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San Antonio, City for a King: An Account of the Colonial History of San Antonio and Texas
ISBN: 9781490715605 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. San Antonio, City for a King takes us on an extraordinary adventure through an amazingly unknown, yet expectantly fitting, piece of Texas' origins. We learn how 16 families from Iberia's Canary Islands answered their monarch's call to populate a desolate northeast area of his New Spain for a strategic political reason. There was the year-long journey: crossing the Atlantic and then trekking north over present-day Mexico to Bejar. We see how these people initiated the township of San Fernando, guided its growth for generations and helped form many Texas traditions. And we follow their...
San Antonio, City for a King takes us on an extraordinary adventure through an amazingly unknown, yet expectantly fitting, piece of Texas' origins. We...
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50,31 |
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The Easter People: A Pen-Picture of the Moravian Celebration of the Resurrection
ISBN: 9781585499809 / Angielski / Miękka / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This slender volume presents a beautifully detailed description of Old Salem, North Carolina; its luxuriant landscape, its buildings, its Moravian history. The author has recorded "one stranger's impression of a Salem Easter, and of the Moravian faith." Chapters include: Old Salem Today, Good Friday in Salem, The Salem of the Past, and A Salem Easter. Several charming illustrations enliven this elegant narrative. "Anyone who has ever been an eye-witness of the beautiful Easter customs which these pages commemorate must feel how inadequate is any description of a Salem Easter. This account, in...
This slender volume presents a beautifully detailed description of Old Salem, North Carolina; its luxuriant landscape, its buildings, its Moravian his...
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51,79 |
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California's Channel Islands: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions
ISBN: 9781607812715 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to the Mexican border. Popular tourist destinations today, these islands once supported some of the earliest human populations in the Americas; archaeological evidence of maritime Paleo-Indian settlements on the northern islands dates back some 13,000 years. The indigenous peoples of the islands--the Chumash of the northern islands and the Tongva of the southern islands--thrived into historic times by relying upon the abundance and diversity of...
California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to th...
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264,47 |
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Our Ancient & Loving Ffriends: The Town of Southampton, New York's Relationship with the Shinnecock Indians, 1628-1920
ISBN: 9780788450242 / Angielski / Miękka / 178 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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92,79 |
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New York City 1964: A Cultural History
ISBN: 9780786479818 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. New York City 1964: A Cultural History is, as the title makes clear, a cultural history of New York City in the year 1964. The book focuses on five seminal events that occurred in the city that pivotal year: (1) the "British Invasion," i.e., arrival of The Beatles in New York in February; (2) the murder of Kitty Genovese in Queens in March; (3) the world's fair that ran in Queens between April and October; (4) the "race riots" in Brooklyn and Harlem in July; and (5) the world series in the Bronx between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals. Via an exploration of these five events-...
New York City 1964: A Cultural History is, as the title makes clear, a cultural history of New York City in the year 1964. The book focuses on five se...
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167,87 |
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Three Nations, One Place: A Comparative Ethnohistory of Social Change Among the Comanches and Hasinais During Spain's Colonial Era, 1689-1821
ISBN: 9780415762397 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In an intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanche's and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economics conditions and patterns of settlement, production and social reproduction.
In an intensive exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanche's and Caddoans during Spain's occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), Mc...
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244,84 |
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Mailboxes and Old Barns
ISBN: 9781490810881 / Angielski / Twarda / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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164,85 |
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Mailboxes and Old Barns
ISBN: 9781490810898 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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91,49 |
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Astoria
ISBN: 9781480020559 / Angielski / Miękka / 614 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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97,10 |
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Snapshots Along the Umpqua
ISBN: 9781480193000 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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80,92 |
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On Doing Local History, Third Edition
ISBN: 9780759123694 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For over thirty years, Carol Kammen's On Doing Local History has been a valuable guide to professional and "amateur" historians alike. First published in 1986, revised in 2003, this book offers not only discussion of practical matters, but also a deeper reflection on local, public history, what it means, and why it is done. It is used in classrooms and found on the shelves of local historians across the U.S. The third edition features: -Updates to chapters that focus on the current concerns and situation of local historians -A new chapter on how the field of history cooperates with other arts...
For over thirty years, Carol Kammen's On Doing Local History has been a valuable guide to professional and "amateur" historians alike. First published...
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411,41 |
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Philadelphia Quakers and the Antislavery Movement
ISBN: 9780786494071 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, like many wealthy colonists of the time, bought and sold slaves. But a movement to remove slavery from their midst, grew until they renounced the slave trade and freed their slaves--
The Quakers came to America in the 17th century to seek religious freedom. After years of struggle, they achieved success in various endeavors and, li...
