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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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86,09 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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65,82 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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75,96 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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141,83 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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106,37 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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70,90 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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60,75 zł |
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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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81,03 zł |
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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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81,03 zł |
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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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96,23 zł |
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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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50,62 zł |
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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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111,43 zł |
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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 |
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Indiana History: A Book of Readings
ISBN: 9780253281913 / Angielski / Miękka / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. These readings provide an overview of Indiana history based upon primary and secondary acounts of significant events and personalities. This treasure trove includes work by George Rogers Clark, Emma Lou Thornbrough, George Ade, Dan Wakefield, and many more. These readings provide an overview of Indiana history based upon primary and secondary acounts of significant events and personalities. This treasu... |
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111,43 zł |
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The Indiana Book of Records, Firsts, and Fascinating Facts
ISBN: 9780253283207 / Angielski / Miękka / 374 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What the Guinness brothers have done for the records of the world, this book does for Indiana, whose resourceful inhabitants have blazed a bright trail of accomplishments in nearly every field. There is wonderful whimsy in this census of people who excel, excite, enthrall, and exceed the expectations of even the most eager Hoosierphile. What the Guinness brothers have done for the records of the world, this book does for Indiana, whose resourceful inhabitants have blazed a bright t... |
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101,29 zł |
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The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region
ISBN: 9780253315250 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Cayton and Onuf have tried to recapture a central place for region in our thinking while, at the same time, incorporating into their analysis the latest scholarship on gender, political behavior, etc. Theirs is a fine blending of the old and the new: old scholarship and new directions." --Malcolm J. Rohrbough "This is an ambitious work that... truly beongs on the 'must do' reading list of all midwestern and American historians." --American Historical Review ..". an impressive interpretive work that will command the attention of regional historians and national scholars alike."... "Cayton and Onuf have tried to recapture a central place for region in our thinking while, at the same time, incorporating into their analysis the ... |
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157,09 zł |
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All We Had Was Each Other: The Black Community of Madison, Indiana
ISBN: 9780253334282 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A remarkable, poignant collection." --Choice "This oral history of black Madison is an invaluable primary document for students, general readers, and scholars. Interestingly it illuminates the white side of Madison as much as it reveals about what transpired in the black community." --Darlene Clark Hine, from the Foreword Twenty Black residents of a small Ohio River town here tell the stories of their lives. Madison, though in the North, had its cultural roots in the south, and for most of the twentieth century the town was strictly segregated. In their own words, Black men... "A remarkable, poignant collection." --Choice "This oral history of black Madison is an invaluable primary document for students, general rea... |
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121,57 zł |
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Tennessee Frontiers: Three Regions in Transition
ISBN: 9780253339850 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This chronicle of the formation of Tennessee from indigenous settlements to the closing of the frontier in 1840 begins with an account of the prehistoric frontiers and a millennia-long habitation by Native Americans. The rest of the book deals with Tennessee's historic period beginning with the incursion of Hernando de Soto's Spanish army in 1540. John R. Finger follows two narratives of the creation and closing of the frontier. The first starts with the early interaction of Native Americans and Euro-Americans and ends when the latter effectively gained the upper hand. The last land... This chronicle of the formation of Tennessee from indigenous settlements to the closing of the frontier in 1840 begins with an account of the prehi... |
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159,97 zł |
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Florida's Frontiers
ISBN: 9780253340191 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of water, soil, flora and fauna, the patterns of Native American occupation, and ways of colonizing have defined Florida's frontiers. Paul E. Hoffman tells the story of those frontiers and how the land and the people shaped them during the three centuries from 1565 to 1860. For settlers to La Florida, the American Southeast ca. 1500, better natural and human resources were found on the piedmont and on the western side of Florida's central... Florida has had many frontiers. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, and diplomacy have created its historical boundaries. Bodies of ... |
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176,02 zł |
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River of Enterprise: The Commercial Origins of Regional Identity in the Ohio Valley, 1790-1850
ISBN: 9780253341327 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Gruenwald's book will make the same contribution to historical knowledge of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier Merchant did for our understanding of the mercantile Midwest in the mid-nineteenth century.... a finely crafted narrative that lets the reader understand that the Ohio River always served more as an artery, that is, a river of commerce, than a dividing line or boundary." --R. Douglas Hurt, author of The Ohio Frontier River of Enterprise explores the role the Ohio played in the lives of three generations of settlers from the river's headwaters at Pittsburgh,... "Gruenwald's book will make the same contribution to historical knowledge of the Ohio Valley as Lewis Atherton's Frontier Merchant did for our unde... |
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116,50 zł |