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Mountain People in a Flat Land: A Popular History of Appalachian Migration to Northeast Ohio, 1940-1965
ISBN: 9780821412305 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival. In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountai... |
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96,90 |
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Ohio on the Move: Transportation in the Buckeye State
ISBN: 9780821412831 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few American states can match the rich and diverse transportation heritage of Ohio. Every major form of public conveyance eventually served the Buckeye state. From the Canal Age to the Interurban Era, Ohio emerged as a national leader. The state's central location, abundant natural resources, impressive wealth, shrewd business leadership, and episodes of good fortune explain the dynamic nature of its transport past.
"Ohio on the Move" is the first systematic scholarly account of the transportation history of Ohio. To date, little has appeared on several subjects discussed here, including... Few American states can match the rich and diverse transportation heritage of Ohio. Every major form of public conveyance eventually served the Buckey...
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163,30 |
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Ohio on the Move: Transportation in the Buckeye State
ISBN: 9780821412848 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Few American states can match the rich and diverse transportation heritage of Ohio. Every major form of public conveyance eventually served the Buckeye state. From the Canal Age to the Interurban Era, Ohio emerged as a national leader. The state's central location, abundant natural resources, impressive wealth, shrewd business leadership, and episodes of good fortune explain the dynamic nature of its transport past. Ohio on the Move is the first systematic scholarly account of the transportation history of Ohio. To date, little has appeared on several subjects discussed here, including...
Few American states can match the rich and diverse transportation heritage of Ohio. Every major form of public conveyance eventually served the Buckey...
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126,00 |
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Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941
ISBN: 9780821413753 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North American Dust Bowl of the dirty thirties unearthed anxieties buried deep in America's ecological imagination. Moreover, the images of a landscape of fear remain embedded in the national consciousness today. In vivid form, the aesthetic of suffering captured in Dorothea Lange's photographs and Woody Guthrie's folk songs created the myths and memories of the Depression generation.
"Dust Bowl, USA" is a critical examination of the stories that grew out of the Dust Bowl experience. Across the nation, newspapers,... Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North American Dust Bowl of the dirty thirties unearthed anxieties buried ...
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184,22 |
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Dust Bowl, USA: Depression America and the Ecological Imagination, 1929-1941
ISBN: 9780821413760 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An in-depth look at the historical truth behind the popular myths Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North American Dust Bowl of the dirty thirties unearthed deep anxieities buried in America's ecological imagination. Moreover, the anxieties about a landscape of fear remain embedded in the national consciousness today. In vivid form, the aesthetic of suffering captured in Dorothea Lange's photographs and Wood Guthrie's folk songs made the myths and memories of the Depression generation. Dust Bowl, USA is a critical examination of the stories that grew...
An in-depth look at the historical truth behind the popular myths Whether romantic or tragic, accounts of the dramatic events surrounding the North Am...
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77,52 |
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Buckeye Women : The History of Ohio's Daughters
ISBN: 9780821413906 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By the last two decades of the twentieth century, Ohio women had held positions as university presidents, chief executive officers, judges, superintendents of schools, and lieutenant governor. They had won Pulitzer Prizes and, in one case, the Nobel Prize for Literature.
But these women stood on the shoulders of those who came before: the pioneering women who helped tame the Ohio frontier, who filled the breach, who worked for reform, and who struggled for their own rights as citizens of one of the most prosperous states in the Union. "Buckeye Women" is an accessible and comprehensive... By the last two decades of the twentieth century, Ohio women had held positions as university presidents, chief executive officers, judges, superinten...
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242,39 |
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A Walk in the Park: Greater Cleveland's New and Reclaimed Green Spaces
ISBN: 9780821414064 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Cleveland area is rightly famed for its Emerald Necklace, an almost continuous corridor of parklands, largely assembled during the first half of the twentieth century, that encircles the central city. Less appreciated is the recent revitalization of the parks-building movement that has taken place in northeastern Ohio. Over the past twenty-five years, Greater Clevelanders in diverse settings have been hard at work creating what promises to become a regional urban parks system, unparalleled in the nation. "A Walk in the Park" names and applauds these unsung heroes for their vision,...
