his Preface....
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401,61 |
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After Freedom: A Cultural Study in the Deep South
ISBN: 9780299137847 / Angielski / Miękka / 462 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A complete ethnography of an Afro-American community in the USA. Set in a town in the Deep South, it describes how the people struggled to build families, develop capital, and create a community after freedom, almost three-quarters of a century after emancipation.
A complete ethnography of an Afro-American community in the USA. Set in a town in the Deep South, it describes how the people struggled to build famil...
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107,70 |
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South Philadelphia
ISBN: 9781566394291 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From mayors and mummers to tap dancers and gamblers, South Philly has it all. This book provides an historical examination that spans 300 years, from Thomas Jefferson living in South Philadelphia in 1793 to the burning of Palumbo's in 1994.
From mayors and mummers to tap dancers and gamblers, South Philly has it all. This book provides an historical examination that spans 300 years, from ...
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191,02 |
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Digging for History at Old Washington
ISBN: 9781557288981 / Angielski / Twarda / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Positioned along the legendary Southwest Trail, the town of Washington in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas was a thriving center of commerce,
business, and county government in the nineteenth century. Historical figures such as Davy Crockett and Sam Houston passed through, and during the Civil War, when the Federal troops occupied Little Rock, the Hempstead County Courthouse in Washington served as the seat of state government. A prosperous town fully involved in the events and society of the territorial, antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction eras, Washington became in a... Positioned along the legendary Southwest Trail, the town of Washington in Hempstead County in southwest Arkansas was a thriving center of commerce, |
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166,52 |
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The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
ISBN: 9781557288974 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian
Indian culture from northeast Arkansas and the bootheel region of southeast Missouri. Produced by two groups the Spanish called the Casqui and Pacaha and dating circa AD 1400-1700, headpots occur, with few exceptions, only in a small region of Arkansas and Missouri. Relatively little is known about these headpots: did they portray kinsmen or enemies, the living or the dead or were they used in ceremonies, in everyday life, or exclusively... In 1981, James F. Cherry embarked on what evolved into a passionate, personal quest to identify and document all the known headpots of Mississippian <...
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264,47 |
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Taking The 4 Train
ISBN: 9781436359283 / Angielski / Twarda / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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145,61 |
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Taking the 4 Train
ISBN: 9781436359276 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,88 |
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The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776-1917
ISBN: 9780271015934 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Visitors may wonder how Niagara Falls came to be the site of magnificent bridges, a famous cereal factory, and a picturesque New York state reservation, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. Although many have always admired the natural splendor of the Falls, William Irwin explains that it was not until the mid-1800s that Niagara truly captured the American imagination. With the coming of John Roebling's railway suspension bridge in 1855 came the promise of a "new" Niagara, one in which nature and technology could flourish in harmony. Although some saw the transformation of Niagara Falls as a... Visitors may wonder how Niagara Falls came to be the site of magnificent bridges, a famous cereal factory, and a picturesque New York state reserva... |
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185,87 |
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Pig Trails and Open Roads: Stories of Central Baldwin County, Alabama
ISBN: 9781440117305 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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73,03 |
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Prehistoric Adaptation in the American Southwest
ISBN: 9780521106214 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived essentially as a natural science alternative to the prevailing culture history paradigm, it offers both a general theoretical framework for interpreting the archaeological record of the American South-West and a persuasive evolutionary model for the shift from a hunter-gatherer economy to horticulture at the Mogollon/Anasazi interface. Technical, architectural and settlement adaptations are examined and the rise of matrilineality, ethnic groupings...
This book is about post-Pleistocene adaptive change among the aboriginal cultures of the mountains and deserts of Arizona and New Mexico. Conceived es...
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192,55 |
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TVA Archaeology: Seventy-Five Years of Prehistoric Site Research
ISBN: 9781572336506 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its inception in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority has played a dual role as federal agency and steward of the Tennessee River Valley. While known to most people today as an energy provider, the agency is also charged with managing and protecting the nation's fifth-largest river system, the Tennessee River, and vast tracts of land and resources encompassing Tennessee and portions of Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia. Included in TVA's mandate is the preservation of the archaeological record of the valley's prehistoric peoples-a record that would...
Since its inception in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority has played a dual role as federal agency and steward of the Tennessee River Valley. While ...
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186,11 |
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A Timeline of the Jamestown Colony
ISBN: 9781435836662 / Angielski / Miękka / 36 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The timelines in this series provide an important learning tool that allows the reader to quickly grasp the key points and highlights from each historic event. Each book follows some aspect of America's progression as a county through such topics as the slave trade, Congress, the life of Thomas Jefferson, and the history of the White House. The timelines pinpoint crucial events and facts from each book, and the narrative text provides the historical context for each subject. Each book in the series includes a phonetic glossary and is written in easy-to-read language that will give readers of...
The timelines in this series provide an important learning tool that allows the reader to quickly grasp the key points and highlights from each histor...
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122,75 |
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The Lost Diary of Annie Oakley's Wild West Stagehand
ISBN: 9780006945970 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The twelfth Lost Diary about this famous entertainer. Set from 1885 the year in which Annie joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to 1893 when Annie reached the high point of her career at the Chicago World's Fair. Annie Oakley 's rags-to-riches story is engaging and exciting. She began shooting to provide for the family pot and was soon selling her surplus game to hotels in Cincinnati. Within two years she had made enough money to repay the family mortage Her name is closely linked with other celebrities of the Old West most notably Buffalo Bill and the great leader of the Sioux... The twelfth Lost Diary about this famous entertainer. Set from 1885 the year in which Annie joined Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to 1893 when Annie... |
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30,79 |
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The Gateway Arch: Fact & Symbol
ISBN: 9780879725679 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Muses on the many dimensions of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in downtown St. Louis. Five essays, some of them published previously, consider the relation of the edifice to classical arches, to the westward expansion it celebrates, to the city it occupies, and to the present and future c
Muses on the many dimensions of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial in downtown St. Louis. Five essays, some of them published previously, consi...
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166,52 |
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A Populist Assault: Sarah E. Van de Vort Emery on American Democracy 1862-1895
ISBN: 9780879722043 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the late 19th century. Emery was a woman who believed and acted on her beliefs that freedom and the flowering of the human potential should not five way to the demands of the -money power.- Sarah E. Van De Vort Emery, a Michigan woman transplanted from the Finger Lakes region of New York, was for many years a voice for Populism in the ... |
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29,34 |
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The Iroquois League
ISBN: 9780823937035 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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108,91 |
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Mission Nuestra Señora de la Soledad
ISBN: 9781435836808 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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149,91 |
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Salt Desert Trails: A History of the Hastings Cutoff
ISBN: 9780914740377 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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53,82 |
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Santa Ana: The People, the Pueblo, and the History of Tamaya
ISBN: 9780826347909 / Angielski / Miękka / 409 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This history begins with traditional accounts of the journeys that brought the people of Tamaya to a land that would later be known as New Mexico and a Pueblo that would be called Santa Ana. Relying on oral tradition as well as documentary sources, the text traces the pueblo's history from the sixteenth century, when Kastera (Spain) entered the region, through the arrival of Merikaana in the nineteenth century, to the recent past. The people of Santa Ana established a way of life based on an annual cycle of agriculture. the gathering of native resources, and trade with neighboring peoples,...
This history begins with traditional accounts of the journeys that brought the people of Tamaya to a land that would later be known as New Mexico and ...
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117,50 |
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