The War In Florida: Enhanced Edition
ISBN: 9780982110539 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Woodburne Potter's classic account of the early months of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), now with an Introduction, Endnotes, and Index by noted historians John & Mary Lou Missall. For those who wish to study first-hand accounts of the Second Seminole War, one of the most useful resources is Potter's "The War in Florida." Although Potter was only in Florida for a few months, he was present at a time when much of the action took place and was able to speak to many of the participants. Potter was also a keen observer and interested in mare than battles. His views on the causes of the war...
Woodburne Potter's classic account of the early months of the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), now with an Introduction, Endnotes, and Index by noted ...
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Akee Tree: A Descendant's Quest for His Slave Ancestors on the Eskridge Plantations
ISBN: 9781939995001 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What would compel an African-American man to spend ten years of his life tracing his family tree from the Pacific Northwest back to slavery times in Mississippi, and ultimately to its African roots? For author Stephen Hanks his quest begins with mere curiosity when he reads the obituary of his uncle, and soon blossoms into a full-blown genealogical investigation. Using standard genealogical tools-interviews, census records, and other sources-he delves into the past, soon finding that he must follow two families, his own and that of those who held his ancestors in bondage. The search takes on...
What would compel an African-American man to spend ten years of his life tracing his family tree from the Pacific Northwest back to slavery times in M...
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The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
ISBN: 9781594136245 / Angielski / Miękka / 689 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Measure of Manhattan: The Tumultuous Career and Surprising Legacy of John Randel, Jr., Cartographer, Surveyor, Inventor
ISBN: 9780393347906 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Randel was central to Manhattan's development but died in financial ruin. Telling Randel's engrossing and dramatic life story for the first time, this eye-opening biography introduces an unheralded pioneer of American engineering and mapmaking.
Charged with "gridding" what was then an undeveloped, hilly island, Randel recorded the contours of Manhattan down to the rocks on its shores. He was obsessed with accuracy and steeped in the values of the... John Randel Jr. (1787-1865) was an eccentric and flamboyant surveyor. Renowned for his inventiveness as well as for his bombast and irascibility, Rand...
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My Bondage and My Freedom
ISBN: 9780300190595 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spokesperson for the nation's enslaved African American population in the years preceding the Civil War. My Bondage and My Freedom is Douglass's masterful recounting of his remarkable life and a fiery condemnation of a political and social system that would reduce people to property and keep an entire race in chains. This classic is revisited with a new introduction and annotations by celebrated Douglass scholar David W. Blight. Blight...
Born into slavery in 1818, Frederick Douglass escaped to freedom and became a passionate advocate for abolition and social change and the foremost spo...
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69,29 zł |
Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen: The Films of William F. Cody
ISBN: 9780806143613 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than thirty years, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores of books have been written about Cody's fabled career as a showman, but his involvement in the film industry--following the dissolution of his traveling show--is less well known. In Buffalo Bill on the Silver Screen, Sandra K. Sagala chronicles the fascinating story of Cody's venture into filmmaking during the early cinema period.
In 1894 Thomas Edison invited Cody to bring some of the Wild West performers to the inventor's... For more than thirty years, William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody entertained audiences across the United States and Europe with his Wild West show. Scores o...
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156,30 zł |
Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas
ISBN: 9781623490621 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize and Texas Institute of Letters Most Significant Scholarly Book Award "Thompson's book provides not only a powerfully written history of a Mexican American who symbolizes 'resistance to oppression and intolerance, ' but also a clear, cogent explanation of the relationship between the United States and Mexico as they face each other across the Texas border." -Journal of American History "With stunning research and a crisp narrative, Jerry Thompson takes us beyond Juan Cortina's famous 'war' against Anglo-controlled Brownsville and into Cortina's...
Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Prize and Texas Institute of Letters Most Significant Scholarly Book Award "Thompson's book provides not only a...
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The Last Outlaws: The Lives and Legends of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
ISBN: 9780451416865 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Old West was coming to an end.
Two legendary outlaws refused to go with it. As leaders of the Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid executed the most daring bank and train robberies of their day. For several years at the end of the 1890s, the two friends, along with a revolving band of thieves, eluded law enforcement while stealing from the rich bankers and Eastern railroad corporations who exploited Western land...until they rode headlong into the twentieth century. In The Last Outlaws, Thom Hatch brings these memorable characters to life like... The Old West was coming to an end.