The Cleveland area is rightly famed for its Emerald Necklace, an almost continuous corridor of parklands, largely assembled during the first half of t...
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72,67 |
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An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture
ISBN: 9780821414323 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Old Northwest - the region now known as the Midwest - has been largely overlooked in American cultural history, represented as a place smoothly assimilated into the expanding, Manifestly Destined nation. An American Colony: Regionalism and the Roots of Midwestern Culture studies the primary texts and principal conflicts of the settlement of the Old Northwest to reveal that its entry into the nation's culture was not without problems. In fact, Edward Watts argues that it is best understood as a colony of the United States, just as the eastern states were colonies of the British Empire....
The Old Northwest - the region now known as the Midwest - has been largely overlooked in American cultural history, represented as a place smoothly as...
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223,00 |
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Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women's Studies
ISBN: 9780821415771 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Studies Unites With Appalachian Studies in Beyond Hill and Hollow, the first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia's women. Featuring the work of historians, linguists, sociologists, performance artists, literary critics, theater scholars, and others, the collection portrays the diverse cultures of Appalachian women. The chapters in Beyond Hill and Hollow examine the hidden lives of Appalachian prostitutes, urban Appalachian women in the 1800s, rural women in company towns, and an African American Appalachian poet from the 1900s. Contributors look at Appalachian opera...
Women's Studies Unites With Appalachian Studies in Beyond Hill and Hollow, the first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia's women. Featu...
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242,39 |
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Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women's Studies
ISBN: 9780821415788 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Women's Studies Unites With Appalachian Studies in Beyond Hill and Hollow, the first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia's women. Featuring the work of historians, linguists, sociologists, performance artists, literary critics, theater scholars, and others, the collection portrays the diverse cultures of Appalachian women. The chapters in Beyond Hill and Hollow examine the hidden lives of Appalachian prostitutes, urban Appalachian women in the 1800s, rural women in company towns, and an African American Appalachian poet from the 1900s. Contributors look at Appalachian opera...
Women's Studies Unites With Appalachian Studies in Beyond Hill and Hollow, the first book to focus exclusively on studies of Appalachia's women. Featu...
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111,45 |
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An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature
ISBN: 9780821415900 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The blossoming of Appalachian studies began some thirty years ago. Thousands of young people from the hills have since been made aware of their region's rich literary tradition through high school and college courses. An entire generation has discovered that their own landscapes, families, and communities had been truthfully portrayed by writers whose background was similar to their own.
"An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature" is an anthology of literary criticism of Appalachian novelists, poets, and playwrights. The book reprises critical writing of influential... The blossoming of Appalachian studies began some thirty years ago. Thousands of young people from the hills have since been made aware of their region...
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126,00 |
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Russia's American Colony
ISBN: 9780822306887 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American, Canadian, and Soviet scholars gathered in Sitka under the auspices of the Kenan Institute to review and reinterpret the history of tsarist Russia's colonial outpost in Alaska. The result is this comprehensive examination of that history, which goes beyond the traditional concentration on political and diplomatic history by treating the economy, society, and culture of Alaska during the Russian period.
American, Canadian, and Soviet scholars gathered in Sitka under the auspices of the Kenan Institute to review and reinterpret the history of tsarist R...
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242,39 |
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Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915
ISBN: 9780822313595 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called the Black Patch for the dark tobacco grown there, big business arrived with a vengeance, eliminating competition, manipulating prices, and undermining local control. The farmers fought back. "Night Riders" tells the story of the struggle that followed, and reveals the ambiguities and complexities of a drama that convulsed this community for over two decades.
Christopher Waldrep shows that, contrary to many accounts, these wealthy tobacco... In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called th...
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441,16 |
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Night Riders: Defending Community in the Black Patch, 1890-1915
ISBN: 9780822313939 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called the Black Patch for the dark tobacco grown there, big business arrived with a vengeance, eliminating competition, manipulating prices, and undermining local control. The farmers fought back. "Night Riders" tells the story of the struggle that followed, and reveals the ambiguities and complexities of a drama that convulsed this community for over two decades.
