Jesuit Slaveholding in Maryland, 1717-1838
ISBN: 9781138973770 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the colonial period through the early nineteenth century, Father Thomas J. Murphy writes a compelling chronology and in depth analysis of Jesuit slaveholding in the state of Maryland.
From the colonial period through the early nineteenth century, Father Thomas J. Murphy writes a compelling chronology and in depth analysis of Jesuit ...
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235,34 zł |
Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
ISBN: 9781349538041 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.
This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatla...
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195,42 zł |
Hawthorne
ISBN: 9781534924727 / Angielski / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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49,84 zł |
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
ISBN: 9781534716209 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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45,27 zł |
Amerikanische Herausforderungen: Deutsche Großunternehmen in Den USA Nach Dem Zweiten Weltkrieg
ISBN: 9783631672433 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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408,72 zł |
Pan-Africanism and Education: A Study of Race, Philanthropy and Education in the United States of America and East Africa
ISBN: 9781937306427 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an analysis of the complex links between Black America and Africa in the period of 1880 to 1945. It examines an extended white attempt to pattern politics and education in colonial Africa upon the example of the U.S. South. This export of United States race relations to Africa was resisted by Black intellectuals in the United States and many of the early nationalists in Africa. At another level, the study offers an original account of the parallel and related development of the education systems of the U.S. South and Kenya, revealing in both spheres the essentially political nature... This is an analysis of the complex links between Black America and Africa in the period of 1880 to 1945. It examines an extended white attempt to p... |
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96,62 zł |
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History - audiobook
ISBN: 9781508229551 / Angielski / Compact Disc Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. S.C. Gwynne's New York Times bestselling historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West is now available from Encore for the first time and at a great low price. Empire of the Summer Moon spans two astonishing stories. The first traces the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history. The second entails one of the most remarkable narratives ever to come out of the Old West: the epic saga of the pioneer woman Cynthia Ann Parker and her mixed-blood son Quanah, who...
S.C. Gwynne's New York Times bestselling historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of...
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86,27 zł |
Jack London
ISBN: 9780746312964 / Angielski / Twarda / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London stated: "It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks. Everybody thinks. There you get your perspective. I got mine." This study explores how London's Northland odyssey - along with an insatiable intellectual curiosity, a hardscrabble youth in the San Francisco Bay Area, and an acute craving for social justice - launched the literary career of one of America's most dynamic 20th-century writers. The major Northland works - including The Call of the Wild, White Fang, and "To Build a Fire"- are considered in connection...
Recounting his 1897-98 Klondike Gold Rush experience Jack London stated: "It was in the Klondike I found myself. There nobody talks. Everybody thinks....
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385,14 zł |
An Empire of Print: The New York Publishing Trade in the Early American Republic
ISBN: 9780271078519 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountable number of aspiring and established writers alike, New York City is widely perceived as the publishing capital of the United States and the world. This book traces the origins and early evolution of the city's rise to literary preeminence. Through five case studies, Steven Carl Smith examines publishing in New York from the post-Revolutionary War period through the Jacksonian era. He discusses the gradual development of local, regional,... Home to the so-called big five publishers as well as hundreds of smaller presses, renowned literary agents, a vigorous arts scene, and an uncountab... |
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479,13 zł |
Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana
ISBN: 9780893087784 / Angielski / Twarda / 774 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By: Southern Publishing Company, Orig. Pub. 1890, Reprinted 2016, 776 pgs, Hard Cover, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-778-5. Here is one very, very rare book that is so hard to find that until now many persons were not even aware of its existence. This book is a MUST for persons doing research in the state of Louisiana (with particular interest in the Northern Half of the State), East Texas and Southern Arkansas. Parishes that are covered: Avoyelles, Bienville, Bossler, Caddo, Caliborne, Desoto, Grant, Natchotoches, Rapides, Red River, Sabine, Webster, and Winn. This book is broken down by... By: Southern Publishing Company, Orig. Pub. 1890, Reprinted 2016, 776 pgs, Hard Cover, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-778-5. Here is one very, very ra... |
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331,09 zł |
Exploring the Decolonial Imaginary: Four Transnational Lives
ISBN: 9781349341863 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores two categories--empire and citizenship--that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racialization in the lives of outstanding women whose careers crossed national borders between 1880 and 1965. It puts an individual, intellectual, and female face on transnational phenomena.
This study explores two categories--empire and citizenship--that historians usually study separately. It does so with a unifying focus on racializatio...
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195,42 zł |
(Old) Ninety-Six and Abbeville District, South Carolina Wills and Bonds, Vol. #2.
ISBN: 9780893083489 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By: Larry Pursley, Pub. 2016, 220 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-348-8. Abbeville County was a very important area of migration of early settlers / pioneers heading West. Probate records are a wonderful set of records when they are available because they mention such things as: proving wills, administrations & divisions of estates, estate sales, guardians appointed and mentions of marriages. This book should be considered a companion book to Pauline Young's Vol. #1 of the same title.
