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A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
ISBN: 9781496852168 / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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529,94 zł |
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A Place to Live in Peace: Free People of Color in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana
ISBN: 9781496852175 / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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134,91 zł |
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Freedom's Currency
ISBN: 9781512826470 / Twarda / 24-09-2024 / 224 str. Książka dostępna od: 24-09-2024 |
Termin ukazania się książki: 24-09-2024
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219,61 zł |
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The Top Ten Historical Locations of the Old West: An Entertaining Narrative and Guide
ISBN: 9798889109280 / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,22 zł |
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Litigation Nation: A Cultural History of Lawsuits in America
ISBN: 9798881800130 / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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161,49 zł |
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David Crockett in Texas: His Search for New Land
ISBN: 9781648432156 / Twarda / 31-10-2024 / 296 str. Książka dostępna od: 31-10-2024 |
Termin ukazania się książki: 31-10-2024
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251,37 zł |
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American Indians and State Law: Sovereignty, Race, and Citizenship, 1790-1880
ISBN: 9780803227989 / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American Indians and State Law examines the history of state and territorial policies, laws, and judicial decisions pertaining to Native Americans from 1790 to 1880. Belying the common assumption that Indian policy and regulation in the United States were exclusively within the federal government's domain, the book reveals how states and territories extended their legislative and judicial authority over American Indians during this period. Deborah A. Rosen uses discussions of nationwide patterns, complemented by case studies focusing on New York, Georgia, New Mexico, Michigan, Minnesota,...
American Indians and State Law examines the history of state and territorial policies, laws, and judicial decisions pertaining to Native Americans fro...
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133,52 zł |
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America on the Eve of the Civil War
ISBN: 9780813931791 / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians. These participants in a daylong conference focusing on the extraordinary years leading to the Civil War provide an incredible range of historical information that is both educational and exciting. Here is an opportunity to draw on a lively exchange between a substantial number of knowledgeable and entertaining scholars.---James Oliver Horton, author of Landmarks of African American History -This remarkable publication provides a captivating and brilliantly executed series of conversations among seventeen most impressive historians. Th... |
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57,27 zł |
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William Henry Harrison: The American Presidents Series: The 9th President, 1841
ISBN: 9780805091182 / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking America's highest office William Henry Harrison died just thirty-one days after taking the oath of office in 1841. Today he is a curiosity in American history, but as Gail Collins shows in this entertaining and revelatory biography, he and his career are worth a closer look. The son of a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Harrison was a celebrated general whose exploits at the Battle of Tippecanoe and in the War of 1812... The president who served the shortest term--just a single month--but whose victorious election campaign rewrote the rules for candidates seeking... |
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135,48 zł |
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History of the Buccaneers of America
ISBN: 9781602062535 / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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101,12 zł |
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New Sources of Indian History 1850-1891: The Ghost Dance - The Prairie Sioux A Miscellany
ISBN: 9780806148175 / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More than a century has passed since that winter morning in 1890 when the Indian police killed Sitting Bull and destroyed the power of his great Sioux Nation. Yet only recently were the facts about Sitting Bull and the Sioux being sifted from the fables that have grown up in the interim. In New Sources of Indian History, Stanley Vestal traced scores of historical threads, obtained firsthand, which helped reveal the fabric of Sioux life, warfare, and relations with the whites from 1850 to 1891. This miscellany brings together the many phases of existence the Sioux knew when buffalo still...
More than a century has passed since that winter morning in 1890 when the Indian police killed Sitting Bull and destroyed the power of his great Sioux...
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102,47 zł |
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Norton i, emperador dels EUA i protector de Mèxic
ISBN: 9788479481520 / Kataloński / Miękka / 140 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,04 zł |
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United States Official Records on the Armenian Genocide 1915-1917
ISBN: 9781909382510 / Chiński / Miękka / 750 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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275,89 zł |
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One-Night Stands with American History: Odd, Amusing, and Little-Known Incidents
ISBN: 9780060538200 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes is American history with the boring parts left out. Richard Shenkman and Kurt Reiger have uncovered numerous stories about hoaxes, inventions, secrets, and rare incidents -- many involving the most famous and powerful people in America.
Respect yourself in the morning -- read One-Night Stands with American History This collection of little-known facts and anecdotes ... |
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73,86 zł |
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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
ISBN: 9780060590031 / Angielski / Miękka / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsterism, which spawned such unforgettable characters as Mike "King Mike" McDonald, Chicago's subterranean godfather; Big Bill Dwyer, New York's most notorious rumrunner during Prohibition; Mickey Featherstone, troubled Vietnam vet turned Westies gang leader; and James "Whitey" Bulger, the ruthless and untouchable Southie legend. Stretching from the earliest New York and New Orleans street... Here is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English br... |
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82,07 zł |
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Escape on the Pearl: The Heroic Bid for Freedom on the Underground Railroad
ISBN: 9780060786601 / Angielski / Miękka / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington, D.C., on a schooner named the Pearl, the fugitives began a daring 225-mile journey to freedom in the North--and put in motion a furiously fought battle over slavery in America that would consume Congress, the streets of the capital, and the White House itself. Mary Kay Ricks's unforgettable chronicle brings to life the Underground Railroad's largest escape attempt, the seemingly immutable politics of slavery, and the individuals... On the evening of April 15, 1848, nearly eighty enslaved Americans attempted one of history's most audacious escapes. Setting sail from Washington,... |
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102,60 zł |
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Down the Great Unknown: John Wesley Powell's 1869 Journey of Discovery and Tragedy Through the Grand Canyon
ISBN: 9780060955861 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 0n May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in the American West. No one had ever explored the fabled Grand Canyon; to adventurers of that era it was a region almost as mysterious as Atlantis -- and as perilous. The ten men set out down the mighty Colorado River in wooden rowboats. Six survived. Drawing on rarely examined diaries and journals, Down the Great Unknown is the first book to tell the full, true story. 0n May 24, 1869, a one-armed Civil War veteran named John Wesley Powell and a ragtag band of nine mountain men embarked on the last great quest in ... |
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73,86 zł |
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Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community
ISBN: 9780140239300 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Without Sin chronicles the rise and fall of nineteenth-century America's most succesful experiment in Utopian living: New York's Oneida Community (1848-1880). Founded by the charismatic Christian Perfectioniost John Humphrey Noyes, this remarkable society flourished for more than thirty years as a unique world where property was shared, men and women were equals, sex was free and open, work was to be joyous, and pleasure was felt to be "the very business that God set Adam and Eve about."
Without Sin chronicles the rise and fall of nineteenth-century America's most succesful experiment in Utopian living: New York's Oneida Communi...
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98,53 zł |
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A Texas Cowboy: Or, Fifteen Years on the Hurricane Deck of a Spanish Pony
ISBN: 9780140437515 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embraced all the hard work, excitement, and adventure readers today associate with the cowboy era. He "rid the Chisholm trail," driving 2,500 heads of cattle from Austin to Kansas; knew Tascosa--now a historic monument--when it was home to raucous saloons, red light districts, and a fair share of violence; and led a posse of cowboys in pursuit of Billy the Kid and his gang.
First published in 1885, Siringo's chronicle of his life as a... After a nomadic childhood, Charles Siringo signed on as a teenage cowboy for the noted Texas cattle king, Shanghai Pierce, and began a life that embra...
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69,79 zł |
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Sea of Glory: America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring Expedition, 1838-1842
ISBN: 9780142004838 / Angielski / Miękka / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries.
A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of... "A treasure of a book."--David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, ...
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78,00 zł |