Two legendary outlaws refused to go with it. As leaders of the Wild Bunch, Butch Cassidy and t... |
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Sin in the City: Chicago and Revivalism, 1880-1920
ISBN: 9780826220035 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long before today s culture wars, the Third Great Awakening rocked America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, evangelists such as Dwight L. Moody and Billy Sunday roused citizens to renounce sin as it manifested in popular culture, moral ambiguity, and the changing role of women. "Sin in the City" examines three urban revivals in turn-of-the-century Chicago to show how revivalists negotiated that era s perceived racial, sexual, and class threats. While most studies of this movement have focused on its male leaders and their interactions with society, Thekla Ellen... Long before today s culture wars, the Third Great Awakening rocked America. During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, evangelists ... |
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Columbia County, Georgia Early Court Records, 1792-1840
ISBN: 9780893086794 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By: Mrs. F.F. Baker, Printed 2013, 156 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-679-7. Columbia County was created in 1790 from Richmond County, GA. These court records contain such things as: Deeds of Gift, Bill of Sale, Powers of Attorney (many of which are from Revolutionary Soldiers asking that their bounty lands and pensions in other states be obtained for them), and other Legal Oddments.
By: Mrs. F.F. Baker, Printed 2013, 156 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-679-7. Columbia County was created in 1790 from Richmond County, GA. These co... |
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Forks of Elkhorn Church [Kentucky]. With Genealogies of Early Members
ISBN: 9780806308838 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Surnames of the United Kingdom
ISBN: 9780806301716 / Angielski / Miękka / 652 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, e...
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288,35 zł |
Emigrants and Exiles
ISBN: 9780195051872 / Angielski / Miękka / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first "transatlantic" history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration to North America. Drawing on enormous original research, Miller focuses on the thought and behavior of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs as well as in their songs, poems and folklore. Miller shows that the exile mentality was deeply rooted in Irish history, culture and personality,...
Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first "transatlantic" history of the Irish, Emigr...
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Slave Narratives After Slavery
ISBN: 9780195179422 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the African American narrative tradition. After emancipation arrived in 1865, former slaves continued to write about their experience of enslavement and their upward struggle to realize the promise of freedom and citizenship. Slave Narratives After Slavery reprints five of the most important and revealing first-person narratives of slavery and freedom published after 1865. Elizabeth Keckley's controversial Behind the Scenes (1868)...
The pre-Civil War autobiographies of famous fugitives such as Frederick Douglass, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs form the bedrock of the Afri...
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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
ISBN: 9780199539079 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant." So begins the now-classic personal account of Frederick Douglass (1818-1895), who was born into slavery in Maryland and after his escape to Massachusetts in 1838 became an ardent abolitionist and campaigner for women's rights. His Narrative, which was an instant bestseller upon...
"I was born in Tuckahoe. I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the s...
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From Colony to Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
ISBN: 9780199765539 / Angielski / Miękka / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned for the series. Here George C. Herring uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to the world's greatest superpower.
A sweeping account of United... The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-wi...
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The Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush: Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: 9780226074726 / Angielski / Twarda / 345 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The so-called Bone Wars of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinosaur rush, which took place around the turn of the twentieth century, brought the prehistoric beasts back to life. These later expeditions which involved new competitors hailing from leading natural history museums in New York, Chicago, and Pittsburgh yielded specimens that would be reconstructed into the colossal skeletons that thrill visitors... The so-called Bone Wars of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery... |
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Custer: Lessons in Leadership
ISBN: 9780230114241 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Colorful, charismatic, and controversial, George Armstrong Custer became a national hero at the age of twenty-three when he was promoted to the rank of brigadier general--barely two years after graduating at the bottom of his class from West Point. He was idolized both by his men and by the American public, though he endured two courts-martial and temporary dismissal from the Army. Custer pushed himself harder and longer than most, owing to an intense ambition to succeed and a hunger for glory and fame. He was contemptuous of danger, taking chances that no one else would take, which... Colorful, charismatic, and controversial, George Armstrong Custer became a national hero at the age of twenty-three when he was promoted to the ran... |
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The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820-1880
ISBN: 9780230337497 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the War 1812. At this crucial time for the young republic, these gifted Americans found inspiration in an unlikely place: the collapsing Spanish empire and used it to shape their own country's identity.
This book examines why several American literary and intellectual icons became pioneering scholars of the Hispanic world after Independence and the Wa...
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194,97 zł |
The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture
ISBN: 9780252036705 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early American magazine as a rich literary culture that operated as a model for nation-building by celebrating editorship over authorship and serving as a virtual salon in which citizens were invited to share their different perspectives. The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture reexamines early magazines and their reach to show how magazine culture was multivocal and presented a porous distinction between author and reader, as opposed...
Countering assumptions about early American print culture and challenging our scholarly fixation on the novel, Jared Gardner reimagines the early Amer...
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501,66 zł |