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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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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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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192,02 zł |
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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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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Black Labor in Richmond, 1865-1890
ISBN: 9780252060267 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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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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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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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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The Angel and the Serpent: The Story of New Harmony
ISBN: 9780253203267 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and the Owenites." Henry Steele Commager, The New York Times Book Review Here is the story of George Rapp's German Harmonists and Robert Owen's Idealists the two vastly different communities that shaped the history of New Harmony, Indiana Both the Rappites and the Owenites came to New Harmony to conduct communal living experiments Rapp expecting the millennium; Owen believing he had brought the millennium with him. ""The Angel and the Serpent is a book which combines scholarship and literary grace, and which recreates for us both the world of the Rappites and t... |
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Chicago Politics Ward by Ward
ISBN: 9780253204905 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "It does not belong on a shelf but in the hands of community activists, politicians, reporters and campaign workers who want to get a better understanding of ward politics in Chicago." Lawndale News-West Side Times ..". enough lively tidbits in a breezily written way to keep any Chicago City Council political junkie awake." Pioneer Press ..". in Chicago Politics Ward by Ward, the system reveals the bizarre adaptations usually associated with life on a coral reef. If you can t believe these guys really exist, look again." Chicago Magazine "All told, a most useful and... "It does not belong on a shelf but in the hands of community activists, politicians, reporters and campaign workers who want to get a better unders... |
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The Indiana Way: A State History
ISBN: 9780253206091 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a splendid example of how to write well balanced, highly readable state history. -- The Old NorthwestMadison has succeeded as have few other authors of state histories in blending modern scholarly concerns with the traditional narrative historiography of his state. This book is in many ways a model state history. -- ChoiceNeither too detailed and provincial, nor too broad and comparative, The Indiana Way adopts an integrated analytical approach, but also includes some narrative and biography. -- Journal of American History
This is a splendid example of how to write well balanced, highly readable state history. -- The Old NorthwestMadison has succeeded as have few other a...
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Amazing Tales from Indiana
ISBN: 9780253206589 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". freaky and fascinating... Cavinder is a storyteller with an engaging sense of humor." Gary (IN) Post-Tribune "Because the contents of this eminently readable book cover many people, places, and events there is something for every reader young and old." Madison Courier It's Ripley's with a Hoosier twist Fred Cavinder has put together a group of findings and stories, some kooky and strange, some from the twilight zone, some historical oddities and fascinations, all gleaned from Indiana. Submitted for your consideration: the blind man who designed and built an automobile, the... ..". freaky and fascinating... Cavinder is a storyteller with an engaging sense of humor." Gary (IN) Post-Tribune "Because the contents of th... |
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The Indiana Home
ISBN: 9780253207425 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". the best account of how life was lived on the frontier of the Old Northwest that I have ever read... it will deepen your understanding of the American inheritance." Harper s These sketches tell of early settlement by a variety of movers seeking homes in a Beulah land, of the raising of rough cabins in primitive clearings, of farm life in the 1850s, and of the growth of politics and government. Logan Esarey, born in Perry County, Indiana, in 1873, was a pioneer in the development of regional history. "..". the best account of how life was lived on the frontier of the Old Northwest that I have ever read... it will deepen your understanding of the ... |
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65,82 zł |
Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780253208927 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Parman brings fresh life to some well-worked topics, while illuminating lesser-known developments of the postwar period and contextualizing Indian concerns within broader governmental and social dynamics. Both specialists and general readers will appreciate his succinct, informed treatment of 'the Indian problem' in the United States." -Gateway Heritage "Parman's accomplishment lies in his ability to synthesize the saga of the numerous interactions among those seeking dominance.... Parman's balanced and comprehensive overview provides a handy guide to the subject for upper-division... "Parman brings fresh life to some well-worked topics, while illuminating lesser-known developments of the postwar period and contextualizing Indian... |
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Navajo Sacred Places
ISBN: 9780253208934 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Kelley and Francis clearly and comprehensivly address a timely topic, illuminating superbly the inexorable linkage between preserving American Indian cultures and protecting sites endowed with spiritual significance." --Choice "This is an exceptional ethnography of the Navajos' relationship to their land... "--The Reader's Review "The authors succeed admirably in their goal to investigate Navajo oral traditions in relation to place." --Raymond J. DeMallie An engaging blend of anthropological study and firsthand account takes readers into the heart of the Navajo's... "Kelley and Francis clearly and comprehensivly address a timely topic, illuminating superbly the inexorable linkage between preserving American Ind... |
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Cleveland, Second Edition: A Concise History, 1796-1996
ISBN: 9780253211477 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This highly successful short history of Cleveland has now been revised and brought up to date through 1996, the bicentennial year, including two new chapters, and new illustrations and charts. This highly successful short history of Cleveland has now been revised and brought up to date through 1996, the bicentennial year, including two ne... |
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Middletown Jews: The Tenuous Survival of an American Jewish Community
ISBN: 9780253212061 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Middletown Jews... takes us, through nineteen fascinating interviews done in 1979, into the lives led by mainly first generation American Jews in a small mid-western city." San Diego Jewish Times ..". this brief work speaks volumes about the uncertain future of small-town American Jewry." Choice "The book offers a touching portrait that admirably fills gaps, not just in Middletown itself but in histories in general." Indianapolis Star ..". a welcome addition to the small but growing number of monographs covering local aspects of American Jewish history." Kirkus... "Middletown Jews... takes us, through nineteen fascinating interviews done in 1979, into the lives led by mainly first generation American Jews in ... |
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Frontier Indiana
ISBN: 9780253212177 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Frontier Indiana Andrew R. L. Cayton "The research and scholarship that went into the work are excellent; so good, in fact, that the book should be on the required text list for all Transappalachian frontier courses." History Cayton s lively new history of the frontier period in Indiana puts the focus on people, on how they lived, how they viewed their world, and what motivated them. Here are the stories of Sieur de Vincennes, John Francis Hamtramck, Little Turtle, Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, Tenskwatawa, Calvin Fletcher along with many more familiar (and not so... Frontier Indiana Andrew R. L. Cayton "The research and scholarship that went into the work are excellent; so good, in fact, that the bo... |
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Pink Houses and Family Taverns
ISBN: 9780253215222 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..". Becky Bradway writes compellingly about the place where she was raised and still lives, but she also knows that the hidden component of place is time and its ceaseless motion and the motion it spawns in all of us. On these many stable planes, we are always passing through." Much of what inspires Pink Houses and Family Taverns, a collection of creative nonfiction by Becky Bradway, is the author s upbringing in rural southern Illinois. Coming of age among a family of carpenters, housewives, and factory workers, Bradway works to get an... ..". Becky Bradway writes compellingly about the place where she was raised and still lives, but she also knows that the hidden component of place ... |
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45,56 zł |