By: Larry Pursley, Pub. 2016, 220 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-348-8. Abbeville County was a very important area of migration of early settlers /... |
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157,08 zł |
White County, Tennessee Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions, 1835-1841.
ISBN: 9780893084547 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By: Work Projects Administration, Pub. 1941, Reprinted 2016, 473 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-454-9. White county was created in 1806 from Smith county. In these abstracts, one will find local office holders being appointed, the levying and expenditure of local taxes, selecting & summoning of juries, licenses being granted to operators of taverns, as well as deeds & bills of sale being acknowledge by the grantor. The Court also oversaw a wide range of matters involving estates, including probate of will, settlements of estates, and appraisement, as well as matters dealing with... By: Work Projects Administration, Pub. 1941, Reprinted 2016, 473 pages, New Index, ISBN #0-89308-454-9. White county was created in 1806 from Sm... |
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234,42 zł |
Life of Rear Admiral John Randolph Tucker
ISBN: 9781533207289 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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31,04 zł |
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.
ISBN: 9781533694782 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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36,20 zł |
The Adventures of the Mountain Men: True Tales of Hunting, Trapping, Fighting, Adventure, and Survival
ISBN: 9781510719040 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Incredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West. The "mountain men" were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky Mountains in the early to mid-1800s. They braved the elements in search of the skins of beavers and other wild animals, to sell or barter for goods. The lifestyle of the mountain men could be harsh, existing as they did among animals, and spending most of their days and nights living and camping out in the great unexplored wilds of the Rockies. Life outdoors presented many threats, not least among them Native Americans, who were hostile to the...
Incredible stories from those who thrived in the Wild West. The "mountain men" were the hunters and trappers who fiercely strode the Rocky ...
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73,32 zł |
Jefferson: Architect of American Liberty
ISBN: 9780465094684 / Angielski / Twarda / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Magisterial . . . perhaps the finest one-volume biography of an American president."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post
" A] splendid biography."--Wall Street Journal "The fullest and most complete single-volume life of Jefferson since Merrill Peterson's thousand-page biography of 1970."--Gordon Wood, Weekly Standard From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson in almost 50 years As Alexander Hamilton's star has risen, Thomas... "Magisterial . . . perhaps the finest one-volume biography of an American president."--Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post |
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172,37 zł |
Biographical Souvenior of the States of Georgia & Florida.
ISBN: 9780893080402 / Angielski / Twarda / 890 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By: F.A. Battle & Company, Pub. 1880, Reprinted 2016, 880 pages, Hard Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-040-3. This volume is prehaps the RAREST of all books of biographical sketches of persons located within Georgia and Florida. It is so rare taht are only 6 original copies known to exist in the Public Libraries of Georgia. This book contains 1,000 biographical histories of individuals living in 1889. Tht means that these genealogies will carry the reader back several generations going as far back as the mid 1700's. Due to the vastness of this book, we do not have enough space here to... By: F.A. Battle & Company, Pub. 1880, Reprinted 2016, 880 pages, Hard Cover, Index, ISBN #0-89308-040-3. This volume is prehaps the RAREST o... |
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362,50 zł |
Early Anderson County, South Carolina, Newspapers, Marriage & Obituaries, 1841-1882.
ISBN: 9780893081034 / Angielski / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By: Tom C. Wilkinson, Pub. 1978, Reprinted 2016, 268 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-103-5. Newspaper Abstracts are an unique and wonderful source of genealogical research for the State of South Carolina considering that the state did not officially start keeping vital records until 1911. The three newspapers included in this book are: The Highland Sentinel published at Calhoun, Anderson District, S.C.; The Anderson Gazette published at Anderson, S.C., with last record dated 1848; and The Anderson Intelligencer, beginning with 1860 down to 1878 and a few scattered issues.
By: Tom C. Wilkinson, Pub. 1978, Reprinted 2016, 268 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-103-5. Newspaper Abstracts are an unique and wonderful source o... |
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145,01 zł |
The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero
ISBN: 9780544944831 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An old-fashioned tale of tall talk, high ideals, and irresistible appeal . . . You will not read a historical thriller like this all year . . . Egan] is a master storyteller." --Boston Globe
"Egan has a gift for sweeping narrative . . . and he has a journalist's eye for the telltale detail . . . This is masterly work." -- New York Times Book Review In this exciting and illuminating work, National Book Award winner Timothy Egan delivers a story, both rollicking and haunting, of one of the most famous Irish Americans of all time. A dashing young... "An old-fashioned tale of tall talk, high ideals, and irresistible appeal . . . You will not read a historical thriller like this all year . . . E...
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99,21 zł |