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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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143,77 zł |
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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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184,84 zł |
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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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189,23 zł |
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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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107,26 zł |
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French Colonial Archaeology: The Illinois Country and the Western Great Lakes
ISBN: 9780252017971 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This wide-ranging book is the first to offer--in one volume--detailed results of many of the investigations of French colonial sites made in the mid-continent during the last decade. It includes work done at Fort St. Louis, Fort de Chartres, Fort Massac, French Peoria, Cahokia, Prairie du Pont, Prairie du Rocher, and other locations controlled by the French during a time when their dominance in North America was more than twice that of Britain and Spain combined.
This wide-ranging book is the first to offer--in one volume--detailed results of many of the investigations of French colonial sites made in the mid-c...
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190,23 zł |
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The History of Development of Building Construction in Chicago
ISBN: 9780252024160 / Angielski / Twarda / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long regarded as the definitive catalogue of Chicago architecture, The History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a treasure trove of architectural and engineering information about buildings in Chicago's central business and residential district. Generations have relied on the Randall book as the most authoritative and comprehensive guide to buildings in the Chicago central area. This edition is updated with information about fifty additional buildings from the time frame of the original text, 1830-1949; new data for four hundred buildings from the period 1950-98; and...
Long regarded as the definitive catalogue of Chicago architecture, The History of the Development of Building Construction in Chicago is a treasure tr...
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258,52 zł |
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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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92,63 zł |
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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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102,39 zł |
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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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121,89 zł |
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Chicago and the Old Northwest, 1673-1835
ISBN: 9780252069703 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this sweeping survey, Milo Milton Quaife traces the events leading from Chicago's emergence as a key outpost at the edge of the frontier to its establishment as the crossroads of American commerce.
Quaife narrates the opening of trade and the course of European exploration, facilitated by the Chicago portage and subsequent construction of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. He profiles the personalities who shaped the early Chicago area, from the French explorers La Salle, Marquette, and Joliet to the ambitious Champlain, who set the course for decades to come by securing for New France the... In this sweeping survey, Milo Milton Quaife traces the events leading from Chicago's emergence as a key outpost at the edge of the frontier to its est...
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146,29 zł |
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Ohio: A History
ISBN: 9780252070174 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on the people who stamped the state with their vision, this book captures the vibrancy and ingenuity of Ohio's inventors, manufacturers, leaders and dreamers, as well as the consequences, for the land and its inhabitants, of unchecked industrial excesses.
Focusing on the people who stamped the state with their vision, this book captures the vibrancy and ingenuity of Ohio's inventors, manufacturers, lead...
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102,39 zł |
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Wisconsin: A History
ISBN: 9780252070181 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A haven for summer tourists, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. This title chronicles how Wisconsin's homegrown ideas, from the 'Wisconsin Idea' of efficient state government to ski-tows and speedometers, made their way into the broader marketplace of American culture.
A haven for summer tourists, Wisconsin is famed for its physical beauty and its prodigious production of cheese and dairy products. This title chronic...
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82,88 zł |
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Illinois: A History
ISBN: 9780252070211 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its history exhibits basic conflicts that had much to do with shaping American society in general.
Offers a wide-angle view that expands our perspective on Illinois history. This book treats Illinois as a microcosm of the nation, arguing that its hi...
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87,75 zł |
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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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82,88 zł |
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Indiana: A History
ISBN: 9780252071461 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For much of Indiana's history, its distinctiveness has lain in its typicality. It has embodied values and behavior that are specifically American. This history traces the history of the Hoosier state, revealing its most significant contributions to the nation as a whole, while also exploring the unique character of its land and people.
For much of Indiana's history, its distinctiveness has lain in its typicality. It has embodied values and behavior that are specifically American. Thi...
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63,37 zł |
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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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71,83 zł |
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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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136,53 zł |
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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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102,39 zł |
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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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68,24 zł |
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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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58,49 zł |
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