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167,87 |
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The Ancestral Lines of James Edward Aiguier
ISBN: 9780985445218 / Angielski / Twarda / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. James Edward Aiguier was born in New York City. He was educated there and later in Philadelphia at the Evans Institute of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine. He would become a leading figure in his profession. This is the story of his paternal ancestry descending from four immigrants: Joshua Carter and Zechariah Field, both English Puritans, and Jean Francois Arnoux and Jean Baptiste Aiguier, both from the south of France. They and their offspring lived in the heart of the American story from 1630 to 1977 in the midst of important moments in its history. Carter and...
James Edward Aiguier was born in New York City. He was educated there and later in Philadelphia at the Evans Institute of the University of Pennsylvan...
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96,34 |
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History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier
ISBN: 9780875655871 / Angielski / Twarda / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall's book History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier is the story of the first seventy-five years of the institution. Tracing the evolution of Add Ran College to Add Ran University, and ultimately to Texas Christian University, Hall shows the struggles and success in the transformation of a frontier college dedicated to educating and developing Christian leadership for all walks of life to a university dedicated to facing the challenges imposed by a new world frontier following World War II.
Drawing... First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall's book History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier is the story ...
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132,95 |
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History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier
ISBN: 9780875655888 / Angielski / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall's book "History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier" is the story of the first seventy-five years of the institution. Tracing the evolution of Add Ran College to Add Ran University, and ultimately to Texas Christian University, Hall shows the struggles and success in the transformation of a frontier college dedicated to educating and developing Christian leadership for all walks of life to a university dedicated to facing the challenges imposed by a new world frontier following World War II.
Drawing upon... First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall's book "History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier" is the story of the ...
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88,11 |
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Once Upon a Time in Tampa...: Rise and Fall of the Cigar Industry...
ISBN: 9781481214377 / Angielski / Miękka / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Author, historian, and researcher, Wallace Reyes, Ph.D. presents for your consideration a 35 years of investigative work covering a series of events in his latest book, "Once Upon a Time - Rise and Fall of the Cigar Industry." It was in 1869 when Vicente Martinez Ybor, one of the most significant figures in the history of handmade cigars in Florida, established a cigar factory in Key West. He was Spaniard and fled Cuba, leaving behind his very successful operation after the colonial authorities discover his connections and support to the Cuban Revolution, under the advice of his accountant...
Author, historian, and researcher, Wallace Reyes, Ph.D. presents for your consideration a 35 years of investigative work covering a series of events i...
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101,12 |
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The Germans in Texas: A Study in Immigration
ISBN: 9781596412118 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reprinted from German American Annuals, Vol. VII). This work distinguishes itself from others for its scholarly and systematic approach to immigration in early Texas. It begins with early German Immigration from 1815 to 1848, and moves through the Early German Settlements, the various influences prompting German immigration to Texas, the numbers of Germans in Texas and their wages and industries, slavery and its affect and influences on the population, and the elements of the culture, including schools, newspapers, literature, religion, and various organizations and societies.
Reprinted from German American Annuals, Vol. VII). This work distinguishes itself from others for its scholarly and systematic approach to immigration...
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107,90 |
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The American Military on the Fronteir
ISBN: 9781478139805 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a book about the experiences of the air force on the frontier. It uses different perspectives illustrate the different ways the frontier was viewed. The planners of the symposium plan to address these different views.
This is a book about the experiences of the air force on the frontier. It uses different perspectives illustrate the different ways the frontier was v...
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76,84 |
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A Fateful Day in 1698: The Remarkable Sobaipuri-O'odham Victory Over the Apaches and Their Allies
ISBN: 9781607812869 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1698, the Apache and their allies attacked a sleeping Sobaipuri-O odham village on the San Pedro River at the northern edge of New Spain, now in southern Arizona. This book, about one of the most important Southwestern battles of the era in this region, reads like a mystery. At the same time, it addresses in a scholarly fashion the methodological question of how we can confidently infer anything reliable about the past.
Translations of original Spanish accounts by Father Kino and others convey important details about the battle, while the archaeological record and ethnographic and... In 1698, the Apache and their allies attacked a sleeping Sobaipuri-O odham village on the San Pedro River at the northern edge of New Spain, now in so...
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186,11 |
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California's Channel Islands: The Archaeology of Human-Environment Interactions
ISBN: 9781607813088 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to the Mexican border. Popular tourist destinations today, these islands once supported some of the earliest human populations in the Americas; archaeological evidence of maritime Paleo-Indian settlements on the northern islands dates back some 13,000 years. The indigenous peoples of the islands--the Chumash of the northern islands and the Tongva of the southern islands--thrived into historic times by relying upon the abundance and diversity of...
California's Channel Islands are a chain of eight islands that extend along the state's southern coastline from Santa Barbara's Point Conception to th...
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97,90 |
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