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That Disturbances Cease: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, 1697-1700
ISBN: 9780826321435 / Angielski / Twarda / 503 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Documents the legal manoeuvring at Santa Fe, Mexico City, and Madrid, as sitting governor, former governor, and groups of contending colonists struggle to make themselves heard and advance their interests.
Documents the legal manoeuvring at Santa Fe, Mexico City, and Madrid, as sitting governor, former governor, and groups of contending colonists struggl...
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241,40 |
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A Settling of Accounts: The Journals of Don Diego de Vargas, New Mexico, 1700-1704
ISBN: 9780826328670 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this, the sixth and final volume of the journals of don Diego de Vargas, Kessell and his colleagues continue their exploration of politics and society in the colonial New Mexico of the turn of the eighteenth century. Despite serious charges of malfeasance brought against him by agents of his political enemy Governor Pedro Rodriguez Cubero, Vargas was acquitted after three years of court hearings and legal manoeuvring in the court in Mexico City. With his acquittal came reappointment to the governor's seat in New Mexico. The journals reveal that maintaining peace in New Mexico during...
In this, the sixth and final volume of the journals of don Diego de Vargas, Kessell and his colleagues continue their exploration of politics and soci...
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241,40 |
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The Volumes of the Vargas Project (Boxed Set)
ISBN: 9780826330000 / Angielski / Pudełko z zestawem (boxed set) / 3696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this limited, numbered, and signed boxed set are first editions of every volume in the official correspondence of don Diego de Vargas: By Force of Arms, To the Royal Crown Restored, Blood on the Boulders, That Disturbances Cease, and A Settling of Accounts.The sets are a commemoration of the completion of more than twenty years of scholarly pursuit into a pivotal period in the history of colonial New Mexico. When purchasing the set, a complimentary copy of the reprint Remote Beyond Compare is included. This set is limited to seventy-five copies.
In this limited, numbered, and signed boxed set are first editions of every volume in the official correspondence of don Diego de Vargas: By Force of ...
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2061,52 |
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Jonathan Edwards
ISBN: 9780837165516 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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376,07 |
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First Man West: Alexander Mackenzie's Journal of His Voyage to the Pacific Coast of Canada in 1793
ISBN: 9780837187891 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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335,41 |
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Religion and the New Republic: Faith in the Founding of America
ISBN: 9780847694341 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A collection of America's historians, philosophers and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. These essays, originally delivered at the Library of Congress, presents scholarship on a topic that still generates considerable controversy. Readers interested in colonial history, religion and politics, and the relationship between church and state should find the book helpful. Contributors include Daniel L. Driesbach, John Witte Jr, Thomas E. Buckley, Mark A. Knoll, Catherine A. Brekus, Michael Novak and James Hutson.
A collection of America's historians, philosophers and theologians examines the role of religion in the founding of the United States. These essays, o...
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226,92 |
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John Josselyn, Colonial Traveler: A Critical Edition of Two Voyages to New-England.
ISBN: 9780874515435 / Angielski / Miękka / 261 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A new edition of an unusual description of 17th-century New England flora and fauna, folklore, and the Indian and Puritan cultures of that time.
A new edition of an unusual description of 17th-century New England flora and fauna, folklore, and the Indian and Puritan cultures of that time.
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111,04 |
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The Puritan Tradition in America, 1620–1730
ISBN: 9780874518528 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many students of our national character would agree that, for better or worse, the Puritan tradition had an enormous effect on the assumptions and aspirations of today's Americans. This book tells the story, largely through the participants' own words, of the emergence of that tradition. It provides a broad range of primary documents--religious, political, social, legal, familial, and economic--for an understanding of Puritanism in early New England. Originally published in 1972, it is reissued here with a new introduction and two new documents: extracts from Anne Hutchinson's trial and from...
Many students of our national character would agree that, for better or worse, the Puritan tradition had an enormous effect on the assumptions and asp...
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192,55 |
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Struggle for a Continent: The Wars of Early America
ISBN: 9780882958965 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. America's origins are inextricably linked to warfare. In Struggle for a Continent, John Ferling tells the complex story of conquest and survival not only in the encounters between European settlers and the native peoples of North America, but also the North American wars among the great powers of Europe to win hegemony in America. While Professor Ferling's unflinching narrative recounts the heroism, anguish, terror, treachery, and barbarism of early American warfare, it also carefully addresses questions such as: the difference between the nature of warfare in America and that in Europe; who...
America's origins are inextricably linked to warfare. In Struggle for a Continent, John Ferling tells the complex story of conquest and survival not o...
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111,55 |
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The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614
ISBN: 9780895873026 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Contemporary accounts of the first successful English colony in what would become the first thirteen United States. The earliest text dates from 1605, two years before the first landing; the last describes events up to 1614, when the marriage of Pocahontas and John Rolfe secured a brief measure of peace for the beleaguered colony.
Contemporary accounts of the first successful English colony in what would become the first thirteen United States. The earliest text dates from 1605,...
