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Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
ISBN: 9780393320992 / Angielski / Miękka / 466 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush that comes down to us through fiction and film--of unshaven men named Stumpy and Kentuck raising hell and panning for gold--is one of half-truths. In this brilliant work of social history, Susan Johnson enters the well-worked diggings of Gold Rush history and strikes a rich lode. She finds a dynamic social world in which the conventions of identity--ethnic, national, and sexual--were reshaped in surprising ways. She gives us the all-male households...
Historical insight is the alchemy that transforms the familiar story of the Gold Rush into something sparkling and new. The world of the Gold Rush tha...
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126,76 zł |
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
ISBN: 9780393329216 / Angielski / Miękka / 1104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc from the earliest days of the republic to the opening shots of the Civil War. Ferocious clashes among the Founders over the role of ordinary citizens in a government of "we, the people" were eventually resolved in the triumph of Andrew Jackson. Thereafter, Sean Wilentz shows, a fateful division arose between two starkly opposed democracies a division contained until the election of Abraham Lincoln sparked its bloody resolution. Winner of the...
Acclaimed as the definitive study of the period by one of the greatest American historians, The Rise of American Democracy traces a historical arc fro...
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128,22 zł |
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Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar
ISBN: 9780393330502 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten history--the story of the money men. Acclaimed historian H. W. Brands brings them back to life: J. P. Morgan, who stabilized a foundering U.S. Treasury in 1907; Alexander Hamilton, who founded the first national bank, and Nicholas Biddle, under whose directorship it failed; Jay Cooke, who helped to finance the Union war effort through his then-innovative strategy of selling bonds to ordinary Americans; and Jay Gould, who tried to corner the market...
Most Americans are familiar with the political history of the United States, but there is another history woven all through it, a largely forgotten hi...
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96,11 zł |
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The Americans: The Democratic Experience
ISBN: 9780394710112 / Angielski / Miękka / 717 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Final volume in a trilogy, the first of which is the author's The Americans: the colonial experience, and the second of which is his The Americans: the national experience.
Final volume in a trilogy, the first of which is the author's The Americans: the colonial experience, and the second of which is his The Americans: th...
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105,08 zł |
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The Nez Perce Indians and the Opening of the Northwest
ISBN: 9780395850114 / Angielski / Miękka / 736 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the story of the so-called Inland Empire of the Northwest, that rugged and majestic region bounded east and west by the Cascades and the Rockies, from the time of the great exploration of Lewis and Clark to the tragic defeat of Chief Joseph in 1877. And at the center of this history - perhaps even more relevant today than at the original publication of this classic volume - is the confrontation of the Indian and non-Indian during this nation's, and this region's, formative period. Heroic characters and dramatic events abound here. Explorers, fur traders, miners, settlers,...
This is the story of the so-called Inland Empire of the Northwest, that rugged and majestic region bounded east and west by the Cascades and the Rocki...
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175,14 zł |
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
ISBN: 9780395911518 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Complete with its original N.C. Wyeth illustrations is this outstanding first-person chronicle of life on the American frontier.
Complete with its original N.C. Wyeth illustrations is this outstanding first-person chronicle of life on the American frontier.
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74,39 zł |
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Across the Wide Missouri
ISBN: 9780395924976 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mountain fur trade during the 1830s. More than a history, it portrays the mountain fur trade as a way of business and a way of life, vividly illustrating how it shaped the expansion of the American West.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Prize. Across the Wide Missouri tells the compelling story of the climax and decline of the Rocky Mounta...
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87,53 zł |
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Society and Culture in the Slave South
ISBN: 9780415070546 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this field. It includes excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a paternalistic society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women.
Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with ...
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685,43 zł |
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Society and Culture in the Slave South
ISBN: 9780415070553 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this field. It includes excerpts from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, who lay out the influential interpretation of the South as a paternalistic society and culture, and contributions from more recent scholars who provide dissenting or alternative interpretations of the relations between masters and slaves and men and women.
Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with ...
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192,89 zł |
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Card Sharps and Bucket Shops: Gambling in Nineteenth-Century America
ISBN: 9780415923576 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Engaging topics in American cultural, social and business history, this text provides details of gambling in industrializing America. It investigates the relationship between gambling and other ways of making profit, such as speculation and land investment in the 19th century, and explores the moral and cultural implications of this relationship.
Engaging topics in American cultural, social and business history, this text provides details of gambling in industrializing America. It investigates ...
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192,89 zł |
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A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America
ISBN: 9780415925785 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now back in print, A Calculating People reveals how numeracy profoundly shaped the character of society in the early republic and provides a wholly original perspective on the development of modern America.