Christopher Waldrep shows that, contrary to many accounts, these wealthy tobacco... In the late nineteenth century, industrialization was making its way into rural America. In an agricultural region of Kentucky and Tennessee called th...
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101,76 |
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The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living with the Shores of Oregon and Washington
ISBN: 9780822320104 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the coast of the Pacific Northwest becomes populated with houses, condominiums, motels, and restaurants, its beaches and cliffs continue to be altered by ocean currents and winter storms. A companion volume to "Living with the Shore of Puget Sound and the Georgia Strait," "The Pacific Northwest Coast" serves as a source of information about the coast of the Pacific Northwest, its geological setting, the natural responses of beaches and cliffs to ocean processes, and the ever-present problem of erosion.
In this guide, Paul D. Komar, one of the nation's leading coastal oceanographers,... While the coast of the Pacific Northwest becomes populated with houses, condominiums, motels, and restaurants, its beaches and cliffs continue to be a...
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441,16 |
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Living with the Coast of Alaska
ISBN: 9780822320197 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Facing two oceans and three seas, Alaska's coastline stretches through bays, fjords, and around islands for 45,000 miles. "Living with the Coast of Alaska," a new volume in the "Living with the Shore" series, is a user's guide for both present and future inhabitants of Alaska. Providing individual property owners in all regions of the state with the fundamentals of hazard recognition and mitigation strategy, the authors discuss the geological history of Alaska and its relation to the area's cultural history and present customized hazard risk assessments for coastal communities.
Describing... Facing two oceans and three seas, Alaska's coastline stretches through bays, fjords, and around islands for 45,000 miles. "Living with the Coast of Al...
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111,45 |
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The Pacific Northwest Coast: Living with the Shores of Oregon and Washington
ISBN: 9780822320203 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While the coast of the Pacific Northwest becomes populated with houses, condominiums, motels, and restaurants, its beaches and cliffs continue to be altered by ocean currents and winter storms. A companion volume to "Living with the Shore of Puget Sound and the Georgia Strait," "The Pacific Northwest Coast" serves as a source of information about the coast of the Pacific Northwest, its geological setting, the natural responses of beaches and cliffs to ocean processes, and the ever-present problem of erosion.
In this guide, Paul D. Komar, one of the nation's leading coastal oceanographers,... While the coast of the Pacific Northwest becomes populated with houses, condominiums, motels, and restaurants, its beaches and cliffs continue to be a...
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116,30 |
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Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
ISBN: 9780822326861 / Angielski / Twarda / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Turning South Again" the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book "Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, " Baker combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions--particularly that of...
In "Turning South Again" the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a...
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402,37 |
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Turning South Again: Re-Thinking Modernism/Re-Reading Booker T.
ISBN: 9780822326953 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In "Turning South Again" the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a revisionist account of the struggle for black modernism in the United States. With a take on the work of Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute surprisingly different from that in his earlier book "Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, " Baker combines historical considerations with psychoanalysis, personal memoir, and whiteness studies to argue that the American South and its regulating institutions--particularly that of...
In "Turning South Again" the distinguished and award-winning essayist, poet, and scholar of African American literature Houston A. Baker, Jr. offers a...
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111,45 |
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Permeable Border: The Great Lakes Basin as Transnational Region 1650-1990
ISBN: 9780822942610 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through nineteenth-century changes in transportation and communication, to globalization, the history of the Great Lakes Basin has been shaped by the people, goods, and capital crossing and recrossing the U.S.-Canadian border. During the past three centuries, the region has been buffeted by efforts to benefit from or defeat economic and political integration and by the politics of imposing, tightening, or relaxing the bisecting international border. Where tariff policy was used in the early national period to open the border for agricultural... From the colonial era of waterborne transport, through nineteenth-century changes in transportation and communication, to globalization, the histor... |
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287,35 |
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