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The Death of an American Jewish Community : A Tragedy of Good Intentions
ISBN: 9780029138663 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In 1967, leaders of the Boston establishment decided to open the city's neighbourhoods by making mortgage funds available to blacks who wanted to build or buy houses there. But this goal was to be achieved by the private understanding that these mortgages would be available only in Boston's established Jewish neighbourhoods, such as Mattapan. This policy quickly wiped out the tightly knit Jewish areas in Dorchester and nearby Roxbury, once home to 90,000 Jews. Tragically, few of the new black residents of the area acquired adequate housing, security or education for their families, and the...
In 1967, leaders of the Boston establishment decided to open the city's neighbourhoods by making mortgage funds available to blacks who wanted to buil...
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104,59 zł |
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Alaska: Saga of a Bold Land
ISBN: 9780060503079 / Angielski / Miękka / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 9-16 dni roboczych. The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuable resources should be used: Russians exploiting a fur empire; explorers checking rival advances; prospectors stampeding to the clarion call of "Gold "; soldiers battling out a decisive chapter in world war; oil wildcatters looking for a different kind of mineral wealth; and always at the core of these disputes is the question of how the land is to be used and by whom. While some want Alaska to remain static, others are in the vanguard of... The history of Alaska is filled with stories of new land and new riches -- and ever present are new people with competing views over how the valuab... |
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68,84 zł |
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Where Peachtree Meets Sweet Auburn
ISBN: 9780140265095 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 9-16 dni roboczych. "A fascinating tale of two cities told through the rise of two of Atlanta's most illustrious political families...highly significant in what it reveals about ambition, hard work, success, and race relations."--David Levering Lewis.
"A fascinating tale of two cities told through the rise of two of Atlanta's most illustrious political families...highly significant in what it reveal...
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80,85 zł |
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Notes on the State of Virginia
ISBN: 9780140436679 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 9-16 dni roboczych. Jefferson's chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and...
Jefferson's chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a...
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68,88 zł |
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The Reader's Companion to Alaska
ISBN: 9780156003681 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 9-16 dni roboczych. The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glimpses Glacier Bay; Jon Krakauer marvels at the sight of a grizzly s footprints in the snow; Erma Bombeck comments on the cruise from hell, and more. Map.
" The Alaskan frontier is revealed at its most inspiring and unforgiving, through the eyes of its awestruck visitors. An enraptured John Muir first glim...
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92,62 zł |
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Middletown in Transition: A Study in Cultural Conflicts
ISBN: 9780156595513 / Angielski / Miękka / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The two classic studies of "Middletown" were pioneering works that examined the daily life of a typical small American city -- in actuality, Muncie, Indiana -- using the approach of social anthropology. The initial volume was published in the mid-1920s, when H. L. Mencken called it "one of the richest and most valuable documents ever concocted by American sociologists." The sequel, Middletown in Transition, returned to the same community in 1935, after six years of the Depression. Of enduring interest to students of sociology, these historic studies have also inspired a six-part television...
The two classic studies of "Middletown" were pioneering works that examined the daily life of a typical small American city -- in actuality, Muncie, I...
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116,76 zł |
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Content Area Readers: Two Villages: Two Hundred Years Apart
ISBN: 9780194309523 / Angielski / Miękka / 22 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 25-30 dni roboczych. The readers expand student's command of the vocabulary, language and concepts used in teaching math, history, science and social studies.
Pre-reading and post-reading exercises and glossary reinforce reading comprehension, vocabulary and language structures. The Teacher's Book includes reproducible pages for additional practice and reinforcement of vocabulary and language. Color art includes diagrams, photos, graphic organizers and illustrations. The readers expand student's command of the vocabulary, language and concepts used in teaching math, history, science and social studies.
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39,49 zł |
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Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England, 1500-1643
ISBN: 9780195034547 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Making a radical departure form traditional approaches to colonial American history, this book looks back at Indian-white relations from the perspective of the Indians themselves. In doing so, Salisbury reaches some startling new conclusions about a period of crucial-yet often overlooked-contact between two irreconcilably different cultures.
Making a radical departure form traditional approaches to colonial American history, this book looks back at Indian-white relations from the perspecti...
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342,23 zł |
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Prodigal Sons : The New York Intellectuals and Their World
ISBN: 9780195036626 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics like Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip Rahv, and William Phillips; social scientists like Nathan Glazer; art critics and historians Clement Greenberg, Harold Rrosenberg, and Meyer Schapiro; novelist Saul Bellow; and political journalists Irving Kristol and Norman Podhoretz. Their story winds through nearly all of the crucial intellectual and political events of the last...
"A herd of independent minds," Harold Roseberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinati...
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560,36 zł |
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Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915
ISBN: 9780195042337 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and symbolic impact it has had not only on Californians but also on the rest of the country.
Examining California's formative years, this innovative study seeks to discover the origins of the California dream and the social, psychological, and...
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230,74 zł |
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Mill Family : The Labor System in the Southern Cotton Textile Industry, 1880-1915
ISBN: 9780195042993 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The growing cotton textile industry of the postbellum South required a stable and reliable work force made up of laborers with varied skills. At the same time, Southern agriculture was in a depressed state. Families, especially those with many children, were therefore forced to look for work in the textile mills. Mill managers, in their own interest, created the basis for a distinctive social and economic structure: the Southern cotton mill village. These villages, which included such accoutrements as good schools for the children, were paternalistic work environments designed to attract this...