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68,23 |
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Jefferson and Civil Liberties: The Darker Side
ISBN: 9780929587110 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the most controversial analysis ever written of the apostle of American liberty, the distinguished constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy examines Jefferson s record on civil liberties and finds it strikingly wanting. Clearing away the saintliness that surrounds the hero, Mr. Levy tries to understand why the unfamiliar Jefferson supported loyalty oaths; countenanced internment camps for political suspects; drafted a bill of attainder; urged prosecutions for seditious libel; condoned military despotism; used the Army to enforce laws in time of peace; censored reading; chose professors for...
In the most controversial analysis ever written of the apostle of American liberty, the distinguished constitutional historian Leonard W. Levy examine...
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62,02 |
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The Eighteenth Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor: Volume 69
ISBN: 9780962073748 / Angielski / Twarda / 991 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor constitutes the collection of the earliest and most complete set of records pertaining to poor relief in early America. In a substantial introduction, the editor Eric Nellis describes the process by which the Overseers of the Poor, a board made up of generally wealthy merchants elected by the town meeting, attempted to distinguish between the -deserving- poor, eligible for -outdoor- relief in their homes, and the -undeserving- poor, who were remanded to the rigors of the workhouse. Because each Overseer knew... The Eighteenth-Century Records of the Boston Overseers of the Poor constitutes the collection of the earliest and most complete set of recor... |
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342,78 |
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The Colonial Church Records of the First Church of Reading (Wakefield) and the First Church of Rumney Marsh (Revere)
ISBN: 9780962073779 / Angielski / Twarda / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long dismissed as conventional and antiquarian, church records are actually unparalleled sources for historians offering information on a wide range of topics, such as the founding and evolution of churches, popular involvement in religious institutions and practices, modes of church governance, deviance, and resistance, and the interactions of churches--not to mention revealing information on significant moments in the lives of laity and ministers alike. This volume includes two of the finest sets of church records from the colonial era of Massachusetts history thus far unpublished. The... Long dismissed as conventional and antiquarian, church records are actually unparalleled sources for historians offering information on a wide rang... |
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197,95 |
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The Story of Brunswick & Fort Anderson
ISBN: 9780972324069 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,22 |
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The Founders' Facade: Christianity, Democracy, Freemasonry, and the Founding of America
ISBN: 9780972762724 / Angielski / Miękka / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his examination of the founding fathers' views on Christianity, Democracy, and Freemasonry, R.L. Worthy presents a provocative picture of America's foundations. "He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin, whether a state or anything else, will obtain the clearest view of them . . ."
In his examination of the founding fathers' views on Christianity, Democracy, and Freemasonry, R.L. Worthy presents a provocative picture of America's...
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83,43 |
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George! A Guide to All Things Washington
ISBN: 9780976823889 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this comprehensive guide devoted exclusively to George Washington, the subject range goes beyond the conventional, and includes much about his personal and family life, correspondence, business dealings, and more. The illustrated, A-to-Z format and approach incorporates Washington's own words with those of his contemporaries.
In this comprehensive guide devoted exclusively to George Washington, the subject range goes beyond the conventional, and includes much about his pers...
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212,65 |
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Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior Volume 3
ISBN: 9780979466205 / Angielski / Twarda / 390 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the extraordinary mind of a patriot in the period immediately preceding the Revolution, the Portrait of a Patriot series presents the major papers of the Boston lawyer and patriot penman Josiah Quincy Jr. (1744-1775). In this, the third of five volumes, we meet Quincy as a rising member of the Massachusetts bar and a member of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, making a tour of the Southern colonies to assess the depth of commitment to the patriot cause there. While cautious of the political leanings of his hosts, Quincy was... Providing readers with the unusual opportunity to enter into the extraordinary mind of a patriot in the period immediately preceding the Revolution... |
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164,15 |
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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation
ISBN: 9781400031726 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for...
A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonis...
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68,23 |
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Conceiving Carolina: Proprietors, Planters, and Plots, 1662-1729
ISBN: 9781403964793 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. L.H. Roper's innovative study provides a transatlantic analysis of the origins of American colonial societies through the instructive case of South Carolina. The work provides the clearest examination of the early history of this important colony yet available. In addition, it features exhaustive primary research that sheds new light on how the colony's particular dependence on race-based slavery evolved, demonstrating the volatile tension between the political culture inherited from the "Old World" and local interests in the Indian slave trade. Conceiving Carolina is an important scholarly...
L.H. Roper's innovative study provides a transatlantic analysis of the origins of American colonial societies through the instructive case of South Ca...
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200,77 |
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A Companion to Colonial America
ISBN: 9781405149853 / Angielski / Miękka / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial history. Each essay surveys the scholarship and prevailing interpretations in these key areas, discussing the differing arguments and assessing their merits.
A Companion to Colonial America consists of twenty-three original essays by expert historians on the key issues and topics in American colonial...
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233,52 |
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