Now back in print, A Calculating People reveals how numeracy profoundly shaped the character of society in the early republic and provides a ...
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223,35 zł |
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The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
ISBN: 9780415927642 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytelling and history in which ironies are explored, patterns of deed and response are uncovered, examined and evaluated...Beth Ladow is a compelling stylist who writes with warmth and insight, and she has given us a smart book, which will help us understand one another, and a good read. We need more books like this one. -- William Kittredge, Author of THE NATURE OF GENOROSITY(knopf,2000)
The Medicine Line: Life and Death on the North American Borderland, is a complex and oftentimes dramatic mix of narrative storytell...
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660,05 zł |
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The Medicine Line: Life and Death on a North American Borderland
ISBN: 9780415927659 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Along the border between Canada and Montana lies 100 miles of some of the most desolate terrain in America, the point where three nations were fated to come together in a contest for land, wealth and ultimately survival. In this evocative portrait, Beth LaDow recreates their experience on the harsh frontier, capturing the complex history of the borderland known as the medicine line to the Indians who lived there.
Along the border between Canada and Montana lies 100 miles of some of the most desolate terrain in America, the point where three nations were fated t...
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126,88 zł |
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Chief Joseph, Yellow Wolf and the Creation of Nez Perce History in the Pacific Northwest
ISBN: 9780415948890 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional identity into a national framework.
This work focuses on how whites used Nez Perce history, images, activities and personalities in the production of history, developing a regional ident...
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685,43 zł |
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The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture
ISBN: 9780415957281 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and original scholarship in the field of the antebellum South published since 1992, when the first edition appeared. The present volume illustrates both the continuities and new developments in antebellum Southern history, starting from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and moving into work that challenges their traditional reading of the slave South as a "paternalist" society. The collection also features an introduction to the... In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and original sc... |
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660,05 zł |
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The Old South: New Studies of Society and Culture
ISBN: 9780415957298 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and original scholarship in the field of the antebellum South published since 1992, when the first edition appeared. The present volume illustrates both the continuities and new developments in antebellum Southern history, starting from the work of Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, and moving into work that challenges their traditional reading of the slave South as a "paternalist" society. The collection also features an introduction to the... In this, the re-titled second edition of Society and Culture in the Slave South, J. William Harris selects the most recent and original sc... |
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172,58 zł |
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The War of 1812
ISBN: 9780415968393 / Angielski / Twarda / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bloody war of 1812 saw British, American, and First Nations forces clash in a conflict that would forever alter North America. This book explains the background to the war and covers the three years of fighting on land and sea, including the battles of Lake Erie and Lake Champlain.
The bloody war of 1812 saw British, American, and First Nations forces clash in a conflict that would forever alter North America. This book explains ...
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685,43 zł |
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State of 'The Union': Marriage and Free Love in the Late 1800s
ISBN: 9780415975940 / Angielski / Twarda / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, how they articulated the platform, and contributed to its exposure by writing and publishing their ideas, arguments and concerns. While all Free Love participants claimed benefits and freedoms from the practice, this book is the first to compare the benefits and political agendas experienced by the male participants with those experienced by the females. The importance of this work lies in its potential to inform current political resistance... This study of the Free Love Movement in the mid-to-late 1800s examines the situated knowledge of women and men who participated in the movement, ho... |
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685,43 zł |
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Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900
ISBN: 9780425105443 / Angielski / Miękka / 562 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America's most colorful and exciting story--the opening of the Far West. Men to Match My Mountains is a true historical masterpiece, an unforgettable pageant of giants--men like John Sutter, whose dream of paradise was shattered by the California Gold Rush; Brigham Young and the Mormons, who tamed the desert with Bible texts; and the silver kings and the miners, who developed Nevada's Comstock Lode and settled the Rockies. America called for greatness...and got...
Acclaimed author of biographical and historical fiction Irving Stone turns his magnificent talent to telling America's most colorful and exciting s...
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78,59 zł |
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The Shooters: A Gallery of Notorious Gunmen from the American West
ISBN: 9780425154502 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With a scholar's authority and a storyteller's passion, Leon Metz chronicles the lives of famous gunfighters like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Wild Bill Hickok, as well as lesser-known desperadoes who left just as many corpses and whiskey bottles in their wake. Rich in detail, and woven with wit and insight, these fascinating portraits reveal the Shooters as they really lived, fought, and died.
With a scholar's authority and a storyteller's passion, Leon Metz chronicles the lives of famous gunfighters like Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Wild ...
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105,08 zł |
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