The growing cotton textile industry of the postbellum South required a stable and reliable work force made up of laborers with varied skills. At the s...
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873,18 zł |
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Material Dreams : Southern California through the 1920s
ISBN: 9780195044874 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The first two installments of his monumental cultural history, "Americans and the California Dream," have been hailed as "mature, well-proportioned and marvelously diverse (and diverting)" (The New York Times Book Review) and "rich in details and alive with interesting, and sometimes incredible people" (Los Angeles Times). Now, in Material Dreams, Starr turns to one of the most vibrant decades in the Golden State's history,...
Kevin Starr is the foremost chronicler of the California dream and indeed one of the finest narrative historians writing today on any subject. The fir...
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370,44 zł |
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Freedom by Degrees : Emancipation in Eighteenth-Century Pennsylvania and its Aftermath
ISBN: 9780195045833 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the injustice of holding slaves. Lawmakers debated abolition, masters considered freeing their slaves, and slaves emancipated themselves by running away. But by 1800, of states south of New England, only Pennsylvania had extricated itself from slavery, the triumph, historians have argued, of Quaker moralism and the philosophy of natural rights. With exhaustive research of individual acts of freedom, slave escapes, legislative action, and...
During the revolutionary era, in the midst of the struggle for liberty from Great Britain, Americans up and down the Atlantic seaboard confronted the ...
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817,32 zł |
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Bloody Dawn : The Christiana Riots and Racial Violence of the Antebellum North
ISBN: 9780195046342 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years later, Gorsuch lay dead outside the farmhouse in Christiana where he'd tracked them down, as his federal posse retreated pell-mell before the armed might of local blacks--and the impact of the most notorious act of resistance against the federal Fugitive Slave Law was about to be felt across a divided nation.
Bloody Dawn vividly tells this dramatic story of escape, manhunt, riot, and the ensuing trial, detailing its importance in... When four young men, slaves on Edward Gorsuch's Maryland farm, escaped to rural Pennsylvania in 1849, the owner swore he'd bring them back. Two years ...
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448,64 zł |
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Salmon P. Chase: A Biography
ISBN: 9780195046533 / Angielski / Twarda / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end slavery, a brilliant administrator who as Lincoln's Secretary of the Treasury provided crucial funding for a vastly expensive war, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the turmoil of Reconstruction, and the presiding officer of the impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson. Yet he was also a complex figure. As John Niven reveals in this magisterial biography, Chase was a paradoxical blend of idealism and ambition. If he stood for the...
Salmon P. Chase was one of the preeminent men of 19th-century America. A majestic figure, tall and stately, Chase was a leader in the fight to end sla...
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398,37 zł |
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A Voice from the South
ISBN: 9780195052466 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This collection of essays (1891) is a statement of black feminist thought in the nineteenth century, and is considered to be one of the original texts of the black feminist movement. Cooper came of age in a period of conservatism in the black community, a time when Afro-American intellectual and political ideas were dominated by men. At the heart of her work is a belief that the status of black women, the most oppressed group of all, is the only true measure of collective racial progress.
This collection of essays (1891) is a statement of black feminist thought in the nineteenth century, and is considered to be one of the original texts...
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549,19 zł |
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A Family Venture : Men and Women on the Southern Frontier
ISBN: 9780195053449 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Based upon extensive research in planter family papers, Cashin studies how the sexes went to the frontier with diverging agendas: men tried to escape the family, while women tried to preserve it. On the frontier, men usually settled far from relatives, leaving women lonely and disoriented in a strange environment. As kinship networks broke down, sex roles changed, and relations between men and women became more inequitable. Migration also changed race...
This book is about the different ways that men and women experienced migration from the Southern seaboard to the antebellum Southern frontier. Based u...
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705,60 zł |
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Ghosts of the Confederacy : Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South 1865 to 1913
ISBN: 9780195054200 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar Confederate rituals such as memorial day observances, monument unveilings, and veterans' reunions, Ghosts of the Confederacy probes into how white southerners adjusted to and interpreted their defeat and explores the cultural implications of a central event in American history. Foster argues that, contrary...
After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defe...
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286,37 zł |
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Aspirations and Anxieties : New England Workers and the Mechanized Factory System 1815-1850
ISBN: 9780195057478 / Angielski / Twarda / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on the operatives' perceptions of technological and socio-economic changes in the mechanized workplace. The study uncovers a complex debate over many facets of the factory system--the machines and factory buildings, wages and hours, relations between managers and workers, and the content and character of protest. Finally, the book argues that the roots of this debate lie in the struggle to define the meaning of work itself in a period of profound...
Aspirations and Anxieties is a working class intellectual history of early factory operatives in antebellum New England. The book focuses on ...
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901,11 zł |
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Neither Wolf Nor Dog : American Indians, Environment, and Agrarian Change
ISBN: 9780195062977 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reservation, and directed culture change. Policies for directed subsistence change and incorporation had far-reaching social and environmental consequences for native peoples and native lands. This study explores the experiences of three groups--Northern Utes, Hupas, and Tohono O'odhams--with settled reservation and allotted agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Each group inhabited a different environment, and their cultural...
During the nineteenth century, Americans looked to the eventual civilization and assimilation of Native Americans through a process of removal, reserv...
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873,18 zł |
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